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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 16:07:55 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 16:07:55 -0400 |
commit | b278240839e20fa9384ea430df463b367b90e04e (patch) | |
tree | f99f0c8cdd4cc7f177cd75440e6bd181cded7fb3 /Documentation | |
parent | dd77a4ee0f3981693d4229aa1d57cea9e526ff47 (diff) | |
parent | 3f75f42d7733e73aca5c78326489efd4189e0111 (diff) |
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[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code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.
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/HOWTO | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks | 99 |
6 files changed, 127 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 915ae8c986c..1d6560413cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO | |||
@@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ Here is a list of some of the different kernel trees available: | |||
358 | quilt trees: | 358 | quilt trees: |
359 | - USB, PCI, Driver Core, and I2C, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 359 | - USB, PCI, Driver Core, and I2C, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
360 | kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/ | 360 | kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/ |
361 | 361 | - x86-64, partly i386, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | |
362 | ftp.firstfloor.org:/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/ | ||
362 | 363 | ||
363 | Bug Reporting | 364 | Bug Reporting |
364 | ------------- | 365 | ------------- |
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 99902ae6804..7db71d6fba8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -1124,11 +1124,15 @@ debugging information is displayed on console. | |||
1124 | NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example. | 1124 | NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example. |
1125 | If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. | 1125 | If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. |
1126 | 1126 | ||
1127 | [NOTE] | 1127 | nmi_watchdog |
1128 | This function and oprofile share a NMI callback. Therefore this function | 1128 | ------------ |
1129 | cannot be enabled when oprofile is activated. | 1129 | |
1130 | And NMI watchdog will be disabled when the value in this file is set to | 1130 | Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero |
1131 | non-zero. | 1131 | the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to |
1132 | determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. | ||
1133 | |||
1134 | Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI | ||
1135 | watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. | ||
1132 | 1136 | ||
1133 | 1137 | ||
1134 | 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem | 1138 | 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem |
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index b7d6abb501a..e2cbd59cf2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | |||
@@ -421,6 +421,11 @@ more details, with real examples. | |||
421 | The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used | 421 | The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used |
422 | if first argument is not supported. | 422 | if first argument is not supported. |
423 | 423 | ||
424 | as-instr | ||
425 | as-instr checks if the assembler reports a specific instruction | ||
426 | and then outputs either option1 or option2 | ||
427 | C escapes are supported in the test instruction | ||
428 | |||
424 | cc-option | 429 | cc-option |
425 | cc-option is used to check if $(CC) supports a given option, and not | 430 | cc-option is used to check if $(CC) supports a given option, and not |
426 | supported to use an optional second option. | 431 | supported to use an optional second option. |
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 766abdab94e..c918cc3f65f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |||
@@ -1240,7 +1240,11 @@ running once the system is up. | |||
1240 | bootloader. This is currently used on | 1240 | bootloader. This is currently used on |
1241 | IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be | 1241 | IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be |
1242 | configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs. | 1242 | configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs. |
1243 | 1243 | noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. | |
1244 | This might help on some broken boards which | ||
1245 | machine check when some devices' config space | ||
1246 | is read. But various workarounds are disabled | ||
1247 | and some IOMMU drivers will not work. | ||
1244 | pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 | 1248 | pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 |
1245 | 1249 | ||
1246 | pd. [PARIDE] | 1250 | pd. [PARIDE] |
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 6da24e7a56c..4303e0c1247 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | |||
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ Debugging | |||
245 | newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets | 245 | newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets |
246 | stuck (default) | 246 | stuck (default) |
247 | 247 | ||
248 | call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new] | ||
249 | old: use old inexact backtracer | ||
250 | new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder | ||
251 | both: print entries from both | ||
252 | newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets | ||
