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2007-11-17x86: reboot fixup for wrap2c boardDenys
Needed to make the wireless board, WRAP2C reboot. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: add hpet sanity checksThomas Gleixner
Some BIOSes advertise HPET at 0x0. We really do no want to allocate a resource there. Check for it and leave early. Other BIOSes tell us the HPET is at 0xfed0000000000000 instead of 0xfed00000. Add a check and fix it up with a warning on user request. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: on x86_64, correct reading of PC RTC when update in progress in time_64.cDavid P. Reed
Correct potentially unstable PC RTC time register reading in time_64.c Stop the use of an incorrect technique for reading the standard PC RTC timer, which is documented to "disconnect" time registers from the bus while updates are in progress. The use of UIP flag while interrupts are disabled to protect a 244 microsecond window is one of the Motorola spec sheet's documented ways to read the RTC time registers reliably. tglx: removed locking changes from original patch, as they gain nothing (read_persistent_clock is only called during boot, suspend, resume - so no hot path affected) and conflict with the paravirt locking scheme (see 32bit code), which we do not want to complicate for no benefit. Signed-off-by: David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: fix freeze in x86_64 RTC update code in time_64.cDavid P. Reed
Fix hard freeze on x86_64 when the ntpd service calls update_persistent_clock() A repeatable but randomly timed freeze has been happening in Fedora 6 and 7 for the last year, whenever I run the ntpd service on my AMD64x2 HP Pavilion dv9000z laptop. This freeze is due to the use of spin_lock(&rtc_lock) under the assumption (per a bad comment) that set_rtc_mmss is called only with interrupts disabled. The call from ntp.c to update_persistent_clock is made with interrupts enabled. Signed-off-by: David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: fixup cpu_info array conversionThomas Gleixner
92cb7612aee39642d109b8d935ad265e602c0563 sets cpu_info->cpu_index to zero for no reason. Referencing cpu_info->cpu_index now points always to CPU#0, which is apparently not what we want. Remove it. Spotted-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: show cpuinfo only for online CPUsAndreas Herrmann
Fix regressions introduced with 92cb7612aee39642d109b8d935ad265e602c0563. It can happen that cpuinfo is displayed for CPUs that are not online or even worse for CPUs not present at all. As an example, following was shown for a "second" CPU of a single core K8 variant: processor : 0 vendor_id : unknown cpu family : 0 model : 0 model name : unknown stepping : 0 cache size : 0 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 0 wp : yes flags : bogomips : 0.00 clflush size : 0 cache_alignment : 0 address sizes : 0 bits physical, 0 bits virtual power management: Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17x86: fix cpu-hotplug regressionAndreas Herrmann
Commit d435d862baca3e25e5eec236762a43251b1e7ffc ("cpu hotplug: mce: fix cpu hotplug error handling") changed the error handling in mce_cpu_callback. In cases where not all CPUs are brought up during boot (e.g. using maxcpus and additional_cpus parameters) mce_cpu_callback now returns NOTFIY_BAD because for such CPUs cpu_data is not completely filled when the notifier is called. Thus mce_create_device fails right at its beginning: if (!mce_available(&cpu_data[cpu])) return -EIO; As a quick fix I suggest to check boot_cpu_data for MCE. To reproduce this regression: (1) boot with maxcpus=2 addtional_cpus=2 on a 4 CPU x86-64 system (2) # echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument dmesg shows: _cpu_up: attempt to bring up CPU 2 failed Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-16Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Fix up whitespace in conservative governor. [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq_conservative handle out-of-sync events properly [CPUFREQ] architectural pstate driver for powernow-k8
2007-11-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/x86: x86: enable "make ARCH=x86" x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not needed kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targets kconfig: add helper to set config symbol from environment variable kconfig: factor out code in confdata.c x86: move the rest of the menu's to Kconfig x86: move all simple arch settings to Kconfig x86: copy x86_64 specific Kconfig symbols to Kconfig.i386 x86: add X86_64 dependency to x86_64 specific symbols in Kconfig.x86_64 x86: add X86_32 dependency to i386 specific symbols in Kconfig.i386 x86: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu unification x86: start unification of arch/x86/Kconfig.* x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig
2007-11-14x86: don't call mce_create_device on CPU_UP_PREPAREAndreas Herrmann
