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2013-04-02x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 400Borislav Petkov
Convert AMD erratum 400 to the bug infrastructure. Then, retract all exports for modules since they're not needed now and make the AMD erratum checking machinery local to amd.c. Use forward declarations to avoid shuffling too much code around needlessly. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 383Borislav Petkov
Convert the AMD erratum 383 testing code to the bug infrastructure. This allows keeping the AMD-specific erratum testing machinery private to amd.c and not export symbols to modules needlessly. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02x86, cpu: Convert Cyrix coma bug detectionBorislav Petkov
... to the new facility. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02x86, cpu: Convert FDIV bug detectionBorislav Petkov
... to the new facility. Add a reference to the wikipedia article explaining the FDIV test we're doing here. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02x86, cpu: Convert F00F bug detectionBorislav Petkov
... to using the new facility and drop the cpuinfo_x86 member. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02x86, cpu: Expand cpufeature facility to include cpu bugsBorislav Petkov
We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the ->x86_capability bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a kind of a capability, albeit a strange one. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-02-23Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin: "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?) This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late. As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature." * 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
2013-02-22Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin: "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than one would like. The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" -- a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand. This has several advantages: 1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way early in the kernel startup). 2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large systems. 3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks. The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X. Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa()." * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits) x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time() x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva() x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit memblock: Add memblock_mem_size() x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data ...
2013-02-20Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J. Wysocki with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg, Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu. - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael J Wysocki. - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner. - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg. - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1 state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle. - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano. - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson. - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk Brandewie. - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn. - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett. - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf and Rob Herring. - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update from Shawn Guo. - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat, and Inderpal Singh. - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui. - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker. - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso, Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu, Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki Ishimatsu. * tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits) PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment openrisc idle: delete pm_idle mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle microblaze idle: delete pm_idle m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code ia64 idle: delete pm_idle cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle ARM idle: delete pm_idle blackfin idle: delete pm_idle sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate. cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks ...
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flagLen Brown
Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt", and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets. If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll" is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so. Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places. First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes" would be printed if and only if the user booted the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code to set that flag. Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt" were on the cmdline. Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() -- all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset. The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend. Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations indicating that it would be removed in 2012. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline paramLen Brown
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors. But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states. ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and no longer use mwait_idle(). Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(), and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it. Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait" was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012. This removal was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt. After this change, kernels configured with (CONFIG_ACPI=n && CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT. If MWAIT is desired on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above can be enabled. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-02-10xen idle: make xen-specific macro xen-specificLen Brown
This macro is only invoked by Xen, so make its definition specific to Xen. > set_pm_idle_to_default() < xen_set_default_idle() Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
2013-01-31x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global functionFenghua Yu
Remove static declaration in have_cpuid_p() to make it a global function. The function will be called in early loading microcode. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-29x86, 64bit: Use a #PF handler to materialize early mappings on demandH. Peter Anvin
