Impact: makes vmlinux section information more useful
Don't use ram after _end blindly for pagetables. aka init pages is before _end
put those pg table into .bss
[Adapted to use brk segment - Jeremy]
v2: keep initial page table up to 512M only.
v4: put initial page tables just before _end
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: new interface; remove hard-coded limit
Add RESERVE_BRK(name, size) macro to reserve space in the brk
area. This should be a conservative (ie, larger) estimate of
how much space might possibly be required from the brk area.
Any unused space will be freed, so there's no real downside
on making the reservation too large (within limits).
The name should be unique within a given file, and somewhat
descriptive.
The C definition of RESERVE_BRK() ends up being more complex than
one would expect to work around a cluster of gcc infelicities:
The first attempt was to simply try putting __section(.brk_reservation)
on a variable. This doesn't work because it ends up making it a
@progbits section, which gets actual space allocated in the vmlinux
executable.
The second attempt was to emit the space into a section using asm,
but gcc doesn't allow arguments to be passed to file-level asm()
statements, making it hard to pass in the size.
The final attempt is to wrap the asm() in a function to allow
it to have arguments, and put the function itself into the
.discard section, which vmlinux*.lds drops entirely from the
emitted vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: simplification
We only need to map the kernel in head_32.S, not the whole of
lowmem. We use 512MB as a reasonable (but arbitrary) limit on
the maximum size of the kernel image.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: use new interface instead of previous ad hoc implementation
Use extend_brk() to allocate memory for DMI rather than having an
ad-hoc allocator.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: use new interface instead of previous ad hoc implementation
Rather than having special purpose init_pg_table_start/end variables
to delimit the kernel pagetable built by head_32.S, just use the brk
mechanism to extend the bss for the new pagetable.
This patch removes init_pg_table_start/end and pg0, defines __brk_base
(which is page-aligned and immediately follows _end), initializes
the brk region to start there, and uses it for the 32-bit pagetable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: build fix
The brk initialization functions were incorrectly located inside
an #ifdef CONFIG_VLK_DEV_INITRD block, causing the obvious build failure in
minimal configurations.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Impact: new interface
Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order
to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations. This is better than
using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never
get used.
The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the
space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so
that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or
something into it.
The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area
(__brk_base to __brk_limit). The kernel text, data and bss is reserved
up to __bss_stop.
Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel
pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces
in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory.
Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general
kernel memory pool.
Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger
than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code
to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large
with a big kernel image and no PSE support). So long as the system
has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk,
there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: cleanup
Move the symbols delimiting a section part of the section
(section relative) rather than absolute. This avoids any
unexpected gaps between the section-start symbol and the first
data in the section, which could be caused by implicit
alignment of the section data. It also makes the general
form of vmlinux_64.lds.S consistent with vmlinux_32.lds.S.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Mark Eins: Fix configuration.
MIPS: Fix TIF_32BIT undefined problem when seccomp is disabled
there should be no difference, except:
* the 64bit variant now also initializes the padlock unit.
* ->c_early_init() is executed again from ->c_init()
* the 64bit fixups made into 32bit path.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
LKML-Reference: <1237029843-28076-2-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: print out fewer lines
1. print continuous range with same type together
2. change _INFO to _DEBUG
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BACB61.8000302@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix debug warning
Jaswinder noticed that there is a warning about smp_processor_id()
in get_mtrr().
Fix it by wrapping the printout into a get/put_cpu() pair.
Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BAB7FF.4030107@kernel.org>
[ changed to get/put_cpu(), cleaned up surrounding code a it. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhance e820 code to handle more cases
Try to handle new range which could be covered by one entry.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
LKML-Reference: <49B9F0C1.10402@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Complete/fix the cleanups of cpu/common.c:
- fix ugly warning due to asm/topology.h -> linux/topology.h change
- standardize the style across the file
- simplify/refactor the code flow where possible
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237009789.4387.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:446: Warning: 00000000080001d1 shortened to 00000000000001d1
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:457: Warning: 000000000800feff shortened to 000000000000feff
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:527: Warning: 00000000080001d1 shortened to 00000000000001d1
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:541: Warning: 000000000800feff shortened to 000000000000feff
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:676: Warning: 0000000008000091 shortened to 0000000000000091
TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE is 0x08000000 and until now we checked the
first 16 bits of the work mask - bit 27 falls outside of that.
Update the entry_32.S code to check the full 32-bit mask.
[ %cx => %ecx fix from Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> ]
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237012693.18733.3.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: disable unused code
x86 is fully converted to flow handlers. No need to keep the
deprecated __do_IRQ() support active.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit c2724775ce put a statement
after return, which makes that statement unreachable.
