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This avoids using wrmsr on MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR when it's not needed.
No wrmsr ever needs to be done if noone has ever used block stepping.
Without this change, using ptrace on 2.6.25 on an x86 KVM guest
will tickle KVM's missing support for the MSR and crash the guest
kernel. Though host KVM is the buggy one, this makes for a regression
in the guest behavior from 2.6.24->2.6.25 that we can easily avoid.
I also corrected some bad whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the problem that makedumpfile sometimes fails on x86_64 machine.
This patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a vmcoreinfo data. The
vmcoreinfo data has the minimum debugging information only for dump
filtering. makedumpfile (dump filtering command) gets it to distinguish
unnecessary pages, and makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile.
On x86_64 kernel which compiled with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x0 and
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, makedumpfile fails like the following:
# makedumpfile -d31 /proc/vmcore dumpfile
The kernel version is not supported.
The created dumpfile may be incomplete.
_exclude_free_page: Can't get next online node.
makedumpfile Failed.
#
The cause is the lack of the symbol "phys_base" in a vmcoreinfo data.
If the symbol "phys_base" does not exist, makedumpfile considers an
x86_64 kernel as non relocatable. As the result, makedumpfile
misunderstands the physical address where the kernel is loaded, and it
cannot translate a kernel virtual address to physical address correctly.
To fix this problem, this patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a
vmcoreinfo data.
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I believe http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10318 is a false
positive. There's no way in which networking will be using highmem pages
here, so it won't be taking the KM_USER0 kmap slot, so there's no point in
performing these checks.
Cc: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@artcom.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Really sad. We lose almost all real-life coverage of the debug tests
with this patch. Now it will only report problems for the cases where
people actually end up using a HIGHMEM page, not when they just _might_
use one. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.
Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness:
- we'd return on any instruction fetch fault
- we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are
the same and make no sense
the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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We need to set up the shared_info pointer once we've mapped the real
shared_info into its fixmap slot. That needs to happen once the general
pagetable setup has been done. Previously, the UP shared_info was set
up one in xen_start_kernel, but that was left pointing to the dummy
shared info. Unfortunately there's no really good place to do a later
setup of the shared_info in UP, so just do it once the pagetable setup
has been done.
[ Stable: needed in 2.6.24.x ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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xen_irq_enable_direct and xen_sysexit were using "andw $0x00ff,
XEN_vcpu_info_pending(vcpu)" to unmask events and test for pending ones
in one instuction.
Unfortunately, the pending flag must be modified with a locked operation
since it can be set by another CPU, and the unlocked form of this
operation was causing the pending flag to get lost, allowing the processor
to return to usermode with pending events and ultimately deadlock.
The simple fix would be to make it a locked operation, but that's rather
costly and unnecessary. The fix here is to split the mask-clearing and
pending-testing into two instructions; the interrupt window between
them is of no concern because either way pending or new events will
be processed.
This should fix lingering bugs in using direct vcpu structure access too.
[ Stable: needed in 2.6.24.x ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The first page of the compound page is determined in follow_huge_addr()
but then PageCompound() only checks if the page is part of a compound page.
PageHead() allows checking if this is indeed the first page of the
compound.
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch fixes the use of GPIO routines which are in the PCI
configuration space of the RDC321x, therefore reading/writing
to this space without spinlock protection can be problematic.
We also now request and free GPIOs and support the MGB100
board, previous code was very AR525W-centric.
Signed-off-by: Volker Weiss <volker@tintuc.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:548: warning: 'ptrace_bts_get_size' defined but not used
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:558: warning: 'ptrace_bts_read_record' defined but not used
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:607: warning: 'ptrace_bts_clear' defined but not used
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:617: warning: 'ptrace_bts_drain' defined but not used
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:720: warning: 'ptrace_bts_config' defined but not used
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:788: warning: 'ptrace_bts_status' defined but not used
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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some early Athlon XP's and Opterons generate bogus faults on prefetch
instructions. The workaround for this regressed over .24 - reinstate it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix the 3D performance drop reported at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10328
fb drivers are using ioremap()/ioremap_nocache(), followed by mtrr_add with
WC attribute. Recent changes in page attribute code made both
ioremap()/ioremap_nocache() mappings as UC (instead of previous UC-). This
breaks the graphics performance, as the effective memory type is UC instead
of expected WC.
