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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-05 21:36:44 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-05 21:36:44 +0300
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap(). - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller. - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9. - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0". - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime. - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness. - Many fixes and other minor enhancements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits) powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2 powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset() powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event() cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected() cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory ...
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@@ -105,21 +105,21 @@ 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.
+header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot memory
+size (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
+ Low memory Top of memory
0 boot memory size |
- | | |<--Reserved dump area -->|
- V V | Permanent Reservation V
- +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
- | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF |
- +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
+ | | |<--Reserved dump area -->| |
+ V V | Permanent Reservation | V
+ +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+ | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | |
+ +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
| ^
| |
\ /
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@ crash does occur.
0 boot memory size |
| |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->|
V V V
- +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
- | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF |
- +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
- | |
- V V
- Used by second /proc/vmcore
+ +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+ | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | |
+ +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+ | |
+ V V
+ Used by second /proc/vmcore
kernel to boot
Fig. 2