Move that statement before return.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313075622.GB8933@hack>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .29 only
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: bug fix + BIOS workaround
BIOS is expected to clear the SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] on AMD CPUs
after fixed MTRRs are configured.
Some BIOSes do not clear SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] on BP (and on APs).
This can lead to obfuscation in Linux when this bit is not cleared on
BP but cleared on APs. A consequence of this is that the saved
fixed-MTRR state (from BP) differs from the fixed-MTRRs of APs --
because RdDram/WrDram bits are read as zero when
SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] is cleared -- and Linux tries to sync
fixed-MTRR state from BP to AP. This implies that Linux sets
SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramEn] and activates those bits.
More important is that (some) systems change these bits in SMM when
ACPI is enabled. Hence it is racy if Linux modifies RdMem/WrMem bits,
too.
(1) The patch modifies an old fix from Bernhard Kaindl to get
suspend/resume working on some Acer Laptops. Bernhard's patch
tried to sync RdMem/WrMem bits of fixed MTRR registers and that
helped on those old Laptops. (Don't ask me why -- can't test it
myself). But this old problem was not the motivation for the
patch. (See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/3/110)
(2) The more important effect is to fix issues on some more current systems.
On those systems Linux panics or just freezes, see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11541
(and also duplicates of this bug:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11737http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11714)
The affected systems boot only using acpi=ht, acpi=off or
when the kernel is built with CONFIG_MTRR=n.
The acpi options prevent full enablement of ACPI. Obviously when
ACPI is enabled the BIOS/SMM modfies RdMem/WrMem bits. When
CONFIG_MTRR=y Linux also accesses and modifies those bits when it
needs to sync fixed-MTRRs across cores (Bernhard's fix, see (1)).
How do you synchronize that? You can't. As a consequence Linux
shouldn't touch those bits at all (Rationale are AMD's BKDGs which
recommend to clear the bit that makes RdMem/WrMem accessible).
This is the purpose of this patch. And (so far) this suffices to
fix (1) and (2).
I suggest not to touch RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed-MTRRs and
SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramEn] and to clear SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] as
suggested by AMD K8, and AMD family 10h/11h BKDGs.
BIOS is expected to do this anyway. This should avoid that
Linux and SMM tread on each other's toes ...
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: trenn@suse.de
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090312163937.GH20716@alberich.amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, update to new cpumask API
Irq_desc.affinity and irq_desc.pending_mask are now cpumask_var_t's
so access to them should be using the new cpumask API.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Add braces around the macro arguments, else for example
"shl %r1, 5-3, %r2" would not expand to what you would assume.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Fix those compile warnings:
uaccess.h:244: warning: `struct pt_regs' declared inside parameter list
uaccess.h:244: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
- convert a few "if (xx) BUG();" to BUG_ON(xx)
- remove a few printk()s, as we get a backtrace with BUG_ON() anyway
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Convert the PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver from an MTD driver to a plain block
device driver.
The ps3vram driver exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a block device
suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved using a local
cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU.
The new driver is ca. 50% faster for reading, and ca. 10% for writing.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: fix left range size on head
| commit 5c0e6f035d
| x86: fix code paths used by update_mptable
| Impact: fix crashes under Xen due to unrobust e820 code
fixes one e820 bug, but introduces another bug.
Need to update size for left range at first in case it is header.
also add __e820_add_region take more parameter.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
LKML-Reference: <49B9E286.502@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix false positive PAT warnings - also fix VirtalBox hang
Use of vma->vm_pgoff to identify the pfnmaps that are fully
mapped at mmap time is broken. vm_pgoff is set by generic mmap
code even for cases where drivers are setting up the mappings
at the fault time.
The problem was originally reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123383810628583&w=2
Change is_linear_pfn_mapping logic to overload VM_INSERTPAGE
flag along with VM_PFNMAP to mean full PFNMAP setup at mmap
time.
Problem also tracked at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12800
Reported-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha>@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # only for 2.6.29.1, not .28
LKML-Reference: <20090313004527.GA7176@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
mtrr main.c is too big, seperate mtrr cleanup and mtrr e820 trim
code to another file.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49B87C7B.80809@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: print more debug info
Keep it consistent with autodetect version.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49B87C0A.4010105@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: improve MTRR debugging messages
There's still inefficiencies suspected with the MTRR sanitizing
code, so make sure we get all the info we need from a dmesg.
