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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull __TIME__/__DATE__ removal from Michal Marek:
"This series by Josh finishes the removal of __DATE__ and __TIME__ from
the kernel. The last patch adds -Werror=date-time to KBUILD_CFLAGS to
stop these from reappearing.
Part of the series went through Greg's trees during this merge window,
which is why this pull request is not based on v3.13-rc1"
* 'drop-time' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Makefile: Build with -Werror=date-time if the compiler supports it
x86: math-emu: Drop already-disabled print of build date
net: wireless: brcm80211: Drop debug version with build date/time
mtd: denali: Drop print of build date/time
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The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a
defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of
memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.
This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are
dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are
dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the
page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly.
This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify()
is called only for present pages.
Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes
tracking").
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Further discussion here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139073901101034&w=2
kbuild, 0day kernel build service, outputs the warning:
arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:333:1: warning: the frame size of 2056 bytes
is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
because check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable() allocates two cpumasks on the
stack. Fix this by moving the two cpumasks to a global file context.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390915331-27375-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Janet Morgan <janet.morgan@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ruiv Wang <ruiv.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: Gong Chen <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Both clang 3.5 and GCC 4.9 will support this (as of r199754 and r207196
respectively). Both have been tested to produce booting kernels when the
16-bit code is built with -m16. (Modulo LLVM PR3997, at least.)
[ hpa: folded test for -m16 into M16_CFLAGS ]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390997807.20153.133.camel@i7.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Commit dd78b97367bd575918204cc89107c1479d3fc1a7 ("x86, boot: Move CPU
flags out of cpucheck") introduced ambiguous inline asm in the
has_eflag() function. In 16-bit mode want the instruction to be
'pushfl', but we just say 'pushf' and hope the compiler does what we
wanted.
When building with 'clang -m16', it won't, because clang doesn't use
the horrid '.code16gcc' hack that even 'gcc -m16' uses internally.
Say what we mean and don't make the compiler make assumptions.
[ hpa: ideally we would be able to use the gcc %zN construct here, but
that is broken for 64-bit integers in gcc < 4.5.
The code with plain "pushf/popf" is fine for 32- or 64-bit mode, but
not for 16-bit mode; in 16-bit mode those are 16-bit instructions in
.code16 mode, and 32-bit instructions in .code16gcc mode. ]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391079628.26079.82.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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By setting a Kconfig option, the architecture can control when
guest notifications will be presented by the apf backend.
There is the default batch mechanism, working as before, where the vcpu
thread should pull in this information.
Opposite to this, there is now the direct mechanism, that will push the
information to the guest.
This way s390 can use an already existing architecture interface.
Still the vcpu thread should call check_completion to cleanup leftovers.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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LTO requires consistent types of symbols over all files.
So "nmi" cannot be declared as a char [] here, need to use the
correct function type.
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-8-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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These functions are called from inline assembler stubs, thus
need to be global and visible.
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-7-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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LTO in gcc 4.6/47. has trouble with global register variables. They were used
to read the stack pointer. Use a simple inline assembler statement with
a mov instead.
This also helps LLVM/clang, which does not support global register
variables.
[ hpa: Ideally this should become a builtin in both gcc and clang. ]
v2: More general asm constraint. Fix description (Jan Beulich)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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The paravirt thunks use a hack of using a static reference to a static
function to reference that function from the top level statement.
This assumes that gcc always generates static function names in a specific
format, which is not necessarily true.
Simply make these functions global and asmlinkage or __visible. This way the
static __used variables are not needed and everything works.
Functions with arguments are __visible to keep the register calling
convention on 32bit.
Changed in paravirt and in all users (Xen and vsmp)
v2: Use __visible for functions with arguments
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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The paravirt patching code assumes that it can reference a
local assembler label between two different top level assembler
statements. This does not work with LTO
where the assembler code may end up in different assembler files.
Replace it with extern / global /asm linkage labels.
This also removes one redundant copy of the macro.
