Fix setup.c printk format warning:
linux-next-20080605/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_per_cpu_areas':
linux-next-20080605/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:173: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'ssize_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sparse mutters:
arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c:195:27: warning: symbol 'end_pfn' shadows an earlier one
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
plat_node_bdata, cmdline, nodemap_addr, nodemap_size are local to
numa_64.c. Make them static
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Without this patch, my link fails with:
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3c6e): In function `get_local_pda':
: undefined reference to `_cpu_pda'
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cd1): In function `get_local_pda':
: undefined reference to `after_bootmem'
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cec): In function `get_local_pda':
: undefined reference to `_cpu_pda'
make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Caused by commit 766da892634694f795b18b9538407816896fc470
x86: remove static boot_cpu_pda array v2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Remove the boot_cpu_pda array and pointer table from the data section.
Allocate the pointer table and array during init. do_boot_cpu()
will reallocate the pda in node local memory and if the cpu is being
brought up before the bootmem array is released (after_bootmem = 0),
then it will free the initial pda. This will happen for all cpus
present at system startup.
This removes 512k + 32k bytes from the data section.
For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Consolidate node_to_cpumask operations and remove the 256k
byte node_to_cpumask_map. This is done by allocating the
node_to_cpumask_map array after the number of possible nodes
(nr_node_ids) is known.
* Debug printouts when CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is active have
been increased. It now shows faults when calling node_to_cpumask()
and node_to_cpumask_ptr().
For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Restore the nodenumber field in the x86_64 pda. This field is slightly
different than the x86_cpu_to_node_map mainly because it's a static
indication of which node the cpu is on while the cpu to node map is a
dyanamic mapping that may get reset if the cpu goes offline. This also
simplifies the numa_node_id() macro.
For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Introduce a new PER_CPU macro called "EARLY_PER_CPU". This is
used by some per_cpu variables that are initialized and accessed
before there are per_cpu areas allocated.
["Early" in respect to per_cpu variables is "earlier than the per_cpu
areas have been setup".]
This patchset adds these new macros:
DEFINE_EARLY_PER_CPU(_type, _name, _initvalue)
EXPORT_EARLY_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(_name)
DECLARE_EARLY_PER_CPU(_type, _name)
early_per_cpu_ptr(_name)
early_per_cpu_map(_name, _idx)
early_per_cpu(_name, _cpu)
The DEFINE macro defines the per_cpu variable as well as the early
map and pointer. It also initializes the per_cpu variable and map
elements to "_initvalue". The early_* macros provide access to
the initial map (usually setup during system init) and the early
pointer. This pointer is initialized to point to the early map
but is then NULL'ed when the actual per_cpu areas are setup. After
that the per_cpu variable is the correct access to the variable.
The early_per_cpu() macro is not very efficient but does show how to
access the variable if you have a function that can be called both
"early" and "late". It tests the early ptr to be NULL, and if not
then it's still valid. Otherwise, the per_cpu variable is used
instead:
#define early_per_cpu(_name, _cpu) \
(early_per_cpu_ptr(_name) ? \
early_per_cpu_ptr(_name)[_cpu] : \
per_cpu(_name, _cpu))
A better method is to actually check the pointer manually. In the
case below, numa_set_node can be called both "early" and "late":
void __cpuinit numa_set_node(int cpu, int node)
{
int *cpu_to_node_map = early_per_cpu_ptr(x86_cpu_to_node_map);
if (cpu_to_node_map)
cpu_to_node_map[cpu] = node;
else
per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_node_map, cpu) = node;
}
* Add a flag "arch_provides_topology_pointers" that indicates pointers
to topology cpumask_t maps are available. Otherwise, use the function
returning the cpumask_t value. This is useful if cpumask_t set size
is very large to avoid copying data on to/off of the stack.
* The coverage of CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS has been increased while
the non-debug case has been optimized a bit.
* Remove an unreferenced compiler warning in drivers/base/topology.c
* Clean up #ifdef in setup.c
For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Increase the limit of NR_CPUS to 4096 and introduce a boolean
called "MAXSMP" which when set (e.g. "allyesconfig"), will set
NR_CPUS = 4096 and NODES_SHIFT = 9 (512).
* Changed max setting for NODES_SHIFT from 15 to 9 to accurately
reflect the real limit.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mike Travis wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [Ingo - please replace "PATCH 07/11" with this one.]
>>>
>>> * Remove 544k bytes from the kernel by removing the boot_cpu_pda
>>> array from the data section and allocating it during startup.
>>>
>>> Fixed panic in setup_per_cpu_areas when HOTPLUG_CPU not set.
