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Rusty Russell
78be3706b2 [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0
We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0.  This
requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or checking
privilege level (user vs kernel).

This is Chris' [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch, except rather
than using #define USER_MODE_MASK which depends on a config option, we use
Zach's more flexible approach of assuming ring 3 == userspace.  I also used
"get_kernel_rpl()" over "get_kernel_cs()" because I think it reads better in
the code...

1) Remove the hardcoded 3 and introduce #define SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 3 2) Add a
get_kernel_rpl() macro, and don't assume it's zero.

And:

Clean up of patch for letting kernel run other than ring 0:

a. Add some comments about the SEGMENT_IS_*_CODE() macros.
b. Add a USER_RPL macro.  (Code was comparing a value to a mask
   in some places and to the magic number 3 in other places.)
c. Add macros for table indicator field and use them.
d. Change the entry.S tests for LDT stack segment to use the macros

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Rusty Russell
0da5db3133 [PATCH] i386: Abstract sensitive instructions
Abstract sensitive instructions in assembler code, replacing them with macros
(which currently are #defined to the native versions).  We use long names:
assembler is case-insensitive, so if something goes wrong and macros do not
expand, it would assemble anyway.

Resulting object files are exactly the same as before.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7b0bda74f7 [PATCH] Fix a PDA warning uncovered by the new type checking
Fix
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c: In function __switch_to:
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c:626: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
85691f135d [PATCH] Type checking for write_pda()
I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code.
Here's the x86-64 equivalent.  (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest
x86-64 PDA change.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
baf5695dd1 [PATCH] Use %c instead of %P modifier in pda access
Apparently that is the more official way to get numbers without $ in inline
assembly

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
96e540492a [PATCH] Fix a irqcount comment in entry.S
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
4f7fd4d7a7 [PATCH] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS
Add a feature check that checks that the gcc compiler has stack-protector
support and has the bugfix for PR28281 to make this work in kernel mode.
The easiest solution I could find was to have a shell script in scripts/
to do the detection; if needed we can make this fancier in the future
without making the makefile too complex.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
3162f751d0 [PATCH] Add the __stack_chk_fail() function
GCC emits a call to a __stack_chk_fail() function when the stack canary is
not matching the expected value.

Since this is a bad security issue; lets panic the kernel rather than limping
along; the kernel really can't be trusted anymore when this happens.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
0a42540580 [PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
b62a5c740d [PATCH] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature
This patch adds the config options for -fstack-protector.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
29a9af60e2 [PATCH] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate offsets
Change the comments in the pda structure to make the first fields to have
their offset documented and to have the comments aligned.
The stack protector series needs a field at offset 40 (gcc ABI); annotate
upto 40 for that reason.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
027a51cef3 [PATCH] Document my tree in Documentation/HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
e8c7391de4 [PATCH] Don't use kernel_text_address in oops context
Because it can take spinlocks.

Suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm
3566561bfa [PATCH] i386: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, i386)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, i386)

This patch upgrades the i386-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm
4bfaaef01a [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)

This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Keith Owens
f574164491 [PATCH] Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack
Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack.  This is a
follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds
orig_ist.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
575400d1b4 [PATCH] i386: Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line
The EDD code would scan the command line as a fixed array, without
taking account of either whitespace, null-termination, the old
command-line protocol, late overrides early, or the fact that the
command line may not be reachable from INITSEG.

This should fix those problems, and enable us to use a longer command
line.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
53ee11ae0d [PATCH] Optimize PDA accesses slightly
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge:

Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with
telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't
actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for
read/write accesses.

Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to
make sure no PDA access is moved before it.

Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better
code for accessing "current"):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4845647 1223688  615864 6685199  66020f vmlinux
4837780 1223688  615864 6677332  65e354 vmlinux-pda

1.2% smaller code

Cc:  Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
80d2679cbc [PATCH] x86: Remove incorrect comment about ACPI e820 entries
They cannot be actually freed because the FACS table has a
shared-with-the-BIOS lock.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Ian Campbell
f2a9e1dec2 [PATCH] Put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment
This patch updates x86_64 linker script to pack any .note.* sections
into a PT_NOTE segment in the output file.

To do this, we tell ld that we need a PT_NOTE segment.  This requires
us to start explicitly mapping sections to segments, so we also need
to explicitly create PT_LOAD segments for text and data, and map the
sections to them appropriately.  Fortunately, each section will
default to its previous section's segment, so it doesn't take many
changes to vmlinux.lds.S.

The corresponding change is already made for i386 in -mm and I'd like
this patch to join it. The section to segment mappings do change as do
the segment flags so some time in -mm would be good for that reason as
well, just in case.

In particular .data and .bss move from the text segment to the data
segment and .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly are put in the
data segment instead of a separate one.

