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Eric W. Biederman
36c4fd23cc [PATCH] x86_64 machine_kexec: Cleanup inline assembly.
In an uncensored copy of code from i386 to x86_64 I wound up
with inline assembly with the wrong constraints.  Use input
constraints instead of output constraints.

So I know the assembler will do the right thing specify the size
of the operand lidtq and lgdtq instead of just lidt and lgdt.

Make load_segments use an input constraint, and delete the macro fun.
Without having to reload %cs like I do on i386 this code is noticeably
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 12:17:27 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
8c56ac3f3b [PATCH] x86_64: fix cpu_to_node setup for sparse apic_ids
While booting with SMT disabled in bios, when using acpi srat to setup
cpu_to_node[], sparse apic_ids create problems.

Without this patch, intel x86_64 boxes with hyperthreading disabled in the
bios (and which rely on srat for numa setup) endup having incorrect values in
cpu_to_node[] arrays, causing sched domains to be built incorrectly etc.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5a7b90137d [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in k8-bus.c
arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c: In function `fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask':
arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c:32: warning: unused variable `printed'

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
ef6e525393 [PATCH] x86_64: Use msleep in smpboot.c
Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() to guarantee the task delays as
expected.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.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>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
07291d431c [PATCH] x86_64: Fix SRAT handling on non dual core systems
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
ed6b676ca8 [PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in local_bh_enable()
This avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains.
i386 does this too.

TOADD CFI annotation

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3829ee6b1b [PATCH] x86_64: Small assembly improvements
Save a byte here and there.  Ultimatively useless, but these things always
catch my eyes when reading the code so just fix them for now.

Also I got at least one patch fixing of them already, which gives a good
excuse.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3ba80e7595 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unnecessary include in fault.c
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
2275cfa8bc [PATCH] x86_64: Icecream has no way of detecting assembler-level includes
Icecream preprocesses c sources locally, and sends the result off to a remote
host for compiling.  It does not recognize includes at assembler level.  The
fix is to put the assemberincludes an a separate .s file, which will always be
assembled locally.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
f8d311939f [PATCH] x86_64: Support more than 8 cores on AMD systems
Use physical mode instead of logical mode to address more CPUs.  This is also
used in the CPU hotplug case to avoid a race.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
37a47e65fa [PATCH] x86_64: Remove the broadcast options that were added for cpuhotplug
Will be obsolete with physflat.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5f68c1388a [PATCH] x86_64: Remove IA32_* build tools in Makefile
Not used anymore since quite some time. Just uses -m32 instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
91c6d40094 [PATCH] x86_64: Create per CPU machine check sysfs directories
This patch will create machinecheck sysdev directories per CPU.  All of the
cpus still share the same ctl banks.  When compiled with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU,
it will also bring up/down sysdev directories as cpus go up/down.  I have
tested the patch along with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU option on in 2.6.13-rc1 kernel.

Minor changes by AK: remove useless unload function

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
69cb62eb6d [PATCH] x86_64: Print a boot message for hotplug memory zones
From: Keith Manning

Print a boot message for hotplug memory zones

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Keith Mannthey
b684664fd4 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix overflow in NUMA hash function setup
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a54649b801 [PATCH] x86_64: Improve CONFIG_GART_IOMMU description and make it default y
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c853cc7e79 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in delay.c
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a940199f20 [PATCH] x86_64: Some cleanup in setup64.c
Minor cleanup.

Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix
indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc.

I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed
init/main.c to use it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
de04f3220b [PATCH] x86_64: Clarify Booting processor ... message
No need to print kernel addresses there and clarify what the APIC-ID is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3019e8ebe6 [PATCH] x86_64: Minor clean up to CPU setup - use smp_processor_id instead of custom hack
Does not change any semantics because numa_add_cpu checks for CPU 0 anyways.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
61b1b2d023 [PATCH] x86_64: Move cpu_present/possible_map parsing earlier
Various code needs this information now before the actual SMP bootup.  Instead
of computing it on the fly while booting the other CPUs set it up now while
initial MPtable/MADT parsing.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
acc7b6f01c [PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5df3574ec0 [PATCH] x86_64: Always ack IPIs even on errors
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
2a16a3007d [PATCH] x86_64: cpu hotplug changes kills nmi watchdog
When the x86_64 cpu hotplug changes went in it added a check in
default_do_nmi() which kills NMI delivery on any CPU but the BSP.

The NMI watchdog is brought up quite some time before the online bit is set
in num_online_cpus so this won't work very well.  The nmi watchdogs on cpus
that are not BSP will never be reprogrammed and no NMIs.

Why was this check added? How does an offlined cpu receive an NMI?

