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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters
tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in kvmclock.c
tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in pvclock.c
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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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Some cpus still deliver spurious interrupts after disabling a
counter. This caused 'undelivered NMI' messages. This patch
fixes this. Introduced by:
4177c42: perf, x86: Try to handle unknown nmis with an enabled PMU
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: ying.huang@intel.com <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100915162034.GO13563@erda.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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>
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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 configuration type override is for XO-1 only and must not happen
on XO-1.5.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162805.0F6549D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: Andres Solomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Impact: fix kernel bug such as:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: dosemu.bin/19680/0x00000004
See also Ubuntu bug 455067 at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/455067
Commits 4915a35e35a037254550a2ba9f367a812bc37d40
("Use preempt_conditional_sti/cli in do_int3, like on x86_64.")
and 3d2a71a596bd9c761c8487a2178e95f8a61da083
("x86, traps: converge do_debug handlers")
started disabling preemption in int1 and int3 handlers on i386.
The problem with vm86 is that the call to handle_vm86_trap() may jump
straight to entry_32.S and never returns so preempt is never enabled
again, and there is an imbalance in the preempt count.
Commit be716615fe596ee117292dc615e95f707fb67fd1 ("x86, vm86:
fix preemption bug"), which was later (accidentally?) reverted by commit
08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f ("hw-breakpoints: modifying
generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers")
fixed the problem for debug exceptions but not for breakpoints.
There are three solutions to this problem.
1. Reenable preemption before calling handle_vm86_trap(). This
was the approach that was later reverted.
2. Do not disable preemption for i386 in breakpoint and debug handlers.
This was the situation before October 2008. As far as I understand
preemption only needs to be disabled on x86_64 because a seperate stack is
used, but it's nice to have things work the same way on
i386 and x86_64.
3. Let handle_vm86_trap() return instead of jumping to assembly code.
By setting a flag in _TIF_WORK_MASK, either TIF_IRET or TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME,
the code in entry_32.S is instructed to return to 32 bit mode from
V86 mode. The logic in entry_32.S was already present to handle signals.
(I chose TIF_IRET because it's slightly more efficient in
do_notify_resume() in signal.c, but in fact TIF_IRET can probably be
replaced by TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME everywhere.)
I'm submitting approach 3, because I believe it is the most elegant
and prevents future confusion. Still, an obvious
preempt_conditional_cli(regs); is necessary in traps.c to correct the
bug.
[ hpa: This is technically a regression, but because:
1. the regression is so old,
2. the patch seems relatively high risk, justifying more testing, and
3. we're late in the 2.6.36-rc cycle,
I'm queuing it up for the 2.6.37 merge window. It might, however,
justify as a -stable backport at a latter time, hence Cc: stable. ]
Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
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Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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In the __unmap_single function the dma_addr is rounded down
to a page boundary before the dma pages are unmapped. The
address is later also used to flush the TLB entries for that
mapping. But without the offset into the dma page the amount
of pages to flush might be miscalculated in the TLB flushing
path. This patch fixes this bug by using the original
address to flush the TLB.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.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 guest can use the paravirt clock in kvmclock.c which is used
by sched_clock(), which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism
for timestamps, which leads to infinite recursion.
Disable mcount/tracing for kvmclock.o.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When using a paravirt clock, pvclock.c can be used by sched_clock(),
which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism for timestamps,
which leads to infinite recursion.
Disable mcount/tracing for pvclock.o.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When operating on whole pages, use clear_page() and copy_page() in
favor of memset() and memcpy(); after all that's what they are
intended for.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C7FB8CA0200007800013F51@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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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>
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[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add a jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end), so that other
pieces of code that want to modify kernel text, can first verify that
jump label has not reserved the instruction.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <06236663a3a7b1c1f13576bb9eccb6d9c17b7bfe.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
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>
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[ 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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At least on Intel, adjusting the max CPUID level can expose new CPUID
features, so we need to re-run get_cpu_cap() after changing the CPUID
level.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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When we're using MWAIT for play_dead, explicitly CLFLUSH the cache
line before executing MONITOR. This is a potential workaround for the
Xeon 7400 erratum AAI65 after having a spurious wakeup and returning
around the loop. "Potential" here because it is not certain that that
erratum could actually trigger; however, the CLFLUSH should be
harmless.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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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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Due to the overly intelligent design of HPETs, we need to workaround
the problem that the compare value which we write is already behind
the actual counter value at the point where the value hits the real
compare register. This happens for two reasons:
1) We read out the counter, add the delta and write the result to the
compare register. When a NMI or SMI hits between the read out and
the write then the counter can be ahead of the event already
2) The write to the compare register is delayed by up to two HPET
cycles in certain chipsets.
We worked around this by reading back the compare register to make
sure that the written value has hit the hardware. For certain ICH9+
chipsets this can require two readouts, as the first one can return
the previous compare register value. That's bad performance wise for
the normal case where the event is far enough in the future.
