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Ayaz Abdulla
69fe3fd7b1 [PATCH] forcedeth config: module parameters
This patch adds (and modifies) module parameter support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
9589c77a0d [PATCH] forcedeth config: diagnostics
This patch adds support for diagnostic tests through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
7a1854b797 [PATCH] forcedeth config: move functions
This patch moves a few functions (no logic change) so that the next
patch has these functions defined.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
52da35789c [PATCH] forcedeth config: statistics
This patch exposes hardware statistic counters through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
5ed2616f62 [PATCH] forcedeth config: csum
This patch allows for configurable rx and tx checksum offloads through
ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
c42d9df932 [PATCH] forcedeth config: wol
This patch fixes configuration bugs when modifying wol settings.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
f9430a015a [PATCH] forcedeth config: phy
This patch fixes configuration bugs when modifying phy settings.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
b6d0773fa7 [PATCH] forcedeth config: flow control
This patch allows for configurable flow control through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
eafa59f6bc [PATCH] forcedeth config: ring sizes
This patch allows for configurable ring size through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
6a78814f6c [PATCH] forcedeth config: tso cleanup
There are a series of patches for configuration support in forcedeth and
one patch for device ids.

This patch is a cleanup of the a previous TSO patch.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Krzysztof Helt
650fb83822 [SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up
scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated
migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:03:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
9145bcf635 [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:02:17 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
6218a761bb powerpc: add context.vdso_base for 32-bit too
This adds a vdso_base element to the mm_context_t for 32-bit compiles
(both for ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc).  This fixes the compile errors
that have been reported in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-11 14:15:17 +10:00
Tejun Heo
9a9c77dc4c [PATCH] libata: cosmetic change in struct ata_port
Cosmetic change in struct ata_port.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2006-06-11 11:19:00 +09:00
Tejun Heo
0a1b622ef4 [PATCH] libata: add missing finish_wait() call in ata_port_wait_eh()
Add missing finish_wait() call after wait loop in ata_port_wait_eh().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2006-06-11 11:01:38 +09:00
Christoph Hellwig
8d7feac3c7 [SCSI] remove RQ_SCSI_* flags
The RQ_SCSI_* flags are a vestiage of a long past history.  The EH code
still sets them but we never make use of that information.  The other
users is pluto.c which never had a chance to work but needs to be kept
compiling to keep Davem happy, so copy over the definition there.

We could probably get rid of RQ_ACTIVE/RQ_INACTIVE aswell with some
work, there's only two more or less bogus looking uses in ubd and scsi.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:25:21 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
beb4048750 [SCSI] remove scsi_request infrastructure
With Achim patch the last user (gdth) is switched away from scsi_request
so we an kill it now.  Also disables some code in i2o_scsi that was
broken since the sg driver stopped using scsi_requests.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:24:40 -05:00
Michael Reed
1951d099df [SCSI] mptfusion: change driver revision to 3.03.10
Bump driver version number to reflect addition of various
fibre channel patches.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:02:21 -05:00
Michael Reed
d6be06c84d [SCSI] mptfc: abort of board reset leaves port dead requiring reboot
The driver uses msleep_interruptible() in the code path responsible
for resetting the card's ports via the lsiutil command.  If a
<ctrl-c> is received during the reset it can leave a port in such
a state that the only way to regain its use is to reboot the system.
Changing from msleep_interruptible() to msleep() corrects the problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:01:52 -05:00
Michael Reed
419835e285 [SCSI] mptfc: fix fibre channel infinite request/response loop
While doing board reset testing I was able to put the system in
an infinite request/response loop between the scsi layer and
mptscsih_qcmd() by aborting the reset.  This patch installs
a "SETUP RESET" handler which calls fc_remote_port_delete()
for all registered rports.  This blocks the target which
prevents the loop.  Additionally, should the reset fail to
complete, the transport will now terminate i/o to the target.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:00:03 -05:00
Michael Reed
ca2f938efe [SCSI] mptfc: set fibre channel fw target missing timers to one second
The fibre channel firmware provides a timer which is similar in purpose
to the fibre channel transport's device loss timer.  The effect of this
timer is to extend the total time that a target will be missing beyond
the value associated with the transport's timer.  This patch changes
the firmware timer to a default of one second which significantly reduces
the lag between when a target goes missing and the notification of the
fibre channel transport.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 15:59:19 -05:00
Michael Reed
80d3ac77a8 [SCSI] mptfusion: move fc event/reset handling to mptfc
Move fibre channel event and reset handling to mptfc.  This will
result in fewer changes over time that need to be applied to
either mptbase.c or mptscsih.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 15:58:37 -05:00
James Bottomley
f0cd91a68a Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-06-10 13:47:26 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1f4d4a7e8f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
  [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
  [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
  [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
2006-06-10 11:03:51 -07:00
Milton Miller
938473b246 [PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issues
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>