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- Make the C code used by the paravirt stubs visible
- Since they have to be global now, give them a more unique
name.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull intel MID cleanups from Peter Anvin:
"Miscellaneous cleanups to the intel-mid code merged earlier in this
merge window"
* 'x86-intel-mid-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, intel-mid: Cleanup some platform code's header files
x86, intel-mid: Add missing 'void' to functions without arguments
x86: Don't add new __cpuinit users to Merrifield platform code
x86: Don't introduce more __cpuinit users in intel_mid_weak_decls.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more x32 uabi type fixes from Peter Anvin:
"Despite the branch name, **most of these changes are to generic
code**. They change types so that they make an increasing amount of
the exported uapi kernel headers usable for libc.
The ARM64 people are also interested in these changes for their ILP32
ABI"
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
uapi: Use __kernel_long_t in struct mq_attr
uapi: Use __kernel_ulong_t in shmid64_ds/shminfo64/shm_info
x86, uapi, x32: Use __kernel_ulong_t in x86 struct semid64_ds
uapi: Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds
uapi: Use __kernel_long_t in struct msgbuf
uapi, asm-generic: Use __kernel_ulong_t in uapi struct ipc64_perm
uapi: Use __kernel_long_t/__kernel_ulong_t in <linux/resource.h>
uapi: Use __kernel_long_t in struct timex
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When Hyper-V hypervisor leaves are present, KVM must relocate
its own leaves at 0x40000100, because Windows does not look for
Hyper-V leaves at indices other than 0x40000000. In this case,
the KVM features are at 0x40000101, but the old code would always
look at 0x40000001.
Fix by using kvm_cpuid_base(). This also requires making the
function non-inline, since kvm_cpuid_base() is static.
Fixes: 1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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It is unnecessary to go through hypervisor_cpuid_base every time
a leaf is found (which will be every time a feature is requested
after the next patch).
Fixes: 1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Self explanatory.
Reported-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Bring in upstream merge of x86/kaslr for future patches.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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platform_ipc.h and platform_msic.h are wrongly declaring functions as
external and with 'weak' attribute. This patch does a cleanup on those
header files.
It should have no functional change.
Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390950567-12821-1-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Dave reported big numa system booting is broken.
It turns out that commit 5b6e529521d3 ("x86: memblock: set current limit
to max low memory address") sets the limit to low wrongly.
max_low_pfn_mapped is different from max_pfn_mapped.
max_low_pfn_mapped is always under 4G.
That will memblock_alloc_nid all go under 4G.
Revert 5b6e529521d3 to fix a no-boot regression which was triggered by
457ff1de2d24 ("lib/swiotlb.c: use memblock apis for early memory
allocations").
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The kernel already has this information, so other bits of kernel code
shouldn't duplicate that. This also eliminates the use of __DATE__,
which makes the build non-deterministic.
This message was already disabled at build time, with PRINT_MESSAGES
undef'd at the top of the file.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Check for invalid state transitions on guest-initiated updates of
MSR_IA32_APICBASE. This address both enabling of the x2APIC when it is
not supported and all invalid transitions as described in SDM section
10.12.5. It also checks that no reserved bit is set in APICBASE by the
guest.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
[Use cpuid_maxphyaddr instead of guest_cpuid_get_phys_bits. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann.
2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann.
3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic
Sowa and Daniel Borkmann.
4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket
ioctl, add a "get" operation to match. From Ben Hutchings.
5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also
from Ben Hutchings.
6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet. Basically, if we
have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or
device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data.
7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko.
8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel
Borkmann.
9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154
layers, from Jukka Rissanen.
10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc.
11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich.
12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu.
13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott
Feldman.
14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can
already get the TCI. From Atzm Watanabe.
15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam.
16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du.
17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets. From Tom
Herbert.
18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay
Subramanian.
19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf.
20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination
address. From Christoph Paasch.
21) Support 10G in generic phylib. From Andy Fleming.
22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX
hash, if provided. From Tom Herbert.
The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits)
net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter
ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up
fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition
rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info
qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55
qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors.
qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters.
qlcnic: Update poll controller code path
qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup
qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging.
qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn.
bonding: fix u64 division
rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC
sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100
Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer.
net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs
tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE()
ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called
net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A couple of regression fixes mostly hitting virtualized setups, but
also some bare metal systems"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/x86/tsc: Initialize multiplier to 0
sched/clock: Fixup early initialization
sched/preempt/x86: Fix voluntary preempt for x86
Revert "sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity"
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This patch fixes the following warning:
warning: (X86_INTEL_MID) selects INTEL_SCU_IPC which has unmet direct dependencies (X86 && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES && X86_INTEL_MID)
It happens because when selected, X86_INTEL_MID tries to select
INTEL_SCU_IPC regardless all its dependencies are met or not.