Linear mode (CR0.PG = 0) is mutually exclusive with 64-bit mode; all 64-bit code has to use page tables. This makes it awkward before we have first set up properly all-covering page tables to access objects that are outside the static kernel range. So far we have dealt with that simply by mapping a fixed amount of low memory, but that fails in at least two upcoming use cases: 1. We will support load and run kernel, struct boot_params, ramdisk, command line, etc. above the 4 GiB mark. 2. need to access ramdisk early to get microcode to update that as early possible. We could use early_iomap to access them too, but it will make code to messy and hard to be unified with 32 bit. Hence, set up a #PF table and use a fixed number of buffers to set up page tables on demand. If the buffers fill up then we simply flush them and start over. These buffers are all in __initdata, so it does not increase RAM usage at runtime. Thus, with the help of the #PF handler, we can set the final kernel mapping from blank, and switch to init_level4_pgt later. During the switchover in head_64.S, before #PF handler is available, we use three pages to handle kernel crossing 1G, 512G boundaries with sharing page by playing games with page aliasing: the same page is mapped twice in the higher-level tables with appropriate wraparound. The kernel region itself will be properly mapped; other mappings may be spurious. early_make_pgtable is using kernel high mapping address to access pages to set page table. -v4: Add phys_base offset to make kexec happy, and add init_mapping_kernel() - Yinghai -v5: fix compiling with xen, and add back ident level3 and level2 for xen also move back init_level4_pgt from BSS to DATA again. because we have to clear it anyway. - Yinghai -v6: switch to init_level4_pgt in init_mem_mapping. - Yinghai -v7: remove not needed clear_page for init_level4_page it is with fill 512,8,0 already in head_64.S - Yinghai -v8: we need to keep that handler alive until init_mem_mapping and don't let early_trap_init to trash that early #PF handler. So split early_trap_pf_init out and move it down. - Yinghai -v9: switchover only cover kernel space instead of 1G so could avoid touch possible mem holes. - Yinghai -v11: change far jmp back to far return to initial_code, that is needed to fix failure that is reported by Konrad on AMD systems. - Yinghai Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-12-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-10x86, AMD, NB: Use u16 for northbridge IDs in amd_get_nb_idDaniel J Blueman
Change amd_get_nb_id to return u16 to support >255 memory controllers, and related consistency fixes. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353997932-8475-2-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
2012-12-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro: "All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick. A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one): - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign. We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread() or kernel_execve(): kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do successful do_execve() before returning. kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to do transition to user mode anymore. As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely architecture-independent. - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/ copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump. - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in kernel/fork.c now." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits) do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments new helper: signal_pt_regs() unify default ptrace_signal_deliver flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork() death to idle_regs() don't pass regs to copy_process() flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread() bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers xtensa: switch to generic clone() openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone unicore32: switch to generic clone(2) score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone() take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone tile: switch to generic clone() ... Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
2012-12-12Merge branch 'x86-nuke386-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" from Ingo Molnar: "This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support and thus zaps quite a bit of complexity: 24 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 425 deletions(-) ... which complexity has plagued us with extra work whenever we wanted to change SMP primitives, for years. Unfortunately there's a nostalgic cost: your old original 386 DX33 system from early 1991 won't be able to boot modern Linux kernels anymore. Sniff." I'm not sentimental. Good riddance. * 'x86-nuke386-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, 386 removal: Document Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported x86, cleanups: Simplify sync_core() in the case of no CPUID x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_INVLPG x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_BSWAP x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_XADD x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_CMPXCHG x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_M386 from Kconfig
2012-11-29x86, cleanups: Simplify sync_core() in the case of no CPUIDH. Peter Anvin
Simplify the implementation of sync_core() for the case where we may not have the CPUID instruction available. [ v2: stylistic cleanup of the #else clause per suggestion by Borislav Petkov. ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1354132230-21854-9-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
2012-11-29x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_M386 from KconfigH. Peter Anvin
Remove the CONFIG_M386 symbol from Kconfig so that it cannot be selected. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1354132230-21854-2-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-11-29death to idle_regs()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-13x86, cacheinfo: Determine number of cache leafs using CPUID 0x8000001d on AMDAndreas Herrmann
CPUID 0x8000001d works quite similar to Intels' CPUID function 4. Use it to determine number of cache leafs. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121019085933.GE26718@alberich Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-10-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro: "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits) s390: convert to generic kernel_execve() s390: switch to generic kernel_thread() s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork() s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve() um: switch to generic kernel_thread() x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve x86: split ret_from_fork alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve() alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread() alpha: switch to generic sys_execve() arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation arm: optimized current_pt_regs() arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve() arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk] generic sys_execve() generic kernel_execve() new helper: current_pt_regs() preparation for generic kernel_thread() um: kill thread->forking um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler ...