I think that it would be possible to exactly match the existing section
to segment mapping and flags but it would be a more intrusive change and
I'm not sure there is a reason for the existing layout other than it is
what you get by default if you don't explicitly specify something else.
If there is a reason for the existing layout then I will of course make
the more intrusive change. If there is no reason we could probably drop
the executable or writable flags from some segments but I don't know how
much attention is paid to them anyway so it might not be worth the
effort.

The vsyscall related sections need to go in a different segment to the
normal data segment and so I invented a "user" segment to contain them.
I believe this should appear to be another data segment as far as the
kernel is concerned so the flags are setup accordingly.

The notes will be used in the Xen paravirt_ops backend to provide
additional information to the domain builder. I am in the process of
converting the xen-unstable kernels and tools over to this scheme at the
moment to support this in the future.

It has been suggested to me that the notes segment should have flags 0
(i.e. not readable) since it is only used by the loader and is not used
at runtime. For now I went with a readable segment since that is what
the i386 patch uses.

AK: dropped NOTES addition right now because the needed infrastructure
for that is not merged yet

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
26374c7b7d [PATCH] Reload CS when startup_64 is used.
In long mode the %cs is largely a relic.  However there are a few cases
like iret where it matters that we have a valid value.  Without this
patch it is possible to enter the kernel in startup_64 without setting
%cs to a valid value.  With this patch we don't care what %cs value
we enter the kernel with, so long as the cs shadow register indicates
it is a privileged code segment.

Thanks to Magnus Damm for finding this problem and posting the
first workable patch.  I have moved the jump to set %cs down a
few instructions so we don't need to take an extra jump.  Which
keeps the code simpler.

Signed-of-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
0136611c62 [PATCH] optimize hweight64 for x86_64
Based on patch from David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, but
changed by AK.

Optimizes the 64-bit hamming weight for x86_64 processors assuming they
have fast multiplication.  Uses five fewer bitops than the generic
hweight64.  Benchmark on one EMT64 showed ~25% speedup with 2^24
consecutive calls.

Define a new ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER that can be set by other
architectures that can also multiply fast.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
8380aabb99 [PATCH] Remove non e820 fallbacks in high level code
Drop support for non e820 BIOS calls to get the memory map.

The boot assembler code still has some support, but not the C code now.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b3698c03eb [PATCH] Fix boot code head.S warning
When compiling a 64-bit kernel on an Ubuntu 6.06 32bit system (whose GCC is also
a cross-compiler for x86_64) I've seen that head.o is compiled as a 64-bit file
(while it should not) and ld complaining about this during linking:
[AK: it happens on all systems with new binutils]

ld: warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file
`arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o' is incompatible with i386 output

I've verified that removing -m64 from compilation flags to turn
"-m64 -traditional -m32" into "-traditional -m32" fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7a0a2dff1c [PATCH] Add a missing check for irq flags tracing in NMI
NMIs are not supposed to track the irq flags, but TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ
did it anyways. Add a check.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
aecc63615e [PATCH] Fix coding style and output of the mptable parser
Give the printks a consistent prefix.
Add some missing white space.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
e4251e130d [PATCH] Remove some cruft in apic id checking during processor setup
- Remove a define that was used only once
- Remove the too large APIC ID check because we always support
the full 8bit range of APICs.
- Restructure code a bit to be simpler.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
f2c2cca3ac [PATCH] Remove APIC version/cpu capability mpparse checking/printing
ACPI went to great trouble to get the APIC version and CPU capabilities
of different CPUs before passing them to the mpparser. But all
that data was used was to print it out.  Actually it even faked some data
based on the boot cpu, not on the actual CPU being booted.

Remove all this code because it's not needed.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5e6b0bfe5b [PATCH] Use proper accessors to change PSE bits in change_page_attr()
Use normal pte accessors in change_page_attr() to access the PSE
bits.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
df992848f5 [PATCH] Fix pte_exec/mkexec and use it in change_page_attr()
Fix the pte_exec/mkexec page table accessor functions to really
use the NX bit. Previously they only checked the USER bit, but
weren't actually used for anything.

Then use them in change_page_attr() to manipulate the NX bit
properly.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
d3cf7f0615 [PATCH] Remove bogus warning from early_ioremap
It is correct for its only caller right now, but not for possible
future others.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
151f8cc116 [PATCH] Remove safe_smp_processor_id()
And replace all users with ordinary smp_processor_id.  The function
was originally added to get some basic oops information out even
if the GS register was corrupted. However that didn't
work for some anymore because printk is needed to print the oops
and it uses smp_processor_id() already. Also GS register corruptions
are not particularly common anymore.

This also helps the Xen port which would otherwise need to
do this in a special way because it can't access the local APIC.

Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
34464a5b89 [PATCH] Detect clock skew during suspend
Detect the situations in which the time after a resume from disk would
be earlier than the time before the suspend and prevent them from
happening on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Chuck Ebbert
a549b86dd0 [PATCH] i386: annotate FIX_STACK() and the rest of nmi()
In i386's entry.S, FIX_STACK() needs annotation because it
replaces the stack pointer.  And the rest of nmi() needs
annotation in order to compile with these new annotations.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andrew Morton
1164c9994f [PATCH] make numa_emulation() __init
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1bb4996bce [PATCH] Move compiler check for modules to ia64 only
Apparently IA64 needs it, but i386/x86-64 don't anymore
since gcc 2.95 support was dropped.  Nobody else on linux-arch
requested keeping it generically

Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: kaos@sgi.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen
dbf9272e86 [PATCH] Don't force reserve the 640k-1MB range
From i386 x86-64 inherited code to force reserve the 640k-1MB area.
That was needed on some old systems.

But we generally trust the e820 map to be correct on 64bit systems
and mark all areas that are not memory correctly.

This patch will allow to use the real memory in there.

Or rather the only way to find out if it's still needed is to
try. So far I'm optimistic.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Dave Jones
f704cb9350 [PATCH] x86: remove config.h includes from asm-i386 & asm-x86_64
This is now automatically included by kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
06039754d7 [PATCH] i386: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlers
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack
corruption.

Note: This problem was originally spotted and solved by Andi Kleen in the
x86_64 architecture. This patch is an adaption of his patch for i386.

AK: Merged with current code which was a bit different.
AK: Removed printk in nmi handler that shouldn't be there in the first time
AK: Added missing include.
AK: added KPROBES_END

Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
6f6b1e0477 [PATCH] i386: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlers
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack
corruption.

Note: This problem was originally spotted by Andi Kleen. This patch
      adds fixes not included in his original patch.
[AK: Jan Beulich originally discovered these classes of bugs]

Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
e9dff0ee66 [PATCH] i386: mark cpu cache functions as __cpuinit
Mark i386-specific cpu cache functions as __cpuinit. They are all
only called from arch/i386/common.c:display_cache_info() that already is
marked as __cpuinit.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
5f0f1c1666 [PATCH] i386: mark cpu identify functions as __cpuinit
Mark i386-specific cpu identification functions as __cpuinit. They are all
only called from arch/i386/common.c:identify_cpu() that already is marked as
__cpuinit.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
b4af3f7cf1 [PATCH] i386: mark cpu init functions as __cpuinit, data as __cpuinitdata
Mark i386-specific cpu init functions as __cpuinit. They are all
only called from arch/i386/common.c:identify_cpu() that already is marked as
__cpuinit. This patch also removes the empty function init_umc().

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
9541493054 [PATCH] i386: mark cpu_dev structures as __cpuinitdata
The different cpu_dev structures are all used from __cpuinit callers what
I can tell. So mark them as __cpuinitdata instead of __initdata. I am a
little bit unsure about arch/i386/common.c:default_cpu, especially when it
comes to the purpose of this_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
ed77504b20 [PATCH] mark init_amd() as __cpuinit
The init_amd() function is only called from identify_cpu() which is already
marked as __cpuinit. So let's mark it as __cpuinit.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Magnus Damm
68bbc172cd [PATCH] i386: remove redundant generic_identify() calls when identifying cpus
cpu_dev->c_identify is only called from arch/i386/common.c:identify_cpu(), and
this after generic_identify() already has been called. There is no need to call
this function twice and hook it in c_identify - but I may be wrong, please
double check before applying.

This patch also removes generic_identify() from cpu.h to avoid unnecessary
future nesting.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Keith Mannthey
6ad9165811 [PATCH] x86_64 kernel mapping fix
Fix for the x86_64 kernel mapping code.  Without this patch the update path
only inits one pmd_page worth of memory and tramples any entries on it.  now
the calling convention to phys_pmd_init and phys_init is to always pass a
[pmd/pud] page not an offset within a page.

Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey<kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Andrew Morton
abf0f10948 [PATCH] wire up oops_enter()/oops_exit()
Implement pause_on_oops() on x86_64.

AK: I redid the patch to do the oops_enter/exit in the existing
oops_begin()/end(). This makes it much shorter.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
e07e23e1fd [PATCH] non lazy "sleazy" fpu implementation
Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every*
context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU
context lazily.  This is of course great for applications that have very
sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive
save/restore all the time).  However for very frequent FPU users...  you
take an extra trap every context switch.

The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive
context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context
gets restored every context switch.  If the app indeed uses the FPU, the
trap is avoided.  (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the
previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously).

After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until
there are 5 consecutive ones again).  The reason for this is to give apps
that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some
time.

[akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:36 +02:00
Ashok Raj
73fea17530 [PATCH] i386: Support physical cpu hotplug for x86_64
This patch enables ACPI based physical CPU hotplug support for x86_64.
Implements acpi_map_lsapic() and acpi_unmap_lsapic() to support physical cpu
hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00