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* get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on i386Benjamin Herrenschmidt2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Handle MAP_FIXED in i386 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(), just call prepare_hugepage_range. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB coreChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns with the existing implementation. A. Management of object queues A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of queueing them up. B. Storage overhead of object queues SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up for storing references to objects for those queues This does not include the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues. C. SLAB meta data overhead SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over. SLAB cannot do this. D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs. E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects from one node and then will switch to the next. F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to decrease fragmentation. G. Tunables SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the better SLUB will be scaling. G. Slab merging We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying slub_nomerge on boot up. Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those. H. Diagnostics The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths). SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option. Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running with the usual performance and it is much more likely that race conditions can be reproduced. I. Resiliency If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the system to continue. J. Tracing Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T,<slabcache> option during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache and dump the object contents on free. K. On demand DMA cache creation. Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with __GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed. For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is completely eliminated. L. Performance increase Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may enable further performance increases. Tested on: i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + Simulator SLUB Boot options slub_nomerge Disable merging of slabs slub_min_order=x Require a minimum order for slab caches. This increases the managed chunk size and therefore reduces meta data and locking overhead. slub_min_objects=x Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8. slub_max_order=x Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified. slub_debug Enable all diagnostics for all caches slub_debug=<options> Enable selective options for all caches slub_debug=<o>,<cache> Enable selective options for a certain set of caches Available Debug options F Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency R Red zoning P Object / padding poisoning U Track last free / alloc T Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs). To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab allocator. [hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation"Linus Torvalds2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was broken. It adds complexity, for no good reason. Rather than separate __pa() and __pa_symbol(), we should deprecate __pa_symbol(), and preferably __pa() too - and just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which is more readable and has nicer semantics. However, right now, just undo the separation, and make __pa_symbol() be the exact same as __pa(). That fixes the bugs this patch introduced, and we can do the fairly obvious cleanups later. Do the new __phys_addr() function (which is now the actual workhorse for the unified __pa()/__pa_symbol()) as a real external function, that way all the potential issues with compile/link-time optimizations of constant symbol addresses go away, and we can also, if we choose to, add more sanity-checking of the argument. Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits) [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall [PATCH] i386: type may be unused [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation. [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split. [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff [PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu [PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks [PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c [PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems [PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64 [PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER [PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0) [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c [PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning [PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible [PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386 [PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386 ... Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in ↵Thomas Renninger2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | late_initcall In arch/i386/cpu/common.c there is: cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_INTEL] cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX] cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_AMD] ... They are all filled with data early. The data (struct) got set to NULL for all, but Intel in different late_initcall (exit_cpu_vendor) calls. I don't see what sense this makes at all, maybe something that got forgotten with the HOTPLUG_CPU extenstions? Please check/review whether initdata, cpuinitdata is still ok and this still works with HOTPLUG_CPU and without, it should... Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: davej@redhat.com
| * [PATCH] i386: type may be unusedDavid Rientjes2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the case of !CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT && !CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG, type is unreferened. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation.Olivier Galibert2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On i945, a mmconfig range hitting the f0000000-ffffffff zone conflicts with the APIC registers and others. Consider it invalid. On E7520, values 0000 and f000 for the window register are defined invalid in the documentation. I haven't seen a bios use these values, but who trusts biosen these days? Signed-off-by: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
