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2005-07-30[PATCH] x86_64: avoid wasting IRQs patch updateNatalie.Protasevich@unisys.com
The patch adds boundary check for the MAX_GSI_NUM. Same as the update for i386, the patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI IRQ. The patch corrects the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is avoided. The VIA chipset uses 4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and therefore cannot handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices. The patch corrects this problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16. Signed-off-by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30[PATCH] x86_64: fix bug in csum_partial_copy_generic()Dave Peterson
I was observing reproducible crashes on the "movw %bx,(%rsi)" instruction below while a process in a recvfrom() system call was copying packet data to user space. The patch below fixes the exception table and causes the crash to no longer reproduce. Please apply. Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29[PATCH] Fix sync_tsc hangEric W. Biederman
sync_tsc was using smp_call_function to ask the boot processor to report it's tsc value. smp_call_function performs an IPI_send_allbutself which is a broadcast ipi. There is a window during processor startup during which the target cpu has started and before it has initialized it's interrupt vectors so it can properly process an interrupt. Receveing an interrupt during that window will triple fault the cpu and do other nasty things. Why cli does not protect us from that is beyond me. The simple fix is to match ia64 and provide a smp_call_function_single. Which avoids the broadcast and is more efficient. This certainly fixes the problem of getting stuck on boot which was very easy to trigger on my SMP Hyperthreaded Xeon, and I think it fixes it for the right reasons. Minor changes by AK Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29[PATCH] x86_64 machine_kexec: Use standard pagetable helpersEric W. Biederman
Use the standard hardware page table manipulation macros. This is possible now that linux works with all 4 levels of the page tables. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29[PATCH] x86_64 machine_kexec: Cleanup inline assembly.Eric W. Biederman
In an uncensored copy of code from i386 to x86_64 I wound up with inline assembly with the wrong constraints. Use input constraints instead of output constraints. So I know the assembler will do the right thing specify the size of the operand lidtq and lgdtq instead of just lidt and lgdt. Make load_segments use an input constraint, and delete the macro fun. Without having to reload %cs like I do on i386 this code is noticeably simpler. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: fix cpu_to_node setup for sparse apic_idsRavikiran G Thirumalai
While booting with SMT disabled in bios, when using acpi srat to setup cpu_to_node[], sparse apic_ids create problems. Without this patch, intel x86_64 boxes with hyperthreading disabled in the bios (and which rely on srat for numa setup) endup having incorrect values in cpu_to_node[] arrays, causing sched domains to be built incorrectly etc. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in k8-bus.cAndi Kleen
arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c: In function `fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask': arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c:32: warning: unused variable `printed' Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Use msleep in smpboot.cNishanth Aravamudan
Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() to guarantee the task delays as expected. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Fix SRAT handling on non dual core systemsAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in ↵Andi Kleen
local_bh_enable() This avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains. i386 does this too. TOADD CFI annotation Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Small assembly improvementsAndi Kleen
Save a byte here and there. Ultimatively useless, but these things always catch my eyes when reading the code so just fix them for now. Also I got at least one patch fixing of them already, which gives a good excuse. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Remove unnecessary include in fault.cAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Icecream has no way of detecting assembler-level includesAndreas Gruenbacher
Icecream preprocesses c sources locally, and sends the result off to a remote host for compiling. It does not recognize includes at assembler level. The fix is to put the assemberincludes an a separate .s file, which will always be assembled locally. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Support more than 8 cores on AMD systemsAndi Kleen
Use physical mode instead of logical mode to address more CPUs. This is also used in the CPU hotplug case to avoid a race. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Remove the broadcast options that were added for cpuhotplugAndi Kleen
Will be obsolete with physflat. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Remove IA32_* build tools in MakefileAndi Kleen
Not used anymore since quite some time. Just uses -m32 instead. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Create per CPU machine check sysfs directoriesAndi Kleen
This patch will create machinecheck sysdev directories per CPU. All of the cpus still share the same ctl banks. When compiled with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, it will also bring up/down sysdev directories as cpus go up/down. I have tested the patch along with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU option on in 2.6.13-rc1 kernel. Minor changes by AK: remove useless unload function Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Print a boot message for hotplug memory zonesAndi Kleen
