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Ingo Molnar
d4439087d3 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into x86/xsave
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
	include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 10:55:26 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
e49140120c crypto: padlock - fix VIA PadLock instruction usage with irq_ts_save/restore()
Wolfgang Walter reported this oops on his via C3 using padlock for
AES-encryption:

##################################################################

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001f0
IP: [<c01028c5>] __switch_to+0x30/0x117
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT
Modules linked in:

Pid: 2071, comm: sleep Not tainted (2.6.26 #11)
EIP: 0060:[<c01028c5>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
EIP is at __switch_to+0x30/0x117
EAX: 00000000 EBX: c0493300 ECX: dc48dd00 EDX: c0493300
ESI: dc48dd00 EDI: c0493530 EBP: c04cff8c ESP: c04cff7c
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process sleep (pid: 2071, ti=c04ce000 task=dc48dd00 task.ti=d2fe6000)
Stack: dc48df30 c0493300 00000000 00000000 d2fe7f44 c03b5b43 c04cffc8 00000046
       c0131856 0000005a dc472d3c c0493300 c0493470 d983ae00 00002696 00000000
       c0239f54 00000000 c04c4000 c04cffd8 c01025fe c04f3740 00049800 c04cffe0
Call Trace:
 [<c03b5b43>] ? schedule+0x285/0x2ff
 [<c0131856>] ? pm_qos_requirement+0x3c/0x53
 [<c0239f54>] ? acpi_processor_idle+0x0/0x434
 [<c01025fe>] ? cpu_idle+0x73/0x7f
 [<c03a4dcd>] ? rest_init+0x61/0x63
 =======================

Wolfgang also found out that adding kernel_fpu_begin() and kernel_fpu_end()
around the padlock instructions fix the oops.

Suresh wrote:

These padlock instructions though don't use/touch SSE registers, but it behaves
similar to other SSE instructions. For example, it might cause DNA faults
when cr0.ts is set. While this is a spurious DNA trap, it might cause
oops with the recent fpu code changes.

This is the code sequence  that is probably causing this problem:

a) new app is getting exec'd and it is somewhere in between
   start_thread() and flush_old_exec() in the load_xyz_binary()

b) At pont "a", task's fpu state (like TS_USEDFPU, used_math() etc) is
   cleared.

c) Now we get an interrupt/softirq which starts using these encrypt/decrypt
   routines in the network stack. This generates a math fault (as
   cr0.ts is '1') which sets TS_USEDFPU and restores the math that is
   in the task's xstate.

d) Return to exec code path, which does start_thread() which does
   free_thread_xstate() and sets xstate pointer to NULL while
   the TS_USEDFPU is still set.

e) At the next context switch from the new exec'd task to another task,
   we have a scenarios where TS_USEDFPU is set but xstate pointer is null.
   This can cause an oops during unlazy_fpu() in __switch_to()

Now:

1) This should happen with or with out pre-emption. Viro also encountered
   similar problem with out CONFIG_PREEMPT.

2) kernel_fpu_begin() and kernel_fpu_end() will fix this problem, because
   kernel_fpu_begin() will manually do a clts() and won't run in to the
   situation of setting TS_USEDFPU in step "c" above.

3) This was working before the fpu changes, because its a spurious
   math fault  which doesn't corrupt any fpu/sse registers and the task's
   math state was always in an allocated state.

With out the recent lazy fpu allocation changes, while we don't see oops,
there is a possible race still present in older kernels(for example,
while kernel is using kernel_fpu_begin() in some optimized clear/copy
page and an interrupt/softirq happens which uses these padlock
instructions generating DNA fault).

This is the failing scenario that existed even before the lazy fpu allocation
changes:

0. CPU's TS flag is set

1. kernel using FPU in some optimized copy  routine and while doing
kernel_fpu_begin() takes an interrupt just before doing clts()

2. Takes an interrupt and ipsec uses padlock instruction. And we
take a DNA fault as TS flag is still set.

3. We handle the DNA fault and set TS_USEDFPU and clear cr0.ts

4. We complete the padlock routine

5. Go back to step-1, which resumes clts() in kernel_fpu_begin(), finishes
the optimized copy routine and does kernel_fpu_end(). At this point,
we have cr0.ts again set to '1' but the task's TS_USEFPU is stilll
set and not cleared.

