linux/Documentation/powerpc
Linus Torvalds 07021b4359 powerpc updates for 4.9
Highlights:
  - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin)
    - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al.
  - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur)
  - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur)
  - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver O'Halloran)
  - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao)
  - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards (Darren Stevens)
 
 Fixes:
  - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael Ellerman)
  - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman)
  - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard)
  - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui)
  - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy)
  - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
  - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew Donnellan)
  - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin)
 
 Cleanups & features:
  - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens)
  - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address (Paul Mackerras)
  - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
  - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU) (Simon Guo)
  - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
  - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey)
  - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan)
  - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan)
  - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard)
  - Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard)
    - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()
    - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask
    - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless
    - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little endian
    - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds
 
  - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh)
  - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat)
  - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan)
  - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin)
  - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael Ellerman)
  - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard)
  - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey)
  - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin)
  - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling)
  - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman)
 
 Minor cleanups:
  - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat,
    Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng, Simon Guo.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:
   - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al.
   - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur)
   - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur)
   - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver
     O'Halloran)
   - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao)
   - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards
     (Darren Stevens)

  Fixes:
   - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael
     Ellerman)
   - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman)
   - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard)
   - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui)
   - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy)
   - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K
     (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
   - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew
     Donnellan)
   - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin)

  Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard):
   - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()
   - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask
   - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless
   - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little
     endian
   - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds

  Cleanups & features:
   - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens)
   - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address
     (Paul Mackerras)
   - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
   - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU)
     (Simon Guo)
   - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas
     Piggin)
   - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
   - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey)
   - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan)
   - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan)
   - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard)
   - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh)
   - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat)
   - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded
     of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan)
   - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas
     Piggin)
   - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin)
   - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael
     Ellerman)
   - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard)
   - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey)
   - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions
     (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin)
   - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling)
   - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman)

  Minor cleanups:
   - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur,
     Frederic Barrat, Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng,
     Simon Guo"

* tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
  powerpc/bpf: Add support for bpf constant blinding
  powerpc/bpf: Implement support for tail calls
  powerpc/bpf: Introduce accessors for using the tmp local stack space
  powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n
  powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace
  powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception
  powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}
  powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state
  powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Check that signals always get delivered
  selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C
  selftests/powerpc: Allow tests to extend their kill timeout
  selftests/powerpc: Introduce GPR asm helper header file
  selftests/powerpc: Move VMX stack frame macros to header file
  selftests/powerpc: Rework FPU stack placement macros and move to header file
  selftests/powerpc: Check for VSX preservation across userspace preemption
  ...
2016-10-07 20:19:31 -07:00
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00-INDEX powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR support 2015-06-07 19:29:27 +10:00
bootwrapper.txt
cpu_families.txt powerpc: Add cpu family documentation 2014-06-05 13:20:01 +10:00
cpu_features.txt
cxl.txt cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest 2016-03-09 23:39:56 +11:00
cxlflash.txt scsi: cxlflash: Update documentation 2016-08-23 22:24:26 -04:00
dscr.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt powerpc/eeh: rename EEH from "extended" to "enhanced" error handling 2016-04-11 20:30:42 +10:00
firmware-assisted-dump.txt
hvcs.txt
mpc52xx.txt
pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentation 2015-03-31 13:02:38 +11:00
pmu-ebb.txt powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s 2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
ptrace.txt powerpc/ptrace: Add DAWR debug feature info for userspace 2013-04-18 15:59:55 +10:00
qe_firmware.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
syscall64-abi.txt powerpc/64: Document the syscall ABI 2016-09-20 14:36:14 +10:00
transactional_memory.txt powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal frames 2016-08-29 12:48:40 +10:00