* 'stable/backend.base.v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/pci: Fix compiler error when CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not set.
xen/p2m: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the M2P override functions.
xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override.
xen/irq: The Xen hypervisor cleans up the PIRQs if the other domain forgot.
xen/irq: Export 'xen_pirq_from_irq' function.
xen/irq: Add support to check if IRQ line is shared with other domains.
xen/irq: Check if the PCI device is owned by a domain different than DOMID_SELF.
xen/pci: Add xen_[find|register|unregister]_device_domain_owner functions.
* 'stable/gntalloc.v7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/gntdev,gntalloc: Remove unneeded VM flags
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Correct occurrences of - Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm - Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml - Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest throughout the kernel source tree.
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/virtual Remove uml from the top level 00-INDEX file.
Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:
Cleanup code/data sections definitions
accordingly to include/linux/init.h.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
[v1: Rebased on top of latest linus's to include fixes in mmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setup
perf tools: Honour the cpu list parameter when also monitoring a thread list
kprobes, x86: Disable irqs during optimized callback
Trying to enable the local APIC timer on early K8 revisions
uncovers a number of other issues with it, in conjunction with
the C1E enter path on AMD. Fixing those causes much more churn
and troubles than the benefit of using that timer brings so
don't enable it on K8 at all, falling back to the original
functionality the kernel had wrt to that.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <Boris.Ostrovsky@amd.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Joerg-Volker-Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305636919-31165-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit e20a2d205c, as it crashes
certain boxes with specific AMD CPU models.
Moving the lower endpoint of the Erratum 400 check to accomodate
earlier K8 revisions (A-E) opens a can of worms which is simply
not worth to fix properly by tweaking the errata checking
framework:
* missing IntPenging MSR on revisions < CG cause #GP:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130541471818831
* makes earlier revisions use the LAPIC timer instead of the C1E
idle routine which switches to HPET, thus not waking up in
deeper C-states:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/24/20
Therefore, leave the original boundary starting with K8-revF.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If we have CONFIG_XEN and the other parameters to build an
Linux kernel that is non-privileged, the xen_[find|register|unregister]_
device_domain_owner functions should not be compiled. They should
use the nops defined in arch/x86/include/asm/xen/pci.h instead.
This fixes:
arch/x86/pci/xen.c:496: error: redefinition of ‘xen_find_device_domain_owner’
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/pci.h:25: note: previous definition of ‘xen_find_device_domain_owner’ was here
arch/x86/pci/xen.c:510: error: redefinition of ‘xen_register_device_domain_owner’
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/pci.h:29: note: previous definition of ‘xen_register_device_domain_owner’ was here
arch/x86/pci/xen.c:532: error: redefinition of ‘xen_unregister_device_domain_owner’
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/pci.h:34: note: previous definition of ‘xen_unregister_device_domain_owner’ was here
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
This patch fixes a bug reported by a customer, who found
that many unreasonable error interrupts reported on all
non-boot CPUs (APs) during the system boot stage.
According to Chapter 10 of Intel Software Developer Manual
Volume 3A, Local APIC may signal an illegal vector error when
an LVT entry is set as an illegal vector value (0~15) under
FIXED delivery mode (bits 8-11 is 0), regardless of whether
the mask bit is set or an interrupt actually happen. These
errors are seen as error interrupts.
The initial value of thermal LVT entries on all APs always reads
0x10000 because APs are woken up by BSP issuing INIT-SIPI-SIPI
sequence to them and LVT registers are reset to 0s except for
the mask bits which are set to 1s when APs receive INIT IPI.
When the BIOS takes over the thermal throttling interrupt,
the LVT thermal deliver mode should be SMI and it is required
from the kernel to keep AP's LVT thermal monitoring register
programmed as such as well.
This issue happens when BIOS does not take over thermal throttling
interrupt, AP's LVT thermal monitor register will be restored to
0x10000 which means vector 0 and fixed deliver mode, so all APs will
signal illegal vector error interrupts.
This patch check if interrupt delivery mode is not fixed mode before
restoring AP's LVT thermal monitor register.
Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: joe@perches.com
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com
Cc: trenn@suse.de
Cc: kent.liu@intel.com
Cc: chaohong.guo@intel.com
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # As far back as possible
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303402963-17738-1-git-send-email-youquan.song@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
b may be added to a list, but is not removed before being freed
in the case of an error. This is done in the corresponding
deallocation function, so the code here has been changed to
follow that.
The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E,E1,E2;
identifier l;
@@
*list_add(&E->l,E1);
... when != E1
when != list_del(&E->l)
when != list_del_init(&E->l)
when != E = E2
*kfree(E);// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305294731-12127-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is a fix for the SGI Altix-UV Broadcast Assist Unit code,
which is used for TLB flushing.
