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Dave Hansen 72e9b5fe9b x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt
Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced
here):

  https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393

are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator
provides MPX for the general public.

[ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right
        now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569D58D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-12-15 15:58:57 +01:00
Dave Hansen 010e593b14 x86, mpx: Update documentation
I was writing some MPX test programs and realized that the
current design makes it tricky.  I did something like:

	bndcfgu |= bnd_dir | BNDCFGU_ENABLE;
	xrstor();
	printf("xrstor done");
	// #BR bounds exception here
	prctl(MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT);

and then compiled the app with "-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx"
to enable MPX instrumentation.

The problem is that there is MPX instrumentation inserted in
to the area of the printf().  The kernel gets a bounds exception
and since management isn't yet enabled, it SIGSEGV's.

Add a bit to the documentation to explain a way around this and
where apps need to be careful.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183835.8C581B3E@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-12-15 15:58:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 536e89ee53 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes (mainly Andy's TLS fixes), plus a cleanup"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments
  x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
  MAINTAINERS: Add me as x86 VDSO submaintainer
  x86/asm: Unify segment selector defines
  x86/asm: Guard against building the 32/64-bit versions of the asm-offsets*.c file directly
  x86_64, switch_to(): Load TLS descriptors before switching DS and ES
  x86/mm: Use min() instead of min_t() in the e820 printout code
  x86/mm: Fix zone ranges boot printout
  x86/doc: Update documentation after file shuffling
2014-12-14 11:51:50 -08:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 96ed4cd0aa x86/doc: Update documentation after file shuffling
While at it, also refer to the 32 bit entry file.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bpoirier@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418165684-6226-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-12-11 11:33:22 +01:00
Qiaowei Ren 5776563648 x86, mpx: Add documentation on Intel MPX
This patch adds the Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt file with some
information about Intel MPX.

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151832.7FDB1720@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-18 00:58:54 +01:00
Dave Hansen beb9147e95 x86/mm: Update memory map description to list hypervisor-reserved area
Peter Anvin says:

 > 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have
 > agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the
 > hypervisor or other non-OS uses.

Let's call this out in the documentation.

This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions
where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-19 12:48:02 +02:00
Jeremiah Mahler 129ea00594 x86/doc: Fix the 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' sysconfig path
Fix the documented sysconfig location of 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling'
which is under /sys/kernel/debug/... not /sys/debug/kernel/...

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407484195-1441-1-git-send-email-jmmahler@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-08-10 09:09:26 +02:00
Dave Hansen 2d040a1ce9 x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush
Most of the logic here is in the documentation file.  Please take
a look at it.

I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this
new one is *WAY* simpler.  I challenge anyone to describe in one
sentence how the old one worked.  Here's the way the new one
works:

	If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use
	the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154101.12B52CAF@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-07-31 08:48:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2071b3e34f Merge branch 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next
Pull x86-64 espfix changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is the espfix64 code, which fixes the IRET information leak as
  well as the associated functionality problem.  With this code applied,
  16-bit stack segments finally work as intended even on a 64-bit
  kernel.

  Consequently, this patchset also removes the runtime option that we
  added as an interim measure.

  To help the people working on Linux kernels for very small systems,
  this patchset also makes these compile-time configurable features"

* 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option"
  x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support
  x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML
  x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard
  x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file
  x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race
  x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
2014-06-05 07:46:15 -07:00
Carlos Garcia c98be0c96d doc: spelling error changes
Fixed multiple spelling errors.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin 3891a04aaf x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cb x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski <amluto@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: comex <comexk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
2014-04-30 14:14:28 -07:00
Borislav Petkov 3e920b532a x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size name
The name in struct bootparam is ->initrd_addr_max and not ramdisk_max.
Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394633584-5509-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-03-13 15:32:42 -07:00
Henrik Austad 3cf8ca1c25 Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all.  Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.

New 00-INDEX
 - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006

Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
 - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a0 ("dmatest: run test via
   debugfs")
 - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d6 ("percpu: add
   documentation on this_cpu operations")
 - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a3710 ("mutex: Add
   support for wound/wait style locks")
 - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
   cache")
 - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb404
   ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
   kthreads")
 - phy.txt was added by commit ff76496347 ("drivers: phy: add generic
   PHY framework")
 - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc03 ("null_blk:
   documentation")
 - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea3076 ("Add
   Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
 - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c ("Add a generic
   associative array implementation.")
 - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
 - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e8
   ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
 - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77 ("ARM: Add
   interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
 - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a0524 ("ARM:
   7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
 - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cf ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
   (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
 - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e ("ARM: mcpm: Add
   baremetal voting mutexes")
 - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
   4b60779d5e ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
   gptimers API")
 - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc68 ("dt:
   Linux DT usage model documentation")
 - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f428 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
   format configuration API")
 - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a0498071 ("video, sm501: add
   edid and commandline support")
 - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864af ("fbdev: move udlfb out
   of staging.")
 - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48
   ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
 - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
   8a4c6e19cf ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
   configuration")
 - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413e ("ide: add
   warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
 - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc
   ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
 - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f ("LEDS: add
   BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
 - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cd ("leds: add
   oneshot trigger")
 - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e7 ("leds:
   add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
 - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
 - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
   40839129f7, c4e84bde1d, 5a4faa8737
 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b ("i40evf: add
   driver to kernel build system")
 - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36 ("xfrm: Add
   file to document IPsec corner case")
 - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
   3cd7920a2b ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
 - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c39
   ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
 - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e159
   ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
 - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce
   ethernet teaming device")
 - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d ("vxlan:
   virtual extensible lan")
 - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a0 ("PM: Introduce
   core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev.  17)")
 - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56
   ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
 - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa ("rcu:
   Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
 - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
 - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport
   support - basic control")
 - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9 ("sched: Add
   documentation for bandwidth control")
 - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f356 ("[SCSI] advansys:
   Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bd ("[SCSI] bfa: add
   readme file")
 - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10ea ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
   driver documentation")
 - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464eb ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
   cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
 - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
   hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
   ca77329fb7 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
 - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621de ("[SCSI] osd:
   Documentation for OSD library")
 - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb11
   ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
 - serial/driver was part of the initial repo
 - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122e ("n_gsm: add a
   documentation")
 - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d ("KVM: s390:
   diagnose call documentation")
 - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2cc ("mm:
   dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
   page")
 - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2 ("w1: Add
   1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
 - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6 ("hdq:
   documentation for OMAP HDQ")
 - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a8 ("x86, doc:
   Documentation for early microcode loading")
 - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade4788 ("x86/doc:
   mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
 - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b5 ("x86-64: Document
   some of entry_64.S")
 - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874 ("x86: PAT
   documentation")

Moved files
 - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
   commit 37b8304642 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
   the source code")
 - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
   commit 4172fe2f8a ("EFI stub documentation updates")
 - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
   efcfed9bad ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
 - commit 5616c23ad9 ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
   Doc/x86/i386"):
   * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
   * x86/boot.txt
   * x86/zero_page.txt
 - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df1
   ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")

Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
 - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aa ("memory.txt: remove
   stray information")
 - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfc ("Documentation:
   gpiolib: document new interface")
 - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26
   ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
 - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp:
   remove broken driver")
 - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f6693 ("[S390] remove tape
   block docu")
 - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2 ("mm: documentation:
   remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
 - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e ("acer-wmi:
   Delete out-of-date documentation")

Typos/misc issues
 - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
   030d794bf4 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
   authentication.")
 - commit b88cf73d92 ("net: add missing entries to
   Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
   * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
   * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
 - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f7 ("w1: add
   1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
 - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a40
   ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	[rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bb1281f2aa Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  neighbour.h: fix comment
  sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
  slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
  doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
  of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
  mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
  lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
  thermal: rcar: comment spelling
  treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
  IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
  Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
  Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
  arm: fix comment header and macro name
  asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
  mtd: onenand: fix comment header
  doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
  drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
  doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
  ...
2014-01-22 21:21:55 -08:00
Dave Young 456a29ddad x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec
Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does
not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to
initialize.  In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and
pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI
initialization can succeed finally.

To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so
kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-12-29 13:09:06 +00:00
Jiri Kosina e23c34bb41 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things
in tree (efi-stub).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-19 15:08:32 +01:00
Richard Weinberger ff18dd8f1c Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt
Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-02 14:47:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 61d0669775 * New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI - Borislav Petkov
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Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi

Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming:

  * New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
    groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-26 12:23:04 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 69019d77c7 Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer.
     Very useful for debugging boot problems.

   - EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries)

   - EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM
     platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into
     drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM.

   - Documentation updates

   - misc fixes"

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
  x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support
  boot, efi: Remove redundant memset()
  x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination
  x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence
  x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps
  efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile
  efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.
  efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization.
  efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files().
  efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0
  efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86
  efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map()
  efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map()
  efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.
  efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures.
  efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file.
  efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.
  efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions
  efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions.
  efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location
  ...
2013-11-12 10:48:30 +09:00
Borislav Petkov d2f7cbe7b2 x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping
We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.

Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.

Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.

While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).

Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-11-02 11:09:36 +00:00
Roy Franz 4172fe2f8a EFI stub documentation updates
Move efi-stub.txt out of x86 directory and into common directory
in preparation for adding ARM EFI stub support.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-09-25 12:34:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 2e515bf096 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
  documentation updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
  doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
  treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
  Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
  Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
  mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
  power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
  doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
  Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
  doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
  treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
  zram: doc fixes
  Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
  doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
  PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
  doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
  scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
  ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
  treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
  page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
  doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
  ...
2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0237d7f355 Merge branch 'x86/mce' into x86/ras
Pursue a single RAS/MCE topic branch on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-12 17:54:05 +02:00
Masanari Iida c9f3f2d8b3 doc: Fix typo in doucmentations
Correct typo (double words) in documentations.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00
Kyungsik Lee f9b493ac9b arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
Integrates the LZ4 decompression code to the arm pre-boot code.

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
Naveen N. Rao 9ad95879cd mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors
Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-07-08 11:54:28 -07:00
Jacob Shin 757885e94a x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD
Add early microcode patch loading support for AMD.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369940959-2077-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2013-05-30 20:19:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 39b2f8656e Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification"

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
  x86: Constify a few items
2013-04-30 08:35:20 -07:00
Dave Hansen 147ea09119 x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually
identical text describing earlyprintk.

This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a
bit.  No one ever documented the:

	earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200

syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk
arch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-11 10:30:40 +02:00
Borislav Petkov aca91bfc67 x86-64, docs, mm: Add vsyscall range to virtual address space layout
Add the end of the virtual address space to its layout documentation.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362428180-8865-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-02 16:03:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c47f39e3b7 Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
2013-02-22 19:22:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2ef14f465b Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
2013-02-21 18:06:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9afa3195b9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Assorted tiny fixes queued in trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (22 commits)
  DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h
  Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions
  ARM: at91/ide: remove unsused at91-ide Kconfig entry
  percpu_counter.h: comment code for better readability
  x86, efi: fix comment typo in head_32.S
  IB: cxgb3: delay freeing mem untill entirely done with it
  net: mvneta: remove unneeded version.h include
  time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more
  pcmcia: avoid static analysis complaint about use-after-free
  fs/jfs: Fix typo in comment : 'how may' -> 'how many'
  of: add missing documentation for of_platform_populate()
  btrfs: remove unnecessary cur_trans set before goto loop in join_transaction
  sound: soc: Fix typo in sound/codecs
  treewide: Fix typo in various drivers
  btrfs: fix comment typos
  Update ibmvscsi module name in Kconfig.
  powerpc: fix typo (utilties -> utilities)
  of: fix spelling mistake in comment
  h8300: Fix home page URL in h8300/README
  xtensa: Fix home page URL in Kconfig
  ...
2013-02-21 17:40:58 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 686966d881 x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMF
OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual
environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used
for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment.

Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2013-02-08 09:26:57 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 972f7c8322 x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8
The boot protocol 2.12 changes were pulled for 3.8, so update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-31 20:23:49 -08:00
Fenghua Yu 0d91ea86a8 x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
Documenation for early loading microcode methodology.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-31 13:18:47 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 8ee2f2dfdb x86, boot: Update comments about entries for 64bit image
Now 64bit entry is fixed on 0x200, can not be changed anymore.

Update the comments to reflect that.

Also put info about it in boot.txt

-v2: fix some grammar error

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-27-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-29 19:32:57 -08:00
Jiri Kosina 617677295b Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/devfreq/exynos4_bus.c

Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply patches that are
against newer code (mvneta).
2013-01-29 10:48:30 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin 09c205afde x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol
Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional
fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to
live above the 4 GiB mark.

The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the
legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points
are supported.

Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed
bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness
at least until the issue can be researched further.

This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse.

Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
2013-01-27 15:56:37 -08:00
Jiri Kosina 5c8d1b68e0 time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more
'report_lost_ticks' parameter has been removed back in 2007 through
1489939f0a ("time: x86_64: convert x86_64 to use GENERIC_TIME").

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-01-23 12:12:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3dbff0d5e8 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull small x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "A collection of very small fixes, mostly pure documentation."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, doc: Document that bootloader ID 4 is used also by iPXE
  x86, doc: Add a formal bootloader ID for kexec-tools
  x86, 8042: Enable A20 using KBC to fix S3 resume on some MSI laptops
2012-12-19 12:56:42 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin cd34ab8b16 x86, doc: Document that bootloader ID 4 is used also by iPXE
Etherboot -> gPXE -> iPXE...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
2012-12-12 20:28:39 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 4bfe24ac1d x86, doc: Add a formal bootloader ID for kexec-tools
Add bootloader id D for kexec-tools (it is kexec-tools, not the kexec
system call, that builds the data structures, therefore it is
kexec-tools which is the "bootloader" for this purpose.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50C95832.5030306@zytor.com
2012-12-12 20:25:43 -08:00
Kees Cook c6039f4a00 x86/boot/doc: Fix grammar and typo in boot.txt
Fixes some minor issues in the x86 boot documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121026031702.GA23828@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-26 12:18:38 +02:00
Naveen N. Rao 450cc20103 x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI threshold
The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down
recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds
a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds
set by the bios.

As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been
initialized by the bios and warn the user.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2012-09-27 10:08:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0a2fe19ccc Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pul x86/efi changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds an EFI bootloader handover protocol, which, once
  supported on the bootloader side, will make bootup faster and might
  result in simpler bootloaders.

  The other change activates the EFI wall clock time accessors on x86-64
  as well, instead of the legacy RTC readout."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: Handover Protocol
  x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
2012-07-26 13:13:25 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin c5e5c42a68 x86, doc: Assign a bootloader ID for "Minimal Linux Bootloader"
Assign a bootloader ID for Sebastian Plotz' "Minimal Linux Bootloader"
(http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de).  Sebastian has agreed to make
this the pilot for the use of extended boot loader IDs, so this is
assigned version ID 0x11 (avoid assigning 0x10 for now to catch bugs
with people putting E in the primary ID but leaving the extended ID as
zero.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Plotz <sebastian-plotz@web.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nq318h0okuaem8x9dpv9854k@git.kernel.org
2012-07-23 16:16:17 -07:00
Matt Fleming 9ca8f72a92 x86, efi: Handover Protocol
As things currently stand, traditional EFI boot loaders and the EFI
boot stub are carrying essentially the same initialisation code
required to setup an EFI machine for booting a kernel. There's really
no need to have this code in two places and the hope is that, with
this new protocol, initialisation and booting of the kernel can be
left solely to the kernel's EFI boot stub. The responsibilities of the
boot loader then become,

   o Loading the kernel image from boot media

File system code still needs to be carried by boot loaders for the
scenario where the kernel and initrd files reside on a file system
that the EFI firmware doesn't natively understand, such as ext4, etc.

   o Providing a user interface

Boot loaders still need to display any menus/interfaces, for example
to allow the user to select from a list of kernels.