The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the
console to be selected.  It turns out that the add_preferred_console was
being called after the hvc_console driver was registered.  It only works
when it is called before the console driver is registered.

Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection
during console_initcall processing.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Markus Lidel
57a62fed87 [PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working again
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>

- Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM

- Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and
  accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices

- Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify()

- removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused
  the controller structure get freed to early

- Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc()

- Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get()

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561

Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a913f50706 [PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaround
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Work around the oops reported in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478.

Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and
reporting.

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
David Howells
670bd95e04 [PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier document
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out
with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan
Stern.

The following changes were made:

 (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory
     barriers was wrong.

 (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is
     a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier.  This isn't entirely
     true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both.

 (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the
     loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the
     opposite order to the stores around the write barrier.

 (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to
     the stores.

 (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences"
     section to make them clearer.  Added a couple of diagrams to make it more
     clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier.

 (*) Added a section on memory speculation.

 (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory
     barriers.  They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on.  This may be
     worthy of further documentation later.

 (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a
     full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d90d2c385d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support
  powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
2006-06-10 10:59:39 -07:00
James Bottomley
60eef25701 [SCSI] spi transport: don't allow dt to be set on SE or HVD buses
This is really just a belt and braces test.  The standards require
disks to respond DT not capable on a non-LVD bus ... however, not all
disks follow the standards ...

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:51:23 -05:00
James Bottomley
b2d8bfe185 [SCSI] aic7xxx: expose the bus setting to sysfs
Read the transciever register and display in the host transport
properties.  I'm still not entirely sure what this does for multiple
transciever adapters (like some 160 ones) however, I suspect it
displays the transciever state of the switchable bus segment.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:49:07 -05:00
Arthur Othieno
b9f051eb6c [SCSI] scsi: remove Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt
cpqfc driver flushed out with: [SCSI] remove broken driver cpqfc (commit
ca61f10ab2) but somehow
Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt managed to survive the blast.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:46:01 -05:00
Tobias Klauser
6391a11375 [SCSI] drivers/scsi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of the macro.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:45:30 -05:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
9dc399de08 [SCSI] Remove last page_address from dc395x.c
Dynamically map scattergather buffer instead of using page_address().

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:38:24 -05:00
HighPoint Linux Team
ede1e6f8b4 [SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driver
HighPoint RocketRAID 3220/3320 series 8 channel PCI-X SATA RAID Host
Adapters.

Fixes from original submission:

Merge Andrew Morton's patches:
- Provide locking for global list
- Fix debug printks
- uninline function with multiple callsites
- coding style fixups
- remove unneeded casts of void*
- kfree(NULL) is legal
- Don't "succeed" if register_chrdev() failed - otherwise we'll later
  unregister a not-registered chrdev.
- Don't return from hptiop_do_ioctl() with the spinlock held.
- uninline __hpt_do_ioctl()

Update for Arjan van de Ven's comments:
- put all asm/ includes after the linux/ ones
- replace mdelay with msleep
- add pci posting flush
- do not set pci command reqister in map_pci_bar
- do not try merging sg elements in hptiop_buildsgl()
- remove unused outstandingcommands member from hba structure
- remove unimplemented hptiop_abort() handler
- remove typedef u32 hpt_id_t

