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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt | 334 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt | 567 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt | 150 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt | 295 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt | 81 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt | 175 | ||||
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5620fb5a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Index of files in Documentation/powerpc. If you think something about +Linux/PPC needs an entry here, needs correction or you've written one +please mail me. + Cort Dougan (cort@fsmlabs.com) + +00-INDEX + - this file +cpu_features.txt + - info on how we support a variety of CPUs with minimal compile-time + options. +eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt + - info on PCI Bus EEH Error Recovery +hvcs.txt + - IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide +mpc52xx.txt + - Linux 2.6.x on MPC52xx family +sound.txt + - info on sound support under Linux/PPC +zImage_layout.txt + - info on the kernel images for Linux/PPC +qe_firmware.txt + - describes the layout of firmware binaries for the Freescale QUICC + Engine and the code that parses and uploads the microcode therein. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d60fced5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +The PowerPC boot wrapper +------------------------ +Copyright (C) Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. + +PowerPC image targets compresses and wraps the kernel image (vmlinux) with +a boot wrapper to make it usable by the system firmware. There is no +standard PowerPC firmware interface, so the boot wrapper is designed to +be adaptable for each kind of image that needs to be built. + +The boot wrapper can be found in the arch/powerpc/boot/ directory. The +Makefile in that directory has targets for all the available image types. +The different image types are used to support all of the various firmware +interfaces found on PowerPC platforms. OpenFirmware is the most commonly +used firmware type on general purpose PowerPC systems from Apple, IBM and +others. U-Boot is typically found on embedded PowerPC hardware, but there +are a handful of other firmware implementations which are also popular. Each +firmware interface requires a different image format. + +The boot wrapper is built from the makefile in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile and +it uses the wrapper script (arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper) to generate target +image. The details of the build system is discussed in the next section. +Currently, the following image format targets exist: + + cuImage.%: Backwards compatible uImage for older version of + U-Boot (for versions that don't understand the device + tree). This image embeds a device tree blob inside + the image. The boot wrapper, kernel and device tree + are all embedded inside the U-Boot uImage file format + with boot wrapper code that extracts data from the old + bd_info structure and loads the data into the device + tree before jumping into the kernel. + Because of the series of #ifdefs found in the + bd_info structure used in the old U-Boot interfaces, + cuImages are platform specific. Each specific + U-Boot platform has a different platform init file + which populates the embedded device tree with data + from the platform specific bd_info file. The platform + specific cuImage platform init code can be found in + arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot.*.c. Selection of the correct + cuImage init code for a specific board can be found in + the wrapper structure. + dtbImage.%: Similar to zImage, except device tree blob is embedded + inside the image instead of provided by firmware. The + output image file can be either an elf file or a flat + binary depending on the platform. + dtbImages are used on systems which do not have an + interface for passing a device tree directly. + dtbImages are similar to simpleImages except that + dtbImages have platform specific code for extracting + data from the board firmware, but simpleImages do not + talk to the firmware at all. + PlayStation 3 support uses dtbImage. So do Embedded + Planet boards using the PlanetCore firmware. Board + specific initialization code is typically found in a + file named arch/powerpc/boot/<platform>.c; but this + can be overridden by the wrapper script. + simpleImage.%: Firmware independent compressed image that does not + depend on any particular firmware interface and embeds + a device tree blob. This image is a flat binary that + can be loaded to any location in RAM and jumped to. + Firmware cannot pass any configuration data to the + kernel with this image type and it depends entirely on + the embedded device tree for all information. + The simpleImage is useful for booting systems with + an unknown firmware interface or for booting from + a debugger when no firmware is present (such as on + the Xilinx Virtex platform). The only assumption that + simpleImage makes is that RAM is correctly initialized + and that the MMU is either off or has RAM mapped to + base address 0. + simpleImage also supports inserting special platform + specific initialization code to the start of the bootup + sequence. The virtex405 platform uses this feature to + ensure that the cache is invalidated before caching + is enabled. Platform specific initialization code is + added as part of the wrapper script and is keyed on + the image target name. For example, all + simpleImage.virtex405-* targets will add the + virtex405-head.S initialization code (This also means + that the dts file for virtex405 targets should be + named (virtex405-<board>.dts). Search the wrapper + script for 'virtex405' and see the file + arch/powerpc/boot/virtex405-head.S for details. + treeImage.%; Image format for used with OpenBIOS firmware found + on some ppc4xx hardware. This image embeds a device + tree blob inside the image. + uImage: Native image format used by U-Boot. The uImage target + does not add any boot code. It just wraps a compressed + vmlinux in the uImage data structure. This image + requires a version of U-Boot that is able to pass + a device tree to the kernel at boot. If using an older + version of U-Boot, then you need to use a cuImage + instead. + zImage.%: Image format which does not embed a device tree. + Used by OpenFirmware and other firmware interfaces + which are able to supply a device tree. This image + expects firmware to provide the device tree at boot. + Typically, if you have general purpose PowerPC + hardware then you want this image format. + +Image types which embed a device tree blob (simpleImage, dtbImage, treeImage, +and cuImage) all generate the device tree blob from a file in the +arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ directory. The Makefile selects the correct device +tree source based on the name of the target. Therefore, if the kernel is +built with 'make treeImage.walnut simpleImage.virtex405-ml403', then the +build system will use arch/powerpc/boot/dts/walnut.dts to build +treeImage.walnut and arch/powerpc/boot/dts/virtex405-ml403.dts to build +the simpleImage.virtex405-ml403. + +Two special targets called 'zImage' and 'zImage.initrd' also exist. These +targets build all the default images as selected by the kernel configuration. +Default images are selected by the boot wrapper Makefile +(arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile) by adding targets to the $image-y variable. Look +at the Makefile to see which default image targets are available. + +How it is built +--------------- +arch/powerpc is designed to support multiplatform kernels, which means +that a single vmlinux image can be booted on many different target boards. +It also means that the boot wrapper must be able to wrap for many kinds of +images on a single build. The design decision was made to not use any +conditional compilation code (#ifdef, etc) in the boot wrapper source code. +All of the boot wrapper pieces are buildable at any time regardless of the +kernel configuration. Building all the wrapper bits on every kernel build +also ensures that obscure parts of the wrapper are at the very least compile +tested in a large variety of environments. + +The wrapper is adapted for different image types at link time by linking in +just the wrapper bits that are appropriate for the image type. The 'wrapper +script' (found in arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper) is called by the Makefile and +is responsible for selecting the correct wrapper bits for the image type. +The arguments are well documented in the script's comment block, so they +are not repeated here. However, it is worth mentioning that the script +uses the -p (platform) argument as the main method of deciding which wrapper +bits to compile in. Look for the large 'case "$platform" in' block in the +middle of the script. This is also the place where platform specific fixups +can be selected by changing the link order. + +In particular, care should be taken when working with cuImages. cuImage +wrapper bits are very board specific and care should be taken to make sure +the target you are trying to build is supported by the wrapper bits. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae09df87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Hollis Blanchard <hollis@austin.ibm.com> +5 Jun 2002 + +This document describes the system (including self-modifying code) used in the +PPC Linux kernel to support a variety of PowerPC CPUs without requiring +compile-time selection. + +Early in the boot process the ppc32 kernel detects the current CPU type and +chooses a set of features accordingly. Some examples include Altivec support, +split instruction and data caches, and if the CPU supports the DOZE and NAP +sleep modes. + +Detection of the feature set is simple. A list of processors can be found in +arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c. The PVR register is masked and compared with +each value in the list. If a match is found, the cpu_features of cur_cpu_spec +is assigned to the feature bitmask for this processor and a __setup_cpu +function is called. + +C code may test 'cur_cpu_spec[smp_processor_id()]->cpu_features' for a +particular feature bit. This is done in quite a few places, for example +in ppc_setup_l2cr(). + +Implementing cpufeatures in assembly is a little more involved. There are +several paths that are performance-critical and would suffer if an array +index, structure dereference, and conditional branch were added. To avoid the +performance penalty but still allow for runtime (rather than compile-time) CPU +selection, unused code is replaced by 'nop' instructions. This nop'ing is +based on CPU 0's capabilities, so a multi-processor system with non-identical +processors will not work (but such a system would likely have other problems +anyways). + +After detecting the processor type, the kernel patches out sections of code +that shouldn't be used by writing nop's over it. Using cpufeatures requires +just 2 macros (found in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h), as seen in head.S +transfer_to_handler: + + #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC + BEGIN_FTR_SECTION + mfspr r22,SPRN_VRSAVE /* if G4, save vrsave register value */ + stw r22,THREAD_VRSAVE(r23) + END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC) + #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */ + +If CPU 0 supports Altivec, the code is left untouched. If it doesn't, both +instructions are replaced with nop's. + +The END_FTR_SECTION macro has two simpler variations: END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET +and END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR. These simply test if a flag is set (in +cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features) or is cleared, respectively. These two macros +should be used in the majority of cases. + +The END_FTR_SECTION macros are implemented by storing information about this +code in the '__ftr_fixup' ELF section. When do_cpu_ftr_fixups +(arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S) is invoked, it will iterate over the records in +__ftr_fixup, and if the required feature is not present it will loop writing +nop's from each BEGIN_FTR_SECTION to END_FTR_SECTION. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d4e33df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt @@ -0,0 +1,334 @@ + + + PCI Bus EEH Error Recovery + -------------------------- + Linas Vepstas + <linas@austin.ibm.com> + 12 January 2005 + + +Overview: +--------- +The IBM POWER-based pSeries and iSeries computers include PCI bus +controller chips that have extended capabilities for detecting and +reporting a large variety of PCI bus error conditions. These features +go under the name of "EEH", for "Extended Error Handling". The EEH +hardware features allow PCI bus errors to be cleared and a PCI +card to be "rebooted", without also having to reboot the operating +system. + +This is in contrast to traditional PCI error handling, where the +PCI chip is wired directly to the CPU, and an error would cause +a CPU machine-check/check-stop condition, halting the CPU entirely. +Another "traditional" technique is to ignore such errors, which +can lead to data corruption, both of user data or of kernel data, +hung/unresponsive adapters, or system crashes/lockups. Thus, +the idea behind EEH is that the operating system can become more +reliable and robust by protecting it from PCI errors, and giving +the OS the ability to "reboot"/recover individual PCI devices. + +Future systems from other vendors, based on the PCI-E specification, +may contain similar features. + + +Causes of EEH Errors +-------------------- +EEH was originally designed to guard against hardware failure, such +as PCI cards dying from heat, humidity, dust, vibration and bad +electrical connections. The vast majority of EEH errors seen in +"real life" are due to either poorly seated PCI cards, or, +unfortunately quite commonly, due to device driver bugs, device firmware +bugs, and sometimes PCI card hardware bugs. + +The most common software bug, is one that causes the device to +attempt to DMA to a location in system memory that has not been +reserved for DMA access for that card. This is a powerful feature, +as it prevents what; otherwise, would have been silent memory +corruption caused by the bad DMA. A number of device driver +bugs have been found and fixed in this way over the past few +years. Other possible causes of EEH errors include data or +address line parity errors (for example, due to poor electrical +connectivity due to a poorly seated card), and PCI-X split-completion +errors (due to software, device firmware, or device PCI hardware bugs). +The vast majority of "true hardware failures" can be cured by +physically removing and re-seating the PCI card. + + +Detection and Recovery +---------------------- +In the following discussion, a generic overview of how to detect +and recover from EEH errors will be presented. This is followed +by an overview of how the current implementation in the Linux +kernel does it. The actual implementation is subject to change, +and some of the finer points are still being debated. These +may in turn be swayed if or when other architectures implement +similar functionality. + +When a PCI Host Bridge (PHB, the bus controller connecting the +PCI bus to the system CPU electronics complex) detects a PCI error +condition, it will "isolate" the affected PCI card. Isolation +will block all writes (either to the card from the system, or +from the card to the system), and it will cause all reads to +return all-ff's (0xff, 0xffff, 0xffffffff for 8/16/32-bit reads). +This value was chosen because it is the same value you would +get if the device was physically unplugged from the slot. +This includes access to PCI memory, I/O space, and PCI config +space. Interrupts; however, will continued to be delivered. + +Detection and recovery are performed with the aid of ppc64 +firmware. The programming interfaces in the Linux kernel +into the firmware are referred to as RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction +Services). The Linux kernel does not (should not) access +the EEH function in the PCI chipsets directly, primarily because +there are a number of different chipsets out there, each with +different interfaces and quirks. The firmware provides a +uniform abstraction layer that will work with all pSeries +and iSeries hardware (and be forwards-compatible). + +If the OS or device driver suspects that a PCI slot has been +EEH-isolated, there is a firmware call it can make to determine if +this is the case. If so, then the device driver should put itself +into a consistent state (given that it won't be able to complete any +pending work) and start recovery of the card. Recovery normally +would consist of resetting the PCI device (holding the PCI #RST +line high for two seconds), followed by setting up the device +config space (the base address registers (BAR's), latency timer, +cache line size, interrupt line, and so on). This is followed by a +reinitialization of the device driver. In a worst-case scenario, +the power to the card can be toggled, at least on hot-plug-capable +slots. In principle, layers far above the device driver probably +do not need to know that the PCI card has been "rebooted" in this +way; ideally, there should be at most a pause in Ethernet/disk/USB +I/O while the card is being reset. + +If the card cannot be recovered after three or four resets, the +kernel/device driver should assume the worst-case scenario, that the +card has died completely, and report this error to the sysadmin. +In addition, error messages are reported through RTAS and also through +syslogd (/var/log/messages) to alert the sysadmin of PCI resets. +The correct way to deal with failed adapters is to use the standard +PCI hotplug tools to remove and replace the dead card. + + +Current PPC64 Linux EEH Implementation +-------------------------------------- +At this time, a generic EEH recovery mechanism has been implemented, +so that individual device drivers do not need to be modified to support +EEH recovery. This generic mechanism piggy-backs on the PCI hotplug +infrastructure, and percolates events up through the userspace/udev +infrastructure. Following is a detailed description of how this is +accomplished. + +EEH must be enabled in the PHB's very early during the boot process, +and if a PCI slot is hot-plugged. The former is performed by +eeh_init() in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c, and the later by +drivers/pci/hotplug/pSeries_pci.c calling in to the eeh.c code. +EEH must be enabled before a PCI scan of the device can proceed. +Current Power5 hardware will not work unless EEH is enabled; +although older Power4 can run with it disabled. Effectively, +EEH can no longer be turned off. PCI devices *must* be +registered with the EEH code; the EEH code needs to know about +the I/O address ranges of the PCI device in order to detect an +error. Given an arbitrary address, the routine +pci_get_device_by_addr() will find the pci device associated +with that address (if any). + +The default arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h macros readb(), inb(), insb(), +etc. include a check to see if the i/o read returned all-0xff's. +If so, these make a call to eeh_dn_check_failure(), which in turn +asks the firmware if the all-ff's value is the sign of a true EEH +error. If it is not, processing continues as normal. The grand +total number of these false alarms or "false positives" can be +seen in /proc/ppc64/eeh (subject to change). Normally, almost +all of these occur during boot, when the PCI bus is scanned, where +a large number of 0xff reads are part of the bus scan procedure. + +If a frozen slot is detected, code in +arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c will print a stack trace to +syslog (/var/log/messages). This stack trace has proven to be very +useful to device-driver authors for finding out at what point the EEH +error was detected, as the error itself usually occurs slightly +beforehand. + +Next, it uses the Linux kernel notifier chain/work queue mechanism to +allow any interested parties to find out about the failure. Device +drivers, or other parts of the kernel, can use +eeh_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *) to find out about EEH +events. The event will include a pointer to the pci device, the +device node and some state info. Receivers of the event can "do as +they wish"; the default handler will be described further in this +section. + +To assist in the recovery of the device, eeh.c exports the +following functions: + +rtas_set_slot_reset() -- assert the PCI #RST line for 1/8th of a second +rtas_configure_bridge() -- ask firmware to configure any PCI bridges + located topologically under the pci slot. +eeh_save_bars() and eeh_restore_bars(): save and restore the PCI + config-space info for a device and any devices under it. + + +A handler for the EEH notifier_block events is implemented in +drivers/pci/hotplug/pSeries_pci.c, called handle_eeh_events(). +It saves the device BAR's and then calls rpaphp_unconfig_pci_adapter(). +This last call causes the device driver for the card to be stopped, +which causes uevents to go out to user space. This triggers +user-space scripts that might issue commands such as "ifdown eth0" +for ethernet cards, and so on. This handler then sleeps for 5 seconds, +hoping to give the user-space scripts enough time to complete. +It then resets the PCI card, reconfigures the device BAR's, and +any bridges underneath. It then calls rpaphp_enable_pci_slot(), +which restarts the device driver and triggers more user-space +events (for example, calling "ifup eth0" for ethernet cards). + + +Device Shutdown and User-Space Events +------------------------------------- +This section documents what happens when a pci slot is unconfigured, +focusing on how the device driver gets shut down, and on how the +events get delivered to user-space scripts. + +Following is an example sequence of events that cause a device driver +close function to be called during the first phase of an EEH reset. +The following sequence is an example of the pcnet32 device driver. + + rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter (struct slot *) // in rpaphp_pci.c + { + calls + pci_remove_bus_device (struct pci_dev *) // in /drivers/pci/remove.c + { + calls + pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) + { + calls + device_unregister (&dev->dev) // in /drivers/base/core.c + { + calls + device_del (struct device *) + { + calls + bus_remove_device() // in /drivers/base/bus.c + { + calls + device_release_driver() + { + calls + struct device_driver->remove() which is just + pci_device_remove() // in /drivers/pci/pci_driver.c + { + calls + struct pci_driver->remove() which is just + pcnet32_remove_one() // in /drivers/net/pcnet32.c + { + calls + unregister_netdev() // in /net/core/dev.c + { + calls + dev_close() // in /net/core/dev.c + { + calls dev->stop(); + which is just pcnet32_close() // in pcnet32.c + { + which does what you wanted + to stop the device + } + } + } + which + frees pcnet32 device driver memory + } + }}}}}} + + + in drivers/pci/pci_driver.c, + struct device_driver->remove() is just pci_device_remove() + which calls struct pci_driver->remove() which is pcnet32_remove_one() + which calls unregister_netdev() (in net/core/dev.c) + which calls dev_close() (in net/core/dev.c) + which calls dev->stop() which is pcnet32_close() + which then does the appropriate shutdown. + +--- +Following is the analogous stack trace for events sent to user-space +when the pci device is