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Ingo Molnar c280ea5e4c x86: fix documentation typo in arch/x86/Kconfig
Impact: documentation update

Chris Snook pointed out that it's Core i7, not Core 7i.

Reported-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:29 +01:00
James Bottomley 6cd10f8db3 x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage
Impact: build/boot fix for x86/Voyager

This change:

| commit 3d44223327
| Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| Date:   Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200
|
|     Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls

didn't wire up the voyager smp call function correctly, so do that
here.  Also make CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS a def_bool y again,
since we now use the generic helpers for every x86 architecture.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <Jens.Axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 12:08:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f1c4be5eda tracing, x86: clean up FUNCTION_RET_TRACER Kconfig
Impact: cleanup

move FUNCTION_RET_TRACER to the X86 select section, where we have all the
other options.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:17 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker caf4b323b0 tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar ae1e9130bf sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
Impact: cleanup, change .config option name

We had this ugly config name for a long time for hysteric raisons.
Rename it to a saner name.

We still cannot get rid of it completely, until /proc/<pid>/stack
usage replaces WCHAN usage for good.

We'll be able to do that in the v2.6.29/v2.6.30 timeframe.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 08:59:20 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 4694516d19 x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN
While investigating the failure of hibernation on 32-bit x86 with
CONFIG_NUMA set, as described in this message
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122634118116226&w=4
I asked some people for help and I was told that it wasn't really
worth the effort, because CONFIG_NUMA was generally broken on 32-bit
x86 systems and it shouldn't be used in such configs.  For this
reason, make CONFIG_NUMA depend on BROKEN instead of EXPERIMENTAL on
x86-32.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-10 13:20:57 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 895e031707 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups 2008-11-08 20:23:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 258594a138 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-07 10:29:58 +01:00
Linus Torvalds a15a82f42c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
  x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo
  AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path
  x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
  x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle
  x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
  x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit
  x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS
  x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
  x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed
  x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage
  AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
2008-11-06 15:57:24 -08:00
Ken Chen a87d091434 x86, sched: enable wchan config menu item on 64-bit
Enable the wchan config menu item for now on x86-64 arch?  This will
at least allow people to enable/disable frame pointers on scheduler
functions.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:24:51 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro fd51b2d7d5 x86: update CONFIG_NUMA description
Impact: clarify/update CONFIG_NUMA text

CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
So, following changes are better.

 o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL

 o Opteron is not the only processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer,
   but also Intel Core7i has it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:50:38 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas da85f865b1 x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
Impact: clarify menuconfig text

Mention ACPI in the top-level menu to give a clue as to where
it lives. This matches what ia64 does.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 08:16:19 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 60a7ecf426 ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:51 +01:00
Keith Packard e5beae1690 io mapping: clean up #ifdefs
Impact: cleanup

clean up ifdefs: change #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32/64 to
CONFIG_HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP.

flip around the #ifdef sections to clean up the structure.

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 18:21:45 +01:00
Gary Hade 3555105333 x86: add memory hotremove config option
Impact: enable CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE feature on x86. (default-off)

Memory hotremove functionality can currently be configured into
the ia64, powerpc, and s390 kernels.

This patch makes it possible to configure the memory hotremove
functionality into the x86 kernel as well.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 10:03:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 74c75f524e Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: cpu_index build fix
  x86/voyager: fix missing cpu_index initialisation
  x86/voyager: fix compile breakage caused by dc1e35c6e9
  x86: fix /dev/mem mmap breakage when PAT is disabled
  x86/voyager: fix compile breakage casued by x86: move prefill_possible_map calling early
  x86: use CONFIG_X86_SMP instead of CONFIG_SMP
  x86/voyager: fix boot breakage caused by x86: boot secondary cpus through initial_code
  x86, uv: fix compile error in uv_hub.h
  i386/PAE: fix pud_page()
  x86: remove debug code from arch_add_memory()
  x86: start annotating early ioremap pointers with __iomem
  x86: two trivial sparse annotations
  x86: fix init_memory_mapping for [dc000000 - e0000000) - v2
2008-10-30 18:33:46 -07:00
James Bottomley b3572e361b x86/voyager: fix compile breakage caused by dc1e35c6e9
Impact: build fix on x86/Voyager

