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The e820 probe code was checking %edx, not %eax, for the SMAP
signature on return. This worked on *almost* all systems, since %edx
still contained SMAP from the call on entry, but on a handful of
systems it failed -- plus, we would have missed real mismatches.
The error output is "=d" to make sure gcc knows %edx is clobbered
here.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
[x86 setup] Handle case of improperly terminated E820 chain
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At least one system (a Geode system with a Digital Logic BIOS) has
been found which suddenly stops reporting the SMAP signature when
reading the E820 memory chain. We can't know what, exactly, broke in
the BIOS, so if we detect this situation, declare the E820 data
unusable and fall back to E801.
Also, revert to original behavior of always probing all memory
methods; that way all the memory information is available to the
kernel.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
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execve's error paths don't activate (and therefore pin) the mm before
calling exit_mmap to free it up, so don't try to unpin unless it is
actually pinned. This prevents a BUG_ON from triggering.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Christian Ostheimer <osth@freesurf.ch>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There's an obvious typo in arch/i386/boot/header.S (in your
linux-2.6-x86setup.git) that I noticed by just studying the code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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wakeup.S looks at the video mode number from the setup header and
looks to see if it is a VESA mode. Unfortunately, the decoding is
done incorrectly and it will attempt to frob the VESA BIOS for any
mode number 0x0200 or larger. Correct this, and remove a bunch of #if
0'd code.
Massive thanks to Jeff Chua for reporting the bug, and suffering
though a large number of experiments in order to track this problem
down.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Canonicalize the video mode number as presented to the kernel. The
video mode number may be user-entered (e.g. ASK_VGA), an alias
(e.g. NORMAL_VGA), or a size specification, and that confuses the
suspend wakeup code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Xen ignores all updates to cr4, and some versions will kill the domain if
you try to change its value. Just ignore all changes.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix a compile error when the directory above the kernel source contains
a file named "kernel". Originally from Ben LaHaise, modified based on
feedback from Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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AK: Removed the unlikelies because gcc heuristics default to unlikely
AK: for test == NULL and for negative returns.
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert
commit 656dad312fb41ed95ef08325e9df9bece3aacbbb
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat Feb 10 01:46:36 2007 -0800
[PATCH] highmem: catch illegal nesting
Catch illegally nested kmap_atomic()s even if the page that is mapped by
the 'inner' instance is from lowmem.
This avoids spuriously zapped kmap-atomic ptes and turns hard to find
crashes into clear asserts at the bug site.
Problem is, a get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL) from interrupt context will trigger
this check if non-irq code on this CPU holds a KM_USER0 mapping. But that
get_zeroed_page() will never be altering the kmap slot anyway due to the
GFP_KERNEL.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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pcibios_get_irq_routing_table is an exported symbol. This results in a
modpost warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xdca51): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pcibios_fixup_bus (between 'pci_scan_child_bus' and 'pci_scan_bus_parented')
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero.
This causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even though the
nmi test is done.
On my machine with out the change below the system would hang right
after check_nmi_watchdog(). The change below just sets endflag prior to
checking if the test was successful or not.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The CLFLUSH for the modified code line in text_poke was supposed
to speed up CPU recovery. Unfortunately it seems to cause hangs
on some VIA C3s (at least on VIA Esther Model 10 Stepping 9)
Remove it.
Thanks to Stefan Becker for reporting/testing.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the NMI watchdog on Intel CoreDuo processor where the kernel would
get stuck during boot. The issue is related to errata AE49, where the
PERFEVTSEL1 counter does not have a working enable bit. Thus it is not
possible to use it for NMI.
The patch creates a dedicated wd_ops for CoreDuo which falls back to
using PERFEVTSEL0. The other Intel processors supporting the
architectural PMU will keep on using PERFEVTSEL1 as this allows other
subsystems, such as perfmon, to use PERFEVTSEL0 for PEBS monitoring in
particular. Bug initially reported by Daniel Walker.
