Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc32: Kexec support for PPC440X chipsets

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Wed Jul 13 2011 - 01:29:54 EST



On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:44 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:

> Changes from V1: Uses a tmp mapping in the other address space to setup
> the 1:1 mapping (suggested by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).
>
> Note: Should we do the same for kernel entry code for PPC44x ?
>
> This patch adds kexec support for PPC440 based chipsets.This work is based
> on the KEXEC patches for FSL BookE.
>
> The FSL BookE patch and the code flow could be found at the link below:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/49359/
>
> Steps:
>
> 1) Invalidate all the TLB entries except the one this code is run from
> 2) Create a tmp mapping for our code in the other address space and jump to it
> 3) Invalidate the entry we used
> 4) Create a 1:1 mapping for 0-2GiB in blocks of 256M
> 5) Jump to the new 1:1 mapping and invalidate the tmp mapping
>
> I have tested this patches on Ebony, Sequoia boards and Virtex on QEMU.
> It would be great if somebody could test this on the other boards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 2
> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 423145a6..d04fae0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>
> config KEXEC
> bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on (PPC_BOOK3S || FSL_BOOKE) && EXPERIMENTAL
> + depends on (PPC_BOOK3S || FSL_BOOKE || (44x && !SMP && !47x)) && EXPERIMENTAL

Is there something special about 47x that its not supported?

> help
> kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
> current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot

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