The correct way to fix this is to add ioremap_wc() (which uses UC- in the
absence of PAT kernel support and WC with PAT) and change all the
fb drivers to use this new ioremap_wc() API.
We can take this correct and longer route for post 2.6.25. For now,
revert back to the UC- behavior for ioremap/ioremap_nocache.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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we could call find_max_pfn() directly instead of setup_memory() to get
max_pfn needed for mtrr trimming.
otherwise setup_memory() is called two times... that is duplicated...
[ mingo@elte.hu: both Thomas and me simulated a double call to
setup_bootmem_allocator() and can confirm that it is a real bug
which can hang in certain configs. It's not been reported yet but
that is probably due to the relatively scarce nature of
MTRR-trimming systems. ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:56:22 -0600
Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> wrote:
> On 26/03/08 14:31 +0100, Stefan Pfetzing wrote:
> > Hello Jordan,
> >
> > I just tried to build your geodwdt driver for the geode watchdog. Therefore
> > I pulled your repository from http://git.infradead.org/geode.git (or more,
> > the git url).
> >
> > I tried to build the geodewdt driver as a module - which didn't work, and
> > it failed with the same problem as earlier mentioned on lkmk [1]. I also
> > checked the fix [2], but that seems to be already in your (or linus) tree -
> > and so I'm unsure what the problem is.
> >
> > [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/2/17/884074
> > [2] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/2/17/884174
> >
> > Building directly into the kernel seems to work.
> >
> > Maybe you have some idea?
>
> Hmm - that is strange. Exporting the symbols should work. I recommend
> starting over with a clean tree.
>
> CCing Andres - any thoughts?
>
> Jordan
>
Er, yeah. The patch below should fix it. This should probably go into
2.6.25.
Oops, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL wasn't being declared due to this header
being missing.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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I have found that using SMI to change the cpu's frequency on my DELL
Latitude L400 clobbers the ECX register in speedstep_set_state, causing
unneccessary retries because the "state" variable has changed silently (GCC
assumes it is still present in ECX).
play safe and avoid gcc caching any register across IO port accesses
that trigger SMIs.
Signed-off by: <Stephan.Diestelhorst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix oops during boot reported in this thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/65
enable booting on memoryless nodes.
Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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reported by mereandor@gmail.com, in:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6307
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Convert function comment blocks to kernel-doc notation.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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While backporting 72dc67a69690288538142df73a7e3ac66fea68dc, a gfn_to_page()
call was duplicated instead of moved (due to an unrelated patch not being
present in mainline). This caused a page reference leak, resulting in a
fairly massive memory leak.
Fix by removing the extraneous gfn_to_page() call.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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init_rmode_tss was forgotten during the conversion from mmap_sem to
slots_lock.
INFO: task qemu-system-x86:3748 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8053d100>] __down_read+0x86/0x9e
[<ffffffff8053fb43>] do_page_fault+0x346/0x78e
[<ffffffff8053d235>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a
[<ffffffff8053dcad>] error_exit+0x0/0xa9
[<ffffffff8035a7a7>] copy_user_generic_string+0x17/0x40
[<ffffffff88099a8a>] :kvm:kvm_write_guest_page+0x3e/0x5f
[<ffffffff880b661a>] :kvm_intel:init_rmode_tss+0xa7/0xf9
[<ffffffff880b7d7e>] :kvm_intel:vmx_vcpu_reset+0x10/0x38a
[<ffffffff8809b9a5>] :kvm:kvm_arch_vcpu_setup+0x20/0x53
[<ffffffff8809a1e4>] :kvm:kvm_vm_ioctl+0xad/0x1cf
[<ffffffff80249dea>] __lock_acquire+0x4f7/0xc28
[<ffffffff8028fad9>] vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x6b
[<ffffffff8028fd75>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x252/0x26b
[<ffffffff8028fdca>] sys_ioctl+0x3c/0x5e
[<ffffffff8020b01b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Do not assume that a shadow mapping will always point to the same host
frame number. Fixes crash with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
[avi: move after first printk(), add another printk()]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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is_rmap_pte() doesn't take into account io ptes, which have the avail bit set.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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The vmx hardware state restore restores the tss selector and base address, but
not its length. Usually, this does not matter since most of the tss contents
is within the default length of 0x67. However, if a process is using ioperm()
to grant itself I/O port permissions, an additional bitmap within the tss,
but outside the default length is consulted. The effect is that the process
will receive a SIGSEGV instead of transparently accessing the port.
