At console init, when the kernel tries to flush the log buffer
the ePAPR byte-channel based console write fails silently,
losing the buffered messages.
This happens because The ePAPR para-virtualization init isn't
done early enough so that the hcall instruction to be set,
causing the byte-channel write hcall to be a nop.
To fix, change the ePAPR para-virt init to use early device
tree functions and move it in early init.
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
The new uapi framework splits kernel internal and user space exported
bits of header files more cleanly. Adjust the ePAPR header accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Merge reason: development work has dependency on kvm patches merged
upstream.
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
epapr paravirtualization support is now a Kconfig
selectable option
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
[stuart.yoder@freescale.com: misc minor fixes, description update]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The "memory" clobber tells the compiler to ensure that all writes to memory
are committed before the hypercall is made.
"memory" is only necessary for hcalls where the Hypervisor will read or
write guest memory. However, we add it to all hcalls because the impact is
minimal, and we want to ensure that it's present for the hcalls that need
it.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
ePAPR hypervisors provide operating system services via a "hypercall"
interface. The following steps need to be performed to make an hcall:
1. Load r11 with the hcall number
2. Load specific other registers with parameters
3. Issue instrucion "sc 1"
4. The return code is in r3
5. Other returned parameters are in other registers.
To provide this service to the kernel, these steps are wrapped in inline
assembly functions. Standard ePAPR hcalls are in epapr_hcalls.h, and
Freescale extensions are in fsl_hcalls.h.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Laurentiu TUDOR