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2008-03-07x86: clear DF before calling signal handlerAurelien Jarno
The Linux kernel currently does not clear the direction flag before calling a signal handler, whereas the x86/x86-64 ABI requires that. Linux had this behavior/bug forever, but this becomes a real problem with gcc version 4.3, which assumes that the direction flag is correctly cleared at the entry of a function. This patches changes the setup_frame() functions to clear the direction before entering the signal handler. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-03-05[CPUFREQ] Remove debugging message from e_powersaverDave Jones
We don't need to printk a message every time we transition. Leave the code there, but ifdef'd out, as it's useful when adding support for new processors. Reported-by: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-03-05Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in KconfigAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch/<arch>/Kconfig file for relevant architectures with kprobes support. This facilitates easy handling of in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on kretprobes being present in the kernel. Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean. Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486Hugh Dickins
P4 has been coming out as CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of 6: fix MPENTIUM4 typo. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86/xen: fix DomU boot problem x86: not set node to cpu_to_node if the node is not online x86, i387: fix ptrace leakage using init_fpu()
2008-03-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: x86: disable KVM for Voyager and friends KVM: VMX: Avoid rearranging switched guest msrs while they are loaded KVM: MMU: Fix race when instantiating a shadow pte KVM: Route irq 0 to vcpu 0 exclusively KVM: Avoid infinite-frequency local apic timer KVM: make MMU_DEBUG compile again KVM: move alloc_apic_access_page() outside of non-preemptable region KVM: SVM: fix Windows XP 64 bit installation crash KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots. KVM: emulate access to MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL KVM: Make the supported cpuid list a host property rather than a vm property KVM: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs so that set_cr0 works properly KVM: SVM: set NM intercept when enabling CR0.TS in the guest KVM: SVM: Fix lazy FPU switching
2008-03-04x86/xen: fix DomU boot problemIan Campbell
Construct Xen guest e820 map with a hole between 640K-1M. It's pure luck that Xen kernels have gotten away with it in the past. The patch below seems like the right thing to do. It certainly boots in a domU without the DMI problem (without any of the other related patches such as Alexander's). Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Tested-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-04x86: not set node to cpu_to_node if the node is not onlineYinghai Lu
resolve boot problem reported by Mel Gorman: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/404 init_cpu_to_node will use cpu->apic (from MADT or mptable) and apic->node(from SRAT or AMD config space with k8_bus_64.c) to have cpu->node mapping, and later identify_cpu will overwrite them again...(with nearby_node...) this patch checks if the node is online, otherwise it will not update cpu_node map. so keep cpu_node map to online node before identify_cpu..., to prevent possible error. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-04x86, i387: fix ptrace leakage using init_fpu()Suresh Siddha
This bug got introduced by the recent i387 merge: commit 4421011120b2304e5c248ae4165a2704588aedf1 Author: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Date: Wed Jan 30 13:31:50 2008 +0100 x86: x86 i387 user_regset Current usage of unlazy_fpu() in ptrace specific routines is wrong. unlazy_fpu() will not init fpu if the task never used math. So the ptrace calls can expose the parent tasks FPU data in some cases. Replace it with the init_fpu() which will init the math state, if the task never used math before. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-04x86: disable KVM for Voyager and friendsRandy Dunlap
Most classic Pentiums don't have hardware virtualization extension, and building kvm with Voyager, Visual Workstation, or NUMAQ generates spurious failures. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-03-04KVM: VMX: Avoid rearranging switched guest msrs while they are loadedAvi Kivity
KVM tries to run as much as possible with the guest msrs loaded instead of host msrs, since switching msrs is very expensive. It also tries to minimize the number of msrs switched according to the guest mode; for example, MSR_LSTAR is needed only by long mode guests. This optimization is done by setup_msrs(). However, we must not change which msrs are switched while we are running with guest msr state: - switch to guest msr state - call setup_msrs(), removing some msrs from the list - switch to host msr state, leaving a few guest msrs loaded An easy way to trigger this is to kexec an x86_64 linux guest. Early during setup, the guest will switch EFER to not include SCE. KVM will stop saving MSR_LSTAR, and on the next msr switch it will leave the guest LSTAR loaded. The next host syscall will end up in a random location in the kernel. Fix by reloading the host msrs before changing the msr list. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: MMU: Fix race when instantiating a shadow pteAvi Kivity