Fix regression introduced with d435d862baca3e25e5eec236762a43251b1e7ffc ("cpu hotplug: mce: fix cpu hotplug error handling"). A CPU which was not brought up during boot (using maxcpus and additional_cpus parameters) couldn't be onlined anymore. For such a CPU it seemed that MCE was not supported during CPU_UP_PREPARE-time which caused mce_cpu_callback to return NOTIFY_BAD to notifier_call_chain. To fix this we: - call mce_create_device for CPU_ONLINE event (instead of CPU_UP_PREPARE), - avoid mce_remove_device() for the CPU that is not correctly initialized by mce_create_device() failure, - make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK for CPU_ONLINE event. Because CPU_ONLINE callback return value is always ignored. [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: avoid mce_remove_device() for not initialized device] [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-12x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not neededSam Ravnborg
For x86 ARCH may say i386 or x86_64 and soon x86. Rely on CONFIG_X64_32 to select between 32/64 or just hardcode the value as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-11-12x86: unification of cfufreq/KconfigSam Ravnborg
Merge the two Kconfig files to a single file. Checked using make allmodconfig for x86_64. No changes in build. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
2007-11-12x86: fix taking DNA during 64bit sigreturnSiddha, Suresh B
restore sigcontext is taking a DNA exception while restoring FP context from the user stack, during the sigreturn. Appended patch fixes it by doing clts() if the app doesn't touch FP during the signal handler execution. This will stop generating a DNA, during the fxrstor in the sigreturn. This improves 64-bit lat_sig numbers by ~30% on my core2 platform. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09x86: make nmi_cpu_busy() always definedIngo Molnar
nmi_cpu_busy() must be available on !SMP too. this is in preparation to a smp_call_function_mask() fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09x86: make ipi_handler() always definedIngo Molnar
prepare for up_smp_call_function() to ensure that the 'func' pointer is unused. (which is related to a KVM build fix) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-03Merge branch 'v2.6.24-rc1-lockdep' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep * 'v2.6.24-rc1-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep: lockdep: fix a typo in the __lock_acquire comment sched: fix unconditional irq lock lockdep: fixup irq tracing
2007-10-30x86: kernel/setup_32.c: unexport machine_idAdrian Bunk
This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(machine_id). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-30x86 gart: rename symbols only used for the GART implementationJoerg Roedel
This patch renames the 4 symbols iommu_hole_init(), iommu_aperture, iommu_aperture_allowed, iommu_aperture_disabled. All these symbols are only used for the GART implementation of IOMMUs. It adds and additional gart_ prefix to them. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-30x86 gart: make some variables and functions staticJoerg Roedel
This patch makes some functions and variables static in pci-gart_64.c which are not used somewhere else. 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>
2007-10-30x86 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>
2007-10-30x86 gart: rename iommu.h to gart.hJoerg Roedel
This patch renames the include file asm-x86/iommu.h to asm-x86/gart.h to make clear to which IOMMU implementation it belongs. The patch also adds "GART" to the Kconfig line. 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>
2007-10-30x86: additional CPUID strings; fix strings for AMD-ecxH. Peter Anvin
Additional CPUID strings (sse4_1, sse4_2, sse5, skinit, wdt); fix the positioning of the AMD ecx strings (cr8_legacy was duplicated under two different names, so the alignment of all the other strings were off by one.) 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>
2007-10-29x86: fix pci-gart failure handlingFUJITA Tomonori
blk_rq_map_sg doesn't initialize sg->dma_address/length to zero anymore. Some low level drivers reuse sg lists without initializing so IOMMUs might get non-zero dma_address/length. If map_sg fails, we need pass the number of the mapped entries to gart_unmap_sg. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-27x86: Dump filtering supports x86_64 sparsememKen'ichi Ohmichi
This patch adds the symbol "init_level4_pgt" to the vmcoreinfo data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) supports x86_64 sparsemem kernel of linux-2.6.24. makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the analysis. It checks attributes in page structures and distinguishes necessary pages and unnecessary ones. To check them, makedumpfile gets the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering. For older x86_64 kernel (linux-2.6.23 or before), makedumpfile translates the virtual address of page structure into physical address by subtracting PAGE_OFFSET from virtual address, but this translation isn't effective for linux-2.6.24 sparsemem kernel, because its page structures are in virtual memmap area. makedumpfile should translate their virtual address by 4-levels paging and it needs the symbol "init_level4_pgt". Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-27x86: fix compiler warnings in arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.cJeff Garzik
