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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix
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Fix build error introduced by commit 4faac97d44ac27 ("x86: prevent stale
state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online").
process_32.c needs to include idle.h to get the prototype for
c1e_remove_cpu()
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.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
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
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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 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load
x86, oprofile: BUG scheduling while atomic
AMD IOMMU: protect completion wait loop with iommu lock
AMD IOMMU: set iommu sunc flag after command queuing
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Impact: Functional TSC is marked unstable on AMD family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs.
This would be wrong because for those CPUs "invariant TSC" means:
"The TSC counts at the same rate in all P-states, all C states, S0,
or S1"
(See "Processor BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guides" for those CPUs.)
[ tglx: Changed C1E to AMD C1E in the printks to avoid confusion
with Intel C1E ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Impact: System hang when AMD C1E machines switch into C2/C3
AMD C1E enabled systems do not work with normal ACPI C-states
even if the BIOS is advertising them. Limit the C-states to
C1 for the ACPI processor idle code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems.
When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast
mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the
broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the
corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs
have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines
we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle.
Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules.
Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the
pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out
to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3).
vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however,
apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to
freed memory location.
Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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nmi_shutdown() calls unregister_die_notifier() from an atomic context
after setting preempt_disable() via get_cpu_var():
[ 1049.404154] BUG: scheduling while atomic: oprofiled/7796/0x00000002
[ 1049.404171] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 1049.404176] Modules linked in: oprofile af_packet rfcomm l2cap kvm_intel kvm i915 drm acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave freq_table container sbs sbshc dm_mod arc4 ecb cryptomgr aead snd_hda_intel crypto_blkcipher snd_pcm_oss crypto_algapi snd_pcm iwlagn iwlcore snd_timer iTCO_wdt led_class btusb iTCO_vendor_support snd psmouse bluetooth mac80211 soundcore cfg80211 snd_page_alloc intel_agp video output button battery ac dcdbas evdev ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod piix ata_piix libata scsi_mod dock tg3 libphy ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan fuse
[ 1049.404362] Pid: 7796, comm: oprofiled Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 #30
[ 1049.404368] Call Trace:
[ 1049.404384] [<ffffffff804769fd>] thread_return+0x4a0/0x7d3
[ 1049.404396] [<ffffffff8026ad92>] generic_exec_single+0x52/0xe0
[ 1049.404405] [<ffffffff8026ae1a>] generic_exec_single+0xda/0xe0
[ 1049.404414] [<ffffffff8026aee3>] smp_call_function_single+0x73/0x150
[ 1049.404423] [<ffffffff804770c5>] schedule_timeout+0x95/0xd0
[ 1049.404430] [<ffffffff80476083>] wait_for_common+0x43/0x180
[ 1049.404438] [<ffffffff80476154>] wait_for_common+0x114/0x180
[ 1049.404448] [<ffffffff80236980>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[ 1049.404457] [<ffffffff8024f810>] synchronize_rcu+0x30/0x40
[ 1049.404463] [<ffffffff8024f890>] wakeme_after_rcu+0x0/0x10
[ 1049.404472] [<ffffffff80479ca0>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x80
[ 1049.404482] [<ffffffff80256def>] atomic_notifier_chain_unregister+0x3f/0x60
[ 1049.404501] [<ffffffffa03d8801>] nmi_shutdown+0x51/0x90 [oprofile]
[ 1049.404517] [<ffffffffa03d6134>] oprofile_shutdown+0x34/0x70 [oprofile]
[ 1049.404532] [<ffffffffa03d721e>] event_buffer_release+0xe/0x40 [oprofile]
[ 1049.404543] [<ffffffff802bdcdd>] __fput+0xcd/0x240
[ 1049.404551] [<ffffffff802baa74>] filp_close+0x54/0x90
[ 1049.404560] [<ffffffff8023e1d1>] put_files_struct+0xb1/0xd0
[ 1049.404568] [<ffffffff8023f82f>] do_exit+0x18f/0x930
[ 1049.404576] [<ffffffff8020be03>] restore_args+0x0/0x30
[ 1049.404584] [<ffffffff80240006>] do_group_exit+0x36/0xa0
[ 1049.404592] [<ffffffff8020b7cb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This can be easily triggered with 'opcontrol --shutdown'.
