* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
xen: add "capabilities" file
xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
xen: add irq_from_evtchn
xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
...
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Clear TS in irq_ts_save() when in an atomic section
x86: Detect use of extended APIC ID for AMD CPUs
x86: memtest: remove 64-bit division
x86, UV: Fix macros for multiple coherency domains
x86: Fix non-lazy GS handling in sys_vm86()
x86: Add quirk for reboot stalls on a Dell Optiplex 360
x86: Fix UV BAU activation descriptor init
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
x86: fix system without memory on node0
x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic
mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode
x86: process.c, remove useless headers
x86: merge process.c a bit
x86: use sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() on UMA
x86: unify 64-bit UMA and NUMA paging_init()
x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB
x86: Sanity check the e820 against the SRAT table using e820 map only
x86: clean up and and print out initial max_pfn_mapped
x86/pci: remove rounding quirk from e820_setup_gap()
x86, e820, pci: reserve extra free space near end of RAM
x86: fix typo in address space documentation
x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
x86, mm: fault.c, use printk_once() in is_errata93()
x86: move per-cpu mmu_gathers to mm/init.c
x86: move max_pfn_mapped and max_low_pfn_mapped to setup.c
x86: unify noexec handling
x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables
...
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, microcode: Simplify vfree() use
x86: microcode: use smp_call_function_single instead of set_cpus_allowed, cleanup of synchronization logic
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: cpu_debug: Remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding
x86: fixup numa_node information for AMD CPU northbridge functions
x86: k8 convert node_to_k8_nb_misc() from a macro to an inline function
x86: cacheinfo: complete L2/L3 Cache and TLB associativity field definitions
x86/docs: add description for cache_disable sysfs interface
x86: cacheinfo: disable L3 ECC scrubbing when L3 cache index is disabled
x86: cacheinfo: replace sysfs interface for cache_disable feature
x86: cacheinfo: use cached K8 NB_MISC devices instead of scanning for it
x86: cacheinfo: correct return value when cache_disable feature is not active
x86: cacheinfo: use L3 cache index disable feature only for CPUs that support it
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, nmi: Use predefined numbers instead of hardcoded one
x86: asm/processor.h: remove double declaration
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRdefType_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRdefType
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix4K_C0000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix4K_C0000
x86, mtrr: remove mtrr MSRs double declaration
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix16K_80000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix16K_80000
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix64K_00000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix64K_00000
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRcap_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRcap
x86: mce: remove duplicated #include
x86: msr-index.h remove duplicate MSR C001_0015 declaration
x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c a bit
x86: use symbolic name for VM86_SIGNAL when used as vm86 default return
x86: added 'ifndef _ASM_X86_IOMAP_H' to iomap.h
x86: avoid multiple declaration of kstack_depth_to_print
x86: vdso/vma.c declare vdso_enabled and arch_setup_additional_pages before they get used
x86: clean up declarations and variables
x86: apic/x2apic_cluster.c x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid should be static
x86 early quirks: eliminate unused function
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, 64-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::ip
x86, 32-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::fs
x86: clean up alternative.h
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file
ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.
sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users
sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
sched: Don't export sched_mc_power_savings on multi-socket single core system
sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace
sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code
sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule()
sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())
wait: don't use __wake_up_common()
sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()
sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package.
sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeup
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
x86: document new bzImage fields
x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
...
Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
Booting a 32-bit kernel on Magny-Cours results in the following panic:
...
Using APIC driver default
...
Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp
...
Getting VERSION: 80050010
Getting VERSION: 80050010
Getting ID: 10000000
Getting ID: ef000000
Getting LVT0: 700
Getting LVT1: 10000
Kernel panic - not syncing: Boot APIC ID in local APIC unexpected (16 vs 0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-rcX #2
Call Trace:
[<c05194da>] ? panic+0x38/0xd3
[<c0743102>] ? native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x259/0x31f
[<c073b19d>] ? kernel_init+0x3e/0x141
[<c073b15f>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x141
[<c020325f>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
The reason is that default_get_apic_id handled extension of local APIC
ID field just in case of XAPIC.
Thus for this AMD CPU, default_get_apic_id() returns 0 and
bigsmp_get_apic_id() returns 16 which leads to the respective kernel
panic.
This patch introduces a Linux specific feature flag to indicate
support for extended APIC id (8 bits instead of 4 bits width) and sets
the flag on AMD CPUs if applicable.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090608135509.GA12431@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix bug in the SGI UV macros that support systems with multiple
coherency domains. The macros used for referencing global MMR
(chipset registers) are failing to correctly "or" the NASID
(node identifier) bits that reside above M+N. These high bits
are supplied automatically by the chipset for memory accesses
coming from the processor socket.
However, the bits must be present for references to the special
global MMR space used to map chipset registers. (See uv_hub.h
for more details ...)
The bug results in references to invalid/incorrect nodes.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090608154405.GA16395@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove model information, encoding/decoding and reduce bookkeeping.
