The dma_get_required_mask() function is used by some drivers to
query the platform about what DMA mask is needed to cover all of
memory. This is a bit of a strange semantic when we have to choose
between IOMMU translation or bypass, but essentially what it means
is "what DMA mask will give best performances".
Currently, our IOMMU backend always returns a 32-bit mask here, we
don't do anything special to it when we have bypass available. This
causes some drivers to choose a 32-bit mask, thus losing the ability
to use the bypass window, thinking this is more efficient. The problem
was reported from the driver of following device:
0004:03:00.0 0107: 1000:0087 (rev 05)
0004:03:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios \
Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)
This patch adds an override of that function in order to, instead,
return a 64-bit mask whenever a bypass window is available in order
for drivers to prefer this configuration.
Reported-by: Murali N. Iyer <mniyer@us.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Upcoming POWER8 chips support a concept called split core. This is where the
core can be split into subcores that although not full cores, are able to
appear as full cores to a guest.
The splitting & unsplitting procedure is mildly complicated, and explained at
length in the comments within the patch.
One notable detail is that when splitting or unsplitting we need to pull
offline cpus out of their offline state to do work as part of the procedure.
The interface for changing the split mode is via a sysfs file, eg:
$ echo 2 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/subcores_per_core
Currently supported values are '1', '2' and '4'. And indicate respectively that
the core should be unsplit, split in half, and split in quarters. These modes
correspond to threads_per_subcore of 8, 4 and 2.
We do not allow changing the split mode while KVM VMs are active. This is to
prevent the value changing while userspace is configuring the VM, and also to
prevent the mode being changed in such a way that existing guests are unable to
be run.
CPU hotplug fixes by Srivatsa. max_cpus fixes by Mahesh. cpuset fixes by
benh. Fix for irq race by paulus. The rest by mikey and mpe.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds the support for to create a direct iommu "bypass"
window on IODA2 bridges (such as Power8) allowing to bypass iommu
page translation completely for 64-bit DMA capable devices, thus
significantly improving DMA performances.
Additionally, this adds a hook to the struct iommu_table so that
the IOMMU API / VFIO can disable the bypass when external ownership
is requested, since in that case, the device will be used by an
environment such as userspace or a KVM guest which must not be
allowed to bypass translations.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This uses the hooks provided by CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PIO to
implement a set of hooks for IO port access to use the LPC
bus via OPAL calls for the first 64K of IO space
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We add a machine_shutdown hook that frees the OPAL interrupts
(so they get masked at the source and don't fire while kexec'ing)
and which triggers an IODA reset on all the PCIe host bridges
which will have the effect of blocking all DMAs and subsequent
PCIs interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This adds support for PCI-X and PCIe on the p5ioc2 IO hub using
OPAL. This includes allocating & setting up TCE tables and config
space access routines.
This also supports fallbacks via RTAS when OPAL is absent, using
legacy TCE format pre-allocated via the device-tree (BML style)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This adds a skeletton for the new Power "Non Virtualized"
platform which will be used by machines supporting running
without an hypervisor, for example in order to run KVM.
These machines will be using a new firmware called OPAL
for which the support will be provided by later patches.
The PowerNV platform is intended to be also usable under
the BML environment used internally for early CPU bringup
which is why the code also supports using RTAS instead of
OPAL in various places.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
