We have a bunch of CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_* options that are intended
for bringup/debug only. They hard wire a machine specific udbg backend
very early on (before we even probe the platform), and use whatever
tricks are available on each machine/cpu to be able to get some kind
of output out there early on.
So far, on powermac with no serial ports, we have CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX
to use the low-level btext engine on the screen, but it doesn't do much, at
least on 64-bit. It only really gets enabled after the platform has been
probed and the MMU enabled.
This adds a way to enable it much earlier. From prom_init.c (while still
running with Open Firmware), we grab the screen details and set things up
using the physical address of the frame buffer.
Then btext itself uses the "rm_ci" feature of the 970 processor (Real
Mode Cache Inhibited) to access it while in real mode.
We need to do a little bit of reorg of the btext code to inline things
better, in order to limit how much we touch memory while in this mode as
the consequences might be ... interesting.
This successfully allowed me to debug problems early on with the G5
(related to gold being broken vs. ppc64 kernels).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The ppc64 kernel can get loaded at any address which means
our very early init code in prom_init.c must be relocatable. We do
this with a pretty nasty RELOC() macro that we wrap accesses of
variables with. It is very fragile and sometimes we forget to add a
RELOC() to an uncommon path or sometimes a compiler change breaks it.
32bit has a much more elegant solution where we build prom_init.c
with -mrelocatable and then process the relocations manually.
Unfortunately we can't do the equivalent on 64bit and we would
have to build the entire kernel relocatable (-pie), resulting in a
large increase in kernel footprint (megabytes of relocation data).
The relocation data will be marked __initdata but it still creates
more pressure on our already tight memory layout at boot.
Alan Modra pointed out that the 64bit ABI is relocatable even
if we don't build with -pie, we just need to relocate the TOC.
This patch implements that idea and relocates the TOC entries of
prom_init.c. An added bonus is there are very few relocations to
process which helps keep boot times on simulators down.
gcc does not put 64bit integer constants into the TOC but to be
safe we may want a build time script which passes through the
prom_init.c TOC entries to make sure everything looks reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We stash it in boot_command_line which isn't in BSS and so won't
be overwritten. We then use that as a default cmd_line before
we walk the device-tree.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines supporting the OPAL firmware version 1, the system
is initially booted under pHyp. We then use a special hypercall
to verify if OPAL is available and if it is, we then trigger
a "takeover" which disables pHyp and loads the OPAL runtime
firmware, giving control to the kernel in hypervisor mode.
This patch add the necessary code to detect that the OPAL takeover
capability is present when running under PowerVM (aka pHyp) and
perform said takeover to get hypervisor control of the processor.
To perform the takeover, we must first use RTAS (within Open
Firmware runtime environment) to start all processors & threads,
in order to give control to OPAL on all of them. We then call
the takeover hypercall on everybody, OPAL will re-enter the kernel
main entry point passing it a flat device-tree.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Just whitelist these extra compiler generated symbols.
Fixes these errors:
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_14' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_20' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_22' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_24' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_25' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_26' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_27' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_28' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_29' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_restgpr0_31' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_14' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_20' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_22' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_24' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_25' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_26' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_27' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_28' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_29' referenced from prom_init.c
Error: External symbol '_savegpr0_31' referenced from prom_init.c
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So at least you can see what kernel you're booting if you die
before the kernel prints it mid-way through start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
There are two issues when we enable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. The first is due
to the fact that phys_addr_t is now defined in linux/types.h. The second
is due to the fact that the DMA code changes expose memstart_addr to
prom_init.c
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
GCC 4.4.x looks to be adding support for generating out-of-line register
saves/restores based on:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01678.html
This breaks the kernel if we enable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. To fix
this we add the use the save/restore code from gcc and simplified it down
for our needs (integer only).
Additionally, we have to link this code into each module. The other
solution was to add EXPORT_SYMBOL() which meant going through the
trampoline which seemed nonsensical for these out-of-line routines.
Finally, we add some checks to prom_init_check.sh to ignore the
out-of-line save/restore functions.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Since commit "85xx: Add support for relocatable kernel (and
booting at non-zero)" (37dd2badcf),
PHYSICAL_START is #defined as kernstart_addr if RELOCATABLE
and FLATMEM is enabled.
PHYSICAL_START is used in prom_init.c and so kernstart_addr
needs to be added to the list of allowed symbols that
prom_init.c can access.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
As BenH said the other day, it is an "accident" that prom_init.o is
linked with the rest of the kernel. The truth is a little more
subtle, prom_init isn't truly bootloader, it does access kernel data
in a few places.
What we can do is discourage people from adding new code that accesses
data outside of prom_init. And hence this patch; from the script:
# This script checks prom_init.o to see what external symbols it
# is using, if it finds symbols not in the whitelist it returns
# an error. The point of this is to discourage people from
# intentionally or accidentally adding new code to prom_init.c
# which has side effects on other parts of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt