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Uwe Zeisberger f30c226954 fix file specification in comments
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
Siddha, Suresh B 1a84887080 [PATCH] sched: introduce child field in sched_domain
Introduce the child field in sched_domain struct and use it in
sched_balance_self().

We will also use this field in cleaning up the sched group cpu_power
setup(done in a different patch) code.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:06 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 3db03b4afb [PATCH] rename the provided execve functions to kernel_execve
Some architectures provide an execve function that does not set errno, but
instead returns the result code directly.  Rename these to kernel_execve to
get the right semantics there.  Moreover, there is no reasone for any of these
architectures to still provide __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ or _syscallN macros, so
remove these right away.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli b3f827cb0f [PATCH] Add regs_return_value() helper
Add the regs_return_value() macro to extract the return value in an
architecture agnostic manner, given the pt_regs.

Other architecture maintainers may want to add similar helpers.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto 8ef386092d [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies
With 2.6.18-rc4-mm2, now wall_jiffies will always be the same as jiffies.
So we can kill wall_jiffies completely.

This is just a cleanup and logically should not change any real behavior
except for one thing: RTC updating code in (old) ppc and xtensa use a
condition "jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1".  This condition is never met so I
suppose it is just a bug.  I just remove that condition only instead of
kill the whole "if" block.

[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 build fix and cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky ef6edc9746 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks
On systems running with virtual cpus there is optimization potential in
regard to spinlocks and rw-locks.  If the virtual cpu that has taken a lock
is known to a cpu that wants to acquire the same lock it is beneficial to
yield the timeslice of the virtual cpu in favour of the cpu that has the
lock (directed yield).

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="n" this can be implemented by the architecture without
common code changes.  Powerpc already does this.

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" the lock loops are coded with _raw_spin_trylock,
_raw_read_trylock and _raw_write_trylock in kernel/spinlock.c.  If the lock
could not be taken cpu_relax is called.  A directed yield is not possible
because cpu_relax doesn't know anything about the lock.  To be able to
yield the lock in favour of the current lock holder variants of cpu_relax
for spinlocks and rw-locks are needed.  The new _raw_spin_relax,
_raw_read_relax and _raw_write_relax primitives differ from cpu_relax
insofar that they have an argument: a pointer to the lock structure.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
Andi Kleen c84ef53059 [PATCH] Use early clobber in semaphores
New code clobbers the result always early, so tell gcc about it
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen 29cbc78b90 [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls
Use prototypes in headers
Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures

Cc: dzickus@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen b885808e18 [PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic
Noticed by Al Viro

Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Rolf Eike Beer d6bd3a39f7 [PATCH] Move valid_dma_direction() from x86_64 to generic code
As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as
may be useful for all archs.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Randy Dunlap ebba5f9fcb [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return
Consistently use MAX_ERRNO when checking for errors in __syscall_return().

[ralf@linux-mips.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Mel Gorman 5cb248abf5 [PATCH] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes
Size zones and holes in an architecture independent manner for x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:11 -07:00
Andrew Morton 2bd0cfbde2 [PATCH] fix x86_64-mm-spinlock-cleanup
We need processor.h for cpu_relax().

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b278240839 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
  [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
  [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
  [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
  [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
  [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
  [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
  [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
  [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
  [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
  [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
  [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
  [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
  [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
  [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
  [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
  [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
  [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
  ...
2006-09-26 13:07:55 -07:00
Jeff Dike 70e0eb8ef1 [PATCH] Split i386 and x86_64 ptrace.h
The use of SEGMENT_RPL_MASK in the i386 ptrace.h introduced by
x86-allow-a-kernel-to-not-be-in-ring-0.patch broke the UML build, as UML
includes the underlying architecture's ptrace.h, but has no easy access to the
x86 segment definitions.

Rather than kludging around this, as in the past, this patch splits the
userspace-usable parts, which are the bits that UML needs, of ptrace.h into
ptrace-abi.h, which is included back into ptrace.h.  Thus, there is no net
effect on i386.

