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'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
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x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
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'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
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This option has been added in v2.6.26 as a default-disabled
feature and went through several revisions since then.
The feature fixes a wide range of MTRR setup problems that BIOSes
leave us with: slow system, slow Xorg, slow system when adding lots
of RAM, etc., so we want to enable it by default for v2.6.28.
See:
[Bug 10508] Upgrade to 4GB of RAM messes up MTRRs
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10508
and the test results in:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/273
1. hpa
reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0x13c000000 (5056MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1
will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 128M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC
range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 000000013c000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 5056MB, range: 64MB, type UC
2. Dylan Taft
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xc7e00000 (3198MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
reg06: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1
will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 4M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c8000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 128MB, type WB
hole: 00000000c7e00000 - 00000000c8000000
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3198MB, range: 2MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 256MB, type WB
3. Gabriel
reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1
reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 7 lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000d0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 256MB, type WB
hole: 00000000cf600000 - 00000000cf800000
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3318MB, range: 2MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 128MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 6, base: 4736MB, range: 64MB, type WB
4. Mika Fischer
reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1
will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 5 lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a
single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent).
Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h
into their respective arch-specific .c files.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The AMD IOMMU can generate interrupts for various reasons. This patch
adds the basic interrupt enabling infrastructure to the driver.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237
Documents a wide range of systems where the BIOS utilizes the first
64K of physical memory during suspend/resume and other hardware events.
Currently we reserve this memory on all AMI and Phoenix BIOS systems.
Life is too short to hunt subtle memory corruption problems like this,
so we try to be robust by default.
Still, allow this to be overriden: allow users who want that first 64K
of memory to be available to the kernel disable the quirk, via
CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=n.
Also, allow the early reservation to overlap with other
early reservations.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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X86_64 part is entirely redundant.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Default the low memory corruption check to off, but make the default setting of
the memory_corruption_check kernel parameter a config parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime.
This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption
check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k. This
change:
- Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel. Things
like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
- Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
- Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero. Currently it's called in the
x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This fixes a regression that was indirectly caused by commit
1184dc2ffe2c8fb9afb766d870850f2c3165ef25 ("x86: modify Kconfig to allow
up to 4096 cpus").
Allowing 4k CPU's is not practical at this time, because we still have a
number of places that have several 'cpumask_t's on the stack, and a
4k-bit cpumask is 512 bytes of stack-space for each such variable. This
literally caused functions like 'smp_call_function_mask' to have a 2.5kB
stack frame, and several functions to have 2kB stackframes.
With an 8kB stack total, smashing the stack was simply much too likely.
At least bugzilla entry
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342
was due to this.
The earlier commit to not inline load_module() into sys_init_module()
fixed the particular symptoms of this that Alan Brunelle saw in that
bugzilla entry, but the huge stack waste by cpumask_t's was the more
direct cause.
Some day we'll have allocation helpers that allocate large CPU masks
dynamically, but in the meantime we simply cannot allow cpumasks this
large.
Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Allow x86 to support a built-in kernel command line. The built-in
command line can override the one provided by the boot loader, for
those cases where the boot loader is broken or it is difficult
to change the command line in the the boot loader.
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> Best would be to make it really apparent in the code that nothing
>> changes if this config option is not set. Preferably there should be
>> no extra code at all in that case.
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> I would like to see this:
[...Nested ifdefs...]
OK. This version changes absolutely nothing if CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not
set (the default). Also, no space is appended even when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
is set, but the builtin string is empty. This is less sloppy all the way
around, IMHO.
Note that I use the same option names as on other arches for
this feature.
[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Adjust experimental tags in Kconfig, update config to notice that
i386/x86_64 is now single architecture.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak
symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST.
Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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With CONFIG_X86_PC, I can set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y.
With CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_SPARSEMEM depends on CONFIG_NUMA.
I'm using the patch below to enable sparsemem instead of flatmem.
System booted and is running.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
on the x86 architecture.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
include/asm-x86/namei.h
include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c
Manual resolutions:
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch introduces microcode patch loading for AMD
processors. It is based on previous corresponding work
for Intel processors.
It hooks into the general patch loading module. Main
difference is that a container file format is used to hold
all patch data for multiple processors as well as an
equivalent CPU table, which comes seperately, as opposed
to Intel's microcode patching solution.
Kconfig and Makefile have been changed provice config
and build option for new source file.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Refactored code by introducing a two-module solution.
There is one general module in which vendor specific modules can hook into.
However, that is exclusive, there is only one vendor specific module
allowed at a time. A CPU vendor check makes sure only the correct
module for the underlying system gets called.
Functinally in terms of patch loading itself there are no changes. This
refactoring provides a basis for future implementations of other vendors'
patch loaders.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The x86 arch code has all the prerequisites, so set HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, AMD IOMMU: include amd_iommu_last_bdf in device initialization
x86: fix IBM Summit based systems' phys_cpu_present_map on 32-bit kernels
x86, RDC321x: remove gpio.h complications
x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default
crashdump: fix undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr'
flag parameters: fix compile error of sys_epoll_create1
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Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86.
Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any
page table locks or even mmap_sem. Page table existence is guaranteed by
turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking
up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the
constraints of the TLB shootdown design). Basically we can do this
lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable
walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes.
This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use
it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8
core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5
"To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM
x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at
2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel. Comparing
runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance
benefit of ~9.8%. Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from
__up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention
for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%. Monitoring the
/proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for
fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was
zero."
(fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a
counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked).
The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each
issuing direct-IO. Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads
contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks.
I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I
think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be
that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases.
In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain.
The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte
with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to
get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work.
However this should not be the common case in most performance critical
code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch implements devices state save/restore before after kexec.
This patch together with features in kexec_jump patch can be used for
following:
- A simple hibernation implementation without ACPI support. You can kexec a
hibernating kernel, save the memory image of original system and shutdown
the system. When resuming, you restore the memory image of original system
via ordinary kexec load then jump back.
- Kernel/system debug through making system snapshot. You can make system
snapshot, jump back, do some thing and make another system snapshot.
- Cooperative multi-kernel/system. With kexec jump, you can switch between
several kernels/systems quickly without boot process except the first time.
This appears like swap a whole kernel/system out/in.
- A general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning
off). This can be used to invoke BIOS code under Linux.
The following user-space tools can be used with kexec jump:
- kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches
and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10
- makedumpfile with patches are used as memory image saving tool, it
can exclude free pages from original kernel memory image file. The
patches and the precompiled makedumpfile can be download from the
following URL:
source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-src_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2
patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-patches_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2
binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_cvs_kh10
- An initramfs image can be used as the root file system of kexeced
kernel. An initramfs image built with "BuildRoot" can be downloaded
from the following URL:
initramfs image: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/initramfs/rootfs_cvs_kh10.gz
All user space tools above are included in the initramfs image.
Usage example of simple hibernation:
1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
2. Build an initramfs image contains kexec-tool and makedumpfile, or
download the pre-built initramfs image, called rootfs.gz in
following text.
3. Prepare a partition to save memory image of original kernel, called
hibernating partition in following text.
4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel A).
5. In the kernel A, load kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel B) with
/sbin/kexec. The shell command line can be as follow:
/sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context /boot/bzImage --mem-min=0x100000
--mem-max=0xffffff --initrd=rootfs.gz
6. Boot the kernel B with following shell command line:
/sbin/kexec -e
7. The kernel B will boot as normal kexec. In kernel B the memory
image of kernel A can be saved into hibernating partition as
follow:
jump_back_entry=`cat /proc/cmdline | tr ' ' '\n' | grep kexec_jump_back_entry | cut -d '='`
echo $jump_back_entry > kexec_jump_back_entry
cp /proc/vmcore dump.elf
Then you can shutdown the machine as normal.
8. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel C). Use the rootfs.gz as
root file system.
9. In kernel C, load the memory image of kernel A as follow:
/sbin/kexec -l --args-none --entry=`cat kexec_jump_back_entry` dump.elf
10. Jump back to the kernel A as follow:
/sbin/kexec -e
Then, kernel A is resumed.
Implementation point:
To support jumping between two kernels, before jumping to (executing)
the new kernel and jumping back to the original kernel, the devices
are put into quiescent state, and the state of devices and CPU is
saved. After jumping back from kexeced kernel and jumping to the new
kernel, the state of devices and CPU are restored accordingly. The
devices/CPU state save/restore code of software suspend is called to
implement corresponding function.
Known issues:
- Because the segment number supported by sys_kexec_load is limited,
hibernation image with many segments may not be load. This is
planned to be eliminated by adding a new flag to sys_kexec_load to
make a image can be loaded with multiple sys_kexec_load invoking.
Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the
following features:
- Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
kexec.
- Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.
The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under
Linux.
kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10
Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:
1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.
3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"
4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.
5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
line can be as follow:
/sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode
6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:
/sbin/kexec -e
Implementation point:
To support jumping without reserving memory. One shadow backup page (source
page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
page). When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped. Before jumping
to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.
C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
kernel and called code.
A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.
Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
include/asm-x86/gpio.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
include/asm-x86/i8259.h
include/asm-x86/msidef.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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first step to add RDC321x support to the default PC architecture.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds functionality to the gpio-lib subsystem to make it
possible to enable the gpio-lib code even if the architecture code didn't
request to get it built in.
The archtitecture code does still need to implement the gpiolib accessor
functions in its asm/gpio.h file. This patch adds the implementations for
x86 and PPC.
With these changes it is possible to run generic GPIO expansion cards on
every architecture that implements the trivial wrapper functions. Support
for more architectures can easily be added.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at
compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol
HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures. Also add
some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended
use of this symbol.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
drivers/pci/dmar.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.
This patch:
Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.
[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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only supports memory below max_low_pfn.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/s390/kernel/time.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/x86/xen/smp.c
include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
include/asm-x86/smp.h
kernel/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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