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* [PATCH] uml: SYSEMU: slight cleanup and speedupPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As a follow-up to "UML Support - Ptrace: adds the host SYSEMU support, for UML and general usage" (i.e. uml-support-* in current mm). Avoid unconditionally jumping to work_pending and code copying, just reuse the already existing resume_userspace path. One interesting note, from Charles P. Wright, suggested that the API is improvable with no downsides for UML (except that it will have to support yet another host API, since dropping support for the current API, for UML, is not reasonable from users' point of view). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> CC: Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SYSEMU: fix sysaudit / singlestep interactionBodo Stroesser2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> This is simply an adjustment for "Ptrace - i386: fix Syscall Audit interaction with singlestep" to work on top of SYSEMU patches, too. On this patch, I have some doubts: I wonder why we need to alter that way ptrace_disable(). I left the patch this way because it has been extensively tested, but I don't understand the reason. The current PTRACE_DETACH handling simply clears child->ptrace; actually this is not enough because entry.S just looks at the thread_flags; actually, do_syscall_trace checks current->ptrace but I don't think depending on that is good, at least for performance, so I think the clearing is done elsewhere. For instance, on PTRACE_CONT it's done, but doing PTRACE_DETACH without PTRACE_CONT is possible (and happens when gdb crashes and one kills it manually). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Uml support: add PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP option to i386Bodo Stroesser2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the new ptrace option PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP, which can be used by UML to singlestep a process: it will receive SINGLESTEP interceptions for normal instructions and syscalls, but syscall execution will be skipped just like with PTRACE_SYSEMU. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Uml support: reorganize PTRACE_SYSEMU supportBodo Stroesser2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | With this patch, we change the way we handle switching from PTRACE_SYSEMU to PTRACE_{SINGLESTEP,SYSCALL}, to free TIF_SYSCALL_EMU from double use as a preparation for PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP extension, without changing the behavior of the host kernel. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] UML Support - Ptrace: adds the host SYSEMU support, for UML and ↵Laurent Vivier2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | general usage Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>, Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Adds a new ptrace(2) mode, called PTRACE_SYSEMU, resembling PTRACE_SYSCALL except that the kernel does not execute the requested syscall; this is useful to improve performance for virtual environments, like UML, which want to run the syscall on their own. In fact, using PTRACE_SYSCALL means stopping child execution twice, on entry and on exit, and each time you also have two context switches; with SYSEMU you avoid the 2nd stop and so save two context switches per syscall. Also, some architectures don't have support in the host for changing the syscall number via ptrace(), which is currently needed to skip syscall execution (UML turns any syscall into getpid() to avoid it being executed on the host). Fixing that is hard, while SYSEMU is easier to implement. * This version of the patch includes some suggestions of Jeff Dike to avoid adding any instructions to the syscall fast path, plus some other little changes, by myself, to make it work even when the syscall is executed with SYSENTER (but I'm unsure about them). It has been widely tested for quite a lot of time. * Various fixed were included to handle the various switches between various states, i.e. when for instance a syscall entry is traced with one of PT_SYSCALL / _SYSEMU / _SINGLESTEP and another one is used on exit. Basically, this is done by remembering which one of them was used even after the call to ptrace_notify(). * We're combining TIF_SYSCALL_EMU with TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE or TIF_SINGLESTEP to make do_syscall_trace() notice that the current syscall was started with SYSEMU on entry, so that no notification ought to be done in the exit path; this is a bit of a hack, so this problem is solved in another way in next patches. * Also, the effects of the patch: "Ptrace - i386: fix Syscall Audit interaction with singlestep" are cancelled; they are restored back in the last patch of this series. Detailed descriptions of the patches doing this kind of processing follow (but I've already summed everything up). * Fix behaviour when changing interception kind #1. In do_syscall_trace(), we check the status of the TIF_SYSCALL_EMU flag only after doing the debugger notification; but the debugger might have changed the status of this flag because he continued execution with PTRACE_SYSCALL, so this is wrong. This patch fixes it by saving the flag status before calling ptrace_notify(). * Fix behaviour when changing interception kind #2: avoid intercepting syscall on return when using SYSCALL again. A guest process switching from using PTRACE_SYSEMU to PTRACE_SYSCALL crashes. The problem is in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S. The current SYSEMU patch inhibits the syscall-handler to be called, but does not prevent do_syscall_trace() to be called after this for syscall completion interception. The appended patch fixes this. It reuses the flag TIF_SYSCALL_EMU to remember "we come from PTRACE_SYSEMU and now are in PTRACE_SYSCALL", since the flag is unused in the depicted situation. * Fix behaviour when changing interception kind #3: avoid intercepting syscall on return when using SINGLESTEP. When testing 2.6.9 and the skas3.v6 patch, with my latest patch and had problems with singlestepping on UML in SKAS with SYSEMU. It looped receiving SIGTRAPs without moving forward. EIP of the traced process was the same for all SIGTRAPs. What's missing is to handle switching from PTRACE_SYSCALL_EMU to PTRACE_SINGLESTEP in a way very similar to what is done for the change from PTRACE_SYSCALL_EMU to PTRACE_SYSCALL_TRACE. I.e., after calling ptrace(PTRACE_SYSEMU), on the return path, the debugger is notified and then wake ups the process; the syscall is executed (or skipped, when do_syscall_trace() returns 0, i.e. when using PTRACE_SYSEMU), and do_syscall_trace() is called again. Since we are on the return path of a SYSEMU'd syscall, if the wake up is performed through ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL), we must still avoid notifying the parent of the syscall exit. Now, this behaviour is extended even to resuming with PTRACE_SINGLESTEP. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Ptrace/i386: fix "syscall audit" interaction with singlestepBodo Stroesser2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Avoid giving two traps for singlestep instead of one, when syscall auditing is enabled. In fact no singlestep trap is sent on syscall entry, only on syscall exit, as can be seen in entry.S: # Note that in this mask _TIF_SINGLESTEP is not tested !!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<< testb $(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE|_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT|_TIF_SECCOMP),TI_flags(%ebp) jnz syscall_trace_entry ... syscall_trace_entry: ... call do_syscall_trace But auditing a SINGLESTEP'ed process causes do_syscall_trace to be called, so the tracer will get one more trap on the syscall entry path, which it shouldn't. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add suspend/resume for timerShaohua Li2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | The timers lack .suspend/.resume methods. Because of this, jiffies got a big compensation after a S3 resume. And then softlockup watchdog reports an oops. This occured with HPET enabled, but it's also possible for other timers. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: fix remaining u32 vs. pm_message_t confusionPavel Machek2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | Fix remaining bits of u32 vs. pm_message confusion. Should not break anything. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ISA DMA suspend for i386Pierre Ossman2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | Reset the ISA DMA controller into a known state after a suspend. Primary concern was reenabling the cascading DMA channel (4). Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unify x86/x86-64 semaphore codeBenjamin LaHaise2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the common code in x86 and x86-64's semaphore.c into a single file in lib/semaphore-sleepers.c. The arch specific asm stubs are left in the arch tree (in semaphore.c for i386 and in the asm for x86-64). There should be no changes in code/functionality with this patch. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386 boottime for_each_cpu brokenZwane Mwaikambo2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for_each_cpu walks through all processors in cpu_possible_map, which is defined as cpu_callout_map on i386 and isn't initialised until all processors have been booted. This breaks things which do for_each_cpu iterations early during boot. So, define cpu_possible_map as a bitmap with NR_CPUS bits populated. This was triggered by a patch i'm working on which does alloc_percpu before bringing up secondary processors. From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> i386-boottime-for_each_cpu-broken.patch i386-boottime-for_each_cpu-broken-fix.patch The SMP version of __alloc_percpu checks the cpu_possible_map before allocating memory for a certain cpu. With the above patches the BSP cpuid is never set in cpu_possible_map which breaks CONFIG_SMP on uniprocessor machines (as soon as someone tries to dereference something allocated via __alloc_percpu, which in fact is never allocated since the cpu is not set in cpu_possible_map). Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: encapsulate copying of pgd entriesZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a clone operation for pgd updates. This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires explicit updates to page table entries. The new function is: clone_pgd_range(pgd_t *dst, pgd_t *src, int count); dst - pointer to pgd range anwhere on a pgd page src - "" count - the number of pgds to copy. dst and src can be on the same page, but the range must not overlap and must not cross a page boundary. Note that I ommitted using this call to copy pgd entries into the software suspend page root, since this is not technically a live paging structure, rather it is used on resume from suspend. CC'ing Pavel in case he has any feedback on this. Thanks to Chris Wright for noticing that this could be more optimal in PAE compiles by eliminating the memset. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86 NMI: better support for debuggersGeorge Anzinger2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system is about to be taken down. If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is given a new lease on life. We also change the nmi watchdog to carry on if die_nmi returns. This give debug code a chance to a) catch watchdog timeouts and b) possibly allow the system to continue, realizing that the time out may be due to debugger activities such as single stepping which is usually done with "other" cpus held. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDTZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT. This is required for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly written. Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to test limits as well. /* * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) * This is licensed under the GPL. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h> #include <asm/ldt.h> #include <asm/segment.