Fix by restoring the tss length. Note that i386 had this working already.
Closes bugzilla 10246.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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It appears that 64-bit PCI resources cannot possibly ever have worked on
x86-32 even when the RESOURCES_64BIT config option was set, because any
driver that tried to [pci_]ioremap() the resource would have been unable
to do so because the high 32 bits would have been silently dropped on
the floor by the ioremap() routines that only used "unsigned long".
Change them to use "resource_size_t" instead, which properly encodes the
whole 64-bit resource data if RESOURCES_64BIT is enabled.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert
commit f62f1fc9ef94f74fda2b456d935ba2da69fa0a40
Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 7 15:02:50 2008 -0800
x86: reserve dma32 early for gart
The patch has a dependency on bootmem modifications which are not .25
material that late in the -rc cycle. The problem which is addressed by
the patch is limited to machines with 256G and more memory booted with
NUMA disabled. This is not a .25 regression and the audience which is
affected by this problem is very limited, so it's safer to do the
revert than pulling in intrusive bootmem changes right now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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so use nodedata_phys directly.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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fix the bug reported here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10232
use update_memory_range() instead of add_memory_range() directly
to avoid closing the gap.
( the new code only affects and runs on systems where the MTRR
workaround triggers. )
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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we have seen a little problem in rebooting Dell Optiplex 745 with the
0KW626 board. Here is a small patch enabling reboot with this board,
which forces the default reboot path it into the BIOS reboot mode.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The fault_msg text is not explictly nul terminated now in startup
assembly. Do so by converting .ascii to .asciz.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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aperture_64.c takes a piece of memory and makes it into iommu
window... but such window may not be saved by swsusp -- that leads to
oops during hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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this patch allows hpet=force on nVidia nForce 430 southbridge.
This patch was tested by me on my old Asus A8N-VM CSM (where bios does not
support hpet and does not advertise it via acpi entry). My nForce430 version:
lspci -nn | grep LPC
00:0a.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge [10de:0260]
(rev a2)
Kernel 2.6.24.3 after patching and using hpet=force reports this:
dmesg | grep -i hpet
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda8 ro vga=773 video=vesafb:mtrr:4,ywrap
vt.default_utf8=0 hpet=force
Force enabled HPET at base address 0xfed00000
hpet clockevent registered
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
grep -i hpet /proc/timer_list
Clock Event Device: hpet
set_next_event: hpet_legacy_next_event
set_mode: hpet_legacy_set_mode
grep Clock /proc/timer_list (before patching)
Clock Event Device: pit
Clock Event Device: lapic
grep Clock /proc/timer_list (after patching)
Clock Event Device: hpet
Clock Event Device: lapic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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a system with 256 GB of RAM, when NUMA is disabled crashes the
following way:
Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
This costs you 64 MB of RAM
Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (ffff8101c0000000,65536K)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Not enough memory for aperture
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc4-x86-latest.git #33
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff84037c62>] panic+0xb2/0x190
[<ffffffff840381fc>] ? release_console_sem+0x7c/0x250
[<ffffffff847b1628>] ? __alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x48/0x90
[<ffffffff847b0ac9>] ? free_bootmem+0x29/0x50
[<ffffffff847ac1f7>] gart_iommu_hole_init+0x5e7/0x680
[<ffffffff847b255b>] ? alloc_large_system_hash+0x16b/0x310
[<ffffffff84506a2f>] ? _etext+0x0/0x1
[<ffffffff847a2e8c>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x1c/0x40
[<ffffffff847ac795>] mem_init+0x45/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8479ff35>] start_kernel+0x295/0x380
[<ffffffff8479f1c2>] _sinittext+0x1c2/0x230
the root cause is : memmap PMD is too big,
[ffffe200e0600000-ffffe200e07fffff] PMD ->ffff81383c000000 on node 0
almost near 4G..., and vmemmap_alloc_block will use up the ram under 4G.
solution will be:
1. make memmap allocation get memory above 4G...
