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Pierre Ossman
795312e763 [PATCH] ISA DMA suspend for i386
Reset the ISA DMA controller into a known state after a suspend.  Primary
concern was reenabling the cascading DMA channel (4).

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:14 -07:00
Benjamin LaHaise
52fdd08903 [PATCH] unify x86/x86-64 semaphore code
This patch moves the common code in x86 and x86-64's semaphore.c into a
single file in lib/semaphore-sleepers.c.  The arch specific asm stubs are
left in the arch tree (in semaphore.c for i386 and in the asm for x86-64).
There should be no changes in code/functionality with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:14 -07:00
Zwane Mwaikambo
4ad8d38342 [PATCH] i386 boottime for_each_cpu broken
for_each_cpu walks through all processors in cpu_possible_map, which is
defined as cpu_callout_map on i386 and isn't initialised until all
processors have been booted. This breaks things which do for_each_cpu
iterations early during boot. So, define cpu_possible_map as a bitmap with
NR_CPUS bits populated. This was triggered by a patch i'm working on which
does alloc_percpu before bringing up secondary processors.

From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>

i386-boottime-for_each_cpu-broken.patch
i386-boottime-for_each_cpu-broken-fix.patch

The SMP version of __alloc_percpu checks the cpu_possible_map before
allocating memory for a certain cpu.  With the above patches the BSP cpuid
is never set in cpu_possible_map which breaks CONFIG_SMP on uniprocessor
machines (as soon as someone tries to dereference something allocated via
__alloc_percpu, which in fact is never allocated since the cpu is not set
in cpu_possible_map).

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.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
d7271b14b2 [PATCH] i386: encapsulate copying of pgd entries
Add a clone operation for pgd updates.

This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages
about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using
memcpy() to duplicate them.  This is both generally good for consistency
and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires explicit
updates to page table entries.

The new function is:

clone_pgd_range(pgd_t *dst, pgd_t *src, int count);

   dst - pointer to pgd range anwhere on a pgd page
   src - ""
   count - the number of pgds to copy.

   dst and src can be on the same page, but the range must not overlap
   and must not cross a page boundary.

Note that I ommitted using this call to copy pgd entries into the
software suspend page root, since this is not technically a live paging
structure, rather it is used on resume from suspend.  CC'ing Pavel in case
he has any feedback on this.

Thanks to Chris Wright for noticing that this could be more optimal in
PAE compiles by eliminating the memset.

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
George Anzinger
748f2edb52 [PATCH] x86 NMI: better support for debuggers
This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system is about to
be taken down.  If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the
system is given a new lease on life.

We also change the nmi watchdog to carry on if die_nmi returns.

This give debug code a chance to a) catch watchdog timeouts and b) possibly
allow the system to continue, realizing that the time out may be due to
debugger activities such as single stepping which is usually done with
"other" cpus held.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.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
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
a520112930 [PATCH] x86: make IOPL explicit
The pushf/popf in switch_to are ONLY used to switch IOPL.  Making this
explicit in C code is more clear.  This pushf/popf pair was added as a
bugfix for leaking IOPL to unprivileged processes when using
sysenter/sysexit based system calls (sysexit does not restore flags).

When requesting an IOPL change in sys_iopl(), it is just as easy to change
the current flags and the flags in the stack image (in case an IRET is
required), but there is no reason to force an IRET if we came in from the
SYSENTER path.

This change is the minimal solution for supporting a paravirtualized Linux
kernel that allows user processes to run with I/O privilege.  Other
solutions require radical rewrites of part of the low level fault / system
call handling code, or do not fully support sysenter based system calls.

Unfortunately, this added one field to the thread_struct.  But as a bonus,
on P4, the fastest time measured for switch_to() went from 312 to 260
cycles, a win of about 17% in the fast case through this performance
critical path.

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 00:06:12 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
0998e4228a [PATCH] x86: privilege cleanup
Privilege checking cleanup.  Originally, these diffs were much greater, but
recent cleanups in Linux have already done much of the cleanup.  I added
some explanatory comments in places where the reasoning behind certain
tests is rather subtle.

Also, in traps.c, we can skip the user_mode check in handle_BUG().  The
reason is, there are only two call chains - one via die_if_kernel() and one
via do_page_fault(), both entering from die().  Both of these paths already
ensure that a kernel mode failure has happened.  Also, the original check
here, if (user_mode(regs)) was insufficient anyways, since it would not
rule out BUG faults from V8086 mode execution.

Saving the %ss segment in show_regs() rather than assuming a fixed value
also gives better information about the current kernel state in the
register dump.