Simply move get_cpu_var() above unregister_die_notifier().
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.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
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: completely disable NOPL on 32 bits
x86/paravirt: Remove duplicate paravirt_pagetable_setup_{start, done}()
xen: fix for xen guest with mem > 3.7G
x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression
arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c: introduce missing kfree
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The unlocked polling of the ComWaitInt bit in the IOMMU completion wait
path is racy. Protect it with the iommu lock.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The iommu->need_sync flag must be set after the command is queued to
avoid race conditions.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Completely disable NOPL on 32 bits. It turns out that Microsoft
Virtual PC is so broken it can't even reliably *fail* in the presence
of NOPL.
This leaves the infrastructure in place but disables it
unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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They were already called once in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c - we don't need to call them again.
fixes:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11485
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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PFN_PHYS() can truncate large addresses unless its passed a suitable
large type. This is fixed more generally in the patch series
introducing phys_addr_t, but we need a short-term fix to solve a
Xen regression reported by Roberto De Ioris.
Reported-by: Roberto De Ioris <roberto@unbit.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline:
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15a-dirty #5
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
[<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4
[<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932
[<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a
[<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8
[<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632
[<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367
[<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7
[<ffffffff808492b0>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7
RIP 0x10
Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit
processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit
processors).
Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with
_PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once
we've established that the processor does indeed support NX. That will
prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it.
The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier.
Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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As well as discard fake accessed bit and dirty bit of EPT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Accesses to CR4 are intercepted even with Nested Paging enabled. But the code
does not check if the guest wants to do a global TLB flush. So this flush gets
lost. This patch adds the check and the flush to svm_set_cr4.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch introduces a guest TLB flush on every NPF exit in KVM. This fixes
random segfaults and #UD exceptions in the guest seen under some workloads
(e.g. long running compile workloads or tbench). A kernbench run with and
without that fix showed that it has a slowdown lower than 0.5%
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data.
Note that at the point of the change, node has not yet been stored in d, so
it is not affected by the existing cleanup code.
The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@
(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
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x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
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return@p2 ...;
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
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print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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 memmap=exactmap boot argument
x86: disable static NOPLs on 32 bits
xen: fix 2.6.27-rc5 xen balloon driver warnings
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When using kdump modifying the e820 map is yielding strange results.
For example starting with
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 0000000000093400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000093400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
and booting with args
memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0K memmap=5228K@16384K memmap=125188K@22252K memmap=76K#1047424K memmap=564K#1047500K
resulted in:
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000093400 (usable)
user: 0000000000093400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fee0000 (usable)
user: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI data)
user: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
user: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
user: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
user: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
user: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
user: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
But should have resulted in:
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
user: 0000000001000000 - 000000000151b000 (usable)
user: 00000000015bb000 - 0000000008ffc000 (usable)
user: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI data)
This is happening because of an improper usage of strcmp() in the
e820 parsing code. The strcmp() always returns !0 and never resets the
value for e820.nr_map and returns an incorrect user-defined map.
This patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the
default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do
look better.
So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the
CONFIG_X86_64 thing.
The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just
have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for
them.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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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: cpu_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86: pda_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86, xen: Use native_pte_flags instead of native_pte_val for .pte_flags
x86: move mtrr cpu cap setting early in early_init_xxxx
x86: delay early cpu initialization until cpuid is done
x86: use X86_FEATURE_NOPL in alternatives
x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity
clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter
x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko
clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful
clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
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Exception stacks are allocated each time a CPU is set online.