unconfigured. + +rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter() { // in rpaphp_pci.c + calls + pci_remove_bus_device (struct pci_dev *) { // in /drivers/pci/remove.c + calls + pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) { + calls + device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + calls + device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + calls + kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c + calls + kobject_uevent() { // in /libs/kobject.c + calls + kset_uevent() { // in /lib/kobject.c + calls + kset->uevent_ops->uevent() // which is really just + a call to + dev_uevent() { // in /drivers/base/core.c + calls + dev->bus->uevent() which is really just a call to + pci_uevent () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c + which prints device name, etc.... + } + } + then kobject_uevent() sends a netlink uevent to userspace + --> userspace uevent + (during early boot, nobody listens to netlink events and + kobject_uevent() executes uevent_helper[], which runs the + event process /sbin/hotplug) + } + } + kobject_del() then calls sysfs_remove_dir(), which would + trigger any user-space daemon that was watching /sysfs, + and notice the delete event. + + +Pro's and Con's of the Current Design +------------------------------------- +There are several issues with the current EEH software recovery design, +which may be addressed in future revisions. But first, note that the +big plus of the current design is that no changes need to be made to +individual device drivers, so that the current design throws a wide net. +The biggest negative of the design is that it potentially disturbs +network daemons and file systems that didn't need to be disturbed. + +-- A minor complaint is that resetting the network card causes + user-space back-to-back ifdown/ifup burps that potentially disturb + network daemons, that didn't need to even know that the pci + card was being rebooted. + +-- A more serious concern is that the same reset, for SCSI devices, + causes havoc to mounted file systems. Scripts cannot post-facto + unmount a file system without flushing pending buffers, but this + is impossible, because I/O has already been stopped. Thus, + ideally, the reset should happen at or below the block layer, + so that the file systems are not disturbed. + + Reiserfs does not tolerate errors returned from the block device. + Ext3fs seems to be tolerant, retrying reads/writes until it does + succeed. Both have been only lightly tested in this scenario. + + The SCSI-generic subsystem already has built-in code for performing + SCSI device resets, SCSI bus resets, and SCSI host-bus-adapter + (HBA) resets. These are cascaded into a chain of attempted + resets if a SCSI command fails. These are completely hidden + from the block layer. It would be very natural to add an EEH + reset into this chain of events. + +-- If a SCSI error occurs for the root device, all is lost unless + the sysadmin had the foresight to run /bin, /sbin, /etc, /var + and so on, out of ramdisk/tmpfs. + + +Conclusions +----------- +There's forward progress ... + + diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3007bc98 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt @@ -0,0 +1,270 @@ + + Firmware-Assisted Dump + ------------------------ + July 2011 + +The goal of firmware-assisted dump is to enable the dump of +a crashed system, and to do so from a fully-reset system, and +to minimize the total elapsed time until the system is back +in production use. + +- Firmware assisted dump (fadump) infrastructure is intended to replace + the existing phyp assisted dump. +- Fadump uses the same firmware interfaces and memory reservation model + as phyp assisted dump. +- Unlike phyp dump, fadump exports the memory dump through /proc/vmcore + in the ELF format in the same way as kdump. This helps us reuse the + kdump infrastructure for dump capture and filtering. +- Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any sysfs + interface while reading /proc/vmcore. +- Unlike phyp dump, fadump allows user to release all the memory reserved + for dump, with a single operation of echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem. +- Once enabled through kernel boot parameter, fadump can be + started/stopped through /sys/kernel/fadump_registered interface (see + sysfs files section below) and can be easily integrated with kdump + service start/stop init scripts. + +Comparing with kdump or other strategies, firmware-assisted +dump offers several strong, practical advantages: + +-- Unlike kdump, the system has been reset, and loaded + with a fresh copy of the kernel. In particular, + PCI and I/O devices have been reinitialized and are + in a clean, consistent state. +-- Once the dump is copied out, the memory that held the dump + is immediately available to the running kernel. And therefore, + unlike kdump, fadump doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back + the system to the production configuration. + +The above can only be accomplished by coordination with, +and assistance from the Power firmware. The procedure is +as follows: + +-- The first kernel registers the sections of memory with the + Power firmware for dump preservation during OS initialization. + These registered sections of memory are reserved by the first + kernel during early boot. + +-- When a system crashes, the Power firmware will save + the low memory (boot memory of size larger of 5% of system RAM + or 256MB) of RAM to the previous registered region. It will + also save system registers, and hardware PTE's. + + NOTE: The term 'boot memory' means size of the low memory chunk + that is required for a kernel to boot successfully when + booted with restricted memory. By default, the boot memory + size will be the larger of 5% of system RAM or 256MB. + Alternatively, user can also specify boot memory size + through boot parameter 'fadump_reserve_mem=' which will + override the default calculated size. Use this option + if default boot memory size is not sufficient for second + kernel to boot successfully. + +-- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the + firmware will reset PCI and other hardware state. It will + *not* clear the RAM. It will then launch the bootloader, as + normal. + +-- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new + node (ibm,dump-kernel) in the device tree, indicating that + there is crash data available from a previous boot. During + the early boot OS will reserve rest of the memory above + boot memory size effectively booting with restricted memory + size. This will make sure that the second kernel will not + touch any of the dump memory area. + +-- User-space tools will read /proc/vmcore to obtain the contents + of memory, which holds the previous crashed kernel dump in ELF + format. The userspace tools may copy this info to disk, or + network, nas, san, iscsi, etc. as desired. + +-- Once the userspace tool is done saving dump, it will echo + '1' to /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem to release the reserved + memory back to general use, except the memory required for + next firmware-assisted dump registration. + + e.g. + # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem + +Please note that the firmware-assisted dump feature +is only available on Power6 and above systems with recent +firmware versions. + +Implementation details: +---------------------- + +During boot, a check is made to see if firmware supports +this feature on that particular machine. If it does, then +we check to see if an active dump is waiting for us. If yes +then everything but boot memory size of RAM is reserved during +early boot (See Fig. 2). This area is released once we finish +collecting the dump from user land scripts (e.g. kdump scripts) +that are run. If there is dump data, then the +/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem file is created, and the reserved +memory is held. + +If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required +to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore +header, is reserved at the top of memory (see Fig. 1). This area +is *not* released: this region will be kept permanently reserved, +so that it can act as a receptacle for a copy of the boot memory +content in addition to CPU state and HPTE region, in the case a +crash does occur. + + o Memory Reservation during first kernel + + Low memory Top of memory + 0 boot memory size | + | | |<--Reserved dump area -->| + V V | Permanent Reservation V + +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | + +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ + | ^ + | | + \ / + ------------------------------------------- + Boot memory content gets transferred to + reserved area by firmware at the time of + crash + Fig. 1 + + o Memory Reservation during second kernel after crash + + Low memory Top of memory + 0 boot memory size | + | |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->| + V V V + +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | + +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ + | | + V V + Used by second /proc/vmcore + kernel to boot + Fig. 2 + +Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a +a new file upon user intervention. The dump data available through +/proc/vmcore will be in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump +infrastructure (kdump scripts) to save the dump works fine with +minor modifications. + +The tools to examine the dump will be same as the ones +used for kdump. + +How to enable firmware-assisted dump (fadump): +------------------------------------- + +1. Set config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP=y and build kernel. +2. Boot into linux kernel with 'fadump=on' kernel cmdline option. +3. Optionally, user can also set 'fadump_reserve_mem=' kernel cmdline + to specify size of the memory to reserve for boot memory dump + preservation. + +NOTE: If firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve memory then it will + fallback to existing kdump mechanism if 'crashkernel=' option + is set at kernel cmdline. + +Sysfs/debugfs files: +------------ + +Firmware-assisted dump feature uses sysfs file system to hold +the control files and debugfs file to display memory reserved region. + +Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs: + + /sys/kernel/fadump_enabled + + This is used to display the fadump status. + 0 = fadump is disabled + 1 = fadump is enabled + + This interface can be used by kdump init scripts to identify if + fadump is enabled in the kernel and act accordingly. + + /sys/kernel/fadump_registered + + This is used to display the fadump registration status as well + as to control (start/stop) the fadump registration. + 0 = fadump is not registered. + 1 = fadump is registered and ready to handle system crash. + + To register fadump echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_registered and + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/fadump_registered for un-register and stop the + fadump. Once the fadump is un-registered, the system crash will not + be handled and vmcore will not be captured. This interface can be + easily integrated with kdump service start/stop. + + /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem + + This file is available only when fadump is active during + second kernel. This is used to release the reserved memory + region that are held for saving crash dump. To release the + reserved memory echo 1 to it: + + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem + + After echo 1, the content of the /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + file will change to reflect the new memory reservations. + + The existing userspace tools (kdump infrastructure) can be easily + enhanced to use this interface to release the memory reserved for + dump and continue without 2nd reboot. + +Here is the list of files under powerpc debugfs: +(Assuming debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug directory.) + + /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + + This file shows the reserved memory regions if fadump is + enabled otherwise this file is empty. The output format + is: + <region>: [<start>-<end>] <reserved-size> bytes, Dumped: <dump-size> + + e.g. + Contents when fadump is registered during first kernel + + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + + Contents when fadump is active during second kernel + + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x40020 + HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x1000 + DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x10000000 + : [0x00000010000000-0x0000006ffaffff] 0x5ffb0000 bytes, Dumped: 0x5ffb0000 + +NOTE: Please refer to Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt on + how to mount the debugfs filesystem. + + +TODO: +----- + o Need to come up with the better approach to find out more + accurate boot memory size that is required for a kernel to + boot successfully when booted with restricted memory. + o The fadump implementation introduces a fadump crash info structure + in the scratch area before the ELF core header. The idea of introducing + this structure is to pass some important crash info data to the second + kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core header with + correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. The current + design implementation does not address a possibility of introducing + additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting + compatibility. Need to come up with the better approach to address this. + The possible approaches are: + 1. Introduce version field for version tracking, bump up the version + whenever a new field is added to the structure in future. The version + field can be used to find out what fields are valid for the current + version of the structure. + 2. Reserve the area of predefined size (say PAGE_SIZE) for this + structure and have unused area as reserved (initialized to zero) + for future field additions. + The advantage of approach 1 over 2 is we don't need to reserve extra space. +--- +Author: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> +This document is based on the original documentation written for phyp +assisted dump by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a730ca5a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,567 @@ +=========================================================================== + HVCS + IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide + for Linux Kernel 2.6.4+ + Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation + +=========================================================================== +NOTE:Eight space tabs are the optimum editor setting for reading this file. +=========================================================================== + + Author(s) : Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com> + Date Created: March, 02, 2004 + Last Changed: August, 24, 2004 + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Table of contents: + + 1. Driver Introduction: + 2. System Requirements + 3. Build Options: + 3.1 Built-in: + 3.2 Module: + 4. Installation: + 5. Connection: + 6. Disconnection: + 7. Configuration: + 8. Questions & Answers: + 9. Reporting Bugs: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Driver Introduction: + +This is the device driver for the IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server, +"hvcs". The IBM hvcs provides a tty driver interface to allow Linux user +space applications access to the system consoles of logically partitioned +operating systems (Linux and AIX) running on the same partitioned Power5 +ppc64 system. Physical hardware consoles per partition are not practical +on this hardware so system consoles are accessed by this driver using +firmware interfaces to virtual terminal devices. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +2. System Requirements: + +This device driver was written using 2.6.4 Linux kernel APIs and will only +build and run on kernels of this version or later. + +This driver was written to operate solely on IBM Power5 ppc64 hardware +though some care was taken to abstract the architecture dependent firmware +calls from the driver code. + +Sysfs must be mounted on the system so that the user can determine which +major and minor numbers are associated with each vty-server. Directions +for sysfs mounting are outside the scope of this document. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3. Build Options: + +The hvcs driver registers itself as a tty driver. The tty layer +dynamically allocates a block of major and minor numbers in a quantity +requested by the registering driver. The hvcs driver asks the tty layer +for 64 of these major/minor numbers by default to use for hvcs device node +entries. + +If the default number of device entries is adequate then this driver can be +built into the kernel. If not, the default can be over-ridden by inserting +the driver as a module with insmod parameters. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.1 Built-in: + +The following menuconfig example demonstrates selecting to build this +driver into the kernel. + + Device Drivers ---> + Character devices ---> + <*> IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server Support + +Begin the kernel make process. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.2 Module: + +The following menuconfig example demonstrates selecting to build this +driver as a kernel module. + + Device Drivers ---> + Character devices ---> + <M> IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server Support + +The make process will build the following kernel modules: + + hvcs.ko + hvcserver.ko + +To insert the module with the default allocation execute the following +commands in the order they appear: + + insmod hvcserver.ko + insmod hvcs.ko + +The hvcserver module contains architecture specific firmware calls and must +be inserted first, otherwise the hvcs module will not find some of the +symbols it expects. + +To override the default use an insmod parameter as follows (requesting 4 +tty devices as an example): + + insmod hvcs.ko hvcs_parm_num_devs=4 + +There is a maximum number of dev entries that can be specified on insmod. +We think that 1024 is currently a decent maximum number of server adapters +to allow. This can always be changed by modifying the constant in the +source file before building. + +NOTE: The length of time it takes to insmod the driver seems to be related +to the number of tty interfaces the registering driver requests. + +In order to remove the driver module execute the following command: + + rmmod hvcs.ko + +The recommended method for installing hvcs as a module is to use depmod to +build a current modules.dep file in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and then +execute: + +modprobe hvcs hvcs_parm_num_devs=4 + +The modules.dep file indicates that hvcserver.ko needs to be inserted +before hvcs.ko and modprobe uses this file to smartly insert the modules in +the proper order. + +The following modprobe command is used to remove hvcs and hvcserver in the +proper order: + +modprobe -r hvcs + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +4. Installation: + +The tty layer creates sysfs entries which contain the major and minor +numbers allocated for the hvcs driver. The following snippet of "tree" +output of the sysfs directory shows where these numbers are presented: + + sys/ + |-- *other sysfs base dirs* + | + |-- class + | |-- *other classes of devices* + | | + | `-- tty + | |-- *other tty devices* + | | + | |-- hvcs0 + | | `-- dev + | |-- hvcs1 + | | `-- dev + | |-- hvcs2 + | | `-- dev + | |-- hvcs3 + | | `-- dev + | | + | |-- *other tty devices* + | + |-- *other sysfs base dirs* + +For the above examples the following output is a result of cat'ing the +"dev" entry in the hvcs directory: + + Pow5:/sys/class/tty/hvcs0/ # cat dev + 254:0 + + Pow5:/sys/class/tty/hvcs1/ # cat dev + 254:1 + + Pow5:/sys/class/tty/hvcs2/ # cat dev + 254:2 + + Pow5:/sys/class/tty/hvcs3/ # cat dev + 254:3 + +The output from reading the "dev" attribute is the char device major and +minor numbers that the tty layer has allocated for this driver's use. Most +systems running hvcs will already have the device entries created or udev +will do it automatically. + +Given the example output above, to manually create a /dev/hvcs* node entry +mknod can be used as follows: + + mknod /dev/hvcs0 c 254 0 + mknod /dev/hvcs1 c 254 1 + mknod /dev/hvcs2 c 254 2 + mknod /dev/hvcs3 c 254 3 + +Using mknod to manually create the device entries makes these device nodes +persistent. Once created they will exist prior to the driver insmod. + +Attempting to connect an application to /dev/hvcs* prior to insertion of +the hvcs module will result in an error message similar to the following: + + "/dev/hvcs*: No such device". + +NOTE: Just because there is a device node present doesn't mean that there +is a vty-server device configured for that node. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +5. Connection + +Since this driver controls devices that provide a tty interface a user can +interact with the device node entries using any standard tty-interactive +method (e.g. "cat", "dd", "echo"). The intent of this driver however, is +to provide real time console interaction with a Linux partition's console, +which requires the use of applications that provide bi-directional, +interactive I/O with a tty device. + +Applications (e.g. "minicom" and "screen") that act as terminal emulators +or perform terminal type control sequence conversion on the data being +passed through them are NOT acceptable for providing interactive console +I/O. These programs often emulate antiquated terminal types (vt100 and +ANSI) and expect inbound data to take the form of one of these supported +terminal types but they either do not convert, or do not _adequately_ +convert, outbound data into the terminal type of the terminal which invoked +them (though screen makes an attempt and can apparently be configured with +much termcap wrestling.) + +For this reason kermit and cu are two of the recommended applications for +interacting with a Linux console via an hvcs device. These programs simply +act as a conduit for data transfer to and from the tty device. They do not +require inbound data to take the form of a particular terminal type, nor do +they cook outbound data to a particular terminal type. + +In order to ensure proper functioning of console applications one must make +sure that once connected to a /dev/hvcs console that the console's $TERM +env variable is set to the exact terminal type of the terminal emulator +used to launch the interactive I/O application. If one is using xterm and +kermit to connect to /dev/hvcs0 when the console prompt becomes available +one should "export TERM=xterm" on the console. This tells ncurses +applications that are invoked from the console that they should output +control sequences that xterm can understand. + +As a precautionary measure an hvcs user should always "exit" from their +session before disconnecting an application such as kermit from the device +node. If this is not done, the next user to connect to the console will +continue using the previous user's logged in session which includes +using the $TERM variable that the previous user supplied. + +Hotplug add and remove of vty-server adapters affects which /dev/hvcs* node +is used to connect to each vty-server adapter. In order to determine which +vty-server adapter is associated with which /dev/hvcs* node a special sysfs +attribute has been added to each vty-server sysfs entry. This entry is +called "index" and showing it reveals an integer that refers to the +/dev/hvcs* entry to use to connect to that device. For instance cating the +index attribute of vty-server adapter 30000004 shows the following. + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat index + 2 + +This index of '2' means that in order to connect to vty-server adapter +30000004 the user should interact with /dev/hvcs2. + +It should be noted that due to the system hotplug I/O capabilities of a +system the /dev/hvcs* entry that interacts with a particular vty-server +adapter is not guaranteed to remain the same across system reboots. Look +in the Q & A section for more on this issue. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +6. Disconnection + +As a security feature to prevent the delivery of stale data to an +unintended target the Power5 system firmware disables the fetching of data +and discards that data when a connection between a vty-server and a vty has +been severed. As an example, when a vty-server is immediately disconnected +from a vty following output of data to the vty the vty adapter may not have +enough time between when it received the data interrupt and when the +connection was severed to fetch the data from firmware before the fetch is +disabled by firmware. + +When hvcs is being used to serve consoles this behavior is not a huge issue +because the adapter stays connected for large amounts of time following +almost all data writes. When hvcs is being used as a tty conduit to tunnel +data between two partitions [see Q & A below] this is a huge problem +because the standard Linux behavior when cat'ing or dd'ing data to a device +is to open the tty, send the data, and then close the tty. If this driver +manually terminated vty-server connections on tty close this would close +the vty-server and vty connection before the target vty has had a chance to +fetch the data. + +Additionally, disconnecting a vty-server and vty only on module removal or +adapter removal is impractical because other vty-servers in other +partitions may require the usage of the target vty at any time. + +Due to this behavioral restriction disconnection of vty-servers from the +connected vty is a manual procedure using a write to a sysfs attribute +outlined below, on the other hand the initial vty-server connection to a +vty is established automatically by this driver. Manual vty-server +connection is never required. + +In order to terminate the connection between a vty-server and vty the +"vterm_state" sysfs attribute within each vty-server's sysfs entry is used. +Reading this attribute reveals the current connection state of the +vty-server adapter. A zero means that the vty-server is not connected to a +vty. A one indicates that a connection is active. + +Writing a '0' (zero) to the vterm_state attribute will disconnect the VTERM +connection between the vty-server and target vty ONLY if the vterm_state +previously read '1'. The write directive is ignored if the vterm_state +read '0' or if any value other than '0' was written to the vterm_state +attribute. The following example will show the method used for verifying +the vty-server connection status and disconnecting a vty-server connection. + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat vterm_state + 1 + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # echo 0 > vterm_state + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat vterm_state + 0 + +All vty-server connections are automatically terminated when the device is +hotplug removed and when the module is removed. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +7. Configuration + +Each vty-server has a sysfs entry in the /sys/devices/vio directory, which +is symlinked in several other sysfs tree directories, notably under the +hvcs driver entry, which looks like the following example: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs # ls + . .. 30000003 30000004 rescan + +By design, firmware notifies the hvcs driver of vty-server lifetimes and +partner vty removals but not the addition of partner vtys. Since an HMC +Super Admin can add partner info dynamically we have provided the hvcs +driver sysfs directory with the "rescan" update attribute which will query +firmware and update the partner info for all the vty-servers that this +driver manages. Writing a '1' to the attribute triggers the update. An +explicit example follows: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs # echo 1 > rescan + +Reading the attribute will indicate a state of '1' or '0'. A one indicates +that an update is in process. A zero indicates that an update has +completed or was never executed. + +Vty-server entries in this directory are a 32 bit partition unique unit +address that is created by firmware. An example vty-server sysfs entry +looks like the following: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # ls + . current_vty devspec name partner_vtys + .. index partner_clcs vterm_state + +Each entry is provided, by default with a "name" attribute. Reading the +"name" attribute will reveal the device type as shown in the following +example: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000003 # cat name + vty-server + +Each entry is also provided, by default, with a "devspec" attribute which +reveals the full device specification when read, as shown in the following +example: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat devspec + /vdevice/vty-server@30000004 + +Each vty-server sysfs dir is provided with two read-only attributes that +provide lists of easily parsed partner vty data: "partner_vtys" and +"partner_clcs". + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat partner_vtys + 30000000 + 30000001 + 30000002 + 30000000 + 30000000 + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat partner_clcs + U5112.428.103048A-V3-C0 + U5112.428.103048A-V3-C2 + U5112.428.103048A-V3-C3 + U5112.428.103048A-V4-C0 + U5112.428.103048A-V5-C0 + +Reading partner_vtys returns a list of partner vtys. Vty unit address +numbering is only per-partition-unique so entries will frequently repeat. + +Reading partner_clcs returns a list of "converged location codes" which are +composed of a system serial number followed by "-V*", where the '*' is the +target partition number, and "-C*", where the '*' is the slot of the +adapter. The first vty partner corresponds to the first clc item, the +second vty partner to the second clc item, etc. + +A vty-server can only be connected to a single vty at a time. The entry, +"current_vty" prints the clc of the currently selected partner vty when +read. + +The current_vty can be changed by writing a valid partner clc to the entry +as in the following example: + + Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # echo U5112.428.10304 + 8A-V4-C0 > current_vty + +Changing the current_vty when a vty-server is already connected to a vty +does not affect the current connection. The change takes effect when the +currently open connection is freed. + +Information on the "vterm_state" attribute was covered earlier on the +chapter entitled "disconnection". + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +8. Questions & Answers: +=========================================================================== +Q: What are the security concerns involving hvcs? + +A: There are three main security concerns: + + 1. The creator of the /dev/hvcs* nodes has the ability to restrict + the access of the device entries to certain users or groups. It + may be best to create a special hvcs group privilege for providing + access to system consoles. + + 2. To provide network security when grabbing the console it is + suggested that the user connect to the console hosting partition + using a secure method, such as SSH or sit at a hardware console. + + 3. Make sure to exit the user session when done with a console or + the next vty-server connection (which may be from another + partition) will experience the previously logged in session. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: How do I multiplex a console that I grab through hvcs so that other +people can see it: + +A: You can use "screen" to directly connect to the /dev/hvcs* device and +setup a session on your machine with the console group privileges. As +pointed out earlier by default screen doesn't provide the termcap settings +for most terminal emulators to provide adequate character conversion from +term type "screen" to others. This means that curses based programs may +not display properly in screen sessions. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: Why are the colors all messed up? +Q: Why are the control characters acting strange or not working? +Q: Why is the console output all strange and unintelligible? + +A: Please see the preceding section on "Connection" for a discussion of how +applications can affect the display of character control sequences. +Additionally, just because you logged into the console using and xterm +doesn't mean someone else didn't log into the console with the HMC console +(vt320) before you and leave the session logged in. The best thing to do +is to export TERM to the terminal type of your terminal emulator when you +get the console. Additionally make sure to "exit" the console before you +disconnect from the console. This will ensure that the next user gets +their own TERM type set when they login. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: When I try to CONNECT kermit to an hvcs device I get: +"Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/hvcs*"What is happening? + +A: Some other Power5 console mechanism has a connection to the vty and +isn't giving it up. You can try to force disconnect the consoles from the +HMC by right clicking on the partition and then selecting "close terminal". +Otherwise you have to hunt down the people who have console authority. It +is possible that you already have the console open using another kermit +session and just forgot about it. Please review the console options for +Power5 systems to determine the many ways a system console can be held. + +OR + +A: Another user may not have a connectivity method currently attached to a +/dev/hvcs device but the vterm_state may reveal that they still have the +vty-server connection established. They need to free this using the method +outlined in the section on "Disconnection" in order for others to connect +to the target vty. + +OR + +A: The user profile you are using to execute kermit probably doesn't have +permissions to use the /dev/hvcs* device. + +OR + +A: You probably haven't inserted the hvcs.ko module yet but the /dev/hvcs* +entry still exists (on systems without udev). + +OR + +A: There is not a corresponding vty-server device that maps to an existing +/dev/hvcs* entry. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: When I try to CONNECT kermit to an hvcs device I get: +"Sorry, write access to UUCP lockfile directory denied." + +A: The /dev/hvcs* entry you have specified doesn't exist where you said it +does? Maybe you haven't inserted the module (on systems with udev). + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: If I already have one Linux partition installed can I use hvcs on said +partition to provide the console for the install of a second Linux +partition? + +A: Yes granted that your are connected to the /dev/hvcs* device using +kermit or cu or some other program that doesn't provide terminal emulation. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: Can I connect to more than one partition's console at a time using this +driver? + +A: Yes. Of course this means that there must be more than one vty-server +configured for this partition and each must point to a disconnected vty. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: Does the hvcs driver support dynamic (hotplug) addition of devices? + +A: Yes, if you have dlpar and hotplug enabled for your system and it has +been built into the kernel the hvcs drivers is configured to dynamically +handle additions of new devices and removals of unused devices. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: For some reason /dev/hvcs* doesn't map to the same vty-server adapter +after a reboot. What happened? + +A: Assignment of vty-server adapters to /dev/hvcs* entries is always done +in the order that the adapters are exposed. Due to hotplug capabilities of +this driver assignment of hotplug added vty-servers may be in a different +order than how they would be exposed on module load. Rebooting or +reloading the module after dynamic addition may result in the /dev/hvcs* +and vty-server coupling changing if a vty-server adapter was added in a +slot between two other vty-server adapters. Refer to the section above +on how to determine which vty-server goes with which /dev/hvcs* node. +Hint; look at the sysfs "index" attribute for the vty-server. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Q: Can I use /dev/hvcs* as a conduit to another partition and use a tty +device on that partition as the other end of the pipe? + +A: Yes, on Power5 platforms the hvc_console driver provides a tty interface +for extra /dev/hvc* devices (where /dev/hvc0 is most likely the console). +In order to get a tty conduit working between the two partitions the HMC +Super Admin must create an additional "serial server" for the target +partition with the HMC gui which will show up as /dev/hvc* when the target +partition is rebooted. + +The HMC Super Admin then creates an additional "serial client" for the +current partition and points this at the target partition's newly created +"serial server" adapter (remember the slot). This shows up as an +additional /dev/hvcs* device. + +Now a program on the target system can be configured to read or write to +/dev/hvc* and another program on the current partition can be configured to +read or write to /dev/hvcs*. Now you have a tty conduit between two +partitions. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +9. Reporting Bugs: + +The proper channel for reporting bugs is either through the Linux OS +distribution company that provided your OS or by posting issues to the +PowerPC development mailing list at: + +linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org + +This request is to provide a documented and searchable public exchange +of the problems and solutions surrounding this driver for the benefit of +all users. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c02a003f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> +15 Apr 2008 + +Various notes on the implementation of KVM for PowerPC 440: + +To enforce isolation, host userspace, guest kernel, and guest userspace all +run at user privilege level. Only the host kernel runs in supervisor mode. +Executing privileged instructions in the guest traps into KVM (in the host +kernel), where we decode and emulate them. Through this technique, unmodified +440 Linux kernels can be run (slowly) as guests. Future performance work will +focus on reducing the overhead and frequency of these traps. + +The usual code flow is started from userspace invoking an "run" ioctl, which +causes KVM to switch into guest context. We use IVPR to hijack the host +interrupt vectors while running the guest, which allows us to direct all +interrupts to kvmppc_handle_interrupt(). At this point, we could either +- handle the interrupt completely (e.g. emulate "mtspr SPRG0"), or +- let the host interrupt handler run (e.g. when the decrementer fires), or +- return to host userspace (e.g. when the guest performs device MMIO) + +Address spaces: We take advantage of the fact that Linux doesn't use the AS=1 +address space (in host or guest), which gives us virtual address space to use +for guest mappings. While the guest is running, the host kernel remains mapped +in AS=0, but the guest can only use AS=1 mappings. + +TLB entries: The TLB entries covering the host linear mapping remain +present while running the guest. This reduces the overhead of lightweight +exits, which are handled by KVM running in the host kernel. We keep three +copies of the TLB: + - guest TLB: contents of the TLB as the guest sees it + - shadow TLB: the TLB that is actually in hardware while guest is running + - host TLB: to restore TLB state when context switching guest -> host +When a TLB miss occurs because a mapping was not present in the shadow TLB, +but was present in the guest TLB, KVM handles the fault without invoking the +guest. Large guest pages are backed by multiple 4KB shadow pages through this +mechanism. + +IO: MMIO and DCR accesses are emulated by userspace. We use virtio for network +and block IO, so those drivers must be enabled in the guest. It's possible +that some qemu device emulation (e.g. e1000 or rtl8139) may also work with +little effort. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d540a31 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Linux 2.6.x on MPC52xx family +----------------------------- + +For the latest info, go to http://www.246tNt.com/mpc52xx/ + +To compile/use : + + - U-Boot: + # <edit Makefile to set ARCH=ppc & CROSS_COMPILE=... ( also EXTRAVERSION + if you wish to ). + # make lite5200_defconfig + # make uImage + + then, on U-boot: + => tftpboot 200000 uImage + => tftpboot 400000 pRamdisk + => bootm 200000 400000 + + - DBug: + # <edit Makefile to set ARCH=ppc & CROSS_COMPILE=... ( also EXTRAVERSION + if you wish to ). + # make lite5200_defconfig + # cp your_initrd.gz arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz + # make zImage.initrd + # make + + then in DBug: + DBug> dn -i zImage.initrd.lite5200 + + +Some remarks : + - The port is named mpc52xxx, and config options are PPC_MPC52xx. The MGT5100 + is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interesting in working on it + so. I didn't took 5xxx because there's apparently a lot of 5xxx that have + nothing to do with the MPC5200. I also included the 'MPC' for the same + reason. + - Of course, I inspired myself from the 2.4 port. If you think I forgot to + mention you/your company in the copyright of some code, I'll correct it + ASAP. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f2a7a391 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +GDB intends to support the following hardware debug features of BookE +processors: + +4 hardware breakpoints (IAC) +2 hardware watchpoints (read, write and read-write) (DAC) +2 value conditions for the hardware watchpoints (DVC) + +For that, we need to extend ptrace so that GDB can query and set these +resources. Since we're extending, we're trying to create an interface +that's extendable and that covers both BookE and server processors, so +that GDB doesn't need to special-case each of them. We added the +following 3 new ptrace requests. + +1. PTRACE_PPC_GETHWDEBUGINFO + +Query for GDB to discover the hardware debug features. The main info to +be returned here is the minimum alignment for the hardware watchpoints. +BookE processors don't have restrictions here, but server processors have +an 8-byte alignment restriction for hardware watchpoints. We'd like to avoid +adding special cases to GDB based on what it sees in AUXV. + +Since we're at it, we added other useful info that the kernel can return to +GDB: this query will return the number of hardware breakpoints, hardware +watchpoints and whether it supports a range of addresses and a condition. +The query will fill the following structure provided by the requesting process: + +struct ppc_debug_info { + unit32_t version; + unit32_t num_instruction_bps; + unit32_t num_data_bps; + unit32_t num_condition_regs; + unit32_t data_bp_alignment; + unit32_t sizeof_condition; /* size of the DVC register */ + uint64_t features; /* bitmask of the individual flags */ +}; + +features will have bits indicating whether there is support for: + +#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_RANGE 0x1 +#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_MASK 0x2 +#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_RANGE 0x4 +#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_MASK 0x8 + +2. PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG + +Sets a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint, according to the provided structure: + +struct ppc_hw_breakpoint { + uint32_t version; +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE 0x1 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ 0x2 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_WRITE 0x4 + uint32_t trigger_type; /* only some combinations allowed */ +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT 0x0 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE 0x1 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_EXCLUSIVE 0x2 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_MASK 0x3 + uint32_t addr_mode; /* address match mode */ + +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_MODE 0x3 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE 0x0 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND 0x1 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_EXACT 0x1 /* different name for the same thing as above */ +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_OR 0x2 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND_OR 0x3 +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL 0x00ff0000 /* byte enable bits */ +#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE(n) (1<<((n)+16)) + uint32_t condition_mode; /* break/watchpoint condition flags */ + + uint64_t addr; + uint64_t addr2; + uint64_t condition_value; +}; + +A request specifies one event, not necessarily just one register to be set. +For instance, if the request is for a watchpoint with a condition, both the +DAC and DVC registers will be set in the same request. + +With this GDB can ask for all kinds of hardware breakpoints and watchpoints +that the BookE supports. COMEFROM breakpoints available in server processors +are not contemplated, but that is out of the scope of this work. + +ptrace will return an integer (handle) uniquely identifying the breakpoint or +watchpoint just created. This integer will be used in the PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG +request to ask for its removal. Return -ENOSPC if the requested breakpoint +can't be allocated on the registers. + +Some examples of using the structure to: + +- set a breakpoint in the first breakpoint register + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint which triggers on reads in the second watchpoint register + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint which triggers only with a specific value + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND | PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = (uint64_t) condition; + +- set a ranged hardware breakpoint + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; + p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint in server processors (BookS) + + p.version = 1; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_RW; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; + or + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; + /* For PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE addr2 needs to be specified, where + * addr2 - addr <= 8 Bytes. + */ + p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; + p.condition_value = 0; + +3. PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG + +Takes an integer which identifies an existing breakpoint or watchpoint +(i.e., the value returned from PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG), and deletes the +corresponding breakpoint or watchpoint.. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2031ddb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt @@ -0,0 +1,295 @@ + Freescale QUICC Engine Firmware Uploading + ----------------------------------------- + +(c) 2007 Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>, + Freescale Semiconductor + +Table of Contents +================= + + I - Software License for Firmware + + II - Microcode Availability + + III - Description and Terminology + + IV - Microcode Programming Details + + V - Firmware Structure Layout + + VI - Sample Code for Creating Firmware Files + +Revision Information +==================== + +November 30, 2007: Rev 1.0 - Initial version + +I - Software License for Firmware +================================= + +Each firmware file comes with its own software license. For information on +the particular license, please see the license text that is distributed with +the firmware. + +II - Microcode Availability +=========================== + +Firmware files are distributed through various channels. Some are available on +http://opensource.freescale.com. For other firmware files, please contact +your Freescale representative or your operating system vendor. + +III - Description and Terminology +================================ + +In this document, the term 'microcode' refers to the sequence of 32-bit +integers that compose the actual QE microcode. + +The term 'firmware' refers to a binary blob that contains the microcode as +well as other data that + + 1) describes the microcode's purpose + 2) describes how and where to upload the microcode + 3) specifies the values of various registers + 4) includes additional data for use by specific device drivers + +Firmware files are binary files that contain only a firmware. + +IV - Microcode Programming Details +=================================== + +The QE architecture allows for only one microcode present in I-RAM for each +RISC processor. To replace any current microcode, a full QE reset (which +disables the microcode) must be performed first. + +QE microcode is uploaded using the following procedure: + +1) The microcode is placed into I-RAM at a specific location, using the + IRAM.IADD and IRAM.IDATA registers. + +2) The CERCR.CIR bit is set to 0 or 1, depending on whether the firmware + needs split I-RAM. Split I-RAM is only meaningful for SOCs that have + QEs with multiple RISC processors, such as the 8360. Splitting the I-RAM + allows each processor to run a different microcode, effectively creating an + asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) system. + +3) The TIBCR trap registers are loaded with the addresses of the trap handlers + in the microcode. + +4) The RSP.ECCR register is programmed with the value provided. + +5) If necessary, device drivers that need the virtual traps and extended mode + data will use them. + +Virtual Microcode Traps + +These virtual traps are conditional branches in the microcode. These are +"soft" provisional introduced in the ROMcode in order to enable higher +flexibility and save h/w traps If new features are activated or an issue is +being fixed in the RAM package utilizing they should be activated. This data +structure signals the microcode which of these virtual traps is active. + +This structure contains 6 words that the application should copy to some +specific been defined. This table describes the structure. + + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | Offset in | | Destination Offset | Size of | + | array | Protocol | within PRAM | Operand | + --------------------------------------------------------------| + | 0 | Ethernet | 0xF8 | 4 bytes | + | | interworking | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | 4 | ATM | 0xF8 | 4 bytes | + | | interworking | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | 8 | PPP | 0xF8 | 4 bytes | + | | interworking | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | 12 | Ethernet RX | 0x22 | 1 byte | + | | Distributor Page | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | 16 | ATM Globtal | 0x28 | 1 byte | + | | Params Table | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + | 20 | Insert Frame | 0xF8 | 4 bytes | + --------------------------------------------------------------- + + +Extended Modes + +This is a double word bit array (64 bits) that defines special functionality +which has an impact on the softwarew drivers. Each bit has its own impact +and has special instructions for the s/w associated with it. This structure is +described in this table: + + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | Bit # | Name | Description | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 0 | General | Indicates that prior to each host command | + | | push command | given by the application, the software must | + | | | assert a special host command (push command)| + | | | CECDR = 0x00800000. | + | | | CECR = 0x01c1000f. | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 1 | UCC ATM | Indicates that after issuing ATM RX INIT | + | | RX INIT | command, the host must issue another special| + | | push command | command (push command) and immediately | + | | | following that re-issue the ATM RX INIT | + | | | command. (This makes the sequence of | + | | | initializing the ATM receiver a sequence of | + | | | three host commands) | + | | | CECDR = 0x00800000. | + | | | CECR = 0x01c1000f. | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 2 | Add/remove | Indicates that following the specific host | + | | command | command: "Add/Remove entry in Hash Lookup | + | | validation | Table" used in Interworking setup, the user | + | | | must issue another command. | + | | | CECDR = 0xce000003. | + | | | CECR = 0x01c10f58. | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 3 | General push | Indicates that the s/w has to initialize | + | | command | some pointers in the Ethernet thread pages | + | | | which are used when Header Compression is | + | | | activated. The full details of these | + | | | pointers is located in the software drivers.| + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 4 | General push | Indicates that after issuing Ethernet TX | + | | command | INIT command, user must issue this command | + | | | for each SNUM of Ethernet TX thread. | + | | | CECDR = 0x00800003. | + | | | CECR = 0x7'b{0}, 8'b{Enet TX thread SNUM}, | + | | | 1'b{1}, 12'b{0}, 4'b{1} | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + | 5 - 31 | N/A | Reserved, set to zero. | + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +V - Firmware Structure Layout +============================== + +QE microcode from Freescale is typically provided as a header file. This +header file contains macros that define the microcode binary itself as well as +some other data used in uploading that microcode. The format of these files +do not lend themselves to simple inclusion into other code. Hence, +the need for a more portable format. This section defines that format. + +Instead of distributing a header file, the microcode and related data are +embedded into a binary blob. This blob is passed to the qe_upload_firmware() +function, which parses the blob and performs everything necessary to upload +the microcode. + +All integers are big-endian. See the comments for function +qe_upload_firmware() for up-to-date implementation information. + +This structure supports versioning, where the version of the structure is +embedded into the structure itself. To ensure forward and backwards +compatibility, all versions of the structure must use the same 'qe_header' +structure at the beginning. + +'header' (type: struct qe_header): + The 'length' field is the size, in bytes, of the entire structure, + including all the microcode embedded in it, as well as the CRC (if + present). + + The 'magic' field is an array of three bytes that contains the letters + 'Q', 'E', and 'F'. This is an identifier that indicates that this + structure is a QE Firmware structure. + + The 'version' field is a single byte that indicates the version of this + structure. If the layout of the structure should ever need to be + changed to add support for additional types of microcode, then the + version number should also be changed. + +The 'id' field is a null-terminated string(suitable for printing) that +identifies the firmware. + +The 'count' field indicates the number of 'microcode' structures. There +must be one and only one 'microcode' structure for each RISC processor. +Therefore, this field also represents the number of RISC processors for this +SOC. + +The 'soc' structure contains the SOC numbers and revisions used to match +the microcode to the SOC itself. Normally, the microcode loader should +check the data in this structure with the SOC number and revisions, and +only upload the microcode if there's a match. However, this check is not +made on all platforms. + +Although it is not recommended, you can specify '0' in the soc.model +field to skip matching SOCs altogether. + +The 'model' field is a 16-bit number that matches the actual SOC. The +'major' and 'minor' fields are the major and minor revision numbers, +respectively, of the SOC. + +For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0: + soc.model = 8323 + soc.major = 1 + soc.minor = 0 + +'padding' is necessary for structure alignment. This field ensures that the +'extended_modes' field is aligned on a 64-bit boundary. + +'extended_modes' is a bitfield that defines special functionality which has an +impact on the device drivers. Each bit has its own impact and has special +instructions for the driver associated with it. This field is stored in +the QE library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info(). + +'vtraps' is an array of 8 words that contain virtual trap values for each +virtual traps. As with 'extended_modes', this field is stored in the QE +library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info(). + +'microcode' (type: struct qe_microcode): + For each RISC processor there is one 'microcode' structure. The first + 'microcode' structure is for the first RISC, and so on. + + The 'id' field is a null-terminated string suitable for printing that + identifies this particular microcode. + + 'traps' is an array of 16 words that contain hardware trap values + for each of the 16 traps. If trap[i] is 0, then this particular + trap is to be ignored (i.e. not written to TIBCR[i]). The entire value + is written as-is to the TIBCR[i] register, so be sure to set the EN + and T_IBP bits if necessary. + + 'eccr' is the value to program into the ECCR register. + + 'iram_offset' is the offset into IRAM to start writing the + microcode. + + 'count' is the number of 32-bit words in the microcode. + + 'code_offset' is the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of this + structure where the microcode itself can be found. The first + microcode binary should be located immediately after the 'microcode' + array. + + 'major', 'minor', and 'revision' are the major, minor, and revision + version numbers, respectively, of the microcode. If all values are 0, + then these fields are ignored. + + 'reserved' is necessary for structure alignment. Since 'microcode' + is an array, the 64-bit 'extended_modes' field needs to be aligned + on a 64-bit boundary, and this can only happen if the size of + 'microcode' is a multiple of 8 bytes. To ensure that, we add + 'reserved'. + +After the last microcode is a 32-bit CRC. It can be calculated using +this algorithm: + +u32 crc32(const u8 *p, unsigned int len) +{ + unsigned int i; + u32 crc = 0; + + while (len--) { + crc ^= *p++; + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) + crc = (crc >> 1) ^ ((crc & 1) ? 0xedb88320 : 0); + } + return crc; +} + +VI - Sample Code for Creating Firmware Files +============================================ + +A Python program that creates firmware binaries from the header files normally +distributed by Freescale can be found on http://opensource.freescale.com. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df23d95e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ + Information about PowerPC Sound support +===================================================================== + +Please mail me (Cort Dougan, cort@fsmlabs.com) if you have questions, +comments or corrections. + +Last Change: 6.16.99 + +This just covers sound on the PReP and CHRP systems for now and later +will contain information on the PowerMac's. + +Sound on PReP has been tested and is working with the PowerStack and IBM +Power Series onboard sound systems which are based on the cs4231(2) chip. +The sound options when doing the make config are a bit different from +the default, though. + +The I/O base, irq and dma lines that you enter during the make config +are ignored and are set when booting according to the machine type. +This is so that one binary can be used for Motorola and IBM machines +which use different values and isn't allowed by the driver, so things +are hacked together in such a way as to allow this information to be +set automatically on boot. + +1. Motorola PowerStack PReP machines + + Enable support for "Crystal CS4232 based (PnP) cards" and for the + Microsoft Sound System. The MSS isn't used, but some of the routines + that the CS4232 driver uses are in it. + + Although the options you set are ignored and determined automatically + on boot these are included for information only: + + (830) CS4232 audio I/O base 530, 604, E80 or F40 + (10) CS4232 audio IRQ 5, 7, 9, 11, 12 or 15 + (6) CS4232 audio DMA 0, 1 or 3 + (7) CS4232 second (duplex) DMA 0, 1 or 3 + + This will allow simultaneous record and playback, as 2 different dma + channels are used. + + The sound will be all left channel and very low volume since the + auxiliary input isn't muted by default. I had the changes necessary + for this in the kernel but the sound driver maintainer didn't want + to include them since it wasn't common in other machines. To fix this + you need to mute it using a mixer utility of some sort (if you find one + please let me know) or by patching the driver yourself and recompiling. + + There is a problem on the PowerStack 2's (PowerStack Pro's) using a + different irq/drq than the kernel expects. Unfortunately, I don't know + which irq/drq it is so if anyone knows please email me. + + Midi is not supported since the cs4232 driver doesn't support midi yet. + +2. IBM PowerPersonal PReP machines + + I've only tested sound on the Power Personal Series of IBM workstations + so if you try it on others please let me know the result. I'm especially + interested in the 43p's sound system, which I know nothing about. + + Enable support for "Crystal CS4232 based (PnP) cards" and for the + Microsoft Sound System. The MSS isn't used, but some of the routines + that the CS4232 driver uses are in it. + + Although the options you set are ignored and determined automatically + on boot these are included for information only: + + (530) CS4232 audio I/O base 530, 604, E80 or F40 + (5) CS4232 audio IRQ 5, 7, 9, 11, 12 or 15 + (1) CS4232 audio DMA 0, 1 or 3 + (7) CS4232 second (duplex) DMA 0, 1 or 3 + (330) CS4232 MIDI I/O base 330, 370, 3B0 or 3F0 + (9) CS4232 MIDI IRQ 5, 7, 9, 11, 12 or 15 + + This setup does _NOT_ allow for recording yet. + + Midi is not supported since the cs4232 driver doesn't support midi yet. + +2. IBM CHRP + + I have only tested this on the 43P-150. Build the kernel with the cs4232 + set as a module and load the module with irq=9 dma=1 dma2=2 io=0x550 diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c907be41 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +Transactional Memory support +============================ + +POWER kernel support for this feature is currently limited to supporting +its use by user programs. It is not currently used by the kernel itself. + +This file aims to sum up how it is supported by Linux and what behaviour you +can expect from your user programs. + + +Basic overview +============== + +Hardware Transactional Memory is supported on POWER8 processors, and is a +feature that enables a different form of atomic memory access. Several new +instructions are presented to delimit transactions; transactions are +guaranteed to either complete atomically or roll back and undo any partial +changes. + +A simple transaction looks like this: + +begin_move_money: + tbegin + beq abort_handler + + ld r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) + ld r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) + subi r5, r5, 1 + addi r4, r4, 1 + std r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) + std r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) + + tend + + b continue + +abort_handler: + ... test for odd failures ... + + /* Retry the transaction if it failed because it conflicted with + * someone else: */ + b begin_move_money + + +The 'tbegin' instruction denotes the start point, and 'tend' the end point. +Between these points the processor is in 'Transactional' state; any memory +references will complete in one go if there are no conflicts with other +transactional or non-transactional accesses within the system. In this +example, the transaction completes as though it were normal straight-line code +IF no other processor has touched SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) or CURRENT_ACCT(r3); an +atomic move of money from the current account to the savings account has been +performed. Even though the normal ld/std instructions are used (note no +lwarx/stwcx), either *both* SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) and CURRENT_ACCT(r3) will be +updated, or neither will be updated. + +If, in the meantime, there is a conflict with the locations accessed by the +transaction, the transaction will be aborted by the CPU. Register and memory +state will roll back to that at the 'tbegin', and control will continue from +'tbegin+4'. The branch to abort_handler will be taken this second time; the +abort handler can check the cause of the failure, and retry. + +Checkpointed registers include all GPRs, FPRs, VRs/VSRs, LR, CCR/CR, CTR, FPCSR +and a few other status/flag regs; see the ISA for details. + +Causes of transaction aborts +============================ + +- Conflicts with cache lines used by other processors +- Signals +- Context switches +- See the ISA for full documentation of everything that will abort transactions. + + +Syscalls +======== + +Performing syscalls from within transaction is not recommended, and can lead +to unpredictable results. + +Syscalls do not by design abort transactions, but beware: The kernel code will +not be running in transactional state. The effect of syscalls will always +remain visible, but depending on the call they may abort your transaction as a +side-effect, read soon-to-be-aborted transactional data that should not remain +invisible, etc. If you constantly retry a transaction that constantly aborts +itself by calling a syscall, you'll have a livelock & make no progress. + +Simple syscalls (e.g. sigprocmask()) "could" be OK. Even things like write() +from, say, printf() should be OK as long as the kernel does not access any +memory that was accessed transactionally. + +Consider any syscalls that happen to work as debug-only -- not recommended for +production use. Best to queue them up till after the transaction is over. + + +Signals +======= + +Delivery of signals (both sync and async) during transactions provides a second +thread state (ucontext/mcontext) to represent the second transactional register +state. Signal delivery 'treclaim's to capture both register states, so signals +abort transactions. The usual ucontext_t passed to the signal handler +represents the checkpointed/original register state; the signal appears to have +arisen at 'tbegin+4'. + +If the sighandler ucontext has uc_link set, a second ucontext has been +delivered. For future compatibility the MSR.TS field should be checked to +determine the transactional state -- if so, the second ucontext in uc->uc_link +represents the active transactional registers at the point of the signal. + +For 64-bit processes, uc->uc_mcontext.regs->msr is a full 64-bit MSR and its TS +field shows the transactional mode. + +For 32-bit processes, the mcontext's MSR register is only 32 bits; the top 32 +bits are stored in the MSR of the second ucontext, i.e. in +uc->uc_link->uc_mcontext.regs->msr. The top word contains the transactional +state TS. + +However, basic signal handlers don't need to be aware of transactions +and simply returning from the handler will deal with things correctly: + +Transaction-aware signal handlers can read the transactional register state +from the second ucontext. This will be necessary for crash handlers to +determine, for example, the address of the instruction causing the SIGSEGV. + +Example signal handler: + + void crash_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *uc) + { + ucontext_t *ucp = uc; + ucontext_t *transactional_ucp = ucp->uc_link; + + if (ucp_link) { + u64 msr = ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->msr; + /* May have transactional ucontext! */ +#ifndef __powerpc64__ + msr |= ((u64)transactional_ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->msr) << 32; +#endif + if (MSR_TM_ACTIVE(msr)) { + /* Yes, we crashed during a transaction. Oops. */ + fprintf(stderr, "Transaction to be restarted at 0x%llx, but " + "crashy instruction was at 0x%llx\n", + ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->nip, + transactional_ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->nip); + } + } + + fix_the_problem(ucp->dar); + } + + +Failure cause codes used by kernel +================================== + +These are defined in <asm/reg.h>, and distinguish different reasons why the +kernel aborted a transaction: + + TM_CAUSE_RESCHED Thread was rescheduled. + TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV FP/VEC/VSX unavailable trap. + TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL Currently unused; future syscalls that must abort + transactions for consistency will use this. + TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered. + TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused. + +These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. + + +GDB +=== + +GDB and ptrace are not currently TM-aware. If one stops during a transaction, +it looks like the transaction has just started (the checkpointed state is +presented). The transaction cannot then be continued and will take the failure +handler route. Furthermore, the transactional 2nd register state will be +inaccessible. GDB can currently be used on programs using TM, but not sensibly +in parts within transactions. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/zImage_layout.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/zImage_layout.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..048e0150 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/zImage_layout.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ + Information about the Linux/PPC kernel images +===================================================================== + +Please mail me (Cort Dougan, cort@fsmlabs.com) if you have questions, +comments or corrections. + +This document is meant to answer several questions I've had about how +the PReP system boots and how Linux/PPC interacts with that mechanism. +It would be nice if we could have information on how other architectures +boot here as well. If you have anything to contribute, please +let me know. + + +1. PReP boot file + + This is the file necessary to boot PReP systems from floppy or + hard drive. The firmware reads the PReP partition table entry + and will load the image accordingly. + + To boot the zImage, copy it onto a floppy with dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0h1440 + or onto a PReP hard drive partition with dd if=zImage of=/dev/sda4 + assuming you've created a PReP partition (type 0x41) with fdisk on + /dev/sda4. + + The layout of the image format is: + + 0x0 +------------+ + | | PReP partition table entry + | | + 0x400 +------------+ + | | Bootstrap program code + data + | | + | | + +------------+ + | | compressed kernel, elf header removed + +------------+ + | | initrd (if loaded) + +------------+ + | | Elf section table for bootstrap program + +------------+ + + +2. MBX boot file + + The MBX boards can load an elf image, and relocate it to the + proper location in memory - it copies the image to the location it was + linked at. |