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2008-02-06[POWERPC] mpc512x: Basic platform supportJohn Rigby
512x is very similar to 83xx and most of this is patterned after code from 83xx. New platform: changed: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype arch/powerpc/platforms/Makefile new: arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/* include/asm-powerpc/mpc512x.h Signed-off-by: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-01-31[POWERPC] Add set_dma_ops() to match get_dma_ops()Michael Ellerman
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-01-31Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-01-30Merge branch 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-mpc52xxPaul Mackerras
2008-01-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (27 commits) lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL lguest: Use explicit includes rateher than indirect lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments lguest: change gpte_addr header lguest: move changed bitmap to lg_cpu lguest: move last_pages to lg_cpu lguest: change last_guest to last_cpu lguest: change spte_addr header lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management lguest: make pending notifications per-vcpu lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu lguest task management lguest: replace lguest_arch with lg_cpu_arch. lguest: make registers per-vcpu lguest: make emulate_insn receive a vcpu struct. lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu interrupt processing. lguest: per-vcpu lguest timers lguest: make hypercalls use the vcpu struct lguest: make write() operation smp aware ... Manual conflict resolved (maybe even correctly, who knows) in drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
2008-01-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: security: compile capabilities by default selinux: make selinux_set_mnt_opts() static SELinux: Add warning messages on network denial due to error SELinux: Add network ingress and egress control permission checks NetLabel: Add auditing to the static labeling mechanism NetLabel: Introduce static network labels for unlabeled connections SELinux: Allow NetLabel to directly cache SIDs SELinux: Enable dynamic enable/disable of the network access checks SELinux: Better integration between peer labeling subsystems SELinux: Add a new peer class and permissions to the Flask definitions SELinux: Add a capabilities bitmap to SELinux policy version 22 SELinux: Add a network node caching mechanism similar to the sel_netif_*() functions SELinux: Only store the network interface's ifindex SELinux: Convert the netif code to use ifindex values NetLabel: Add IP address family information to the netlbl_skbuff_getattr() function NetLabel: Add secid token support to the NetLabel secattr struct NetLabel: Consolidate the LSM domain mapping/hashing locks NetLabel: Cleanup the LSM domain hash functions NetLabel: Remove unneeded RCU read locks
2008-01-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: PPC: Fix powerpc vio_find_name to not use devices_subsys Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_name function Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c Driver core: Fix up build when CONFIG_BLOCK=N
2008-01-30Merge 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: (249 commits) KVM: Move apic timer migration away from critical section KVM: Put kvm_para.h include outside __KERNEL__ KVM: Fix unbounded preemption latency KVM: Initialize the mmu caches only after verifying cpu support KVM: MMU: Fix dirty page setting for pages removed from rmap KVM: Portability: Move kvm_fpu to asm-x86/kvm.h KVM: x86 emulator: Only allow VMCALL/VMMCALL trapped by #UD KVM: MMU: Merge shadow level check in FNAME(fetch) KVM: MMU: Move kvm_free_some_pages() into critical section KVM: MMU: Switch to mmu spinlock KVM: MMU: Avoid calling gfn_to_page() in mmu_set_spte() KVM: Add kvm_read_guest_atomic() KVM: MMU: Concurrent guest walkers KVM: Disable vapic support on Intel machines with FlexPriority KVM: Accelerated apic support KVM: local APIC TPR access reporting facility KVM: Print data for unimplemented wrmsr KVM: MMU: Add cache miss statistic KVM: MMU: Coalesce remote tlb flushes KVM: Expose ioapic to ia64 save/restore APIs ...