But the allocated space is never freed. Thus with one CPU hotplug
offline/online cycle there is a memory leak of 24K (6 pages) for
a CPU.
Fix is to allocate exception stacks only once -- when the CPU is
set online for the first time.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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pda->irqstackptr is allocated whenever a CPU is set online.
But it is never freed. This results in a memory leak of 16K
for each CPU offline/online cycle.
Fix is to allocate pda->irqstackptr only once.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Using native_pte_val triggers the BUG_ON() in the paravirt_ops
version of pte_flags().
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Krzysztof Helt found MTRR is not detected on k6-2
root cause:
we moved mtrr_bp_init() early for mtrr trimming,
and in early_detect we only read the CPU capability from cpuid,
so some cpu doesn't have that bit in cpuid.
So we need to add early_init_xxxx to preset those bit before mtrr_bp_init
for those earlier cpus.
this patch is for v2.6.27
Reported-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Move early cpu initialization after cpu early get cap so the
early cpu initialization can fix up cpu caps.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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After fixing the u32 thinko I sill had occasional hickups on ATI chipsets
with small deltas. There seems to be a delay between writing the compare
register and the transffer to the internal register which triggers the
interrupt. Reading back the value makes sure, that it hit the internal
match register befor we compare against the counter value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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We use the HPET only in 32bit mode because:
1) some HPETs are 32bit only
2) on i386 there is no way to read/write the HPET atomic 64bit wide
The HPET code unification done by the "moron of the year" did
not take into account that unsigned long is different on 32 and
64 bit.
This thinko results in a possible endless loop in the clockevents
code, when the return comparison fails due to the 64bit/332bit
unawareness.
unsigned long cnt = (u32) hpet_read() + delta can wrap over 32bit.
but the final compare will fail and return -ETIME causing endless
loops.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in
alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The long noops ("NOPL") are supposed to be detected by family >= 6.
Unfortunately, several non-Intel x86 implementations, both hardware
and software, don't obey this dictum. Instead, probe for NOPL
directly by executing a NOPL instruction and see if we get #UD.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words. In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered). Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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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: add io delay quirk for Presario F700
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The minimum reprogramming delta was hardcoded in HPET ticks,
which is stupid as it does not work with faster running HPETs.
The C1E idle patches made this prominent on AMD/RS690 chipsets,
where the HPET runs with 25MHz. Set it to 5us which seems to be
a reasonable value and fixes the problems on the bug reporters
machines. We have a further sanity check now in the clock events,
which increases the delta when it is not sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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When calibration against PIT fails, the warning that we print is misleading.
In a virtualized environment the VM may get descheduled while calibration
or, the check in PIT calibration may fail due to other virtualization
overheads.
The warning message explicitly assumes that calibration failed due to SMI's
which may not be the case. Change that to something proper.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Manually adding "io_delay=0xed" fixes system lockups in ioapic
mode on this machine.
System Information
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: Presario F700 (KA695EA#ABF)
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Quanta
Product Name: 30D3
Reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459546
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The TSC calibration function is still very complicated, but this makes
it at least a little bit less so by moving the PIT part out into a
helper function of its own.
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Larry Finger reported at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/1/90:
An ancient laptop of mine started throwing errors from b43legacy when
I started using 2.6.27 on it. This has been bisected to commit bfc0f59
"x86: merge tsc calibration".
The unification of the TSC code adopted mostly the 64bit code, which
prefers PMTIMER/HPET over the PIT calibration.
Larrys system has an AMD K6 CPU. Such systems are known to have
PMTIMER incarnations which run at double speed. This results in a
miscalibration of the TSC by factor 0.5. So the resulting calibrated
CPU/TSC speed is half of the real CPU speed, which means that the TSC
based delay loop will run half the time it should run. That might
explain why the b43legacy driver went berserk.
On the other hand we know about systems, where the PIT based
calibration results in random crap due to heavy SMI/SMM
disturbance. On those systems the PMTIMER/HPET based calibration logic
with SMI detection shows better results.