This patch fixes it by adding the missing X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
dependency to X86_INTEL_MID.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390329699-20782-1-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge in the x86 changes to apply a fix.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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When ACPI SLIT table has an I/O locality (i.e. a locality
unique to an I/O device), numa_set_distance() emits this warning
message:
NUMA: Warning: node ids are out of bound, from=-1 to=-1 distance=10
acpi_numa_slit_init() calls numa_set_distance() with
pxm_to_node(), which assumes that all localities have been
parsed with SRAT previously. SRAT does not list I/O localities,
where as SLIT lists all localities including I/Os. Hence,
pxm_to_node() returns NUMA_NO_NODE (-1) for an I/O locality.
I/O localities are not supported and are ignored today, but emitting
such warning message leads to unnecessary confusion.
Change acpi_numa_slit_init() to avoid calling
numa_set_distance() with NUMA_NO_NODE.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dSvpjjvp8aMzs1ybkftxohlh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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There was a large ebizzy performance regression that was
bisected to commit 611ae8e3 (x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range
support for x86). The problem was related to the
tlb_flushall_shift tuning for IvyBridge which was altered. The
problem is that it is not clear if the tuning values for each
CPU family is correct as the methodology used to tune the values
is unclear.
This patch uses a conservative tlb_flushall_shift value for all
CPU families except IvyBridge so the decision can be revisited
if any regression is found as a result of this change.
IvyBridge is an exception as testing with one methodology
determined that the value of 2 is acceptable. Details are in
the changelog for the patch "x86: mm: Change tlb_flushall_shift
for IvyBridge".
One important aspect of this to watch out for is Xen. The
original commit log mentioned large performance gains on Xen.
It's possible Xen is more sensitive to this value if it flushes
small ranges of pages more frequently than workloads on bare
metal typically do.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dyzMww3fqugnhbhgo6Gxmtkw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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There was a large performance regression that was bisected to
commit 611ae8e3 ("x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for
x86"). This patch simply changes the default balance point
between a local and global flush for IvyBridge.
In the interest of allowing the tests to be reproduced, this
patch was tested using mmtests 0.15 with the following
configurations
configs/config-global-dhp__tlbflush-performance
configs/config-global-dhp__scheduler-performance
configs/config-global-dhp__network-performance
Results are from two machines
Ivybridge 4 threads: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Ivybridge 8 threads: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Page fault microbenchmark showed nothing interesting.
Ebizzy was configured to run multiple iterations and threads.
Thread counts ranged from 1 to NR_CPUS*2. For each thread count,
it ran 100 iterations and each iteration lasted 10 seconds.
Ivybridge 4 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 6395.44 ( 0.00%) 6789.09 ( 6.16%)
Mean 2 7012.85 ( 0.00%) 8052.16 ( 14.82%)
Mean 3 6403.04 ( 0.00%) 6973.74 ( 8.91%)
Mean 4 6135.32 ( 0.00%) 6582.33 ( 7.29%)
Mean 5 6095.69 ( 0.00%) 6526.68 ( 7.07%)
Mean 6 6114.33 ( 0.00%) 6416.64 ( 4.94%)
Mean 7 6085.10 ( 0.00%) 6448.51 ( 5.97%)
Mean 8 6120.62 ( 0.00%) 6462.97 ( 5.59%)
Ivybridge 8 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 7336.65 ( 0.00%) 7787.02 ( 6.14%)
Mean 2 8218.41 ( 0.00%) 9484.13 ( 15.40%)
Mean 3 7973.62 ( 0.00%) 8922.01 ( 11.89%)
Mean 4 7798.33 ( 0.00%) 8567.03 ( 9.86%)
Mean 5 7158.72 ( 0.00%) 8214.23 ( 14.74%)
Mean 6 6852.27 ( 0.00%) 7952.45 ( 16.06%)
Mean 7 6774.65 ( 0.00%) 7536.35 ( 11.24%)
Mean 8 6510.50 ( 0.00%) 6894.05 ( 5.89%)
Mean 12 6182.90 ( 0.00%) 6661.29 ( 7.74%)
Mean 16 6100.09 ( 0.00%) 6608.69 ( 8.34%)
Ebizzy hits the worst case scenario for TLB range flushing every
time and it shows for these Ivybridge CPUs at least that the
default choice is a poor on. The patch addresses the problem.
