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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
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
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
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
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
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
Magnus Damm
c0d83745cc [PATCH] i386: mark two more functions as __init
cyrix_identify() should be __init because transmeta_identify() is.
tsc_init() is only called from setup_arch() which is marked as __init.

These two section mismatches have been detected using running modpost on
a vmlinux image compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Magnus Damm
aada06c9b7 [PATCH] i386: clean up topology.c
There is no need to duplicate the topology_init() function.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Rusty Russell
522e93e3fc [PATCH] i386: Descriptor and trap table cleanups.
The implementation comes from Zach's [RFC, PATCH 10/24] i386 Vmi
descriptor changes:

Descriptor and trap table cleanups.  Add cleanly written accessors for
IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them.  Note that this
allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors
as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary
kernel code modification.  It also allows the hypervisor implementation
of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for custom exception frames or
extra layers of indirection above the guest fault / IRQ handlers.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Andi Kleen
02ba1a32db [PATCH] i386: move kernel_thread_helper into entry.S
And add proper CFI annotation to it which was previously
impossible. This prevents "stuck" messages by the dwarf2 unwinder
when reaching the top of a kernel stack.

Includes feedback from Jan Beulich

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
3d08a256da [PATCH] i386: Make enable_local_apic static
enable_local_apic can now become static.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
e8924acb2e [PATCH] i386: Make acpi_force static
acpi_force can become static.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5e4edbb711 [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in mpparse.c
Fix

linux/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c: In function #MP_bus_info#:
linux/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c:232: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:35 +02:00
Prasanna S.P
d28c4393a7 [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobes
This patch moves the entry.S:error_entry to .kprobes.text section,
since code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to entry.S::error_entry,
that must be marked unsafe as well.
This patch also moves all the ".previous.text" asm directives to ".previous"
for kprobes section.

AK: Following a similar i386 patch from Chuck Ebbert
AK: Also merged Jeremy's fix in.

+From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

KPROBE_ENTRY does a .section .kprobes.text, and expects its users to
do a .previous at the end of the function.

Unfortunately, if any code within the function switches sections, for
example .fixup, then the .previous ends up putting all subsequent code
into .fixup.  Worse, any subsequent .fixup code gets intermingled with
the code its supposed to be fixing (which is also in .fixup).  It's
surprising this didn't cause more havok.

The fix is to use .pushsection/.popsection, so this stuff nests
properly.  A further cleanup would be to get rid of all
.section/.previous pairs, since they're inherently fragile.

+From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>

Because code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to
entry.S::error_code, that must be marked unsafe as well.
The easiest way to do that is to move the page fault entry
point to just before error_code and let it inherit the same
section.

Also moved all the ".previous" asm directives for kprobes
sections to column 1 and removed ".text" from them.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Dave Jones
3ca113ea74 [PATCH] i386: don't taint UP K7's running SMP kernels.
We have a test that looks for invalid pairings of certain athlon/durons
that weren't designed for SMP, and taint accordingly (with 'S') if we find
such a configuration.  However, this test shouldn't fire if there's only
a single CPU present. It's perfectly valid for an SMP kernel to boot on UP
hardware for example.

AK: changed to num_possible_cpus()

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5758d5dfef [PATCH] i386: fix dubious segment register clear in cpu_init()
Fix a very dubious piece of code in
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c:cpu_init().  This clears out %fs and
%gs, but clobbers %eax in the process without telling gcc.  It turns
out that gcc happens to be not using %eax at that point anyway so it
doesn't matter much, but it looks like a bomb waiting to go off.

This does end up saving an instruction, because gcc wants %eax==0 for
the set_debugreg()s below.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
a32cf3975b [PATCH] i386: Get ebp from unwinder state when continuing fallback backtrace
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
950fee8455 [PATCH] i386: Terminate backtrace fallback early if unwinder stack pointer is zero
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
2b14a78cd0 [PATCH] i386: Do stacktracer conversion too
Following x86-64 patches. Reuses code from them in fact.

Convert the standard backtracer to do all output using
callbacks.   Use the x86-64 stack tracer implementation
that uses these callbacks to implement the stacktrace interface.

This allows to use the new dwarf2 unwinder for stacktrace
and get better backtraces.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5a1b3999d6 [PATCH] x86: Some preparationary cleanup for stack trace
- Remove unused all_contexts parameter
No caller used it
- Move skip argument into the structure (needed for
followon patches)

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Chuck Ebbert
2ade2920dc [PATCH] i386/x86-64: rename is_at_popf(), add iret to tests and fix
is_at_popf() needs to test for the iret instruction as well as
popf.  So add that test and rename it to is_setting_trap_flag().

Also change max insn length from 16 to 15 to match reality.

LAHF / SAHF can't affect TF, so the comment in x86_64 is removed.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:33 +02:00
Andi Kleen
91cd444e56 [PATCH] x86: Remove unneeded externs in acpi/boot.c
And move one into proto.h

Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:33 +02:00
Andi Kleen
df3bb57d2c [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Move acpi_disabled variables into acpi/boot.c
Removes code duplication between i386/x86-64.

