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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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These are useful in figuring out early-mapping problems.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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printk_address()'s second parameter is the reliability indication,
not the ebp. If we're printing regs->ip we're reliable by definition,
so pass a 1 here.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line
for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the
trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit
x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder
than needed.
This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has
(including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix
to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking)
__get_user.
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>
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on x86-64
x86 32 bit already has this feature: This patch uses the stack frames with
frame pointer into an exact stack trace, by following the frame pointer.
This only affects kernels built with the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER config option
enabled, and greatly reduces the amount of noise in oopses.
This code uses the traditional method of doing backtraces, but if it
finds a valid frame pointer chain, will use that to show which parts
of the backtrace are reliable and which parts are not
Due to the fragility and importance of the backtrace code, this needs to
be well reviewed and well tested before merging into mainlne.
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>
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This patch turns the x86 64 bit HANDLE_STACK macro in the backtrace code
into a function, just like 32 bit has. This is needed pre work in order to
get exact backtraces for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER to work.
The function and it's arguments are not the same as 32 bit; due to the
exception/interrupt stack way of x86-64 there are a few differences.
This patch should not have any behavior changes, only code movement.
Due to the fragility and importance of the backtrace code, this needs to be
well reviewed and well tested before merging into mainlne.
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>
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Right now, we take the stack pointer early during the backtrace path, but
only calculate bp several functions deep later, making it hard to reconcile
the stack and bp backtraces (as well as showing several internal backtrace
functions on the stack with bp based backtracing).
This patch moves the bp taking to the same place we take the stack pointer;
sadly this ripples through several layers of the back tracing stack,
but it's not all that bad in the end I hope.
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>
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backtrace
The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid
to do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up
and prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still
print a decent backtrace.
This patch changes the backtracer to use the regular backtracing algorithm
at the same time as the EBP backtracer; the EBP backtracer is basically
used to figure out which part of the backtrace are reliable vs those
which are likely to be noise.
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>
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For enhancing the 32 bit EBP based backtracer, I need the capability
for the backtracer to tell it's customer that an entry is either
reliable or unreliable, and the backtrace printing code then needs to
print the unreliable ones slightly different.
This patch adds the basic capability, the next patch will add a user
of this capability.
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>
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The current x86 32 bit FRAME_POINTER chasing code has a nasty bug in
that the EBP tracer doesn't actually update the value of EBP it is
tracing, so that the code doesn't actually switch to the irq stack
properly.
The result is a truncated backtrace:
WARNING: at timeroops.c:8 kerneloops_regression_test() (Not tainted)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-0.77.rc4.git4.fc9 #1
[<c040649a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0406d41>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0407061>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
[<e0258049>] kerneloops_regression_test+0x44/0x46 [timeroops]
[<c04371ac>] run_timer_softirq+0x127/0x18f
[<c0434685>] __do_softirq+0x78/0xff
[<c0407759>] do_softirq+0x74/0xf7
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This patch fixes the code to update EBP properly, and to check the EIP
before printing (as the non-framepointer backtracer does) so that
the same test backtrace now looks like this:
WARNING: at timeroops.c:8 kerneloops_regression_test()
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #4
[<c0405d17>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0406681>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0406ef2>] dump_stack+0x6a/0x70
[<e01f6040>] kerneloops_regression_test+0x3b/0x3d [timeroops]
[<c0426f07>] run_timer_softirq+0x11b/0x17c
[<c04243ac>] __do_softirq+0x42/0x94
[<c040704c>] do_softirq+0x50/0xb6
[<c04242a9>] irq_exit+0x37/0x67
[<c040714c>] do_IRQ+0x9a/0xaf
[<c04057da>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34
[<c05807fe>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x52/0x78
[<c04034f3>] cpu_idle+0x46/0x60
[<c05fbbd3>] rest_init+0x43/0x45
[<c070aa3d>] start_kernel+0x279/0x27f
=======================
This shows that the backtrace goes all the way down to user context now.
This bug was found during the port to 64 bit of the frame pointer backtracer.
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>
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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>
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It's not too pretty, but I found this made the "PANIC: early exception"
messages become much more reliably useful: 1. print the vector number,
2. print the %cs value, 3. handle error-code-pushing vs non-pushing vectors.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fix section mismatches. discover_ebda() can be __init.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x738a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:ebda_addr (between 'discover_ebda' and 'get_model_name')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x73c4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:ebda_size (between 'discover_ebda' and 'get_model_name')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The check for an unitialized clock event device triggers, when the local
apic timer is registered as a dummy clock event device for broadcasting.
Preset the multiplicator to avoid a false positive.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Check the APIC timer calibration result for sanity. When the frequency
is out of range, issue a warning and disable the local APIC timer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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get_segment_eip has similarities to convert_rip_to_linear(),
and is used in a similar context. Move get_segment_eip to
step.c to allow easier consolidation.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Move out tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call from the loop in cpu_idle
same as 32-bit version.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Use the fixup_exception() helper instead of the open-coded
search_extable() users.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Small step towards unifying traps_32|64.c. No functional
changes. Pull out a small helper from an if() statement
in die().