>>>
>>> For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
>> sched-devel.git randconfig testing found another crash with your queue:
>>
>> [ 0.111060] Brought up 1 CPUs
>> [ 0.111986] Total of 1 processors activated (4022.73 BogoMIPS).
>> [ 0.112987] Testing NMI watchdog ... <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
>> [ 0.114982] IP: [<ffffffff8180d4a0>] check_nmi_watchdog+0xb0/0x210
>> [ 0.114982] PGD 0
>> [ 0.114982] Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
>> [ 0.114982] CPU 0
>> [............]
>>
>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Mon_Apr_28_23_25_25_CEST_2008.bad
>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/log-Mon_Apr_28_23_25_25_CEST_2008.bad
>>
>> Ingo
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> I need a bit more information on your hardware configuration. Building a
> kernel with the above config file started up fine on both the Intel and AMD
> boxes.
>
> Based on the above output it looks like it might be a UP machine?
...
Ok, I think I found it. In check_nmi_watchdog():
for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++)
prev_nmi_count[cpu] = cpu_pda(cpu)->__nmi_count;
As I mentioned it works fine on both of my systems so could you try it out?
Thanks!
Mike
--
* Change function check_nmi_watchdog() to use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
also make bus_numa work even if ACPI_NUMA is not defined.
don't call pxm_to_node again, and use node directly.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
a numa system (with multi HT chains) may return node without ram. Aka it
is not online. Try to get an online node, otherwise return -1.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM,
the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP
systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline.
Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10923
Reported-by: Dionisus Torimens <djtm@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment
descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched
transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that
up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor
registers.
This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620.
Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10927
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When converting the page number in a pte/pmd/pud/pgd between
machine and pseudo-physical addresses, the converted result was
being truncated at 32-bits. This caused failures on machines
with more than 4G of physical memory.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix this warning:
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: In function 'early_memtest':
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:524: warning: passing argument 2 of 'find_e820_area_size' from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fedora reports that mem_init()'s zap_low_mappings(), extended to SMP in
61165d7a03 x86: fix app crashes after SMP
resume causes 32-bit Intel Mac machines to reboot very early when
booting with EFI.
The EFI code appears to manage low mappings for itself when needed; but
like many before it, confuses PSE with PAE. So it has only been mapping
half the space it needed when PSE but not PAE. This remained unnoticed
until we moved the SMP zap_low_mappings() before
efi_enter_virtual_mode(). Presumably could have been noticed years ago
if anyone ran a UP kernel on such machines?
Reported-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
commit 4323838215
x86: change size of node ids from u8 to s16
set the range for NODES_SHIFT to 1..15.
The possible range is 1..9
Fixes Bugzilla #10726
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ptrace GET/SET FPXREGS broken
x86: fix cpu hotplug crash
x86: section/warning fixes
x86: shift bits the right way in native_read_tscp
When I update kernel 2.6.25 from 2.6.24, gdb does not work.
On 2.6.25, ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, ...) returns ENODEV.
But 2.6.24 kernel's ptrace() returns EIO.
It is issue of compatibility.
I attached test program as pt.c and patch for fix it.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
struct user_fxsr_struct {
unsigned short cwd;
unsigned short swd;
unsigned short twd;
unsigned short fop;
long fip;
long fcs;
long foo;
long fos;
long mxcsr;
long reserved;
long st_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each FP-reg = 128 bytes */
long xmm_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each XMM-reg = 128 bytes */
long padding[56];
};
int main(void)
{
pid_t pid;
pid = fork();
switch(pid){
case -1:/* error */
break;
case 0:/* child */
child();
break;
default:
parent(pid);
break;
}
return 0;
}
int child(void)
{
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME);
kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
sleep(10);
return 0;
}
int parent(pid_t pid)
{
int ret;
struct user_fxsr_struct fpxregs;
ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, pid, 0, &fpxregs);
if(ret < 0){
printf("%d: %s.\n", errno, strerror(errno));
}
kill(pid, SIGCONT);
wait(pid);
return 0;
}
/* in the kerel, at kernel/i387.c get_fpxregs() */
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Vegard Nossum reported crashes during cpu hotplug tests:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121413950227884&w=4
In function _cpu_up, the panic happens when calling
__raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time. Kernel doesn't panic when
calling it at the first time. If just say because of nr_cpu_ids, that's
not right.
By checking the source code, I found that function do_boot_cpu is the culprit.
Consider below call chain:
_cpu_up=>__cpu_up=>smp_ops.cpu_up=>native_cpu_up=>do_boot_cpu.