fix this warning: arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c:40: warning: nvidia_hpet_check defined but not used Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-27x86: fix !SMP compiler warning in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/processor.cJeff Garzik
Fix !CONFIG_SMP warning: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/processor.c: In function arch_acpi_processor_init_pdc: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/processor.c:65: warning: unused variable cpu Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-27x86: Fix boot protocol KEEP_SEGMENTS check.Eric W. Biederman
The kernel only ever supports 1 version of the boot protocol so there is no need to check the boot protocol revision to see if a feature is supported. Both x86 and x86_64 support the same boot protocol so we need to implement the KEEP_SEGMENTS on x86_64 as well. It isn't just paravirt bootloaders that could use this functionality. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-27x86: export smp_ops to allow modular build of KVMThomas Gleixner
KVM uses smp_call_function_mask and therefor need smp_ops to be exported. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-27Revert "i386: export i386 smp_call_function_mask() to modules"Thomas Gleixner
This reverts commit 6442eea937ef797d4b66733f49c82e2fdc2aca6f. The patch breaks smp_ops and needs to be reverted. The solution to allow modular build of KVM is to export smp_ops instead. Pointed-out-by: James Bottomley <jejb> tglx, so write out 100 times "voyager is a useful architecture" ... <tglx> yes, Sir Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: fix bogus KERN_ALERT on oops x86: lguest build fix x86: fix CONFIG_KEXEC build breakage
2007-10-25lockdep: fixup irq tracingPeter Zijlstra
Ensure we fixup the IRQ state before we hit any locking code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-25x86: pci-gart fixFUJITA Tomonori
map_sg could copy the last sg element to another position (if merging some elements). It breaks sg chaining. This copies only dma_address/length instead of the whole sg element. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-24x86: fix CONFIG_KEXEC build breakageMike Galbraith
X86_32 build fix to commit 62a31a03b3d2a9d20e7a073e2cd9b27bfb7d6a3f Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: Add HPET force support for MCP55 (nForce 5) chipsetsCarlos Corbacho
Add support to force_hpet for all known MCP55 (nForce 5) chipset LPC bridges. These are the untested nForce 5 chips (taken from Mikko's original patch, and checked against pci.ids). Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
2007-10-23x86: Force enable HPET for CK804 (nForce 4) chipsetsCarlos Corbacho
This patch adds a quirk from LinuxBIOS to force enable HPET on the nVidia CK804 (nForce 4) chipset. This quirk can very likely support more than just nForce 4 (LinuxBIOS use the same code for nForce 5), and possibly nForce 3, but I don't have those chipsets, so cannot add and test them. Tested on an Abit KN9 (CK804). Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2007-10-23x86: clean up setup.h and the boot codeH. Peter Anvin
Make <asm/setup.h> usable by the boot code. Clean up vestiges of the old command-line protocol from setup.h and head_32.S (it is still supported from the boot loader point of view, since it is converted to the new command-line protocol by the boot code.) Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: Save registers in saved_context during suspend and hibernationRafael J. Wysocki
During hibernation and suspend on x86_64 save CPU registers in the saved_context structure rather than in a handful of separate variables. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: whitespace cleanup of mce_64.cThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: consolidate the cpu/ related code usageThomas Gleixner
The x86_64 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile uses references into arch/x86/kernel/cpu/... to use code from there. Unifiy it with the nicely structured i386 way and reuse the existing subdirectory make rules. Also move the machine check related source into ...kernel/cpu/mcheck, where the other machine check related code is. No code change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-23x86: prepare consolidation of cpu/ related code usageThomas Gleixner
Move mce.c to mce_32.c to allow the later move of the x86_64 mce.c from arch/x86/kernel/ to ...kernel/cpu/mcheck No code change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-23x86: prepare consolidation of cpu/ related MakefilesThomas Gleixner