For improved concurrency, the guest walk is performed concurrently with other vcpus. This means that we need to revalidate the guest ptes once we have write-protected the guest page tables, at which point they can no longer be modified. The current code attempts to avoid this check if the shadow page table is not new, on the assumption that if it has existed before, the guest could not have modified the pte without the shadow lock. However the assumption is incorrect, as the racing vcpu could have modified the pte, then instantiated the shadow page, before our vcpu regains control: vcpu0 vcpu1 fault walk pte modify pte fault in same pagetable instantiate shadow page lookup shadow page conclude it is old instantiate spte based on stale guest pte We could do something clever with generation counters, but a test run by Marcelo suggests this is unnecessary and we can just do the revalidation unconditionally. The pte will be in the processor cache and the check can be quite fast. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: Avoid infinite-frequency local apic timerAvi Kivity
If the local apic initial count is zero, don't start a an hrtimer with infinite frequency, locking up the host. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: make MMU_DEBUG compile againMarcelo Tosatti
the cr3 variable is now inside the vcpu->arch structure. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: move alloc_apic_access_page() outside of non-preemptable regionMarcelo Tosatti
alloc_apic_access_page() can sleep, while vmx_vcpu_setup is called inside a non preemptable region. Move it after put_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: SVM: fix Windows XP 64 bit installation crashJoerg Roedel
While installing Windows XP 64 bit wants to access the DEBUGCTL and the last branch record (LBR) MSRs. Don't allowing this in KVM causes the installation to crash. This patch allow the access to these MSRs and fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots.Izik Eidus
This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03x86: revert "x86: CPA: avoid split of alias mappings"Rafael J. Wysocki
Revert: commit 8be8f54bae3453588011cad06363813a5293af53 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Sat Feb 23 20:43:21 2008 +0100 x86: CPA: avoid split of alias mappings because it clearly mishandles the case when __change_page_attr(), called from __change_page_attr_set_clr(), changes cpa->processed to 1 and cpa_process_alias(cpa) is executed right after that. This crashes my x86-64 test box early in the boot process (ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10140#c4). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-03KVM: emulate access to MSR_IA32_MCG_CTLJoerg Roedel
Injecting an GP when accessing this MSR lets Windows crash when running some stress test tools in KVM. So this patch emulates access to this MSR. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03KVM: Make the supported cpuid list a host property rather than a vm propertyAvi Kivity
One of the use cases for the supported cpuid list is to create a "greatest common denominator" of cpu capabilities in a server farm. As such, it is useful to be able to get the list without creating a virtual machine first. Since the code does not depend on the vm in any way, all that is needed is to move it to the device ioctl handler. The capability identifier is also changed so that binaries made against -rc1 will fail gracefully. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03KVM: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs so that set_cr0 works properlyPaul Knowles
Whilst working on getting a VM to initialize in to IA32e mode I found this issue. set_cr0 relies on comparing the old cr0 to the new one to work correctly. Move the assignment below so the compare can work. Signed-off-by: Paul Knowles <paul@transitive.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03KVM: SVM: set NM intercept when enabling CR0.TS in the guestJoerg Roedel
Explicitly enable the NM intercept in svm_set_cr0 if we enable TS in the guest copy of CR0 for lazy FPU switching. This fixes guest SMP with Linux under SVM. Without that patch Linux deadlocks or panics right after trying to boot the other CPUs. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03KVM: SVM: Fix lazy FPU switchingJoerg Roedel
If the guest writes to cr0 and leaves the TS flag at 0 while vcpu->fpu_active is also 0, the TS flag in the guest's cr0 gets lost. This leads to corrupt FPU state an causes Windows Vista 64bit to crash very soon after boot. This patch fixes this bug. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-02-29xen: mask out SEP from CPUIDJeremy Fitzhardinge
Fix 32-on-64 pvops kernel: we don't want userspace using syscall/sysenter, even if the hypervisor supports it, so mask it out from CPUID. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: disable BTS ptrace extensions for nowIngo Molnar
revert the BTS ptrace extension for now. based on general objections from Roland McGrath: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/323 we'll let the BTS functionality cook some more and re-enable it in v2.6.26. We'll leave the dead code around to help the development of this code. (X86_BTS is not defined at the moment) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: CPA: avoid split of alias mappingsThomas Gleixner
avoid over-eager large page splitup. When the target area needs to be split or is split already (ioremap) then the current code enforces the split of large mappings in the alias regions even if we could avoid it. Use a separate variable processed in the cpa_data structure to carry the number of pages which have been processed instead of reusing the numpages variable. This keeps numpages intact and gives the alias code a chance to keep large mappings intact. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: delay the export removal of init_mmIngo Molnar
delay the removal of this symbol export by one more kernel release, giving external modules such as VirtualBox a chance to stop using it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: fix leak un ioremap_page_range() failureIngo Molnar