2. reserve some dma32 range early before we try to set up memmap for all.
and release that before pci_iommu_alloc, so gart or swiotlb could get some
range under 4g limit for sure.
the patch is using method 2.
because method1 may need more code to handle SPARSEMEM and SPASEMEM_VMEMMAP
will get
Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
This costs you 64 MB of RAM
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 4000000
Memory: 264245736k/268959744k available (8484k kernel code, 4187464k reserved, 4004k data, 724k init)
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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errata list
We recently got some of the "Desktop Form Factor" Optiplex 745's in. I
noticed that there's an entry for the SFF one's, but the BIOS model number
of the DFF differs from that of the SFF. We have been reliably
experiencing the same (as far as I can tell) reboot bug as the SFF boxes.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fix visws printk format warnings:
/local/linsrc/linux-2.6.24-git15/arch/x86/mach-visws/traps.c:50: warning: format '%#lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u32'
/local/linsrc/linux-2.6.24-git15/arch/x86/mach-visws/traps.c:50: warning: format '%#lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u32'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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when numa disabled I got this compile warning:
arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c: In function setup_per_cpu_areas:
arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c:147: warning: the address of
contig_page_data will always evaluate as true
it seems we missed checking if the node is online before we try to refer
NODE_DATA. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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memory-less node support:
this patch uses updated dev_to_node, because dev_to_node already makes sure
it returns an online node.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for
pm_qos_interface.txt).
Update references to moved filenames.
Fix some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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quicklists cause a serious memory leak on 32-bit x86,
as documented at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991
the reason is that the quicklist pool is a special-purpose
cache that grows out of proportion. It is not accounted for
anywhere and users have no way to even realize that it's
the quicklists that are causing RAM usage spikes. It was
supposed to be a relatively small pool, but as demonstrated
by KOSAKI Motohiro, they can grow as large as:
Quicklists: 1194304 kB
given how much trouble this code has caused historically,
and given that Andrew objected to its introduction on x86
(years ago), the best option at this point is to remove them.
[ any performance benefits of caching constructed pgds should
be implemented in a more generic way (possibly within the page
allocator), while still allowing constructed pages to be
allocated by other workloads. ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The code to restart syscalls after signals depends on checking for a
negative orig_ax, and for particular negative -ERESTART* values in ax.
These fields are 64 bits and for a 32-bit task they get zero-extended.
The syscall restart behavior is lost, a regression from a native 32-bit
kernel and from 64-bit tasks' behavior.
This patch fixes the problem by doing sign-extension where it matters.
For orig_ax, the only time the value should be -1 but winds up as
0x0ffffffff is via a 32-bit ptrace call. So the patch changes ptrace to
sign-extend the 32-bit orig_eax value when it's stored; it doesn't
change the checks on orig_ax, though it uses the new current_syscall()
inline to better document the subtle importance of the used of
signedness there.
The ax value is stored a lot of ways and it seems hard to get them all
sign-extended at their origins. So for that, we use the
current_syscall_ret() to sign-extend it only for 32-bit tasks at the
time of the -ERESTART* comparisons.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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I figured out another ACPI related regression today.
randconfig testing triggered an early boot-time hang on a laptop of mine
(32-bit x86, config attached) - the screen was scrolling ACPI AML
exceptions [with no serial port and no early debugging available].
v2.6.24 works fine on that laptop with the same .config, so after a few
hours of bisection (had to restart it 3 times - other regressions
interacted), it honed in on this commit:
| 10270d4838bdc493781f5a1cf2e90e9c34c9142f is first bad commit
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| Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
| Date: Wed Feb 13 09:56:14 2008 -0800
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| acpi: fix acpi_os_read_pci_configuration() misuse of raw_pci_read()
reverting this commit ontop of -rc5 gave a correctly booting kernel.
But this commit fixes a real bug so the real question is, why did it
break the bootup?
After quite some head-scratching, the following change stood out:
- pci_id->bus = tu8;
+ pci_id->bus = val;
pci_id->bus is defined as u16:
struct acpi_pci_id {
u16 segment;
u16 bus;
...
and 'tu8' changed from u8 to u32. So previously we'd unconditionally
mask the return value of acpi_os_read_pci_configuration()
(raw_pci_read()) to 8 bits, but now we just trust whatever comes back
from the PCI access routines and only crop it to 16 bits.