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Olaf Hering
44456d37b5 [PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string
turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some
warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:08 -07:00
Andi Kleen
54264911ce [PATCH] x86_64: fix SMP boot lockup on some machines
Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids don't start with
0

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
9e566d8bd6 [PATCH] x86_64 fsnotify build fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 21:48:54 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0963aba54a [PATCH] x86_64 sync machine_power_off with i386
i386 machine_power_off was disabling the local apic
and all of it's users wanted to be on the boot cpu.
So call machine_shutdown which places us on the boot
cpu and disables the apics.  This keeps us in sync
and reduces the number of cases we need to worry about in
the power management code.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:45 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
62b3a04d75 [PATCH] x86_64: Implemenent machine_emergency_restart
It is not safe to call set_cpus_allowed() in interrupt
context and disabling the apics is complicated code.
So unconditionally skip machine_shutdown in machine_emergency_reboot
on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7c9a90073c [PATCH] x86_64: Fix reboot_force
We only want to shutdown the apics if reboot_force
is not specified.  Be we are doing this both
in machine_shutdown which is called unconditionally
and if (!reboot_force).  So simply call machine_shutdown
if (!reboot_force).  It looks like something
went weird with merging some of the kexec patches for
x86_64, and caused this.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
59586e5a26 [PATCH] Don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, or machine_power_off.
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine
specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules
have no business messing with.  Usually code should be calling
kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or
emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart,
machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Robert Love
725b38ab54 [PATCH] inotify: add x86-64 syscall entries
Add inotify syscall entries to x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 13:37:22 -07:00
Robert Love
d25cb934b0 [PATCH] inotify: add missing hook to sys32_open
Add missing fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open().

Add fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open() on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 13:37:22 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B
9fb1759a31 [PATCH] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
A malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000.  During
exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is
not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not
freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page.

Check the return value and free the vma incase of failure.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 22:56:11 -07:00
Andrew Morton
d312ceda56 [PATCH] x86_64: section alignment fix
This is the second time this has happened: inserting a new section requires
that we adjust the arithmetic which is used to calculate the vsyscall page's
offset.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:00:59 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
d5950b4355 [NET]: add a top-level Networking menu to *config
Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving
net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers
menu and up on the top-level where they belong.

To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before
drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been
implemented for all architectures.

Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found
in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25
are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new
networking menu item.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11 21:03:49 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
Shaohua Li
3b520b238e [PATCH] MTRR suspend/resume cleanup
There has been some discuss about solving the SMP MTRR suspend/resume
breakage, but I didn't find a patch for it.  This is an intent for it.  The
basic idea is moving mtrr initializing into cpu_identify for all APs (so it
works for cpu hotplug).  For BP, restore_processor_state is responsible for
restoring MTRR.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:42 -07:00
Andreas Steinmetz
a2a892a236 [CRYPTO] Add x86_64 asm AES
Implementation:
===============
The encrypt/decrypt code is based on an x86 implementation I did a while
ago which I never published. This unpublished implementation does
include an assembler based key schedule and precomputed tables. For
simplicity and best acceptance, however, I took Gladman's in-kernel code
for table generation and key schedule for the kernel port of my
assembler code and modified this code to produce the key schedule as
required by my assembler implementation. File locations and Kconfig are
kept similar to the i586 AES assembler implementation.
It may seem a little bit strange to use 32 bit I/O and registers in the
assembler implementation but this gives the best code size. My
implementation takes one instruction more per round compared to
Gladman's x86 assembler but it doesn't require any stack for local
variables or saved registers and it is less serialized than Gladman's
code.
Note that all comparisons to Gladman's code were done after my code was
implemented. I did only use FIPS PUB 197 for the implementation so my
implementation is independent work.
If anybody has a better assembler solution for x86_64 I'll be pleased to
have my code replaced with the better solution.

Testing:
========
The implementation passes the in-kernel crypto testing module and I'm
running it without any problems on my laptop where it is mainly used for
dm-crypt.

Microbenchmark:
===============
The microbenchmark was done in userspace with similar compile flags as
used during kernel compile.
Encrypt/decrypt is about 35% faster than the generic C implementation.
As the generic C as well as my assembler implementation are both table
I don't really expect that there is much room for further
improvements though I'll be glad to be corrected here.
The key schedule is about 5% slower than the generic C implementation.
This is due to the fact that some more work has to be done in the key
schedule routine to fit the schedule to the assembler implementation.

Code Size:
==========
Encrypt and decrypt are together about 2.1 Kbytes smaller than the
generic C implementation which is important with regard to L1 cache
usage. The key schedule routine is about 100 bytes larger than the
generic C implementation.

Data Size:
==========
There's no difference in data size requirements between the assembler
implementation and the generic C implementation.