This, besides removing a lot of code and cleaning up the code, also
enables these features on many more CPUs that were enumerated before.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1244224637.8212.6.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The UV tlb shootdown code has a serious initialization error.
An array of structures [32*8] is initialized as if it were [32].
The array is indexed by (cpu number on the blade)*8, so the short
initialization works for up to 4 cpus on a blade.
But above that, we provide an invalid opcode to the hub's
broadcast assist unit.
This patch changes the allocation of the array to use its symbolic
dimensions for better clarity. And initializes all 32*8 entries.
Shortened 'UV_ACTIVATION_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE' to 'UV_ADP_SIZE' per Ingo's
recommendation.
Tested on the UV simulator.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <E1M6lZR-0007kV-Aq@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: irq/numa didnt build because this commit:
2759c32: x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic
Had a dependency on x86/cpufeature changes. Pull in that
(small) branch to fix the dependency.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c
Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
instead of declaring one variant as an inline function...
because other case is a variable
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A13B344.7030307@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Len expressed concern that the update_mptable feature has
side-effects on the ACPI code.
Make it sure explicitly that the code only ever gets called if
the (default disabled) update_mptable boot quirk option is
disabled.
[ Impact: isolate the update_mptable feature from ACPI code more ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0DC832.5090200@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Recently there were some changes to the meaning of node_possible_map,
and it is quite strange:
- the node without memory would be set in node_possible_map
- but some node with less NODE_MIN_SIZE will be kicked out of node_possible_map.
fix it by adding strict_setup_node_bootmem().
Also, remove unparse_node().
so result will be:
1. cpu_to_node() will return online node only (nearest one)
2. apicid_to_node() still returns the node that could be not online but is set
in node_possible_map.
3. node_possible_map will include nodes that mem on it are less NODE_MIN_SIZE
v2: after move_cpus_to_node change.
[ Impact: get node_possible_map right ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0C49BE.6080800@kernel.org>
[ v3: various small cleanups and comment clarifications ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
after:
| commit b263295dbf
| Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
| Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:47 2008 +0100
|
| x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model
we don't have MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE anymore.
Historically, x86-64 had an architecture-specific method for memory hotplug
whereby it scanned the SRAT for physical memory ranges that could be
potentially used for memory hot-add later. By reserving those ranges
without physical memory, the memmap would be allocated and left dormant
until needed. This depended on the DISCONTIG memory model which has been
removed so the code implementing HOTPLUG_RESERVE is now dead.
This patch removes the dead code used by MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE.
(Changelog authored by Mel.)
v2: updated changelog, and remove hotadd= in doc
[ Impact: remove dead code ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Workflow-found-OK-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0C4910.7090508@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
according to Ingo, io_apic irq-setup related functions have too many
parameters with a repetitive signature.
So reduce related funcs to get less params by passing a pointer
to a newly defined io_apic_irq_attr structure.
v2: io_apic_irq ==> irq_attr
triggering ==> trigger
v3: add set_io_apic_irq_attr
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A08ACD3.2070401@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.
It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:
| commit 8efcbab674
| Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
|
| paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation
The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).
If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).
Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:
nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin
CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18%
instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15%
CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03%
cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28%
cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56%
cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31%
branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04%
branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72%
branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67%
wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20%
The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.
(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)
So, what's the fix?
Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.
The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.
[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]
Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Handle the misconfiguration where CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is
incompatible with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. This is a configuration
error, but one which arises easily since Kconfig doesn't have the
smarts to express the true relationship between these two variables.
Hence, align __PHYSICAL_START the same way we align LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR
in <asm/boot.h>.
For non-relocatable kernels, this would cause the boot to fail.
[ Impact: fix boot failures for non-relocatable kernels ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Ed found that on 32-bit, boot_cpu_physical_apicid is not read right,
when the mptable is broken.
Interestingly, actually three paths use/set it:
1. acpi: at that time that is already read from reg
2. mptable: only read from mptable
3. no madt, and no mptable, that use default apic id 0 for 64-bit, -1 for 32-bit
so we could read the apic id for the 2/3 path. We trust the hardware
register more than we trust a BIOS data structure (the mptable).
We can also avoid the double set_fixmap() when acpi_lapic
is used, and also need to move cpu_has_apic earlier and
call apic_disable().
Also when need to update the apic id, we'd better read and
set the apic version as well - so that quirks are applied precisely.
v2: make path 3 with 64bit, use -1 as apic id, so could read it later.
v3: fix whitespace problem pointed out by Ed Swierk
v5: fix boot crash
[ Impact: get correct apic id for bsp other than acpi path ]
Reported-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <49FC85A9.2070702@kernel.org>
[ v4: sanity-check in the ACPI case too ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in
parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so
merge them to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Solve issues described in 6f66cbc630
in a way that doesn't resort to set_cpus_allowed();
* in fact, only collect_cpu_info and apply_microcode callbacks
must run on a target cpu, others will do just fine on any other.
smp_call_function_single() (as suggested by Ingo) is used to run
these callbacks on a target cpu.
