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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst | 4 |
10 files changed, 28 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst index 2d0ec2ff2b57..11aa440f98cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ should: a) add your platform support as a _boolean_ option in arch/powerpc/Kconfig, following the example of PPC_PSERIES, - PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The later is probably a good + PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The latter is probably a good example of a board support to start from. b) create your main platform file as diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst index c96ab6befd9c..e55ac6a24b97 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DAWR issues on POWER9 On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to -disinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is +distinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is disabled by this commit:: commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0 diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst index 438a87ebc095..d6643a91bdf8 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ return all-ff's (0xff, 0xffff, 0xffffffff for 8/16/32-bit reads). This value was chosen because it is the same value you would get if the device was physically unplugged from the slot. This includes access to PCI memory, I/O space, and PCI config -space. Interrupts; however, will continued to be delivered. +space. Interrupts; however, will continue to be delivered. Detection and recovery are performed with the aid of ppc64 firmware. The programming interfaces in the Linux kernel diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst index 06602248621c..3ec8d61e9a33 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ capabilities and information which can be used by a bootloader or userland. Types and Descriptors --------------------- -The types to be used with the "PowerPC" namesapce are defined in [#f1]_. +The types to be used with the "PowerPC" namespace are defined in [#f1]_. 1) PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst index 20ea8cdee0aa..e363fc48529a 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ that were present in CMA region:: (meta area) | | | - Metadata: This area holds a metadata struture whose + Metadata: This area holds a metadata structure whose address is registered with f/w and retrieved in the second kernel after crash, on platforms that support tags (OPAL). Having such structure with info needed @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a new file upon user intervention. The dump data available through /proc/vmcore will be in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump infrastructure (kdump scripts) to save the dump works fine with minor modifications. KDump scripts on -major Distro releases have already been modified to work seemlessly (no +major Distro releases have already been modified to work seamlessly (no user intervention in saving the dump) when FADump is used, instead of KDump, as dump mechanism. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst index 8b259fdfdf03..5681c1d1b65b 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst @@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ bit of the entropy to decide the index of the 64M zone. Then we chose a kernstart_virt_addr -To enable KASLR, set CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE = y. If KASLR is enable and you +To enable KASLR, set CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE = y. If KASLR is enabled and you want to disable it at runtime, add "nokaslr" to the kernel cmdline. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst index 30260707c3fe..5243b1763fad 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ To compile/use : Some remarks: - The port is named mpc52xxx, and config options are PPC_MPC52xx. The MGT5100 - is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interesting in working on it + is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interested in working on it so. I didn't took 5xxx because there's apparently a lot of 5xxx that have nothing to do with the MPC5200. I also included the 'MPC' for the same reason. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst index 48fcf1255a33..fce8bc793660 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ and any in-arguments for the hcall are provided in registers *r4-r12*. If values have to be passed through a memory buffer, the data stored in that buffer should be in Big-endian byte order. -Once control is returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the +Once control returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the 'HVCS' instruction the return value of the hcall is available in *r3* and any out values are returned in registers *r4-r12*. Again like in case of in-arguments, any out values stored in a memory buffer will be in Big-endian byte order. @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ corresponding opcode values please look into the arch specific header [4]_: | Out: *numBytesRead* | Return Value: *H_Success, H_Parameter, H_P2, H_P3, H_Hardware* -Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the the metadata area +Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the metadata area associated with it, at a specified offset and copy it to provided buffer. The metadata area stores configuration information such as label information, bad-blocks etc. The metadata area is located out-of-band of NVDIMM storage @@ -275,6 +275,20 @@ Health Bitmap Flags: Given a DRC Index collect the performance statistics for NVDIMM and copy them to the resultBuffer. +**H_SCM_FLUSH** + +| Input: *drcIndex, continue-token* +| Out: *continue-token* +| Return Value: *H_SUCCESS, H_Parameter, H_P2, H_BUSY* + +Given a DRC Index Flush the data to backend NVDIMM device. + +The hcall returns H_BUSY when the flush takes longer time and the hcall needs +to be issued multiple times in order to be completely serviced. The +*continue-token* from the output to be passed in the argument list of +subsequent hcalls to the hypervisor until the hcall is completely serviced +at which point H_SUCCESS or other error is returned by the hypervisor. + References ========== .. [1] "Power Architecture Platform Reference" diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst index b5b09bf00966..040a20675fd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ kernel aborted a transaction: ====================== ================================ These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If -bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example +bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is considered persistent. For example a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not. GDB @@ -271,4 +271,4 @@ with these lines: hrfid and mtmsrd have the same quirk. -The Linux kernel uses this quirk in it's early exception handling. +The Linux kernel uses this quirk in its early exception handling. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst index 90c50ed839f3..bdb50fed903e 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ using this window. the signal will be issued to the thread group leader signals. NX-GZIP User's Manual: -https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip/blob/master/power_nx_gzip_um.pdf +https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip/blob/master/doc/power_nx_gzip_um.pdf Simple example ============== @@ -301,5 +301,5 @@ Simple example close(fd) or window can be closed upon process exit } - Refer https://github.com/abalib/power-gzip for tests or more + Refer https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip for tests or more use cases. |