License:
========
Gladmans's code is dual BSD/GPL whereas my assembler code is GPLv2 only
(I'm  not going to change the license for my code). So I had to change
the module license for the x86_64 aes module from 'Dual BSD/GPL' to
'GPL' to reflect the most restrictive license within the module.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-06 13:55:00 -07:00
Rusty Lynch
6772926bef [PATCH] kprobes: fix namespace problem and sparc64 build
The following renames arch_init, a kprobes function for performing any
architecture specific initialization, to arch_init_kprobes in order to
cleanup the namespace.

Also, this patch adds arch_init_kprobes to sparc64 to fix the sparc64 kprobes
build from the last return probe patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-05 19:19:00 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
306e440daf [PATCH] x86: i8253/i8259A lock cleanup
Introduce proper declarations for i8253_lock and i8259A_lock.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-30 08:45:10 -07:00
Greg KH
8644d2a42b Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2005-06-27 22:07:56 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1cde8a1681 [PATCH] PCI: use the MCFG table to properly access pci devices (x86-64)
Now that we have access to the whole MCFG table, let's properly use it
for all pci device accesses (as that's what it is there for, some boxes
don't put all the busses into one entry.)

If, for some reason, the table is incorrect, we fallback to the "old
style" of mmconfig accesses, namely, we just assume the first entry in
the table is the one for us, and blindly use it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27 21:52:48 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
545493917d [PATCH] PCI: add proper MCFG table parsing to ACPI core.
This patch is the first step in properly handling the MCFG PCI table.
It defines the structures properly, and saves off the table so that the
pci mmconfig code can access it.  It moves the parsing of the table a
little later in the boot process, but still before the information is
needed.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27 21:52:47 -07:00
Rusty Lynch
ba8af12f43 [PATCH] Return probe redesign: x86_64 specific changes
The following patch contains the x86_64 specific changes for the new
return probe design.  Changes include:
 * Removing the architecture specific functions for querying a return probe
   instance off a stack address
 * Complete rework onf arch_prepare_kretprobe() and trampoline_probe_handler()
 * Removing trampoline_post_handler()
 * Adding arch_init() so that now we handle registering the return probe
   trampoline instead of kernel/kprobes.c doing it

NOTE:
Note that with this new design, the dependency on calculating a pointer to
the task off the stack pointer no longer exist (resolving the problem of
interruption stacks as pointed out in the original feedback to this port.)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:23:53 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
9ec4b1f356 [PATCH] kprobes: fix single-step out of line - take2
Now that PPC64 has no-execute support, here is a second try to fix the
single step out of line during kprobe execution.  Kprobes on x86_64 already
solved this problem by allocating an executable page and using it as the
scratch area for stepping out of line.  Reuse that.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:23:52 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
ffaa8bd6c9 [PATCH] seccomp: tsc disable
I believe at least for seccomp it's worth to turn off the tsc, not just for
HT but for the L2 cache too.  So it's up to you, either you turn it off
completely (which isn't very nice IMHO) or I recommend to apply this below
patch.

This has been tested successfully on x86-64 against current cogito
repository (i686 compiles so I didn't bother testing ;).  People selling
the cpu through cpushare may appreciate this bit for a peace of mind.

There's no way to get any timing info anymore with this applied
(gettimeofday is forbidden of course).  The seccomp environment is
completely deterministic so it can't be allowed to get timing info, it has
to be deterministic so in the future I can enable a computing mode that
does a parallel computing for each task with server side transparent
checkpointing and verification that the output is the same from all the 2/3
seller computers for each task, without the buyer even noticing (for now
the verification is left to the buyer client side and there's no
checkpointing, since that would require more kernel changes to track the
dirty bits but it'll be easy to extend once the basic mode is finished).

Eliminating a cold-cache read of the cr4 global variable will save one
cacheline during the tlb flush while making the code per-cpu-safe at the
same time.  Thanks to Mikael Pettersson for noticing the tlb flush wasn't
per-cpu-safe.

The global tlb flush can run from irq (IPI calling do_flush_tlb_all) but
it'll be transparent to the switch_to code since the IPI won't make any
change to the cr4 contents from the point of view of the interrupted code
and since it's now all per-cpu stuff, it will not race.  So no need to
disable irqs in switch_to slow path.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:11:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2031d0f586 Merge Christoph's freeze cleanup patch 2005-06-25 17:16:53 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
3e1d1d28d9 [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:

   frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
   freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
   freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
   thaw_process(process)	Restart process
   frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now

2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
   kernel sources except sched.h

3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver

4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.

5. Some whitespace cleanup

6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
   cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
   PF_FROZEN).

This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 17:10:13 -07:00
Domen Puncer
f45494480f [PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups
Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and
arch/x86_64.  This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous
typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current
boot sector code.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:02 -07:00