Given commits like this:

| Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
| Date:   Tue Jul 29 10:29:19 2008 -0700
|
|     x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support

Which deliberately expose boot cpu dependence to pieces of the system,
I think it's time to explicitly have a variable for it to prevent this
continual misassumption that the boot CPU is zero.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-31 00:19:33 +01:00
Jan Beulich 7a5276889c x86: simplify X86_MPPARSE config option
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30 18:54:33 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7a9787e1eb Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks 2008-10-28 16:26:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4944dd62de Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-27 10:50:54 +01:00
Len Brown 057316cc6a Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-23 00:11:07 -04:00
Len Brown 530bc23bfe Merge branch 'i7300_idle' into test 2008-10-22 23:28:36 -04:00
Nick Piggin 9e899816d1 x86, mm: enable GBPAGES option by default
DIRECT_GBPAGES was under DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by default.
Turn it on by default and put it under EMBEDDED.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 13:30:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar debfcaf93e Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-22 09:08:14 +02:00
Andy Henroid 27471fdb32 i7300_idle driver v1.55
The Intel 7300 Memory Controller supports dynamic throttling of memory which can
be used to save power when system is idle. This driver does the memory
throttling when all CPUs are idle on such a system.

Refer to "Intel 7300 Memory Controller Hub (MCH)" datasheet
for the config space description.

Signed-off-by: Andy Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
2008-10-21 23:58:41 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9301975ec2 Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.

The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]).  The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.

* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
  genirq: improve include files
  intr_remapping: fix typo
  io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
  genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
  genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
  genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
  proc: fixup irq iterator
  genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
  x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
  x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
  x86: cleanup show_interrupts
  genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
  genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
  genirq: revert dynarray
  genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
  genirq: remove sparse irq code
  genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
  genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
  x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
  genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
  ...
2008-10-20 13:23:01 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 606576ce81 ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 18:27:03 +02:00
Matt Helsley dc52ddc0e6 container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 3e10e879a8 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing-v28-for-linus-v3
Conflicts:
	init/main.c
	kernel/module.c
	scripts/bootgraph.pl
2008-10-19 19:04:47 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 89cedfefca cpuidle: upon BIOS bug, default to default_idle rather than polling
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11345

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-16 19:00:08 -04:00
Linus Torvalds e533b22705 Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails
  softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
  softirqs, debug: preemption check
  x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap()
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
  softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
  dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system()
  generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t
  generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t
  generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
  softirq: allocate less vectors
  IO resources: fix/remove printk
  printk: robustify printk, update comment
  printk: robustify printk, fix #2
  printk: robustify printk, fix
  printk: robustify printk

Fixed up conflicts in:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
manually.
2008-10-16 15:17:40 -07:00
Jan Beulich 9ba16087d9 Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.

Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner d6c88a507e genirq: revert dynarray
Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-16 16:53:15 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 3235e936c0 x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
This code is not ready yet.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-16 16:53:14 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 8f09cd20a2 x86: make HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ support selectable
Ingo said sparse_irq is some intrusive. need to make it selectable

to make it simple, remove irq_desc as parameter in some functions.
(ack, eoi, set_affinity).
may need to make member if irq_chip to take irq_desc, or struct irq later.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:57 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 199751d715 x86: make 32 bit to use sparse_irq
but actually irq still needs to be less than NR_IRQS, because
interrupt[NR_IRQS] in entry.S.

need to enable per_cpu vector...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:53 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 8b8e8c1bf7 x86: remove irqbalance in kernel for 32 bit
This has been deprecated for years, the user space irqbalanced utility
works better with numa, has configurable policies, etc...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmai.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:52 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 08678b0841 generic: sparse irqs: use irq_desc() together with dyn_array, instead of irq_desc[]
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array.
Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions.

Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more.

( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build
  failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces
  new irq_desc[] usage. )

v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc()

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:29 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 6da55c3e8d x86: enable dyn_array support
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6b2ada8210 Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', 'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus 2008-10-15 12:48:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e4b2b88661 ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86
Enable the use of the __mcount_loc infrastructure on x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:54 +02:00
David Woodhouse e758936e02 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/statfs.h
2008-10-13 17:13:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a9b9e81c91 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-check 2008-10-12 15:05:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 2ffb3501f6 x86: change MTRR_SANITIZER to def_bool y
This option has been added in v2.6.26 as a default-disabled
feature and went through several revisions since then.

The feature fixes a wide range of MTRR setup problems that BIOSes
leave us with: slow system, slow Xorg, slow system when adding lots
of RAM, etc., so we want to enable it by default for v2.6.28.

See:

  [Bug 10508] Upgrade to 4GB of RAM messes up MTRRs
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10508

and the test results in:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/273

1. hpa
reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0x13c000000 (5056MB), size=  64MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size=   1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size=   8MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 128M        num_reg: 6      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC
range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 000000013c000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 5056MB, range: 64MB, type UC

2. Dylan Taft
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xc7e00000 (3198MB), size=   2MB: uncachable, count=1
reg06: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 4M  num_reg: 6      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c8000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 128MB, type WB
hole: 00000000c7e00000 - 00000000c8000000
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3198MB, range: 2MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 256MB, type WB

3. Gabriel
reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size=  64MB: write-back, count=1
reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size=   2MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 16M         num_reg: 7      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000d0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 256MB, type WB
hole: 00000000cf600000 - 00000000cf800000
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3318MB, range: 2MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 128MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 6, base: 4736MB, range: 64MB, type WB

4. Mika Fischer
reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 16M         num_reg: 5      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC
rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-01 08:35:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e6aa0f07cb Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/microcode 2008-09-24 10:31:34 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko 18dbc91605 x86: moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c
Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a
single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent).

Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h
into their respective arch-specific .c files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:21:42 +02:00
Joerg Roedel a80dc3e0e0 AMD IOMMU: add MSI interrupt support
The AMD IOMMU can generate interrupts for various reasons. This patch
adds the basic interrupt enabling infrastructure to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19 12:59:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5e51900be6 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/cleanups 2008-09-19 09:15:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fc38151947 x86: add X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K
This bugzilla:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237

Documents a wide range of systems where the BIOS utilizes the first
64K of physical memory during suspend/resume and other hardware events.

Currently we reserve this memory on all AMI and Phoenix BIOS systems.
Life is too short to hunt subtle memory corruption problems like this,
so we try to be robust by default.

Still, allow this to be overriden: allow users who want that first 64K
of memory to be available to the kernel disable the quirk, via
CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=n.

Also, allow the early reservation to overlap with other
early reservations.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-16 12:16:07 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 8308c54d7e generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t
There's no good reason why a resource_size_t shouldn't just be a
physical address, so simply redefine it in terms of phys_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 17:24:27 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 600715dcdf generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold
any physical address.  By default it equals the word size of the
architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 17:24:25 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan b899219572 x86: simpler SYSVIPC_COMPAT definition
X86_64 part is entirely redundant.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 14:57:15 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 9c0bbee8a6 seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC_FS
seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-09 09:09:51 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge c885df50f5 x86: default corruption check to off, but put parameter default in Kconfig
Default the low memory corruption check to off, but make the default setting of
the memory_corruption_check kernel parameter a config parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:40:02 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 9f077871ce x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parameters
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime.

This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption
check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:40:01 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 5394f80f92 x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k.  This
change:
 - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
   prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel.  Things
   like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
 - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
 - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
   memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero.  Currently it's called in the
   x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:39:59 +02:00
David Woodhouse e17c6d5616 Introduce HAVE_AOUT symbol to remove hard-coded arch list for BINFMT_AOUT
HAVE_AOUT doesn't quite do the same thing as the recently removed
ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT config option. That was set even on platforms where
binfmt_aout isn't supported, although it's not entirely clear why.