Prepare the makefiles in x86/kernel/cpu and x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck to be used by the x86_64 build as well. No code change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-23x86: Unify arch/x86/kernel/acpi MakefilesThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-23x86: unify crash_32/64.cHiroshi Shimamoto
Most of contents in crash are same. 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>
2007-10-23x86: add lapic_shutdown for x86_64Hiroshi Shimamoto
Preperatory patch to allow crash_32/64.c merging 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>
2007-10-23x86: ARRAY_SIZE cleanupAlejandro Martinez Ruiz
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: fix more TSC clock source calibration errorsDave Johnson
The previous patch wasn't correctly handling the 'count' variable. If a CPU gave bad results on the 1st or 2nd run but good results on the 3rd, it wouldn't do the correct thing. No idea if any such CPU exists, but the patch below handles that case by discarding the bad runs. If a bad result (too quick, or too slow) occurs on any of the 3 runs it will be discarded. Also updated some comments to explain what's going on. Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson@sw.starentnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: fix TSC clock source calibration errorDave Johnson
I ran into this problem on a system that was unable to obtain NTP sync because the clock was running very slow (over 10000ppm slow). ntpd had declared all of its peers 'reject' with 'peer_dist' reason. On investigation, the tsc_khz variable was significantly incorrect causing xtime to run slow. After a reboot tsc_khz was correct so I did a reboot test to see how often the problem occurred: Test was done on a 2000 Mhz Xeon system. Of 689 reboots, 8 of them had unacceptable tsc_khz values (>500ppm): range of tsc_khz # of boots % of boots ---------------- ---------- ---------- < 1999750 0 0.000% 1999750 - 1999800 21 3.048% 1999800 - 1999850 166 24.128% 1999850 - 1999900 241 35.029% 1999900 - 1999950 211 30.669% 1999950 - 2000000 42 6.105% 2000000 - 2000000 0 0.000% 2000050 - 2000100 0 0.000% [...] 2000100 - 2015000 1 0.145% << BAD 2015000 - 2030000 6 0.872% << BAD 2030000 - 2045000 1 0.145% << BAD 2045000 < 0 0.000% The worst boot was 2032.577 Mhz, over 1.5% off! It appears that on rare occasions, mach_countup() is taking longer to complete than necessary. I suspect that this is caused by the CPU taking a periodic SMI interrupt right at the end of the 30ms calibration loop. This would cause the loop to delay while the SMI BIOS hander runs. The resulting TSC value is beyond what it actually should be resulting in a higher tsc_khz. The below patch makes native_calculate_cpu_khz() take the best (shortest duration, lowest khz) run of it's 3 calibration loops. If a SMI goes off causing a bad result (long duration, higher khz) it will be discarded. With the patch applied, 300 boots of the same system produce good results: range of tsc_khz # of boots % of boots ---------------- ---------- ---------- < 1999750 0 0.000% 1999750 - 1999800 30 10.000% 1999800 - 1999850 166 55.333% 1999850 - 1999900 89 29.667% 1999900 - 1999950 15 5.000% 1999950 < 0 0.000% Problem was found and tested against 2.6.18. Patch is against 2.6.22. Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson@sw.starentnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.Rusty Russell
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages. 2) It means we don't have to know page_offset. 3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code. 4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset. 5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular). 6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial hypercall give us that, too. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-22Merge branch 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SG sg validation Change table chaining layout Update arch/ to use sg helpers Update swiotlb to use sg helpers Update net/ to use sg helpers Update fs/ to use sg helpers [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers [SG] Update crypto/ to sg helpers [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers [SG] Add helpers for manipulating SG entries
2007-10-22[CPUFREQ] architectural pstate driver for powernow-k8Mark Langsdorf
This patch should apply cleanly to the 2.6.23-git7 kernel.  It changes the powernow-k8 driver code that deals with 3rd generation Opteron, Phenom, and later processors to match the architectural pstate driver described in the AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2 Chapter 18.  The initial implementation of the hardware pstate driver for PowerNow! used some processor-version specific features, and would not be maintainable in the long term as the processor features changed. This architectural driver should work on all future AMD processors.   Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>