253 | stuck (default) | ||
254 | |||
248 | Misc | 255 | Misc |
249 | 256 | ||
250 | noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones | 257 | noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones |
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bddfddd466a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ | |||
1 | Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK | ||
2 | |||
3 | x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K. | ||
4 | |||
5 | Like all other architectures, x86_64 has a kernel stack for every | ||
6 | active thread. These thread stacks are THREAD_SIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) big. | ||
7 | These stacks contain useful data as long as a thread is alive or a | ||
8 | zombie. While the thread is in user space the kernel stack is empty | ||
9 | except for the thread_info structure at the bottom. | ||
10 | |||
11 | In addition to the per thread stacks, there are specialized stacks | ||
12 | associated with each cpu. These stacks are only used while the kernel | ||
13 | is in control on that cpu, when a cpu returns to user space the | ||
14 | specialized stacks contain no useful data. The main cpu stacks is | ||
15 | |||
16 | * Interrupt stack. IRQSTACKSIZE | ||
17 | |||
18 | Used for external hardware interrupts. If this is the first external | ||
19 | hardware interrupt (i.e. not a nested hardware interrupt) then the | ||
20 | kernel switches from the current task to the interrupt stack. Like | ||
21 | the split thread and interrupt stacks on i386 (with CONFIG_4KSTACKS), | ||
22 | this gives more room for kernel interrupt processing without having | ||
23 | to increase the size of every per thread stack. | ||
24 | |||
25 | The interrupt stack is also used when processing a softirq. | ||
26 | |||
27 | Switching to the kernel interrupt stack is done by software based on a | ||
28 | per CPU interrupt nest counter. This is needed because x86-64 "IST" | ||
29 | hardware stacks cannot nest without races. | ||
30 | |||
31 | x86_64 also has a feature which is not available on i386, the ability | ||
32 | to automatically switch to a new stack for designated events such as | ||
33 | double fault or NMI, which makes it easier to handle these unusual | ||
34 | events on x86_64. This feature is called the Interrupt Stack Table | ||
35 | (IST). There can be up to 7 IST entries per cpu. The IST code is an | ||
36 | index into the Task State Segment (TSS), the IST entries in the TSS | ||
37 | point to dedicated stacks, each stack can be a different size. | ||
38 | |||
39 | An IST is selected by an non-zero value in the IST field of an | ||
40 | interrupt-gate descriptor. When an interrupt occurs and the hardware | ||
41 | loads such a descriptor, the hardware automatically sets the new stack | ||
42 | pointer based on the IST value, then invokes the interrupt handler. If | ||
43 | software wants to allow nested IST interrupts then the handler must | ||
44 | adjust the IST values on entry to and exit from the interrupt handler. | ||
45 | (this is occasionally done, e.g. for debug exceptions) | ||
46 | |||
47 | Events with different IST codes (i.e. with different stacks) can be | ||
48 | nested. For example, a debug interrupt can safely be interrupted by an | ||
49 | NMI. arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S::paranoidentry adjusts the stack | ||
50 | pointers on entry to and exit from all IST events, in theory allowing | ||
51 | IST events with the same code to be nested. However in most cases, the | ||
52 | stack size allocated to an IST assumes no nesting for the same code. | ||
53 | If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt. | ||
54 | |||
55 | The currently assigned IST stacks are :- | ||
56 | |||
57 | * STACKFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | ||
58 | |||
59 | Used for interrupt 12 - Stack Fault Exception (#SS). | ||
60 | |||
61 | This allows to recover from invalid stack segments. Rarely | ||
62 | happens. | ||
63 | |||
64 | * DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | ||
65 | |||
66 | Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF). | ||
67 | |||
68 | Invoked when handling a exception causes another exception. Happens | ||
69 | when the kernel is very confused (e.g. kernel stack pointer corrupt) | ||
70 | Using a separate stack allows to recover from it well enough in many | ||
71 | cases to still output an oops. | ||
72 | |||
73 | * NMI_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | ||
74 | |||
75 | Used for non-maskable interrupts (NMI). | ||
76 | |||
77 | NMI can be delivered at any time, including when the kernel is in the | ||
78 | middle of switching stacks. Using IST for NMI events avoids making | ||
79 | assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. | ||
80 | |||
81 | * DEBUG_STACK. DEBUG_STKSZ | ||
82 | |||
83 | Used for hardware debug interrupts (interrupt 1) and for software | ||
84 | debug interrupts (INT3). | ||
85 | |||
86 | When debugging a kernel, debug interrupts (both hardware and | ||
87 | software) can occur at any time. Using IST for these interrupts | ||
88 | avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel | ||
89 | stack. | ||
90 | |||
91 | * MCE_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | ||
92 | |||
93 | Used for interrupt 18 - Machine Check Exception (#MC). | ||
94 | |||
95 | MCE can be delivered at any time, including when the kernel is in the | ||
96 | middle of switching stacks. Using IST for MCE events avoids making | ||
97 | assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. | ||
98 | |||
99 | For more details see the Intel IA32 or AMD AMD64 architecture manuals. | ||