As a side-effect, this creates a ptrace header which is close to being usable
in /usr/include.

x86_64 is also treated in this way for consistency.  There was some trailing
whitespace there, which is cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:49:10 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki e8eff5ac29 [PATCH] Make swsusp avoid memory holes and reserved memory regions on x86_64
On x86_64 machines with more than 2 GB of RAM there are large memory gaps
(with no corresponding kernel virtual addresses) and reserved memory
regions between areas of usable physical RAM.  Moreover, if CONFIG_FLATMEM
is set, they appear within the normal zone.  swsusp should not try to save
them, so the corresponding page structs have to be marked as 'nosave'.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:58 -07:00
Andrew Morton a3bc0dbc81 [PATCH] smp_call_function_single() cleanup
If we're going to implement smp_call_function_single() on three architecture
with the same prototype then it should have a declaration in a
non-arch-specific header file.

Move it into <linux/smp.h>.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:56 -07:00
Dave McCracken 46a82b2d55 [PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Jan Blunck 632bbfeee4 [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used
get_cpu_var()/per_cpu()/__get_cpu_var() arguments must be simple
identifiers.  Otherwise the arch dependent implementations might break.

This patch enforces the correct usage of the macros by producing a syntax
error if the variable is not a simple identifier.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Dmitriy Zavin 15d5f83983 [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
Refactor the event processing (syslog messaging and rate limiting)
into separate file therm_throt.c. This allows consistent reporting
of CPU thermal throttle events.

After ACK'ing the interrupt, if the event is current, the user
(p4.c/mce_intel.c) calls therm_throt_process to log (and rate limit)
the event. If that function returns 1, the user has the option to log
things further (such as to mce_log in x86_64).

AK: minor cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Andi Kleen b89ebd0b0a [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
Fix

linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: In function 'dump_trace':
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:275: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

with allnoconfig

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Andi Kleen 0637a70a5d [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices.  i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.

This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 8f60774a11 [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
Saves about 200 bytes of code space.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 658fdbef66 [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
SYSENTER can cause a NT to be set which might cause crashes on the IRET
in the next task.

Following similar i386 patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Jan Beulich adf1423698 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen a15da49deb [PATCH] Fix idle notifiers
Previously exit_idle would be called more often than enter_idle

Now instead of using complicated tests just keep track of it
using the per CPU variable as a flip flop.  I moved the idle state into the
PDA to make the access more efficient.

Original bug report and an initial patch from Stephane Eranian,
but redone by AK.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 73bb5117a4 [PATCH] Remove unused asm-x86_64/mmx.h
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen fd167e42b2 [PATCH] Define __bad_pda_field as noreturn
This quietens so warnings about uninitialized use of the return
value of the pda read operations.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen c1a9d41f4f [PATCH] Reindent macros in pda.h
Reindent the macros in x86-64 pda.h, making them much more readable.
Follows Jeremy's i386 version of this.

No functional changes

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 383d079bfd [PATCH] Fix some stylistic issues in uaccess.h
- Replace some broken white space.
- Replace __ keywords with standard names

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 95912008ba [PATCH] Add __must_check to copy_*_user
Following i386.

And also fix the two occurrences that caused warnings in arch/x86_64/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen 3022d734a5 [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user
- Don't zero for __copy_from_user_inatomic following i386.
This will prevent spurious zeros for parallel file system writers when
one does a exception
- The string instruction version didn't zero the output on
exception. Oops.

Also I cleaned up the code a bit while I was at it and added a minor
optimization to the string instruction path.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 85691f135d [PATCH] Type checking for write_pda()
I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code.
Here's the x86-64 equivalent.  (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest
x86-64 PDA change.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen baf5695dd1 [PATCH] Use %c instead of %P modifier in pda access
Apparently that is the more official way to get numbers without $ in inline
assembly

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 0a42540580 [PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 29a9af60e2 [PATCH] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate offsets
Change the comments in the pda structure to make the first fields to have
their offset documented and to have the comments aligned.
The stack protector series needs a field at offset 40 (gcc ABI); annotate
upto 40 for that reason.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm 4bfaaef01a [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)

This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Keith Owens f574164491 [PATCH] Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack
Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack.  This is a
follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds
orig_ist.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 53ee11ae0d [PATCH] Optimize PDA accesses slightly
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge:

Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with
telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't
actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for
read/write accesses.

Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to
make sure no PDA access is moved before it.

Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better
code for accessing "current"):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4845647 1223688  615864 6685199  66020f vmlinux
4837780 1223688  615864 6677332  65e354 vmlinux-pda

1.2% smaller code

Cc:  Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 80d2679cbc [PATCH] x86: Remove incorrect comment about ACPI e820 entries
They cannot be actually freed because the FACS table has a
shared-with-the-BIOS lock.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 0136611c62 [PATCH] optimize hweight64 for x86_64
Based on patch from David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, but
changed by AK.

Optimizes the 64-bit hamming weight for x86_64 processors assuming they
have fast multiplication.  Uses five fewer bitops than the generic
hweight64.  Benchmark on one EMT64 showed ~25% speedup with 2^24
consecutive calls.

Define a new ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER that can be set by other
architectures that can also multiply fast.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 8380aabb99 [PATCH] Remove non e820 fallbacks in high level code
Drop support for non e820 BIOS calls to get the memory map.

The boot assembler code still has some support, but not the C code now.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen e4251e130d [PATCH] Remove some cruft in apic id checking during processor setup
- Remove a define that was used only once
- Remove the too large APIC ID check because we always support
the full 8bit range of APICs.
- Restructure code a bit to be simpler.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen 5e6b0bfe5b [PATCH] Use proper accessors to change PSE bits in change_page_attr()
Use normal pte accessors in change_page_attr() to access the PSE
bits.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen df992848f5 [PATCH] Fix pte_exec/mkexec and use it in change_page_attr()
Fix the pte_exec/mkexec page table accessor functions to really
use the NX bit. Previously they only checked the USER bit, but
weren't actually used for anything.

Then use them in change_page_attr() to manipulate the NX bit
properly.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen 151f8cc116 [PATCH] Remove safe_smp_processor_id()
And replace all users with ordinary smp_processor_id.  The function
was originally added to get some basic oops information out even
if the GS register was corrupted. However that didn't
work for some anymore because printk is needed to print the oops
and it uses smp_processor_id() already. Also GS register corruptions
are not particularly common anymore.

This also helps the Xen port which would otherwise need to
do this in a special way because it can't access the local APIC.

Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Dave Jones f704cb9350 [PATCH] x86: remove config.h includes from asm-i386 & asm-x86_64
This is now automatically included by kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven e07e23e1fd [PATCH] non lazy "sleazy" fpu implementation
Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every*
context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU
context lazily.  This is of course great for applications that have very
sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive
save/restore all the time).  However for very frequent FPU users...  you
take an extra trap every context switch.

The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive
context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context
gets restored every context switch.  If the app indeed uses the FPU, the
trap is avoided.  (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the
previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously).

After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until
there are 5 consecutive ones again).  The reason for this is to give apps
that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some
time.

[akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman ba4d40bb5c [PATCH] Auto size the per cpu area.
Now for a completely different but trivial approach.
I just boot tested it with 255 CPUS and everything worked.

Currently everything (except module data) we place in
the per cpu area we know about at compile time.  So
instead of allocating a fixed size for the per_cpu area
allocate the number of bytes we need plus a fixed constant
for to be used for modules.

It isn't perfect but it is much less of a pain to
work with than what we are doing now.

AK: fixed warning

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Andi Kleen c0b766f13d [PATCH] Merge stacktrace and show_trace
This unifies the standard backtracer and the new stacktrace
in memory backtracer. The standard one is converted to use callbacks
and then reimplement stacktrace using new callbacks.

The main advantage is that stacktrace can now use the new dwarf2 unwinder
and avoid false positives in many cases.

I kept it simple to make sure the standard backtracer stays reliable.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00