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509 Commits

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Al Viro
57eafdc22c [PATCH] amd64: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Al Viro
bb049232fa [PATCH] amd64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Al Viro
e4f17c436f [PATCH] amd64: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
983d5dbdb2 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix SMP bootup with CONFIG_KDUMP enabled
o This fix was posted for i386 long back. Posting it for x86_64.

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110380103229830&w=2

o This patch fixes the problem of secondary cpus boot up. This situation
  is faced when kernel is built for default locations like 16MB and
  onwards. In this configuration, only primary cpu (BP) comes and
  secondary cpus don't boot.

o Problem occurs because in trampoline code, lgdt is not able to load the
  GDT as it happens to be situated beyond 16MB. This is due to the fact
  that cpu is still in real mode and default operand size is 16bit.

o This patch uses lgdtl instead of lgdt to force operand size to 32
  instead of 16.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:09:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
0d9cb75f2f [PATCH] x86_64: Don't confuse noapic with noapictimer
Handling common prefixes is tricky.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:04 -08:00
Jan Beulich
256ddb01eb [PATCH] x86_64: don't copy command line twice
... reducing the amount of changes Xen has to do.

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 19:05:04 -08:00
Jan Beulich
2a2d5924c2 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: make setup_early_printk() usage consistent
The explicit and implicit calls to setup_early_printk() were passing
inconsistent arguments.

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 19:05:04 -08:00
Andi Kleen
6c5acd160a [PATCH] x86_64: Allow kernel page tables upto the end of memory
Previously they would be only allocated before the kernel text at
1MB.  This limited the maximum supported memory to 128GB.
Now allow the e820 allocator to put them everywhere. Try
to put them beyond any DMA zones to avoid filling them up.
This should free some GFP_DMA memory compared to earlier kernels.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:03 -08:00
Andi Kleen
0a9c3ee769 [PATCH] x86_64: Use safe_smp_processor_id in MCE handler
hard_smp_processor_id would return the local APIC id instead
of the Linux processor id. On big systems they are often
not identical. safe_smp_processor_id is just a wrapper
around it that does the necessary conversions.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:03 -08:00
Andi Kleen
11a8e778c4 [PATCH] x86_64: Some housekeeping in local APIC code
Remove support for obsolete hardware and cleanup.

- Remove checks for non integrated APICs
- Replace apic_write_around with apic_write.
- Remove apic_read_around
- Remove APIC version reads used by old workarounds
- Remove old workaround for Simics
- Fix indentation

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:03 -08:00
Jan Beulich
5f1d189f8a [PATCH] x86_64: Display meaningful part of filename during BUG()
When building in a separate objtree, file names produced by BUG() & Co. can
get fairly long; printing only the first 50 characters may thus result in
(almost) no useful information. The following change makes it so that rather
the last 50 characters of the filename get printed.

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 19:05:03 -08:00
Jan Beulich
1b2f630450 [PATCH] x86_64: Reduce screen space needed by stack trace
Especially under Xen, where the console cannot be adjusted to more than 25
lines, it is fairly important that the information displayed during a panic
is as compact as possible. Below adjustments work towards that.

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 19:05:03 -08:00
Jan Beulich
5329e13d0b [PATCH] x86_64: Fix get_cmos_time()
Due to a broken condition, the body of the loop that is intended to wait for
the Update-In-Progress bit to get set and then cleared again was never
entered; in fact, the entire loop was optimized out by the compiler. Here is
a change to fix the condition (and to also move the initialization of locals
out of the spin lock protected region).

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 19:05:03 -08:00
Andi Kleen
bdf2b1c9fe [PATCH] x86_64: No need to export get_cmos_time anymore
It was only needed for APM

Pointed out by Jan Beulich

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen
dd52d642db [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused AMD K8 C stepping flag
X86_FEATURE_K8_C was a synthetic Linux CPUID flag that was used for some
code optimizations in Opteron C stepping or later. But support for pre C
stepping optimizations has been removed, so this isn't needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:02 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
77a75333a3 [PATCH] x86_64: sparse warning cleanups
Fix some trivial sparse warnings in x86_64 code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen
cf05013286 [PATCH] x86_64: Move NUMA page_to_pfn/pfn_to_page functions out of line
Saves about ~18K .text in defconfig

There would be more optimization potential, but that's for later.

Suggestion originally from Bill Irwin.
Fix from Andy Whitcroft.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Andi Kleen
cdc4b9c019 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused segments
They used to be used by the reboot code, but not anymore.