Jan Beulich noticed it during code review that if a driver's ioremap() fails (say due to -ENOMEM) then we might leak the struct vm_area. Free it properly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86 vdso: fix build locale dependencyRoland McGrath
Priit Laes discovered that the sed command processing nm output was sensitive to locale settings. This was addressed in commit 03994f01e8b72b3d01fd3d09d1cc7c9f421a727c by using [:alnum:] in place of [a-zA-Z0-9]. But that solution too is locale-dependent and may not always match the identifiers it needs to. The better fix is just to run sed et al with a fixed locale setting in all builds. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> CC: Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: restore vsyscall64 prochandlerThomas Gleixner
a recent fix: commit ce28b9864b853803320c3f1d8de1b81aa4120b14 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Wed Feb 20 23:57:30 2008 +0100 x86: fix vsyscall wreckage removed the broken /kernel/vsyscall64 handler completely. This triggers the following debug check: sysctl table check failed: /kernel/vsyscall64 No proc_handler Restore the sane part of the proc handler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29x86: tls prevent_tail_callRoland McGrath
Fix a kernel bug (vmware boot problem) reported by Tomasz Grobelny, which occurs with certain .config variants and gccs. The x86 TLS cleanup in commit efd1ca52d04d2f6df337a3332cee56cd60e6d4c4 made the sys_set_thread_area and sys_get_thread_area functions ripe for tail call optimization. If the compiler chooses to use it for them, it can clobber the user trap frame because these are asmlinkage functions. Reported-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: fix boot failure on 486 due to TSC breakageMikael Pettersson
> Diffing dmesg between git7 and git8 doesn't sched any light since > git8 also removed the printouts of the x86 caps as they were being > initialised and updated. I'm currently adding those printouts back > in the hope of seeing where and when the caps get broken. That turned out to be very illuminating: --- dmesg-2.6.24-git7 2008-02-24 18:01:25.295851000 +0100 +++ dmesg-2.6.24-git8 2008-02-24 18:01:25.530358000 +0100 ... CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 +CPU: After applying cleared_cpu_caps, caps: 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Notice how the TSC cap bit goes from Off to On. (The first two lines are printout loops from -git7 forward-ported to -git8, the third line is the same printout loop added just after the xor-with-cleared_cpu_caps[] loop.) Here's how the breakage occurs: 1. arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c:tsc_init() sees !cpu_has_tsc, so bails and calls setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC). 2. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h:setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit) clears the bit in boot_cpu_data and sets it in cleared_cpu_caps 3. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:identify_cpu() XORs all caps in with cleared_cpu_caps HOWEVER, at this point c->x86_capability correctly has TSC Off, cleared_cpu_caps has TSC On, so the XOR incorrectly sets TSC to On in c->x86_capability, with disastrous results. The real bug is that clearing bits with XOR only works if the bits are known to be 1 prior to the XOR, and that's not true here. A simple fix is to convert the XOR to AND-NOT instead. The following patch does that, and allows my 486 to boot 2.6.25-rc kernels again. [ mingo@elte.hu: fixed a similar bug in setup_64.c as well. ] The breakage was introduced via commit 7d851c8d3db0. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: fix build on non-C locales.Priit Laes
For some locales regex range [a-zA-Z] does not work as it is supposed to. so we have to use [:alnum:] and [:xdigit:] to make it work as intended. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alphabet Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: make c_idle.work have a static address.Glauber Costa
Currently, c_idle is declared in the stack, and thus, have no static address. Peter Zijlstra points out this simple solution, in which c_idle.work is initializated separatedly. Note that the INIT_WORK macro has a static declaration of a key inside. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: don't save unreliable stack trace entriesVegard Nossum
Currently, there is no way for print_stack_trace() to determine whether a given stack trace entry was deemed reliable or not, simply because save_stack_trace() does not record this information. (Perhaps needless to say, this makes the saved stack traces A LOT harder to read, and probably with no other benefits, since debugging features that use save_stack_trace() most likely also require frame pointers, etc.) This patch reverts to the old behaviour of only recording the reliable trace entries for saved stack traces. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: don't make swapper_pg_pmd globalAdrian Bunk
There doesn't seem to be any reason for swapper_pg_pmd being global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: don't print a warning when MTRR are blank and running in KVMJoerg Roedel
Inside a KVM virtual machine the MTRRs are usually blank. This confuses Linux and causes a warning message at boot. This patch removes that warning message when running Linux as a KVM guest. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: fix execve with -fstack-protectIngo Molnar
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu: > what happens here is that gcc treats the argument area as owned by the > callee, not the caller and is allowed to do certain tricks. for ssp it > will make a copy of the struct passed by value into the local variable > area and pass *its* address down, and it won't copy it back into the > original instance stored in the argument area. > > so once sys_execve returns, the pt_regs passed by value hasn't at all > changed and its default content will cause a nice double fault (FWIW, > this part took me the longest to debug, being down with cold didn't > help it either ;). To fix this we pass in pt_regs by pointer. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: fix vsyscall wreckageThomas Gleixner
