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2008-06-05x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help textStefan Richter
Here is an attempt to translate the prompt and help text into something which is legible and, as a bonus, correct. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30x86: Mark OPTIMIZE_INLINING brokenLinus Torvalds
So Ingo finally did figure out why UML broke with this option: UML passes gcc the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag, and apparently that wreaks havoc with gcc's inlining. We could turn off -fno-unit-at-a-time for UML for gcc4+ (which is what x86 does), but there's bad blood about this whole option, and it does show that the thing is just fragile as heck. So let tempers cool, and disable the thing, and we can revisit the decision later. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30x86: 8K stacks by defaultIngo Molnar
Switch back to 8K stacks as the safer default. Out-of-memory situations are less problematic than silent and hard to debug stack corruption. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: optimize inlining offIngo Molnar
default to inline optimizing off. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: Kconfig fixIngo Molnar
Andrew noticed that OPTIMIZE_INLINING appeared in the toplevel menu - fix it. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-26x86: add optimized inliningIngo Molnar
add CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y. allow gcc to optimize the kernel image's size by uninlining functions that have been marked 'inline'. Previously gcc was forced by Linux to always-inline these functions via a gcc attribute: #define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline)) Especially when the user has already selected CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y this can make a huge difference in kernel image size (using a standard Fedora .config): text data bss dec hex filename 5613924 562708 3854336 10030968 990f78 vmlinux.before 5486689 562708 3854336 9903733 971e75 vmlinux.after that's a 2.3% text size reduction (!). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24/dev/mem: make promisc the defaultIngo Molnar
default to the old semantics. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config optionArjan van de Ven
This patch introduces a restriction on /dev/mem: Only non-memory can be read or written unless the newly introduced config option is set. The X server needs access to /dev/mem for the PCI space, but it doesn't need access to memory; both the file permissions and SELinux permissions of /dev/mem just make X effectively super-super powerful. With the exception of the BIOS area, there's just no valid app that uses /dev/mem on actual memory. Other popular users of /dev/mem are rootkits and the like. (note: mmap access of memory via /dev/mem was already not allowed since a really long time) People who want to use /dev/mem for kernel debugging can enable the config option. The restrictions of this patch have been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for at least 4 years without any problems. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: 4kstacks defaultIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: add gbpages switchesIngo Molnar
These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature, the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs. Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet. Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then nogbpages boot option disables it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: clean up the page table dumper and add 32-bit supportH. Peter Anvin
Clean up the page table dumper (fix boundary conditions, table driven address ranges, some formatting changes since it is no longer using the kernel log but a separate virtual file), and generalize to 32 bits. [ mingo@elte.hu: x86: fix the pagetable dumper ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by ↵Arjan van de Ven
kernel developers This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional) /proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be useful in the future as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: tglx@tglx.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-19x86: change IO delay back to 0x80Ingo Molnar
change back the IO delay to 0x80. Alan says that 0xed is known to break some older boxes, and given that the get-rid-of-outb-APIs efforts are well underway we should just let them be finished. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bitThomas Gleixner
Now, that the page pool is in place we can enable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64bit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-06x86: delay CPA self-test and repeat itIngo Molnar
delay the CPA self-test so that any impact (corruption) of user-space pagetables can be triggered. Repeat the test every 30 seconds. this would have prevented the bug fixed by 8cb2a7c1e95e472b5, at its source. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30x86: cpa: fix the self-testIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: rodata config hookupIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC more widelyIngo Molnar
make CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC universally available. CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS was disabling it, for no particular reason. If there are any unfixed bugs here we'll fix it, but do not disable vital debugging facilities like that .. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: cpa: make self-test depend on DEBUG_KERNELIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: enable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bitIngo Molnar
enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y on 64-bit kernels too. preliminary testing shows that it's working fine. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30c_p_a(): do a simple self test at bootAndi Kleen
When CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is enabled undo the ro mapping and redo it again. This gives some simple testing for change_page_attr(). Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: fix DEBUG_RODATA kconfig textIngo Molnar
fix kconfig text and make DEBUG_RODATA default. this helps debugging quite a bit. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add debug of invalid per_cpu map accessestravis@sgi.com
Provide a means to trap usages of per_cpu map variables before they are setup. Define CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS to activate. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: make early printk selectable on 64-bit as wellIngo Molnar
Enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED to select CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK on 64-bit as well. saves ~2K: text data bss dec hex filename 7290283 3672091 1907848 12870222 c4624e vmlinux.before 7288373 3671795 1907848 12868016 c459b0 vmlinux.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86 boot : export boot_params via debugfs for debuggingHuang, Ying
This patch export the boot parameters via debugfs for debugging. The files added are as follow: boot_params/data : binary file for struct boot_params boot_params/version : boot protocol version This patch is based on 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 and has been tested on i386 and x86_64 platform. This patch is based on the Peter Anvin's proposal. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30x86: unify arch/x86/kernel/Makefile(s)Sam Ravnborg
Combine the 32 and 64 bit specific Makefiles in one file. While doing so link order was (almost) preserved on 32 bit but on 64 bit link order changed a lot. Patch was checked with defconfig + allyesconfig builds. The same .o files were linked in these configurations. To keep readability of the Makefiles a few Kconfig symbols was added/modified and it was checked that they were not used anywhere else. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: make io_delay=0xed the defaultIngo Molnar
make io_delay=0xed the default. This frees up port 0x80 which is a debug port on some machines and locks up certain laptops. Testing only for now. Try the io_delay=0x80 boot option if this does not work for you. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay detailsIngo Molnar
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details: - add the io_delay=none method - make each method selectable from the kernel config - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
2008-01-30x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.Rene Herman
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these. David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine, with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger. Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the 2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has two problems. First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which would sort of work, but... Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has. It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus locking outb. Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such, this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems to fit that situation. This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override the DMI based choice again: io_delay=<standard|alternate> where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate" port 0xed. This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well. This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot code be. The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z. This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and David P. Reed. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-30remove the dead X86_REMOTE_DEBUG optionAdrian Bunk
This patch removes the dead X86_REMOTE_DEBUG option. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-30x86: merge EARLY_PRINTK optionsAdrian Bunk
This patch merges the x86_64 EARLY_PRINTK option into the i386 one. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-30x86 gart: rename CONFIG_IOMMU to CONFIG_GART_IOMMUJoerg Roedel
This patch renames the IOMMU config option to GART_IOMMU because in fact it means the GART and not general support for an IOMMU on x86. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-25x86: unification of i386 and x86_64 Kconfig.debugRandy Dunlap
Adding proper dependencies so the two Kconfig.debug files are now identical and move the result file to x86. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>