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #define __KERNEL__ #include <asm/page.h> void main(void) { struct user_desc desc; char *code; unsigned long long tsc; code = (char *)mmap(0, 8192, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); desc.entry_number = 0; desc.base_addr = code; desc.limit = 1; desc.seg_32bit = 1; desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE; desc.read_exec_only = 0; desc.limit_in_pages = 1; desc.seg_not_present = 0; desc.useable = 1; if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) { perror("modify_ldt"); } printf("code base is 0x%08x\n", (unsigned)code); code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f; /* rdtsc */ code[0x0fff] = 0x31; code[0x1000] = 0xcb; /* lret */ __asm__ __volatile("lcall $7,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc)); printf("TSC is 0x%016llx\n", tsc); } Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: remove redundant TSS clearingZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When reviewing GDT updates, I found the code: set_tss_desc(cpu,t); /* This just modifies memory; ... */ per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].b &= 0xfffffdff; This second line is unnecessary, since set_tss_desc() has already cleared the busy bit. Commented disassembly, line 1: c028b8bd: 8b 0c 86 mov (%esi,%eax,4),%ecx c028b8c0: 01 cb add %ecx,%ebx c028b8c2: 8d 0c 39 lea (%ecx,%edi,1),%ecx => %ecx = per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu) c028b8c5: 8d 91 80 00 00 00 lea 0x80(%ecx),%edx => %edx = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TSS] c028b8cb: 66 c7 42 00 73 20 movw $0x2073,0x0(%edx) c028b8d1: 66 89 5a 02 mov %bx,0x2(%edx) c028b8d5: c1 cb 10 ror $0x10,%ebx c028b8d8: 88 5a 04 mov %bl,0x4(%edx) c028b8db: c6 42 05 89 movb $0x89,0x5(%edx) => ((char *)%edx)[5] = 0x89 (equivalent) ((char *)per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TSS])[5] = 0x89 c028b8df: c6 42 06 00 movb $0x0,0x6(%edx) c028b8e3: 88 7a 07 mov %bh,0x7(%edx) c028b8e6: c1 cb 10 ror $0x10,%ebx => other bits Commented disassembly, line 2: c028b8e9: 8b 14 86 mov (%esi,%eax,4),%edx c028b8ec: 8d 04 3a lea (%edx,%edi,1),%eax => %eax = per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu) c028b8ef: 81 a0 84 00 00 00 ff andl $0xfffffdff,0x84(%eax) => per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].b &= 0xfffffdff; (equivalent) ((char *)per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TSS])[5] &= 0xfd Note that (0x89 & ~0xfd) == 0; i.e, set_tss_desc(cpu,t) has already stored the type field in the GDT with the busy bit clear. Eliminating redundant and obscure code is always a good thing; in fact, I pointed out this same optimization many moons ago in arch/i386/setup.c, back when it used to be called that. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: make IOPL explicitZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pushf/popf in switch_to are ONLY used to switch IOPL. Making this explicit in C code is more clear. This pushf/popf pair was added as a bugfix for leaking IOPL to unprivileged processes when using sysenter/sysexit based system calls (sysexit does not restore flags). When requesting an IOPL change in sys_iopl(), it is just as easy to change the current flags and the flags in the stack image (in case an IRET is required), but there is no reason to force an IRET if we came in from the SYSENTER path. This change is the minimal solution for supporting a paravirtualized Linux kernel that allows user processes to run with I/O privilege. Other solutions require radical rewrites of part of the low level fault / system call handling code, or do not fully support sysenter based system calls. Unfortunately, this added one field to the thread_struct. But as a bonus, on P4, the fastest time measured for switch_to() went from 312 to 260 cycles, a win of about 17% in the fast case through this performance critical path. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: privilege cleanupZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Privilege checking cleanup. Originally, these diffs were much greater, but recent cleanups in Linux have already done much of the cleanup. I added some explanatory comments in places where the reasoning behind certain tests is rather subtle. Also, in traps.c, we can skip the user_mode check in handle_BUG(). The reason is, there are only two call chains - one via die_if_kernel() and one via do_page_fault(), both entering from die(). Both of these paths already ensure that a kernel mode failure has happened. Also, the original check here, if (user_mode(regs)) was insufficient anyways, since it would not rule out BUG faults from V8086 mode execution. Saving the %ss segment in show_regs() rather than assuming a fixed value also gives better information about the current kernel state in the register dump. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: more asm cleanupsZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | Some more assembler cleanups I noticed along the way. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: use set_pte macros in a couple places where they were missingZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also, setting PDPEs in PAE mode does not require atomic operations, since the PDPEs are cached by the processor, and only reloaded on an explicit or implicit reload of CR3. Since the four PDPEs must always be present in an active root, and the kernel PDPE is never updated, we are safe even from SMIs and interrupts / NMIs using task gates (which reload CR3). Actually, much of this is moot, since the user PDPEs are never updated either, and the only usage of task gates is by the doublefault handler. It appears the only place PGDs get updated in PAE mode is in init_low_mappings() / zap_low_mapping() for initial page table creation and recovery from ACPI sleep state, and these sites are safe by inspection. Getting rid of the cmpxchg8b saves code space and 720 cycles in pgd_alloc on P4. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: load_tls() fixZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | Subtle fix: load_TLS has been moved after saving %fs and %gs segments to avoid creating non-reversible segments. This could conceivably cause a bug if the kernel ever needed to save and restore fs/gs from the NMI handler. It currently does not, but this is the safest approach to avoiding fs/gs corruption. SMIs are safe, since SMI saves the descriptor hidden state. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task ↵Zachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | register management i386 inline assembler cleanup. This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management. Also, it is possible to improve assembler generation in two cases; savesegment may store the value in a register instead of a memory location, which allows GCC to optimize stack variables into registers, and MOV MEM, SEG is always a 16-bit write to memory, making the casting in math-emu unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: cleanup serialize msrZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | i386 arch cleanup. Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor state. Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr() is already a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will keep the semantic the same, since this could be a timing workaround. As far as I can tell, this has always been there since the original microcode update source. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: inline asm cleanupZachary Amsden2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386 Inline asm cleanup. Use cr/dr accessor functions. Also, a potential bugfix. Also, some CR accessors really should be volatile. Reads from CR0 (numeric state may change in an exception handler), writes to CR4 (flipping CR4.TSD) and reads from CR2 (page fault) prevent instruction re-ordering. I did not add memory clobber to CR3 / CR4 / CR0 updates, as it was not there to begin with, and in no case should kernel memory be clobbered, except when doing a TLB flush, which already has memory clobber. I noticed that page invalidation does not have a memory clobber. I can't find a bug as a result, but there is definitely a potential for a bug here: #define __flush_tlb_single(addr) \ __asm__ __volatile__("invlpg %0": :"m" (*(char *) addr)) Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: clean up vDSO alignment paddingRoland McGrath2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | This makes the vDSO use nops for all its padding around instructions, rather than sometimes zeros, and nop-pads the end of the area containing instructions to a 32-byte cache line, to keep text and data in separate lines. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ES7000 platform update (i386)Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | This is subarch update for ES7000. I've modified platform check code and removed unnecessary OEM table parsing for newer systems that don't use OEM information during boot. Parsing the table in fact is causing problems, and the platform doesn't get recognized. The patch only affects the ES7000 subach. Signed-off-by: <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Add the check for all the cores in a package in cache informationVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-09-05
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUsVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | i386 generic subarchitecture requires explicit dmi strings or command line to enable bigsmp mode. The patch below removes that restriction, and uses bigsmp as soon as it finds more than 8 logical CPUs, Intel processors and xAPIC support. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)Vivek Goyal2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and will be addressable by early bootup page tables is no longer valid. In kexec on panic case parameter segment might well be loaded beyond kernel image and might not be addressable by early boot page tables. o This case might hit in the scenario where user has reserved a chunk of memory for second kernel, for example 16MB to 64MB, and has also built second kernel for physical memory location 16MB. In this case kexec has no choice but to load the parameter segment at a higher address than new kernel image at safe location where new kernel does not stomp it. o Though problem should automatically go away once relocatable kernel for i386 is in place and kexec can determine the location of new kernel at run time and load parameter segment at lower address than kernel image. But till then this patch can go in (assuming it does not break something else). o This patch moves up the boot parameter saving code. Now boot parameters are copied out in protected mode before page tables are initialized. This will ensure that parameter segment is always addressable irrespective of its physical location. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vm86: Honor TF bit when emulating an instructionPetr Tesarik2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the virtual 86 machine reaches an instruction which raises a General Protection Fault (such as CLI or STI), the instruction is emulated (in handle_vm86_fault). However, the emulation ignored the TF bit, so the hardware debug interrupt was not invoked after such an emulated instruction (and the DOS debugger missed it). This patch fixes the problem by emulating the hardware debug interrupt as the last action before control is returned to the VM86 program. Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <kernel@tesarici.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: fix EFI memory map parsingMatt Tolentino2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The memory descriptors that comprise the EFI memory map are not fixed in stone such that the size could change in the future. This uses the memory descriptor size obtained from EFI to iterate over the memory map entries during boot. This enables the removal of an x86 specific pad (and ifdef) in the EFI header. I also couldn't stomach the broken up nature of the function to put EFI runtime calls into virtual mode any longer so I fixed that up a bit as well. For reference, this patch only impacts x86. Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hpet: use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSCVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | Only use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSC. Thanks to Andrea for pointing this out. Should not be issue on any platforms as all recent systems that has HPET also has CPUs that supports TSC. The patch is still required for correctness. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: compress the stack layout of do_page_fault()Ingo Molnar2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the main do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of stack used by the typical do_page_fault() invocation - resulting in a denser cache-layout. (Another minor effect is that in case of kernel crashes that come from a pagefault, we add less space to the already existing frame, giving the crash functions a slightly higher chance to do their stuff without overflowing the stack.) (The changes also result in slightly cleaner code.) argument bugfix from "Guillaume C." <guichaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() and fix huge_pte_alloc()Chen, Kenneth W2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I don't think we need to call hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() anymore in 2.6.13 because of the rework with free_pgtables(). It now collect all the pte page at the time of munmap. It used to only collect page table pages when entire one pgd can be freed and left with staled pte pages. Not anymore with 2.6.13. This function will never be called and We should turn it into a BUG_ON. I also spotted two problems here, not Adam's fault :-) (1) in huge_pte_alloc(), it looks like a bug to me that pud is not checked before calling pmd_alloc() (2) in hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(), it also missed a call to pmd_free_tlb. I think a tlb flush is required to flush the mapping for the page table itself when we clear out the pmd pointing to a pte page. However, since hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() is never called, so it won't trigger the bug. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugetlb: check p?d_present in huge_pte_offset()Adam Litke2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | For demand faulting, we cannot assume that the page tables will be populated. Do what the rest of the architectures do and test p?d_present() while walking down the page table. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugetlb: move stale pte check into huge_pte_alloc()Adam Litke2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initial Post (Wed, 17 Aug 2005) This patch moves the if (! pte_none(*pte)) hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte); logic into huge_pte_alloc() so all of its callers can be immune to the bug described by Kenneth Chen at http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/16/246 > It turns out there is a bug in hugetlb_prefault(): with 3 level page table, > huge_pte_alloc() might return a pmd that points to a PTE page. It happens > if the virtual address for hugetlb mmap is recycled from previously used > normal page mmap. free_pgtables() might not scrub the pmd entry on > munmap and hugetlb_prefault skips on any pmd presence regardless what type > it is. Unless I am missing something, it seems more correct to place the check inside huge_pte_alloc() to prevent a the same bug wherever a huge pte is allocated. It also allows checking for this condition when lazily faulting huge pages later in the series. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sparsemem extreme implementationBob Picco2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With cleanups from Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> SPARSEMEM_EXTREME makes mem_section a one dimensional array of pointers to mem_sections. This two level layout scheme is able to achieve smaller memory requirements for SPARSEMEM with the tradeoff of an additional shift and load when fetching the memory section. The current SPARSEMEM implementation is a one dimensional array of mem_sections which is the default SPARSEMEM configuration. The patch attempts isolates the implementation details of the physical layout of the sparsemem section array. SPARSEMEM_EXTREME requires bootmem to be functioning at the time of memory_present() calls. This is not always feasible, so architectures which do not need it may allocate everything statically by using SPARSEMEM_STATIC. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: pci_assign_unassigned_resources() updateIvan Kokshaysky2005-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I had some time to think about PCI assign issues in 2.6.13-rc series. The major problem here is that we call pci_assign_unassigned_resources() way too early - at subsys_initcall level. Therefore we give no chances to ACPI and PnP routines (called at fs_initcall level) to reserve their respective resources properly, as the comments in drivers/pnp/system.c and drivers/acpi/motherboard.c suggest: /** * Reserve motherboard resources after PCI claim BARs, * but before PCI assign resources for uninitialized PCI devices */ So I moved the pci_assign_unassigned_resources() call to pcibios_assign_resources() (fs_initcall), which should hopefully fix a lot of problems and make PCIBIOS_MIN_IO tweaks unnecessary. Other changes: - remove resource assignment code from pcibios_assign_resources(), since it duplicates pci_assign_unassigned_resources() functionality and actually does nothing in 2.6.13; - modify ROM assignment code as per Ben's suggestion: try to use firmware settings by default (if PCI_ASSIGN_ROMS is not set); - set CARDBUS_IO_SIZE back to 4K as it's a wonderful stress test for various setups. Confirmed by Tero Roponen <teanropo@cc.jyu.fi> (who had problems with the 4kB CardBus IO size previously). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.Steven Rostedt2005-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it. I've written a program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes, confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled. The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked. 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_ NetBSD 2.0 *). The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this). 