Noticed by Jan Beulich

Cc: JBeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
af5b980424 [PATCH] x86_64: ioapic virtual wire mode fix
o Currently, during kexec reboot, IOAPIC is re-programmed back to virtual
  wire mode if there was an i8259 connected to it. This enables getting
  timer interrupts in second kernel in legacy mode.

o After putting into virtual wire mode, IOAPIC delivers the i8259 interrupts
  to CPU0. This works well for kexec but not for kdump as we might crash
  on a different CPU and second kernel will not see timer interrupts.

o This patch modifies the redirection table entry to deliver the timer
  interrupts to the cpu we are rebooting (instead of hardcoding to zero).
  This ensures that second kernel receives timer interrupts even on a
  non-boot cpu.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
79f12614a6 [PATCH] x86_64: Inclusion of ScaleMP vSMP architecture patches - vsmp_arch
Introduce vSMP arch to the kernel.

This patch:
1. Adds CONFIG_X86_VSMP
2. Adds machine specific macros for local_irq_disabled, local_irq_enabled
   and irqs_disabled
3. Writes to the vSMP CTL device to indicate kernel compiled with CONFIG_VSMP

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
1008fddcae [PATCH] x86_64: Memorize location of i8259 for reboots.
Currently we attempt to restore virtual wire mode on reboot, which only
works if we can figure out where the i8259 is connected.  This is very
useful when we are kexec another kernel and likely helpful to an peculiar
BIOS that make assumptions about how the system is setup.

Since the acpi MADT table does not provide the location where the i8259 is
connected we have to look at the hardware to figure it out.

Most systems have the i8259 connected the local apic of the cpu so won't be
affected but people running Opteron and some serverworks chipsets should be
able to use kexec now.

In addition this patch removes the hard coded assumption that the io_apic
that delivers isa interrups is always known to the kernel as io_apic 0.
There does not appear to be anything to guarantee that assumption is true.

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

  A minor fix to the patch which remembers the location of where i8259 is
  connected.  Now counter i has been replaced by apic.  counter i is having
  some junk value which was leading to non-detection of i8259 connected to
  IOAPIC.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
60923df35e [PATCH] x86_64: allow setting RF in EFLAGS
Setting RF (resume flag) allows a debugger to resume execution after a code
breakpoint without tripping the breakpoint again.  It is reset by the CPU
after executing one instruction.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
100c0e3685 [PATCH] x86_64: "invalid operand" -> "invalid opcode"
The manual says Int 6 is "invalid opcode", not "invalid operand".

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Luiz Fernando Capitulino
6820940785 [PATCH] x86_64: Sparse warnings fix.
Fixes the following sparse warnings:

arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:321:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:410:41: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Andi Kleen
915f34e20c [PATCH] x86_64: Remove useless KDB vector
It was set as an NMI, but the NMI bit always forces an interrupt
to end up at vector 2. So it was never used. Remove.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Andi Kleen
5b22a38551 [PATCH] x86_64: Tell user to enable GART_IOMMU when needed
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:59 -08:00
Andi Kleen
7554c3f0e3 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix warning in nmi.c on uniprocessor kernels
Fix

  CC      arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.o
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c: In function ???check_nmi_watchdog???:
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:155: warning: statement with no effect

on Uniprocessor builds.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:59 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
365ba9179f [PATCH] x86_64: Allocate PDAs in the local node
Patch uses a static PDA array early at boot and reallocates processor PDA
with node local memory when kmalloc is ready, just before pda_init.
The boot_cpu_pda is needed since the cpu_pda is used even before pda_init for
that cpu is called (to set the static per-cpu areas offset table etc)

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 19:04:59 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
df79efde82 [PATCH] x86_64: Node local pda take 2 -- cpu_pda preparation
Helper patch to change cpu_pda users to use macros to access cpu_pda
instead of the cpu_pda[] array.

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 19:04:59 -08:00
Ravikiran Thirumalai
05b3cbd8bb [PATCH] x86_64: Early initialization of cpu_to_node
Patch enables early intialization of cpu_to_node.
apicid_to_node is built by reading the SRAT table, from acpi_numa_init with
ACPI_NUMA and k8_scan_nodes with K8_NUMA.
x86_cpu_to_apicid is built by parsing the ACPI MADT table, from acpi_boot_init.
We combine these two tables and setup cpu_to_node.

Early intialization helps the static per_cpu_areas in getting pages from
correct node.

Change since last release:
Do not initialize early init_cpu_to_node for faking node cases.

Patch tested on TYAN dual core 4P board with K8 only, ACPI_NUMA.
Tested on EM64T NUMA. Also tested with numa=off, numa=fake, and  running
a kernel compiled with NUMA on a regular EM64 2 way SMP.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@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 19:04:59 -08:00
Andi Kleen
0b91317e33 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix up white space in time.c
No functional changes.

