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2005-06-25[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: ia64 changesDinakar Guniguntala
ia64 changes similar to kernel/sched.c. Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] sched: sched tuningNick Piggin
Do some basic initial tuning. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] set cpu_state for CPU hotplug (ia64)Shaohua Li
Dead CPU notifies online CPU that it's dead using cpu_state variable. After switching to physical cpu hotplug, we forgot setting the variable. This patch fixes it. Currently only __cpu_die uses it. We changed other locations for consistency in case others use it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] i386 CPU hotplugZwane Mwaikambo
(The i386 CPU hotplug patch provides infrastructure for some work which Pavel is doing as well as for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) work which Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com> is doing) The following provides i386 architecture support for safely unregistering and registering processors during runtime, updated for the current -mm tree. In order to avoid dumping cpu hotplug code into kernel/irq/* i dropped the cpu_online check in do_IRQ() by modifying fixup_irqs(). The difference being that on cpu offline, fixup_irqs() is called before we clear the cpu from cpu_online_map and a long delay in order to ensure that we never have any queued external interrupts on the APICs. There are additional changes to s390 and ppc64 to account for this change. 1) Add CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU 2) disable local APIC timer on dead cpus. 3) Disable preempt around irq balancing to prevent CPUs going down. 4) Print irq stats for all possible cpus. 5) Debugging check for interrupts on offline cpus. 6) Hacky fixup_irqs() to redirect irqs when cpus go off/online. 7) play_dead() for offline cpus to spin inside. 8) Handle offline cpus set in flush_tlb_others(). 9) Grab lock earlier in smp_call_function() to prevent CPUs going down. 10) Implement __cpu_disable() and __cpu_die(). 11) Enable local interrupts in cpu_enable() after fixup_irqs() 12) Don't fiddle with NMI on dead cpu, but leave intact on other cpus. 13) Program IRQ affinity whilst cpu is still in cpu_online_map on offline. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/ia64: temporary disarming of reentrant probeAnil S Keshavamurthy
This patch includes IA64 architecture specific changes(ported form i386) to support temporary disarming on reentrancy of probes. In case of reentrancy we single step without calling user handler. Signed-of-by: Anil S Keshavamurth <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: check jprobe break before handlingKeshavamurthy Anil S
Once the jprobe instrumented function returns, it executes a jprobe_break which is a break instruction with __IA64_JPROBE_BREAK value. The current patch checks for this break value, before assuming that jprobe instrumented function just completed. The previous code was not checking for this value and that was a bug. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes IA64: safe register kprobeAnil S Keshavamurthy
The current kprobes does not yet handle register kprobes on some of the following kind of instruction which needs to be emulated in a special way. 1) mov r1=ip 2) chk -- Speculation check instruction This patch attempts to fail register_kprobes() when user tries to insert kprobes on the above kind of instruction. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes IA64: cmp ctype unc supportAnil S Keshavamurthy
The current Kprobes when patching the original instruction with the break instruction tries to retain the original qualifying predicate(qp), however for cmp.crel.ctype where ctype == unc, which is a special instruction always needs to be executed irrespective of qp. Hence, if the instruction we are patching is of this type, then we should not copy the original qp to the break instruction, this is because we always want the break fault to happen so that we can emulate the instruction. This patch is based on the feedback given by David Mosberger Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes IA64: arch_prepare_kprobes() cleanupAnil S Keshavamurthy
arch_prepare_kprobes() was doing lots of functionality in just one single function. This patch attempts to clean up arch_prepare_kprobes() by moving specific sub task to the following (new)functions 1)valid_kprobe_addr() -->> validate the given kprobe address 2)get_kprobe_inst(slot..)->> Retrives the instruction for a given slot from the bundle 3)prepare_break_inst() -->> Prepares break instruction within the bundle 3a)update_kprobe_inst_flag()-->>Updates the internal flags, required for proper emulation of the instruction at later point in time. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes ia64 qp fixRusty Lynch
Fix a bug where a kprobe still fires when the instruction is predicated off. So given the p6=0, and we have an instruction like: (p6) move loc1=0 we should not be triggering the kprobe. This is handled by carrying over the qp section of the original instruction into the break instruction. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes ia64 cleanupRusty Lynch