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being handled is not blocked. The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to the way most Unix boxes work. Unix boxes that were tested: DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU 3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX. * NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like Linux. So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that behaves differently here with #2. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: fix incorrect FP signal codeChuck Ebbert2005-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386 floating-point exception handling has a bug that can cause error code 0 to be sent instead of the proper code during signal delivery. This is caused by unconditionally checking the IS and c1 bits from the FPU status word when they are not always relevant. The IS bit tells whether an exception is a stack fault and is only relevant when the exception is IE (invalid operation.) The C1 bit determines whether a stack fault is overflow or underflow and is only relevant when IS and IE are set. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Mobil Pentium 4 HT and the NMISteven Rostedt2005-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm trying to get the nmi working with my laptop (IBM ThinkPad G41) and after debugging it a while, I found that the nmi code doesn't want to set it up for this particular CPU. Here I have: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3320.084 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6642.39 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3320.084 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6637.46 And the following code shows: $ cat linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c [...] void setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (void) { switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) { case X86_VENDOR_AMD: if (boot_cpu_data.x86 != 6 && boot_cpu_data.x86 != 15) return; setup_k7_watchdog(); break; case X86_VENDOR_INTEL: switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) { case 6: if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0xd) return; setup_p6_watchdog(); break; case 15: if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0x3) return; Here I get boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x4. So I decided to change it and reboot. I now seem to have a working NMI. So, unless there's something know to be bad about this processor and the NMI. I'm submitting the following patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Remove obsolete get_cpu_vendor callAndi Kleen2005-08-18
| | | | | | | | Since early CPU identify is in this information is already available Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Move the fix to align node_end_pfns to a proper locationRavikiran G Thirumalai2005-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Move the fix to align node_end_pfns to a proper location. The earlier fix made the node_remap_start_vaddr to get misaligned causing remap_numa_kva to barf again :-/ Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] visws: linkage fixTom Duffy2005-08-07
| | | | | | | | This patch add stubs to allow the visws subarch to link again. Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <thomas.duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386 visws: Add machine_shutdown and emergency_restartEric W. Biederman2005-08-06
| | | | | | | | Another x86 subarchitecture bit I missed. This adds both machine_emergency_restart missed in my reboot fixes and machine_shutdown needed for kexec support. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386 voyager: Add machine_shutdownEric W. Biederman2005-08-06
| | | | | | | | | Here is one more bit of breakage my x86 sub-architecture confusion caused. Add machine_shutdown to voyager so it will compile with CONFIG_KEXEC. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix voyager compile after machine_emergency_restart breakageJames Bottomley2005-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] i386: Implement machine_emergency_reboot introduced this new function into arch/i386/reboot.c. However, subarchitectures are entitled to implement their own copies of reboot.c from which this new function is now missing. It looks like visws will also need a similar fixup Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove special HPET_EMULATE_RTC config optionVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We had a user whose apps weren't working correctly because his "rtc" wasn't working fully. For the sake of simplicity, it seems sensible to always enable HPET RTC emulation. Remove a special config option for HPET_EMULATE_RTC and make it directly depend on HPET_TIMER and RTC. This will avoid the hangs when EMULATE_RTC is not configured and when some userlevel script depends on RTC interrupt, as in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fixAndrew Morton2005-08-02
| | | | | | | Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUsEric Lammerts2005-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs by quite large amounts. We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after a fork+exec. So disable randomization by default on those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()Ingo Molnar2005-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now. While i'm sure Martin is trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much for eternity. I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not hit v2.6.13 in its current form. Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ] Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2 where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way: ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. ' in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results, without showing the variability data. How much variance is there run-to-run? I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed and understood! The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or so. The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes. We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of external factors in the VM balance picture. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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