Certain hardware configurations (that customers are ordering)
cause nasids (numa address space id's) to be non-consecutive.
Specifically, once you have more than 4 blades in a IRU
(Individual Rack Unit - or 1/2 rack) but less than the maximum
of 16, the nasid numbering becomes non-consecutive. This
currently results in a 'catastrophic error' (CATERR) detected by
the firmware during OS boot. The BAU is generating an 'INTD'
request that is targeting a non-existent nasid value. Such
configurations may also occur when a blade is configured off
because of hardware errors. (There is one UV hub per blade.)
This patch is required to support such configurations.
The problem with the tlb_uv.c code is that is using the
consecutive hub numbers as indices to the BAU distribution bit
map. These are simply the ordinal position of the hub or blade
within its partition. It should be using physical node numbers
(pnodes), which correspond to the physical nasid values. Use of
the hub number only works as long as the nasids in the partition
are consecutive and increase with a stride of 1.
This patch changes the index to be the pnode number, thus
allowing nasids to be non-consecutive.
It also provides a table in local memory for each cpu to
translate target cpu number to target pnode and nasid.
And it improves naming to properly reflect 'node' and 'uvhub'
versus 'nasid'.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1QJmxX-0002Mz-Fk@eag09.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y I see these warnings in next-20110415:
LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1ba48): Section mismatch in reference from the function native_pagetable_reserve() to the function .init.text:memblock_x86_reserve_range()
The function native_pagetable_reserve() references
the function __init memblock_x86_reserve_range().
This is often because native_pagetable_reserve lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of memblock_x86_reserve_range is wrong.
This patch fixes the issue.
Thanks to pipacs from PaX project for help on IRC.
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Introduce a new x86_init hook called pagetable_reserve that at the end
of init_memory_mapping is used to reserve a range of memory addresses for
the kernel pagetable pages we used and free the other ones.
On native it just calls memblock_x86_reserve_range while on xen it also
takes care of setting the spare memory previously allocated
for kernel pagetable pages from RO to RW, so that it can be used for
other purposes.
A detailed explanation of the reason why this hook is needed follows.
As a consequence of the commit:
commit 4b239f458c
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Dec 17 16:58:28 2010 -0800
x86-64, mm: Put early page table high
at some point init_memory_mapping is going to reach the pagetable pages
area and map those pages too (mapping them as normal memory that falls
in the range of addresses passed to init_memory_mapping as argument).
Some of those pages are already pagetable pages (they are in the range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end) therefore they are going to be mapped RO and
everything is fine.
Some of these pages are not pagetable pages yet (they fall in the range
pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top; for example the page at pgt_buf_end) so they
are going to be mapped RW. When these pages become pagetable pages and
are hooked into the pagetable, xen will find that the guest has already
a RW mapping of them somewhere and fail the operation.
The reason Xen requires pagetables to be RO is that the hypervisor needs
to verify that the pagetables are valid before using them. The validation
operations are called "pinning" (more details in arch/x86/xen/mmu.c).
In order to fix the issue we mark all the pages in the entire range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_top as RO, however when the pagetable allocation
is completed only the range pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end is reserved by
init_memory_mapping. Hence the kernel is going to crash as soon as one
of the pages in the range pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top is reused (b/c those
ranges are RO).
For this reason we need a hook to reserve the kernel pagetable pages we
used and free the other ones so that they can be reused for other
purposes.
On native it just means calling memblock_x86_reserve_range, on Xen it
also means marking RW the pagetable pages that we allocated before but
that haven't been used before.
Another way to fix this is without using the hook is by adding a 'if
(xen_pv_domain)' in the 'init_memory_mapping' code and calling the Xen
counterpart, but that is just nasty.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Disable irqs during optimized callback, so we dont miss any in-irq kprobes.
The following commands:
# cd /debug/tracing/
# echo "p mutex_unlock" >> kprobe_events
# echo "p _raw_spin_lock" >> kprobe_events
# echo "p smp_apic_timer_interrupt" >> ./kprobe_events
# echo 1 > events/enable
Cause the optimized kprobes to be missed. None is missed
with the fix applied.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110511110613.GB2390@jolsa.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes problems seen on UV systems handling NMIs from the
node controller.
I isolated the "dazed..." messages that I saw earlier to a bug in
the BMC on our platform. It was sending NMIs w/o properly setting
a register that indicated the source of NMI.
So rather than _assuming_ any unhandled NMI came from the UV system
maintenance console (SMC), add a check to verify that the SMC actually
sent the NMI.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm
- Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml
- Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest
throughout the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
The Intel Nehalem offcore bits implemented in:
e994d7d23a: perf: Fix LLC-* events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere
... are wrong: they implemented _ACCESS as _HIT and counted OTHER_CORE_HIT* as
MISS even though its clearly documented as an L3 hit ...
