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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Geert Uytterhoeven
42e27bfc4b ps3flash: Always read chunks of 256 KiB, and cache them
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 16:47:27 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
6bd57f2e5d ps3flash: Cache the last accessed FLASH chunk
Add support for caching, to reduce FLASH wear when writing using small
blocksizes. As we also don't care anymore about heads and tails in case of
partial writes, this greatly simplifies the code for handling writes.

Note: We don't bother caching reads smaller than the FLASH chunk size
(256 KiB).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 16:47:27 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
a4e623fbc9 ps3: Replace direct file operations by callback
Currently the FLASH database is updated by the kernel using file operations,
meant for userspace only. While this works for us because copy_{from,to}_user()
on powerpc can handle kernel pointers, this is unportable and a bad example.
Replace the file operations by callbacks, registered by the ps3flash driver.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 16:47:26 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
559dc87f50 ps3flash: Use ps3_system_bus_[gs]et_drvdata() instead of direct access
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 16:47:25 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
4c33d2dc34 powerpc/ps3: Printing fixups for l64 to ll64 conversion drivers/char
Also a couple of min -> min_t changes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-01-16 16:15:14 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
f96526354b ps3: FLASH ROM Storage Driver
Add a FLASH ROM Storage Driver for the PS3:
  - Implemented as a misc character device driver
  - Uses a fixed 256 KiB buffer allocated from boot memory as the hypervisor
    requires the writing of aligned 256 KiB blocks

Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 17:49:16 -07:00