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Markus Metzger
1e9b51c283 x86, bts, ftrace: a BTS ftrace plug-in prototype
Impact: add new ftrace plugin

A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in.

The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu.

The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is
appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace.

This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches
to become a (hopefully) useful tool.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 17:31:13 +01:00
Markus Metzger
531f6ed7de x86, bts: improve help text for BTS config
Improve the help text of the X86_PTRACE_BTS config.
Make X86_DS invisible and depend on X86_PTRACE_BTS.

Reported-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:39:37 +01:00
Jan Beulich
79aa10dd9f x86: adjust dependencies for CONFIG_X86_CMOV
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:33:50 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt
69d45dd1c3 x86: merge winchip-2 and winchip-2a cpu choices
The Winchip-2 and Winchip-2A cpu choices select the
same options for kernel and compiler.

Merge them to save few bytes and reduce confusion.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:22:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1db5fff9ae x86: make processor type select depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED
deselecting one of the CPU type CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* config options
can render a kernel unbootable. Make sure this option is only
available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-12 15:44:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b7b3a42533 x86: extend processor type select help text
extend the help text of the CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* config options to
express what it does and what effects it has.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-12 15:36:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
59c37bf892 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detect
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 14:00:45 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
879d792b66 x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
now that arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c are equal, drop
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and fix up
the glue.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 08:21:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
81faaae457 Merge branch 'x86/pebs' into x86/unify-cpu-detect
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
	include/asm-x86/ds.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 08:20:51 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
14469a8dd2 x86: disable static NOPLs on 32 bits
On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the
default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do
look better.

So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the
CONFIG_X86_64 thing.

The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just
have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for
them.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-08 11:35:43 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
ff73152ced x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c is now 100% identical to
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd_64.c, so use amd.c on 64-bit too
and fix up the namespace impact.

Simplify the Kconfig glue as well.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-08 15:32:06 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
8d02c2110b x86: configuration options to compile out x86 CPU support code
This patch adds some configuration options that allow to compile out
CPU vendor-specific code in x86 kernels (in arch/x86/kernel/cpu). The
new configuration options are only visible when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is
selected, as they are mostly interesting for space savings reasons.

An example of size saving, on x86 with only Intel CPU support:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1125479	 118760	 212992	1457231	 163c4f	vmlinux.old
1121355	 116536	 212992	1450883	 162383	vmlinux
  -4124   -2224       0   -6348   -18CC +/-

However, I'm not exactly sure that the Kconfig wording is correct with
regard to !64BIT / 64BIT.

[ mingo@elte.hu: convert macro to inline ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-18 16:05:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0e2f65ee30 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pebs
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25 11:37:07 +02:00
Jan Kratochvil
d536b1f865 x86: fix crash due to missing debugctlmsr on AMD K6-3
currently if you use PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK on AMD K6-3 (i586) it will crash.
Kernel now wrongly assumes existing DEBUGCTLMSR MSR register there.

Removed the assumption also for some other non-K6 CPUs but I am not sure there
(but it can only bring small inefficiency there if my assumption is wrong).

Based on info from Roland McGrath, Chuck Ebbert and Mikulas Patocka.
More info at:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456175

Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 14:16:37 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
593f4a788e x86: APIC: remove apic_write_around(); use alternatives
Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum
for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time.  Remove the
X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to
apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the
ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum.  Remove
apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed.
Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends.  The use of
ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have
used it for readability's sake.

I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead
and here it is.  Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested
with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP
"feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as
expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days).
Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs
it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I
have disregarded it.

I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated
and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I
have left changes to them out.  The option will get removed from them at
the next run.

Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some
stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that
intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will
everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 12:51:21 +02:00
Glauber Costa
293e6a2524 x86: mark x86_64 as having a working WP.
Select X86_WP_WORKS_OK for x86_64 too.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-09 09:14:21 +02:00
Jan Beulich
f8096f92b8 x86: separate cmpxchg8b checking from PAE checking
.. allowing the former to be use in non-PAE kernels, too.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12 21:28:09 +02:00
Markus Metzger
93fa7636df x86, ptrace: PEBS support
Polish the ds.h interface and add support for PEBS.

Ds.c is meant to be the resource allocator for per-thread and per-cpu
BTS and PEBS recording.
It is used by ptrace/utrace to provide execution tracing of debugged tasks.
It will be used by profilers (e.g. perfmon2).
It may be used by kernel debuggers to provide a kernel execution trace.