| * [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.Bill Irwin2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only 1GB-aligned kernel/user splits are now handled for PAE. The 2GB/2GB split attempts to avoid aliasing vmallocspace with the 1:1 mapping for physical memory by using an actual split of 1.875/2.125 to accommodate 128MB of vmallocspace out of what would otherwise be a full 2GB for userspace. That attempt disturbs the alignment required by PAE for 2GB/2GB splits, and furthermore does not provide a 2GB/2GB split as advertised. This patch resolves the issues here in two manners. The first is by providing a true 2GB/2GB split in addition to the 1.875/2.125 split. The second is by renaming the 1.875/2.125 split to CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT analogously to CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT, which performs a similar manuever to avoid aliasing vmallocspace with the 1:1 mapping for physical memory around the 3GB boundary. With the 1.875/2.125 split properly-named, its config option is then tagged as depending on !HIGHMEM to express the PAE implementation's current inability to deal with such unaligned splits. This patch is essentially a combination of two patches, one written by Eric Biederman and the other by Eric Dumazet. If they could add their Signed-off-by: to this, I'd be much obliged. Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printksAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0)Andi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | access_ok checks this case anyways, no need to check twice. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.cAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove #if that is always set - Fix warning Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386Andi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Syncs up with x86-64. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Verify important CPUID bits in real modeAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check some CPUID bits that are needed for compiler generated early in boot. When the system is still in real mode before changing the VESA BIOS mode it is possible to still display an visible error message on the screen. Similar to x86-64. Includes cleanups from Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Drop -traditional in arch/i386/bootAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Needed for followon patch Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Clean up NMI watchdog codeAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Introduce a wd_ops structure - Convert the various nmi watchdogs over to it - This allows to split the perfctr reservation from the watchdog setup cleanly. - Do perfctr reservation globally as it should have always been - Remove dead code referenced only by unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: fix wrong comment for syscall stack layoutAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `ret_from_sys_call' label no longer exist and `syscall_exit' label was introduced instead. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: convert to the kthread APIEric W. Biederman2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch just trivial converts from calling kernel_thread and daemonize to just calling kthread_run. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifierDaniel Walker2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The locking of the xtime_lock around the cpu notifier is unessesary now. At one time the tsc was used after a frequency change for timekeeping, but the re-write of timekeeping no longer uses the TSC unless the frequency is constant. The variables that are changed in this section of code had also once been used for timekeeping, but not any longer .. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: check capabilityJoachim Deguara2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the i386 architecture checks the family for mce capability and this removes that and uses the CPUID information. Tested on a K8 revE and a family10h processor. This eliminates checking of a set AMD procesor family if mce is allowed and relies on the information being in CPUID. Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: clean up flush_tlb_others fnKeshavamurthy, Anil S2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup flush_tlb_others(), no functional change. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: replace spin_lock_irqsave with spin_lockHisashi Hifumi2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | IRQ is already disabled through local_irq_disable(). So spin_lock_irqsave() can be replaced with spin_lock(). Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: avoid checking for cpu gone when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU not definedKeshavamurthy, Anil S2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid checking for cpu gone in mm hot path when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not defined. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: fix startup_ipi_hook config dependencyJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | startup_ipi_hook depends on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC, so move it to the right part of the paravirt_ops initialization. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: fix mtrr sectionsRandy Dunlap2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix section mismatch warnings in mtrr code. Fix line length on one source line. WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text.get_mtrr_state after 'get_mtrr_state' (at offset 0x103) WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text.get_mtrr_state after 'get_mtrr_state' (at offset 0x180) WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text.get_mtrr_state after 'get_mtrr_state' (at offset 0x199) WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text.get_mtrr_state after 'get_mtrr_state' (at offset 0x1c1) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: Use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle in safe_apic_wait_icr_idle - i386Fernando Luis [** ISO-8859-1 charset **] VzquezCao2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle to check ICR idle bit if the vector is NMI_VECTOR to avoid potential hangups in the event of crash when kdump tries to stop the other CPUs. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: __send_IPI_dest_field - i386Fernando Luis [** ISO-8859-1 charset **] VzquezCao2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement __send_IPI_dest_field which can be used to send IPIs when the "destination shorthand" field of the ICR is set to 00 (destination field). Use it whenever possible. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle in smpboot.cFernando Luis VazquezCao2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __inquire_remote_apic is used for APIC debugging, so use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle instead of apic_wait_icr_idle to avoid possible lockups when APIC delivery fails. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle - i386Fernando Luis VazquezCao2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The functionality provided by the new safe_apic_wait_icr_idle is being open-coded all over "kernel/smpboot.c". Use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle instead to consolidate code and ease maintenance. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: safe_apic_wait_icr_idle - i386Fernando Luis VazquezCao2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | apic_wait_icr_idle looks like this: static __inline__ void apic_wait_icr_idle(void) { while (apic_read(APIC_ICR) & APIC_ICR_BUSY) cpu_relax(); } The busy loop in this function would not be problematic if the corresponding status bit in the ICR were always updated, but that does not seem to be the case under certain crash scenarios. Kdump uses an IPI to stop the other CPUs in the event of a crash, but when any of the other CPUs are locked-up inside the NMI handler the CPU that sends the IPI will end up looping forever in the ICR check, effectively hard-locking the whole system. Quoting from Intel's "MultiProcessor Specification" (Version 1.4), B-3: "A local APIC unit indicates successful dispatch of an IPI by resetting the Delivery Status bit in the Interrupt Command Register (ICR). The operating system polls the delivery status bit after sending an INIT or STARTUP IPI until the command has been dispatched. A period of 20 microseconds should be sufficient for IPI dispatch to complete under normal operating conditions. If the IPI is not successfully dispatched, the operating system can abort the command. Alternatively, the operating system can retry the IPI by writing the lower 32-bit double word of the ICR. This “time-out” mechanism can be implemented through an external interrupt, if interrupts are enabled on the processor, or through execution of an instruction or time-stamp counter spin loop." Intel's documentation suggests the implementation of a time-out mechanism, which, by the way, is already being open-coded in some parts of the kernel that tinker with ICR. Create a apic_wait_icr_idle replacement that implements the time-out mechanism and that can be used to solve the aforementioned problem. AK: moved both functions out of line AK: added improved loop from Keith Owens Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Enable support for fixed-range IORRs to keep RdMem & WrMem in syncBernhard Kaindl2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If our copy of the MTRRs of the BSP has RdMem or WrMem set, and we are running on an AMD64/K8 system, the boot CPU must have had MtrrFixDramEn and MtrrFixDramModEn set (otherwise our RDMSR would have copied these bits cleared), so we set them on this CPU as well. This allows us to keep the AMD64/K8 RdMem and WrMem bits in sync across the CPUs of SMP systems in order to fullfill the duty of system software to "initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across all processors." as written in the AMD and Intel manuals. If an WRMSR instruction fails because MtrrFixDramModEn is not set, I expect that also the Intel-style MTRR bits are not updated. AK: minor cleanup, moved MSR defines around Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
| * [PATCH] x86: Save and restore the fixed-range MTRRs of the BSP when suspendingBernhard Kaindl2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note: This patch didn'nt need an update since it's initial post. Some BIOSes may modify fixed-range MTRRs in SMM, e.g. when they transition the system into ACPI mode, which is entered thru an SMI, triggered by Linux in acpi_enable(). SMIs which cause that Linux is interrupted and BIOS code is executed (which may change e.g. fixed-range MTRRs) in SMM may be raised by an embedded system controller which is often found in notebooks also at other occasions. If we would not update our copy of the fixed-range MTRRs before suspending to RAM or to disk, restore_processor_state() would set the fixed-range MTRRs of the BSP using old backup values which may be outdated and this could cause the system to fail later during resume. This patch ensures that our copy of the fixed-range MTRRs is updated when saving the boot processor state on suspend to disk and suspend to RAM. In combination with other patches this allows to fix s2ram and s2disk on the Acer Ferrari 1000 notebook and at least s2disk on the Acer Ferrari 5000 notebook. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