* cleanup of synchronization logic of the 'microcode_core' part
The generic 'microcode_core' part guarantees that only a single cpu
(be it a full-fledged cpu, one of the cores or HT)
is being updated at any particular moment of time.
In general, there is no need for any additional sync. mechanism in
arch-specific parts (the patch removes existing spinlocks).
See also the "Synchronization" section in microcode_core.c.
* return -EINVAL instead of -1 (which is translated into -EPERM) in
microcode_write(), reload_cpu() and mc_sysdev_add(). Other suggestions
for an error code?
* use 'enum ucode_state' as return value of request_microcode_{fw, user}
to gain more flexibility by distinguishing between real error cases
and situations when an appropriate ucode was not found (which is not an
error per-se).
* some minor cleanups
Thanks a lot to Hugh Dickins for review/suggestions/testing!
Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124025889012541&w=2
[ Impact: refactor and clean up microcode driver locking code ]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1242078507.5560.9.camel@earth>
[ did some more cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 25 ++
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c | 58 ++----
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 326 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 92 +++-------
4 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
(~20 new comment lines)
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.
Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.
Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.
[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.
Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.
[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix to prevent sched_mc_power_saving from being exported through sysfs
for multi-scoket single core system. Max cores should be always greater than
one (1). My earlier patch that introduced fix for not exporting
'sched_mc_power_saving' on laptops broke it on multi-socket single core
system. This fix addresses issue on both laptop and multi-socket single
core system.
Below are the Test results:
1. Single socket - multi-core
Before Patch: Does not export 'sched_mc_power_saving'
After Patch: Does not export 'sched_mc_power_saving'
Result: Pass
2. Multi Socket - single core
Before Patch: exports 'sched_mc_power_saving'
After Patch: Does not export 'sched_mc_power_saving'
Result: Pass
3. Multi Socket - Multi core
Before Patch: exports 'sched_mc_power_saving'
After Patch: exports 'sched_mc_power_saving'
[ Impact: make the sched_mc_power_saving control available more consistently ]
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090511143914.GB4853@dirshya.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit
- the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized
[ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
struct thread_struct::ip isn't used on x86_64, struct pt_regs::ip is used
instead.
kgdb should be reading 0 always, but I can't check it.
[ Impact: (potentially) reduce thread_struct size on 64-bit ]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090503233015.GJ16631@x200.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After commit 464d1a78fb aka
"[PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs"
%fs saved during context switch moved from thread_struct to pt_regs
and value on thread_struct became unused.
[ Impact: reduce thread_struct size on 32-bit ]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090503232952.GI16631@x200.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Both print_local_APIC (used when apic=debug kernel param is set) and
cpu_debug code missed support for some extended APIC registers that
I'd like to see.
This adds support to show:
- extended APIC feature register
- extended APIC control register
- extended LVT registers
[ Impact: print more debug info ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090508162350.GO29045@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
setup_force_cpu_cap() only have one user (Xen guest code),
but it should not reuse cleared_cpu_cpus, otherwise it
will have problems on SMP.
Need to have a separate cpu_cpus_set array too, for forced-on
flags, beyond the forced-off flags.
Also need to setup handling before all cpus caps are combined.
[ Impact: fix the forced-set CPU feature flag logic ]
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
So we could set io apic routing when ACPI is not enabled.
[ Impact: prepare for new functionality ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A01C422.5070400@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To prepare those params for pcibios_irq_enable() to call setup_io_apic_routing().
[ Impact: extend function call API to prepare for new functionality ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A01C406.2040303@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The patch to call mp_config_acpi_gsi() from the ACPI IRQ registration
code never got mainline because there were open discussions about it.
This call is needed to properly update the kernel's copy of the mptable,
when the update_mptable boot parameter is needed.
Now that the dust has settled with the APIC unification, and since there
were no objections when the patch was re-submitted, try this again.
[ Impact: fix the update_mptable boot parameter ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A01C387.7090103@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Native x86-64 uses the IST mechanism to run int3 and debug traps on
an alternative stack. Xen does not do this, and so the frames were
being misinterpreted by the ptrace code. This change special-cases
these two exceptions by using Xen variants which run on the normal
kernel stack properly.
Impact: avoid crash or bad data when IST trap is invoked under Xen
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
MSRC001_0015 Hardware Configuration Register (HWCR) is already defined
as MSR_K7_HWCR.
And HWCR is available for >= K7.
So MSR_K8_HWCR is not required and no-one is using it.
[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher
branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve
conflicts
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extend the maximum addressable memory on x86-64 from 2^44 to
2^46 bytes. This requires some shuffling around of the vmalloc
and virtual memmap memory areas, to keep them away from the
direct mapping of up to 64TB of physical memory.
This patch also introduces a guard hole between the vmalloc
area and the virtual memory map space. There's really no
good reason why we wouldn't have a guard hole there.
[ Impact: future hardware enablement ]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505172856.6820db22@cuia.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mce: fix boot logging logic
x86, mce: make polling timer interval per CPU