6. Now kernel resumes its user operation. And at the next context
switch, kernel sees it has do a FP save as TS_USEDFPU is still set
and then will do a unlazy_fpu() in __switch_to(). unlazy_fpu()
will take a DNA fault, as cr0.ts is '1' and now, because we are
in __switch_to(), math_state_restore() will get confused and will
restore the next task's FP state and will save it in prev tasks's FP state.
Remember, in __switch_to() we are already on the stack of the next task
but take a DNA fault for the prev task.

This causes the fpu leakage.

Fix the padlock instruction usage by calling them inside the
context of new routines irq_ts_save/restore(), which clear/restore cr0.ts
manually in the interrupt context. This will not generate spurious DNA
in the  context of the interrupt which will fix the oops encountered and
the possible FPU leakage issue.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-08-13 22:02:26 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
a12e61df4f Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into x86/urgent 2008-08-13 13:08:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
26d809af63 x86: fix xsave build error
fix this build failure with certain glibc versions:

In file included from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/signal.h:333,
                 from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:24:
/home/mingo/tip/usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:191: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘u64’

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-13 12:59:29 +02:00
Johannes Weiner
0ed89b06e4 x86: propagate new nonpanic bootmem macros to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE
Commit 74768ed833 "page allocator: use no-panic variant of
alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash()" introduced two new
_nopanic macros which are undefined for CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Acked-by: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-13 11:57:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7019b1b500 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs
  x86: make "apic" an early_param() on 32-bit, NULL check
  EFI, x86: fix function prototype
  x86, pci-calgary: fix function declaration
  x86: work around gcc 3.4.x bug
  x86: make "apic" an early_param() on 32-bit
  x86, debug: tone down arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c debugging printk
  x86_64: restore the proper NR_IRQS define so larger systems work.
  x86: Restore proper vector locking during cpu hotplug
  x86: Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..
  x86: fdiv bug detection fix
2008-08-11 16:44:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
b0fbaa6b59 EFI, x86: fix function prototype
Fix function prototype in header file to match source code:

linux-next-20080807/arch/x86/kernel/efi_64.c💯14: error: symbol 'efi_ioremap' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include2/asm/efi.h:89) - different address spaces

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 18:50:19 +02:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
2ae111cdd8 x86: apic interrupts - move assignments to irqinit_32.c, v2
64bit mode APIC interrupt handlers are set within irqinit_64.c.
Lets do tha same for 32bit mode which would help in furter code merging.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 16:43:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6de9c70882 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups 2008-08-11 12:57:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8067794bec Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c

Manual merge:

	arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 11:19:20 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
3c7569b284 x86_64: restore the proper NR_IRQS define so larger systems work.
As pointed out and tracked by Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>:

 Dhaval Giani got:
 kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:357!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
 CPU 24
 ...

his system (x3950) has 8 ioapic, irq > 256

This was caused by:

       commit 9b7dc567d0
       Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
       Date:   Fri May 2 20:10:09 2008 +0200

          x86: unify interrupt vector defines

          The interrupt vector defines are copied 4 times around with minimal
          differences. Move them all into asm-x86/irq_vectors.h

It appears that Thomas did not notice that x86_64 does something
completely different when he merge irq_vectors.h

We can solve this for 2.6.27 by simply reintroducing the old heuristic
for setting NR_IRQS on x86_64 to a usable value, which trivially removes
the regression.

Long term it would be nice to harmonize the handling of ioapic interrupts
of x86_32 and x86_64 so we don't have this kind of confusion.

Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> tested an earlier version of
this patch by YH which confirms simply increasing NR_IRQS fixes the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 10:39:04 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
d388e5fdc4 x86: Restore proper vector locking during cpu hotplug
Having cpu_online_map change during assign_irq_vector can result
in some really nasty and weird things happening.  The one that
bit me last time was accessing non existent per cpu memory for non
existent cpus.

This locking was removed in a sloppy x86_64 and x86_32 merge patch.

Guys can we please try and avoid subtly breaking x86 when we are
merging files together?

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-11 10:37:34 +02:00
Marcin Slusarz
bafc1dae82 x86: mmconf: fix section mismatch warning
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x1591): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_amd() to the function .init.text:check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi()
The function __cpuinit init_amd() references
a function __init check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi().
If check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only used by init_amd then
annotate check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi with a matching annotation.

check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only called from init_amd which is __cpuinit

