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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases
[IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes
[IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps
[IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes
[IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386
[IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC
[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
[IA64] Fix example error injection program
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration
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Handle MAP_FIXED in ia64 arch_get_unmapped_area and
hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(), just call prepare_hugepage_range in the later and
is_hugepage_only_range() in the former.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the
tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page.
page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in
there.
Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent.
They become more usable like real pages. Right now we have to be careful f.e.
if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we
can then no longer use the private field. This is one of the issues that
cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB.
Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in
the page struct. I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there
right now.
Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with
buffer heads. This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger
blocks than page size.
We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim. Compound pages cannot currently
be reclaimed. Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first.
The RFC for the this approach was discussed at
http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2
[nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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set_irq_msi() currently connects an irq_desc to an msi_desc. The archs call
it at some point in their setup routine, and then the generic code sets up the
reverse mapping from the msi_desc back to the irq.
set_irq_msi() should do both connections, making it the one and only call
required to connect an irq with it's MSI desc and vice versa.
The arch code MUST call set_irq_msi(), and it must do so only once it's sure
it's not going to fail the irq allocation.
Given that there's no need for the arch to return the irq anymore, the return
value from the arch setup routine just becomes 0 for success and anything else
for failure.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Allows architectures to advertise that they support MSI rather than listing
each architecture as a PCI_MSI dependency.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.
In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.
My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:
arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c
I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.
Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
[PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fixes for various arch compilation problems:
(*) Missing module exports.
(*) Variable name collision when rxkad and af_rxrpc both built in
(rxrpc_debug).
(*) Large constant representation problem (AFS_UUID_TO_UNIX_TIME).
(*) Configuration dependencies.
(*) printk() format warnings.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Now to convert the last one, skb->data, that will allow many simplifications
and removal of some of the offset helpers.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes
on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the
layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4
64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN...
:-)
Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network,
mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being
meaningful as offsets or pointers.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On a SGI Altix TIOCP based PCI bus we need to include the ATE_PIO attribute
bit if we're mapping a 32bit MSI address.
Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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My patch: git commit=95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10 introduced a bug
in IA64 cpuinfo output.
Patch changed the proc_freq from 1HZ resolution to 1KHz resolution, but left
format string unchanged at " %lu.%06lu". Below is the fix.
Thanks to Bjorn for catching this.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes a wrong assumption in ia64 MSI code that IRQ equals
vector.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The bte recovery_timer was not being set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled):
0x00000 - 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF supports only UC (uncacheable) access
0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
Some versions of X map the entire 0x00000-0xFFFFF area at once. With the
example above, this mmap must fail because there's no memory attribute that's
safe for the entire area.
Prior to this patch, we performed the mmap with a UC mapping. When X
accessed the WB memory at 0xC0000, it caused an MCA. The crash can happen
when mapping 0xC0000 from either /dev/mem or a /sys/.../legacy_mem file.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Allow cacheable mmaps of legacy_mem if WB access is supported for the region.
The "legacy_mem" file often contains a shadow option ROM, and some versions of
X depend on this.
Tim Yamin <plasm@roo.me.uk> reported that this change fixes X on a Dell
PowerEdge 3250.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled):
0x00000 - 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF supports only UC (uncacheable) access
0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
pci_read_rom() indirectly uses ioremap(0xC0000) to read the shadow VGA option
ROM. ioremap() used to default to a 16MB or 64MB UC kernel identity mapping,
which would cause an MCA when reading 0xC0000 since only WB is supported there.
X uses reads the option ROM to initialize devices. A smaller test case is:
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom
# cp /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom x
To avoid this, we can use the same ioremap_page_range() strategy that most
architectures use for all ioremaps. These page table mappings come out of the
vmalloc area. On ia64, these are in region 5 (0xA... addresses) and typically
use 16KB or 64KB mappings instead of 16MB or 64MB mappings. The smaller
mappings give more flexibility to use the correct attributes.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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No functional change, just use the same names as i386.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Typo/thinko in bba6f6fc68e74d4572028646f61dd3505a68747e
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Skip clock calibration if cpu being brought online is exactly the same
speed, stepping, etc., as the previous cpu. This significantly reduces
the time to boot very large systems.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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ia64 expects following vm layout:
== low memory
[register-stack grows up]
[memory-stack grows down]
== high memory
But the code assigns the base of the register stack at the
maximum stack size offset from the fixed address where the
stack *might* start. Stack randomization will result in the
memory stack starting at a lower address than this, and if the
user has set a low stack limit with "ulimit -s", then you can
end up with the register stack above the memory stack (or if
you were very unlucky right on top of it!).
