Nothing really major this release, despite quite a lot of activity. Just lots of
things all over the place.
Some things of note include:
- Access via perf to a new type of PMU (IMC) on Power9, which can count both
core events as well as nest unit events (Memory controller etc).
- Optimisations to the radix MMU TLB flushing, mostly to avoid unnecessary Page
Walk Cache (PWC) flushes when the structure of the tree is not changing.
- Reworks/cleanups of do_page_fault() to modernise it and bring it closer to
other architectures where possible.
- Rework of our page table walking so that THP updates only need to send IPIs
to CPUs where the affected mm has run, rather than all CPUs.
- The size of our vmalloc area is increased to 56T on 64-bit hash MMU systems.
This avoids problems with the percpu allocator on systems with very sparse
NUMA layouts.
- STRICT_KERNEL_RWX support on PPC32.
- A new sched domain topology for Power9, to capture the fact that pairs of
cores may share an L2 cache.
- Power9 support for VAS, which is a new mechanism for accessing coprocessors,
and initial support for using it with the NX compression accelerator.
- Major work on the instruction emulation support, adding support for many new
instructions, and reworking it so it can be used to implement the emulation
needed to fixup alignment faults.
- Support for guests under PowerVM to use the Power9 XIVE interrupt controller.
And probably that many things again that are almost as interesting, but I had to
keep the list short. Plus the usual fixes and cleanups as always.
Thanks to:
Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Arvind Yadav, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhumika Goyal,
Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Christophe Leroy, Cédric Le Goater, Dan Carpenter,
Dou Liyang, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff Levand,
Hannes Reinecke, Haren Myneni, Ivan Mikhaylov, John Allen, Julia Lawall, LABBE
Corentin, Laurentiu Tudor, Madhavan Srinivasan, Markus Elfring, Masahiro
Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Fontenot,
Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica
Gupta, Rob Herring, Rui Teng, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood,
Shilpasri G Bhat, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tobin C. Harding,
Victor Aoqui.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Nothing really major this release, despite quite a lot of activity.
Just lots of things all over the place.
Some things of note include:
- Access via perf to a new type of PMU (IMC) on Power9, which can
count both core events as well as nest unit events (Memory
controller etc).
- Optimisations to the radix MMU TLB flushing, mostly to avoid
unnecessary Page Walk Cache (PWC) flushes when the structure of the
tree is not changing.
- Reworks/cleanups of do_page_fault() to modernise it and bring it
closer to other architectures where possible.
- Rework of our page table walking so that THP updates only need to
send IPIs to CPUs where the affected mm has run, rather than all
CPUs.
- The size of our vmalloc area is increased to 56T on 64-bit hash MMU
systems. This avoids problems with the percpu allocator on systems
with very sparse NUMA layouts.
- STRICT_KERNEL_RWX support on PPC32.
- A new sched domain topology for Power9, to capture the fact that
pairs of cores may share an L2 cache.
- Power9 support for VAS, which is a new mechanism for accessing
coprocessors, and initial support for using it with the NX
compression accelerator.
- Major work on the instruction emulation support, adding support for
many new instructions, and reworking it so it can be used to
implement the emulation needed to fixup alignment faults.
- Support for guests under PowerVM to use the Power9 XIVE interrupt
controller.
And probably that many things again that are almost as interesting,
but I had to keep the list short. Plus the usual fixes and cleanups as
always.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arvind Yadav, Balbir Singh,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhumika Goyal, Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly,
Christophe Leroy, Cédric Le Goater, Dan Carpenter, Dou Liyang,
Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff Levand, Hannes
Reinecke, Haren Myneni, Ivan Mikhaylov, John Allen, Julia Lawall,
LABBE Corentin, Laurentiu Tudor, Madhavan Srinivasan, Markus Elfring,
Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo,
Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Rob Herring, Rui Teng, Sam Bobroff,
Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Shilpasri G Bhat, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tobin C. Harding, Victor Aoqui"
* tag 'powerpc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (321 commits)
powerpc/xive: Fix section __init warning
powerpc: Fix kernel crash in emulation of vector loads and stores
powerpc/xive: improve debugging macros
powerpc/xive: add XIVE Exploitation Mode to CAS
powerpc/xive: introduce H_INT_ESB hcall
powerpc/xive: add the HW IRQ number under xive_irq_data
powerpc/xive: introduce xive_esb_write()
powerpc/xive: rename xive_poke_esb() in xive_esb_read()
powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller
powerpc/xive: introduce a common routine xive_queue_page_alloc()
powerpc/sstep: Avoid used uninitialized error
axonram: Return directly after a failed kzalloc() in axon_ram_probe()
axonram: Improve a size determination in axon_ram_probe()
axonram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in axon_ram_probe()
powerpc/powernv/npu: Move tlb flush before launching ATSD
powerpc/macintosh: constify wf_sensor_ops structures
powerpc/iommu: Use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants
powerpc/eeh: Delete an error out of memory message at init time
powerpc/mm: Use seq_putc() in two functions
macintosh: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
...
Linus Torvalds
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