A cleanup of the ia64 kprobes implementation such that all of the bundle manipulation logic is concentrated in arch_prepare_kprobe(). With the current design for kprobes, the arch specific code only has a chance to return failure inside the arch_prepare_kprobe() function. This patch moves all of the work that was happening in arch_copy_kprobe() and most of the work that was happening in arch_arm_kprobe() into arch_prepare_kprobe(). By doing this we can add further robustness checks in arch_arm_kprobe() and refuse to insert kprobes that will cause problems. Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: support kprobe on branch/call instructionsAnil S Keshavamurthy
This patch is required to support kprobe on branch/call instructions. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: architecture specific JProbes supportAnil S Keshavamurthy
This patch adds IA64 architecture specific JProbes support on top of Kprobes Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: arch specific handlingAnil S Keshavamurthy
This is an IA64 arch specific handling of Kprobes Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: kdebug die notification mechanismAnil S Keshavamurthy
As many of you know that kprobes exist in the main line kernel for various architecture including i386, x86_64, ppc64 and sparc64. Attached patches following this mail are a port of Kprobes and Jprobes for IA64. I have tesed this patches for kprobes and Jprobes and this seems to work fine. I have tested this patch by inserting kprobes on various slots and various templates including various types of branch instructions. I have also tested this patch using the tool http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111657358022586&w=2 and the kprobes for IA64 works great. Here is list of TODO things and pathes for the same will appear soon. 1) Support kprobes on "mov r1=ip" type of instruction 2) Support Kprobes and Jprobes to exist on the same address 3) Support Return probes 3) Architecture independent cleanup of kprobes This patch adds the kdebug die notification mechanism needed by Kprobes. For break instruction on Branch type slot, imm21 is ignored and value zero is placed in IIM register, hence we need to handle kprobes for switch case zero. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> From: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> At the point in traps.c where we recieve a break with a zero value, we can not say if the break was a result of a kprobe or some other debug facility. This simple patch changes the informational string to a more correct "break 0" value, and applies to the 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 tree with all the kprobes patches that were just recently included for the next mm cut. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22Merge kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.gitLinus Torvalds
Do arch/ia64/defconfig by hand.
2005-06-21[PATCH] ia64 uncached allocJes Sorensen
This patch contains the ia64 uncached page allocator and the generic allocator (genalloc). The uncached allocator was formerly part of the SN2 mspec driver but there are several other users of it so it has been split off from the driver. The generic allocator can be used by device driver to manage special memory etc. The generic allocator is based on the allocator from the sym53c8xx_2 driver. Various users on ia64 needs uncached memory. The SGI SN architecture requires it for inter-partition communication between partitions within a large NUMA cluster. The specific user for this is the XPC code. Another application is large MPI style applications which use it for synchronization, on SN this can be done using special 'fetchop' operations but it also benefits non SN hardware which may use regular uncached memory for this purpose. Performance of doing this through uncached vs cached memory is pretty substantial. This is handled by the mspec driver which I will push out in a seperate patch. Rather than creating a specific allocator for just uncached memory I came up with genalloc which is a generic purpose allocator that can be used by device drivers and other subsystems as they please. For instance to handle onboard device memory. It was derived from the sym53c7xx_2 driver's allocator which is also an example of a potential user (I am refraining from modifying sym2 right now as it seems to have been under fairly heavy development recently). On ia64 memory has various properties within a granule, ie. it isn't safe to access memory as uncached within the same granule as currently has memory accessed in cached mode. The regular system therefore doesn't utilize memory in the lower granules which is mixed in with device PAL code etc. The uncached driver walks the EFI memmap and pulls out the spill uncached pages and sticks them into the uncached pool. Only after these chunks have been utilized, will it start converting regular cached memory into uncached memory. Hence the reason for the EFI related code additions. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] VM: early zone reclaimMartin Hicks