According to Alok also virtualized systems suffer from the PIT
calibration method.
The solution is to use a more wreckage aware aproach than the current
either/or decision.
1) reimplement the retry loop which was dropped from the 32bit code
during the merge. It repeats the calibration and selects the lowest
frequency value as this is probably the closest estimate to the real
frequency
2) Monitor the delta of the TSC values in the delay loop which waits
for the PIT counter to reach zero. If the maximum value is
significantly different from the minimum, then we have a pretty safe
indicator that the loop was disturbed by an SMI.
3) keep the pmtimer/hpet reference as a backup solution for systems
where the SMI disturbance is a permanent point of failure for PIT
based calibration
4) do the loop iteration for both methods, record the lowest value and
decide after all iterations finished.
5) Set a clear preference to PIT based calibration when the result
makes sense.
The implementation does the reference calibration based on
HPET/PMTIMER around the delay, which is necessary for the PIT anyway,
but keeps separate TSC values to ensure the "independency" of the
resulting calibration values.
Tested on various 32bit/64bit machines including Geode 266Mhz, AMD K6
(affected machine with a double speed pmtimer which I grabbed out of
the dump), Pentium class machines and AMD/Intel 64 bit boxen.
Bisected-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Breaking lines due to some imaginary problem with a long line length is
often stupid and wrong, but never more so when it splits a string that
is printed out into multiple lines. This really ended up making it much
harder to find where some error strings were printed out, because a
simple 'grep' didn't work.
I'm sure there is tons more of this particular idiocy hiding in other
places, but this particular case hit me once more last week. So fix it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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BAR, v3"
This reverts commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd.
It wasn't really right to begin with (there's a better fix for the
problem with e820 reservations clashing with PCI BAR's pending), but it
also actually causes more regressions, so it should be reverted even
before the better fix is finalized.
Rafael reports that this commit broke AHCI detection, and thus causes
the kernel to not boot on his quad core test box.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: update defconfigs
x86: msr: fix bogus return values from rdmsr_safe/wrmsr_safe
x86: cpuid: correct return value on partial operations
x86: msr: correct return value on partial operations
x86: cpuid: propagate error from smp_call_function_single()
x86: msr: propagate errors from smp_call_function_single()
smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUs
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Enable some option commonly used by testers in defconfig, including
some very common device drivers and network boot support. defconfig
is still not meant to be a kitchen-sink configuration.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Return the correct return value when the CPUID driver partially
completes a request (we should return the number of bytes actually
read or written, instead of the error code.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Return the correct return value when the MSR driver partially
completes a request (we should return the number of bytes actually
read or written, instead of the error code.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Propagate error (-ENXIO) from smp_call_function_single() in the CPUID
driver. This can happen when a CPU is unplugged while the CPUID
driver is open.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Propagate error (-ENXIO) from smp_call_function_single(). These
errors can happen when a CPU is unplugged while the MSR driver is
open.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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This fixes a regression that was indirectly caused by commit
1184dc2ffe2c8fb9afb766d870850f2c3165ef25 ("x86: modify Kconfig to allow
up to 4096 cpus").
Allowing 4k CPU's is not practical at this time, because we still have a
number of places that have several 'cpumask_t's on the stack, and a
4k-bit cpumask is 512 bytes of stack-space for each such variable. This
literally caused functions like 'smp_call_function_mask' to have a 2.5kB
stack frame, and several functions to have 2kB stackframes.
With an 8kB stack total, smashing the stack was simply much too likely.
At least bugzilla entry
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342
was due to this.
The earlier commit to not inline load_module() into sys_init_module()
fixed the particular symptoms of this that Alan Brunelle saw in that
bugzilla entry, but the huge stack waste by cpumask_t's was the more
direct cause.
Some day we'll have allocation helpers that allocate large CPU masks
dynamically, but in the meantime we simply cannot allow cpumasks this
large.
Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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