This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c
into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality
available for x86 32 bit kernel.
It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There are two main changes in this tree:
- AMD microcode early loading fixes
- some microcode loader source files reorganization"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early ucode loading
x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants
x86, ramdisk: Export relocated ramdisk VA
On SoCs that have the calibration MSRs available, either there is no
PIT, HPET or PMTIMER to calibrate against, or the PIT/HPET/PMTIMER is
driven from the same clock as the TSC, so calibration is redundant and
just slows down the boot.
TSC rate is caculated by this formula:
<maximum core-clock to bus-clock ratio> * <maximum resolved frequency>
The ratio and the resolved frequency ID can be obtained from MSR.
See Intel 64 and IA-32 System Programming Guid section 16.12 and 30.11.5
for details.
Signed-off-by: Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rgm7xmg7k6qnjlw3ynkcjsmh@git.kernel.org
We've grown a bunch of microcode loader files all prefixed with
"microcode_". They should be under cpu/ because this is strictly
CPU-related functionality so do that and drop the prefix since they're
in their own directory now which gives that prefix. :)
While at it, drop MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB config item and stash the
functionality under CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL as it was its only user.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Current Intel SOC cores use a MailBox Interface (MBI) to provide access to
configuration registers on devices (called units) connected to the system
fabric. This is a support driver that implements access to this interface on
those platforms that can enumerate the device using PCI. Initial support is for
BayTrail, for which port definitons are provided. This is a requirement for
implementing platform specific features (e.g. RAPL driver requires this to
perform platform specific power management using the registers in PUNIT).
Dependant modules should select IOSF_MBI in their respective Kconfig
configuraiton. Serialized access is handled by all exported routines with
spinlocks.
The API includes 3 functions for access to unit registers:
int iosf_mbi_read(u8 port, u8 opcode, u32 offset, u32 *mdr)
int iosf_mbi_write(u8 port, u8 opcode, u32 offset, u32 mdr)
int iosf_mbi_modify(u8 port, u8 opcode, u32 offset, u32 mdr, u32 mask)
port: indicating the unit being accessed
opcode: the read or write port specific opcode
offset: the register offset within the port
mdr: the register data to be read, written, or modified
mask: bit locations in mdr to change
Returns nonzero on error
Note: GPU code handles access to the GFX unit. Therefore access to that unit
with this driver is disallowed to avoid conflicts.
Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389216471-734-1-git-send-email-david.e.box@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
kexec-tools use boot_params for getting the 1st kernel hardware_subarch,
the kexec kernel EFI runtime support also needs to read the old efi_info
from boot_params. Currently it exists in debugfs which is not a good
place for such infomation. Per HPA, we should avoid "sploit debugfs".
In this patch /sys/kernel/boot_params are exported, also the setup_data is
exported as a subdirectory. kexec-tools is using debugfs for hardware_subarch
for a long time now so we're not removing it yet.
Structure is like below:
/sys/kernel/boot_params
|__ data /* boot_params in binary*/
|__ setup_data
| |__ 0 /* the first setup_data node */
| | |__ data /* setup_data node 0 in binary*/
| | |__ type /* setup_data type of setup_data node 0, hex string */
[snip]
|__ version /* boot protocal version (in hex, "0x" prefixed)*/
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Remove the bloat of the C calling convention out of the
preempt_enable() sites by creating an ASM wrapper which allows us to
do an asm("call ___preempt_schedule") instead.
calling.h bits by Andi Kleen
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tk7xdi1cvvxewixzke8t8le1@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The EFI FB quirks from efifb.c are useful for simple-framebuffer devices
as well. Apply them by default so we can convert efifb.c to use
efi-framebuffer platform devices.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-5-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on
x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global
"struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which
drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but
unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards.
Avoid this by creating a platform framebuffer devices with a pointer
to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create
platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being
active simultaneously.
We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers
can be converted in follow-up patches.
Different devices are created for VGA/VESA/EFI FBs to allow multiple
drivers to be loaded on distro kernels. We create:
- "vesa-framebuffer" for VBE/VESA graphics FBs
- "efi-framebuffer" for EFI FBs
- "platform-framebuffer" for everything else
This allows to load vesafb, efifb and others simultaneously and each
picks up only the supported FB types.
Apart from platform-framebuffer devices, this also introduces a
compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got
introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we
try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported
format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead
of a platform-framebuffer.
This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also
to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c,
efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks
in their setup-routines.
Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and
provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if
strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded
simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-4-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Pull x86 tracing updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds IRQ vector tracepoints that are named after the handler
and which output the vector #, based on a zero-overhead approach that
relies on changing the IDT entries, by Seiji Aguchi.