So it's best just to introduce a new symbol, handled consistently with
other similar HAVE_xxx symbols; with a simple 'select' in the arch Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-06 19:30:22 +01:00
David Woodhouse 6b213e1bc2 Remove redundant CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
We don't need this any more; arguably we never really did.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-06 19:30:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 616ad8c442 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/defconfig 2008-09-05 18:56:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 28c3cfd5fb Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehook 2008-09-05 17:53:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds d25e26b61d [x86] Clean up MAXSMP Kconfig, and limit NR_CPUS to 512
This fixes a regression that was indirectly caused by commit
1184dc2ffe ("x86: modify Kconfig to allow
up to 4096 cpus").

Allowing 4k CPU's is not practical at this time, because we still have a
number of places that have several 'cpumask_t's on the stack, and a
4k-bit cpumask is 512 bytes of stack-space for each such variable.  This
literally caused functions like 'smp_call_function_mask' to have a 2.5kB
stack frame, and several functions to have 2kB stackframes.

With an 8kB stack total, smashing the stack was simply much too likely.
At least bugzilla entry

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342

was due to this.

The earlier commit to not inline load_module() into sys_init_module()
fixed the particular symptoms of this that Alan Brunelle saw in that
bugzilla entry, but the huge stack waste by cpumask_t's was the more
direct cause.

Some day we'll have allocation helpers that allocate large CPU masks
dynamically, but in the meantime we simply cannot allow cpumasks this
large.

Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-25 14:15:38 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 470fba7ebe Merge branch 'linus' into x86/doc 2008-08-21 13:28:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 04197c83b3 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehook
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 17:07:34 +02:00
Tim Bird 516cbf3730 x86, bootup: add built-in kernel command line for x86 (v2)
Allow x86 to support a built-in kernel command line.  The built-in
command line can override the one provided by the boot loader, for
those cases where the boot loader is broken or it is difficult
to change the command line in the the boot loader.

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> Best would be to make it really apparent in the code that nothing
>> changes if this config option is not set. Preferably there should be
>> no extra code at all in that case.
>>
>
> I would like to see this:
[...Nested ifdefs...]

OK. This version changes absolutely nothing if CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not
set (the default).  Also, no space is appended even when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
is set, but the builtin string is empty.  This is less sloppy all the way
around, IMHO.

Note that I use the same option names as on other arches for
this feature.

[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 16:10:37 +02:00
Pavel Machek 04b69447f7 arch/x86/Kconfig: clean up, experimental adjustement
Adjust experimental tags in Kconfig, update config to notice that
i386/x86_64 is now single architecture.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 14:06:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 51ca3c6791 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
	include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 14:58:01 +02:00
Rusty Russell 912985dce4 mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak
symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST.

Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
Jeff Chua 99809963c9 x86: make sparsemem more available
With CONFIG_X86_PC, I can set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y.

With CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_SPARSEMEM depends on CONFIG_NUMA.

I'm using the patch below to enable sparsemem instead of flatmem.
System booted and is running.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 22:01:57 +02:00
Dimitri Sivanich 7c13e6a3d1 x86: remove EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
on the x86 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 18:29:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 15dd859cac Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
	include/asm-x86/namei.h
	include/asm-x86/uaccess.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:33:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3825c9e8d0 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/microcode
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c

Manual resolutions:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 11:54:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cb28a1bbdb Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 00:07:55 +02:00
Peter Oruba 80cc9f1020 x86: AMD microcode patch loading support
This patch introduces microcode patch loading for AMD
processors. It is based on previous corresponding work
for Intel processors.

It hooks into the general patch loading module. Main
difference is that a container file format is used to hold
all patch data for multiple processors as well as an
equivalent CPU table, which comes seperately, as opposed
to Intel's microcode patching solution.

Kconfig and Makefile have been changed provice config
and build option for new source file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:58 +02:00
Peter Oruba 8d86f390d9 x86: major refactoring
Refactored code by introducing a two-module solution.