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-10 21:13:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
84ff7a0012 Merge branch 'kvm-updates-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm:
  KVM: s390: Fix kvm on IBM System z10
  KVM: Advertise synchronized mmu support to userspace
  KVM: Synchronize guest physical memory map to host virtual memory map
  KVM: Allow browsing memslots with mmu_lock
  KVM: Allow reading aliases with mmu_lock
2008-08-01 12:48:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
4b336b0625 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xen 2008-07-31 12:41:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5fbf24659b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/xen 2008-07-31 12:38:04 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
6152e4b1c9 x86, xsave: keep the XSAVE feature mask as an u64
The XSAVE feature mask is a 64-bit number; keep it that way, in order
to avoid the mistake done with rdmsr/wrmsr.  Use the xsetbv() function
provided in the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:50:35 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
b4a091a62c x86, xsave: add <asm/xcr.h> header file for XCR registers
Add <asm-x86/xcr.h> header file for the XCR registers and their access
functions.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:36 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
c37b5efea4 x86, xsave: save/restore the extended state context in sigframe
On cpu's supporting xsave/xrstor, fpstate pointer in the sigcontext, will
include the extended state information along with fpstate information. Presence
of extended state information is indicated by the presence
of FP_XSTATE_MAGIC1 at fpstate.sw_reserved.magic1 and FP_XSTATE_MAGIC2
at fpstate + (fpstate.sw_reserved.extended_size - FP_XSTATE_MAGIC2_SIZE).

Extended feature bit mask that is saved in the memory layout is represented
by the fpstate.sw_reserved.xstate_bv

For RT signal frames, UC_FP_XSTATE in the uc_flags also indicate the
presence of extended state information in the sigcontext's fpstate
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:27 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
bdd8caba5e x86, xsave: struct _fpstate extensions to include extended state information
Bytes 464..511 in the current 512byte layout of fxsave/fxrstor
frame, are reserved for SW usage. On cpu's supporting xsave/xrstor, these bytes
are used to extended the fpstate pointer in the sigcontext, which now includes
the extended state information along with fpstate information.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:27 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
9dc89c0f96 x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor specific routines
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:26 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
ab5137015f x86, xsave: reorganization of signal save/restore fpstate code layout
move 64bit routines that saves/restores fpstate in/from user stack from
signal_64.c to xsave.c

restore_i387_xstate() now handles the condition when user passes
NULL fpstate.

Other misc changes for prepartion of xsave/xrstor sigcontext support.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:26 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
3c1c7f1014 x86, xsave: dynamically allocate sigframes fpstate instead of static allocation
dynamically allocate fpstate on the stack, instead of static allocation
in the current sigframe layout on the user stack. This will allow the
fpstate structure to grow in the future, which includes extended state
information supporting xsave/xrstor.

signal handlers will be able to access the fpstate pointer from the
sigcontext structure asusual, with no change. For the non RT sigframe's
(which are supported only for 32bit apps), current static fpstate layout
in the sigframe will be unused(so that we don't change the extramask[]
offset in the sigframe and thus prevent breaking app's which modify
extramask[]).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:25 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
b359e8a434 x86, xsave: context switch support using xsave/xrstor
Uses xsave/xrstor (instead of traditional fxsave/fxrstor) in context switch
when available.

Introduces TS_XSAVE flag, which determine the need to use xsave/xrstor
instructions during context switch instead of the legacy fxsave/fxrstor
instructions. Thread-synchronous status word is already in L1 cache during
this code patch and thus minimizes the performance penality compared to
(cpu_has_xsave) checks.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:24 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
dc1e35c6e9 x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support
Enables xsave/xrstor by turning on cr4.osxsave on cpu's which have
the xsave support. For now, features that OS supports/enabled are
FP and SSE.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:24 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
a648bf4632 x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits
Add xsave CPU feature bits.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
15dd859cac Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
	include/asm-x86/namei.h
	include/asm-x86/uaccess.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:33:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b2d9d33412 Merge branch 'x86/fpu' into x86/core 2008-07-30 19:32:39 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
8978b74253 generic, x86: fix add iommu_num_pages helper function
This IOMMU helper function doesn't work for some architectures:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121699304403202&w=2

It also breaks POWER and SPARC builds:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121730388001890&w=2

Currently, only x86 IOMMUs use this so let's move it to x86 for
now.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 12:12:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3825c9e8d0 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/microcode
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c

Manual resolutions:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 11:54:24 +02:00
Andrea Arcangeli
e930bffe95 KVM: Synchronize guest physical memory map to host virtual memory map
Synchronize changes to host virtual addresses which are part of
a KVM memory slot to the KVM shadow mmu.  This allows pte operations
like swapping, page migration, and madvise() to transparently work
with KVM.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-29 12:33:53 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
cb28a1bbdb Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 00:07:55 +02:00
Peter Oruba
8d86f390d9 x86: major refactoring
Refactored code by introducing a two-module solution.