2012-10-01Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar: "The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP: this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug. Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements." * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Unspaghettize do_trap() x86_64: Work around old GAS bug x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64() x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
2012-10-01x86: split ret_from_forkAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-15uprobes/x86: Do not (ab)use TIF_SINGLESTEP/user_*_single_step() for ↵Oleg Nesterov
single-stepping user_enable/disable_single_step() was designed for ptrace, it assumes a single user and does unnecessary and wrong things for uprobes. For example: - arch_uprobe_enable_step() can't trust TIF_SINGLESTEP, an application itself can set X86_EFLAGS_TF which must be preserved after arch_uprobe_disable_step(). - we do not want to set TIF_SINGLESTEP/TIF_FORCED_TF in arch_uprobe_enable_step(), this only makes sense for ptrace. - otoh we leak TIF_SINGLESTEP if arch_uprobe_disable_step() doesn't do user_disable_single_step(), the application will be killed after the next syscall. - arch_uprobe_enable_step() does access_process_vm() we do not need/want. Change arch_uprobe_enable/disable_step() to set/clear X86_EFLAGS_TF directly, this is much simpler and more correct. However, we need to clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP/DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF before executing the probed insn, add set_task_blockstep(false). Note: with or without this patch, there is another (hopefully minor) problem. A probed "pushf" insn can see the wrong X86_EFLAGS_TF set by uprobes. Perhaps we should change _disable to update the stack, or teach arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() to emulate this insn. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-13x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bitIan Campbell
On 64 bit x86 we save the current eflags in cpu_init for use in ret_from_fork. Strictly speaking reserved bits in EFLAGS should be read as written but in practise it is unlikely that EFLAGS could ever be extended in this way and the kernel alread clears any undefined flags early on. The equivalent 32 bit code simply hard codes 0x0202 as the new EFLAGS. This change makes 64 bit use the same mechanism to setup the initial EFLAGS on fork. Note that 64 bit resets EFLAGS before calling schedule_tail() as opposed to 32 bit which calls schedule_tail() first. Therefore the correct value for EFLAGS has opposite IF bit. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824195847.GA31628@moon Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-28x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPUAlex Shi
Testing show different CPU type(micro architectures and NUMA mode) has different balance points between the TLB flush all and multiple invlpg. And there also has cases the tlb flush change has no any help. This patch give a interface to let x86 vendor developers have a chance to set different shift for different CPU type. like some machine in my hands, balance points is 16 entries on Romely-EP; while it is at 8 entries on Bloomfield NHM-EP; and is 256 on IVB mobile CPU. but on model 15 core2 Xeon using invlpg has nothing help. For untested machine, do a conservative optimization, same as NHM CPU. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-28x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPUAlex Shi
For 4KB pages, x86 CPU has 2 or 1 level TLB, first level is data TLB and instruction TLB, second level is shared TLB for both data and instructions. For hupe page TLB, usually there is just one level and seperated by 2MB/4MB and 1GB. Although each levels TLB size is important for performance tuning, but for genernal and rude optimizing, last level TLB entry number is suitable. And in fact, last level TLB always has the biggest entry number. This patch will get the biggest TLB entry number and use it in furture TLB optimizing. Accroding Borislav's suggestion, except tlb_ll[i/d]_* array, other function and data will be released after system boot up. For all kinds of x86 vendor friendly, vendor specific code was moved to its specific files. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-2-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-05-30Merge branch 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 trampoline rework from H. Peter Anvin: "This code reworks all the "trampoline"/"realmode" code (various bits that need to live in the first megabyte of memory, most but not all of which runs in real mode at some point) in the kernel into a single object. The main reason for doing this is that it eliminates the last place in the kernel where we needed pages to be mapped RWX. This code separates all that code into proper R/RW/RX pages." Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile (mca removed next to reboot code), and arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c (reboot code moved around in one branch, modified in this one), and arch/x86/tools/relocs.c (mostly same code came in earlier due to working around the ld bugs just before the 3.4 release). Also remove stale x86-relocs entry from scripts/.gitignore as per Peter Anvin. * commit '61f5446169046c217a5479517edac3a890c3bee7': (36 commits) x86, realmode: Move end signature into header.S x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute x86, relocs: More relocations which may end up as absolute x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug xen-acpi-processor: Add missing #include <xen/xen.h> acpi, bgrd: Add missing <linux/io.h> to drivers/acpi/bgrt.c x86, realmode: Change EFER to a single u64 field x86, realmode: Move kernel/realmode.c to realmode/init.c x86, realmode: Move not-common bits out of trampoline_common.S x86, realmode: Mask out EFER.LMA when saving trampoline EFER x86, realmode: Fix no cache bits test in reboot_32.S x86, realmode: Make sure all generated files are listed in targets x86, realmode: build fix: remove duplicate build x86, realmode: read cr4 and EFER from kernel for 64-bit trampoline x86, realmode: fixes compilation issue in tboot.c x86, realmode: move relocs from scripts/ to arch/x86/tools x86, realmode: header for trampoline code x86, realmode: flattened rm hierachy x86, realmode: don't copy real_mode_header x86, realmode: fix 64-bit wakeup sequence ...