Fix them and the Westmere definitions as well.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1299119690-13991-3-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With dynamic debug having gained the capability to report debug messages
also during the boot process, it offers a far superior interface for
debug messages than the custom cpufreq infrastructure. As a first step,
remove the old cpufreq_debug_printk() function and replace it with a call
to the generic pr_debug() function.
How can dynamic debug be used on cpufreq? You need a kernel which has
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled.
To enabled debugging during runtime, mount debugfs and
$ echo -n 'module cpufreq +p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
for debugging the complete "cpufreq" module. To achieve the same goal during
boot, append
ddebug_query="module cpufreq +p"
as a boot parameter to the kernel of your choice.
For more detailled instructions, please see
Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
UUID needs to be written out the way it is described in
Sec 18.5.124 of ACPI 4.0a Specification.
Platform firmware's use of this UUID/_OSC is optional, which is
why we didn't notice this bug earlier.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'stable/bug-fixes-for-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: mask_rw_pte mark RO all pagetable pages up to pgt_buf_top
xen/mmu: Add workaround "x86-64, mm: Put early page table high"
The use of base for %ebx in this file is arbitrary, *except* that we
also use it to compute the real-mode segment. Therefore, make it so
that r_base really is the true address to which %ebx points.
This resolves kernel bugzilla 33302.
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-08os5wi3yq1no0y4i5m4z7he@git.kernel.org
mask_rw_pte is currently checking if a pfn is a pagetable page if it
falls in the range pgt_buf_start - pgt_buf_end but that is incorrect
because pgt_buf_end is a moving target: pgt_buf_top is the real
boundary.
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
As a consequence of the commit:
commit 4b239f458c
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Dec 17 16:58:28 2010 -0800
x86-64, mm: Put early page table high
it causes the Linux kernel to crash under Xen:
mapping kernel into physical memory
Xen: setup ISA identity maps
about to get started...
(XEN) mm.c:2466:d0 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp 1000000000000000) for mfn b1d89 (pfn bacf7)
(XEN) mm.c:3027:d0 Error while pinning mfn b1d89
(XEN) traps.c:481:d0 Unhandled invalid opcode fault/trap [#6] on VCPU 0 [ec=0000]
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
...
The reason is that at some point init_memory_mapping is going to reach
the pagetable pages area and map those pages too (mapping them as normal
memory that falls in the range of addresses passed to init_memory_mapping
as argument). Some of those pages are already pagetable pages (they are
in the range pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end) therefore they are going to be
mapped RO and everything is fine.
Some of these pages are not pagetable pages yet (they fall in the range
pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top; for example the page at pgt_buf_end) so they
are going to be mapped RW. When these pages become pagetable pages and
are hooked into the pagetable, xen will find that the guest has already
a RW mapping of them somewhere and fail the operation.
The reason Xen requires pagetables to be RO is that the hypervisor needs
to verify that the pagetables are valid before using them. The validation
operations are called "pinning" (more details in arch/x86/xen/mmu.c).
In order to fix the issue we mark all the pages in the entire range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_top as RO, however when the pagetable allocation
is completed only the range pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end is reserved by
init_memory_mapping. Hence the kernel is going to crash as soon as one
of the pages in the range pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top is reused (b/c those
ranges are RO).
For this reason, this function is introduced which is called _after_
the init_memory_mapping has completed (in a perfect world we would
call this function from init_memory_mapping, but lets ignore that).
Because we are called _after_ init_memory_mapping the pgt_buf_[start,
end,top] have all changed to new values (b/c another init_memory_mapping
is called). Hence, the first time we enter this function, we save
away the pgt_buf_start value and update the pgt_buf_[end,top].
When we detect that the "old" pgt_buf_start through pgt_buf_end
PFNs have been reserved (so memblock_x86_reserve_range has been called),
we immediately set out to RW the "old" pgt_buf_end through pgt_buf_top.
And then we update those "old" pgt_buf_[end|top] with the new ones
so that we can redo this on the next pagetable.
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
[v1: Updated with Jeremy's comments]
[v2: Added the crash output]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
numa_cleanup_meminfo() trims each memblk between low (0) and
high (max_pfn) limits and discards empty ones. However, the
emptiness detection incorrectly used equality test. If the
start of a memblk is higher than max_pfn, it is empty but fails
the equality test and doesn't get discarded.
The condition triggers when max_pfn is lower than start of a
NUMA node and results in memory misconfiguration - leading to
WARN_ON()s and other funnies. The bug was discovered in devel
branch where 32bit too uses this code path for NUMA init. If a
node is above the addressing limit, max_pfn ends up lower than
the node triggering this problem.
The failure hasn't been observed on x86-64 but is still possible
with broken hardware e820/NUMA info. As the fix is very low
risk, it would be better to apply it even for 64bit.
