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In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.
init/main.c:
Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.
i386:
delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()
x86_64:
rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Fixed wrong expression which enabled watchdogs even if nmi_watchdog kernel
parameter wasn't set. This regression got slightly introduced with commit
b7471c6da94d30d3deadc55986cc38d1ff57f9ca.
Introduced NMI_DISABLED (-1) which allows to switch the value of NMI_DEFAULT
without breaking the APIC NMI watchdog code (again).
Fixes:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298084
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839
And likely some more nmi_watchdog=0 related issues.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch finishes the i386 and x86-64 ->sysdata conversion and hopefully
also fixes Riku's and Andy's observed bugs. It is based on Yinghai Lu's
and Andy Whitcroft's patches (thanks!) with some changes:
- introduce pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() and use it instead of
pci_scan_bus() where appropriate. pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() will
allocate the sysdata structure and then call pci_scan_bus().
- always allocate pci_sysdata dynamically. The whole point of this
sysdata work is to make it easy to do root-bus specific things
(e.g., support PCI domains and IOMMU's). I dislike using a default
struct pci_sysdata in some places and a dynamically allocated
pci_sysdata elsewhere - the potential for someone indavertantly
changing the default structure is too high.
- this patch only makes the minimal changes necessary, i.e., the NUMA node is
always initialized to -1. Patches to do the right thing with regards
to the NUMA node can build on top of this (either add a 'node'
parameter to pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() or just update the node
when it becomes known).
The patch was compile tested with various configurations (e.g., NUMAQ,
VISWS) and run-time tested on i386 and x86-64. Unfortunately none of my
machines exhibited the bugs so caveat emptor.
Andy, could you please see if this fixes the NUMA issues you've seen?
Riku, does this fix "pci=noacpi" on your laptop?
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: <riku.seppala@kymp.net>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26. It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)
This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."
It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO. Serial ports are something
that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game. My new Intel
platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
messing with serial port probing even more... because... just wait a year,
and your box won't have a serial port either! :)
I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
but the probe change seems questionable. That's sorta analagous to
rewriting the floppy driver probe routine. Sure you could do it... but why
risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?
It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.
Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.
Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures. The
flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with
TIF_PERFMON_WORK.
Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix section mismatch warnings:
these functions are called only from __init functions.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1861c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:free_bootmem (between 'free_tce_table' and 'build_tce_table')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x187e5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low (between 'alloc_tce_table' and 'kretprobe_trampoline_holder')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We really need force-cast when converting to final result type;
unsigned long can be silently converted to integer types and
to pointers, but not to bitwise.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make "struct ist_info" valid on both i386 and x86-64, and use the
structure by name in the setup code. Additionally, "Intel SpeedStep
IST" is redundant, refer to it as IST consistently.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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As it was a synonym for (CONFIG_ACPI && CONFIG_X86),
the ifdefs for it were more clutter than they were worth.
For ia64, just add a few stubs in anticipation of future
S3 or S4 support.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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They are identical
Indirectly pointed out by Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Due to index register access ordering problems, when using macros a line
like this fails (and does nothing):
setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88);
With inlined functions this line will work as expected.
Note about a side effect: Seems on Geode GX1 based systems the
"suspend on halt power saving feature" was never enabled due to this
wrong macro expansion. With inlined functions it will be enabled, but
this will stop the TSC when the CPU runs into a HLT instruction.
Kernel output something like this:
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -472746897 ns)
This is the 3rd version of this patch.
- Adding missed arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/state.c
Thanks to Andres Salomon
- Adding some big fat comments into the new header file
Suggested by Andi Kleen
AK: fixed x86-64 compilation
Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <juergen@kreuzholzen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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local_cmpxchg() should not use any LOCK prefix. This change probably
got lost in the move to cmpxchg.h.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When a machine check or NMI occurs while multiple byte code is patched
the CPU could theoretically see an inconsistent instruction and crash.
Prevent this by temporarily disabling MCEs and returning early in the
NMI handler.
Based on discussion with Mathieu Desnoyers.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Reenable kprobes and alternative patching when the kernel text is write
protected by DEBUG_RODATA
Add a general utility function to change write protected text. The new
function remaps the code using vmap to write it and takes care of CPU
synchronization. It also does CLFLUSH to make icache recovery faster.
There are some limitations on when the function can be used, see the
comment.
This is a newer version that also changes the paravirt_ops code.
text_poke also supports multi byte patching now.
Contains bug fixes from Zach Amsden and suggestions from Mathieu
Desnoyers.