Marked as __kprobes as eventually we will want to call this
from do_page_fault similar to how X86_64 does it.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The machine check handler registers ioctl handler that is called
with the BKL held. Changing to register unlocked_ioctl instead.
Also mce ioctl handler does not seem to need any lock protection.
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Change the Machine check handler to use unlocked_ioctl instead of
ioctl handler. Also the mce ioctl handler does not need any lock
protection.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fix various compilation problems as a result of changing pte_t.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Return the size of bts_struct in the PTRACE_BTS_STATUS command.
Change types to u32.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Unify arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep*.c
Pretty trivial unification; when two functions differed, it was
usually in error handling, and better of the two was picked up.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Looks-okay-to: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The boot protocol has until now required that the initrd be located in
lowmem, which makes the lowmem/highmem boundary visible to the boot
loader. This was exported to the bootloader via a compile-time
field. Unfortunately, the vmalloc= command-line option breaks this
part of the protocol; instead of adding yet another hack that affects
the bootloader, have the kernel relocate the initrd down below the
lowmem boundary inside the kernel itself.
Note that this does not rely on HIGHMEM being enabled in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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>
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reboot_{32|64}.c unification patch.
This patch unifies the code from the reboot_32.c and reboot_64.c files.
It has been tested in computers with X86_32 and X86_64 kernels and it
looks like all reboot modes work fine (EFI restart system hasn't been
tested yet).
Probably I made some mistakes (like I usually do) so I hope
we can identify and fix them soon.
Signed-off-by: Miguel Boton <mboton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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While examining vmlinux namelist on i386 (nm -v vmlinux) I noticed :
c01021d0 t es7000_rename_gsi
c010221a T es7000_start_cpu
<Big Hole>
c0103000 T thread_saved_pc
and
c0113218 T acpi_restore_state_mem
c0113219 T acpi_save_state_mem
<Big Hole>
c0114000 t wakeup_code
This is because arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S forces a .text alignment
of 4096 bytes. (I have no idea if it is really needed, since
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S uses a 16 bytes alignment *only*)
So arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o also has this alignment
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: file format elf32-i386
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00018c94 00000000 00000000 00001000 2**12
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
But as arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.o is not the first object linked
into arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o, linker had to build several holes to meet
alignement requirements, because of .o nestings in the kbuild process.
This can be solved by using a special section, .text.page_aligned, so that
no holes are needed.
# size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
text data bss dec hex filename
4619942 422838 458752 5501532 53f25c vmlinux.before
4610534 422838 458752 5492124 53cd9c vmlinux.after
This saves 9408 bytes
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Otherwise
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x64a9): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:machine_specific_memory_setup (between 'memory_setup' and 'show_cpuinfo')
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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I don't know of any case where they have been useful and they look ugly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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# HG changeset patch
# User Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
# Date 1199391030 28800
# Node ID 5d35c92fdf0e2c52edbb6fc4ccd06c7f65f25009
# Parent 22f6a5902285b58bfc1fbbd9e183498c9017bd78
x86/efi: fix improper use of lvalue
pgd_val is no longer valid as an lvalue, so don't try to assign to it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Commits
- c52f61fcbdb2aa84f0e4d831ef07f375e6b99b2c
(x86: allow TSC clock source on AMD Fam10h and some cleanup)
- e30436f05d456efaff77611e4494f607b14c2782
(x86: move X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC into early cpu feature detection)
are supposed to fix the detection of contant TSC for AMD CPUs.
Unfortunately on x86_64 it does still not work with current x86/mm.
For a Phenom I still get:
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TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER
Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
time.c: Detected 2288.366 MHz processor.
...
We have to set c->x86_power in early_identify_cpu to properly detect
the CONSTANT_TSC bit in early_init_amd.
Attached patch fixes this issue. Following the relevant boot
messages when the fix is used:
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TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER
time.c: Detected 2288.279 MHz processor.
...
Initializing CPU#1
...
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
...
Initializing CPU#2
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checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#2]: passed.
...
Booting processor 3/4 APIC 0x3
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checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#3]: passed.
Brought up 4 CPUs
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Patch is against x86/mm (v2.6.24-rc8-672-ga9f7faa).
Please apply.
Set c->x86_power in early_identify_cpu. This ensures that
X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC can properly be set in early_init_amd.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Trust the ACPI code to disable TSC instead when C3 is used.
AMD Fam10h does not disable TSC in any C states so the
check was incorrect there anyways after the change
to handle this like Intel on AMD too.
This allows to use the TSC when C3 is disabled in software
(acpi.max_c_state=2), but the BIOS supports it anyways.
Match i386 behaviour.
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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After a lot of discussions with AMD it turns out that TSC
on Fam10h CPUs is synchronized when the CONSTANT_TSC cpuid bit is set.
Or rather that if there are ever systems where that is not
true it would be their BIOS' task to disable the bit.
So finally use TSC gettimeofday on Fam10h by default.
Or rather it is always used now on CPUs where the AMD
specific CONSTANT_TSC bit is set.
