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* Make head_64.S aware of KVM real mode codeAlexander Graf2009-11-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to run some KVM trampoline code in real mode. Unfortunately, real mode only covers 8MB on Cell so we need to squeeze ourselves as low as possible. Also, we need to trap interrupts to get us back from guest state to host state without telling Linux about it. This patch adds interrupt traps and includes the KVM code that requires real mode in the real mode parts of Linux. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* powerpc: Remove use of a second scratch SPRG in STAB codeBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-08-201-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The STAB code used on Power3 and RS/64 uses a second scratch SPRG to save a GPR in order to decide whether to go to do_stab_bolted_* or to handle a normal data access exception. This prevents our scheme of freeing SPRG3 which is user visible for user uses since we cannot use SPRG0 which, on RS/64, seems to be read-only for supervisor mode (like POWER4). This reworks the STAB exception entry to use the PACA as temporary storage instead. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)Benjamin Herrenschmidt2009-08-201-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc.. and the current choice isn't always the best. This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to what those are used for on each processor family. The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all the SPRGs. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* powerpc: Rename exception.h to exception-64s.hBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-08-201-0/+279
The file include/asm/exception.h contains definitions that are specific to exception handling on 64-bit server type processors. This renames the file to exception-64s.h to reflect that fact and avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>