The new tracepoints look like this:
# perf list | grep -i irq_vector
irq_vectors:local_timer_entry [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:local_timer_exit [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:reschedule_entry [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:reschedule_exit [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:spurious_apic_entry [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:spurious_apic_exit [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:error_apic_entry [Tracepoint event]
irq_vectors:error_apic_exit [Tracepoint event]
[...]"
* 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tracing: Add config option checking to the definitions of mce handlers
trace,x86: Do not call local_irq_save() in load_current_idt()
trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c
x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints
x86: Rename variables for debugging
x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq()
tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro
Pull x86 microcode loading update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two main changes that improve microcode loading on AMD CPUs:
- Add support for all-in-one binary microcode files that concatenate
the microcode images of multiple processor families, by Jacob Shin
- Add early microcode loading (embedded in the initrd) support, also
by Jacob Shin"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode, amd: Another early loading fixup
x86, microcode, amd: Allow multiple families' bin files appended together
x86, microcode, amd: Make find_ucode_in_initrd() __init
x86, microcode, amd: Fix warnings and errors on with CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD
x86, microcode, amd: Refactor functions to prepare for early loading
x86, microcode: Vendor abstract out save_microcode_in_initrd()
x86, microcode, intel: Correct typo in printk
Compiling without CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC set, apic.c will not be
compiled, and the irq tracepoints will not be created via the
CREATE_TRACE_POINTS macro. When CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is not set,
we get the following build error:
LD init/built-in.o
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x8): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x14): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x20): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x2c): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
As irq.c is always compiled for x86, it is a more appropriate location
to create the irq tracepoints.
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Purpose of this patch]
As Vaibhav explained in the thread below, tracepoints for irq vectors
are useful.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg85707.html
<snip>
The current interrupt traces from irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit
provide when an interrupt is handled. They provide good data about when
the system has switched to kernel space and how it affects the currently
running processes.
There are some IRQ vectors which trigger the system into kernel space,
which are not handled in generic IRQ handlers. Tracing such events gives
us the information about IRQ interaction with other system events.
The trace also tells where the system is spending its time. We want to
know which cores are handling interrupts and how they are affecting other
processes in the system. Also, the trace provides information about when
the cores are idle and which interrupts are changing that state.
<snip>
On the other hand, my usecase is tracing just local timer event and
getting a value of instruction pointer.
I suggested to add an argument local timer event to get instruction pointer before.
But there is another way to get it with external module like systemtap.
So, I don't need to add any argument to irq vector tracepoints now.
[Patch Description]
Vaibhav's patch shared a trace point ,irq_vector_entry/irq_vector_exit, in all events.
But there is an above use case to trace specific irq_vector rather than tracing all events.
In this case, we are concerned about overhead due to unwanted events.
So, add following tracepoints instead of introducing irq_vector_entry/exit.
so that we can enable them independently.
- local_timer_vector
- reschedule_vector
- call_function_vector
- call_function_single_vector
- irq_work_entry_vector
- error_apic_vector
- thermal_apic_vector
- threshold_apic_vector
- spurious_apic_vector
- x86_platform_ipi_vector
Also, introduce a logic switching IDT at enabling/disabling time so that a time penalty
makes a zero when tracepoints are disabled. Detailed explanations are as follows.
- Create trace irq handlers with entering_irq()/exiting_irq().
- Create a new IDT, trace_idt_table, at boot time by adding a logic to
_set_gate(). It is just a copy of original idt table.
- Register the new handlers for tracpoints to the new IDT by introducing
macros to alloc_intr_gate() called at registering time of irq_vector handlers.
- Add checking, whether irq vector tracing is on/off, into load_current_idt().
This has to be done below debug checking for these reasons.
- Switching to debug IDT may be kicked while tracing is enabled.
- On the other hands, switching to trace IDT is kicked only when debugging
is disabled.
In addition, the new IDT is created only when CONFIG_TRACING is enabled to avoid being
used for other purposes.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C323ED.5050708@hds.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It is sometimes very helpful to be able to pinpoint the location which
causes a double fault before it turns into a triple fault and the
machine reboots. We have this for 32-bit already so extend it to 64-bit.
On 64-bit we get the register snapshot at #DF time and not from the
first exception which actually causes the #DF. It should be close
enough, though.
[ hpa: and definitely better than nothing, which is what we have now. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368093749-31296-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
"This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)
This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.
As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."
* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
Define some functions and macros that will be used in early loading ucode. Some
of them are moved from microcode_intel.c driver in order to be called in early
boot phase before module can be called.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
In order to promote interoperability between userspace tracers and ftrace,
add a trace_clock that reports raw TSC values which will then be recorded
in the ring buffer. Userspace tracers that also record TSCs are then on
exactly the same time base as the kernel and events can be unambiguously
interlaced.
Tested: Enabled a tracepoint and the "tsc" trace_clock and saw very large
timestamp values.
v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v3:
Rename "x86-tsc", cleanups
v7:
Generic arch bits in Kbuild.
Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move native_read_tsc() to tsc.c to allow profiling to be
re-enabled for rtc.c.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349698050-6560-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
"This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
x86: split ret_from_fork
alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
generic sys_execve()
generic kernel_execve()
new helper: current_pt_regs()
preparation for generic kernel_thread()
um: kill thread->forking
um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
...
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
"Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."
* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
...
Conflicts:
arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since
we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call
sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from
there afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The distinction between CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK and CONFIG_KVM_GUEST is
not so clear anymore, as demonstrated by recent bugs caused by poor
handling of on/off combinations of these options.
Merge CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK into CONFIG_KVM_GUEST.
Reported-By: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This brings a new API to help the selective dump of registers on event
sampling, and its implementation for x86 arch.
Added HAVE_PERF_REGS config option to determine if the architecture
provides perf registers ABI.
The information about desired registers will be passed in u64 mask.
It's up to the architecture to map the registers into the mask bits.
For the x86 arch implementation, both 32 and 64 bit registers bits are
defined within single enum to ensure 64 bit system can provide register
dump for compat task if needed in the future.
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ Added missing linux/errno.h include ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull x86 trampoline rework from H. Peter Anvin:
"This code reworks all the "trampoline"/"realmode" code (various bits
that need to live in the first megabyte of memory, most but not all of
which runs in real mode at some point) in the kernel into a single
object. The main reason for doing this is that it eliminates the last
place in the kernel where we needed pages to be mapped RWX. This code
separates all that code into proper R/RW/RX pages."
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile (mca removed next to reboot
code), and arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c (reboot code moved around in one
branch, modified in this one), and arch/x86/tools/relocs.c (mostly same
code came in earlier due to working around the ld bugs just before the
3.4 release).
Also remove stale x86-relocs entry from scripts/.gitignore as per Peter
Anvin.
* commit '61f5446169046c217a5479517edac3a890c3bee7': (36 commits)
x86, realmode: Move end signature into header.S
x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute
x86, relocs: More relocations which may end up as absolute
x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug
xen-acpi-processor: Add missing #include <xen/xen.h>
acpi, bgrd: Add missing <linux/io.h> to drivers/acpi/bgrt.c
x86, realmode: Change EFER to a single u64 field
x86, realmode: Move kernel/realmode.c to realmode/init.c
x86, realmode: Move not-common bits out of trampoline_common.S
x86, realmode: Mask out EFER.LMA when saving trampoline EFER
x86, realmode: Fix no cache bits test in reboot_32.S
x86, realmode: Make sure all generated files are listed in targets
x86, realmode: build fix: remove duplicate build
x86, realmode: read cr4 and EFER from kernel for 64-bit trampoline
x86, realmode: fixes compilation issue in tboot.c
x86, realmode: move relocs from scripts/ to arch/x86/tools
x86, realmode: header for trampoline code
x86, realmode: flattened rm hierachy
x86, realmode: don't copy real_mode_header
x86, realmode: fix 64-bit wakeup sequence
...
Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
"The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
in Fedora and RHEL kernels. This version is much rewritten, reviews
from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.
This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
(and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.
Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
calls without modifying user-space binaries.
First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.
If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
within libc (binaries can be specified as well):
$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6
To probe libc's malloc():
$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
Added new event:
probe_libc:malloc (on 0x7eac0)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1
Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
look very boring):
$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712
$ perf report | less
32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
|--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
|
|--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize
11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
5.07% sh libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
4.99% python-config libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
4.54% make libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
|--7.34%-- glob
| |
| |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
| |
| --6.82%-- glob
| 0x41588f
...
Or:
$ perf report -g flat | less
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............. ............. ..........
#
32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
27.19%
malloc
29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
24.77%
malloc
11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
11.02%
malloc
7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
6.57%
malloc
...
The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content. The probe points are
kept in an rbtree.
If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.
Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
dynamic callback list of event consumers.
The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).
The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
to it.
Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
by setting perf_paranoid to -1.
You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."
Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().
* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
uprobes: Update copyright notices
uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
...
Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker:
"It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but
realistically, nobody is using them anymore. They were mostly limited
to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than
64MB of RAM. Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have
dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching
various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware.
So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA. There is no point
carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it;
wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git
grep'ping over it, and so on."
Let's see if anybody screams. It generally has compiled, and James
Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that
allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines. So in *theory*
there may be users out there.
But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually
have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar
that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't
argue for keeping MCA support either.
So we could bring it back. But somebody had better speak up and talk
about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern
kernels for us to do that. And David already took the patch to delete
all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61a: "drivers/net:
delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA").
* 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code
serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support.
arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA
Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that
even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in
carrying this any further into the future.
One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Keep all the realmode code together, including initialization (only
the rm/ subdirectory is actually built as real-mode code, anyway.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Migrated ACPI wakeup code to the real-mode blob.
Code existing in .x86_trampoline can be completely
removed. Static descriptor table in wakeup_asm.S is
courtesy of H. Peter Anvin.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-7-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Implements relocator for real mode code that is called
as part of setup_arch(). Processes segment relocations
and linear relocations. Real-mode code is relocated to
a free hole below 1 MB.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-4-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Same code. Use the generic version. The special Makefile treatment is
pointless anyway as init_task.o contains only data which is handled by
the linker script. So no point on being treated like head text.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.739963562@linutronix.de
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add uprobes support to the core kernel, with x86 support.
This commit adds the kernel facilities, the actual uprobes
user-space ABI and perf probe support comes in later commits.
General design:
Uprobes are maintained in an rb-tree indexed by inode and offset
(the offset here is from the start of the mapping). For a unique
(inode, offset) tuple, there can be at most one uprobe in the
rb-tree.
Since the (inode, offset) tuple identifies a unique uprobe, more
than one user may be interested in the same uprobe. This provides
the ability to connect multiple 'consumers' to the same uprobe.
Each consumer defines a handler and a filter (optional). The
'handler' is run every time the uprobe is hit, if it matches the
'filter' criteria.
The first consumer of a uprobe causes the breakpoint to be
inserted at the specified address and subsequent consumers are
appended to this list. On subsequent probes, the consumer gets
appended to the existing list of consumers. The breakpoint is
removed when the last consumer unregisters. For all other
unregisterations, the consumer is removed from the list of
consumers.
Given a inode, we get a list of the mms that have mapped the
inode. Do the actual registration if mm maps the page where a
probe needs to be inserted/removed.
We use a temporary list to walk through the vmas that map the
inode.
- The number of maps that map the inode, is not known before we
walk the rmap and keeps changing.
- extending vm_area_struct wasn't recommended, it's a
size-critical data structure.
- There can be more than one maps of the inode in the same mm.
We add callbacks to the mmap methods to keep an eye on text vmas
that are of interest to uprobes. When a vma of interest is mapped,
we insert the breakpoint at the right address.
Uprobe works by replacing the instruction at the address defined
by (inode, offset) with the arch specific breakpoint
instruction. We save a copy of the original instruction at the
uprobed address.
This is needed for:
a. executing the instruction out-of-line (xol).
b. instruction analysis for any subsequent fixups.
c. restoring the instruction back when the uprobe is unregistered.
We insert or delete a breakpoint instruction, and this
breakpoint instruction is assumed to be the smallest instruction
available on the platform. For fixed size instruction platforms
this is trivially true, for variable size instruction platforms
the breakpoint instruction is typically the smallest (often a
single byte).
Writing the instruction is done by COWing the page and changing
the instruction during the copy, this even though most platforms
allow atomic writes of the breakpoint instruction. This also
mirrors the behaviour of a ptrace() memory write to a PRIVATE
file map.
The core worker is derived from KSM's replace_page() logic.
In essence, similar to KSM:
a. allocate a new page and copy over contents of the page that
has the uprobed vaddr
b. modify the copy and insert the breakpoint at the required
address
c. switch the original page with the copy containing the
breakpoint
d. flush page tables.
replace_page() is being replicated here because of some minor
changes in the type of pages and also because Hugh Dickins had
plans to improve replace_page() for KSM specific work.
Instruction analysis on x86 is based on instruction decoder and
determines if an instruction can be probed and determines the
necessary fixups after singlestep. Instruction analysis is done
at probe insertion time so that we avoid having to repeat the
same analysis every time a probe is hit.
A lot of code here is due to the improvement/suggestions/inputs
from Peter Zijlstra.
Changelog:
(v10):
- Add code to clear REX.B prefix as suggested by Denys Vlasenko
and Masami Hiramatsu.