From: Keith Manning Print a boot message for hotplug memory zones Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Fix overflow in NUMA hash function setupKeith Mannthey
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Improve CONFIG_GART_IOMMU description and make it default yAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in delay.cAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Some cleanup in setup64.cAndi Kleen
Minor cleanup. Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc. I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed init/main.c to use it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Clarify Booting processor ... messageAndi Kleen
No need to print kernel addresses there and clarify what the APIC-ID is. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Minor clean up to CPU setup - use smp_processor_id instead ↵Andi Kleen
of custom hack Does not change any semantics because numa_add_cpu checks for CPU 0 anyways. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Move cpu_present/possible_map parsing earlierAndi Kleen
Various code needs this information now before the actual SMP bootup. Instead of computing it on the fly while booting the other CPUs set it up now while initial MPtable/MADT parsing. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfigAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: Always ack IPIs even on errorsAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: cpu hotplug changes kills nmi watchdogAlexander Nyberg
When the x86_64 cpu hotplug changes went in it added a check in default_do_nmi() which kills NMI delivery on any CPU but the BSP. The NMI watchdog is brought up quite some time before the online bit is set in num_online_cpus so this won't work very well. The nmi watchdogs on cpus that are not BSP will never be reprogrammed and no NMIs. Why was this check added? How does an offlined cpu receive an NMI? Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_stringOlaf Hering
turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] x86_64: fix SMP boot lockup on some machinesAndi Kleen
Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids don't start with 0 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] x86_64 fsnotify build fixAndrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] x86_64 sync machine_power_off with i386Eric W. Biederman
i386 machine_power_off was disabling the local apic and all of it's users wanted to be on the boot cpu. So call machine_shutdown which places us on the boot cpu and disables the apics. This keeps us in sync and reduces the number of cases we need to worry about in the power management code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] x86_64: Implemenent machine_emergency_restartEric W. Biederman
It is not safe to call set_cpus_allowed() in interrupt context and disabling the apics is complicated code. So unconditionally skip machine_shutdown in machine_emergency_reboot on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] x86_64: Fix reboot_forceEric W. Biederman
We only want to shutdown the apics if reboot_force is not specified. Be we are doing this both in machine_shutdown which is called unconditionally and if (!reboot_force). So simply call machine_shutdown if (!reboot_force). It looks like something went weird with merging some of the kexec patches for x86_64, and caused this. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] Don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, or machine_power_off.Eric W. Biederman
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules have no business messing with. Usually code should be calling kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] inotify: add x86-64 syscall entriesRobert Love
Add inotify syscall entries to x86-64. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] inotify: add missing hook to sys32_openRobert Love
Add missing fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open(). Add fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open() on x86-64. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15[PATCH] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processesSiddha, Suresh B
A malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000. During exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page. Check the return value and free the vma incase of failure. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] x86_64: section alignment fixAndrew Morton
This is the second time this has happened: inserting a new section requires that we adjust the arithmetic which is used to calculate the vsyscall page's offset. Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-11[NET]: add a top-level Networking menu to *configSam Ravnborg
Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers menu and up on the top-level where they belong. To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been implemented for all architectures. Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25 are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new networking menu item. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-07[PATCH] mostly_read data sectionChristoph Lameter
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] MTRR suspend/resume cleanupShaohua Li