Next was a tlbflush microbenchmark written by Alex Shi at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133727348217113 . It
measures access costs while the TLB is being flushed. The
expectation is that if there are always full TLB flushes that
the benchmark would suffer and it benefits from range flushing
There are 320 iterations of the test per thread count. The
number of entries is randomly selected with a min of 1 and max
of 512. To ensure a reasonably even spread of entries, the full
range is broken up into 8 sections and a random number selected
within that section.
iteration 1, random number between 0-64
iteration 2, random number between 64-128 etc
This is still a very weak methodology. When you do not know
what are typical ranges, random is a reasonable choice but it
can be easily argued that the opimisation was for smaller ranges
and an even spread is not representative of any workload that
matters. To improve this, we'd need to know the probability
distribution of TLB flush range sizes for a set of workloads
that are considered "common", build a synthetic trace and feed
that into this benchmark. Even that is not perfect because it
would not account for the time between flushes but there are
limits of what can be reasonably done and still be doing
something useful. If a representative synthetic trace is
provided then this benchmark could be revisited and the shift values retuned.
Ivybridge 4 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 10.50 ( 0.00%) 10.50 ( 0.03%)
Mean 2 17.59 ( 0.00%) 17.18 ( 2.34%)
Mean 3 22.98 ( 0.00%) 21.74 ( 5.41%)
Mean 5 47.13 ( 0.00%) 46.23 ( 1.92%)
Mean 8 43.30 ( 0.00%) 42.56 ( 1.72%)
Ivybridge 8 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 9.45 ( 0.00%) 9.36 ( 0.93%)
Mean 2 9.37 ( 0.00%) 9.70 ( -3.54%)
Mean 3 9.36 ( 0.00%) 9.29 ( 0.70%)
Mean 5 14.49 ( 0.00%) 15.04 ( -3.75%)
Mean 8 41.08 ( 0.00%) 38.73 ( 5.71%)
Mean 13 32.04 ( 0.00%) 31.24 ( 2.49%)
Mean 16 40.05 ( 0.00%) 39.04 ( 2.51%)
For both CPUs, average access time is reduced which is good as
this is the benchmark that was used to tune the shift values in
the first place albeit it is now known *how* the benchmark was
used.
The scheduler benchmarks were somewhat inconclusive. They
showed gains and losses and makes me reconsider how stable those
benchmarks really are or if something else might be interfering
with the test results recently.
Network benchmarks were inconclusive. Almost all results were
flat except for netperf-udp tests on the 4 thread machine.
These results were unstable and showed large variations between
reboots. It is unknown if this is a recent problems but I've
noticed before that netperf-udp results tend to vary.
Based on these results, changing the default for Ivybridge seems
like a logical choice.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cqnadffh1tiqrshthRj3Esge@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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When choosing between doing an address space or ranged flush,
the x86 implementation of flush_tlb_mm_range takes into account
whether there are any large pages in the range. A per-page
flush typically requires fewer entries than would covered by a
single large page and the check is redundant.
There is one potential exception. THP migration flushes single
THP entries and it conceivably would benefit from flushing a
single entry instead of the mm. However, this flush is after a
THP allocation, copy and page table update potentially with any
other threads serialised behind it. In comparison to that, the
flush is noise. It makes more sense to optimise balancing to
require fewer flushes than to optimise the flush itself.
This patch deletes the redundant huge page check.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sgei1drpOcburujPsfh6ovmo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL is not always accounted for correctly and
the comparison with total_vm is done before taking
tlb_flushall_shift into account. Clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-Iz5gcahrgskIldvukulzi0hh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Bisection between 3.11 and 3.12 fingered commit 9824cf97 ("mm:
vmstats: tlb flush counters") to cause overhead problems.