2008-01-30[SCSI] scsi_debug: add XDWRITEREAD_10 supportFUJITA Tomonori
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-30[SCSI] remove use_sg_chainingJames Bottomley
With the sg table code, every SCSI driver is now either chain capable or broken (or has sg_tablesize set so chaining is never activated), so there's no need to have a check in the host template. Also tidy up the code by moving the scatterlist size defines into the SCSI includes and permit the last entry of the scatterlist pools not to be a power of two. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-30[SCSI] bidirectional command supportBoaz Harrosh
At the block level bidi request uses req->next_rq pointer for a second bidi_read request. At Scsi-midlayer a second scsi_data_buffer structure is used for the bidi_read part. This bidi scsi_data_buffer is put on request->next_rq->special. Struct scsi_cmnd is not changed. - Define scsi_bidi_cmnd() to return true if it is a bidi request and a second sgtable was allocated. - Define scsi_in()/scsi_out() to return the in or out scsi_data_buffer from this command This API is to isolate users from the mechanics of bidi. - Define scsi_end_bidi_request() to do what scsi_end_request() does but for a bidi request. This is necessary because bidi commands are a bit tricky here. (See comments in body) - scsi_release_buffers() will also release the bidi_read scsi_data_buffer - scsi_io_completion() on bidi commands will now call scsi_end_bidi_request() and return. - The previous work done in scsi_init_io() is now done in a new scsi_init_sgtable() (which is 99% identical to old scsi_init_io()) The new scsi_init_io() will call the above twice if needed also for the bidi_read command. Only at this point is a command bidi. - In scsi_error.c at scsi_eh_prep/restore_cmnd() make sure bidi-lld is not confused by a get-sense command that looks like bidi. This is done by puting NULL at request->next_rq, and restoring. [jejb: update to sg_table and resolve conflicts also update to blk-end-request and resolve conflicts] Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-30[SCSI] implement scsi_data_bufferBoaz Harrosh
In preparation for bidi we abstract all IO members of scsi_cmnd, that will need to duplicate, into a substructure. - Group all IO members of scsi_cmnd into a scsi_data_buffer structure. - Adjust accessors to new members. - scsi_{alloc,free}_sgtable receive a scsi_data_buffer instead of scsi_cmnd. And work on it. - Adjust scsi_init_io() and scsi_release_buffers() for above change. - Fix other parts of scsi_lib/scsi.c to members migration. Use accessors where appropriate. - fix Documentation about scsi_cmnd in scsi_host.h - scsi_error.c * Changed needed members of struct scsi_eh_save. * Careful considerations in scsi_eh_prep/restore_cmnd. - sd.c and sr.c * sd and sr would adjust IO size to align on device's block size so code needs to change once we move to scsi_data_buff implementation. * Convert code to use scsi_for_each_sg * Use data accessors where appropriate. - tgt: convert libsrp to use scsi_data_buffer - isd200: This driver still bangs on scsi_cmnd IO members, so need changing [jejb: rebased on top of sg_table patches fixed up conflicts and used the synergy to eliminate use_sg and sg_count] Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-30[SCSI] tgt: use scsi_init_io instead of scsi_alloc_sgtableBoaz Harrosh
If we export scsi_init_io()/scsi_release_buffers() instead of scsi_{alloc,free}_sgtable() from scsi_lib than tgt code is much more insulated from scsi_lib changes. As a bonus it will also gain bidi capability when it comes. [jejb: rebase on to sg_table and fix up rejections] Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Move apic timer migration away from critical sectionAvi Kivity
Migrating the apic timer in the critical section is not very nice, and is absolutely horrible with the real-time port. Move migration to the regular vcpu execution path, triggered by a new bitflag. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Put kvm_para.h include outside __KERNEL__Glauber de Oliveira Costa
kvm_para.h potentially contains definitions that are to be used by userspace, so it should not be included inside the __KERNEL__ block. To protect its own data structures, kvm_para.h already includes its own __KERNEL__ block. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_fpu to asm-x86/kvm.hChristian Ehrhardt
This patch moves kvm_fpu asm-x86/kvm.h to allow every architecture to define an own representation used for KVM_GET_FPU/KVM_SET_FPU. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: x86 emulator: Only allow VMCALL/VMMCALL trapped by #UDSheng Yang
When executing a test program called "crashme", we found the KVM guest cannot survive more than ten seconds, then encounterd kernel panic. The basic concept of "crashme" is generating random assembly code and trying to execute it. After some fixes on emulator insn validity judgment, we found it's hard to get the current emulator handle the invalid instructions correctly, for the #UD trap for hypercall patching caused troubles. The problem is, if the opcode itself was OK, but combination of opcode and modrm_reg was invalid, and one operand of the opcode was memory (SrcMem or DstMem), the emulator will fetch the memory operand first rather than checking the validity, and may encounter an error there. For example, ".byte 0xfe, 0x34, 0xcd" has this problem. In the patch, we simply check that if the invalid opcode wasn't vmcall/vmmcall, then return from emulate_instruction() and inject a #UD to guest. With the patch, the guest had been running for more than 12 hours. Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: MMU: Switch to mmu spinlockMarcelo Tosatti