But if the high 8 bits of that result contains any noise then we'll
write that into ACPI's PCI ID descriptor and confuse the heck out of the
rest of ACPI.
So lets check the PCI-BIOS code on that theory. We have this codepath
for 8-bit accesses (arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c:pci_bios_read()):
switch (len) {
case 1:
__asm__("lcall *(%%esi); cld\n\t"
"jc 1f\n\t"
"xor %%ah, %%ah\n"
"1:"
: "=c" (*value),
"=a" (result)
: "1" (PCIBIOS_READ_CONFIG_BYTE),
"b" (bx),
"D" ((long)reg),
"S" (&pci_indirect));
Aha! The "=a" output constraint puts the full 32 bits of EAX into
*value. But if the BIOS's routines set any of the high bits to nonzero,
we'll return a value with more set in it than intended.
The other, more common PCI access methods (v1 and v2 PCI reads) clear
out the high bits already, for example pci_conf1_read() does:
switch (len) {
case 1:
*value = inb(0xCFC + (reg & 3));
which explicitly converts the return byte up to 32 bits and zero-extends
it.
So zero-extending the result in the PCI-BIOS read routine fixes the
regression on my laptop. ( It might fix some other long-standing issues
we had with PCI-BIOS during the past decade ... ) Both 8-bit and 16-bit
accesses were buggy.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ahmed managed to crash the Host in release_pgd(), which cannot be a Guest
bug, and indeed it wasn't.
The bug was that handing a 0 as the address of the toplevel page table
being manipulated can cause the lookup code in find_pgdir() to return
an uninitialized cache entry (we shadow up to 4 top level page tables
for each Guest).
Commit 37cc8d7f963ba2deec29c9b68716944516a3244f introduced this
behaviour in the Guest, uncovering the bug.
The patch which he submitted (which removed the /4 from the index
calculation) simply ensured that these high-indexed entries hit the
early exit path of guest_set_pmd(). But you get lots of segfaults in
guest userspace as the PMDs aren't being updated.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Now the TSC code handles a zero return from calculate_cpu_khz(),
lguest can simply pass through the value it gets from the Host: if
non-zero, all the normal TSC code applies.
Otherwise (or if the Host really doesn't support TSC), the clocksource
code will fall back to the slower but reasonable lguest clock.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This makes 64-bit ptrace calls setting the 64-bit orig_ax field for a
32-bit task sign-extend the low 32 bits up to 64. This matches what a
64-bit debugger expects when tracing a 32-bit task.
This follows on my "x86_64 ia32 syscall restart fix". This didn't
matter until that was fixed.
The debugger ignores or zeros the high half of every register slot it
sets (including the orig_rax pseudo-register) uniformly. It expects
that the setting of the low 32 bits always has the same meaning as a
32-bit debugger setting those same 32 bits with native 32-bit
facilities.
This never arose before because the syscall restart check never
matched any -ERESTART* values due to lack of sign extension. Before
that fix, even 32-bit ptrace setting orig_eax to -1 failed to trigger
the restart check anyway. So this was never noticed as a regression
of 64-bit debuggers vs 32-bit debuggers on the same 64-bit kernel.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
[ Changed to just do the sign-extension unconditionally on x86-64,
since orig_ax is always just a small integer and doesn't need
the full 64-bit range ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The new x86 setup code (4fd06960f120) broke booting on an old P3/500MHz
with an onboard Voodoo3 of mine. After debugging it, it turned out
to be caused by the fact that the vesa probing now asks for VBE2 data.
Disassembing the video BIOS shows that it overflows the vesa_general_info
structure when VBE2 data is requested because the source addresses for the
information strings which get strcpy'ed to the buffer lie outside the 32K
BIOS code (and hence contain long sequences of 0xff's).