So do_boot_cpu is called in the end. In do_boot_cpu, if
boot_error==true, cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_possible_map) is executed. So later
on, when _cpu_up calls __raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time to
report CPU_UP_CANCELED, because this cpu is already cleared from
cpu_possible_map, get_cpu_sysdev returns NULL.
Many resources are related to cpu_possible_map, so it's better not to
change it.
Below patch against 2.6.26-rc7 fixes it by removing the bit clearing in
cpu_possible_map.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/mm/built-in.o(.text+0x3a1): Section mismatch in
reference from the function set_pte_phys() to the function
.init.text:spp_getpage()
The function set_pte_phys() references
the function __init spp_getpage().
This is often because set_pte_phys lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of spp_getpage is wrong.
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: In function 'early_memtest':
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:520: warning: passing argument 2 of
'find_e820_area_size' from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm:
KVM: Remove now unused structs from kvm_para.h
x86: KVM guest: Use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions
KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs
x86: Make xen use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions
x86: Add structs and functions for paravirt clocksource
KVM: VMX: Fix host msr corruption with preemption enabled
KVM: ioapic: fix lost interrupt when changing a device's irq
KVM: MMU: Fix oops on guest userspace access to guest pagetable
KVM: MMU: large page update_pte issue with non-PAE 32-bit guests (resend)
KVM: MMU: Fix rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bug
KVM: close timer injection race window in __vcpu_run
KVM: Fix race between timer migration and vcpu migration
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs
and functions, thereby making it compatible with Xen.
The patch also fixes an initialization bug: on SMP systems the
per-cpu has two different locations early at boot and after CPU
bringup. kvmclock must take that in account when registering the
physical address within the host.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs.
It also makes the paravirt clock compatible with Xen.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch updates the xen guest to use the pvclock structs
and helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds structs for the paravirt clocksource ABI
used by both xen and kvm (pvclock-abi.h).
It also adds some helper functions to read system time and
wall clock time from a paravirtual clocksource (pvclock.[ch]).
They are based on the xen code. They are enabled using
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK.
Subsequent patches of this series will put the code in use.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is
rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped
non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been
broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Switching msrs can occur either synchronously as a result of calls to
the msr management functions (usually in response to the guest touching
virtualized msrs), or asynchronously when preempting a kvm thread that has
guest state loaded. If we're unlucky enough to have the two at the same
time, host msrs are corrupted and the machine goes kaput on the next syscall.
Most easily triggered by Windows Server 2008, as it does a lot of msr
switching during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM has a heuristic to unshadow guest pagetables when userspace accesses
them, on the assumption that most guests do not allow userspace to access
pagetables directly. Unfortunately, in addition to unshadowing the pagetables,
it also oopses.
This never triggers on ordinary guests since sane OSes will clear the
pagetables before assigning them to userspace, which will trigger the flood
heuristic, unshadowing the pagetables before the first userspace access. One
particular guest, though (Xenner) will run the kernel in userspace, triggering
the oops. Since the heuristic is incorrect in this case, we can simply
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm_mmu_pte_write() does not handle 32-bit non-PAE large page backed
guests properly. It will instantiate two 2MB sptes pointing to the same
physical 2MB page when a guest large pte update is trapped.
Instead of duplicating code to handle this, disallow directory level
updates to happen through kvm_mmu_pte_write(), so the two 2MB sptes
emulating one guest 4MB pte can be correctly created by the page fault
handling path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
rmap_next() does not work correctly after rmap_remove(), as it expects
the rmap chains not to change during iteration. Fix (for now) by restarting
iteration from the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If a timer fires after kvm_inject_pending_timer_irqs() but before
local_irq_disable() the code will enter guest mode and only inject such
timer interrupt the next time an unrelated event causes an exit.
It would be simpler if the timer->pending irq conversion could be done
with IRQ's disabled, so that the above problem cannot happen.
For now introduce a new vcpu requests bit to cancel guest entry.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A guest vcpu instance can be scheduled to a different physical CPU
between the test for KVM_REQ_MIGRATE_TIMER and local_irq_disable().
If that happens, the timer will only be migrated to the current pCPU on
the next exit, meaning that guest LAPIC timer event can be delayed until
a host interrupt is triggered.
Fix it by cancelling guest entry if any vcpu request is pending. This
has the side effect of nicely consolidating vcpu->requests checks.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
into the .text segment so that it is executable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Stable: this isn't a bugfix in itself, but it's a pre-requiste
for "xen: don't drop NX bit" ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
General Software writes their own VSA2 module for their version
of the Geode BIOS, which returns a different ID then the standard
VSA2. This was causing the framebuffer driver to break for most
GSW boards.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for
i386 and prints a error message on failure.