The counters are undeniably useful but how often do we really
need to debug TLB flush related issues? It does not justify
taking the penalty everywhere so make it a debugging option.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-XzxjntugxuwpxXhcrxqqh53b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Fix UV call into kgdb to depend only on whether KGDB is defined
and not both KGDB and KDB. This allows the power nmi command to
use the gdb remote connection if enabled. Note new action of
'kgdb' needs to be set as well to indicate user wants to wait
for gdb to be connected. If it's set to 'kdb' then an error
message is displayed if KDB is not configured.
Also note that if both KGDB and KDB are enabled, then the action
of 'kgdb' or 'kdb' has no affect on which is used. See the KGDB
documentation for further information.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.635540667@asylum.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make uv_register_nmi_notifier() and uv_handle_nmi_ping() static
to address sparse warnings.
Fix problem where uv_nmi_kexec_failed is unused when
CONFIG_KEXEC is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.480872353@asylum.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Some code added to the debug_core module had KDB dependencies
that it shouldn't have. Move the KDB dependent REASON back to
the caller to remove the dependency in the debug core code.
Update the call from the UV NMI handler to conform to the new
interface.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.318251993@asylum.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This is under CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but Smatch complains that mask comes
from the user and the test for "mask > 0xf" can underflow.
The fix is simple: amd_set_subcaches() should hand down not an 'int'
but an 'unsigned long' like it was originally indended to do.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140121072209.GA22095@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The workaround for this Erratum is included in AGESA. But BIOSes
spun only after Jan2014 will have the fix (atleast server
versions of the chip). The erratum affects both embedded and
server platforms and since we cannot say with certainity that
ALL BIOSes on systems out in the field will have the fix, we
should probably insulate ourselves in case BIOS does not do the
right thing or someone is using old BIOSes.
Refer to Revision Guide for AMD F16h models 00h-0fh, document 51810
Rev. 3.04, November2013 for details on the Erratum.
Tested the patch on Fam16h server platform and it works fine.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Cc: <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: <Kim.Naru@amd.com>
Cc: <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390515212-1824-1-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
Pull input subsystem updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
"Just a swath of driver fixes and cleanups, no new drivers this time
(although ALPS now supports one of the newer protocols, more to come)"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (57 commits)
Input: wacom - add support for DTU-1031
Input: wacom - fix wacom->shared guards for dual input devices
Input: edt_ft5x06 - use devm_* functions where appropriate
Input: hyperv-keyboard - pass through 0xE1 prefix
Input: logips2pp - fix spelling s/reciver/receiver/
Input: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
Input: twl4030-keypad - convert to using managed resources
Input: twl6040-vibra - remove unneeded check for CONFIG_OF
Input: twl4030-keypad - add device tree support
Input: twl6040-vibra - add missing of_node_put
Input: twl4030-vibra - add missing of_node_put
Input: i8042 - cleanup SERIO_I8042 dependencies
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on x86
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on unicore32
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on sparc
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO for SH_CAYMAN
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on powerpc
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on mips
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on IA64
Input: i8042 - select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO on ARM/Footbridge
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
core, PNP and cpuidle updates. They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.
The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
status via _STA.
Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare. Also ACPI
container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
acpi-cpufreq driver.
Specifics:
- ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
scans regardless of the current status of that device. In
accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.
- On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
execution of _STA for its ACPI object. From Srinivas Pandruvada.
- ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.
- ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.
- ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218. This adds support for
the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
debug facilities. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.
- Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
earlier. That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
From Chun-Yi Lee.
- Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).
- New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper. From
Jiang Liu.
- New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.
- Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.
- intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
Ramachandra.
- Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
Majewski.
- powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
Brown.
- Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
Kumar.
- cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.
- Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.
- Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.
- PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
Hansson.
- PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.