- Remove unneeded mtrr_show
(It will only printout one time by first cpu, so it is no big deal.)
- Also print out directly from get_mtrr, because it doesn't update mtrr_state.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49B9BA5A.40108@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: kernel image size reduction
Since in most configurations the pmd page needed maps the same range of
virtual addresses which is also mapped by the earlier inserted one for
covering FIX_DBGP_BASE, that page (and its insertion in the page
tables) can be avoided altogether by detecting the condition at compile
time.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B91826.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix crashes under Xen due to unrobust e820 code
find_e820_area_size() must return a properly distinguishable and
out-of-bounds value when it fails, and -1UL does not meet that
criteria on i386/PAE. Additionally, callers of the function must
check against that value.
early_reserve_e820() should be prepared for the region found to be
outside of the addressable range on 32-bits.
e820_update_range_map() should not blindly update e820, but should do
all it work on the map it got a pointer passed for (which in 50% of the
cases is &e820_saved). It must also not call e820_add_region(), as that
again acts on e820 unconditionally.
The issues were found when trying to make this option work in our Xen
kernel (i.e. where some of the silent assumptions made in the code
would not hold).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9171B.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Without apic=verbose, using the update_mptable option would result in
garbled and confusing output due to the inconsistent use of printk() vs
apic_printk().
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B914B6.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, save memory
The function is only being called from boot or memory hotplug paths.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B910B6.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: 32/64-bit consolidation
In a first step, this allows fixing phys_addr_valid() for PAE (which
until now reported all addresses to be valid). Subsequently, this will
also allow simplifying some MTRR handling code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9101E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: configuration bug fix
Just like for x86-64, the range of widths valid for NODE_SHIFT is not
unbounded. The upper bound 64-bit uses is definitely also an upper
bound for 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B90F12.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
Move kmap_atomic_prot_pfn() to iomap_32.c. It is used on all 32-bit
kernels, while highmem_32.c is only built on highmem kernels.
( Note: the debug_kmap_atomic_prot() check is removed for now, that
problem is handled via another patch. )
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090311143317.GA22244@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change /proc/interrupts output ABI
With the number of interrupts on large systems growing, assumptions on
the width an interrupt number requires when converted to a decimal
string turn invalid. Therefore, calculate the maximum number of digits
dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B911EB.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the following warning on x86_64:
LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux: 'memcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
For x86_64, this symbol is already exported from arch/um/sys-x86_64/ksyms.c.
Reported-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is currently impossible to run a user-mode linux machine inside another
user-mode linux (UML on UML). It breaks after a few instructions. When
it tries to check whether SYSEMU is installed (the inner) UML receives an
inconsistent result (from the outer UML).
This is the output of a broken attempt:
$ ./linux mem=256m ubd0=cow
Locating the bottom of the address space ... 0x0
Locating the top of the address space ... 0xc0000000
Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...OK
Checking ptrace new tags for syscall emulation...unsupported
Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...check_sysemu : expected SIGTRAP, got status = 256
$
The problem is the following:
PTRACE_SYSCALL/SINGLESTEP is currently managed inside arch_ptrace for ARCH=um.
PTRACE_SYSEMU/SUSEMU_SINGLESTEP is not captured in arch_ptrace's switch,
therefore it is erroneously passed back to ptrace_request (in
kernel/ptrace).
This simple patch simply forces ptrace to return an error on
PTRACE_SYSEMU/SUSEMU_SINGLESTEP as it is unsupported on ARCH=um, and fixes
the problem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current use of these macros works well when the conversion is
entirely linear. In this case, we can be assured that the following
holds true:
__va(p + s) - s = __va(p)
However, this is not always the case, especially when there is a
non-linear conversion (eg, when there is a 3.5GB hole in memory.)
In this case, if 's' is the size of the region (eg, PAGE_SIZE) and
'p' is the final page, the above is most definitely not true.
So, we must ensure that __va() and __pa() are only used with valid
kernel direct mapped RAM addresses. This patch tweaks the code
to achieve this.
Tested-by: Charles Moschel <fred99@carolina.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is a fix for the following crash observed in 2.6.29-rc3:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/29/150
On ARM it doesn't make sense to trace a naked function because then
mcount is called without stack and frame pointer being set up and there
is no chance to restore the lr register to the value before mcount was
called.
Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@home.goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Impact: cleanup
Instead of using CLEAN_FILES in arch/x86/Makefile, add generated files
to targets in arch/x86/boot/Makefile, so they will get naturally
cleaned up by "make clean".
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: cleanup
Remove targets that were used for zImage only, and Makefile
infrastructure that was there to support the zImage/bzImage split.
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236879901.24144.26.camel@test.thuisdomein>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: debuggability and micro-optimization
Putting whatever is possible into the (final) .rodata section increases
the likelihood of catching memory corruption bugs early, and reduces
false cache line sharing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B90961.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: debuggability and micro-optimization
Putting whatever is possible into the (final) .rodata section increases
the likelihood of catching memory corruption bugs early, and reduces
false cache line sharing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B909A5.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix potential oops during app-initiated LDT manipulation
The underlying hypercall has differing argument requirements on 32-
and 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9061E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
This should slightly improve its performance.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F641.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: mark save_paranoid as non-kprobe-able code
This appears to be necessary as the function gets called from
kprobes-unsafe exception handling stubs (i.e. which themselves
live in .kprobes.text).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F44F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
These got left in needlessly when ret_from_fork got simplified.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F355.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This message was being incorrectly emitted when using gdb,
so compile it out by default for now; there will be a
better fix in v2.6.30.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Current VR5500 processor support lacks of some functions which are
expected to be configured/synthesized on arch initialization.
Here're some VR5500A spec notes:
* All execution hazards are handled in hardware.
* Once VR5500A stops the operation of the pipeline by WAIT instruction,
it could return from the standby mode only when either a reset, NMI
request, or all enabled interrupts is/are detected. In other words,
if interrupts are disabled by Status.IE=0, it keeps in standby mode
even when interrupts are internally asserted.
Notes on WAIT: The operation of the processor is undefined if WAIT
insn is in the branch delay slot. The operation is also undefined
if WAIT insn is executed when Status.EXL and Status.ERL are set to 1.
* VR5500A core only implements the Load prefetch.
With these changes, it boots fine.
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
radeonfb/aty128fb: Disable broken early resume hook for PowerBooks
hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends
powerpc: fix linkstation and storcenter compilation breakage
powerpc/4xx: Enable SERIAL_OF support by default for Virtex platforms
Impact: obsolete feature removal
The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time. It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it. Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.
Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.
LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: work around boot crash
Work around Intel Atom erratum AAH41 (probabilistically) - it's triggering
in the field.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It may be useful for kmap_atomic_pfn() and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn()
to check invalid kmap usage as well as kmap_atomic.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090311143449.GB22244@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kmap_atomic_pfn() and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn() are almost same
except pgprot. This patch removes the code duplication for these
two functions.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090311143317.GA22244@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
move store_ldt outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section and
also clean up the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
1) .p2align 4 and .align 16 are the same meaning
(until a.out format for i386 is used which is
not our case for CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 anyway)
2) having 15 as max allowed bytes to be skipped
does not make sense on modulo 16
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090309171951.GE9945@localhost>
[ small cleanup, use __stringify(), etc. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: saving power _very_ little
round_jiffies() round up absolute jiffies to full second.
round_jiffies_relative() round up relative jiffies to full second.
The "t->expires" is absolute jiffies. Then, round_jiffies() should be
used instead round_jiffies_relative().
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: New major feature
This patch add kexec jump support for x86_64. More information about
kexec jump can be found in corresponding x86_32 support patch.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Fix corner case that cannot yet occur
image->start may be outside of 0 ~ max_pfn, for example when jumping
back to original kernel from kexeced kenrel. This patch add identity
map for pages at image->start.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Cleanup
Fix some coding style issue for kexec x86.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
There isn't any mcfqspi.h in the tree, and without it everything inside the
#ifdef CONFIG_SPI is uncompilable.
Signed-off-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ->put_char changes
* HIGHMEM is bogus it seems, there is no kmap_atomic() et al
* some includes
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <zankel@tensilica.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/*
for Intel and AMD processors to view / debug the state of each CPU.
By using this we can debug whole range of registers and other
cpu information for debugging purpose and monitor how things
are changing.
This can be useful for developers as well as for users.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236701373.3387.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: code reorganization
Separate out embedding first chunk setup helper from x86 embedding
first chunk allocator and put it in mm/percpu.c. This will be used by
the default percpu first chunk allocator and possibly by other archs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: cleanup, more flexibility for first chunk init
Non-negative @dyn_size used to be allowed iff @unit_size wasn't auto.
This restriction stemmed from implementation detail and made things a
bit less intuitive. This patch allows @dyn_size to be specified
regardless of @unit_size and swaps the positions of @dyn_size and
@unit_size so that the parameter order makes more sense (static,
reserved and dyn sizes followed by enclosing unit_size).
While at it, add @unit_size >= PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Yinghai Lu