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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU
feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended
user-space data access from kernel privileged code.
It's turned on automatically when possible.
This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel
bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences."
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added
includes right next to each other.
* 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER
x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean
x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space
x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry
x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling
x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops
x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access
x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user
x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC
x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h>
x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP
x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page
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.section/.previous doesn't nest. Use .pushsection/.popsection in
<asm/alternative.h> so that they can be properly nested.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-5-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
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We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a
single CPU, but not at any other time. In particular, not if we
unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu.
Paul McKenney points out:
mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds.
If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline
path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 milliseconds
Basically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the
code is pretty messy.
We get rid of:
1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the
documentation is wrong. It's now the default.
2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend.
3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end()
which were only used to set this one flag.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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According to Intel 64 and IA-32 SDM and Optimization Reference Manual, beginning
with Ivybridge, REG string operation using MOVSB and STOSB can provide both
flexible and high-performance REG string operations in cases like memory copy.
Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/
STOSB).
If CPU erms feature is detected, patch copy_user_generic with enhanced fast
string version of copy_user_generic.
A few new macros are defined to reduce duplicate code in ALTERNATIVE and
ALTERNATIVE_2.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337908785-14015-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Eric pointed out overly restrictive constraints in atomic64_set(), but
there are issues throughout the file. In the cited case, %ebx and %ecx
are inputs only (don't get changed by either of the two low level
implementations). This was also the case elsewhere.
Further in many cases early-clobber indicators were missing.
Finally, the previous implementation rolled a custom alternative
instruction macro from scratch, rather than using alternative_call()
(which was introduced with the commit that the description of the
change in question actually refers to). Adjusting has the benefit of
not hiding referenced symbols from the compiler, which however requires
them to be declared not just in the exporting source file (which, as a
desirable side effect, in turn allows that exporting file to become a
real 5-line stub).
This patch does not eliminate the overly restrictive memory clobbers,
however: Doing so would occasionally make the compiler set up a second
register for accessing the memory object (to satisfy the added "m"
constraint), and it's not clear which of the two non-optimal
alternatives is better.
v2: Re-do the declaration and exporting of the internal symbols.
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F19A2A5020000780006E0D9@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Cc: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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On x86-64, they were just wasteful: with the explicitly added (now
unnecessary) padding, the size of the alternatives structure was 16
bytes, and an alignment of 8 bytes didn't hurt much.
However, it was still silly, since the natural size and alignment for
the structure is actually just 12 bytes, 4-byte aligned since commit
59e97e4d6fbc ("x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative").
So removing the padding, and removing the extra alignment is just a good
idea.
On x86-32, the alignment of 4 bytes was correct, but was incorrectly
hardcoded as 8 bytes in <asm/alternative-asm.h>. That header file had
used to be an x86-64 only header file, but various unification efforts
have made it be used for x86-32 too (ie the unification of rwlock and
rwsem).
That in turn caused x86-32 boot failures, because the extra alignment
would result in random zero-filled words in the altinstructions section,
causing oopses early at boot when doing alternative instruction
replacement.
So just remove all the alignment noise entirely. It's wrong, and it's
unnecessary. The section itself is already properly aligned by the
linker scripts, and all additions to the section had better be of the
proper 12-byte format, keeping it aligned. So if the align directive
were to ever make a difference, that would be an indication of a serious
bug to begin with.
Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.r>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can
apply alternatives to unrelocated code.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0
Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion
x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs
x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure
x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4
x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family"
Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b64
"x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed
some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e646 "jump
label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
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Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure:
- Make the atomic 5-byte NOP a part of the selection system.
- Pick NOPs once during early boot and then be done with it.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303166160-10315-3-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
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Introduce:
static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);
instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.
In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:
Define:
struct jump_label_key jump_key;
Can be used as:
if (static_branch(&jump_key))
do unlikely code
enable/disale via:
jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
jump_label_dec(&jump_key);
that's it!
For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.
Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.
Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.
Testing:
I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.
jump label configured in
avg: 815.6
jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1
jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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'x86-hwmon-for-linus', 'x86-paravirt-for-linus', 'core-locking-for-linus' and 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-alternatives-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, suspend: Avoid unnecessary smp alternatives switch during suspend/resume
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, asm: Use fxsaveq/fxrestorq in more places
* 'x86-hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hwmon: Add core threshold notification to therm_throt.c
* 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, paravirt: Use native_halt on a halt, not native_safe_halt
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
locking, lockdep: Convert sprintf_symbol to %pS
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
irq: Better struct irqaction layout
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During suspend, we disable all the non boot cpus. And during resume we bring
them all back again. So no need to do alternatives_smp_switch() in between.
On my core 2 based laptop, this speeds up the suspend path by 15msec and the
resume path by 5 msec (suspend/resume speed up differences can be attributed
to the different P-states that the cpu is in during suspend/resume).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290557500.4946.8.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Introduce text_poke_smp_batch(). This function modifies several
text areas with one stop_machine() on SMP. Because calling
stop_machine() is heavy task, it is better to aggregate
text_poke requests.