Other updates:
- fix endianess

Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:36:13 -05:00
Leubner, Achim
cbd5f69b98 [SCSI] remove the scsi_request interface from the gdth driver
Initial pass at converting the gdth driver away from the scsi_request
interface so that the request interface can be removed post 2.6.18
without breaking gdth.  Based on changes from Christoph Hellwig
<hch@lst.de>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:24:40 -05:00
Russell King
56f1319e87 [ARM] Fix Integrator and Versatile interrupt initialisation
Both Integrator and Versatile were using set_irq_handler() and
enable_irq(), and working around the initialisation of the
chained interrupt, instead of the more correct
set_irq_chained_handler() function.  Fix Integrator and
Versatile to use the right function, and remove these work-arounds.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-10 12:42:12 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
050613545b powerpc: Fix bug in iommu_alloc_coherent causing hang during boot
In commit 8eb6c6e3b9, Christoph Hellwig
made iommu_alloc_coherent able to do node-local allocations, but
unfortunately got the order of the arguments to alloc_pages_node
wrong.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10 18:17:35 +10:00
David S. Miller
46b304934d [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots
can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access
hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot
cpu.

PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just
fine.

Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI
controller node and record all present device IDs into
a small hash table.

Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access
attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 01:06:25 -07:00
Tom "spot" Callaway
c29ca9d181 [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 17:01:48 -07:00
David Woodhouse
f9068876f5 [MTD NAND] Fix s3c2410 NAND driver so it at least _looks_ like it compiles
Fix the control bit handling so it even looks like it might work, too.
Bad tglx. No biscuit.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-10 00:53:16 +01:00
David S. Miller
f49639e643 [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead:

1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM
   for config information.  If that is off we will get
   timeouts.

2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no
   firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead
   just report it the first time we notice this condition.

3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device
   is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT.

Update driver version and release date.

With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
5224e6cc3a [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
This makes the debugging information more usable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f24ff6bf8c [MTD] Prepare physmap for 64-bit-resources
Fallout from the incoming 64-bit-resource stuff:

drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c: In function 'physmap_flash_probe':
drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c:94: warning: format '%.8lx' expects type 'long
unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c:94: warning: format '%.8lx' expects type 'long
unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'resource_size_t'

Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-09 15:12:34 +01:00
David Woodhouse
4ed0156f77 [JFFS2] Fix more breakage caused by janitorial meddling.
jffs2_zlib_exit() and free_workspaces() shouldn't be marked __exit because
they get called in the error case from the init functions.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-09 15:06:42 +01:00
Michael Ellerman
6b81e80049 [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup hvc_rtas.c a little
A few cleanups in hvc_rtas.c:
 1. Remove unused RTASCONS_PUT_ATTEMPTS
 2. Remove unused rtascons_put_delay.
 3. Use i as a loop counter like everyone else on earth.
 4. Remove pointless variables, eg. x = foo; if (x) return something_else;
 5. Whitespace cleanups and formatting.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:20 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
b53744612f [PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ faster
Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is
ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum
speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds.

The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push
characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so
returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code
with the buffer half sent.

The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which
will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But
the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough.

So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we
yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and
POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK.

With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:18 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
e9370ae15d [PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpc
This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get
fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing
PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls.  We do not implement the
option of logging a message on alignment exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:16 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
fab5db97e4 [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctl
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change
their endian mode via prctl.

This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up
alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for
"PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian.

We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for
little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian
user/kernel ABI.  If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is
restored to what it was when the signal was delivered.

We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and
one for true little-endian.  Most of the classic 32-bit processors
support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature
table.  There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland
in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry.

This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:15 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
651d765d0b [PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process.
This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the
processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a
big-endian mode.  It is intended for use by programs such as
instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC),
which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate
endianness mode when executing translated instructions.

Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for
both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system
calls done in the non-native endianness mode.  The program is expected
to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the
native endianness.

Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in
constructing the instruction sequence for the switch.  Generally the
instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call
will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions
will have to be in the new endianness.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:13 +10:00