And remove one redundant prototype.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
2c8bc9446a [PATCH] x86_64: Use standard __always_inline in vsyscall.c
Replacing the old home brewn __force_inline.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
c818a18146 [PATCH] x86_64: On Intel CPUs don't do an additional CPU sync before RDTSC
RDTSC serialization using cpuid is not needed for Intel platforms.
This increases gettimeofday performance.

Cc: vojtech@suse.cz
Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
7f6c5b0469 [PATCH] x86_64: Support alternative() in vsyscalls
The real vsyscall .text addresses are not mapped when the alternative()
replacement runs early, so use some black magic to access them using
the direct mapping.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
737c5c3bde [PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to synchronize the TSC over CPUs on Intel CPUs at boot.
They already do this in hardware and the Linux algorithm
actually adds errors.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:57 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
b9d1e4bd6e [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 write apic id fix
o Apic id is in most significant 8 bits of APIC_ID register. Current code
  is trying to write apic id to least significant 8 bits. This patch fixes
  it.

o This fix enables booting uni kdump capture kernel on a cpu with non-zero
  apic id.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:57 -08:00
Brian Gerst
aea9fca1dc [PATCH] x86_64: Remove duplicate exports
Remove exports that are already exported from the object's source file.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:56 -08:00
Brian Gerst
e3602824cb [PATCH] x86_64: unexport pci_*_consistent
These functions are inlines and shouldn't be exported.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen
4855170f98 [PATCH] x86_64: Make it clear in machine checks that it's an hardware problem
Hopefully the users will take the hint.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
2cbc9ee35c [PATCH] x86_64: Clean up copy_*_user
- Remove optimization for old B stepping Opteron
- Make the fast path for copies with a multiple of eight length faster.
- Minor instruction rearrangement to hopefully avoid a pipeline
stall or two.
- Add comment about errata to consider.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Muli Ben-Yehuda
17a941d854 [PATCH] x86_64: Use function pointers to call DMA mapping functions
AK: I hacked Muli's original patch a lot and there were a lot
of changes - all bugs are probably to blame on me now.
There were also some changes in the fall back behaviour
for swiotlb - in particular it doesn't try to use GFP_DMA
now anymore. Also all DMA mapping operations use the
same core dma_alloc_coherent code with proper fallbacks now.
And various other changes and cleanups.

Known problems: iommu=force swiotlb=force together breaks
                needs more testing.

This patch cleans up x86_64's DMA mapping dispatching code. Right now
we have three possible IOMMU types: AGP GART, swiotlb and nommu, and
in the future we will also have Xen's x86_64 swiotlb and other HW
IOMMUs for x86_64. In order to support all of them cleanly, this
patch:

- introduces a struct dma_mapping_ops with function pointers for each
  of the DMA mapping operations of gart (AMD HW IOMMU), swiotlb
  (software IOMMU) and nommu (no IOMMU).

- gets rid of:

  if (swiotlb)
      return swiotlb_xxx();

- PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS is now checked against the dma_ops being set
This makes swiotlb faster by avoiding double copying in some cases.

Signed-Off-By: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Signed-Off-By: Jon D. Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
8a6fdd3e91 [PATCH] x86_64: Reject SRAT tables that don't cover all memory
Broken BIOS on Iwill 8way systems reports these and it causes the bootmem
allocator to crash. Add a sanity check if all the PXMs in the
SRAT table cover all memory as reported by e820. If the sanity
check fails the SRAT is rejected and the code will fall back
to discover the NUMA topology using the K8 northbridge registers
when applicable.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
95833c83f3 [PATCH] x86_64: Add idle notifiers
This adds a new notifier chain that is called with IDLE_START
when a CPU goes idle and IDLE_END when it goes out of idle.
The context can be idle thread or interrupt context.

Since we cannot rely on MONITOR/MWAIT existing the idle
end check currently has to be done in all interrupt
handlers.

They were originally inspired by the similar s390 implementation.

They have a variety of applications:
- They will be needed for CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
- They can be used for oprofile to fix up the missing time
in idle when performance counters don't tick.
- They can be used for better C state management in ACPI
- They could be used for microstate accounting.

This is just infrastructure so far, no users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
6b050f8075 [PATCH] x86_64: Clean up some printks in NUMA code
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
d18ff47068 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix up coding style in numa.c
No functional changes

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
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
66c581569e [PATCH] x86_64: Convert page fault error codes to symbolic constants.
Much better to deal with these than with the magic numbers.

And remove the comment describing the bits - kernel source
is no replacement for an architecture manual.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:53 -08:00