Convert the synchronization of the shadow handling to a separate mmu_lock spinlock. Also guard fetch() by mmap_sem in read-mode to protect against alias and memslot changes. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: MMU: Avoid calling gfn_to_page() in mmu_set_spte()Avi Kivity
Since gfn_to_page() is a sleeping function, and we want to make the core mmu spinlocked, we need to pass the page from the walker context (which can sleep) to the shadow context (which cannot). [marcelo: avoid recursive locking of mmap_sem] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Add kvm_read_guest_atomic()Marcelo Tosatti
In preparation for a mmu spinlock, add kvm_read_guest_atomic() and use it in fetch() and prefetch_page(). Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Disable vapic support on Intel machines with FlexPriorityAvi Kivity
FlexPriority accelerates the tpr without any patching. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Accelerated apic supportAvi Kivity
This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority than the new tpr). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: local APIC TPR access reporting facilityAvi Kivity
Add a facility to report on accesses to the local apic tpr even if the local apic is emulated in the kernel. This is basically a hack that allows userspace to patch Windows which tends to bang on the tpr a lot. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: MMU: Add cache miss statisticAvi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Expose ioapic to ia64 save/restore APIsZhang Xiantao
IA64 also needs to see ioapic structure in irqchip. Signed-off-by: xiantao.zhang@intel.com <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Move kvm_vcpu_kick() to x86.cZhang Xiantao
Moving kvm_vcpu_kick() to x86.c. Since it should be common for all archs, put its declarations in <linux/kvm_host.h> Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Move arch dependent files to new directory arch/x86/kvm/Avi Kivity
This paves the way for multiple architecture support. Note that while ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVMAvi Kivity
Currently, make headers_check barfs due to <asm/kvm.h>, which <linux/kvm.h> includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion <asm/kvm.h>s, export kvm.h only if the arch actually supports it. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Add ifdef in irqchip struct for x86 only structuresJerone Young
This patch fixes a small issue where sturctures: kvm_pic_state kvm_ioapic_state are defined inside x86 specific code and may or may not be defined in anyway for other architectures. The problem caused is one cannot compile userspace apps (ex. libkvm) for other archs since a size cannot be determined for these structures. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Enhance guest cpuid managementDan Kenigsberg
The current cpuid management suffers from several problems, which inhibit passing through the host feature set to the guest: - No way to tell which features the host supports While some features can be supported with no changes to kvm, others need explicit support. That means kvm needs to vet the feature set before it is passed to the guest. - No support for indexed or stateful cpuid entries Some cpuid entries depend on ecx as well as on eax, or on internal state in the processor (running cpuid multiple times with the same input returns different output). The current cpuid machinery only supports keying on eax. - No support for save/restore/migrate The internal state above needs to be exposed to userspace so it can be saved or migrated. This patch adds extended cpuid support by means of three new ioctls: - KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID: get all cpuid entries the host (and kvm) supports - KVM_SET_CPUID2: sets the vcpu's cpuid table - KVM_GET_CPUID2: gets the vcpu's cpuid table, including hidden state [avi: fix original KVM_SET_CPUID not removing nx on non-nx hosts as it did before] Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Export include/asm-x86/kvm.hAvi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move cpuid structures to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_cpuid_entry kvm_cpuid from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_sregs and msr structures to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
Move structures: kvm_sregs kvm_msr_entry kvm_msrs kvm_msr_list from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_segment & kvm_dtable structure to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_segment kvm_dtable from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move structure lapic_state to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structure lapic_state from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_regs to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structure kvm_regs to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Each architecture will need to create there own version of this structure. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move x86 pic strutcturesJerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_pic_state kvm_ioapic_state to inclue/asm-x86/kvm.h. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_memory_alias to asm/kvm.hJerone Young