As we already know that the write can be delayed by up to two cycles
we can avoid the read back of the compare register completely if we
make the decision whether the delta has elapsed already or not based
on the following calculation:
cmp = event - actual_count;
If cmp is less than 8 HPET clock cycles, then we decide that the event
has happened already and return -ETIME. That covers the above #1 and
#2 problems which would cause a wait for HPET wraparound (~306
seconds).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Tested-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Cc: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Tested-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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On processors with hyperthreading, when only one thread is offlined
the other thread can cause a spurious wakeup on the idled thread. We
do not want to re-WBINVD when that happens.
Ideally, we should simply skip WBINVD unless we're the last thread on
a particular core to shut down, but there might be similar issues
elsewhere in the system.
Thus, revert to previous behavior of only WBINVD outside the loop.
Partly as a result, remove the mb()'s around it: they are not
necessary since wbinvd() is a serializing instruction, but they were
intended to make sure the compiler didn't do any funny loop
optimizations.
Reported-by: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.hl>
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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>
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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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L3 cache index disable code uses PCI accesses to AMD northbridge functions.
Currently the code is #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD.
But it should be #if (defined(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD) && defined(CONFIG_PCI))
which in the end is a dependency to K8_NB.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917160744.GF4958@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>
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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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Move enable_IR_x2apic() inside the default_setup_apic_routing(),
and for SMP platforms, move the default_setup_apic_routing() after
smp_sanity_check(). This cleans up the code that tries to avoid multiple
calls to default_setup_apic_routing() when smp_sanity_check() fails (which
goes through the APIC_init_uniprocessor() path).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100827181049.173087246@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Remove IRTE setup duplicate code with prepare_irte().
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Currently the redirection hint in the interrupt-remapping table entry
is set to 0, which means the remapped interrupt is directed to the
processors listed in the destination. So in logical flat mode
in the presence of intr-remapping, this results in a single
interrupt multi-casted to multiple cpu's as specified by the destination
bit mask. But what we really want is to send that interrupt to one of the cpus
based on the lowest priority delivery mode.
Set the redirection hint in the IRTE to '1' to indicate that we want
the remapped interrupt to be directed to only one of the processors
listed in the destination.
This fixes the issue of same interrupt getting delivered to multiple cpu's
in the logical flat mode in the presence of interrupt-remapping. While
there is no functional issue observed with this behavior, this will
impact performance of such configurations (<=8 cpu's using logical flat
mode in the presence of interrupt-remapping)
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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Cc: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [v2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Allow using HPET with the hpet=force command line option on VIA EPIA
CX700 systems.
Signed-off-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C8F04DC.5060303@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Remove __dummy_buf which is needed for kallsyms_lookup only.
use kallsysm_lookup_size_offset instead.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make following (internal) functions static to make sparse
happier :-)
* get_optimized_kprobe: only called from static functions
* kretprobe_table_unlock: _lock function is static
* kprobes_optinsn_template_holder: never called but holding asm code
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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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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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Fix a bug introduced with commit de725de and the change in the
meaning of the return value of intel_pmu_handle_irq(). With the
current code, when you are using the BTS, you get 'dazed by NMI'
each time the BTS buffer fills up.
BTS does interrupt on the PMU vector, thus NMI. You need to take
this into account in the return value of the function.
This version fixes initial patch which was missing changes to
perf_event_intel_ds.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <4c8a1686.aae9d80a.5aa4.5e35@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <d40c60f4b036a26db8492848695bdafaa3b42791.1284267142.git.joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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A real life genuine preemption leak..
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mtrr_type_lookup [start:end] looked up the resultant MTRR type for that
range, based on fixed and all variable MTRR ranges. It did check for multiple
MTRR var ranges overlapping [start:end] and returned the net type.
However, if the [start:end] range spanned across any var MTRR range,
mtrr_type_lookup would return an error return of 0xFE. This was based on
typical usage of mtrr_type_lookup in PAT mapping, where region being
mapped would not normally span across MTRR ranges and also trying
to keep the code simple.
Mark recently reported the problem with this limitation. When there are
two continguous MTRR's of type "writeback" and if there is a memory mapping
over a region starting in one MTRR range and ending in another MTRR range,
such mapping will fallback to "uncached" due to the above limitation.
Change below adds support for such lookups spanning multiple MTRR ranges.
We now have a wrapper mtrr_type_lookup that dynamically splits such a region
into smaller chunks that fit within one MTRR range and does a
__mtrr_type_lookup on it and combine the results later.
Reported-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284159350-19841-3-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Move the MTRR type overlap check into a new function. No functional change in
this patch. Just making it easier to add multiple region overlap check in
the following patch.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284159350-19841-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Fix calculation of "max_pnode" for systems where the the highest
blade has neither cpus or memory. (And, yes, although rare this
does occur).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100910150808.GA19802@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Remove ifdefs for code that the compiler can optimize away on 64-bit.
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: <1283563039-3466-10-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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check_fpu() in bugs.c halts boot if no FPU is found and math emulation
isn't enabled. Therefore this stub will never be used.
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: <1283563039-3466-9-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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