Changes in detail:
- guard DS and ptrace by CONFIG macros
- separate DS and BTS more clearly
- simplify field accesses
- add functions to manage PEBS buffers
- add simple protection/allocation mechanism
- added support for Atom

Opens:
- buffer overflow handling
  Currently, only circular buffers are supported. This is all we need
  for debugging. Profilers would want an overflow notification.
  This is planned to be added when perfmon2 is made to use the ds.h
  interface.
- utrace intermediate layer

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12 21:27:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
acbaa93e3d x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix
move the X86_CPU section out of the !X86_ELAN branch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Alexander van Heukelum
19870def58 x86, bitops: select the generic bitmap search functions
Introduce GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT and GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT in
lib/Kconfig, defaulting to off. An arch that wants to use the
generic implementation now only has to use a select statement
to include them.

I added an always-y option (X86_CPU) to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
and used that to select the generic search functions. This
way ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 automatically picks up the change
too, and arch/um/Kconfig.i386 can therefore be simplified a
bit. ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64 does things differently, but
still compiles fine. It seems that a "def_bool y" always
wins over a "def_bool n"?

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 19:21:17 +02:00
Alexander van Heukelum
12d9c8420b x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.h
Some of those can be written in such a way that the same
inline assembly can be used to generate both 32 bit and
64 bit code.

For ffs and fls, x86_64 unconditionally used the cmov
instruction and i386 unconditionally used a conditional
branch over a mov instruction. In the current patch I
chose to select the version based on the availability
of the cmov instruction instead. A small detail here is
that x86_64 did not previously set CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y.

Improved comments for ffs, ffz, fls and variations.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 19:21:16 +02:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
f7f17a67c5 x86: remove NexGen support
It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179

Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
essentially dead.

As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL
above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.

The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 17:35:47 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
d2b3bab63b x86: MPSC should use P6 NOPs
I've now noticed that the machine I call MPENTIUM4 for 32-bit kernels
is called MPSC for 64-bit kernels, and in that case it still doesn't
get the P6 NOPs it ought to.  hpa explains that MK8 should still be
excluded, so it's just a matter of including MPSC along with MPENTIUM4.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:34 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
fcab59a318 x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486
P4 has been coming out as CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of 6: fix MPENTIUM4 typo.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 11:55:34 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
959b3be64c x86: don't use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC
P6_NOPs are definitely not supported on some VIA CPUs, and possibly
(unverified) on AMD K7s.  It is also the only thing that prevents a
686 kernel from running on Transmeta TM3x00/5x00 (Crusoe) series.

The performance benefit over generic NOPs is very small, so when
building for generic consumption, avoid using them.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26 12:55:51 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
7343b3b3a6 x86: require family >= 6 if we are using P6 NOPs
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so
enforce that in the boot code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26 12:55:51 +01:00
Nick Piggin
fb0328e2e6 x86: reduce CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE bloat
CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE bloats text:

i386 allmodconf: size mm/built-in.o
           text    data     bss     dec     hex         text ratio
vanilla: 163082   20372   40120  223574   36956          100.00%
bugfix : 163509   20372   40120  224001   36b01            0.26%
noppro : 162191   20372   40120  222683   365db         -  0.55%
both   : 162267   20372   40120  222759   36627         -  0.50% (+0.05% vs noppro)

So with the ppro memory ordering bug out of the way, the PG_uptodate fix
only adds 76 bytes of text.

allow this config to be specified by distros.

[ mingo@elte.hu: x86.git merge ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:31 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
96daa8cd53 x86: use def_bool where possible in Kconfig.cpu
x86: Use def_bool where possible in Kconfig.cpu

Change occurances of:
	bool
	default X

to:
	def_bool X

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:03 +01:00
Roland McGrath
0a049bb0ab x86: debugctlmsr kconfig
This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR,
to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that
definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag.

The Intel documentation says "P6 family" and later processors all have it.
I think the Kconfig dependencies are right to have it set for those and
unset for others (i.e., when 586 and earlier are supported).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:54 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
1032c0ba9d x86: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu unification
Move all CPU definitions to Kconfig.cpu
Always define X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY and do the
obvious code cleanup in boot/cpucheck.c

Comments from: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> incorporated.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-11-12 21:02:19 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
47572387d5 x86: move i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files to x86 directory
After a small change in kconfig Makefile we could
move all x86 Kconfig files to x86 directory.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-25 22:37:02 +02:00
Renamed from arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu (Browse further)