AK: Added comments
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When PTRACE_SYSCALL was used and then PTRACE_DETACH is used, the
TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE flag is left set on the formerly-traced task. This
means that when a new tracer comes along and does PTRACE_ATTACH, it's
possible he gets a syscall tracing stop even though he's never used
PTRACE_SYSCALL. This happens if the task was in the middle of a system
call when the second PTRACE_ATTACH was done. The symptom is an
unexpected SIGTRAP when the tracer thinks that only SIGSTOP should have
been provoked by his ptrace calls so far.
A few machines already fixed this in ptrace_disable (i386, ia64, m68k).
But all other machines do not, and still have this bug. On x86_64, this
constitutes a regression in IA32 compatibility support.
Since all machines now use TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE for this, I put the
clearing of TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE in the generic ptrace_detach code rather
than adding it to every other machine's ptrace_disable.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Apparently XEN does not keep the contents of the 48-bit gdt_48 data
structure that is passed to lgdt in the XEN machine state. Instead it
appears to save the _address_ of the 48-bit descriptor
somewhere. Unfortunately this data happens to reside on the stack and
is probably no longer availiable at the time of the actual protected
mode jump.
This is Xen bug but given that there is a one-line patch to work
around this problem, the linux kernel should probably do this. My fix
is to make the gdt_48 description in setup_gdt static (in setup_idt
this is already the case). This allows the kernel to boot under
Xen HVM again.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
[x86 setup] Don't rely on the VESA BIOS being register-clean
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lguest didn't initialize the kernel stack the way a real i386 kernel
does, and ended up triggering a corner-case in the stack frame checking
that doesn't happen on naive i386, and that the stack dumping didn't
handle quite right.
This makes the frame handling more correct, and tries to clarify the
code at the same time so that it's a bit more obvious what is going on.
Thanks to Rusty Russell for debugging the lguest failure-
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The VESA BIOS is specified to be register-clean. However, we have now
found at least one system which violates that. Thus, be as paranoid
about VESA calls as about everything else.
Huge thanks to Will Simoneau for reporting, diagnosing, and testing
this out on Dell Inspiron 5150.
Cc: Will Simoneau <simoneau@ele.uri.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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For hugepage mappings, the file offset, like the address and size, needs to
be aligned to the size of a hugepage.
In commit 68589bc353037f233fe510ad9ff432338c95db66, the check for this was
moved into prepare_hugepage_range() along with the address and size checks.
But since BenH's rework of the get_unmapped_area() paths leading up to
commit 4b1d89290b62bb2db476c94c82cf7442aab440c8, prepare_hugepage_range()
is only called for MAP_FIXED mappings, not for other mappings. This means
we're no longer ever checking for an aligned offset - I've confirmed that
mmap() will (apparently) succeed with a misaligned offset on both powerpc
and i386 at least.
This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range()
and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap(). I'm putting it there,
rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one
place, than separately in the half-dozen or so arch-specific
implementations of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (30 commits)
ACPI: work around duplicate name "VID" problem on T61
acpiphp_ibm: add missing '\n' to error message
ACPI: add dump_stack() to trace acpi_format_exception programming errors
make drivers/acpi/scan.c:create_modalias() static
ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type
ACPI: "ACPI handle has no context!" should be KERN_DEBUG
ACPI video hotkey: export missing ACPI video hotkey events via input layer
ACPI: Validate XSDT, use RSDT if XSDT fails
ACPI: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone trip points are now read-only, mark them as such
ACPI: fix ia64 allnoconfig build
PNP: remove null pointer checks
PNP: remove MODULE infrastructure
ISAPNP: removed unused isapnp_detected and ISAPNP_DEBUG
PNPACPI: remove unnecessary casts of "void *"
PNPACPI: simplify irq_flags()
PNP: fix up after Lindent
ACPI: enable GPEs before calling _WAK on resume
asus-laptop: Fix rmmod of asus_laptop
sony-laptop: call sonypi_compat_init earlier
sony-laptop: enable Vaio FZ events
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
[x86 setup] Make sure AH=00h when setting a video mode
[x86 setup] Volatilize asm() statements
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Passing a u8 into a register doesn't mean gcc will zero-extend it.