E.G.:
get_vbe_controller_info:
00002A9C 60 pushaw
00002A9D 1E push ds
00002A9E 0E push cs
00002A9F 1F pop ds
00002AA0 2BC9 sub cx,cx
00002AA2 6626813D56424532 cmp dword [es:di],0x32454256 ; "VBE2"
00002AAA 7501 jnz .1
00002AAC 41 inc cx
.1:
00002AAD 51 push cx
00002AAE B91400 mov cx,0x14
00002AB1 BED47F mov si, controller_header
00002AB4 57 push di
00002AB5 F3A4 rep movsb ; copy vbe1.2 header
00002AB7 B9EC00 mov cx,0xec
00002ABA 2AC0 sub al,al
00002ABC F3AA rep stosb ; zero pad remainder
00002ABE 5F pop di
00002ABF E8EB0D call word get_memory
00002AC2 C1E002 shl ax,0x2
00002AC5 26894512 mov [es:di+0x12],ax ; total memory
00002AC9 26C745040003 mov word [es:di+0x4],0x300 ; VBE version
00002ACF 268C4D08 mov [es:di+0x8],cs
00002AD3 268C4D10 mov [es:di+0x10],cs
00002AD7 59 pop cx
00002AD8 E361 jcxz .done ; VBE2 requested?
00002ADA 8D9D0001 lea bx,[di+0x100]
00002ADE 53 push bx
00002ADF 87DF xchg bx,di ; di now points to 2nd half
00002AE1 26C747140001 mov word [es:bx+0x14],0x100 ; sw rev
00002AE7 26897F06 mov [es:bx+0x6],di ; oem string
00002AEB 268C4708 mov [es:bx+0x8],es
00002AEF BE5280 mov si,0x8052 ; oem string
00002AF2 E87A1B call word strcpy
00002AF5 26897F0E mov [es:bx+0xe],di ; video mode list
00002AF9 268C4710 mov [es:bx+0x10],es
00002AFD B91E00 mov cx,0x1e
00002B00 BEE87F mov si,vidmodes
00002B03 F3A5 rep movsw
00002B05 26897F16 mov [es:bx+0x16],di ; oem vendor
00002B09 268C4718 mov [es:bx+0x18],es
00002B0D BE2480 mov si,0x8024 ; oem vendor
00002B10 E85C1B call word strcpy
00002B13 26897F1A mov [es:bx+0x1a],di ; oem product
00002B17 268C471C mov [es:bx+0x1c],es
00002B1B BE3880 mov si,0x8038 ; oem product
00002B1E E84E1B call word strcpy
00002B21 26897F1E mov [es:bx+0x1e],di ; oem product rev
00002B25 268C4720 mov [es:bx+0x20],es
00002B29 BE4580 mov si,0x8045 ; oem product rev
00002B2C E8401B call word strcpy
00002B2F 58 pop ax
00002B30 B90001 mov cx,0x100
00002B33 2BCF sub cx,di
00002B35 03C8 add cx,ax
00002B37 2AC0 sub al,al
00002B39 F3AA rep stosb ; zero pad
.done:
00002B3B 1F pop ds
00002B3C 61 popaw
00002B3D B84F00 mov ax,0x4f
00002B40 C3 ret
(The full BIOS can be found at http://peter.korsgaard.com/vgabios.bin
if interested).
The old setup code didn't ask for VBE2 info, and the new code doesn't
actually do anything with the extra information, so the fix is to simply
not request it. Other BIOS'es might have the same problem.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jan Beulich noticed that the reboot fixups went missing during
reboot.c unification.
(commit 4d022e35fd7e07c522c7863fee6f07e53cf3fc14)
Geode and a few other rare boards with special reboot quirks are
affected.
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR has no meaning in the actual MSR...
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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convert_fxsr_to_user() in 2.6.24's i387_32.c did this, and
convert_to_fxsr() also does the inverse, so I assume it's an oversight
that it is no longer being done.
[ mingo@elte.hu:
we encode it this way because there's no space for the 'FPU Last
Instruction Opcode' (->fop) field in the legacy user_i387_ia32_struct
that PTRACE_GETFPREGS/PTRACE_SETFPREGS uses.
it's probably pure legacy - i'd be surprised if any user-space relied on
the FPU Last Opcode in any way. But indeed we used to do it previously
so the most conservative thing is to preserve that piece of information.
]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The Linux kernel currently does not clear the direction flag before
calling a signal handler, whereas the x86/x86-64 ABI requires that.
Linux had this behavior/bug forever, but this becomes a real problem
with gcc version 4.3, which assumes that the direction flag is
correctly cleared at the entry of a function.
This patches changes the setup_frame() functions to clear the
direction before entering the signal handler.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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We don't need to printk a message every time we transition.
Leave the code there, but ifdef'd out, as it's useful when
adding support for new processors.
Reported-by: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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