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There are more and more cases where we need to know DMI information
early to work around bugs. i386 already had early DMI scanning, but
x86-64 didn't. Implement this now.
This required some cleanup in the i386 code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Move the core parser into dmi_scan.c. It can be useful for other
subsystems too.
- Differentiate between field doesn't exist and field is 0 or
unparseable. The first case is likely an old BIOS with broken ACPI,
the later is likely a slightly buggy BIOS where someone forget to
edit the date. Don't blacklist in the later case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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gcc should handle this anyways, and it causes problems when
sprintf is turned into strcpy by gcc behind our backs and
the C fallback version of strcpy is actually defining __builtin_strcpy
Then drop -ffreestanding from the main Makefile because it isn't
needed anymore and implies -fno-builtin, which is wrong now.
(it was only added for x86-64, so dropping it should be safe)
Noticed by Roman Zippel
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The upcomming gcc 4.2 got a new option -mtune=generic to tune
code for both common AMD and Intel CPUs. Use this option
when available for generic kernels.
On x86-64 it is used with CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU. On i386 it is
enabled with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC. It won't affect the base
line CPU support in any ways and also not the minimum supported CPU.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] kzalloc conversion for gx-suspmod
[CPUFREQ] Whitespace cleanup
[CPUFREQ] Mark longhaul driver as broken.
[PATCH] cpufreq: fix section mismatch warnings
[CPUFREQ] Fix the p4-clockmod N60 errata workaround.
[CPUFREQ] Fix handling for CPU hotplug
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Let cpufreq driver handle affected CPUs
[CPUFREQ] Lots of whitespace & CodingStyle cleanup.
[CPUFREQ] Remove duplicate cpuinfo struct
[CPUFREQ] Silence powernow-k8 warning on k7's.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
kbuild: clean-up genksyms
kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
kbuild: fix genksyms build error
kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
...
Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
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Fix bug identified by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>: the `out'
instruction depends upon the state of memory_data[], so we need to tell gcc
that before executing it. (The opcode, not gcc).
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553
Thanks to Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> for testing.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Moved check for online cpu out of smp_prepare_cpu()
- Moved default declaration of smp_prepare_cpu() to kernel/cpu.c
- Removed lock_cpu_hotplug() from smp_prepare_cpu() to around it, since
its called from cpu_up() as well now.
- Removed clearing from cpu_present_map during cpu_offline as it breaks
using cpu_up() directly during a subsequent online operation.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always
seemed a bit confusing. Change them to:
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations"
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations"
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13. The
patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not compatible with hugetlb page support. That debug
option turns off PSE. Once it is turned off in CR4, the cpu will ignore
pse bit in the pmd and causing infinite page-not- present faults.
So disable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if the user selected hugetlbfs.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU depend on !X86_PC, so we need to turn on either
CONFIG_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_BIGSMP or any other subarch except X86_PC when
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
With 2.6.15+ kernels when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is turned on we switch to
bigsmp mode for sending IPI's and ioapic configurations that caused the
following error message.
>> More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it.
>> Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.
Originally bigsmp was added just to handle >8 cpus, but now with hotplug
cpu support we need to use bigsmp mode (why? see below), that cause the
above error message even if there were less than 8 cpus in the system.
The message is bogus, but we are cannot use logical flat mode due to issues
with broadcast IPI can confuse a CPU just comming up. We use flat physical
mode just like x86_64 case. More details on why bigsmp now uses flat
physical mode (vs. cluster mode) in following link.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113261865814107&w=2
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Attached patch fixes invalid pointer arithmetic in DMI code to make onboard
device discovery working again.
akpm: bug has been present since dmi_find_device() was added in 2.6.14.
Affects ipmi only (I think) - the symptoms weren't described.
akpm: changed to use pointer arithmetic rather than open-coded sizeof.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except
the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch.
This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle()
functions on different architectures:
- remove the unused function:
- parisc
- sparc64
- make the needlessly global function static:
- arm
- h8300
- m68k
- m68knommu
- s390
- v850
- x86_64
- add a prototype in asm/system.h:
- cris
- i386
- ia64
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I screwed up this conversion - we should be iterating across online CPUs, not
possible ones.
Spotted by Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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"In some cases, especially on modern laptops with a lot of PCI and cardbus
bridges, we're unable to assign correct secondary/subordinate bus numbers
to all cardbus bridges due to BIOS limitations unless we are using
"pci=assign-busses" boot option." -- Ivan Kokshaysky (from a patch comment)
Without it, Cardbus cards inserted are never seen by PCI because the parent
PCI-PCI Bridge of the Cardbus bridge will not pass and translate Type 1 PCI
configuration cycles correctly and the system will fail to find and
initialise the PCI devices in the system.
Reference: PCI-PCI Bridges: PCI Configuration Cycles and PCI Bus Numbering:
http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node72.html
The reason for this is that:
``All PCI busses located behind a PCI-PCI bridge must reside between the
secondary bus number and the subordinate bus number (inclusive).''
"pci=assign-busses" makes pcibios_assign_all_busses return 1 and this
turns on PCI renumbering during PCI probing.
Alan suggested to use DMI automatically set assign-busses on problem systems.
The only question for me was where to put it. I put it directly before
scanning PCI bus into pcibios_scan_root() because it's called from legacy,
acpi and numa and so it can be one place for all systems and configurations
which may need it.
AMD64 Laptops are also affected and fixed by assign-busses, and the code is
also incuded from arch/x86_64/pci/ that place will also work for x86_64
kernels, I only ifdef'-ed the x86-only Laptop in this example.
Affected and known or assumed to be fixed with it are (found by googling):
* ASUS Z71V and L3s
* Samsung X20
* Compaq R3140us and all Compaq R3000 series laptops with TI1620 Controller,
also Compaq R4000 series (from a kernel.org bugreport)
* HP zv5000z (AMD64 3700+, known that fixup_parent_subordinate_busnr fixes it)
* HP zv5200z
* IBM ThinkPad 240
* An IBM ThinkPad (1.8 GHz Pentium M) debugged by Pavel Machek
gives the correspondig message which detects the possible problem.
* MSI S260 / Medion SIM 2100 MD 95600
The patch also expands the "try pci=assign-busses" warning so testers will
help us to update the DMI table.
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> There are two bogus entries in the BIOS memory map table which are
> conflicting with a prefetchable memory range of the AGP bridge:
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> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
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> 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
> I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
> Memory behind bridge: e7e00000-e7efffff
> Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fec00000-ffcfffff
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes. However, it's pretty clear that the e820 entries are there for a
reason. Probably they are a hack by the BIOS maintainers to keep Windows
from stomping/moving that region, exactly because they want to keep the
bridge where it is (or, it's actually for the BIOS itself - the BIOS
tables are a horrid mess, and BIOS engineers are pretty hacky people:
they'll add random entries to make their own broken algorithms do the
"right thing").
> Starting from 2.6.13, kernel tries to resolve that sort of conflicts,
> so that prefetch window of the bridge and the framebuffer memory behind
> it get moved to 0x10000000.
I think we could (and probably should) solve this another way: consider
the ACPI "reserved regions" from the e820 map exactly the same way that we
do other ACPI hints - they should restrict _new_ allocations, but not
impact stuff we figure out on our own.
Basically, right now we assign _unassigned_ resources at "fs_initcall"
time. If we were to add in the e820 "reserved region" stuff before that
(but after we've done PCI discovery), we'd probably do the right thing.
Right now we do the e820 reserved regions very early indeed: we call
"register_memory()" from setup_arch(). We could move at least part of it
(the part that registers the resources) down a bit.
Here's a test-patch. I'm not saying we should absolutely do this, but it
might be interesting to try...
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: <bjk@luxsci.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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I moved it to a separate function which is safer.
This avoids problems with the linker reordering them and the
less useful PCI config space access methods taking priority
over the better ones.
Fixes some problems with broken MMCONFIG
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all. The correct way of doing this
is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().
This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS. I found very
few instances of this bug, if any. But the patch converts lots of open-coded
test to use the preferred helper macros.
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Consolidate all kernel bug printouts to begin with the "BUG: " string.
Makes it easier to find them in large bootup logs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch from Pavel moves userland freeze signals handling into more logical
place. It now hits even with mysqld running.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Don't create "online" control file for BSP (i386/x86_64) since its
not removable.
We originally added this to support ppc64 if the kernel has support but
BIOS indicated no offline support, we just didnt create online files for
them.
We used the same method in ia64 as well, if we have a cpu taking platform
interrupts but cannot be removed if those interrupts cannot be re-targeted
to another cpu.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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You must always ensure to fulfill the dependencies of what you are
select'ing.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Checking APIC version instead of CPU family to determine XAPIC. Family 6
CPU could have xapic as well.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Detecting cache line using cpuid.4, cpuid level 4 is enough.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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i386 has a small bug in the stack dump code where it prints an extra log
level code. Remove that and fix the alignment of normal stack dump
printout. Also remove some unnecessary printk() calls.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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With cpu_gdt_descr having been converted to per-CPU data, the old object
(in head.S) no longer needs to reserve space for each CPU's instance. With
cpu_gdt_table not being used for CPU 0 anymore, it doesn't seem to need
page alignment (or if in fact there is a need for it to retain that
alignment, the whole object should go into .data.page_align).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c: In function `centaur_mcr_insert':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c:33: warning: implicit declaration of function `mtrr_centaur_report_mcr'
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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arch/i386/kernel/apic.c:840: warning: implicit declaration of function `GET_APIC_ID'
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Document a limitation of vsyscall-sysenter, since patches to fix it have
been rejected.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Using PTRACE_SINGLESTEP on a child that does an int80 syscall misses the
SIGTRAP that should be delivered upon syscall exit. Fix that by setting
TIF_SINGLESTEP when entering the kernel via int80 with TF set.
/* Test whether singlestep through an int80 syscall works.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <asm/user.h>
static int child, status;
static struct user_regs_struct regs;
static void do_child()
{
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
kill(getpid(), SIGUSR1);
asm ("int $0x80" : : "a" (20)); /* getpid */
}
static void do_parent()
{
unsigned long eip, expected = 0;
again:
waitpid(child, &status, 0);
if (WIFEXITED(status) || WIFSIGNALED(status))
return;
if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) {
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, child, 0, ®s);
eip = regs.eip;
if (expected)
fprintf(stderr, "child stop @ %08x, expected %08x %s\n",
eip, expected,
eip == expected ? "" : " <== ERROR");
if (*(unsigned short *)eip == 0x80cd) {
fprintf(stderr, "int 0x80 at %08x\n", (unsigned int)eip);
expected = eip + 2;
} else
expected = 0;
ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, child, NULL, NULL);
}
goto again;
}
int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
{
child = fork();
if (child)
do_parent();
else
do_child();
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>commit 76381fee7e8feb4c22be636aa5d4765dbe4fbf9e
>Author: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
>Date: Thu Jun 23 00:08:46 2005 -0700
>
> [PATCH] xen: x86_64: use more usermode macro
>
> Make use of the user_mode macro where it's possible. This is useful for Xen
> because it will need only to redefine only the macro to a hypervisor call.
I am of the opinion that the above changeset is incomplete, i.e. it missed
converting some previous uses of user_mode to user_mode_vm. While most of
them could be considered just cosmetical, at least the one in die_nmi
doesn't appear to be.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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callbacks
Registering a callback handler through register_die_notifier() is obviously
primarily intended for use by modules. However, the way these currently
get called it is basically impossible for them to actually be used by
modules, as there is, on non-PAE configurationes, a good chance (the larger
the module, the better) for the system to crash as a result.
This is because the callback gets invoked
(a) in the page fault path before the top level page table propagation
gets carried out (hence a fault to propagate the top level page table
entry/entries mapping to module's code/data would nest infinitly) and
(b) in the NMI path, where nested faults must absolutely not happen,
since otherwise the IRET from the nested fault re-enables NMIs,
potentially resulting in nested NMI occurences.
Besides the modular aspect, similar problems would even arise for in-
kernel consumers of the API if they touched ioremap()ed or vmalloc()ed
memory inside their handlers.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The history is that -mm kernels do not work for me for a few months
already. The things started from crashing somewhere after starting init,
and for the last month - no boot at all, just "Uncompressing... OK,
booting kernel", and silence. Early console didn't work too. With the
latest releases this degraded into an infinite stream of the "Unknown
interrupt or fault" messages. So today my patience ran out and I started
to think how can I collect at least some info for the bug-report. Attached
is the patch that allows to gather some valueable debug info on the problem
by making an early console more useable. I can't properly test the patch,
as the kernel still doesn't boot, so I'll explain it in details in a hope
someone else can justify the intrusive changes.
arch_hooks.h: added prototypes for setup_early_printk() and early_printk().
setup.c: killed wrong setup_early_printk() prototype. Moved
setup_early_printk() a bit earlier, as it was not "early enough" to cover
the bug I was fighting with.
early_printk.c: made it to start printing from the bottom of the screen,
otherwise the messages interfere with the ones of the boot-loader, so you
can't read them.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Allow signal handlers to set the RF bit in EFLAGS. This lets a simple
debugger using SIGTRAP skip one instruction after returning from a signal.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There's no good reason for allowing ptrace to set the NT bit in EFLAGS, so
mask it off.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Merge a few printk calls in i386 traps.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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ES7000 platform code clean up for compilation errors and a warning.
