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Andi Kleen
ca8642f606 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix off by one in IOMMU check
Fix off by one when checking if the machine has enougn memory to need IOMMU
This caused the IOMMUs to be needlessly enabled for mem=4G

Based on a patch from Jon Mason

Signed-off-by: jdmason@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:54 -08:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
d25bf7e5fe [PATCH] x86_64: Handle missing local APIC timer interrupts on C3 state
Whenever we see that a CPU is capable of C3 (during ACPI cstate init), we
disable local APIC timer and switch to using a broadcast from external timer
interrupt (IRQ 0).

Patch below adds the code for x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:54 -08:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
5a07a30c3c [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove sub jiffy profile timer support
Remove the finer control of local APIC timer. We cannot provide a sub-jiffy
control like this when we use broadcast from external timer in place of
local APIC. Instead of removing this only on systems that may end up using
broadcast from external timer (due to C3), I am going the
"I'm feeling lucky" way to remove this fully. Basically, I am not sure about
usefulness of this code today. Few other architectures also don't seem to
support this today.

If you are using profiling and fine grained control and don't like this going
away in normal case, yell at me right now.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:54 -08:00
John Blackwood
01b8faaef5 [PATCH] x86_64: Report hardware breakpoints in user space when triggered by the kernel
I would like to throw out a suggestion for a possible change in the way that
the debug register traps are handled in do_debug() when the trap occurs
in kernel-mode.

In the x86_64 version of do_debug(), the code will skip around sending
a SIGTRAP to the current task if the trap occurred while in kernel mode.

On the i386-side of things, if the access happens to occur in kernel mode
(say during a read(2) of user's buffer that matches the address of a
debug register trap), then the do_debug() routine for i386 will go ahead
and call send_sigtrap() and send the SIGTRAP signal.  The send_sigtrap()
code will also set the info.si_addr to NULL in this case (even though I
don't understand why, since the SIGTRAP siginfo processing doesn't use
the si_addr field...).

So I would like to suggest that the x86_64 do_debug() routine also
follow this type of behavior and have it go ahead and send the
SIGTRAP signal to the current task, even if the debug register trap
happens to have occurred in kernel mode.  I have taken a stab at
a patch for this change below.  (It includes the i386-ish change
for setting si_addr to NULL when the trap occurred in kernel mode.)

It seems like a useful feature to be able to 'watch' a user location that
might also be modified in the kernel via a system service call, and have the
debugger report that information back to the user, rather than to just
silently ignore the trap.

Additionally, I realize that users that pull in a kernel debugger such as
KGDB into their kernel might want to remove this change below when they add
in KGDB support.  However, they could alternatively look at the current
task's thread.debugreg[] values to see if the trap occurred due to KGDB
or instead because of a user-space debugger trap, and still honor the
user SIGTRAP processing (instead of the KGDB breakpoint processing)
if the trap matches up with the thread.debugreg[] registers.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:54 -08:00
Andi Kleen
bf2fcc6fdf [PATCH] x86_64: Implement is_compat_task the right way
By setting a flag during a 32bit system call only

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:53 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
c11efdf94d [PATCH] x86_64: Align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary
This patch is on the same lines as Zachary Amsden's i386 GDT page alignemnt
patch in -mm, but for x86_64.

Patch to align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundries.

[AK: some minor cleanups and fixed incorrect TLS initialization
in CPU init.]

Signed-off-by: Nippun Goel <nippung@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:53 -08:00
Andi Kleen
bb33421dde [PATCH] x86_64: Allow compilation on a 32bit biarch toolchain
This might help on distributions that use a 32bit biarch compiler.

First pass -m64 by default.

Secondly add some more .code32s because at least the Ubuntu biarch
32bit as called by gcc doesn't seem to handle -m64 -m32 as generated
by the Makefile without such assistance.

And finally make sure the linker script can be preprocessed
with a 32bit cpp.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:52 -08:00
Andi Kleen
e992867445 [PATCH] x86_64: Generalize DMI and enable for x86-64
Some people need it now on 64bit so reuse the i386 code for
x86-64. This will be also useful for future bug workarounds.

It is a bit simplified there because there is no need
to do it very early on x86-64. This means it doesn't need
early ioremap et.al. We run it as a core initcall right now.

I hope it's not needed for early setup.

