kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h, branch linux-7.0.y

powerpc: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-09-01T07:53:29+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250801082007.32904-3-thuth@redhat.com

powerpc/64: Remove asm interrupt tracing call helpers

2022-12-02T06:54:07+00:00

These are now unused. Remove. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-3-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc/64: Rename soft_enabled to irq_soft_mask

2018-01-19T11:37:01+00:00

Rename the paca->soft_enabled to paca->irq_soft_mask as it is no longer used as a flag for interrupt state, but a mask. Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64: Change soft_enabled from flag to bitmask

2018-01-19T11:37:00+00:00

"paca->soft_enabled" is used as a flag to mask some of interrupts. Currently supported flags values and their details: soft_enabled MSR[EE] 0 0 Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked) 1 1 Enabled "paca->soft_enabled" is initialized to 1 to make the interripts as enabled. arch_local_irq_disable() will toggle the value when interrupts needs to disbled. At this point, the interrupts are not actually disabled, instead, interrupt vector has code to check for the flag and mask it when it occurs. By "mask it", it update interrupt paca->irq_happened and return. arch_local_irq_restore() is called to re-enable interrupts, which checks and replays interrupts if any occured. Now, as mentioned, current logic doesnot mask "performance monitoring interrupts" and PMIs are implemented as NMI. But this patchset depends on local_irq_* for a successful local_* update. Meaning, mask all possible interrupts during local_* update and replay them after the update. So the idea here is to reserve the "paca->soft_enabled" logic. New values and details: soft_enabled MSR[EE] 1 0 Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked) 0 1 Enabled Reason for the this change is to create foundation for a third mask value "0x2" for "soft_enabled" to add support to mask PMIs. When ->soft_enabled is set to a value "3", PMI interrupts are mask and when set to a value of "1", PMI are not mask. With this patch also extends soft_enabled as interrupt disable mask. Current flags are renamed from IRQ_[EN?DIS}ABLED to IRQS_ENABLED and IRQS_DISABLED. Patch also fixes the ptrace call to force the user to see the softe value to be alway 1. Reason being, even though userspace has no business knowing about softe, it is part of pt_regs. Like-wise in signal context. Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64: Add #defines for paca->soft_enabled flags

2018-01-19T11:36:56+00:00

Two #defines IRQS_ENABLED and IRQS_DISABLED are added to be used when updating paca->soft_enabled. Replace the hardcoded values used when updating paca->soft_enabled with IRQ_(EN|DIS)ABLED #define. No logic change. Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

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 & 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 >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <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 Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Update comments in irqflags.h

2014-07-28T04:11:23+00:00

The comment on TRACE_ENABLE_INTS is incorrect, and appears to have always been incorrect since the code was merged. It probably came from an original out-of-tree patch. Replace it with something that's correct. Also propagate the message to RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE(), because it's potentially subtle. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/tracing: TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER creates invalid stack frames

2014-04-23T00:05:25+00:00

TRACE_WITH_FRAME_BUFFER creates 32 byte stack frames. On ppc64 ABIv1 this is too small and a callee could corrupt the stack by writing to the parameter save area (starting at offset 48). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard

powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a function

2014-04-23T00:05:16+00:00

binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address. Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard

powerpc/ppc64: Rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE

2013-08-14T04:57:47+00:00

The SOFT_DISABLE_INTS seems an odd name for something that updates the software state to be consistent with interrupts being hard disabled, so rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to avoid this confusion. Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt