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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Reason: Pull in the latest io_apic bugfixes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Reason: Avoid conflicts with removal of boot_cpu_id
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Reason: Avoid conflicts with the x2apic modifications
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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asm-generic/bitops/find.h has the extern declarations of find_next_bit()
and find_next_zero_bit() and the macro definitions of find_first_bit()
and find_first_zero_bit(). It is only usable by the architectures which
enables CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and disables
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT.
x86 and tile enable both CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT. These architectures cannot include
asm-generic/bitops/find.h in their asm/bitops.h. So ifdefed extern
declarations of find_first_bit and find_first_zero_bit() are put in
linux/bitops.h.
This makes asm-generic/bitops/find.h usable by these architectures
and use it. Also this change is needed for the forthcoming duplicated
extern declarations cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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The header comments diverged a bit from the implementation. Lets
re-sync them.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1286564028-2352-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/module.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Intel Medfield platform has a high speed UART device, which
could act as a early console. To enable early printk of HSU
console, simply add "earlyprintk=hsu" in kernel command line.
Currently we put the code in the early_printk_mrst.c as it is
also for Intel MID platforms like the mrst early console
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com
LKML-Reference: <1284361736-23011-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Intel Moorestown platform has a spi-uart device(Maxim3110),
which connects to a Designware spi core controller. This patch
will add early console function based on it.
As it will be used long before Linux spi subsystem get
initialised, we simply directly manipulate the spi controller's
register to acheive the early console func. This is safe as it
will be disabled when devices subsytem get initialised.
To use it, user need enable CONFIG_X86_MRST_EARLY_PRINTK in
kenrel config and add "earlyprintk=mrst" in kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com
LKML-Reference: <1284361736-23011-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Sometimes fixmap will be used to map an physical address which
is not PAGE align, so to use it we need first map it and then
add the address offset to the mapped fixed address. These 2 new
helpers are suggested by Ingo Molnar to make the process
simpler.
For a physicall address like "phys", a directly usable virtual
address can be get by
virt = (void *)set_fixmap_offset(fixed_idx, phys);
or
virt = (void *)set_fixmap_offset_nocache(fixed_idx, phys);
(depends on whether the physical address is cachable or not).
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Cc: greg@kroah.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1284361736-23011-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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A function in a header file needs to be explicitly marked "inline", or
gcc will complain if it is not used.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> v2.6.36
LKML-Reference: <1274295685-6774-3-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
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On 32-bit non-PAE system, cast to 'phys_addr_t' truncates value
before subtraction. Subtracting before cast produce same result
but remove following warnings from sparse:
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h:255:38: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (100000000 becomes 0)
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h:270:38: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (100000000 becomes 0)
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:127:32: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (100000000 becomes 0)
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:132:32: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (100000000 becomes 0)
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:344:31: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (100000000 becomes 0)
64-bit or PAE machines will not be affected by this change.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285770588-14065-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration,
it maps:
local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable()
local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable()
local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save()
...
and under the other configuration, it maps:
raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable()
raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable()
raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save()
...
This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the
arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected
by users of this facility.
Change this to have the arch provide:
flags = arch_local_save_flags()
flags = arch_local_irq_save()
arch_local_irq_restore(flags)
arch_local_irq_disable()
arch_local_irq_enable()
arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
arch_irqs_disabled()
arch_safe_halt()
Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide:
raw_local_save_flags(flags)
raw_local_irq_save(flags)
raw_local_irq_restore(flags)
raw_local_irq_disable()
raw_local_irq_enable()
raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
raw_irqs_disabled()
raw_safe_halt()
with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide:
local_save_flags(flags)
local_irq_save(flags)
local_irq_restore(flags)
local_irq_disable()
local_irq_enable()
irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
irqs_disabled()
safe_halt()
with tracing included if enabled.
The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them
having to be macros.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [X86, FRV, MN10300]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [Tile]
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [Microblaze]
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [ARM]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [AVR]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [IA-64]
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [M32R]
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> [M68K/M68KNOMMU]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [MIPS]
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [PA-RISC]
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [PowerPC]
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390]
Acked-by: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> [Score]
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> [SH]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [Sparc]
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> [Xtensa]
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [Alpha]
Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> [H8300]
Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS]
Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS]
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
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This is useful when converting static arrays into boot-time brk
allocated objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C805EEA.1080205@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Originally the only early reserved range that is overlapped with high
pages is "KVA RAM", but we already do remove that from the active ranges.
However, It turns out Xen could have that kind of overlapping to support memory
ballooning.x
So we need to make add_highpage_with_active_regions() to subtract
memblock reserved just like low ram; this is the proper design anyway.
In this patch, refactering get_freel_all_memory_range() to make it can
be used by add_highpage_with_active_regions(). Also we don't need to
remove "KVA RAM" from active ranges.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CABB183.1040607@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Get compute unit information from CPUID Fn8000_001E_EBX.
(See AMD CPUID Specification - publication # 25481, revision 2.34,
September 2010.)
Note that each core on a compute unit still has a core_id of its own.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100930123857.GE20545@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Avoid 'constant_test_bit()' misoptimization due to cast to non-volatile
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/amd-iommu: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200
x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
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While debugging bit_spin_lock() hang, it was tracked down to gcc-4.4
misoptimization of non-inlined constant_test_bit() due to non-volatile
addr when 'const volatile unsigned long *addr' cast to 'unsigned long *'
with subsequent unconditional jump to pause (and not to the test) leading
to hang.
Compiling with gcc-4.3 or disabling CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING yields inlined
constant_test_bit() and correct jump, thus working around the kernel bug.
Other arches than asm-x86 may implement this slightly differently;
2.6.29 mitigates the misoptimization by changing the function prototype
(commit c4295fbb6048d85f0b41c5ced5cbf63f6811c46c) but probably fixing the issue
itself is better.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chumachenko <ledest@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Using cpuid_eax() to determine feature availability on other than
the current CPU is invalid. And feature availability should also be
checked in the hotplug code path.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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The XO-1.5 laptop is not currently detected as an OLPC machine because
it fails this XO-1-centric check.
Now that we have OLPC OFW support in the kernel, a more sensible
check is to see if we found OFW during boot and check the architecture
property.
Also remove a now-meaningless codepath, as we're always going to have
OFW support with OLPC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162846.D8D409D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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This patch adds a workaround for an IOMMU BIOS problem to
the AMD IOMMU driver. The result of the bug is that the
IOMMU does not execute commands anymore when the system
comes out of the S3 state resulting in system failure. The
bug in the BIOS is that is does not restore certain hardware
specific registers correctly. This workaround reads out the
contents of these registers at boot time and restores them
on resume from S3. The workaround is limited to the specific
IOMMU chipset where this problem occurs.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This patch moves the setting of the configuration and
feature flags out out the acpi table parsing path and moves
it into the iommu-enable path. This is needed to reliably
fix resume-from-s3.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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The structure in the x86 jump label code uses the typedef jump_label_t,
which is defined by the #ifdef arch type. The structure does not need
to be duplicated there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Conflicts:
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
Merge reason: resolve the conflict.
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
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding
oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make text_poke_early available outside of alternative.c. The jump label
patchset wants to make use of it in order to set up the optimal no-op
sequences at run-time.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <04cfddf2ba77bcabfc3e524f1849d871d6a1cf9d.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Move Steve's code for finding the best 5-byte no-op from ftrace.c to
alternative.c. The idea is that other consumers (in this case jump label)
want to make use of that code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <96259ae74172dcac99c0020c249743c523a92e18.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The file names are somehow misleading as the code is not specific to
AMD K8 CPUs anymore. The files accomodate code for other AMD CPU
northbridges as well.
Same is true for the config option which is valid for AMD CPU
northbridges in general and not specific to K8.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917160343.GD4958@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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The code in native_play_dead() has a number of problems:
1. We should use MWAIT when available, to put ourselves into a deeper
sleep state.
2. We use the existence of CLFLUSH to determine if WBINVD is safe, but
that is totally bogus -- WBINVD is 486+, whereas CLFLUSH is a much
later addition.
3. We should do WBINVD inside the loop, just in case of something like
setting an A bit on page tables. Pointed out by Arjan van de Ven.
This code is based in part of a previous patch by Venki Pallipadi, but
unlike that patch this one keeps all the detection code local instead
of pre-caching a bunch of information. We're shutting down the CPU;
there is absolutely no hurry.
This patch moves all the code to C and deletes the global
wbinvd_halt() which is broken anyway.
Originally-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.hl>
LKML-Reference: <20090522232230.162239000@intel.com>
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We have MWAIT constants spread across three different .c files, for no
good reason. Move them all into a common header file.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
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So far we only provide num_k8_northbridges. This is required in
different areas (e.g. L3 cache index disable, GART). But not all AMD
CPUs provide a GART. Thus it is useful to split off the GART handling
from the generic caching of AMD northbridge misc devices.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917160254.GC4958@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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During the reading of /proc/vmcore the kernel is doing
ioremap()/iounmap() repeatedly. And the buildup of un-flushed
vm_area_struct's is causing a great deal of overhead. (rb_next()
is chewing up most of that time).
This solution is to provide function set_iounmap_nonlazy(). It
causes a subsequent call to iounmap() to immediately purge the
vma area (with try_purge_vmap_area_lazy()).
With this patch we have seen the time for writing a 250MB
compressed dump drop from 71 seconds to 44 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <E1OwHZ4-0005WK-Tw@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
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
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity
x86, build: Disable -fPIE when compiling with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
x86, cpufeature: Suppress compiler warning with gcc 3.x
x86, UV: Fix initialization of max_pnode
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Lengths and types of breakpoints are encoded in a half byte
into CPU registers. However when we extract these values
and store them, we add a high half byte part to them: 0x40 to the
length and 0x80 to the type.
When that gets reloaded to the CPU registers, the high part
is masked.
While making the instruction breakpoints available for perf,
I zapped that high part on instruction breakpoint encoding
and that broke the arch -> generic translation used by ptrace
instruction breakpoints. Writing dr7 to set an inst breakpoint
was then failing.
There is no apparent reason for these high parts so we could get
rid of them altogether. That's an invasive change though so let's
do that later and for now fix the problem by restoring that inst
breakpoint high part encoding in this sole patch.
Reported-by: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Remove IRTE setup duplicate code with prepare_irte().
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100827181049.095067319@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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This more or less reverts commits 08be979 (x86: Force HPET
readback_cmp for all ATI chipsets) and 30a564be (x86, hpet: Restrict
read back to affected ATI chipsets) to the status of commit 8da854c
(x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET
comparator).
The delta to commit 8da854c is mostly comments and the change from
WARN_ONCE to printk_once as we know the call path of this function
already.
This needs really in depth explanation:
First of all the HPET design is a complete failure. Having a counter
compare register which generates an interrupt on matching values
forces the software to do at least one superfluous readback of the
counter register.
While it is nice in theory to program "absolute" time events it is
practically useless because the timer runs at some absurd frequency
which can never be matched to real world units. So we are forced to
calculate a relative delta and this forces a readout of the actual
counter value, adding the delta and programming the compare
register. When the delta is small enough we run into the danger that
we program a compare value which is already in the past. Due to the
compare for equal nature of HPET we need to read back the counter
value after writing the compare rehgister (btw. this is necessary for
absolute timeouts as well) to make sure that we did not miss the timer
event. We try to work around that by setting the minimum delta to a
value which is larger than the theoretical time which elapses between
the counter readout and the compare register write, but that's only
true in theory. A NMI or SMI which hits between the readout and the
write can easily push us beyond that limit. This would result in
waiting for the next HPET timer interrupt until the 32bit wraparound
of the counter happens which takes about 306 seconds.