Ifdef'd the ACPI related parts in the ES7000 platform code. They were
causing compile errors in certain configuration (without ACPI defined). I
think this approach would be best (as opposed to Kconfig changes) since it
only touches the subarch...
Signed-off-by: <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When vendor-specific i386 initialization code is unavailable the kernel
falls back to a default CPU model name. Make that model name reflect the
CPU family instead of an internal vendor index.
Tested on Pentium II (family 6 model 5).
/proc/cpuinfo before:
model name : ff/05
after:
model name : 06/05
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup. This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall. Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Several places in arch/i386/kernel/cpu and kernel/cpu were using __devinit
when they should have been __cpuinit. Fixing that saves ~4K when
CONFIG_HOTPLUG && !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Noticed by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement SMP alternatives, i.e. switching at runtime between different
code versions for UP and SMP. The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.
With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
of CPUs goes up to 2.
Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
afterwards.
The changes in detail:
* The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
the SMP alternatives code is added there.
* The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
.smp_altinstructions
like .altinstructions, also contains a list
of alt_instr structs.
.smp_altinstr_replacement
like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
save original instruction before replaving it.
.smp_locks
list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
out on UP.
The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores. It would be possible
to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.
* The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
can be free if they are not needed.
* Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Print stack backtraces in multiple columns, saving screen space. Number of
columns is configurable and defaults to one so behavior is
backwards-compatible.
Also removes the brackets around addresses when printing more
that one entry per line so they print as:
<address>
instead of:
[<address>]
This helps multiple entries fit better on one line.
Original idea by Dave Jones, taken from x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make CONFIG_REGPARM enabled by default. It's a noticable win both for size
and for performance, and gcc[34] handles it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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REGPARM has already gotten much testing, what about removing the
dependency on EXPERIMENTAL?
Additionally, this patch does:
- remove the useless "default n"
- remove note regarding binary only modules (nowadays, there are even
some binary only modules compiled with REGPARM=y available)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Quite a long time back, prepare_hugepage_range() replaced
is_aligned_hugepage_range() as the callback from mm/mmap.c to arch code to
verify if an address range is suitable for a hugepage mapping.
is_aligned_hugepage_range() stuck around, but only to implement
prepare_hugepage_range() on archs which didn't implement their own.
Most archs (everything except ia64 and powerpc) used the same
implementation of is_aligned_hugepage_range(). On powerpc, which
implements its own prepare_hugepage_range(), the custom version was never
used.
In addition, "is_aligned_hugepage_range()" was a bad name, because it
suggests it returns true iff the given range is a good hugepage range,
whereas in fact it returns 0-or-error (so the sense is reversed).
This patch cleans up by abolishing is_aligned_hugepage_range(). Instead
prepare_hugepage_range() is defined directly. Most archs use the default
version, which simply checks the given region is aligned to the size of a
hugepage. ia64 and powerpc define custom versions. The ia64 one simply
checks that the range is in the correct address space region in addition to
being suitably aligned. The powerpc version (just as previously) checks
for suitable addresses, and if necessary performs low-level MMU frobbing to
set up new areas for use by hugepages.
No libhugetlbfs testsuite regressions on ppc64 (POWER5 LPAR).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the inlining of the new vs old mmap system call common code. This
reduces the size of the resulting vmlinux for defconfig as follows:
mb@pc1:~/develop/git/linux-2.6$ size vmlinux.mmap*
text data bss dec hex filename
3303749 521524 186564 4011837 3d373d vmlinux.mmapinline
3303557 521524 186564 4011645 3d367d vmlinux.mmapnoinline
The new sys_mmap2() has also one function call overhead removed, now.
(probably it was already optimized to a jmp before, but anyway...)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1.
Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with
init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted().
This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed
to play around with page->_count.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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