Also, don't depend on thhe register not to change.
Per bug report from Saul Tamari.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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asm() statements need to be volatile when:
a. They have side effects (other than value returned).
b. When the value returned can vary over time.
c. When they have ordering constraints that cannot be expressed to gcc.
In particular, the keyboard and timer reads were violating constraint (b),
which resulted in the keyboard/timeout poll getting
loop-invariant-removed when compiling with gcc 4.2.0.
Thanks to an anonymous bug reporter for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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construct a more or less wall-clock time out of sched_clock(), by
using ACPI-idle's existing knowledge about how much time we spent
idling. This allows the rq clock to work around TSC-stops-in-C2,
TSC-gets-corrupted-in-C3 type of problems.
( Besides the scheduler's statistics this also benefits blktrace and
printk-timestamps as well. )
Furthermore, the precise before-C2/C3-sleep and after-C2/C3-wakeup
callbacks allow the scheduler to get out the most of the period where
the CPU has a reliable TSC. This results in slightly more precise
task statistics.
the ACPI bits were acked by Len.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup
xen-head.S does not come back to the data section, leaving the text section
as current section. It causes problems with a slightly enhanced DEBUG_RODATA
that supports CONFIG_HOTPLUG and bringing a CPU up after the text has been
marked read-only: reference to early_gdt_descr causes a page fault.
Updates:
- It should be using pushsection/popsection.
- Actually, the push/popsections around the ELFNOTEs are redundant; ELFNOTE()
does its own push/popsection to put things into the appropriate .note* section
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Touching vmalloc memory in the middle of a lazy mode update can generate
a kernel PDE update, which must be flushed immediately. The fix is to
leave lazy mode when doing a vmalloc sync.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I did some testing and found quite a lot of problems (doesn't
boot at all on non NUMA and misassigns cores on Opteron systems).
Mark it as experimental and warn against its use for now.
It's still default y for SUMMIT/NUMAQ because it'll presumably
work on these systems.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.
init/main.c:
Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.
i386:
delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()
x86_64:
rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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With commit ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6 the patching code
now collects the complete new instruction stream into a temp buffer
before finally patching in the new insns. In some cases the paravirt
patchers will choose to leave the patch site unpatched (length mismatch,
clobbers mismatch, etc).
This causes the new patching code to copy an uninitialized temp buffer,
i.e. garbage, to the callsite. Simply make sure to always initialize
the buffer with the original instruction stream. A better fix is to
audit all the patchers and return proper length so that apply_paravirt()
can skip copies when we leave the patch site untouched.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Very old 64bit binutils have .cfi_startproc/endproc, but
no .cfi_rel_offset. Check for .cfi_rel_offset too.
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixed wrong expression which enabled watchdogs even if nmi_watchdog kernel
parameter wasn't set. This regression got slightly introduced with commit
b7471c6da94d30d3deadc55986cc38d1ff57f9ca.
Introduced NMI_DISABLED (-1) which allows to switch the value of NMI_DEFAULT
without breaking the APIC NMI watchdog code (again).
Fixes:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298084
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839
And likely some more nmi_watchdog=0 related issues.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When filling in the MBR signature array, the setup code failed to advance
boot_params.edd_mbr_sig_buf_entries, which resulted in the valid data
being ignored.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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At least one machine has been identified in the field which advertises
EDD for all drives but locks up if one attempts an extended read from
a non-primary drive.
The MBR is always at CHS 0-0-1, so there is no reason to use an
extended read, other than the possibility that the BIOS cannot handle
it.
Although this might break as many machines as it fixes (a small number
either way), the current state is a regression but the reverse is not.
Therefore revert to the previous state of not using extended read.