I added a general CONFIG_DMI symbol in case IA64 or someone
else wants to reuse the code later too.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:51 -08:00
Andi Kleen
f46ace6928 [PATCH] x86_64: Add missing newline in IOMMU error message
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:51 -08:00
Jan Beulich
bd9cb64df1 [PATCH] x86_64: fix page fault from show_trace()
The introduction of call_softirq switching to the interrupt stack several
releases earlier resulted in a problem with the code in show_trace, which
assumes that it can pick the previous stack pointer from the end of the
interrupt stack.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:50 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
6e3fbee5f1 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Don't IPI to offline cpus on shutdown
So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?

We don't.

Looking more closely at the bug report the problem here
is that halt -p is called which triggers not a halt but
an attempt to power off.

machine_power_off calls machine_shutdown which calls smp_send_stop.

If pm_power_off is set we should never make it out machine_power_off
to the call of do_exit.  So pm_power_off must not be set in this case.
When pm_power_off is not set we expect machine_power_off to devolve
into machine_halt.

So how do we fix this?

Playing too much with smp_send_stop is dangerous because it
must also be safe to be called from panic.

It looks like the obviously correct fix is to only call
machine_shutdown when pm_power_off is defined.  Doing
that will make Andi's assumption about not scheduling
true and generally simplify what must be supported.

This turns machine_power_off into a noop like machine_halt
when pm_power_off is not defined.

If the expected behavior is that sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF)
becomes sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT) if pm_power_off is NULL
this is not quite a comprehensive fix as we pass a different parameter
to the reboot notifier and we set system_state to a different value
before calling device_shutdown().

Unfortunately any fix more comprehensive I can think of is not
obviously correct.  The core problem is that there is no architecture
independent way to detect if machine_power will become a noop, without
calling it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:50 -08:00
Zwane Mwaikambo
329d400f47 [PATCH] x86_64/i386: Remove preempt disable calls in lowlevel IPI
I noticed that some lowlevel send_IPI_mask helpers had a hotplug/preempt
race whereupon the cpu_online_map was read before disabling preemption;

...
cpumask_t mask = cpu_online_map;
int cpu = get_cpu();
cpu_clear(cpu, mask);
...

But then i realised that there is no need for these lowlevel functions to
be going through all this trouble when all the callers are already made
hotplug/preempt safe.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:57 -08:00
Shaohua Li
73ca5358aa [PATCH] x86_64: increase MCE bank counts
There is one CPU here whose MCE bank count is 6. This patch increases
x86_64's MCE bank count.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:57 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
f2ecfab91c [PATCH] x86_64: another mb() for smpboot.c
The following is probably a good idea given that the atomic_set() isn't
a barrier here either.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:56 -08:00
Jan Beulich
b556b35e98 [PATCH] x86_64: Move int 3 handler to debug stack and allow to increase it.
This
- switches the INT3 handler to run on an IST stack (to cope with
  breakpoints set by a kernel debugger on places where the kernel's
  %gs base hasn't been set up, yet); the IST stack used is shared with
  the INT1 handler's
[AK: this also allows setting a kprobe on the interrupt/exception entry
points]
- allows nesting of INT1/INT3 handlers so that one can, with a kernel
  debugger, debug (at least) the user-mode portions of the INT1/INT3
  handling; the nesting isn't actively enabled here since a kernel-
  debugger-free kernel doesn't need it

Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:13 -08:00
Andi Kleen
ed8388a5d9 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't confuse apic=... command line option with apic
Previously apic was foced with apic=logopt was specified.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:13 -08:00
Andi Kleen
7c0ac555b0 [PATCH] x86_64: Dont't disable early PCI scan with apic
It might be still needed for non APIC related issues.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
3f98bc4991 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Update AMD CPUID flags
Print bits for RDTSCP, SVM, CR8-LEGACY.

Also now print power flags on i386 like x86-64 always did.
This will add a new line in the 386 cpuinfo, but that shouldn't
be an issue - did that in the past too and I haven't heard
of any breakage.

I shrunk some of the fields in the i386 cpuinfo_x86 to chars
to make up for the new int "x86_power" field. Overall it's
smaller than before.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
39b3a79105 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Generalize X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC flag
Define it for i386 too.

This is a synthetic flag that signifies that the CPU's TSC runs
at a constant P state invariant frequency.

Fix up the logic on x86-64/i386 to set it on all known CPUs.
Use the AMD defined bit to set it on future AMD CPUs.

Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
2d52ede987 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove enable/disable_hlt
Was only used by the floppy driver to work around some ancient
hardware bug that should never occur on any 64bit system.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
f62a91f691 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't reserve hotplug CPUs by default
Most users don't need it so no need to waste memory.
This means an user has to specify the appropiate number of
hotplug CPUs on the command line with additional_cpus=...
or fix their BIOS to follow the convention in
Documentation/x86-64/cpu-hotplug-spec

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:11 -08:00
Andi Kleen
636aab5ce3 [PATCH] x86_64: No need to remove NT during CPU setup
head.S already clears EFLAGS completely. Following an i386 patch from
Zachary Amsden.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:11 -08:00
Jan Beulich
505cc4e1d6 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unprotected iret
Make sure no iret can fault without attached recovery code.
Cannot happen in the normal case, but might be useful
with kernel debuggers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jan Beulich
eca37c18be [PATCH] x86_64: Clean up double fault handling
Since a double fault always implies that kernel data structures are
corrupt, this fault should neither be handed to user mode handling,
nor should the handler allow resuming the faulting code stream (since
architecturally this isn't a fault, but an abort).

Note that this slightly depends on the previously submitted patch
adjusting the prototype of notify_die() (a compiler warning will result
without that other patch).

AK: Removed obsolete CONFIG_CHECKING code, added comments

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jan Beulich
6e3f361781 [PATCH] x86_64: make trap information available to die notification handlers
This adjusts things so that handlers of the die() notifier will have
sufficient information about the trap currently being handled. It also
adjusts the notify_die() prototype to (again) match that of i386.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jan Beulich
5c617cfa64 [PATCH] x86_64: Removing unused function die_if_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jan Beulich
0a52158821 [PATCH] x86_64: fix bound check IDT gate
Other than apparently commonly assumed, the bound instruction does not
require the corresponding IDT entry to have DPL 3.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jan Beulich
6e0c47ede7 [PATCH] x86_64: Separate CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
As a follow-up to the introduction of CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO, this
separates the generation of frame unwind information for x86-64 from
that of full debug information.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Andi Kleen
130951ccb1 [PATCH] x86_64: Support constant TSC feature in future AMD CPUs.
Based on the documentation recently posted by Richard Brunner.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:09 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
a941564458 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (arch/)
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
eb3a72921c [PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe
There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit
on some different cpu.  In this case probe handlers can't find a matching
probe instance related to break address.  In this case we need to read the
original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3
instruction and recover safely.

Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in
case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race.

Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:12 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0498b63504 [PATCH] kprobes: fix build breakage
The following patch (against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3) fixes a kprobes build break
due to changes introduced in the kprobe locking in 2.6.15-rc5-mm3.  In
addition, the patch reverts back the open-coding of kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy
e597c2984c [PATCH] kprobes: arch_remove_kprobe
Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and
powerpc.  All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a
dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file.

This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with
#define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s)	do { } while(0)

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
f709b12234 [PATCH] kprobes-changed-from-using-spinlock-to-mutex fix
Based on some feedback from Oleg Nesterov, I have made few changes to
previously posted patch.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy
49a2a1b83b [PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
7ff92053dd [PATCH] don't include ioctl32.h in drivers
These days ioctl32.h is only used for communication of fs/compat.c and
fs/compat_ioctl.c and doesn't contain anything of interest to drivers.

Remove inclusion in various drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:34 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
4ae362be50 [PATCH] kdump: read previous kernel's memory
- Moving the crash_dump.c file to arch dependent part as kmap_atomic_pfn is
  specific to i386 and highmem may not exist in other archs.

- Use ioremap for x86_64 to map the previous kernel memory.

- In copy_oldmem_page(), we now directly copy to the user/kernel buffer and
  avoid the unneccesary copy to a kmalloc'd page.

Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:28 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
ec9ce0dbaa [PATCH] kdump: x86_64 save cpu registers upon crash
- Saving the cpu registers of all cpus before booting in to the crash
  kernel.

- crash_setup_regs will save the registers of the cpu on which panic has
  occured.  One of the concerns ppc64 folks raised is that after capturing the
  register states, one should not pop the current call frame and push new one.
   Hence it has been inlined.  More call frames later get pushed on to stack
  (machine_crash_shutdown() and machine_kexec()), but one will not want to
  backtrace those.

