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<updated>2025-09-01T07:53:29+00:00</updated>
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<title>powerpc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers</title>
<updated>2025-09-01T07:53:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-01T08:20:07+00:00</published>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembler code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This is bad since macros starting with two underscores are names
that are reserved by the C language. It can also be very confusing
for the developers when switching between userspace and kernelspace
coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use
__ASSEMBLER__  instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__
macro that is provided by the compilers.

This is almost a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple
"sed -i" statement), apart from tweaking two comments manually in
arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h and arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h
(which did not have proper underscores at the end) and fixing a
checkpatch error about spaces in arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu_csa.h.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250801082007.32904-3-thuth@redhat.com

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<title>powerpc/powernv: Add __init attribute to eligible functions</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T11:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Child</name>
<email>nick.child@ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-16T22:00:26+00:00</published>
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Some functions defined in 'arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv' are
deserving of an `__init` macro attribute. These functions are only
called by other initialization functions and therefore should inherit
the attribute.
Also, change function declarations in header files to include `__init`.

Signed-off-by: Nick Child &lt;nick.child@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211216220035.605465-12-nick.child@ibm.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T12:37:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-12T14:30:52+00:00</published>
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Reimplement Book3S idle code in C, moving POWER7/8/9 implementation
speific HV idle code to the powernv platform code.

Book3S assembly stubs are kept in common code and used only to save
the stack frame and non-volatile GPRs before executing architected
idle instructions, and restoring the stack and reloading GPRs then
returning to C after waking from idle.

The complex logic dealing with threads and subcores, locking, SPRs,
HMIs, timebase resync, etc., is all done in C which makes it more
maintainable.

This is not a strict translation to C code, there are some
significant differences:

- Idle wakeup no longer uses the -&gt;cpu_restore call to reinit SPRs,
  but saves and restores them itself.

- The optimisation where EC=ESL=0 idle modes did not have to save GPRs
  or change MSR is restored, because it's now simple to do. ESL=1
  sleeps that do not lose GPRs can use this optimization too.

- KVM secondary entry and cede is now more of a call/return style
  rather than branchy. nap_state_lost is not required because KVM
  always returns via NVGPR restoring path.

- KVM secondary wakeup from offline sequence is moved entirely into
  the offline wakeup, which avoids a hwsync in the normal idle wakeup
  path.

Performance measured with context switch ping-pong on different
threads or cores, is possibly improved a small amount, 1-3% depending
on stop state and core vs thread test for shallow states. Deep states
it's in the noise compared with other latencies.

KVM improvements:

- Idle sleepers now always return to caller rather than branch out
  to KVM first.

- This allows optimisations like very fast return to caller when no
  state has been lost.

- KVM no longer requires nap_state_lost because it controls NVGPR
  save/restore itself on the way in and out.

- The heavy idle wakeup KVM request check can be moved out of the
  normal host idle code and into the not-performance-critical offline
  code.

- KVM nap code now returns from where it is called, which makes the
  flow a bit easier to follow.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash the KVM changes in]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powernv/cpuidle: Use parsed device tree values for cpuidle_init</title>
<updated>2018-07-31T09:56:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akshay Adiga</name>
<email>akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-05T11:40:22+00:00</published>
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Export pnv_idle_states and nr_pnv_idle_states so that its accessible to
cpuidle driver. Use properties from pnv_idle_states structure for powernv
cpuidle_init.

Signed-off-by: Akshay Adiga &lt;akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powernv/cpuidle: Parse dt idle properties into global structure</title>
<updated>2018-07-31T09:56:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akshay Adiga</name>
<email>akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-05T11:40:21+00:00</published>
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Device-tree parsing happens twice, once while deciding idle state to be
used for hotplug and once during cpuidle init. Hence, parsing the device
tree and caching it will reduce code duplication. Parsing code has been
moved to pnv_parse_cpuidle_dt() from pnv_probe_idle_states(). In addition
to the properties in the device tree the number of available states is
also required.

Signed-off-by: Akshay Adiga &lt;akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Move IDLE_STATE_ENTER_SEQ[_NORET] into idle_book3s.S</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T11:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-29T11:36:35+00:00</published>
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This macro is only used in idle_book3s.S, move it in there and add a
more descriptive comment.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Split out of larger patch and write change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/powernv: Save/Restore additional SPRs for stop4 cpuidle</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T11:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R. Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-21T10:41:37+00:00</published>
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The stop4 idle state on POWER9 is a deep idle state which loses
hypervisor resources, but whose latency is low enough that it can be
exposed via cpuidle.

Until now, the deep idle states which lose hypervisor resources (eg:
winkle) were only exposed via CPU-Hotplug.  Hence currently on wakeup
from such states, barring a few SPRs which need to be restored to
their older value, rest of the SPRS are reinitialized to their values
corresponding to that at boot time.

When stop4 is used in the context of cpuidle, we want these additional
SPRs to be restored to their older value, to ensure that the context
on the CPU coming back from idle is same as it was before going idle.

In this patch, we define a SPR save area in PACA (since we have used
up the volatile register space in the stack) and on POWER9, we restore
SPRN_PID, SPRN_LDBAR, SPRN_FSCR, SPRN_HFSCR, SPRN_MMCRA, SPRN_MMCR1,
SPRN_MMCR2 to the values they had before entering stop.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Idle POWER8 avoid full state loss recovery where possible</title>
<updated>2017-04-23T10:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T13:05:50+00:00</published>
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If not all threads were in winkle, full state loss recovery is not
necessary and can be avoided. A previous patch removed this optimisation
due to some complexity with the implementation. Re-implement it by
counting the number of threads in winkle with the per-core idle state.
Only restore full state loss if all threads were in winkle.

This has a small window of false positives right before threads execute
winkle and just after they wake up, when the winkle count does not
reflect the true number of threads in winkle. This is not a significant
problem in comparison with even the minimum winkle duration. For
correctness, a false positive is not a problem (only false negatives
would be).

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Expand core idle state bits</title>
<updated>2017-04-23T10:31:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T13:05:48+00:00</published>
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In preparation for adding more bits to the core idle state word, move
the lock bit up, and unlock by flipping the lock bit rather than masking
off all but the thread bits.

Add branch hints for atomic operations while we're here.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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