(v9):
- Use insn_offset_modrm as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu.
(v7):
Handle comments from Peter Zijlstra:
- Dont take reference to inode. (expect inode to uprobe_register to be sane).
- Use PTR_ERR to set the return value.
- No need to take reference to inode.
- use PTR_ERR to return error value.
- register and uprobe_unregister share code.
(v5):
- Modified del_consumer as per comments from Peter.
- Drop reference to inode before dropping reference to uprobe.
- Use i_size_read(inode) instead of inode->i_size.
- Ensure uprobe->consumers is NULL, before __uprobe_unregister() is called.
- Includes errno.h as recommended by Stephen Rothwell to fix a build issue
on sparc defconfig
- Remove restrictions while unregistering.
- Earlier code leaked inode references under some conditions while
registering/unregistering.
- Continue the vma-rmap walk even if the intermediate vma doesnt
meet the requirements.
- Validate the vma found by find_vma before inserting/removing the
breakpoint
- Call del_consumer under mutex_lock.
- Use hash locks.
- Handle mremap.
- Introduce find_least_offset_node() instead of close match logic in
find_uprobe
- Uprobes no more depends on MM_OWNER; No reference to task_structs
while inserting/removing a probe.
- Uses read_mapping_page instead of grab_cache_page so that the pages
have valid content.
- pass NULL to get_user_pages for the task parameter.
- call SetPageUptodate on the new page allocated in write_opcode.
- fix leaking a reference to the new page under certain conditions.
- Include Instruction Decoder if Uprobes gets defined.
- Remove const attributes for instruction prefix arrays.
- Uses mm_context to know if the application is 32 bit.
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Also-written-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120209092642.GE16600@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Made various small edits to the commit log ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h
x86, um: Fix typo in 32-bit system call modifications
um: Use $(srctree) not $(KBUILD_SRC)
x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly
x86, um: Use the same style generated syscall tables as native
um: Generate headers before generating user-offsets.s
um: Run host archheaders, allow use of host generated headers
kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly
x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic
x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in comment
x86: Simplify syscallhdr.sh
x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables
checksyscalls: Use arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl as source
x86: Machine-readable syscall tables and scripts to process them
trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c
x86-64, ia32: Move compat_ni_syscall into C and its own file
x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo
kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target
kbuild: Add support for installing generated asm headers
The previous patch modified the stop cpus path to use NMI
instead of IRQ as the way to communicate to the other cpus to
shutdown. There were some concerns that various machines may
have problems with using an NMI IPI.
This patch creates a selftest to check if NMI is working at
boot. The idea is to help catch any issues before the machine
panics and we learn the hard way.
Loosely based on the locking-selftest.c file, this separate file
runs a couple of simple tests and reports the results. The
output looks like:
...
Brought up 4 CPUs
----------------
| NMI testsuite:
--------------------
remote IPI: ok |
local IPI: ok |
--------------------
Good, all 2 testcases passed! |
---------------------------------
Total of 4 processors activated (21330.61 BogoMIPS).
...
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: mjg@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: gong.chen@intel.com
Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h automatically from the
tables in arch/x86/syscalls. All other information, like NR_syscalls,
is auto-generated, some of which is in asm-offsets_*.c.
This allows us to keep all the system call information in one place,
and allows for kernel space and user space to see different
information; this is currently used for the ia32 system call numbers
when building the 64-bit kernel, but will be used by the x32 ABI in
the near future.
This also removes some gratuitious differences between i386, x86-64
and ia32; in particular, now all system call tables are generated with
the same mechanism.
Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The nmi stuff is changing a lot and adding more functionality. Split it
out from the traps.c file so it doesn't continue to pollute that file.
This makes it easier to find and expand all the future nmi related work.
No real functional changes here.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
As of commit 98d0ac38ca
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 14 06:47:22 2011 -0400
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
user code no longer directly calls into code in arch/x86/kernel/, so
we don't need compile flag hacks to make it safe. All vdso code is
in the vdso directory now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/835cd05a4c7740544d09723d6ba48f4406f9826c.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
A few parts of the driver were missing in drivers/iommu.
Move them there to have the complete driver in that
directory.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
This should ease finding similarities with different platforms,
with the intention of solving problems once in a generic framework
which everyone can use.
Compile-tested on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page. It contains
a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who
knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of
some other code.
Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic
incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real
vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the
middle.
This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real
syscalls. Fortunately sensible programs don't use them.
The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc
through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times
per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the
development tree.
This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet
functions are still at a fixed address. Fixing that might
involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
[ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
