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Linus Torvalds
a7f16d10b5 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy
  x86: Merge show_regs()
  x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors
  x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements
  x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h
  x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h
  x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers
  x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
  x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
  x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_*
  x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
2010-02-28 10:35:09 -08:00
Brian Gerst
3bef444797 x86: Merge show_regs()
Using kernel_stack_pointer() allows 32-bit and 64-bit versions to
be merged.  This is more correct for 64-bit, since the old %rsp is
always saved on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263397555-27695-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-01-13 09:23:15 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
d015a09298 x86: Use KERN_DEFAULT log-level in __show_regs()
Andrew Morton reported a strange looking kmemcheck warning:

  WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff88004fba6c20)
  0000000000000000310000000000000000000000000000002413000000c9ffff
   u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u

   [<ffffffff810af3aa>] kmemleak_scan+0x25a/0x540
   [<ffffffff810afbcb>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x5b/0xe0
   [<ffffffff8104d0fe>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0
   [<ffffffff81003074>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
   [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The above printout is missing register dump completely. The
problem here is that the output comes from syslog which doesn't
show KERN_INFO log-level messages. We didn't see this before
because both of us were testing on 32-bit kernels which use the
_default_ log-level.

Fix that up by explicitly using KERN_DEFAULT log-level for
__show_regs() printks.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261988819.4641.2.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 09:40:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ab1eebe77d Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: it's stable so lets push it upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15 20:33:28 +01:00
Brian Gerst
df59e7bf43 x86: Merge kernel_thread()
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-10 16:41:31 -08:00
Brian Gerst
f443ff4201 x86: Sync 32/64-bit kernel_thread
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-10 15:55:39 -08:00
Brian Gerst
e840227c14 x86, 32-bit: Use same regs as 64-bit for kernel_thread_helper
The arg should be in %eax, but that is clobbered by the return value
of clone.  The function pointer can be in any register.  Also, don't
push args onto the stack, since regparm(3) is the normal calling
convention now.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-10 15:55:36 -08:00
Brian Gerst
f839bbc5c8 x86: Merge sys_clone
Change 32-bit sys_clone to new PTREGSCALL stub, and merge with 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260403316-5679-7-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-09 16:29:42 -08:00
Brian Gerst
11cf88bd0b x86: Merge sys_execve
Change 32-bit sys_execve to PTREGSCALL3, and merge with 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260403316-5679-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-09 16:28:34 -08:00
Andy Isaacson
814e2c84a7 x86: Factor duplicated code out of __show_regs() into show_regs_common()
Unify x86_32 and x86_64 implementations of __show_regs() header,
standardizing on the x86_64 format string in the process. Also,
32-bit will now call print_modules.

Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091208082942.GA27174@hexapodia.org>
[ v2: resolved conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:17:58 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6ec22f9b03 Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Limit number of per cpu TSC sync messages
  x86: dumpstack, 64-bit: Disable preemption when walking the IRQ/exception stacks
  x86: dumpstack: Clean up the x86_stack_ids[][] initalization and other details
  x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes
  x86: Suppress stack overrun message for init_task
  x86: Fix cpu_devs[] initialization in early_cpu_init()
  x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too
  x86: Minimise printk spew from per-vendor init code
  x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's
  cpumask: Avoid cpumask_t in arch/x86/kernel/apic/nmi.c
  x86: Make sure we also print a Code: line for show_regs()
2009-12-05 15:33:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c2ed69cdc9 Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix a section mismatch in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
  x86: Fixup last users of irq_chip->typename
  x86: Remove BKL from apm_32
  x86: Remove BKL from microcode
  x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in kprobes.c
  x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in kgdb.c
  x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in dumpstack.c
  x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in process_32.c
2009-12-05 15:32:18 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
a489ca355e x86: Make sure we also print a Code: line for show_regs()
show_regs() is called as a mini BUG() equivalent in some places,
specifically for the "scheduling while atomic" case.

Unfortunately right now it does not print a Code: line unlike
a real bug/oops.