Bump the boot protocol number because we added the 'handover_offset'
field to indicate the location of the handover protocol entry point.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-and-Tested-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342689828-16815-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-07-20 16:18:58 -07:00
Matt Fleming 0c7596621e x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
Since we can't expect every user to read the EFI boot stub code it
seems prudent to have a couple of paragraphs explaining what it is and
how it works.

The "initrd=" option in particular is tricky because it only
understands absolute EFI-style paths (backslashes as directory
separators), and until now this hasn't been documented anywhere. This
has tripped up a couple of users.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-4-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-01 09:11:41 -07:00
Cesar Eduardo Barros 664ef2123f x86-64, doc: Remove int 0xcc from entry_64.S documentation
Commit 3ae36655b9 (x86-64: Rework vsyscall
emulation and add vsyscall= parameter) removed the special use of the
0xcc IDT vector.

Remove it from Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt also.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313447210-9149-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-16 08:04:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8e204874db Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
  clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
  x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
  Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
  ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
  x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
  clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
  x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
  x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
  x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
  x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
  x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
  x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
  x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
  x86-64: Map the HPET NX
  x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
  x86-64: Give vvars their own page
  x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
  x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
2011-07-22 17:05:15 -07:00
Darren Hart 11e48feebe x86, doc only: Correct real-mode kernel header offset for init_size
The real-mode kernel header init_size field is located at 0x260 per the field
listing in th e"REAL-MODE KERNEL HEADER" section. It is listed as 0x25c in
the "DETAILS OF HEADER FIELDS" section, which overlaps with pref_address.
Correct the details listing to 0x260.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/541cf88e2dfe5b8186d8b96b136d892e769a68c1.1310441260.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-12 20:39:11 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski 8b4777a4b5 x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc134867cc550977cc996866129e11a16ba0f9ea.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-05 21:30:32 +02:00
Joerg Roedel fffcda1183 x86, gart: Rename pci-gart_64.c to amd_gart_64.c
This file only contains code relevant for the northbridge
gart in AMD processors. This patch renames the file to
represent this fact in the filename.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2011-05-10 17:22:06 +02:00
Olaf Hering d404ab0a11 move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi a6c3270b04 x86: Fix misspelling and align params
Fix 'upto' misspelling and align parameters.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-2-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
Lasse Collin 303148045a x86: support XZ-compressed kernel
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner c751e17b53 x86: Add CE4100 platform support
Add CE4100 platform support. CE4100 needs early setup like
moorestown.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <94720fd7f5564a12ebf202cf2c4f4c0d619aab35.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-11-12 00:45:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 91151240ed Merge branch 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE
  x86: Move alloc_desk_mask variables inside ifdef
  x86-32: Align IRQ stacks properly
  x86: Remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS
  x86: Always use irq stacks

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/{irq.h, percpu-defs.h}
2010-10-22 08:54:21 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 7974891db2 x86: Always use irq stacks
IRQ stacks provide much better safety against unexpected stack use from
interrupts, at the minimal downside of slightly higher memory usage.
Enable irq stacks also for the default 8k stack on 32-bit kernels to
minimize the problem of stack overflows through interrupt activity.

This is what the 64-bit kernel and various other architectures already do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100628121554.GA6605@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-29 12:12:59 +02:00
Andres Salomon fd699c7655 x86, olpc: Add support for calling into OpenFirmware
Add support for saving OFW's cif, and later calling into it to run OFW
commands.  OFW remains resident in memory, living within virtual range
0xff800000 - 0xffc00000.  A single page directory entry points to the
pgdir that OFW actually uses, so rather than saving the entire page
table, we grab and install that one entry permanently in the kernel's
page table.