Fix it by using >= instead of ==.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
[ Extracted the actual fix from the original patch and rewrote patch description. ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110501171204.GO29280@htj.dyndns.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Older AMD K8 processors (Revisions A-E) are affected by erratum
400 (APIC timer interrupts don't occur in C states greater than
C1). This, for example, means that X86_FEATURE_ARAT flag should
not be set for these parts.
This addresses regression introduced by commit
b87cf80af3 ("x86, AMD: Set ARAT
feature on AMD processors") where the system may become
unresponsive until external interrupt (such as keyboard input)
occurs. This results, for example, in time not being reported
correctly, lack of progress on the system and other lockups.
Reported-by: Joerg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Tested-by: Joerg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <Boris.Ostrovsky@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304113663-6586-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, x86, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers
perf events, x86: Work around the Nehalem AAJ80 erratum
perf, x86: Fix BTS condition
ftrace: Build without frame pointers on Microblaze
The USB and SATA ioapic interrrupt pins are configured as edge type,
but need to be level type interrupts to work correctly.
[ tglx: Split out from the combo patch ]
Cc: Torben Hohn <torbenh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110427143052.GA15211%40linutronix.de%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We use io_apic_setup_irq_pin() in order to configure pin's interrupt
number polarity and type. This is done on every irq_create_of_mapping()
which happens for instance during pci enable calls. Level typed
interrupts are masked by default, edge are unmasked.
On the first ->xlate() call the level interrupt is configured and
masked. The driver calls request_irq() and the line is unmasked. Lets
assume the interrupt line is shared with another device and we call
pci_enable_device() for this device. The ->xlate() configures the pin
again and it is masked. request_irq() does not unmask the line because
it _is_ already unmasked according to its internal state. So the
interrupt will never be unmasked again.
This patch is based on an earlier work by Torben Hohn and solves the
problem by configuring the pin only once. Since all devices must agree
on the same type and polarity there is no point in configuring the pin
more than once.
[ tglx: Split out the ce4100 part into a separate patch ]
Cc: Torben Hohn <torbenh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110427143052.GA15211%40linutronix.de%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It was noticed that P4 machines were generating double NMIs for
each perf event. These extra NMIs lead to 'Dazed and confused'
messages on the screen.
I tracked this down to a P4 quirk that said the overflow bit had
to be cleared before re-enabling the apic LVT mask. My first
attempt was to move the un-masking inside the perf nmi handler
from before the chipset NMI handler to after.
This broke Nehalem boxes that seem to like the unmasking before
the counters themselves are re-enabled.
In order to keep this change simple for 2.6.39, I decided to
just simply move the apic LVT un-masking to the beginning of all
the chipset NMI handlers, with the exception of Pentium4's to
fix the double NMI issue.
Later on we can move the un-masking to later in the handlers to
save a number of 'extra' NMIs on those particular chipsets.
I tested this change on a P4 machine, an AMD machine, a Nehalem
box, and a core2quad box. 'perf top' worked correctly along
with various other small 'perf record' runs. Anything high
stress breaks all the machines but that is a different problem.
Thanks to various people for testing different versions of this
patch.
Reported-and-tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303900353-10242-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
On Nehalem CPUs the retired branch-misses event can be completely bogus,
when there are no branch-misses occuring. When there are a lot of branch
misses then the count is pretty accurate. Still, this leaves us with an
event that over-counts a lot.
Detect this erratum and work it around by using BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY events.
These will also count speculated branches but still it's a lot more
precise in practice than the architectural event.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yyfg0bxo9jsqxd6a0ovfny27@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently the x86 backend incorrectly assumes that any BRANCH_INSN
with sample_period==1 is a BTS request. This is not true when we do
frequency driven profiling such as 'perf record -e branches'.
Solves this error:
$ perf record -e branches ./array
Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not supported).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rd2y4ct71hjawzz6fpvsy9hg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we use BIOS function e801 to probe memory, we should use ax/bx
(or cx/dx) as a pair, not mix and match. This was a typo during the
translation from assembly code, and breaks at least one set of
machines in the field (which return cx = dx = 0).
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Fix-proposed-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303566747.12067.10.camel@localhost.localdomain
While the tracer accesses ptrace breakpoints, the child task may
concurrently exit due to a SIGKILL and thus release its breakpoints
at the same time. We can then dereference some freed pointers.
To fix this, hold a reference on the child breakpoints before
manipulating them.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
It's not enough to simply disable event on overflow the
cpuc->active_mask should be cleared as well otherwise counter
may stall in "active" even in real being already disabled (which
potentially may lead to the situation that user may not use this
counter further).
Don pointed out that:
" I also noticed this patch fixed some unknown NMIs
on a P4 when I stressed the box".
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303398203-2918-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