This is the core of the (much simplified) early reclaim. The goal of this patch is to reclaim some easily-freed pages from a zone before falling back onto another zone. One of the major uses of this is NUMA machines. With the default allocator behavior the allocator would look for memory in another zone, which might be off-node, before trying to reclaim from the current zone. This adds a zone tuneable to enable early zone reclaim. It is selected on a per-zone basis and is turned on/off via syscall. Adding some extra throttling on the reclaim was also required (patch 4/4). Without the machine would grind to a crawl when doing a "make -j" kernel build. Even with this patch the System Time is higher on average, but it seems tolerable. Here are some numbers for kernbench runs on a 2-node, 4cpu, 8Gig RAM Altix in the "make -j" run: wall user sys %cpu ctx sw. sleeps ---- ---- --- ---- ------ ------ No patch 1009 1384 847 258 298170 504402 w/patch, no reclaim 880 1376 667 288 254064 396745 w/patch & reclaim 1079 1385 926 252 291625 548873 These numbers are the average of 2 runs of 3 "make -j" runs done right after system boot. Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to seee that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. I also looked at the NUMA hit/miss stats for the "make -j" runs and the reclaim doesn't make any difference when the machine is thrashing away. Doing a "make -j8" on a single node that is filled with page cache pages takes 700 seconds with reclaim turned on and 735 seconds without reclaim (due to remote memory accesses). The simple zone_reclaim syscall program is at http://www.bork.org/~mort/sgi/zone_reclaim.c Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[IA64] ptrace and restore_sigcontext() allow ar.rsc.pl==0Matthew Chapman
This patch fixes handling of accesses to ar.rsc via ptrace & restore_sigcontext [With Thanks to Chris Wright for noticing the restore_sigcontext path] Signed-off-by: Matthew Chapman <matthewc@hp.com> Acked-by: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-21[IA64] fix nested_dtlb_miss handler for hugetlb addressKen Chen
The nested_dtlb_miss handler currently does not handle fault from hugetlb address correctly. It walks the page table assuming PAGE_SIZE. Thus when taking a fault triggered from hugetlb address, it would not calculate the pgd/pmd/pte address correctly and thus result an incorrect invocation of ia64_do_page_fault(). In there, kernel will signal SIGBUS and application dies (The faulting address is perfectly legal and we have a valid pte for the corresponding user hugetlb address as well). This patch fix the described kernel bug. Since nested_dtlb_miss is a rare event and a slow path anyway, I'm making the change without #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE for code readability. Tony, please apply. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-21[IA64] printk needs KERN_INFO arch/ia64/kernel/smp.cChristophe Lucas
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-20[IA64] Drop spurious paren in entry.hDavid Mosberger-Tang
The latest assembler catches this typo. (reported by Jim Wilson). Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-09[IA64] Fix race condition in the rt_sigprocmask fastcallChristoph Lameter
current->blocked will be set to the value of current->thread_info->flags if the cmpxchg to update thread_info->flags fails. For performance reasons the store into current->blocked was placed in the cmpxchg loop. However, the cmpxchg overwrites the register holding the value to be stored. In the rare case of a retry the value of thread_info->flags will be written into current->blocked. The fix is to use another register so that the register containing the current->blocked value is not overwritten. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ia64: fix floating-point preemption problemPeter Chubb
There've been reports of problems with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and the high floating point partition. This is caused by the possibility of preemption and rescheduling on a different processor while saving or restioirng the high partition. The only places where the FPU state is touched are in ptrace, in switch_to(), and where handling a floating-point exception. In switch_to() preemption is off. So it's only in trap.c and ptrace.c that we need to prevent preemption. Here is a patch that adds commentary to make the conditions clear, and adds appropriate preempt_{en,dis}able() calls to make it so. In trap.c I use preempt_enable_no_resched(), as we're about to return to user space where the preemption flag will be checked anyway. Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[IA64] Extract correct break number for break.bKeith Owens
break.b does not store the break number in cr.iim, instead it stores 0, which makes all break.b instructions look like BUG(). Extract the break number from the instruction itself. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-08[IA64] Update comment to describe modes set in default control register.Tony Luck