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch uses the read and write functions provided at system.h
for control registers instead of writting raw assembly over and
over again in .c files. Functions to manipulate cr2 and cr8 were
provided, as they were lacking.
Also, removed some extra space after closing brackets
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a
segfault happens. A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools
that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between
debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 >
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace)
Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to
deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the
following:
main()
{
while (1)
if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0;
}
This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of
new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this.
Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old
'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts.
AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens
AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults
AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues
Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for
this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily.. -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch introduces struct pci_sysdata to x86 and x86-64, and
converts the existing two users (NUMA, Calgary) to use it.
This lays the groundwork for having other users of sysdata, such as
the PCI domains work.
The Calgary bits are tested, the NUMA bits just look ok.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G
RAM installed. when using kexec to load second kernel. In the second
kernel, when mem is allocated for GART, it will do the memset for clear, it
will cause restart, because some device still used that for dma. solution
will be:
in second kernel: disable that at first before we try to allocate mem for
it. or in the first kernel: do disable that before shutdown.
Andi/Eric/Alan prefer to second one for clean shutdown in first kernel.
Andi also point out need to consider to AGP enable but mem less 4G case
too.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mm/vmalloc.c: In function 'unmap_kernel_range':
mm/vmalloc.c:75: warning: unused variable 'start'
make it a C function so that the compiler thinks it used its arguments.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The function name is set_fixmap(), not fixmap_set() as stated in the comment.
Also fix a typo, punctuation and lower/uppercase a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to serialize the
PIT access all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some interrupt entry points are currently defined in i8259.c They probably
belong in a header. Right now, their only user is init_IRQ, justifying
their declaration in-file. But when virtualization comes in, we may be
interested in using that functions in late initializations.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Provide seperate versions for Calgary and CalIOC2
Also print out the PCIe Root Complex Status on CalIOC2 errors
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Calgary and CalIOC2 share most of the same logic. Introduce struct
cal_chipset_ops for quirks and tce flush logic which are
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make calgary_chip_ops static]
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The Rise CPUs were only very short-lived, and there are no reports of
anyone both owning one and running Linux on it.
Googling for the printk string "CPU: Rise iDragon" didn't find any dmesg
available online.
If it turns out that against all expectations there are actually users
reverting this patch would be easy.
This patch will make the kernel images smaller by a few bytes for all
i386 users.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Background:
/dev/mcelog is typically polled manually. This is less than optimal for
situations where accurate accounting of MCEs is important. Calling
poll() on /dev/mcelog does not work.
Description:
This patch adds support for poll() to /dev/mcelog. This results in
immediate wakeup of user apps whenever the poller finds MCEs. Because
the exception handler can not take any locks, it can not call the wakeup
itself. Instead, it uses a thread_info flag (TIF_MCE_NOTIFY) which is
caught at the next return from interrupt or exit from idle, calling the
mce_user_notify() routine. This patch also disables the "fake panic"
path of the mce_panic(), because it results in printk()s in the exception
handler and crashy systems.
This patch also does some small cleanup for essentially unused variables,
and moves the user notification into the body of the poller, so it is
only called once per poll, rather than once per CPU.
Result:
Applications can now poll() on /dev/mcelog. When an error is logged
(whether through the poller or through an exception) the applications are
woken up promptly. This should not affect any previous behaviors. If no
MCEs are being logged, there is no overhead.
Alternatives:
I considered simply supporting poll() through the poller and not using
TIF_MCE_NOTIFY at all. However, the time between an uncorrectable error
happening and the user application being notified is *the*most* critical
window for us. Many uncorrectable errors can be logged to the network if
given a chance.
I also considered doing the MCE poll directly from the idle notifier, but
decided that was overkill.
Testing:
I used an error-injecting DIMM to create lots of correctable DRAM errors
and verified that my user app is woken up in sync with the polling interval.
I also used the northbridge to inject uncorrectable ECC errors, and
verified (printk() to the rescue) that the notify routine is called and the
user app does wake up. I built with PREEMPT on and off, and verified
that my machine survives MCEs.
[wli@holomorphy.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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For NUMA emulation, our SLIT should represent the true NUMA topology of the
system but our proximity domain to node ID mapping needs to reflect the
emulated state.
When NUMA emulation has successfully setup fake nodes on the system, a new
function, acpi_fake_nodes() is called. This function determines the proximity
domain (_PXM) for each true node found on the system. It then finds which
emulated nodes have been allocated on this true node as determined by its
starting address. The node ID to PXM mapping is changed so that each fake
node ID points to the PXM of the true node that it is located on.
If the machine failed to register a SLIT, then we assume there is no special
requirement for emulated node affinity so we use the default LOCAL_DISTANCE,
which is newly exported to this code, as our measurement if the emulated nodes
appear in the same PXM. Otherwise, we use REMOTE_DISTANCE.
PXM_INVAL and NID_INVAL are also exported to the ACPI header file so that we
can compare node_to_pxm() results in generic code (in this case, the SRAT
code).
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds caching of pgds and puds, pmds, pte. That way we can avoid costly
zeroing and initialization of special mappings in the pgd.
A second quicklist is useful to separate out PGD handling. We can carry the
initialized pgds over to the next process needing them.
Also clean up the pgd_list handling to use regular list macros. There is no
need anymore to avoid the lru field.
Move the add/removal of the pgds to the pgdlist into the constructor /
destructor. That way the implementation is congruent with i386.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hpet.h in asm-i386 and asm-x86_64 contain tons of duplicated stuff.
Consolidate into one shared header file.
AK: Fix i386 compilation with !X86_IO_APIC
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When making changes to x86_64 timers, I noticed that touching hpet.h triggered
an unreasonably large rebuild. Untangling it from timex.h quiets the extra
rebuild quite a bit.
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This implements new vDSO for x86-64. The concept is similar
to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC. x86-64 has had static
vsyscalls before, but these are not flexible enough anymore.
A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into
user address space. The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process
for security reasons.
Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime
always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed
address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write.
The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0
It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized
clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster
than the one in the old vsyscall. clock_gettime is significantly faster
than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME.
The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall.
Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls:
- Extensible
- Randomized
- Cleaner
- Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes
overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it)
Weak points:
- glibc support still to be written
The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version.
Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan asked to always use the builtin memcpy on gcc 4.3 mainline because
it should generate better code than the old macro. Let's try it.
Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On x86_64, <asm/ptrace.h> uses __user but doesn't include
<linux/compiler.h>. This could lead to build failures.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Too many semicolons in this macro.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since Ingo's recent scheduler rewrite which was merged as commit
0437e109e1841607f2988891eaa36c531c6aa6ac sched_cacheflush is unused.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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New arch macro STACK_TOP_MAX it gives the larges valid stack address for the
architecture in question.
It differs from STACK_TOP in that it will not distinguish between
personalities but will always return the largest possible address.
This is used to create the initial stack on execve, which we will move down to
the proper location once the binfmt code has figured out where that is.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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per cpu data section contains two types of data. One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus. In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out. This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.
One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end. Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.
This patch:
Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything
useful - so remove it ..
I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still
compile without modifications.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need
to support an inode operation called ->fallocate().
Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain
level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications
also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the
the system becomes full.
Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which
can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working
on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to
each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems
can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing
the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that
posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first
and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall
back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks.
ToDos:
1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64,
and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from
previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later
once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches
in this take.
2. Changes to glibc,
a) to support fallocate() system call
b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate()
Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
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Add function helper, fb_is_primary_device(). Given struct fb_info, it will
return a nonzero value if the device is the primary display.
Currently, only the i386 is supported where the function checks for the
IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Move arch-specific bits of fb_mmap() to their respective subdirectories
[bob.picco@hp.com: efi_range_is_wc is referenced but not declared]
[bunk@stusta.de: fix include/asm-m68k/fb.h]
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: 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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be migrated
It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not.
This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called
GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated
using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing
storage and discarding.
An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for
__GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The
flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would
change the semantics of an existing API. After this patch is applied there
are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should
be marked deprecated if this patch is merged.
Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in
shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the
shmem_dir_alloc() helper function. This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of
Hugh Dickens.
Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the
concept. Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector
and ramfs allocations.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nobody is using ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty. Remove
the functions from all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation is the
different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines. A number of
drivers work around this by marking the compat structures as
'attribute((packed))', which is not the right solution because it breaks
all the non-x86 architectures that want to use the same compat code.
Hopefully, this patch improves the situation, it introduces two new types,
compat_u64 and compat_s64. These are defined on all architectures to have
the same size and alignment as the 32 bit version of u64 and s64.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
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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Kill pte_rdprotect(), pte_exprotect(), pte_mkread(), pte_mkexec(), pte_read(),
pte_exec(), and pte_user() except where arch-specific code is making use of
them.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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