This patch moves sturct kvm_memory_alias from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Also have include/linux/kvm.h include include/asm/kvm.h. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Add ioctl to tss address from userspace,Izik Eidus
Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel. This patch moves the allocation internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address space we can place the tss. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Per-architecture hypercall definitionsChristian Borntraeger
Currently kvm provides hypercalls only for x86* architectures. To provide hypercall infrastructure for other kvm architectures I split kvm_para.h into a generic header file and architecture specific definitions. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Support assigning userspace memory to the guestIzik Eidus
Instead of having the kernel allocate memory to the guest, let userspace allocate it and pass the address to the kernel. This is required for s390 support, but also enables features like memory sharing and using hugetlbfs backed memory. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Allow dynamic allocation of the mmu shadow cache sizeIzik Eidus
The user is now able to set how many mmu pages will be allocated to the guest. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v3)Anthony Liguori
This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one lazily. A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code in tree that uses userspace hypercalls. [avi: fix #ud injection on vmx] Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30x86: use the same pgd_list for PAE and 64-bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Use a standard list threaded through page->lru for maintaining the pgd list on PAE. This is the same as 64-bit, and seems saner than using a non-standard list via page->index. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear()Jeremy Fitzhardinge
PAE mode requires that we reload cr3 in order to guarantee that changes to the pgd will be noticed by the processor. This means that in principle pud_clear needs to reload cr3 every time. However, because reloading cr3 implies a tlb flush, we want to avoid it where possible. pud_clear() is only used in a couple of places: - in free_pmd_range(), when pulling down a range of process address space, and - huge_pmd_unshare() In both cases, the calling code will do a a tlb flush anyway, so there's no need to do it within pud_clear(). In free_pmd_range(), the pud_clear is immediately followed by pmd_free_tlb(); we can hook that to make the mmu_gather do an unconditional full flush to make sure cr3 gets reloaded. In huge_pmd_unshare, it is followed by flush_tlb_range, which always results in a full cr3-reload tlb flush. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)Bernhard Kaindl
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch() to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early. If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that, all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled in standard, non-debug kernels. With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers, if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter. In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire. An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger, without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA access is granted. A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt and I've put a copy online at ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it another copy of it is online at: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: don't special-case pmd allocations as muchJeremy Fitzhardinge
In x86 PAE mode, stop treating pmds as a special case. Previously they were always allocated and freed with the pgd. The modifies the code to be the same as 64-bit mode, where they are allocated on demand. This is a step on the way to unifying 32/64-bit pagetable allocation as much as possible. There is a complicating wart, however. When you install a new reference to a pmd in the pgd, the processor isn't guaranteed to see it unless you reload cr3. Since reloading cr3 also has the side-effect of flushing the tlb, this is an expense that we want to avoid whereever possible. This patch simply avoids reloading cr3 unless the update is to the current pagetable. Later patches will optimise this further. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: arch/x86/mm/init_32.c cleanupIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: make ioremap() UC by defaultIngo Molnar
Yes! A mere 120 c_p_a() fixing and rewriting patches later, we are now confident that we can enable UC by default for ioremap(), on x86 too. Every other architectures was doing this already. Doing so makes Linux more robust against MTRR mixups (which might go unnoticed if BIOS writers test other OSs only - where PAT might override bad MTRRs defaults). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: cpa: fix the self-testIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>