based on a report from Arne Georg Gleditsch about user-space apps misbehaving after toggling /proc/sys/kernel/vsyscall64, a review of the code revealed that the "NOP patching" done there is fundamentally unsafe for a number of reasons: 1) the patching code runs without synchronizing other CPUs 2) it inserts NOPs even if there is no clock source which provides vread 3) when the clock source changes to one without vread we run in exactly the same problem as in #2 4) if nobody toggles the proc entry from 1 to 0 and to 1 again, then the syscall is not patched out as a result it is possible to break user-space via this patching. The only safe thing for now is to remove the patching. This code was broken since v2.6.21. Reported-by: Arne Georg Gleditsch <arne.gleditsch@dolphinics.no> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: rename KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE => KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZEIngo Molnar
The KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE constant was mis-named, as we not only map the kernel text but data, bss and init sections as well. That name led me on the wrong path with the KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE regression, because i knew how big of _text_ my images have and i knew about the 40 MB "text" limit so i wrongly thought to be on the safe side of the 40 MB limit with my 29 MB of text, while the total image size was slightly above 40 MB. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImageIngo Molnar
recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously rebooting during early bootup. after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel image: #define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (40*1024*1024) which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass: text data bss dec hex filename 29703744 4222751 8646224 42572719 2899baf vmlinux 40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/ So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-) So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped. (should anyone be that crazy or lazy) We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather pointless and arbitrary. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: remove double-checking empty zero pages debugYinghai Lu
so far no one complained about that. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: notsc is ignored on common configurationsPavel Machek
notsc is ignored in 32-bit kernels if CONFIG_X86_TSC is on.. which is bad, fix it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86/mtrr: fix kernel-doc missing notationRandy Dunlap
Fix mtrr kernel-doc warning: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:677): No description found for parameter 'end_pfn' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-26x86: handle BIOSes which terminate e820 with CF=1 and no SMAPH. Peter Anvin
The proper way to terminate the e820 chain is with %ebx == 0 on the last legitimate memory block. However, several BIOSes don't do that and instead return error (CF = 1) when trying to read off the end of the list. For this error return, %eax doesn't necessarily return the SMAP signature -- correctly so, since %ah should contain an error code in this case. To deal with some particularly broken BIOSes, we clear the entire e820 chain if the SMAP signature is missing in the middle, indicating a plain insane e820 implementation. However, we need to make the test for CF = 1 before the SMAP check. This fixes at least one HP laptop (nc6400) for which none of the memory-probing methods (e820, e801, 88) functioned fully according to spec. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: don't use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERICH. Peter Anvin
P6_NOPs are definitely not supported on some VIA CPUs, and possibly (unverified) on AMD K7s. It is also the only thing that prevents a 686 kernel from running on Transmeta TM3x00/5x00 (Crusoe) series. The performance benefit over generic NOPs is very small, so when building for generic consumption, avoid using them. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: require family >= 6 if we are using P6 NOPsH. Peter Anvin
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so enforce that in the boot code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: do not promote TM3x00/TM5x00 to i686-classH. Peter Anvin
We have been promoting Transmeta TM3x00/TM5x00 chips to i686-class based on the notion that they contain all the user-space visible features of an i686-class chip. However, this is not actually true: they lack the EA-taking long NOPs (0F 1F /0). Since this is a userspace-visible incompatibility, downgrade these CPUs to the manufacturer-defined i586 level. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: hpet fix docbook commentPavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <Pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: make DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CPA more robustIngo Molnar
Use PF_MEMALLOC to prevent recursive calls in the DBEUG_PAGEALLOC case. This makes the code simpler and more robust against allocation failures. This fixes the following fallback to non-mmconfig: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/551 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10083 Also, for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n reduce the pool size to one page. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>