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Stefan Richter 16104b5504 x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help text
Here is an attempt to translate the prompt and help text into something
which is legible and, as a bonus, correct.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-05 14:21:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6d98ca7364 x86: Mark OPTIMIZE_INLINING broken
So Ingo finally did figure out why UML broke with this option: UML
passes gcc the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag, and apparently that wreaks
havoc with gcc's inlining.

We could turn off -fno-unit-at-a-time for UML for gcc4+ (which is what
x86 does), but there's bad blood about this whole option, and it does
show that the thing is just fragile as heck.

So let tempers cool, and disable the thing, and we can revisit the
decision later.

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 20:07:22 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 6b8e1c7ec4 x86: 8K stacks by default
Switch back to 8K stacks as the safer default. Out-of-memory
situations are less problematic than silent and hard to debug
stack corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5de8f68b43 x86: optimize inlining off
default to inline optimizing off.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c9af1e3323 x86: Kconfig fix
Andrew noticed that OPTIMIZE_INLINING appeared in the toplevel
menu - fix it.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 60a3cdd063 x86: add optimized inlining
add CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y.

allow gcc to optimize the kernel image's size by uninlining
functions that have been marked 'inline'. Previously gcc was
forced by Linux to always-inline these functions via a gcc
attribute:

 #define inline	inline __attribute__((always_inline))

Especially when the user has already selected
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y this can make a huge difference in
kernel image size (using a standard Fedora .config):

   text    data     bss     dec           hex filename
   5613924  562708 3854336 10030968    990f78 vmlinux.before
   5486689  562708 3854336  9903733    971e75 vmlinux.after

that's a 2.3% text size reduction (!).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 17:44:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1f56cf1c58 /dev/mem: make promisc the default
default to the old semantics.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24 23:40:47 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven ae531c26c5 x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option
This patch introduces a restriction on /dev/mem: Only non-memory can be
read or written unless the newly introduced config option is set.

The X server needs access to /dev/mem for the PCI space, but it doesn't need
access to memory; both the file permissions and SELinux permissions of /dev/mem
just make X effectively super-super powerful. With the exception of the
BIOS area, there's just no valid app that uses /dev/mem on actual memory.
Other popular users of /dev/mem are rootkits and the like.
(note: mmap access of memory via /dev/mem was already not allowed since
a really long time)

People who want to use /dev/mem for kernel debugging can enable the config
option.

The restrictions of this patch have been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for
at least 4 years without any problems.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:40:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d61ecf0b53 x86: 4kstacks default
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 00d1c5e057 x86: add gbpages switches
These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature,
the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the
pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs.

Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet.

Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the
boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then
nogbpages boot option disables it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin fe770bf031 x86: clean up the page table dumper and add 32-bit support
Clean up the page table dumper (fix boundary conditions, table driven
address ranges, some formatting changes since it is no longer using
the kernel log but a separate virtual file), and generalize to 32
bits.

[ mingo@elte.hu: x86: fix the pagetable dumper ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 926e5392ba x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers
This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional)
/proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel
pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is
going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite
useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be
useful in the future as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: tglx@tglx.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fd59e9e9c8 x86: change IO delay back to 0x80
change back the IO delay to 0x80.

Alan says that 0xed is known to break some older boxes, and given that
the get-rid-of-outb-APIs efforts are well underway we should just let
them be finished.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-19 16:18:34 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner b1d95f4e41 x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit
Now, that the page pool is in place we can enable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on
64bit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 971a52d66a x86: delay CPA self-test and repeat it
delay the CPA self-test so that any impact (corruption) of
user-space pagetables can be triggered. Repeat the test
every 30 seconds.

this would have prevented the bug fixed by 8cb2a7c1e9,
at its source.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-06 22:39:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 86f03989d9 x86: cpa: fix the self-test
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar aba8391f73 x86: rodata config hookup
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8f46924600 x86: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC more widely
make CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC universally available.

CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS was disabling it, for no
particular reason.

If there are any unfixed bugs here we'll fix it, but do not disable
vital debugging facilities like that ..

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f316fe6875 x86: cpa: make self-test depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 31a0717cbc x86: enable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit
enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y on 64-bit kernels too.

preliminary testing shows that it's working fine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:03 +01:00
Andi Kleen 0c42f39276 c_p_a(): do a simple self test at boot
When CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is enabled undo the ro mapping and redo it again.
This gives some simple testing for change_page_attr().

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 11201e603d x86: fix DEBUG_RODATA kconfig text
fix kconfig text and make DEBUG_RODATA default.

this helps debugging quite a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01:00
travis@sgi.com c49a4955ea x86: add debug of invalid per_cpu map accesses
Provide a means to trap usages of per_cpu map variables before
they are setup.  Define CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS to activate.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 076f9776f5 x86: make early printk selectable on 64-bit as well
Enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED to select CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK on 64-bit as well.

saves ~2K:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   7290283 3672091 1907848 12870222         c4624e vmlinux.before
   7288373 3671795 1907848 12868016         c459b0 vmlinux.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:06 +01:00
Huang, Ying 6d7d743375 x86 boot : export boot_params via debugfs for debugging
This patch export the boot parameters via debugfs for debugging.

The files added are as follow:

boot_params/data    :  binary file for struct boot_params
boot_params/version :  boot protocol version

This patch is based on 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 and has been tested on i386 and
x86_64 platform.

This patch is based on the Peter Anvin's proposal.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30 13:32:51 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg 6b0c3d44d3 x86: unify arch/x86/kernel/Makefile(s)
Combine the 32 and 64 bit specific Makefiles in one file.
While doing so link order was (almost) preserved on 32 bit
but on 64 bit link order changed a lot.

Patch was checked with defconfig + allyesconfig builds.
The same .o files were linked in these configurations.

To keep readability of the Makefiles a few Kconfig
symbols was added/modified and it was checked that
they were not used anywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d0049e71c6 x86: make io_delay=0xed the default
make io_delay=0xed the default. This frees up port 0x80 which is
a debug port on some machines and locks up certain laptops.

Testing only for now. Try the io_delay=0x80 boot option if this does not
work for you.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6e7c402590 x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay details
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details:

- add the io_delay=none method
- make each method selectable from the kernel config
- simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call
- add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl
- change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed
- make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
2008-01-30 13:30:05 +01:00
Rene Herman b02aae9cf5 x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.

Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay
writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate
diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these.

David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a
proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine,
with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger.

Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the
2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with
help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has
two problems.

First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while
some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically
problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly
well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and
based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which
would sort of work, but...

Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has.
It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly
or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence
that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus
locking outb.

Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such,
this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more
invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover
only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems
to fit that situation.

This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override
the DMI based choice again:

	io_delay=<standard|alternate>

where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate"
port 0xed.

This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and
command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well.

This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using
the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem
as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the
udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also
fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI
based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot
code be.

The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already
and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the
problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z.

This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and
David P. Reed.

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:05 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 076e21a014 remove the dead X86_REMOTE_DEBUG option
This patch removes the dead X86_REMOTE_DEBUG option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-30 00:22:22 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 1b8a8e95f9 x86: merge EARLY_PRINTK options
This patch merges the x86_64 EARLY_PRINTK option into the i386 one.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-30 00:22:22 +01:00
Joerg Roedel 966396d3a0 x86 gart: rename CONFIG_IOMMU to CONFIG_GART_IOMMU
This patch renames the IOMMU config option to GART_IOMMU because in fact it
means the GART and not general support for an IOMMU on x86.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-30 00:22:22 +01:00
Randy Dunlap d013a27cb7 x86: unification of i386 and x86_64 Kconfig.debug
Adding proper dependencies so the two Kconfig.debug files
are now identical and move the result file to x86.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-25 22:35:10 +02:00