There is one general module in which vendor specific modules can hook into.
However, that is exclusive, there is only one vendor specific module
allowed at a time. A CPU vendor check makes sure only the correct
module for the underlying system gets called.

Functinally in terms of patch loading itself there are no changes. This
refactoring provides a basis for future implementations of other vendors'
patch loaders.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 19:57:57 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 7225e75144 documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 14:46:49 +02:00
Roland McGrath 99bbc4b1e6 x86: tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
The x86 arch code has all the prerequisites, so set HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-07-26 14:38:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fb3b806144 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, AMD IOMMU: include amd_iommu_last_bdf in device initialization
  x86: fix IBM Summit based systems' phys_cpu_present_map on 32-bit kernels
  x86, RDC321x: remove gpio.h complications
  x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default
  crashdump: fix undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr'
  flag parameters: fix compile error of sys_epoll_create1
2008-07-26 13:25:05 -07:00
Nick Piggin 8174c430e4 x86: lockless get_user_pages_fast()
Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86.

Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any
page table locks or even mmap_sem.  Page table existence is guaranteed by
turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking
up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the
constraints of the TLB shootdown design).  Basically we can do this
lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable
walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes.

This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use
it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8
core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5

 "To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM
  x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at
  2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel.  Comparing
  runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance
  benefit of ~9.8%.  Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from
  __up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention
  for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%.  Monitoring the
  /proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for
  fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was
  zero."

(fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a
counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked).

The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each
issuing direct-IO.  Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads
contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks.

I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I
think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be
that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases.
In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain.

The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte
with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to
get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work.
However this should not be the common case in most performance critical
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Huang Ying 89081d17f7 kexec jump: save/restore device state
This patch implements devices state save/restore before after kexec.

This patch together with features in kexec_jump patch can be used for
following:

- A simple hibernation implementation without ACPI support.  You can kexec a
  hibernating kernel, save the memory image of original system and shutdown
  the system.  When resuming, you restore the memory image of original system
  via ordinary kexec load then jump back.

- Kernel/system debug through making system snapshot.  You can make system
  snapshot, jump back, do some thing and make another system snapshot.

- Cooperative multi-kernel/system.  With kexec jump, you can switch between
  several kernels/systems quickly without boot process except the first time.
  This appears like swap a whole kernel/system out/in.

- A general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning
  off). This can be used to invoke BIOS code under Linux.

The following user-space tools can be used with kexec jump:

- kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches
  and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
       source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
       patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
       binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10

- makedumpfile with patches are used as memory image saving tool, it
  can exclude free pages from original kernel memory image file. The
  patches and the precompiled makedumpfile can be download from the
  following URL:
       source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-src_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2
       patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-patches_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2
       binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_cvs_kh10

- An initramfs image can be used as the root file system of kexeced
  kernel. An initramfs image built with "BuildRoot" can be downloaded
  from the following URL:
       initramfs image: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/initramfs/rootfs_cvs_kh10.gz
  All user space tools above are included in the initramfs image.

Usage example of simple hibernation:

1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:

CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y

2. Build an initramfs image contains kexec-tool and makedumpfile, or
   download the pre-built initramfs image, called rootfs.gz in
   following text.

3. Prepare a partition to save memory image of original kernel, called
   hibernating partition in following text.

4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel A).

5. In the kernel A, load kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel B) with
   /sbin/kexec. The shell command line can be as follow:

   /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context /boot/bzImage --mem-min=0x100000
     --mem-max=0xffffff --initrd=rootfs.gz

6. Boot the kernel B with following shell command line:

   /sbin/kexec -e

7. The kernel B will boot as normal kexec. In kernel B the memory
   image of kernel A can be saved into hibernating partition as
   follow:

   jump_back_entry=`cat /proc/cmdline | tr ' ' '\n' | grep kexec_jump_back_entry | cut -d '='`
   echo $jump_back_entry > kexec_jump_back_entry
   cp /proc/vmcore dump.elf

   Then you can shutdown the machine as normal.

8. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel C). Use the rootfs.gz as
   root file system.

9. In kernel C, load the memory image of kernel A as follow:

   /sbin/kexec -l --args-none --entry=`cat kexec_jump_back_entry` dump.elf

10. Jump back to the kernel A as follow:

   /sbin/kexec -e

   Then, kernel A is resumed.

Implementation point:

To support jumping between two kernels, before jumping to (executing)
the new kernel and jumping back to the original kernel, the devices
are put into quiescent state, and the state of devices and CPU is
saved. After jumping back from kexeced kernel and jumping to the new
kernel, the state of devices and CPU are restored accordingly. The
devices/CPU state save/restore code of software suspend is called to
implement corresponding function.

Known issues:

- Because the segment number supported by sys_kexec_load is limited,
  hibernation image with many segments may not be load. This is
  planned to be eliminated by adding a new flag to sys_kexec_load to
  make a image can be loaded with multiple sys_kexec_load invoking.

Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
Huang Ying 3ab8352137 kexec jump
This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump.  It implements the
following features:

- Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
  kexec.

- Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.

The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
physical mode (paging turning off).  This can be used to call BIOS code under
Linux.

kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:

       source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
       patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
       binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10

Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:

1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:

CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y

2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.

3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"

4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.

5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
   line can be as follow:

   /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode

6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:

   /sbin/kexec -e

Implementation point:

To support jumping without reserving memory.  One shadow backup page (source
page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
page).  When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped.  Before jumping
to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.

C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
kernel and called code.

A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.

Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 10d3285d0b Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/gpio.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:30:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6dec3a10a7 Merge branch 'x86/x2apic' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/i8259.h
	include/asm-x86/msidef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:29:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1f972768a1 x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default
first step to add RDC321x support to the default PC architecture.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 13:51:46 +02:00
Michael Buesch 7444a72eff gpiolib: allow user-selection
This patch adds functionality to the gpio-lib subsystem to make it
possible to enable the gpio-lib code even if the architecture code didn't
request to get it built in.

The archtitecture code does still need to implement the gpiolib accessor
functions in its asm/gpio.h file.  This patch adds the implementations for
x86 and PPC.

With these changes it is possible to run generic GPIO expansion cards on
every architecture that implements the trivial wrapper functions.  Support
for more architectures can easily be added.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
Johannes Berg 58340a07c1 introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at
compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol

	HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures.  Also add
some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended
use of this symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 10a010f695 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:

	drivers/pci/dmar.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25 13:08:16 +02:00
Rik van Riel 28b2ee20c7 access_process_vm device memory infrastructure
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.

This patch:

Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.

[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 76c3bb15d6 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic 2008-07-22 09:06:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a208f37a46 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic 2008-07-18 22:50:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f6dc8ccaab Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 21:13:20 +02:00
Stefan Assmann 41b9eb264c x86, pci: introduce config option for pci reroute quirks (was: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI)
This is against linux-2.6-tip, branch pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks.

From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Subject: Introduce config option for pci reroute quirks

The config option X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS is introduced to
enable (or disable) the redirection of the interrupt handler to the boot
interrupt line by default. Depending on the existence of interrupt
masking / threaded interrupt handling in the kernel (vanilla, rt, ...)
and the maturity of the rerouting patch, users can enable or disable the
redirection by default.

This means that the reroute quirk can be applied to any kernel without
changing it.

Interrupt sharing could be increased if this option is enabled. However this
option is vital for threaded interrupt handling, as done by the RT kernel.
It should simplify the consolidation with the RT kernel.

The option can be overridden by either pci=ioapicreroute or
pci=noioapicreroute.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Ihno Krumreich <ihno@suse.de>
Cc: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>
Cc: Felix Foerster <ffoerster@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 19:31:19 +02:00
Yinghai Lu caadbdce24 x86: enable memory tester support on 32-bit
only supports memory below max_low_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:11:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1a781a777b Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00