Not needed anymore in setup.c since early_param cleanup

Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:33 +02:00
Rusty Russell
1a3f239ddf [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with
This patch replaces the open-coded early commandline parsing
throughout the i386 boot code with the generic mechanism (already used
by ppc, powerpc, ia64 and s390).  The code was inconsistent with
whether it deletes the option from the cmdline or not, meaning some of
these will get passed through the environment into init.

This transformation is mainly mechanical, but there are some notable
parts:

1) Grammar: s/linux never set's it up/linux never sets it up/

2) Remove hacked-in earlyprintk= option scanning.  When someone
   actually implements CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK, then they can use
   early_param().
[AK: actually it is implemented, but I'm adding the early_param it in the next
x86-64 patch]

3) Move declaration of generic_apic_probe() from setup.c into asm/apic.h

4) Various parameters now moved into their appropriate files (thanks Andi).

5) All parse functions which examine arg need to check for NULL,
   except one where it has subtle humor value.

AK: readded acpi_sci handling which was completely dropped
AK: moved some more variables into acpi/boot.c

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:32 +02:00
Jan Beulich
ba9c231f74 [PATCH] i386: initialize end-of-memory variables as early as possible
Move initialization of all memory end variables to as early as
possible, so that dependent code doesn't need to check whether these
variables have already been set.

Change the range check in kunmap_atomic to actually make use of this
so that the no-mapping-estabished path (under CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM)
gets used only when the address is inside the lowmem area (and BUG()
otherwise).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
Andi Kleen
19f03ffecd [PATCH] i386: Clean up code style in mpparse.c ACPI code
Remove some unlinuxy ways to write function parameter definitions.
Remove some stray "return;"s

No functional change.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:30 +02:00
Andi Kleen
cf4c6a2f27 [PATCH] i386: Factor out common io apic routing entry access
The IO APIC code had lots of duplicated code to read/write 64bit
routing entries into the IO-APIC. Factor this out int common read/write
functions

In a few cases the IO APIC lock is taken more often now, but this
isn't a problem because it's all initialization/shutdown only
slow path code.

Similar to earlier x86-64 patch.

Includes a fix by Jiri Slaby for a mistake that broke resume

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:30 +02:00
Andi Kleen
c1a58b42b4 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove obsolete sanity check in mptable parsing
It apparently has never triggered in many years.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:30 +02:00
Andi Kleen
ecaf45ee5c [PATCH] i386: Redo semaphore and rwlock assembly helpers
- Move them to a pure assembly file. Previously they were in
a C file that only consisted of inline assembly. Doing it in pure
assembler is much nicer.
- Add a frame.i include with FRAME/ENDFRAME macros to easily
add frame pointers to assembly functions
- Add dwarf2 annotation to them so that the new dwarf2 unwinder
doesn't get stuck on them
- Random cleanups

Includes feedback from Jan Beulich and a UML build fix from Andrew
Morton.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
0cb91a2293 [PATCH] i386: Account spinlocks to the caller during profiling for !FP kernels
This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386.
Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels.
But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually
analyzed. Do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
c16b63e09d [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Don't randomize stack top when no randomization personality is set
Based on patch from Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>, but
extended.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3cfc348bf9 [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call
For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast
to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space.

x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic
syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility.

I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall.

The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since
what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space
often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time.  The norma
methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow

The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct
access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization
it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs
portable

I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow
as needed.

AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
248dcb2fff [PATCH] x86: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted.

Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters
( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This
feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.

What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance
monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid).
And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural
events.

Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver.
Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1de84979df [PATCH] i386: Enable NMI watchdog by default
I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64.
It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses.

Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004.

This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason
it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted
registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific,
but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad
because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems
won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
260d6790b6 [PATCH] i386: Kdump i386 nmi event notification fix
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Shaohua Li
4038f901cf [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix NMI watchdog suspend/resume
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline
APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume
method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path.

And:

+From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the
suspend/resume cases more gracefully.

AK: I merged the two patches together

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
c41c5cd3b2 [PATCH] x86: x86 clean up nmi panic messages
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more
sense when they are displayed.  This is mainly a cosmetic fix and
shouldn't impact any normal code path.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
8da5adda91 [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI
To quote Alan Cox:

The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.

A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.

This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
e33e89ab1a [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.

By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system.  By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.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 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
407984f1af [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctl
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
2fbe7b25c8 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as
they are no longer needed.  The various subsystems are modified to register
with the die_notifier instead.

Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
3adbbcce9a [PATCH] x86: Cleanup NMI interrupt path
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path.  Instead of being gated by if
the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is
registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog,
reseting it if enabled.  This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if
they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback).

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
b7471c6da9 [PATCH] i386: Add SMP support on i386 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware.
A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In addition,
it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the
watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs
easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
828f0afda1 [PATCH] x86: Add performance counter reservation framework for UP kernels
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance
counters on the x86 chips.  Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to
make reviewing easier.  The SMP portion makes a lot more changes.

Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different
counter.  In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate
event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it
will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they
break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters).

This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the
nmi watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00