There has been some discuss about solving the SMP MTRR suspend/resume breakage, but I didn't find a patch for it. This is an intent for it. The basic idea is moving mtrr initializing into cpu_identify for all APs (so it works for cpu hotplug). For BP, restore_processor_state is responsible for restoring MTRR. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-06[CRYPTO] Add x86_64 asm AESAndreas Steinmetz
Implementation: =============== The encrypt/decrypt code is based on an x86 implementation I did a while ago which I never published. This unpublished implementation does include an assembler based key schedule and precomputed tables. For simplicity and best acceptance, however, I took Gladman's in-kernel code for table generation and key schedule for the kernel port of my assembler code and modified this code to produce the key schedule as required by my assembler implementation. File locations and Kconfig are kept similar to the i586 AES assembler implementation. It may seem a little bit strange to use 32 bit I/O and registers in the assembler implementation but this gives the best code size. My implementation takes one instruction more per round compared to Gladman's x86 assembler but it doesn't require any stack for local variables or saved registers and it is less serialized than Gladman's code. Note that all comparisons to Gladman's code were done after my code was implemented. I did only use FIPS PUB 197 for the implementation so my implementation is independent work. If anybody has a better assembler solution for x86_64 I'll be pleased to have my code replaced with the better solution. Testing: ======== The implementation passes the in-kernel crypto testing module and I'm running it without any problems on my laptop where it is mainly used for dm-crypt. Microbenchmark: =============== The microbenchmark was done in userspace with similar compile flags as used during kernel compile. Encrypt/decrypt is about 35% faster than the generic C implementation. As the generic C as well as my assembler implementation are both table I don't really expect that there is much room for further improvements though I'll be glad to be corrected here. The key schedule is about 5% slower than the generic C implementation. This is due to the fact that some more work has to be done in the key schedule routine to fit the schedule to the assembler implementation. Code Size: ========== Encrypt and decrypt are together about 2.1 Kbytes smaller than the generic C implementation which is important with regard to L1 cache usage. The key schedule routine is about 100 bytes larger than the generic C implementation. Data Size: ========== There's no difference in data size requirements between the assembler implementation and the generic C implementation. License: ======== Gladmans's code is dual BSD/GPL whereas my assembler code is GPLv2 only (I'm not going to change the license for my code). So I had to change the module license for the x86_64 aes module from 'Dual BSD/GPL' to 'GPL' to reflect the most restrictive license within the module. Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05[PATCH] kprobes: fix namespace problem and sparc64 buildRusty Lynch
The following renames arch_init, a kprobes function for performing any architecture specific initialization, to arch_init_kprobes in order to cleanup the namespace. Also, this patch adds arch_init_kprobes to sparc64 to fix the sparc64 kprobes build from the last return probe patch. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-30[PATCH] x86: i8253/i8259A lock cleanupIngo Molnar
Introduce proper declarations for i8253_lock and i8259A_lock. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Greg KH
2005-06-27[PATCH] PCI: use the MCFG table to properly access pci devices (x86-64)Greg Kroah-Hartman
Now that we have access to the whole MCFG table, let's properly use it for all pci device accesses (as that's what it is there for, some boxes don't put all the busses into one entry.) If, for some reason, the table is incorrect, we fallback to the "old style" of mmconfig accesses, namely, we just assume the first entry in the table is the one for us, and blindly use it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27[PATCH] PCI: add proper MCFG table parsing to ACPI core.Greg Kroah-Hartman
This patch is the first step in properly handling the MCFG PCI table. It defines the structures properly, and saves off the table so that the pci mmconfig code can access it. It moves the parsing of the table a little later in the boot process, but still before the information is needed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27[PATCH] Return probe redesign: x86_64 specific changesRusty Lynch
The following patch contains the x86_64 specific changes for the new return probe design. Changes include: * Removing the architecture specific functions for querying a return probe instance off a stack address * Complete rework onf arch_prepare_kretprobe() and trampoline_probe_handler() * Removing trampoline_post_handler() * Adding arch_init() so that now we handle registering the return probe trampoline instead of kernel/kprobes.c doing it NOTE: Note that with this new design, the dependency on calculating a pointer to the task off the stack pointer no longer exist (resolving the problem of interruption stacks as pointed out in the original feedback to this port.) Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] kprobes: fix single-step out of line - take2Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Now that PPC64 has no-execute support, here is a second try to fix the single step out of line during kprobe execution. Kprobes on x86_64 already solved this problem by allocating an executable page and using it as the scratch area for stepping out of line. Reuse that. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>