Christian Hildner pointed out that the comment did not match what the code does in cpu_init() when we set up the default control register. Patch based on suggestions from Ken Chen. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-08[IA64] Module gp must point to valid memoryKeith Owens
Some bits of the kernel assume that gp always points to valid memory, in particular PHYSICAL_MODE_ENTER() assumes that both gp and sp are valid virtual addresses with associated physical pages. The IA64 module loader puts gp well past the end of the module, with no physical backing. Offsets on gp are still valid, but physical mode addressing breaks for modules. Ensure that gp always falls within the module body. Also ensure that gp is 8 byte aligned. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-01[IA64] Cleanup compile warnings for ski configPeter Chubb
The attached patch cleans up a compilation warning when ACPI is turned off (i.e., when compiling for the Ski simulator). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-31[IA64] Use "PER_CPU" form of EXPORT macroTony Luck
I was gently reminded that there are per-cpu forms of the EXPORT_SYMBOL macros. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-26[IA64] sys_mmap doesn't follow posix.1 when parameter len=0Zhang Yanmin
In IA64 kernel, sys_mmap calls do_mmap2 and do_mmap2 returns addr if len=0, which means the mmap sys call succeeds. Posix.1 says: The mmap() function shall fail if: [EINVAL] The value of len is zero. Here is a patch to fix it. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-18[IA64] initialize spinlock pfm_alt_install_checkTony Luck
I applied the penultimate version of the perfmon patch, which didn't have the initialization of the new spinlock that was added. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-18[IA64] alternate perfmon handlerTony Luck
Patch from Charles Spirakis Some linux customers want to optimize their applications on the latest hardware but are not yet willing to upgrade to the latest kernel. This patch provides a way to plug in an alternate, basic, and GPL'ed PMU subsystem to help with their monitoring needs or for specialty work. It can also be used in case of serious unexpected bugs in perfmon. Mutual exclusion between the two subsystems is guaranteed, hence no conflict can arise from both subsystem being present. Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-17[IA64-SGI] cpe interrupts are not being enabled.Russ Anderson
acpi_request_vector() is called in ia64_mca_init() to get the cpe_vector. The problem is that acpi_request_vector() looks in platform_intr_list[] to get the vector, but platform_intr_list[] is not initialized with a valid vector until later (in sn_setup()). Without a valid vector the code defaults to polling mode. This patch moves the call to acpi_request_vector() from ia64_mca_init() to ia64_mca_late_init(), which is after platform_intr_list[] is initialized. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-17[IA64] Correct convert_to_non_syscall()David Mosberger-Tang
convert_to_non_syscall() has the same problem that unwind_to_user() used to have. Fix it likewise. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-10[IA64] Avoid .spillpsp directive in handcoded assemblyDavid Mosberger-Tang
Some time ago, GAS was fixed to bring the .spillpsp directive in line with the Intel assembler manual (there was some disagreement as to whether or not there is a built-in 16-byte offset). Unfortunately, there are two places in the kernel where this directive is used in handwritten assembly files and those of course relied on the "buggy" behavior. As a result, when using a "fixed" assembler, the kernel picks up the UNaT bits from the wrong place (off by 16) and randomly sets NaT bits on the scratch registers. This can be noticed easily by looking at a coredump and finding various scratch registers with unexpected NaT values. The patch below fixes this by using the .spillsp directive instead, which works correctly no matter what assembler is in use. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-09[IA64] fix "section mismatch" compile-time-errorDavid Mosberger-Tang
I noticed this typo when trying to compile a kernel which had CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. In that case, __devinit is no longer a no-op and the compiler then detects a section-conflict. Fix by using __devinitdata instead of __devinit. Same patch also submitted by Darren Williams to fix compilation error using sim_defconfig (which has CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n). Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-06[IA64] Fix stack placement when INIT hits in kernel mode.David Mosberger-Tang
Without this patch, the stack is placed _below_ the current task structure, which is risky at best. Tony, I think this patch needs to go into 2.6.12, since it fixes a real bug. Without it, INIT may case secondary errors, which would be most unpleasant. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-05Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse
2005-05-03[IA64] Fix two warnings introduced by perfmon patches.Tony Luck
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] another perfmon fix (take2)stephane eranian