The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification
of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6"
(invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the
kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing
to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from
native_sched_clock().
(This error occurs so early that not even the serial console
can capture it.)
A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7,
via commit 9ccc906c97:
>x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable
>
>tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from
>the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace
>tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock()
>decision when to use TSC understandable.
>
>Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets
called before tsc_init().
Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable
which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late
in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip
the TSC and use jiffies instead.
After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable
which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls
to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on
!cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions.
My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled"
state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc"
kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also
allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1
on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all
checks have succeeded.
I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified
that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Patrick McHardy reported a crash:
> > I get this oops once a day, its apparently triggered by something
> > run by cron, but the process is a different one each time.
> >
> > Kernel is -git from yesterday shortly before the -rc6 release
> > (last commit is the usb-2.6 merge, the x86 patches are missing),
> > .config is attached.
> >
> > I'll retry with current -git, but the patches that have gone in
> > since I last updated don't look related.
> >
> > [62060.043009] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > 000001ff
> > [62060.043009] IP: [<c0102a9b>] __switch_to+0x2f/0x118
> > [62060.043009] *pde = 00000000
> > [62060.043009] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT
Vegard Nossum analyzed it:
> This decodes to
>
> 0: 0f ae 00 fxsave (%eax)
>
> so it's related to the floating-point context. This is the exact
> location of the crash:
>
> $ addr2line -e arch/x86/kernel/process_32.o -i ab0
> include/asm/i387.h:232
> include/asm/i387.h:262
> arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:595
>
> ...so it looks like prev_task->thread.xstate->fxsave has become NULL.
> Or maybe it never had any other value.
Somehow (as described below) TS_USEDFPU is set but the fpu is not
allocated or freed.
Another possible FPU pre-emption issue with the sleazy FPU optimization
which was benign before but not so anymore, with the dynamic FPU allocation
patch.
New task is getting exec'd and it is prempted at the below point.
flush_thread() {
...
/*
* Forget coprocessor state..
*/
clear_fpu(tsk);
<----- Preemption point
clear_used_math();
...
}
Now when it context switches in again, as the used_math() is still set
and fpu_counter can be > 5, we will do a math_state_restore() which sets
the task's TS_USEDFPU. After it continues from the above preemption point
it does clear_used_math() and much later free_thread_xstate().
Now, at the next context switch, it is quite possible that xstate is
null, used_math() is not set and TS_USEDFPU is still set. This will
trigger unlazy_fpu() causing kernel oops.
Fix this by clearing tsk's fpu_counter before clearing task's fpu.
Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Most users by far do not care about the exact return value (they only
really care about whether the copy succeeded in its entirety or not),
but a few special core routines actually care deeply about exactly how
many bytes were copied from user space.
And the unrolled versions of the x86-64 user copy routines would
sometimes report that it had copied more bytes than it actually had.
Very few uses actually have partial copies to begin with, but to make
this bug even harder to trigger, most x86 CPU's use the "rep string"
instructions for normal user copies, and that version didn't have this
issue.
To make it even harder to hit, the one user of this that really cared
about the return value (and used the uncached version of the copy that
doesn't use the "rep string" instructions) was the generic write
routine, which pre-populated its source, once more hiding the problem by
avoiding the exception case that triggers the bug.
In other words, very special thanks to Bron Gondwana who not only
triggered this, but created a test-program to show it, and bisected the
behavior down to commit 08291429cf ("mm:
fix pagecache write deadlocks") which changed the access pattern just
enough that you can now trigger it with 'writev()' with multiple
iovec's.
That commit itself was not the cause of the bug, it just allowed all the
stars to align just right that you could trigger the problem.
[ Side note: this is just the minimal fix to make the copy routines
(with __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache as the particular version that
was involved in showing this) have the right return values.
We really should improve on the exceptional case further - to make the
copy do a byte-accurate copy up to the exact page limit that causes it
to fail. As it is, the callers have to do extra work to handle the
limit case gracefully. ]
Reported-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(which didn't have this problem), and since
most users that do the carethis was very hard to trigger, but
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource
x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs
x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp
suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume
x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY
pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe
PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
Recently (around 2.6.25) I've noticed that RTC no longer works for me. It
turned out this is because I use pnpacpi=off kernel option to work around
the parport_pc bugs. I always did so, but RTC used to work fine in the
past, and now it have regressed.
The patch fixes the problem by creating the platform device for the RTC
when PNP is disabled. This may also help running the PNP-enabled kernel
on an older PCs.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