Quite probably the Right Thing to do is to read using plain (CHS) read
and extended read on failure, but that change would definitely have to
go through -mm first.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The current display page is an 8-bit number, even though struct
screen_info gives it a 16-bit number. The number is returned in %bh,
so it needs to be >> 8 before storing.
Special thanks to Jeff Chua for detailed bug reporting.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Level type interrupts do not need to be resent. It was also found that
some chipsets get confused in case of the resend.
Mark the ioapic level type interrupts as such to avoid the resend
functionality in the generic irq code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits)
ACPI: thermal: add DMI hooks to handle AOpen's broken Award BIOS
ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.act=" to disable or override active trip point
ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.nocrt" to disable critical actions
ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points
ACPI: thermal: expose "thermal.tzp=" to set global polling frequency
ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.off=1" to disable ACPI thermal support
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix sysfs paths in documentation
ACPI: static
ACPI EC: remove potential deadlock from EC
ACPI: dock: Send key=value pair instead of plain value
ACPI: bay: send envp with uevent - fix
acpi-cpufreq: Fix some x86/x86-64 acpi-cpufreq driver issues
ACPI: fix "Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2"
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: change thinkpad-acpi input default and kconfig help
ACPI: EC: fix run-together printk lines
ACPI: sbs: remove dead code
ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_remove(): fix use-after-free
ACPI: EC: Switch from boot_ec as soon as we find its desc in DSDT.
ACPI: EC: fix build warning
ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT.
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Commit 3320ad994afb2c44ad34b3b34c3c5cf0da297331 broke mmio config space
accesses totally on i386 - it dropped the "reg" offset to the address.
Cc: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The new percpu code has apparently broken the doublefault handler
when CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is set. Doublefault is handled by
a hardware task, making the check
SPIN_BUG_ON(lock->owner == current, lock, "recursion");
fault because it uses the FS register to access the percpu data
for current, and that register is zero in the new TSS. (The trace
I saw was on 2.6.20 where it was GS, but it looks like this will
still happen with FS on 2.6.22.)
Initializing FS in the doublefault_tss should fix it.
AK: Also fix broken ptr_ok() and turn printks into KERN_EMERG
AK: And add a PANIC prefix to make clear the system will hang
AK: (e.g. x86-64 will recover)
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x183): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87')
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The Averatec 2370 and some other Turion laptop BIOS seems to program the
ENABLE_C1E MSR inconsistently between cores. This confuses the lapic
use heuristics because when C1E is enabled anywhere it seems to affect
the complete chip.
Use a global flag instead of a per cpu flag to handle this.
If any CPU has C1E enabled disabled lapic use.
Thanks to Cal Peake for debugging.
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's CONFIG_X86_MCE, not CONFIG_MCE.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177 "x86: Fix alternatives
and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text" uses code which is
being patched for patching.
In particular, paravirt_ops does patching in two stages: first it
calls paravirt_ops.patch, then it fills any remaining instructions
with nop_out(). nop_out calls text_poke() which calls
lookup_address() which calls pgd_val() (aka paravirt_ops.pgd_val):
that call site is one of the places we patch.
If we always do patching as one single call to text_poke(), we only
need make sure we're not patching the memcpy in text_poke itself.
This means the prototype to paravirt_ops.patch needs to change, to
marshal the new code into a buffer rather than patching in place as it
does now. It also means all patching goes through text_poke(), which
is known to be safe (apply_alternatives is also changed to make a
single patch).
AK: fix compilation on x86-64 (bad rusty!)
AK: fix boot on x86-64 (sigh)
AK: merged with other patches
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It turns out CLFLUSH support is still not complete; we
flush the wrong pages. Again disable it for the release.
Noticed by Jan Beulich who then also noticed a stupid typo later.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some broken devices have been discovered to require %al/%ax/%eax registers
for MMIO config space accesses. Modify mmconfig.c to use these registers
explicitly (rather than modify the global readb/writeb/etc inlines).
AK: also changed i386 to always use eax
AK: moved change to extended space probing to different patch
AK: reworked with inlines according to Linus' requirements.
AK: improve comments.
Signed-off-by: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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