- pfm_context_load(): change return value from EINVAL to EBUSY when context is already loaded. - pfm_check_task_state(): pass test if context state is MASKED. It is safe to give access on PFM_CTX_MASKED because the PMU state (PMD) is stable and saved in software state. This helps multiplexing programs such as the example given in libpfm-3.1. Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] perfmon & PAL_HALT againStephane Eranian
The pmu_active test is based on the values of PSR.up. THIS IS THE PROBLEM as it does not take into account the lazy restore logic which is as follow (simplified): context switch out: save PMDs clear psr.up release ownership context switch in: if (ctx->last_cpu == smp_processor_id() && ctx->cpu_activation == cpu_activation) { set psr.up return } restore PMD restore PMC ctx->last_cpu = smp_processor_id(); ctx->activation = ++cpu_activation; set psr.up The key here is that on context switch out, we clear psr.up and on context switch in we check if nobody else used the PMU on that processor since last time we came. In that case, we assume the PMD/PMC are ours and we simply reactivate. The Caliper problem is that between the moment we context switch out and the moment we come back, nobody effectively used the PMU BUT the processor went idle. Normally this would have no incidence but PAL_HALT does alter the PMU registers. In default_idle(), the test on psr.up is not strong enough to cover this case and we go into PAL which trashed the PMU resgisters. When we come back we falsely assume that this is our state yet it is corrupted. Very nasty indeed. To avoid the problem it is necessary to forbid going to PAL_HALT as soon as perfmon installs some valid state in the PMU registers. This happens with an application attaches a context to a thread or CPU. It is not enough to check the psr/dcr bits. Hence I propose the attached patch. It adds a callback in process.c to modify the condition to enter PAL on idle. Basically, now it is conditional to pal_halt=1 AND perfmon saying it is okay. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] MCA recovery improvementsRuss Anderson
Jack Steiner uncovered some opportunities for improvement in the MCA recovery code. 1) Set bsp to save registers on the kernel stack. 2) Disable interrupts while in the MCA recovery code. 3) Change the way the user process is killed, to avoid a panic in schedule. Testing shows that these changes make the recovery code much more reliable with the 2.6.12 kernel. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] fix ia64 syscall auditingDavid Woodhouse
Attached is a patch against David's audit.17 kernel that adds checks for the TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT thread flag to the ia64 system call and signal handling code paths. The patch enables auditing of system calls set up via fsys_bubble_down, as well as ensuring that audit_syscall_exit() is called on return from sigreturn. Neglecting to check for TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT at these points results in incorrect information in audit_context, causing frequent system panics when system call auditing is enabled on an ia64 system. I have tested this patch and have seen no problems with it. [Original patch from Amy Griffis ported to current kernel by David Woodhouse] From: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_waitZwane Mwaikambo
Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a percpu variable. I didn't move things to the slow path because it would involve adding scheduler code to wakeup the idle thread on the cpus we're waiting for. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] use common pxm functionAlex Williamson
This patch simplifies a couple places where we search for _PXM values in ACPI namespace. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03[IA64] fix typos caught by new assemblerDavid Mosberger-Tang
Patch below fixes 3 trivial typos which are caught by the new assembler (v2.169.90). Please apply. [Note: fix to memcpy that was also part of this patch was separately applied from patches by H.J. and Andreas ... so the delta here only has the other two fixes. -Tony] Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse
2005-05-01[PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()Jesper Juhl
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] consolidate sys_shmatStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-29[PATCH] fix ia64 syscall auditingAmy Griffis
Attached is a patch against David's audit.17 kernel that adds checks for the TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT thread flag to the ia64 system call and signal handling code paths.The patch enables auditing of system calls set up via fsys_bubble_down, as well as ensuring that audit_syscall_exit() is called on return from sigreturn. Neglecting to check for TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT at these points results in incorrect information in audit_context, causing frequent system panics when system call auditing is enabled on an ia64 system. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>