- New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
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Signed-off-by: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- the rest of MM
- add generic fixmap.h, use it
- backlight updates
- dynamic_debug updates
- printk() updates
- checkpatch updates
- binfmt_elf
- ramfs
- init/
- autofs4
- drivers/rtc
- nilfs
- hfsplus
- Documentation/
- coredump
- procfs
- fork
- exec
- kexec
- kdump
- partitions
- rapidio
- rbtree
- userns
- memstick
- w1
- decompressors
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 3.14:
- Improved crypto_memneq helper
- Use cyprto_memneq in arch-specific crypto code
- Replaced orphaned DCP driver with Freescale MXS DCP driver
- Added AVX/AVX2 version of AESNI-GCM encode and decode
- Added AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor (CCP) driver
- Misc fixes"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (41 commits)
crypto: aesni - fix build on x86 (32bit)
crypto: mxs - Fix sparse non static symbol warning
crypto: ccp - CCP device enabled/disabled changes
crypto: ccp - Cleanup hash invocation calls
crypto: ccp - Change data length declarations to u64
crypto: ccp - Check for caller result area before using it
crypto: ccp - Cleanup scatterlist usage
crypto: ccp - Apply appropriate gfp_t type to memory allocations
crypto: drivers - Sort drivers/crypto/Makefile
ARM: mxs: dts: Enable DCP for MXS
crypto: mxs - Add Freescale MXS DCP driver
crypto: mxs - Remove the old DCP driver
crypto: ahash - Fully restore ahash request before completing
crypto: aesni - fix build on x86 (32bit)
crypto: talitos - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
crypto: ccp - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
crypto: crypto4xx - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
crypto: caam - simplify and harden key parsing
crypto: omap-sham - Fix Polling mode for larger blocks
crypto: tcrypt - Added speed tests for AEAD crypto alogrithms in tcrypt test suite
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Remove an outdated reference to "most personal computers" having only one
CPU, and change the use of "singleprocessor" and "single processor" in
CONFIG_SMP's documentation to "uniprocessor" across all arches where that
documentation is present.
Signed-off-by: Robert Graffham <psquid@psquid.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch makes a couple of changes to the SMBIOS/DMI scanning
code so it can be used on other archs (such as ARM and arm64):
(a) wrap the calls to ioremap()/iounmap(), this allows the use of a
flavor of ioremap() more suitable for random unaligned access;
(b) allow the non-EFI fallback probe into hardcoded physical address
0xF0000 to be disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page. Usually, when
one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and
the registers.
I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code
that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is
quite useful to people debugging issues in mm.
This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what
VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual
BUG_ON.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Since we keep the clock value linearly continuous on frequency change,
make sure the initial multiplier is 0, such that our initial value is 0.
Without this we compute the initial value at whatever the TSC has
managed to reach since power-on.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Fixes: 20d1c86a57762 ("sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs")
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140123094804.GP30183@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Two major features that Xen community is excited about:
The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
queue with priorities. This lets us be able to handle more events,
have lower latency, and better scalability. Good stuff.
The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor. In short, PV is a mode where the
kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc. With
EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
hypervisor doing it for us.
In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
within the guest container. It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
name - a PV guest within an HVM container.
The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.
It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone. But it is
pretty awesome and we are excited about it.
Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.
In short, this pull has awesome features.
Features:
- FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000
events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
event latency through the use of FIFOs.
- Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")
Bug-fixes:
- Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
- Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
- Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
- Refactors in event channels"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"First round of KVM updates for 3.14; PPC parts will come next week.
Nothing major here, just bugfixes all over the place. The most
interesting part is the ARM guys' virtualized interrupt controller
overhaul, which lets userspace get/set the state and thus enables
migration of ARM VMs"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (67 commits)
kvm: make KVM_MMU_AUDIT help text more readable
KVM: s390: Fix memory access error detection
KVM: nVMX: Update guest activity state field on L2 exits
KVM: nVMX: Fix nested_run_pending on activity state HLT
KVM: nVMX: Clean up handling of VMX-related MSRs
KVM: nVMX: Add tracepoints for nested_vmexit and nested_vmexit_inject
KVM: nVMX: Pass vmexit parameters to nested_vmx_vmexit
KVM: nVMX: Leave VMX mode on clearing of feature control MSR
KVM: VMX: Fix DR6 update on #DB exception
KVM: SVM: Fix reading of DR6
KVM: x86: Sync DR7 on KVM_SET_DEBUGREGS
add support for Hyper-V reference time counter
KVM: remove useless write to vcpu->hv_clock.tsc_timestamp
KVM: x86: fix tsc catchup issue with tsc scaling
KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency
KVM: x86: handle invalid root_hpa everywhere
kvm: Provide kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield() stub
kvm: vfio: silence GCC warning
KVM: ARM: Remove duplicate include
arm/arm64: KVM: relax the requirements of VMA alignment for THP
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