Fix: Calculate the base address for the register stack starting
from the actual address of the memory stack.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The following 'if' statement in ia64_setup_msi_irq() always fails even
if create_irq() returns <0 value, because variable 'irq' is defined as
unsigned int. It would cause invalid memory access.
irq = create_irq();
if (irq < 0)
return irq;
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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So I think the right solution is to simply make pci_enable_device just
flip enable bits and move the rest of the work someplace else.
However a thorough cleanup is a little extreme for this point in the
release cycle, so I think a quick hack that makes the code not stomp the
irq when msi irq's are enabled should be the first fix. Then we can
later make the code not change the irqs at all.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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:
ACPI: IA64: fix %ll build warnings
ACPI: IA64: fix allnoconfig build
ACPI: Only use IPI on known broken machines (AMD, Dothan/BaniasPentium M)
ACPI: ibm-acpi: allow module to load when acpi notifiers can't be set (v2)
ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default
ACPICA: revert "acpi_serialize" changes
sony-laptop: MAINTAINERS fix entry, add L: and W:
ACPI: resolve HP nx6125 S3 immediate wakeup regression
ACPI: Add support to parse 2nd MADT
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In sn_io_slot_fixup(), the parent is re-set from the bus to
io(port|mem)_resource because the address is changed in a way that it's not
child of the bus any more.
However, only the root is set but not the parent/child/sibling relationship in
the resource tree which causes 'cat /proc/iomem' to stop after this memory
area. Depding on the poition in the tree the iomem may be nearly completely
empty.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When booting an SN system without specifing a console
(i.e., no "console=" on boot line), the system will hang during
boot at the point where /sbin/init is run.
The problem is that vga_console_iobase is not converted to a
virtual address before storing in io_space[0].mmio_base.
The conversion was happening in sn_scan_pcdp(), but not in
setup_vga_console().
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Clearly should be checking for "val == DIE_INIT_SLAVE_ENTER".
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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If a system consists of mixed processor types, kmalloc()
can be called before the per-cpu data page is initialized.
If the slab contains sufficient memory, then kmalloc() works
ok. However, if the slabs are empty, slab calls the memory
allocator. This requires per-cpu data (NODE_DATA()) & the
cpu dies.
Also noted by Russ Anderson who had a very similar patch.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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We have seen bad_pte_print when testing crashdump on an SN machine in
recent 2.6.20 kernel. There are tons of bad pte print (pfn < max_low_pfn)
reports when the crash kernel boots up, all those reported bad pages
are inside initmem range; That is because if the crash kernel code and
data happens to be at the beginning of the 1st node. build_node_maps in
discontig.c will bypass reserved regions with filter_rsvd_memory. Since
min_low_pfn is calculated in build_node_map, so in this case, min_low_pfn
will be greater than kernel code and data.
Because pages inside initmem are freed and reused later, we saw
pfn_valid check fail on those pages.
I think this theoretically happen on a normal kernel. When I check
min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation in contig.c and discontig.c.
I found more issues than this.
1. min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is inconsistent between
contig.c and discontig.c,
min_low_pfn is calculated as the first page number of boot memmap in
contig.c (Why? Though this may work at the most of the time, I don't
think it is the right logic). It is calculated as the lowest physical
memory page number bypass reserved regions in discontig.c.
max_low_pfn is calculated include reserved regions in contig.c. It is
calculated exclude reserved regions in discontig.c.
2. If kernel code and data region is happen to be at the begin or the
end of physical memory, when min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is
bypassed kernel code and data, pages in initmem will report bad.
3. initrd is also in reserved regions, if it is at the begin or at the
end of physical memory, kernel will refuse to reuse the memory. Because
the virt_addr_valid check in free_initrd_mem.
