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shared or not
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302
On x86 and x86-64, it is possible that page tables are shared beween
shared mappings backed by hugetlbfs. As part of this,
page_table_shareable() checks a pair of vma->vm_flags and they must match
if they are to be shared. All VMA flags are taken into account, including
VM_LOCKED.
The problem is that VM_LOCKED is cleared on fork(). When a process with a
shared memory segment forks() to exec() a helper, there will be shared
VMAs with different flags. The impact is that the shared segment is
sometimes considered shareable and other times not, depending on what
process is checking.
What happens is that the segment page tables are being shared but the
count is inaccurate depending on the ordering of events. As the page
tables are freed with put_page(), bad pmd's are found when some of the
children exit. The hugepage counters also get corrupted and the Total and
Free count will no longer match even when all the hugepage-backed regions
are freed. This requires a reboot of the machine to "fix".
This patch addresses the problem by comparing all flags except VM_LOCKED
when deciding if pagetables should be shared or not for hugetlbfs-backed
mapping.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: avoid back to back on_each_cpu in cpa_flush_array
x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
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Cleanup cpa_flush_array() to avoid back to back on_each_cpu() calls.
[ Impact: optimizes fix 0af48f42df15b97080b450d24219dd95db7b929a ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Slightly modified by trenn@suse.de -> only do this on fam 10h and fam 11h.
Currently powernow-k8 determines CPU frequency from ACPI PSS objects, but
according to AMD family 11h BKDG this frequency is just a rounded value:
"CoreFreq (MHz) = The CPU COF specified by MSRC001_00[6B:64][CpuFid]
rounded to the nearest 100 Mhz."
As a consequnce powernow-k8 reports wrong CPU frequency on some systems,
e.g. on Turion X2 Ultra:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82
processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : pstate 0 (2200 MHz)
powernow-k8: 1 : pstate 1 (1100 MHz)
powernow-k8: 2 : pstate 2 (600 MHz)
But this is wrong as frequency for Pstate2 is 550 MHz. x86info reports it
correctly:
#x86info -a |grep Pstate
...
Pstate-0: fid=e, did=0, vid=24 (2200MHz)
Pstate-1: fid=e, did=1, vid=30 (1100MHz)
Pstate-2: fid=e, did=2, vid=3c (550MHz) (current)
Solution is to determine the frequency directly from Pstate MSRs instead
of using rounded values from ACPI table.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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- Make the message shorter and easier to grep for
- Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE (functionality of these was mixed)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Langsdorf, Mark <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c:172: warning: 'invalidate_entry' defined but not used
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Some atom procs don't do freq scaling (such as the atom 330 on my own
littlefalls2 board). By adding the atom family here, we at least get
the benefit of passive cooling in a thermal emergency. Not sure how
to see that its actually helping any, but the driver does bind and
claim its functioning on my atom 330.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.
When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.
The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.
The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.
[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Fix PDPTR reloading on CR4 writes
KVM: Make paravirt tlb flush also reload the PAE PDPTRs
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The processor is documented to reload the PDPTRs while in PAE mode if any
of the CR4 bits PSE, PGE, or PAE change. Linux relies on this
behaviour when zapping the low mappings of PAE kernels during boot.
The code already handled changes to CR4.PAE; augment it to also notice changes
to PSE and PGE.
This triggered while booting an F11 PAE kernel; the futex initialization code
runs before any CR3 reloads and writes to a NULL pointer; the futex subsystem
ended up uninitialized, killing PI futexes and pulseaudio which uses them.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also
to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used
as a replacement for reloading CR3. Change the code to do the entire
CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Remap percpu allocator has subtle bug when combined with page
attribute changing. Remap percpu allocator aliases PMD pages for the
first chunk and as pageattr doesn't know about the alias it ends up
updating page attributes of the original mapping thus leaving the
alises in inconsistent state which might lead to subtle data
corruption. Please read the following threads for more information:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/835783
The following is the proposed fix which teaches pageattr about percpu
aliases.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/837157
However, the above changes are deemed too pervasive for upstream
inclusion for 2.6.30 release, so this patch essentially disables
the remap allocator for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A1A0A27.4050301@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold.
clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition.
wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs.
[ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But,
pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like
an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset
d7c8f21a8cad0228c7c5ce2bb6dbd95d1ee49d13 and got copied over to second
place in the same file later.
[ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.
[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one
vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at
24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes.
The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably
completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on
their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to
revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually
needing the flags.
This reverts all or part of the following checkins:
cd670599b7b00d9263f6f11a05c0edeb9cbedaf3
c549e71d073a6e9a4847497344db28a784061455
However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into
a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a
comment to explain that part.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some
additional information.
[ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ]
Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
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x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot,
see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901
[ Impact: fix hung reboot on certain systems ]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1242963350.32574.53.camel@rzhang-dt>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels
xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp()
x86: fix percpu_{to,from}_op()
x86: mtrr: Fix high_width computation when phys-addr is >= 44bit
x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
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Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.
It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:
| commit 8efcbab674de2bee45a2e4cdf97de16b8e609ac8
| Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
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| paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation
The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).
If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).
Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:
nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin
CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18%
instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15%
CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03%
cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28%
cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56%
cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31%
branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04%
branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72%
branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67%
wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20%
The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.
(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)
So, what's the fix?
Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.
The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.
[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]
Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386.
This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from
2.6.27 to now. The regression was a result of the original merge
consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86.
The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from
working correctly in gdb.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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After upgrading from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke.
Investigating, I found that in the asm that replaces the return value,
gcc was using the same register for the old value as it was for the
new value.
mov (addr), old
mov new, (addr)
But if old and new are the same register, we clobber new with old!
I first thought this was a bug in gcc 4.4.0 and reported it:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40132
Andrew Pinski responded (quickly), saying that it was correct gcc behavior
and the code needed to denote old as an "early clobber".
Instead of "=r"(old), we need "=&r"(old).
[Impact: keep function graph tracer from breaking with gcc 4.4.0 ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings:
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit
- the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized
[ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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KVM optimizes guest port 80 accesses by passthing them through to the host.
Some AMD machines die on port 80 writes, allowing the guest to hard-lock the
host.
Remove the port passthrough to avoid the problem.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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found one system where cpu address line is 44bits, mtrr printout
is not right:
[ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 0 base 0 00000000 mask FF0 00000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 1 base 10 00000000 mask FFF 80000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 2 base 0 80000000 mask FFF 80000000 uncachable
[ 0.000000] 3 base 0 7F800000 mask FFF FF800000 uncachable
Li Zefan and Frederic pointed out the high_width could be -4 some how.
It turns out when phys_addr is 44bit, size_or_mask will be
ffffffff,00000000 so ffs(size_or_mask) will be 0.
Try to check low 32 bit, to get correct high_width.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kerne.org>
Also-analyzed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Also-analyzed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A026540.8060504@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some processors don't have EFER; don't oops if userspace wants us to
read EFER when we check NX.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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NX support is bit 20, not bit 1.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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AMDs VMCB does not have an explicit unusable segment descriptor field,
so we emulate it by using "not present". This has to be setup before
the fixups, because this field is used there.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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[ Impact: reduce kernel image size a bit, annotate away warnings ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
[ modified and tested it ]
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <b9df5fa10905090235s4bfd26a8o979f93809c9727ad@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Lockdep reports the warning below when Li tries to offline one cpu:
[ 110.835487] =================================
[ 110.835616] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
[ 110.835688] 2.6.30-rc4-00336-g8c9ed89 #52
[ 110.835757] ---------------------------------
[ 110.835828] inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-W} usage.
[ 110.835908] swapper/0 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
[ 110.835982] (cmci_discover_lock){?.+...}, at: [<ffffffff80236dc0>] cmci_clear+0x30/0x9b
cmci_clear() can be called via smp_call_function_single().
It is better to disable interrupt while holding cmci_discover_lock,
to turn it into an irq-safe lock - we can deadlock otherwise.
[ Impact: fix possible deadlock in the MCE code ]
Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A03ED38.8000700@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
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The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.
[ Impact: fix Xen guest crash ]
Also-Bisected-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A032EEC.30509@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled
with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in
machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing
kexec_image. Refering to:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265
This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference:
kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image,
which is more appropriate, and will not be null.
Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way.
[ Impact: fix crash on kexec ]
Reported-by: Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1241751101.6259.85.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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With the introduction of the .brk section, special care must be taken
that no unused page table entries remain if _brk_end and _end are
separated by a 2M page boundary. cleanup_highmap() runs very early and
hence cannot take care of that, hence potential entries needing to be
removed past _brk_end must be cleared once the brk allocator has done
its job.
[ Impact: avoids undesirable TLB aliases ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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If the first non-reserved (sub-)range doesn't fit the size requested,
an endless loop will be entered. If a range returned from
find_e820_area_size() turns out insufficient in size, the range must
be skipped before calling the function again.
