Calling alloc_bootmem() for tiny chunks of memory over and over is really
slow; on an XO-1, it caused the time between when the kernel started
booting and when the display came alive (post-lxfb probe) to increase
to 44s. This patch optimizes the prom_early_alloc function by
calling alloc_bootmem for 4k-sized blocks of memory, and handing out
chunks of that to callers. With this patch, the time between kernel load
and display initialization decreased to 23s. If there's a better way to
do this early in the boot process, please let me know.
(Note: increasing the chunk size to 16k didn't noticably affect boot time,
and wasted 9k.)
v4: clarify comment, requested by hpa
v3: fix wasted memory buglet found by Milton Miller, and style fix.
v2: reorder prom_early_alloc as suggested by Grant.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20101129153951.74202a84@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make use of PROC_DEVICETREE to export the tree, and sparc's PROMTREE code to
call into OLPC's Open Firmware to build the tree.
v5: fix buglet with root node check (introduced in v4)
v4: address some minor style issues pointed out by Grant, and explicitly cast
negative phandle checks to s32.
v3: rename olpc_prom to olpc_dt
- rework Kconfig entries
- drop devtree build hook from proc, instead adding a call to x86's
paging_init (similarly to how sparc64 does it)
- switch allocation from using slab to alloc_bootmem. this allows
the DT to be built earlier during boot (during setup_arch); the
downside is that there are some 1200 bootmem reservations that are
done during boot. Not ideal..
- add a helper olpc_ofw_is_installed function to test for the
existence and successful detection of OLPC's OFW.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20101116220952.26526a80@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch for SGI UV systems addresses a problem whereby
interrupt transactions being looped back from a local IOH,
through the hub to a local CPU can (erroneously) conflict with
IO port operations and other transactions.
To workaound this we set a high bit in the APIC IDs used for
interrupts. This bit appears to be ignored by the sockets, but
it avoids the conflict in the hub.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101116222352.GA8155@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
___
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv_hub.h | 4 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv_mmrs.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c | 4 +++-
5 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void
pointers which it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to
other pointer types since that happens implicitly.
This patch removes such casts from arch/x86.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: amd64-microcode@amd64.org
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1011082310220.23697@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86 has finally arrived in the embedded nightmare and will rapidly
grow SoC platform support in various flavours. So we need a place for
the platform support files. That also allows us to clean up the
dumpground which arch/x86/kernel has become over time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