( Note: I've talked with Rusty about this interface, and
he would not like to expand stop_machine() interface, since
it is not for generic use. )
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095422.2961.51217.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Make text_poke_early available outside of alternative.c. The jump label
patchset wants to make use of it in order to set up the optimal no-op
sequences at run-time.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <04cfddf2ba77bcabfc3e524f1849d871d6a1cf9d.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Move Steve's code for finding the best 5-byte no-op from ftrace.c to
alternative.c. The idea is that other consumers (in this case jump label)
want to make use of that code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <96259ae74172dcac99c0020c249743c523a92e18.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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We already have cpufeature indicies above 255, so use a 16-bit number
for the alternatives index. This consumes a padding field and so
doesn't add any size, but it means that abusing the padding field to
create assembly errors on overflow no longer works. We can retain the
test simply by redirecting it to the .discard section, however.
[ v3: updated to include open-coded locations ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-f88731e3068f9d1392ba71cc9f50f035d26a0d4f@git.kernel.org>
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
* 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hweight: Use a 32-bit popcnt for __arch_hweight32()
arch, hweight: Fix compilation errors
x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
bitops: Optimize hweight() by making use of compile-time evaluation
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Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Checkin b3ac891b67bd4b1fc728d1c784cad1212dea433d:
x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
... did not define LOCK_PREFIX_HERE in the case of a uniprocessor
build. As a result, it would cause any of the usages of this macro to
fail on a uniprocessor build. Fix this by defining LOCK_PREFIX_HERE
as a null string.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-2-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
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Reduce the SMP locks table size by using relative pointers instead of
absolute ones, thus cutting the table size by half.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.
A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
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
* 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke()
perf probe: Correct probe syntax on command line help
perf probe: Add lazy line matching support
perf probe: Show more lines after last line
perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder
perf probe: Use libdw callback routines
perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo
perf probe: Rename probe finder functions
perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder
perf probe: Update perf probe document
perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support
kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization
kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86
x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code
kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers
kprobes/x86: Boost probes when reentering
kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface
kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization
kprobes: Introduce generic insn_slot framework
kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy
x86: Merge show_regs()
x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors
x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements
x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h
x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h
x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers
x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_*
x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
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The current lock prefix UP/SMP alternative code doesn't allow
LOCK_PREFIX to be used in alternatives code.
This patch solves the problem by adding a new LOCK_PREFIX_ALTERNATIVE_PATCH
macro that only records the lock prefix location but does not emit
the prefix.
The user of this macro can then start any alternative sequence with
"lock" and have it UP/SMP patched.
To make this work, the UP/SMP alternative code is changed to do the
lock/DS prefix switching only if the byte actually contains a lock or
DS prefix.
Thus, if an alternative without the "lock" is selected, it will now do
nothing instead of clobbering the code.
Changes in v2:
- Naming change
- Change label to not conflict with alternatives
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-2-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Add generic text_poke_smp for SMP which uses stop_machine()
to synchronize modifying code.
This stop_machine() method is officially described at "7.1.3
Handling Self- and Cross-Modifying Code" on the intel's
software developer's manual 3A.
Since stop_machine() can't protect code against NMI/MCE, this
function can not modify those handlers. And also, this function
is basically for modifying multibyte-single-instruction. For
modifying multibyte-multi-instructions, we need another special
trap & detour code.
This code originaly comes from immediate values with
stop_machine() version. Thanks Jason and Mathieu!
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133438.6725.80273.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.
This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing copy_user_generic() as a function consisting of
just a single (possibly patched) branch, instead properly deal
with patching call instructions in the alternative instructions
framework, and move the patching into the callers.
As a follow-on, one could also introduce something like
__EXPORT_SYMBOL_ALT() to avoid patching call sites in modules.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8180200007800026AE7@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Having run into the run-(boot-)time check a couple of times lately,
I finally took time to find a build-time check so that one doesn't
need to analyze the register/stack dump and resolve this (through
manual lookup in vmlinux) to the offending construct.
The assembler will emit a message like "Error: value of <num> too
large for field of 1 bytes at <offset>", which while not pointing
out the source location still makes analysis quite a bit easier.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0FF8AA0200007800022703@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some of the NOPs tables aren't used on 64-bits, quite some code and
data is needed post-init for module loading only, and a couple of
functions aren't used outside that file (i.e. can be static, and don't
need to be exported).
The change to __INITDATA/__INITRODATA is needed to avoid an assembler
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8BC8A00200007800010823@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Alternative header duplicates assembly that could be merged in
one single macro. Merging this into this macro also allows to
directly declare ALTERNATIVE() statements within assembly code.
Uses a __stringify() of the feature bits rather than passing a
"i" operand. Leave the old %0 operand as-is (set to 0), unused
to stay compatible with API.
(v2: tab alignment fixes)
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20090428151346.GA31212@Krystal>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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