This patch changes the x86 implementation of show_regs() so that
it calls the same function as oopses do to print the registers
as well as the Code: line.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091102165915.4a980fc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 16:50:22 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
def3c5d0a3 x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in process_32.c
The way to obtain a kernel-mode stack pointer from a struct pt_regs in
32-bit mode is "subtle": the stack doesn't actually contain the stack
pointer, but rather the location where it would have been marks the
actual previous stack frame.  For clarity, use kernel_stack_pointer()
instead of coding this weirdness explicitly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-12 14:19:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
55e0715f61 Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
  x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED()
  x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
2009-09-14 08:01:28 -07:00
Tejun Heo
bdf977b374 x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
On x86_64, percpu variables current_task and kernel_stack are used for
get_current() and current_thread_info() respectively and thus are
often used close to each other.  Move definition of current_task to
kernel/cpu/common.c right above kernel_stack definition and align it
to cacheline so that they always fall into the same cacheline.  Two
percpu variables defined there together - irq_stack_ptr and irq_count
- are also pretty hot and will benefit from sharing the cacheline.

For consistency, current_task definition for x86_32 is also moved to
kernel/cpu/common.c.

Putting current_task and kernel_stack into the same cacheline was
suggested by Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-04 01:29:34 +09:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2fcddce10f x86-32: make sure clts is batched during context switch
If we're preloading the fpu state during context switch, make sure the clts
happens while we're batching the cpu context update, then do the actual
__math_state_restore once the updates are flushed.

This allows more efficient context switches when running paravirtualized,
as all the hypercalls can be folded together into one.

[ Impact: optimise paravirtual FPU context switch ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-17 13:21:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
eadb8a091b Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
	kernel/Makefile

Semantic conflict:
	arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to
              put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 12:56:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be15f9d63b Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
  xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
  xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
  xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
  xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
  xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
  lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
  xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
  xen: add "capabilities" file
  xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
  xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
  xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
  xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
  xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
  xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
  xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
  xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
  xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
  xen: add irq_from_evtchn
  xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
  xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
  ...
2009-06-10 16:16:27 -07:00
K.Prasad
66cb591729 hw-breakpoints: use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code
This patch enables the use of abstract debug registers in
process-handling routines, according to the new hardware breakpoint
Api.

[ Impact: adapt thread breakpoints handling code to the new breakpoint Api ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:59 +02:00
Amerigo Wang
bf78ad69cd x86: process.c, remove useless headers
<stdarg.h> is not needed by these files, remove them.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090512032956.5040.77055.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12 11:26:32 +02:00
Amerigo Wang
9d62dcdfa6 x86: merge process.c a bit
Merge arch_align_stack() and arch_randomize_brk(), since
they are the same.

Tested on x86_64.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12 11:13:45 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
38f4b8c0da Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/master
* commit 'origin/master': (4825 commits)
  Fix build errors due to CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
  parport: Use the PCI IRQ if offered
  tty: jsm cleanups
  Adjust path to gpio headers
  KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module
  Change KCONFIG name
  tty: Blackin CTS/RTS
  Change hardware flow control from poll to interrupt driven
  Add support for the MAX3100 SPI UART.
  lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100
  serqt: initial clean up pass for tty side
  tty: Use the generic RS485 ioctl on CRIS
  tty: Correct inline types for tty_driver_kref_get()
  splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
  nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp
  nilfs2: introduce secondary super block
  nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments
  nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation
  nilfs2: clean up sketch file
  nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
	arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
	drivers/xen/manage.c
2009-04-07 13:34:16 -07:00
Markus Metzger
2311f0de21 x86, ds: add leakage warning
Add a warning in case a debug store context is not removed before
the task it is attached to is freed.

Remove the old warning at thread exit. It is too early.

Declare the debug store context field in thread_struct unconditionally.

Remove ds_copy_thread() and ds_exit_thread() and do the work directly
in process*.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144601.254472000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:28 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6f2c55b843 Simplify copy_thread()
First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
224101ed69 x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/end
Impact: fix lazy context switch API

Pass the previous and next tasks into the context switch start
end calls, so that the called functions can properly access the
task state (esp in end_context_switch, in which the next task
is not yet completely current).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:36:01 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
7fd7d83d49 x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch
Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes

Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:35:59 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
389d1fb11e x86: unify chunks of kernel/process*.c
With x86-32 and -64 using the same mechanism for managing the
tss io permissions bitmap, large chunks of process*.c are
trivially unifyable, including:

 - exit_thread
 - flush_thread
 - __switch_to_xtra (along with tsc enable/disable)

and as bonus pickups:

 - sys_fork
 - sys_vfork

(Note: asmlinkage expands to empty on x86-64)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
db949bba3c x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switching
Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification

x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps.  x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch.  x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.

This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault.  This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.

However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server.  Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.

This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
bf51935f3e x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
Damien Wyart reported high ksoftirqd CPU usage (20%) on an
otherwise idle system.