- Not very sure about the CFI annotations.  With this patch I am getting
  decent backtrace with gdb.  Assuming, compiler has generated enough
  debugging information for crash_kexec().  Coding crash_setup_regs() in pure
  assembly makes it tricky because then it can not be inlined and we don't
  want to return back after capturing register states we don't want to pop
  this call frame.

- Saving the non-panicing cpus registers will be done in the NMI handler
  while shooting down them in machine_crash_shutdown.

- Introducing CRASH_DUMP option in Kconfig for x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:28 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
cffe632a25 [PATCH] kdump: x86_64 kexec on panic
)

From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- Implementing the machine_crash_shutdown for x86_64 which will be called by
  crash_kexec (called in case of a panic, sysrq etc.).  Here we do things
  similar to i386.  Disable the interrupts, shootdown the cpus and shutdown
  LAPIC and IOAPIC.

Changes in this version:

- As the Eric's APIC initialization patches are reverted back, reintroducing
  LAPIC and IOAPIC shutdown.

- Added some comments on CPU hotplug, modified code as suggested by Andi
  kleen.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:27 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
aac04b32f3 [PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the
  crashed kernel.  This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools
  to capture kernel.

Changes in this version :

- Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:27 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
69cda7b1f0 [PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add memmmap command line option
)

From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- This patch introduces the memmap option for x86_64 similar to i386.

- memmap=exactmap enables setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified
  by the user.

Changes in this version:

- Used e820_end_of_ram() to find the max_pfn as suggested by Andi kleen.

- removed PFN_UP & PFN_DOWN macros

- Printing the user defined map also.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <nharipra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:27 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
cc57165874 [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
  in elf note format.  So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
  statically for NR_CPUS.

- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
  It uses alloc_percpu() interface.  This should lead to better memory usage.

- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.

- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
  dependent portion to architecture independent portion.  Now crash_notes is
  architecture independent.  The whole idea is that size of memory to be
  allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
  allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
2a10e0b28b [PATCH] move rtc_interrupt() prototype to rtc.h
This patch moves the rtc_interrupt() prototype to rtc.h and removes the
prototypes from C files.

It also renames static rtc_interrupt() functions in
arch/arm/mach-integrator/time.c and arch/sh64/kernel/time.c to avoid compile
problems.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:47 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
22fc6eccbf [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros
____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp is currently used to align critical structures
and avoid false sharing.  It uses per-arch L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX and people find
L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX useless.

However, we have been using ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp to align
structures on the internode cacheline size.  As per Andi's suggestion,
following patch kills ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp and introduces
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, which defaults to L1_CACHE_SHIFT for all arches.
Arches needing L3/Internode cacheline alignment can define
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT in the arch asm/cache.h.  Patch replaces
____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp with ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp

With this patch, L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX can be killed

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
Shaohua Li
1fa744e6e9 [PATCH] cpu hotplug/x86_64: disable interrupt in play_dead
With physical CPU hotplug, the CPU is hot removed and it should not receive
any interrupts.  Disabling interrupt is much safer.  This basically is what we
do in ia64 & x86.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:39 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
bb152f5312 [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures const
Mark some key kernel datastructures readonly.  This patch was previously
posted on Jun 28th but was back then not merged because nothing was enforcing
rodata anyway..  well that changed now :)

Patch by Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> and Dave Jones
<davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0356dbb7fe Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2006-01-04 16:21:26 -08:00
john stultz
fd4954714e [PATCH] x86_64: Fix collision between pmtimer and pit/hpet
On systems that do not support the HPET legacy functions (basically the IBM
x460, but there could be others), in time_init() we accidentally fall into a
PM timer conditional and set the vxtime_hz value to the PM timer's frequency.
We then use this value with the HPET for timekeeping.

This patch (which mimics the behavior in time_init_gtod) corrects the
collision.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 22:31:16 -08:00
Shaohua Li
5e9ef02ec0 [PATCH] i386/x86-64 disable LAPIC completely for offline CPU
Disabling LAPIC timer isn't sufficient.  In some situations, such as we
enabled NMI watchdog, there is still unexpected interrupt (such as NMI)
invoked in offline CPU.  This also avoids offline CPU receives spurious
interrupt and anything similar.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 22:31:16 -08:00
Andi Kleen
68e1889112 [PATCH] x86_64: Make sure hpet_address is 0 when any part of HPET initialization fails
Otherwise TSC->HPET fallback could see incorrect state and crash later.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 22:31:16 -08:00