So we designed the next event function to look like:
match = read_cnt() + delta;
write_compare_ref(match);
return read_cnt() < match ? 0 : -ETIME;
At some point we got into trouble with certain ATI chipsets. Even the
above "safe" procedure failed. The reason was that the write to the
compare register was delayed probably for performance reasons. The
theory was that they wanted to avoid the synchronization of the write
with the HPET clock, which is understandable. So the write does not
hit the compare register directly instead it goes to some intermediate
register which is copied to the real compare register in sync with the
HPET clock. That opens another window for hitting the dreaded "wait
for a wraparound" problem.
To work around that "optimization" we added a read back of the compare
register which either enforced the update of the just written value or
just delayed the readout of the counter enough to avoid the issue. We
unfortunately never got any affirmative info from ATI/AMD about this.
One thing is sure, that we nuked the performance "optimization" that
way completely and I'm pretty sure that the result is worse than
before some HW folks came up with those.
Just for paranoia reasons I added a check whether the read back
compare register value was the same as the value we wrote right
before. That paranoia check triggered a couple of years after it was
added on an Intel ICH9 chipset. Venki added a workaround (commit
8da854c) which was reading the compare register twice when the first
check failed. We considered this to be a penalty in general and
restricted the readback (thus the wasted CPU cycles) to the known to
be affected ATI chipsets.
This turned out to be a utterly wrong decision. 2.6.35 testers
experienced massive problems and finally one of them bisected it down
to commit 30a564be which spured some further investigation.
Finally we got confirmation that the write to the compare register can
be delayed by up to two HPET clock cycles which explains the problems
nicely. All we can do about this is to go back to Venki's initial
workaround in a slightly modified version.
Just for the record I need to say, that all of this could have been
avoided if hardware designers and of course the HPET committee would
have thought about the consequences for a split second. It's out of my
comprehension why designing a working timer is so hard. There are two
ways to achieve it:
1) Use a counter wrap around aware compare_reg <= counter_reg
implementation instead of the easy compare_reg == counter_reg
Downsides:
- It needs more silicon.
- It needs a readout of the counter to apply a relative
timeout. This is necessary as the counter does not run in
any useful (and adjustable) frequency and there is no
guarantee that the counter which is used for timer events is
the same which is used for reading the actual time (and
therefor for calculating the delta)
Upsides:
- None
2) Use a simple down counter for relative timer events
Downsides:
- Absolute timeouts are not possible, which is not a problem
at all in the context of an OS and the expected
max. latencies/jitter (also see Downsides of #1)
Upsides:
- It needs less or equal silicon.
- It works ALWAYS
- It is way faster than a compare register based solution (One
write versus one write plus at least one and up to four
reads)
I would not be so grumpy about all of this, if I would not have been
ignored for many years when pointing out these flaws to various
hardware folks. I really hate timers (at least those which seem to be
designed by janitors).
Though finally we got a reasonable explanation plus a solution and I
want to thank all the folks involved in chasing it down and providing
valuable input to this.
Bisected-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Reported-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Reported-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Gcc 3.x generates a warning
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h: In function `__static_cpu_has':
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:326: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
on each file.
But static_cpu_has() for gcc 3.x does not need __static_cpu_has().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
LKML-Reference: <201008300127.o7U1RC6Z044051@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: x86: Perform hardware_enable in CPU_STARTING callback
KVM: i8259: fix migration
KVM: fix i8259 oops when no vcpus are online
KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
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Allow arches to implement __this_cpu_ptr, and provide an x86 version.
Before:
movq $foo, %rax
movq %gs:this_cpu_off, %rdx
addq %rdx, %rax
After:
movq $foo, %rax
addq %gs:this_cpu_off, %rax
The benefit is doing it in one less instruction and not clobbering
a temporary register.
tj: * Beefed up the comment a bit and renamed in-macro temp variable
to match neighboring macros.
* Folded fix for const pointer case found in linux-next.
* Fixed sparse notation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Make 64-bit use the 32-bit version of fpu_save_init(). Remove
unused clear_fpu_state().
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1283563039-3466-13-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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