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 00:06:12 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
f2ab446124 [PATCH] x86: more asm cleanups
Some more assembler cleanups I noticed along the way.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:12 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
e7a2ff593c [PATCH] i386: load_tls() fix
Subtle fix: load_TLS has been moved after saving %fs and %gs segments to avoid
creating non-reversible segments.  This could conceivably cause a bug if the
kernel ever needed to save and restore fs/gs from the NMI handler.  It
currently does not, but this is the safest approach to avoiding fs/gs
corruption.  SMIs are safe, since SMI saves the descriptor hidden state.

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
Zachary Amsden
245067d167 [PATCH] i386: cleanup serialize msr
i386 arch cleanup.  Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor
state.  Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr()
is already a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will
keep the semantic the same, since this could be a timing workaround.  As far
as I can tell, this has always been there since the original microcode update
source.

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
4bb0d3ec3e [PATCH] i386: inline asm cleanup
i386 Inline asm cleanup.  Use cr/dr accessor functions.

Also, a potential bugfix.  Also, some CR accessors really should be volatile.
Reads from CR0 (numeric state may change in an exception handler), writes to
CR4 (flipping CR4.TSD) and reads from CR2 (page fault) prevent instruction
re-ordering.  I did not add memory clobber to CR3 / CR4 / CR0 updates, as it
was not there to begin with, and in no case should kernel memory be clobbered,
except when doing a TLB flush, which already has memory clobber.

I noticed that page invalidation does not have a memory clobber.  I can't find
a bug as a result, but there is definitely a potential for a bug here:

#define __flush_tlb_single(addr) \
	__asm__ __volatile__("invlpg %0": :"m" (*(char *) addr))

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
Roland McGrath
2a0694d15d [PATCH] i386: clean up vDSO alignment padding
This makes the vDSO use nops for all its padding around instructions,
rather than sometimes zeros, and nop-pads the end of the area containing
instructions to a 32-byte cache line, to keep text and data in separate
lines.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
252943efcf [PATCH] x86: Add the check for all the cores in a package in cache information
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
911a62d423 [PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs
i386 generic subarchitecture requires explicit dmi strings or command line
to enable bigsmp mode.  The patch below removes that restriction, and uses
bigsmp as soon as it finds more than 8 logical CPUs, Intel processors and
xAPIC support.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
484b90c4b9 [PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)
o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter
  segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and will be
  addressable by early bootup page tables is no longer valid. In kexec on
  panic case parameter segment might well be loaded beyond kernel image and
  might not be addressable by early boot page tables.
o This case might hit in the scenario where user has reserved a chunk of
  memory for second kernel, for example 16MB to 64MB, and has also built
  second kernel for physical memory location 16MB. In this case kexec has no
  choice but to load the parameter segment at a higher address than new kernel
  image at safe location where new kernel does not stomp it.
o Though problem should automatically go away once relocatable kernel for i386
  is in place and kexec can determine the location of new kernel at run time
  and load parameter segment at lower address than kernel image. But till then
  this patch can go in (assuming it does not break something else).
o This patch moves up the boot parameter saving code. Now boot parameters
  are copied out in protected mode before page tables are initialized. This
  will ensure that parameter segment is always addressable irrespective of
  its physical location.

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>
2005-09-05 00:06:09 -07:00
Petr Tesarik
5fd75ebb1a [PATCH] vm86: Honor TF bit when emulating an instruction
If the virtual 86 machine reaches an instruction which raises a General
Protection Fault (such as CLI or STI), the instruction is emulated (in
handle_vm86_fault).  However, the emulation ignored the TF bit, so the
hardware debug interrupt was not invoked after such an emulated instruction
(and the DOS debugger missed it).

This patch fixes the problem by emulating the hardware debug interrupt as
the last action before control is returned to the VM86 program.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <kernel@tesarici.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:09 -07:00
Matt Tolentino
7ae65fd334 [PATCH] x86: fix EFI memory map parsing
The memory descriptors that comprise the EFI memory map are not fixed in
stone such that the size could change in the future.  This uses the memory
descriptor size obtained from EFI to iterate over the memory map entries
during boot.  This enables the removal of an x86 specific pad (and ifdef)
in the EFI header.  I also couldn't stomach the broken up nature of the
function to put EFI runtime calls into virtual mode any longer so I fixed
that up a bit as well.

For reference, this patch only impacts x86.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:09 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4116c527ea [PATCH] hpet: use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSC
Only use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSC.  Thanks to Andrea for
pointing this out.  Should not be issue on any platforms as all recent
systems that has HPET also has CPUs that supports TSC.  The patch is still
required for correctness.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:09 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
69be8f1896 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it.  I've written a
program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.