This is currently only used by the OLPC XO.  Note that this particular
calling convention breaks PAE and PAT, and so cannot be used on newer
x86 hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100618174653.7755a39a@dev.queued.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-06-18 14:54:36 -07:00
David Rientjes ca2107c9d6 x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation
Now that numa=fake=<size>[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove
configurable node size support.  The command-line parsing was already
broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes
are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15 14:34:18 -08:00
David Rientjes 8df5bb34de x86, numa: Add fixed node size option for numa emulation
numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.

This patch introduces numa=fake=<size>[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate.  When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.

FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15 14:34:10 -08:00
Jason Wessel 9780bc41dc USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp
Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-23 06:46:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 78f28b7c55 Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
  x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
  x86: platform: Fix section annotations
  x86: apic namespace cleanup
  x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
  x86: Add Moorestown early detection
  x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
  x86: Add early platform detection
  x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
  x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
  x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
  x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
  x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
  x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
  x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
  x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove do_timer hook
  x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
Pan, Jacob jun 162bc7ab01 x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
x86 bootprotocol 2.07 has introduced hardware_subarch ID in the boot
parameters provided by FW. We use it to identify Moorestown platforms.

[ tglx: Cleanup and paravirt fix ]

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-31 11:09:40 +02:00
Joseph Cihula 3162534069 x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support
This patch adds kernel configuration and boot support for Intel Trusted
Execution Technology (Intel TXT).

Intel's technology for safer computing, Intel Trusted Execution
Technology (Intel TXT), defines platform-level enhancements that
provide the building blocks for creating trusted platforms.

Intel TXT was formerly known by the code name LaGrande Technology (LT).

Intel TXT in Brief:
o  Provides dynamic root of trust for measurement (DRTM)
o  Data protection in case of improper shutdown
o  Measurement and verification of launched environment

Intel TXT is part of the vPro(TM) brand and is also available some
non-vPro systems.  It is currently available on desktop systems based on
the Q35, X38, Q45, and Q43 Express chipsets (e.g. Dell Optiplex 755, HP
dc7800, etc.) and mobile systems based on the GM45, PM45, and GS45
Express chipsets.

For more information, see http://www.intel.com/technology/security/.
This site also has a link to the Intel TXT MLE Developers Manual, which
has been updated for the new released platforms.

A much more complete description of how these patches support TXT, how to
configure a system for it, etc. is in the Documentation/intel_txt.txt file
in this patch.

This patch provides the TXT support routines for complete functionality,
documentation for TXT support and for the changes to the boot_params structure,
and boot detection of a TXT launch.  Attempts to shutdown (reboot, Sx) the system
will result in platform resets; subsequent patches will support these shutdown modes
properly.

 Documentation/intel_txt.txt      |  210 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt  |    1
 arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h |    3
 arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h    |    3
 arch/x86/include/asm/tboot.h     |  197 ++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile         |    1
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c          |    4
 arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c          |  379 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/Kconfig                 |   30 +++
 9 files changed, 827 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-07-21 11:49:06 -07:00
Amerigo Wang c368b4921b Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir
exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to
move it into Documentation/x86 directory.

And also rename it to exception-tables.txt which looks much
more reasonable.

This patch is on top of the previous one.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10 19:10:32 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0d5959723e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto 62fdac5913 x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce
and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors.

The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature.

Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable
it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving.

The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected
errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
errors.

The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected
errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci.  All corrected events are
not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.

Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be
a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware
monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in
banks instead of OS.

[ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ]

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 11:42:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bb7762961d Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
  ...
2009-06-10 16:13:20 -07:00
Andi Kleen 3c0797925f x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election.
On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to
all CPUs.  This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all
these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect
the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first.

This has some advantages:

- When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as
  quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted
  data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage.

- The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code
  on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well).

- All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that
  another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless
  information (empty machine check) because the real error
  happened on another CPU which came in later.
  This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU
  lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping
  useless information on a machine check.  The problem also occurs
  in a less severe form on older CPUs.

- The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check
  and shut down the system.  This can happen when one CPU is so
  badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore
  or when some external agent wants to stop the system by
  asserting the machine check pin.  This follows Intel hardware
  recommendations.

- This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers.

- The events can be output in true severity order

- When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually
  be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts.

The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting
for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms
(jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature,
so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT"

The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one
second for the other CPUs.  This can be also disabled.

From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast
machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on
non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems.

Includes fixes from Ying Huang
Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto)
Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto
v2: Avoid duplicate messages

[ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:45:12 -07:00
Andi Kleen 8780e8e0f6 x86, mce: improve documentation
Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto

Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables

Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:15 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 888a589f6b mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
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>
2009-05-18 09:13:31 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin 5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
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>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin d297366ba6 x86: document new bzImage fields
Document the new bzImage fields for kernel memory placement.

[ Impact: adds documentation ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 2feceeff1e x86: fix typo in address space documentation
Fix a trivial typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

[ Impact: documentation only ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2009-05-05 19:10:18 -07:00
Rik van Riel c898faf91b x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
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>
2009-05-05 19:10:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 21acb9caa2 trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0fbba4871c Merge branch 'x86/doc' into x86/core 2009-03-05 21:49:44 +01:00
Yinghai Lu a1aade4788 x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp
[ mingo: small edits and extensions. ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <49AF18B7.4050305@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 10:57:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8b0e5860cb Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', 'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-03-04 02:22:31 +01:00
Baodong Chen e56d0cfe77 Documentation/x86/boot.txt: modify fieldname
Modify field names to the right ones:

 - start_sys was changed to start_sys_seg
 - iinitrd_addr_max was changed to ramdisk_max
 - pad2 was changed to pad2 and pad3
 - readmode_swtch was changed to realmode_swtch

Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 14:43:10 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin ee287587da bzip2/lzma: update boot protocol specification
Impact: documentation

Update the boot protocol specification to include the currently
supported file formats and their magic numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-14 16:07:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3d14bdad40 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
  x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
  x86: remove duplicated #include's
  x86: k8 numa register active regions later
  x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X
  x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static
  Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
  x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems
  x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems
  x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems
  x86: i8259.c fix style problems
  x86: irq_32.c fix style problems
  x86: ioport.c fix style problems
  ...
2009-01-10 06:13:09 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 07983f0e36 documentation: update header file paths
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Baodong Chen 2f6de3a199 Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 18:19:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 67bac792cd x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
Impact: Documentation only.

Documentation updates as per Randy Dunlap's comments.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19 15:40:31 -08:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com a2ced6e173 x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
Impact: Documentation only.

Add documentation related to pgprot_* change.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18 13:30:16 -08:00
Philipp Kohlbecher e1286f2c68 x86: documentation fix regarding boot protocol
Impact: clarify documentation

Documentation/x86/boot.txt describes payload_offset as the offset
from the end of the real-mode code. In fact, it is more accurately
described as the offset from the beginning of the protected-mode
code, as (a) this is how it is actually calculated and (b) the padding
after the real-mode code is not included in the offset.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 22:05:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 78f902ccc5 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into x86/doc 2008-12-16 22:04:48 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 9ee670fd87 x86/doc: spelling fix for grub
Impact: documentation fix

I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday.
He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:31 +01:00
Jiri Slaby a4c52791fa x86, 64-bit: update address space documentation
Impact: documentation update

Commit a6523748bd
(paravirt/x86, 64-bit: move __PAGE_OFFSET to leave a space for hypervisor)
changed address space without changing the documentation.

Change it according to the code change -- direct mapping start:
ffff810000000000 => ffff880000000000 which gives 57 TiB, something
between 45 and 46 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:28 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 5b9a0e14eb x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:17:39 +01:00
Uwe Hermann 71cced6eb0 doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:36:42 +01:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 1befdefcf4 x86: remove 8254 timer texts from Documentation
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 18:20:14 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 59dfc3f8fb x86: PAT documentation updates with debug info
Documentation update for PAT. Reflect the latest API details.
Also, adds details about ways to get more info in order to debug PAT.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 13:30:15 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 7225e75144 documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 14:46:49 +02:00