This gives a nice speed bost for gettimeofday() on these systems
which tends to be by far the most common v/syscall.
On a Fam10h system here TSC gtod uses about 20% of the CPU time of
acpi_pm based gtod(). This was measured on 32bit, on 64bit
it is even better because TSC gtod() can use a vsyscall
and stay in ring 3, which acpi_pm doesn't.
The Intel check simply checks for CONSTANT_TSC too without hardcoding
Intel vendor. This is equivalent on 64bit because all 64bit capable Intel
CPUs will have CONSTANT_TSC set.
On Intel there is no CPU supplied CONSTANT_TSC bit currently,
but we synthesize one based on hardcoded knowledge which steppings
have p-state invariant TSC.
So the new logic is now: On CPUs which have the AMD specific
CONSTANT_TSC bit set or on Intel CPUs which are new enough
to be known to have p-state invariant TSC always use
TSC based gettimeofday()
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Need this in the next patch in time_init and that happens early.
This includes a minor fix on i386 where early_intel_workarounds()
[which is now called early_init_intel] really executes early as
the comments say.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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[ andi@firstfloor.org: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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rdtsc is now speculation-safe, so no need for the sync variants of
the APIs.
[ mingo@elte.hu: removed the nsec_barrier() complication. ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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make native_read_tsc() always non-speculative.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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map vsyscalls early enough. This is important if a __vsyscall_fn
function is used by other kernel code too.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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move native_read_tsc() offline.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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LFENCE is available on XMM2 or higher Intel CPUs - not XMM or higher...
this caused boot failures on XMM1 & !XMM1 capable CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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According to Intel RDTSC can be always synchronized with LFENCE
on all current CPUs. Implement the necessary CPUID bit for that.
It is unclear yet if that is true for all future CPUs too,
but if there's another way the kernel can be always updated.
Cc: asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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According to AMD RDTSC can be synchronized through MFENCE.
Implement the necessary CPUID bit for that.
Cc: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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More white space and coding style clean up.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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White space and coding style clean up.
Make apic_32/64.c similar.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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When developing the Kprobes arch code for ARM, I ran across some code
found in x86 and s390 Kprobes arch code which I didn't consider as
good as it could be.
Once I figured out what the code was doing, I changed the code
for ARM Kprobes to work the way I felt was more appropriate.
I've tested the code this way in ARM for about a year and would
like to push the same change to the other affected architectures.
The code in question is in kprobe_exceptions_notify() which
does:
====
/* kprobe_running() needs smp_processor_id() */
preempt_disable();
if (kprobe_running() &&
kprobe_fault_handler(args->regs, args->trapnr))
ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
preempt_enable();
====
For the moment, ignore the code having the preempt_disable()/
preempt_enable() pair in it.
The problem is that kprobe_running() needs to call smp_processor_id()
which will assert if preemption is enabled. That sanity check by
smp_processor_id() makes perfect sense since calling it with preemption
enabled would return an unreliable result.
But the function kprobe_exceptions_notify() can be called from a
context where preemption could be enabled. If that happens, the
assertion in smp_processor_id() happens and we're dead. So what
the original author did (speculation on my part!) is put in the
preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() pair to simply defeat the check.
Once I figured out what was going on, I considered this an
inappropriate approach. If kprobe_exceptions_notify() is called
from a preemptible context, we can't be in a kprobe processing
context at that time anyways since kprobes requires preemption to
already be disabled, so just check for preemption enabled, and if
so, blow out before ever calling kprobe_running(). I wrote the ARM
kprobe code like this:
====
/* To be potentially processing a kprobe fault and to
* trust the result from kprobe_running(), we have
* be non-preemptible. */
if (!preemptible() && kprobe_running() &&
kprobe_fault_handler(args->regs, args->trapnr))
ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
====
The above code has been working fine for ARM Kprobes for a year.
So I changed the x86 code (2.6.24-rc6) to be the same way and ran
the Systemtap tests on that kernel. As on ARM, Systemtap on x86
comes up with the same test results either way, so it's a neutral
external functional change (as expected).
This issue has been discussed previously on linux-arm-kernel and the
Systemtap mailing lists. Pointers to the by base for the two
discussions:
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20071219.223225.1f5c2a5e.en.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2007-q1/msg00251.html
Signed-off-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Ananth N Mavinakayahanalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayahanalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
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This patch eliminates most of code-style errors
discovered by checkpatch.pl on arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
no code changed:
text data bss dec hex filename
12142 1837 84 14063 36ef apm_32.o.before
12142 1837 84 14063 36ef apm_32.o.after
md5:
2676b881ad55e387da4a995e8b9ee372 apm_32.o.before.asm
2676b881ad55e387da4a995e8b9ee372 apm_32.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch eliminates checkpatch.pl complaints on bootflag.c
No code changed:
text data bss dec hex filename
321 8 0 329 149 bootflag.o.before
321 8 0 329 149 bootflag.o.after
md5:
9c1b474bcf25ddc1724a29c19880043f bootflag.o.before.asm
9c1b474bcf25ddc1724a29c19880043f bootflag.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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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>
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