The function-graph trace Damien provided:

>   799.521187 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521371 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521555 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521738 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521934 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522068 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522208 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522392 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522575 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522759 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522956 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523074 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523214 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523397 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523579 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523762 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523960 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524079 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524220 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524403 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524587 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524770 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
> [ . . . ]

Shows rcu_check_callbacks() being invoked way too often. It should be called
once per jiffy, and here it is called no less than 22 times in about
3.5 milliseconds, meaning one call every 160 microseconds or so.

Why do we need to call rcu_pending() and rcu_check_callbacks() from the
idle loop of 32-bit x86, especially given that no other architecture does
this?

The following patch removes the call to rcu_pending() and
rcu_check_callbacks() from the x86 32-bit idle loop in order to
reduce the softirq load on idle systems.

Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17 22:47:45 +01:00
Brian Gerst
b12bdaf11f x86: use regparm(3) for passed-in pt_regs pointer
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.

Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-11 14:00:56 -08:00
Brian Gerst
253f29a4ae x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
5c79d2a517 x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs
Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector

Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary
instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary
value for all threads.  Fixing this also exposed the following bugs.

* cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary()

* stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making
  the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value.

Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about
calling boot_init_stack_canary().

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 11:33:49 +01:00
Tejun Heo
60a5317ff0 x86: implement x86_32 stack protector
Impact: stack protector for x86_32

Implement stack protector for x86_32.  GDT entry 28 is used for it.
It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes.
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs
to the stack canary segment on entry.  As %gs is otherwise unused by
the kernel, the canary can be anywhere.  It's defined as a percpu
variable.

x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as
struct pt_regs.  With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the
whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy
back on return thus losing all changed.  For now, -fno-stack-protector
is added to all files which contain those functions.  We definitely
need something better.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:01 +01:00
Tejun Heo
ccbeed3a05 x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32
Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight
        overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit

On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily.  pt_regs
doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary.
In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs
handling optional by doing the followings.

* Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs.

* Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless
  LAZY_GS.  Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL
  even when LAZY_GS.  However, it adds no overhead to common exit path
  and simplifies entry path with error code.

* Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add
  lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS.  The
  lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily.

* Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly.

xen and lguest changes need to be verified.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d9a89a26e0 x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:58 +01:00
Brian Gerst
03d2989df9 x86: remove idle_timestamp from 32bit irq_cpustat_t
Impact: bogus irq_cpustat field removed

idle_timestamp is left over from the removed irqbalance code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-23 11:03:28 +09:00
Brian Gerst
ea9279066d x86-64: Move cpu number from PDA to per-cpu and consolidate with 32-bit.
tj: moved cpu_number definition out of CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
    for voyager.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
6dbde35308 percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
generic percpu methods:

  percpu_read()
  percpu_write()
  percpu_add()
  percpu_sub()
  percpu_and()
  percpu_or()
  percpu_xor()

and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
back to a default implementation)

The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
instead of this sequence:

 return __get_cpu_var(var);

 ffffffff8102ca2b:	48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 	mov    -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
 ffffffff8102ca32:	81
 ffffffff8102ca33:	48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 	mov    $0x59d8,%rax
 ffffffff8102ca3a:	48 8b 04 10          	mov    (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax

We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:

 return percpu_read(var);

 ffffffff8102ca3f:	65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd 	mov    %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax

I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
these new generic percpu primitives.

tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
    * added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
    * made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-16 14:20:31 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
befa9e780d x86: process_32.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup

Fix:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/io.h> instead of <asm/io.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/kdebug.h> instead of <asm/kdebug.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/smp.h> instead of <asm/smp.h>
 ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
 ERROR: trailing whitespace
 ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:WxO)
 ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:OxW)

 total: 7 errors, 4 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 13:23:03 +01:00
Markus Metzger
bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
Markus Metzger
c2724775ce x86, bts: provide in-kernel branch-trace interface
Impact: cleanup

Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 08:08:12 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8b96f01198 tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions
Impact: trace more functions

When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
normal function tracer too.

arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:

I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
"write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
the original return address of the function inside current, we had
crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.

kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:

Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
__kernel_text_address()

To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:44 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
e2ce07c804 x86: __show_registers() and __show_regs() API unification
Currently the low-level function to dump user-passed registers on i386 is
called __show_registers() whereas on x86-64 it's called __show_regs(). Unify
the API to simplify porting of kmemcheck to x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:33:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
365d46dc9b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
2008-10-12 12:37:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00