2012-05-23Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar: "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to arch_dup_task_struct(). It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks." Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy(). * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state() coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
2012-05-16fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()Suresh Siddha
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended register state like fpu there. Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-08x86, realmode: read cr4 and EFER from kernel for 64-bit trampolineJarkko Sakkinen
This patch changes 64-bit trampoline so that CR4 and EFER are provided by the kernel instead of using fixed values. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-24-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-08x86: Use kick_all_cpus_sync()Thomas Gleixner
Use kick_all_cpus_sync() and remove cpu_idle_wait(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.190382227@linutronix.de Cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-03-30x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facilityLen Brown
The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the 32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially it turned off the use of HLT. This workaround was commented in the code as: "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations" "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA wreckage. It should be safe to remove." H. Peter Anvin additionally adds: "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to run DOS. Since DOS did no power management of any kind, including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT caused some of these systems to fail. They were by far in the minority even back then." Alan Cox further says: "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during DMA tended to go astray. Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520 fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of use." So, let's finally drop this. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org [ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-30Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cleanups from Peter Anvin: "The biggest textual change is the cleanup to use symbolic constants for x86 trap values. The only *functional* change and the reason for the x86/x32 dependency is the move of is_ia32_task() into <asm/thread_info.h> so that it can be used in other code that needs to understand if a system call comes from the compat entry point (and therefore uses i386 system call numbers) or not. One intended user for that is the BPF system call filter. Moving it out of <asm/compat.h> means we can define it unconditionally, returning always true on i386." * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Move is_ia32_task to asm/thread_info.h from asm/compat.h x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct x86: Use enum instead of literals for trap values
2012-03-30Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar: "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86: 32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel syscalls. This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc." Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c} * 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits) x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format x32: Add ptrace for x32 x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code x32: Add x32 VDSO support x32: Allow x32 to be configured x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables x32: Handle process creation x32: Signal-related system calls x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h> ...
2012-03-28Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...
2012-03-28Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86David Howells
Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-03-24Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker: "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one <linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As a band-aid, kernel.h was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them. This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions. Here is an example that violates the principle of least surprise: CC lib/string.o lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat': lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON' make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1 $ $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c #include <linux/bug.h> $ We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh - very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development. With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are: 1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the implicit presence of BUG code. 2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code. 3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h> 4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain. During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2. But to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem areas in advance. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414" Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul and linux-next. * tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it. bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
2012-03-22Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/debug changes from Ingo Molnar. * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Fix section warnings x86-64: Fix CFI data for common_interrupt() x86: Properly _init-annotate NMI selftest code x86/debug: Fix/improve the show_msr=<cpus> debug print out
2012-03-13x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_structSrikar Dronamraju
There are precedences of trap number being referred to as trap_nr. However thread struct refers trap number as trap_no. Change it to trap_nr. Also use enum instead of left-over literals for trap values. This is pure cleanup, no functional change intended. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@eltu.hu> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120312092555.5379.942.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com [ Fixed the math-emu build ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-13Merge branch 'x86/x32' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We are going to merge a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.Paul Gortmaker