So it is better to fix and clean up those issues.
Calculate min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn in a consistent way.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The evils of Kconfig's select bite us once again...
ia64/Kconfig selects ACPI, which depends on PM.
But select ignores dependencies, allnoconfig
chooses CONFIG_PM=n, and thus the menu of sub-options
under ACPI vanish, which breaks the build.
Manually select PM along with ACPI for now.
Some day, we should delete them both, or fix select.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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In sn_io_slot_fixup(), the parent is re-set from the bus to
io(port|mem)_resource because the address is changed in a way that it's not
child of the bus any more.
However, only the root is set but not the parent/child/sibling relationship
in the resource tree which causes 'cat /proc/iomem' to stop after this
memory area. Depding on the poition in the tree the iomem may be nearly
completely empty.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] refresh config files
[IA64] put kdump_find_rsvd_region in __init
[IA64] Remove sparse warning from unwind code
[IA64] add missing syscall trace clear
[IA64] Cleanup in crash.c
[IA64] kexec: declare ia64_mca_pal_base in mca.h rather than kexec.h
[IA64] pci_get_legacy_ide_irq should return irq (not GSI)
[IA64] whitespace fixes for include/asm-ia64/sal.h
[IA64] Cache error recovery
[IA64] Proper handling of TLB errors from duplicate itr.d dropins
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Bring defconfig, tiger_defconfig and zx1_defconfig up to date. Also
sprinkle KEXEC and KDUMP combinations around liberally so that my
usual regression test builds will see all combinations:
tiger_defconfig gets KEXEC=y, CRASH_DUMP=n
zx1_defconfig gets KEXEC=n, CRASH_DUMP=y
defconfig gets KEXEC=y, CRASH_DUMP=y
others remain at KEXEC=n, CRASH_DUMP=n
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tomy.luck@intel.com>
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kdump_find_rsvd_region() is only called by
reserve_memory() which is in __init, so it seems that
kdump_find_rsvd_region() should also be in there.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The ptrace misses clearing the syscall trace flag.
The increased syscall overhead is retained after the trace is finished.
This case happens when strace is terminated by force.
Signed-off-by: Akiyama, Nobuyuki <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Grammatical fixes (s/freezed/frozen/)
Make some variables static
Change a C++ "//" comment to "/* ... */"
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Similar to memory error recovery, when a cache error is consumed
by a user process terminate the user instead of crashing the system.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Jack Steiner noticed that duplicate TLB DTC entries do not cause a
linux panic. See discussion:
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0307/6108.html
The current TLB recovery code is recovering from the duplicate itr.d
dropins, masking the underlying problem. This change modifies
the MCA recovery code to look for the TLB check signature of the
duplicate TLB entry and panic in that case.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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On 1.6GHz Montectio Tiger4, the following performance data is measured with
kernel built with defconfig which has NUMA configured:
Fastest sys_getcpu: 502 itc counts.
Fastest fsys_getcpu: 28 itc counts.
fsys_getcpu performance is largly impacted by whether data (node_to_cpu_map
etc) is in cache. It can take fsys_getcpu up to ~150 itc counts in cold
cache case.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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efi_initialize_iomem_resources() is declared in both include/linux/efi.h
and arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c. This patch removes the latter.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Berhhard Walle noted that on his HP rx8640 he ended up with saved_max_pfn
smaller than the highest address of system ram in /proc/iomem and proposed
a patch to base the address on the unrounded and unfiltered EFI memory
map address. Simon Horman and Magnus Damm suggested that the whole test
be moved earlier in the function. This is the combination of both of
these patches.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes boot failure because irq_desc->mask() is NULL.
- Added mask/unmask functions to ia64's irq desc function table.
- rename hw_interrupt_type to irq_chip. hw_interrupt_type is old name.
- Tony: Added same change to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c as pointed out
by Eric Biederman ... mask/unmask functions there can be no-op.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary
kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is
also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64.
The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type
EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the
entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory.
If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have
data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will
never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it.
So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor
type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel
data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF
core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image.
This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty
straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for
the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the
specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size().
The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.html
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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