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Zachary Amsden
7c4cb60e5b [PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fix 
Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a
hypervisor.  This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot
data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in
VMware.

Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT
(which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is
allocated dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
Zachary Amsden
251e6912df [PATCH] x86: add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt 
Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt.  Callee must already
have the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 2005-10-30 17:37:12 -08:00
Zachary Amsden
f2f30ebca6 [PATCH] x86: introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT 
Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT.  This is required
for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly
written.

Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to
test limits as well.

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com)
 * This is licensed under the GPL.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <asm/ldt.h>
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#define __KERNEL__
#include <asm/page.h>

void main(void)
{
        struct user_desc desc;
        char *code;
        unsigned long long tsc;

        code = (char *)mmap(0, 8192, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                 MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        desc.entry_number = 0;
        desc.base_addr = code;
        desc.limit = 1;
        desc.seg_32bit = 1;
        desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
        desc.read_exec_only = 0;
        desc.limit_in_pages = 1;
        desc.seg_not_present = 0;
        desc.useable = 1;
        if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
                perror("modify_ldt");
        }
        printf("code base is 0x%08x\n", (unsigned)code);
        code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
        code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
        code[0x1000] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
        __asm__ __volatile("lcall $7,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));
        printf("TSC is 0x%016llx\n", tsc);
}

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 2005-09-05 00:06:13 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
2f2984eb4a [PATCH] i386: generate better code around descriptor update and access functions 
GCC can generate better code around descriptor update and access functions
when there is not an explicit "eax" register constraint.

Testing: You won't boot if this is messed up, since the TSS descriptor will be
corrupted.  Verified the assembler and booted.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
4d37e7e3fd [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task register management 
i386 inline assembler cleanup.

This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management.  Also,
it is possible to improve assembler generation in two cases; savesegment
may store the value in a register instead of a memory location, which
allows GCC to optimize stack variables into registers, and MOV MEM, SEG
is always a 16-bit write to memory, making the casting in math-emu
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00