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Revision 23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33 authored by Paul Mackerras on 21 October 2015, 05:03:14 UTC, committed by Michael Ellerman on 21 October 2015, 09:50:30 UTC
This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional memory corruption. In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to by r0. The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the buffer. The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical core from the one where the write-out was initiated. These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the function (since the measured performance improvement from using the feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is the best option. Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Tip revision: 23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33 authored by Paul Mackerras on 21 October 2015, 05:03:14 UTC
powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
Tip revision: 2331631
Kbuild
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
# 2) Generate timeconst.h
# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h and timeconst.h)
# 4) Check for missing system calls
# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
"/^->/{s:->#\(.*\):/* \1 */:; \
s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([-0-9]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
s:->::; p;}"
endef
# Use filechk to avoid rebuilds when a header changes, but the resulting file
# does not
define filechk_offsets
(set -e; \
echo "#ifndef $2"; \
echo "#define $2"; \
echo "/*"; \
echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
echo " *"; \
echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
echo " */"; \
echo ""; \
sed -ne $(sed-y); \
echo ""; \
echo "#endif" )
endef
#####
# 1) Generate bounds.h
bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h
always := $(bounds-file)
targets := kernel/bounds.s
# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
kernel/bounds.s: kernel/bounds.c FORCE
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)
$(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)
#####
# 2) Generate timeconst.h
timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h
targets += $(timeconst-file)
quiet_cmd_gentimeconst = GEN $@
define cmd_gentimeconst
(echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< ) > $@
endef
define filechk_gentimeconst
(echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< )
endef
$(obj)/$(timeconst-file): kernel/time/timeconst.bc FORCE
$(call filechk,gentimeconst)
#####
# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h
#
offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h
always += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s
# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c \
$(obj)/$(timeconst-file) $(obj)/$(bounds-file) FORCE
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)
$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)
#####
# 4) Check for missing system calls
#
always += missing-syscalls
targets += missing-syscalls
quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL $<
cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags) $(missing_syscalls_flags)
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh $(offsets-file) FORCE
$(call cmd,syscalls)
# Keep these three files during make clean
no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file) $(timeconst-file)
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