| * [PATCH] x86: Save the MTRRs of the BSP before booting an APBernhard Kaindl2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Applied fix by Andew Morton: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/8/88 - Fix `make headers_check'. AMD and Intel x86 CPU manuals state that it is the responsibility of system software to initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across all processors in Multi-Processing Environments. Quote from page 188 of the AMD64 System Programming manual (Volume 2): 7.6.5 MTRRs in Multi-Processing Environments "In multi-processing environments, the MTRRs located in all processors must characterize memory in the same way. Generally, this means that identical values are written to the MTRRs used by the processors." (short omission here) "Failure to do so may result in coherency violations or loss of atomicity. Processor implementations do not check the MTRR settings in other processors to ensure consistency. It is the responsibility of system software to initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across all processors." Current Linux MTRR code already implements the above in the case that the BIOS does not properly initialize MTRRs on the secondary processors, but the case where the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot processor are changed after Linux started to boot, before the initialsation of a secondary processor, is not handled yet. In this case, secondary processors are currently initialized by Linux with MTRRs which the boot processor had very early, when mtrr_bp_init() did run, but not with the MTRRs which the boot processor uses at the time when that secondary processors is actually booted, causing differing MTRR contents on the secondary processors. Such situation happens on Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks where the BIOS enables and sets AMD-specific IORR bits in the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot processor when it transitions the system into ACPI mode. The SMI handler of the BIOS does this in SMM, entered while Linux ACPI code runs acpi_enable(). Other occasions where the SMI handler of the BIOS may change bits in the MTRRs could occur as well. To initialize newly booted secodary processors with the fixed-range MTRRs which the boot processor uses at that time, this patch saves the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot processor before new secondary processors are started. When the secondary processors run their Linux initialisation code, their fixed-range MTRRs will be updated with the saved fixed-range MTRRs. If CONFIG_MTRR is not set, we define mtrr_save_state as an empty statement because there is nothing to do. Possible TODOs: *) CPU-hotplugging outside of SMP suspend/resume is not yet tested with this patch. *) If, even in this case, an AP never runs i386/do_boot_cpu or x86_64/cpu_up, then the calls to mtrr_save_state() could be replaced by calls to mtrr_save_fixed_ranges(NULL) and mtrr_save_state() would not be needed. That would need either verification of the CPU-hotplug code or at least a test on a >2 CPU machine. *) The MTRRs of other running processors are not yet checked at this time but it might be interesting to syncronize the MTTRs of all processors before booting. That would be an incremental patch, but of rather low priority since there is no machine known so far which would require this. AK: moved prototypes on x86-64 around to fix warnings Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
| * [PATCH] x86: Adds mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() for use in two later patches.Bernhard Kaindl2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In this current implementation which is used in other patches, mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() accepts a dummy void pointer because in the current implementation of one of these patches, this function may be called from smp_call_function_single() which requires that this function takes a void pointer argument. This function calls get_fixed_ranges(), passing mtrr_state.fixed_ranges which is the element of the static struct which stores our current backup of the fixed-range MTRR values which all CPUs shall be using. Because mtrr_save_fixed_ranges calls get_fixed_ranges after kernel initialisation time, __init needs to be removed from the declaration of get_fixed_ranges(). If CONFIG_MTRR is not set, we define mtrr_save_fixed_ranges as an empty statement because there is nothing to do. AK: Moved prototypes for x86-64 around to fix warnings Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
| * [PATCH] i386: Clean up ELF note generationJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Three cleanups: 1: ELF notes are never mapped, so there's no need to have any access flags in their phdr. 2: When generating them from asm, tell the assembler to use a SHT_NOTE section type. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from C. 3: Use ANSI rather than traditional cpp behaviour to stringify the macro argument. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules tooAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. Longer term should split the single structure up into internal and external symbols and not export the internal ones at all. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>Jeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The other symbols used to delineate the alt-instructions sections have the form __foo/__foo_end. Rename parainstructions to match. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: Convert VMI timer to use clock eventsZachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert VMI timer to use clock events, making it properly able to use the NO_HZ infrastructure. On UP systems, with no local APIC, we just continue to route these events through the PIT. On systems with a local APIC, or SMP, we provide a single source interrupt chip which creates the local timer IRQ. It actually gets delivered by the APIC hardware, but we don't want to use the same local APIC clocksource processing, so we create our own handler here. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Implement vmi_kmap_atomic_pteZachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement vmi_kmap_atomic_pte in terms of the backend set_linear_mapping operation. The conversion is rather straighforward; call kmap_atomic and then inform the hypervisor of the page mapping. The _flush_tlb damage is due to macros being pulled in from highmem.h. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Now that the VDSO can be relocated, we can support it in VMI ↵Zachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | configurations. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Clean up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.cZachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No, just no. You do not use goto to skip a code block. You do not return an obvious variable from a singly-inlined function and give the function a return value. You don't put unexplained comments about kmalloc in code which doesn't do dynamic allocation. And you don't leave stray warnings around for no good reason. Also, when possible, it is better to use block scoped variables because gcc can sometime generate better code. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allow boot-time disable of paravirt_ops patchingJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: In compat mode, the return value here was uninitialized.Zachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappingsJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | head.S creates the very initial pagetable for the kernel. This just maps enough space for the kernel itself, and an allocation bitmap. The amount of mapped memory is rounded up to 4Mbytes, and so this typically ends up mapping 8Mbytes of memory. When booting, pagetable_init() needs to create mappings for all lowmem, and the pagetables for these mappings are allocated from the free pages around the kernel in low memory. If the number of pagetable pages + kernel size exceeds head.S's initial mapping, it will end up faulting on an unmapped page. This will only happen with specific combinations of kernel size and memory size. This patch makes sure that head.S also maps enough space to fit the kernel pagetables as well as the kernel itself. It ends up using an additional two pages of unreclaimable memory. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
| * [PATCH] i386: Fix UP gdt bugsJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes two problems with the GDT when compiling for uniprocessor: - There's no percpu segment, so trying to load its selector into %fs fails. Use a null selector instead. - The real gdt needs to be loaded at some point. Do it in cpu_init(). Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * [PATCH] i386: Convert PDA into the percpu sectionJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently x86 (similar to x84-64) has a special per-cpu structure called "i386_pda" which can be easily and efficiently referenced via the %fs register. An ELF section is more flexible than a structure, allowing any piece of code to use this area. Indeed, such a section already exists: the per-cpu area. So this patch: (1) Removes the PDA and uses per-cpu variables for each current member. (2) Replaces the __KERNEL_PDA segment with __KERNEL_PERCPU. (3) Creates a per-cpu mirror of __per_cpu_offset called this_cpu_off, which can be used to calculate addresses for this CPU's variables. (4) Simplifies startup, because %fs doesn't need to be loaded with a special segment at early boot; it can be deferred until the first percpu area is allocated (or never for UP). The result is less code and one less x86-specific concept. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: Page-align the GDTJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xen wants a dedicated page for the GDT. I believe VMI likes it too. lguest, KVM and native don't care. Simple transformation to page-aligned "struct gdt_page". Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
| * [PATCH] x86: deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.cJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inflate_fixed and huft_build together use around 2.7k of stack. When using 4k stacks, I saw stack overflows from interrupts arriving while unpacking the root initrd: do_IRQ: stack overflow: 384 [<c0106b64>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [<c01075e6>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c010763f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c0107ca4>] do_IRQ+0x6d/0xd9 [<c010202b>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x6e/0xa2 [<c0106781>] xen_hypervisor_callback+0x25/0x2c [<c010116c>] xen_restore_fl+0x27/0x29 [<c0330f63>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x50 [<c0117aab>] change_page_attr+0x577/0x584 [<c0117b45>] kernel_map_pages+0x8d/0xb4 [<c016a314>] cache_alloc_refill+0x53f/0x632 [<c016a6c2>] __kmalloc+0xc1/0x10d [<c0463d34>] malloc+0x10/0x12 [<c04641c1>] huft_build+0x2a7/0x5fa [<c04645a5>] inflate_fixed+0x91/0x136 [<c04657e2>] unpack_to_rootfs+0x5f2/0x8c1 [<c0465acf>] populate_rootfs+0x1e/0xe4 (This was under Xen, but there's no reason it couldn't happen on bare hardware.) This patch mallocs the local variables, thereby reducing the stack usage to sane levels. Also, up the heap size for the kernel decompressor to deal with the extra allocation. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: drop unused ptep_get_and_clearJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In shadow mode hypervisors, ptep_get_and_clear achieves the desired purpose of keeping the shadows in sync by issuing a native_get_and_clear, followed by a call to pte_update, which indicates the PTE has been modified. Direct mode hypervisors (Xen) have no need for this anyway, and will trap the update using writable pagetables. This means no hypervisor makes use of ptep_get_and_clear; there is no reason to have it in the paravirt-ops structure. Change confusing terminology about raw vs. native functions into consistent use of native_pte_xxx for operations which do not invoke paravirt-ops. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: flush lazy mmu updates on kunmap_atomicJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kunmap_atomic should flush any pending lazy mmu updates, mainly to be consistent with kmap_atomic, and to preserve its normal behaviour. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add kmap_atomic_pte for mapping highpte pagesJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xen and VMI both have special requirements when mapping a highmem pte page into the kernel address space. These can be dealt with by adding a new kmap_atomic_pte() function for mapping highptes, and hooking it into the paravirt_ops infrastructure. Xen specifically wants to map the pte page RO, so this patch exposes a helper function, kmap_atomic_prot, which maps the page with the specified page protections. This also adds a kmap_flush_unused() function to clear out the cached kmap mappings. Xen needs this to clear out any potential stray RW mappings of pages which will become part of a pagetable. [ Zach - vmi.c will need some attention after this patch. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what needs to be done. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>