There is one general module in which vendor specific modules can hook into.
However, that is exclusive, there is only one vendor specific module
allowed at a time. A CPU vendor check makes sure only the correct
module for the underlying system gets called.

Functinally in terms of patch loading itself there are no changes. This
refactoring provides a basis for future implementations of other vendors'
patch loaders.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:57 +02:00
Peter Oruba
26bf7a48c3 x86: first step of refactoring, introducing microcode_ops
Refactoring with the goal of having one general module and separate
vendor specific modules that hook into the general one.

Microcode_ops is a function pointer structure in which vendor
specific modules will enter all functions that differ between
vendors and that need to be accessed from the general module.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:57 +02:00
Peter Oruba
9835fd4ad9 x86: add AMD specific declarations
Added AMD specific declarations to header file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:56 +02:00
Peter Oruba
d4ee366868 x86: structure declaration renaming
Renamed common structures to vendor specific naming scheme
so other vendors will be able to use the same naming
convention.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:55 +02:00
Peter Oruba
c3b71bcec0 x86: move per CPU microcode structure declaration to header file
This structure will be later used by other modules as well and
needs therfore to be moved out to a header file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:54 +02:00
Peter Oruba
8e61028dfd x86: typedef removal
Removed typedefs. No functional changes to the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:53 +02:00
Peter Oruba
9a56a0f80b x86: moved Intel microcode patch loader declarations to seperate header file
Intel specific microcode declarations have been moved to a seperate header file.
There are no code changes to the code itself and no side effects to other parts.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
71998e83c5 Merge branch 'x86-tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace into x86/tracehook 2008-07-28 17:03:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b7d0b67845 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 16:26:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a403e45c3b Merge core/lib: pick up memparse() change.
Merge branch 'core/lib' into x86/xen
2008-07-28 15:07:54 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
64f53a0492 x86: fix initialization of 'l' bit in ldt descriptors
Make sure that fill_ldt() initializes the 'l' bit in the descriptor.
It always sets it to 0, ignoring 'lm' in user_desc, preserving original
x86_64 behaviour.

Previously it was leaving 'l' uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
2008-07-28 14:26:26 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
5f4cb662a0 KVM: SVM: allow enabling/disabling NPT by reloading only the architecture module
If NPT is enabled after loading both KVM modules on AMD and it should be
disabled, both KVM modules must be reloaded. If only the architecture module is
reloaded the behavior is undefined. With this patch it is possible to disable
NPT only by reloading the kvm_amd module.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-27 11:34:09 +03:00
Al Viro
7f2da1e7d0 [PATCH] kill altroot
long overdue...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
Roland McGrath
59e52130f0 x86: tracehook: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
This adds TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for x86, both 64-bit and 32-bit.
When set, we call tracehook_notify_resume() on the way to user mode.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-07-26 14:38:05 -07:00
Roland McGrath
68bd0f4ef7 x86: tracehook: asm/syscall.h
Add asm/syscall.h for x86 with all the required entry points.
This will allow arch-independent tracing code for system calls.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-07-26 14:38:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fb3b806144 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, AMD IOMMU: include amd_iommu_last_bdf in device initialization
  x86: fix IBM Summit based systems' phys_cpu_present_map on 32-bit kernels
  x86, RDC321x: remove gpio.h complications
  x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default
  crashdump: fix undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr'
  flag parameters: fix compile error of sys_epoll_create1
2008-07-26 13:25:05 -07:00
Nick Piggin
8174c430e4 x86: lockless get_user_pages_fast()
Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86.

Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any
page table locks or even mmap_sem.  Page table existence is guaranteed by
turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking
up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the
constraints of the TLB shootdown design).  Basically we can do this
lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable
walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes.

This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use
it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8
core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5

 "To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM
  x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at
  2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel.  Comparing
  runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance
  benefit of ~9.8%.  Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from
  __up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention
  for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%.  Monitoring the
  /proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for
  fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was
  zero."

(fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a
counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked).

The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each
issuing direct-IO.  Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads
contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks.

I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I
think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be
that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases.
In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain.

The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte
with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to
get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work.
However this should not be the common case in most performance critical
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Nick Piggin
a0a8f5364a x86: implement pte_special
Implement the pte_special bit for x86.  This is required to support
lockless get_user_pages, because we need to know whether or not we can
refcount a particular page given only its pte (and no vma).

[hugh@veritas.com: fix a BUG]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2008-07-26 12:00:05 -07:00