Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into irqdomain/next

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Notable highlights:

- iommu improvements from Anton removing

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Notable highlights:

- iommu improvements from Anton removing the per-iommu global lock in
favor of dividing the DMA space into pools, each with its own lock,
and hashed on the CPU number. Along with making the locking more
fine grained, this gives significant improvements in multiqueue
networking scalability.

- Still from Anton, we know provide a vdso based variant of getcpu
which makes sched_getcpu with the appropriate glibc patch something
like 18 times faster.

- More anton goodness (he's been busy !) in other areas such as a
faster __clear_user and copy_page on P7, various perf fixes to
improve sampling quality, etc...

- One more step toward removing legacy i2c interfaces by using new
device-tree based probing of platform devices for the AOA audio
drivers

- A nice series of patches from Michael Neuling that helps avoiding
confusion between register numbers and litterals in assembly code,
trying to enforce the use of "%rN" register names in gas rather
than plain numbers.

- A pile of FSL updates

- The usual bunch of small fixes, cleanups etc...

You may spot a change to drivers/char/mem. The patch got no comment
or ack from outside, it's a trivial patch to allow the architecture to
skip creating /dev/port, which we use to disable it on ppc64 that
don't have a legacy brige. On those, IO ports 0...64K are not mapped
in kernel space at all, so accesses to /dev/port cause oopses (and
yes, distros -still- ship userspace that bangs hard coded ports such
as kbdrate)."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits)
powerpc/mpic: Create a revmap with enough entries for IPIs and timers
Remove stale .rej file
powerpc/iommu: Fix iommu pool initialization
powerpc/eeh: Check handle_eeh_events() return value
powerpc/85xx: Add phy nodes in SGMII mode for MPC8536/44/72DS & P2020DS
powerpc/e500: add paravirt QEMU platform
powerpc/mpc85xx_ds: convert to unified PCI init
powerpc/fsl-pci: get PCI init out of board files
powerpc/85xx: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig
powerpc/85xx: Update corenet32_smp_defconfig
powerpc/85xx: Rename P1021RDB-PC device trees to be consistent
powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param related code to setup-common.c
sound/aoa: Adapt to new i2c probing scheme
i2c/powermac: Improve detection of devices from device-tree
powerpc: Disable /dev/port interface on systems without an ISA bridge
of: Improve prom_update_property() function
powerpc: Add "memory" attribute for mfmsr()
powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage
powerpc/hw_breakpoints: Fix incorrect pointer access
powerpc: Put the gpr save/restore functions in their own section
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powerpc: Optimise the 64bit optimised __clear_user

I blame Mikey for this. He elevated my slightly dubious testcase:

to benchmark status. And naturally we need to be number 1 at creating
zeros. So

powerpc: Optimise the 64bit optimised __clear_user

I blame Mikey for this. He elevated my slightly dubious testcase:

to benchmark status. And naturally we need to be number 1 at creating
zeros. So lets improve __clear_user some more.

As Paul suggests we can use dcbz for large lengths. This patch gets
the destination cacheline aligned then uses dcbz on whole cachelines.

Before:
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.414744 s, 25.3 GB/s

After:
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.268597 s, 39.0 GB/s

39 GB/s, a new record.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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powerpc: 64bit optimised __clear_user

I noticed __clear_user high up in a profile of one of my RAID stress
tests. The testcase was doing a dd from /dev/zero which ends up
calling __clear_user.

__cl

powerpc: 64bit optimised __clear_user

I noticed __clear_user high up in a profile of one of my RAID stress
tests. The testcase was doing a dd from /dev/zero which ends up
calling __clear_user.

__clear_user is basically a loop with a single 4 byte store which
is horribly slow. We can do much better by aligning the desination
and doing 32 bytes of 8 byte stores in a loop.

The following testcase was used to verify the patch:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/stress_clear_user.c

To show the improvement in performance I ran a dd from /dev/zero
to /dev/null on a POWER7 box:

Before:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 3.72379 s, 2.8 GB/s

After:

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.728318 s, 14.4 GB/s

Over 5x faster.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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