The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
NetBSD 2.0 *).

The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
handled is not blocked.

The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
the way most Unix boxes work.

Unix boxes that were tested:  DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.

* NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
Linux.  So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
behaves differently here with #2.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
Chuck Ebbert
b1daec3089 [PATCH] i386: fix incorrect FP signal code
i386 floating-point exception handling has a bug that can cause error
code 0 to be sent instead of the proper code during signal delivery.

This is caused by unconditionally checking the IS and c1 bits from the
FPU status word when they are not always relevant.  The IS bit tells
whether an exception is a stack fault and is only relevant when the
exception is IE (invalid operation.) The C1 bit determines whether a
stack fault is overflow or underflow and is only relevant when IS and IE
are set.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-23 19:52:37 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
cd3716ab40 [PATCH] Mobil Pentium 4 HT and the NMI
I'm trying to get the nmi working with my laptop (IBM ThinkPad G41) and after
debugging it a while, I found that the nmi code doesn't want to set it up for
this particular CPU.

Here I have:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 3320.084
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 3
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni
monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6642.39

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 3320.084
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 3
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni
monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6637.46

And the following code shows:

$ cat linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c

[...]

void setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (void)
{
        switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
        case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
                if (boot_cpu_data.x86 != 6 && boot_cpu_data.x86 != 15)
                        return;
                setup_k7_watchdog();
                break;
        case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
                 switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) {
                case 6:
                        if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0xd)
                                return;

                        setup_p6_watchdog();
                        break;
                case 15:
                        if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0x3)
                                return;

Here I get boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x4.  So I decided to change it and
reboot.  I now seem to have a working NMI.  So, unless there's something know
to be bad about this processor and the NMI.  I'm submitting the following
patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-19 18:44:56 -07:00
Andi Kleen
6be382ea0c [PATCH] x86: Remove obsolete get_cpu_vendor call
Since early CPU identify is in this information is already available

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-18 12:53:59 -07:00
Andrew Morton
39bbb07d7c [PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Eric Lammerts
cdf32eaa4e [PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUs
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs
by quite large amounts.  We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the
same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after
a fork+exec.

So disable randomization by default on those CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6cb54819d7 [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.  While i'm sure Martin is
trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and
insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much
for eternity.  I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not
hit v2.6.13 in its current form.

Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the
global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an
Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting
over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they
try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ]

Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin:

 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2

where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way:

 ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't
   terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still
   finishes in a reasonable amount of time. '

in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only
a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a
handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results,
without showing the variability data. How much variance is there
run-to-run?

I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get
stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before
adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which
approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed
and understood!

The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning
internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to
have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for
reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or
so.

The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the
underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes.  We
could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive
when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of
external factors in the VM balance picture.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
Len Brown
adbedd3424 merge 2.6.13-rc4 with ACPI's to-linus tree 2005-07-30 01:55:32 -04:00
Len Brown
d6ac1a7910 /home/lenb/src/to-linus branch 'acpi-2.6.12' 2005-07-29 23:31:17 -04:00
Dominik Brodowski
4b31e77455 [ACPI] Always set P-state on initialization
Otherwise a platform that supports ACPI based cpufreq
and boots up at lowest possible speed could stay there
forever.  This because the governor may request max speed,
but the code doesn't update if there is no change in
speed, and it assumed the initial state of max speed.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4634

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-29 18:29:47 -04:00
Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com
e1afc3f522 [PATCH] x86: avoid wasting IRQs patch update
The patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI interrupt entry, which gets
re-used, and the IRQ is assigned to another unrelated device.  The patch
corrects the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is
avoided.  Second issue came up with VIA chipset, the problem was caused by
original patch assigning IRQs starting 16 and up.  The VIA chipset uses
4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and therefore cannot
handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices.  The patch corrects this
problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16.

Signed-off by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 15:01:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
590f47a1d9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2005-07-29 14:40:08 -07:00
Dave Jones
094ce7fde4 arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c: In function `powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:740: warning: unused variable `vid'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:739: warning: unused variable `fid'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:743: warning: unused variable `vid'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:742: warning: unused variable `fid'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:746: `fid' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:746: `vid' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-29 12:55:40 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e7b47ccaf6 [PATCH] i386 machine_kexec: Cleanup inline assembly
For some reason I was telling my inline assembly that the
input argument was an output argument.

Playing in the trampoline code I have seen a couple of
instances where lgdt get the wrong size (because the
trampolines run in 16bit mode) so use lgdtl and lidtl to
be explicit.