[ Impact: fixes boot hang on some platforms ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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[ Impact: printk message cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <200905040908.27299.knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The mem= option will truncate the memory map at a specified address so
it's not possible to register nodes with memory beyond the e820 upper
bound.
unparse_node() is only called when then node had memory associated with
it, although with the mem= option it is no longer addressable.
[ Impact: fix boot hang on certain (large) systems ]
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905051248150.20021@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: x86, mmiotrace: fix range test
tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: show number of core_siblings instead of thread_siblings in /proc/cpuinfo
amd-iommu: fix iommu flag masks
x86: initialize io_bitmap_base on 32bit
x86: gettimeofday() vDSO: fix segfault when tv == NULL
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Commit 7ad728f98162cb1af06a85b2a5fc422dddd4fb78
(cpumask: x86: convert cpu_sibling_map/cpu_core_map to cpumask_var_t)
changed the output of /proc/cpuinfo for siblings:
Example on an AMD Phenom:
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
Before that commit it was:
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
Instead of cpu_core_mask it now uses cpu_sibling_mask to count siblings.
This is due to the following hunk of above commit:
| --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
| +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
| @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static void show_cpuinfo_core(struct seq_file *m, struct cpuinf
| if (c->x86_max_cores * smp_num_siblings > 1) {
| seq_printf(m, "physical id\t: %d\n", c->phys_proc_id);
| seq_printf(m, "siblings\t: %d\n",
| - cpus_weight(per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu)));
| + cpumask_weight(cpu_sibling_mask(cpu)));
| seq_printf(m, "core id\t\t: %d\n", c->cpu_core_id);
| seq_printf(m, "cpu cores\t: %d\n", c->booted_cores);
| seq_printf(m, "apicid\t\t: %d\n", c->apicid);
This was a mistake, because the impact line shows that this side-effect
was not anticipated:
Impact: reduce per-cpu size for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
So revert the respective hunk to restore the old behavior.
[ Impact: fix sibling-info regression in /proc/cpuinfo ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090504182859.GA29045@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The feature bits should be set via bitmasks, not via feature IDs.
[ Impact: fix feature enabling in newer IOMMU versions ]
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090504102028.GA30307@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mce: fix boot logging logic
x86, mce: make polling timer interval per CPU
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commit db949bba3c7cf2e664ac12e237c6d4c914f0c69d (x86-32: use non-lazy
io bitmap context switching) broke ioperm for 32bit because it removed
the lazy initialization of io_bitmap_base and did not set it to the
real bitmap offset.
[ Impact: fix non-working sys_ioperm() on 32-bit kernels ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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According to the gettimeofday(2) manual:
If either tv or tz is NULL, the corresponding structure is not
set or returned.
Since it is legal to give NULL as the tv argument, the code should make
sure tv is not NULL before trying to dereference it.
This issue manifests itself on x86_64 when vdso=0 is not on the kernel
command-line and libc uses the vDSO for gettimeofday() (e.g. glibc >=
2.7). A simple reproducer:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
int main(void)
{
struct timezone tz;
gettimeofday(NULL, &tz);
return 0;
}
See http://bugs.debian.org/466491 for more details.
[ Impact: fix gettimeofday(NULL, &tz) segfault ]
Signed-off-by: John Wright <john.wright@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: John Wright <john.wright@hp.com>
LKML-Reference: <1241037121-14805-1-git-send-email-john.wright@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matching on (addr == (p->addr + p->len)) causes problems when mappings
are adjacent.
[ Impact: fix mmiotrace confusion on adjacent iomaps ]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1240946271-7083-2-git-send-email-stuart@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: only save/restore existent registers in the PCIe capability
x86/PCI: don't bother with root quirks if _CRS is used
docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc
PCI: cleanup debug output resources
x86/PCI: set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default cleanups
x86/PCI: Move set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default into arch/x86
x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case
PCI quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hpet: Stop soliciting hpet=force users on ICH4M
x86: check boundary in setup_node_bootmem()
uv_time: add parameter to uv_read_rtc()
x86: hpet: fix periodic mode programming on AMD 81xx
x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP
x86: avoid theoretical spurious NMI backtraces with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
x86: fix boot crash in NMI watchdog with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and flat APIC
x86-64: fix FPU corruption with signals and preemption
x86/uv: fix for no memory at paddr 0
docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt
x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init
x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux
x86/uv: fix init of cpu-less nodes
x86/uv: fix init of memory-less nodes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/irq: mark NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC broken
x86, irq: Remove IRQ_DISABLED check in process context IRQ move
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
locking: clarify kernel-taint warning message
lockdep, x86: account for irqs enabled in paranoid_exit
lockdep: more robust lockdep_map init sequence
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