Since we already have a debugreg.h header file, move the assoc. get/set functions to it. In addition to it being the logical home for them, it has a secondary advantage. The functions that are moved use BUG(). So we really need to have linux/bug.h in scope. But asm/processor.h is used about 600 times, vs. only about 15 for debugreg.h -- so adding bug.h to the latter reduces the amount of time we'll be processing it during a compile. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-20x86-64: Add prototype for old_rsp to a header fileH. J. Lu
So far this has only been used in process_64.c, but the x32 code will need it in additional code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-20x86: Factor out TIF_IA32 from 32-bit address spaceH. Peter Anvin
Factor out IA32 (compatibility instruction set) from 32-bit address space in the thread_info flags; this is a precondition patch for x32 support. Originally-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4pr1xnnksprt7t0h3w5fw4rv@git.kernel.org
2012-02-20i387: support lazy restore of FPU stateLinus Torvalds
This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore entirely if so. To do this, we add two new data fields: - a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer to the task that owns the CPU. The exception is when we save the FPU state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the task whose FP state still remains on the CPU. - a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread used its FPU on last. We update this on every context switch (writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that* thread has done nothing else with the FPU since. These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match what was saved on last context switch. In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the CR0.TS bit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-18i387: move TS_USEDFPU flag from thread_info to task_structLinus Torvalds
This moves the bit that indicates whether a thread has ownership of the FPU from the TS_USEDFPU bit in thread_info->status to a word of its own (called 'has_fpu') in task_struct->thread.has_fpu. This fixes two independent bugs at the same time: - changing 'thread_info->status' from the scheduler causes nasty problems for the other users of that variable, since it is defined to be thread-synchronous (that's what the "TS_" part of the naming was supposed to indicate). So perfectly valid code could (and did) do ti->status |= TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK; and the compiler was free to do that as separate load, or and store instructions. Which can cause problems with preemption, since a task switch could happen in between, and change the TS_USEDFPU bit. The change to TS_USEDFPU would be overwritten by the final store. In practice, this seldom happened, though, because the 'status' field was seldom used more than once, so gcc would generally tend to generate code that used a read-modify-write instruction and thus happened to avoid this problem - RMW instructions are naturally low fat and preemption-safe. - On x86-32, the current_thread_info() pointer would, during interrupts and softirqs, point to a *copy* of the real thread_info, because x86-32 uses %esp to calculate the thread_info address, and thus the separate irq (and softirq) stacks would cause these kinds of odd thread_info copy aliases. This is normally not a problem, since interrupts aren't supposed to look at thread information anyway (what thread is running at interrupt time really isn't very well-defined), but it confused the heck out of irq_fpu_usable() and the code that tried to squirrel away the FPU state. (It also caused untold confusion for us poor kernel developers). It also turns out that using 'task_struct' is actually much more natural for most of the call sites that care about the FPU state, since they tend to work with the task struct for other reasons anyway (ie scheduling). And the FPU data that we are going to save/restore is found there too. Thanks to Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> for pointing us to the %esp issue. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia> Acked-and-tested-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-12x86/debug: Fix/improve the show_msr=<cpus> debug print outYinghai Lu
Found out that show_msr=<cpus> is broken, when I asked a user to use it to capture debug info about broken MTRR's whose MTRR settings are probably different between CPUs. Only the first CPUs MSRs are printed, but that is not enough to track down the suspected bug. For years we called print_cpu_msr from print_cpu_info(), but this commit: | commit 2eaad1fddd7450a48ad464229775f97fbfe8af36 | Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> | Date: Thu Dec 10 17:19:36 2009 -0800 | | x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages removed the print_cpu_info() call from all APs. Put it back - it will only print MSRs when the user specifically requests them via show_msr=<cpus>. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329069237-11483-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'Kevin Winchester
Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the !SMP case, likely to save space. However, those fields still have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef removal from other files. The additional size of the UP kernel from this change is not significant enough to worry about keeping up the distinction: text data bss dec hex filename 4737168 506459 972040 6215667 5ed7f3 vmlinux.o.before 4737444 506459 972040 6215943 5ed907 vmlinux.o.after for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config. If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should be implemented in a cleaner way. Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com> Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-14x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfoAndi Kleen
I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode" field to /proc/cpuinfo. The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks together with the other CPUID model information. I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver, it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode is updated it fills in the new values too. I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it being optimized away when the result is not used. This turns out to clean up further code which already got this information manually. This is done in followon patches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>