Additionally gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 want's an lvalue for a
memory argument and it doesn't think an array of characters
is an lvalue so use a packed structure instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 12:17:26 -07:00
Dave Jones
2bcad935a3 Fix up powernow-k8 compile. (Missing definitions).
From: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-29 09:56:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
33ac02aa4c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2005-07-29 10:16:25 -07:00
Dave Hansen
e1474e2d9d [PATCH] re-disable TSC on NUMAQ
Somewhere recently, the TSC got re-enabled for timekeeping on NUMAQ
machines.  However, the hardware makes these get unsynchronized quite
badly.  So badly, in fact, that the code to fix up the skew can just hang
on boot.

This patch re-disables them.  It's nicely confined to the numaq.c file.  It
would be great if this could make it into 2.6.13, I think it counts as a
bugfix.

Tested on a 16-proc 4-node NUMAQ.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:05 -07:00
Andi Kleen
e2cac78935 [PATCH] x86_64: When running cpuid4 need to run on the correct CPU
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
Dave Jones
7153d9612f powernow-k8.c: In function `query_current_values_with_pending_wait':
powernow-k8.c:110: warning: `hi' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 09:45:10 -07:00
Dave Jones
841e40b380 Opteron revision F will support higher frequencies than
can be encoded in the current driver's 4 bit frequency
field.  This patch updates the driver to support Rev F
including 6 bit FIDs and processor ID updates.

This should apply cleanly whether or not the dual-core
bugfix I sent out last week is applied.  I'd prefer
that both get applied, of course.

Signed-off-by: David Keck <david.keck@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-28 09:40:04 -07:00
Dave Jones
03938c3f10 powernow-k8 requires that a data structure for
each core be created in the _cpu_init function
call.  The cpufreq infrastructure doesn't call
_cpu_init for the second core in each processor.
Some systems crashed when _get was called with
an odd-numbered core because it tried to
dereference a NULL pointer since the data
structure had not been created.

The attached patch solves the problem by
initializing data structures for all shared
cores in the _cpu_init function.  It should
apply to 2.6.12-rc6 and has been tested by
AMD and Sun.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-28 09:38:21 -07:00
Blaisorblade
71ae18ec69 [PATCH] sys_get_thread_area does not clear the returned argument
sys_get_thread_area does not memset to 0 its struct user_desc info before
copying it to user space...  since sizeof(struct user_desc) is 16 while the
actual datas which are filled are only 12 bytes + 9 bits (across the
bitfields), there is a (small) information leak.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:08 -07:00
Brian Gerst
7657e20e46 [PATCH] Fix warning in powernow-k8.c
powernow-k8.c: In function `query_current_values_with_pending_wait':
powernow-k8.c:110: warning: `hi' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:54 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
910de55c66 [PATCH] APM: Remove redundant call to set_cpus_allowed
machine_power_off now always switches to the boot cpu so there
is no reason for APM to also do that.

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
4fa2564a6f [PATCH] i386 machine_power_off cleanup
Call machine_shutdown() to move to the boot cpu
and disable apics.  Both acpi_power_off and
apm_power_off want to move to the boot cpu.
and we are already disabling the local apics
so calling machine_shutdown simply reuses
code.

ia64 doesn't have a special path in power_off
for efi so there is no reason i386 should.  If
we really need to call the efi power off path
the efi driver can set pm_power_off like everyone
else.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:44 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
d8e392e7c8 [PATCH] machine_shutdown: Typo fix to actually allow specifying which cpu to reboot on
This appears to be a typo I introduced when cleaning
this code up earlier. Ooops.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:44 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
4a1421f81b [PATCH] i386: Implement machine_emergency_reboot
set_cpus_allowed is not safe in interrupt context
and disabling apics is complicated code so don't
call machine_shutdown on i386 from emergency_restart().

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
Linus Torvalds
72538d8565 Remove "noreplacement" kernel command line option.
It is no longer valid to not replace instructions, since we depend on
different behaviour depending on CPU capabilities.

If you need to limit the capabilities of the replacements (because the
boot CPU has features that non-boot CPU's do not have, for example), you
need to explicitly disable those capabilities that are not shared across
all CPU's.

For example, if your boot CPU has FXSR, but other CPU's in your system
do not, you need to use the "nofxsr" kernel command line, not disable
instruction replacement per se.
2005-07-22 18:29:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8ed1383fb7 x86: make restore_fpu() use alternative assembler instructions
It's really just a single instruction, conditional on whether the CPU
supports FXSR or not, so implement it as such instead of making it a
function that queries FXSR dynamically.

This means that the instruction just gets automatically rewritten to the
correct one at boot-time.
2005-07-22 16:06:16 -04:00