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Joerg Roedel 6539e738f6 KVM: MMU: Implement nested gva_to_gpa functions
This patch adds the functions to do a nested l2_gva to
l1_gpa page table walk.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:36 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 14dfe855f9 KVM: X86: Introduce pointer to mmu context used for gva_to_gpa
This patch introduces the walk_mmu pointer which points to
the mmu-context currently used for gva_to_gpa translations.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:35 +02:00
Joerg Roedel c30a358d33 KVM: MMU: Add infrastructure for two-level page walker
This patch introduces a mmu-callback to translate gpa
addresses in the walk_addr code. This is later used to
translate l2_gpa addresses into l1_gpa addresses.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:34 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 8df25a328a KVM: MMU: Track page fault data in struct vcpu
This patch introduces a struct with two new fields in
vcpu_arch for x86:

	* fault.address
	* fault.error_code

This will be used to correctly propagate page faults back
into the guest when we could have either an ordinary page
fault or a nested page fault. In the case of a nested page
fault the fault-address is different from the original
address that should be walked. So we need to keep track
about the real fault-address.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:33 +02:00
Joerg Roedel cb659db8a7 KVM: MMU: Introduce inject_page_fault function pointer
This patch introduces an inject_page_fault function pointer
into struct kvm_mmu which will be used to inject a page
fault. This will be used later when Nested Nested Paging is
implemented.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:31 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 5777ed340d KVM: MMU: Introduce get_cr3 function pointer
This function pointer in the MMU context is required to
implement Nested Nested Paging.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:31 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 1c97f0a04c KVM: X86: Introduce a tdp_set_cr3 function
This patch introduces a special set_tdp_cr3 function pointer
in kvm_x86_ops which is only used for tpd enabled mmu
contexts. This allows to remove some hacks from svm code.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:30 +02:00
Joerg Roedel f43addd461 KVM: MMU: Make set_cr3 a function pointer in kvm_mmu
This is necessary to implement Nested Nested Paging. As a
side effect this allows some cleanups in the SVM nested
paging code.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:29 +02:00
Joerg Roedel c5a78f2b64 KVM: MMU: Make tdp_enabled a mmu-context parameter
This patch changes the tdp_enabled flag from its global
meaning to the mmu-context and renames it to direct_map
there. This is necessary for Nested SVM with emulation of
Nested Paging where we need an extra MMU context to shadow
the Nested Nested Page Table.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:28 +02:00
Jes Sorensen b9a52c4b78 x86: Define MSR_EBC_FREQUENCY_ID
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:26 +02:00
Gleb Natapov d2ddd1c483 KVM: x86 emulator: get rid of "restart" in emulation context.
x86_emulate_insn() will return 1 if instruction can be restarted
without re-entering a guest.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:34 +02:00
Zachary Amsden 1d5f066e0b KVM: x86: Fix a possible backwards warp of kvmclock
Kernel time, which advances in discrete steps may progress much slower
than TSC.  As a result, when kvmclock is adjusted to a new base, the
apparent time to the guest, which runs at a much higher, nsec scaled
rate based on the current TSC, may have already been observed to have
a larger value (kernel_ns + scaled tsc) than the value to which we are
setting it (kernel_ns + 0).

We must instead compute the clock as potentially observed by the guest
for kernel_ns to make sure it does not go backwards.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:24 +02:00
Zachary Amsden 347bb4448c x86: pvclock: Move scale_delta into common header
The scale_delta function for shift / multiply with 31-bit
precision moves to a common header so it can be used by both
kernel and kvm module.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:24 +02:00
Zachary Amsden e48672fa25 KVM: x86: Unify TSC logic
Move the TSC control logic from the vendor backends into x86.c
by adding adjust_tsc_offset to x86 ops.  Now all TSC decisions
can be done in one place.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:23 +02:00
Zachary Amsden f38e098ff3 KVM: x86: TSC reset compensation
Attempt to synchronize TSCs which are reset to the same value.  In the
case of a reliable hardware TSC, we can just re-use the same offset, but
on non-reliable hardware, we can get closer by adjusting the offset to
match the elapsed time.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:22 +02:00
Zachary Amsden 99e3e30aee KVM: x86: Move TSC offset writes to common code
Also, ensure that the storing of the offset and the reading of the TSC
are never preempted by taking a spinlock.  While the lock is overkill
now, it is useful later in this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:22 +02:00
Zachary Amsden ae38436b78 KVM: x86: Drop vm_init_tsc
This is used only by the VMX code, and is not done properly;
if the TSC is indeed backwards, it is out of sync, and will
need proper handling in the logic at each and every CPU change.
For now, drop this test during init as misguided.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:21 +02:00
Dave Hansen 49d5ca2663 KVM: replace x86 kvm n_free_mmu_pages with n_used_mmu_pages
Doing this makes the code much more readable.  That's
borne out by the fact that this patch removes code.  "used"
also happens to be the number that we need to return back to
the slab code when our shrinker gets called.  Keeping this
value as opposed to free makes the next patch simpler.

So, 'struct kvm' is kzalloc()'d.  'struct kvm_arch' is a
structure member (and not a pointer) of 'struct kvm'.  That
means they start out zeroed.  I _think_ they get initialized
properly by kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages().  But, that only happens
via kvm ioctls.

Another benefit of storing 'used' intead of 'free' is
that the values are consistent from the moment the structure is
allocated: no negative "used" value.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Pepper <lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:18 +02:00
Dave Hansen 39de71ec53 KVM: rename x86 kvm->arch.n_alloc_mmu_pages
arch.n_alloc_mmu_pages is a poor choice of name. This value truly
means, "the number of pages which _may_ be allocated".  But,
reading the name, "n_alloc_mmu_pages" implies "the number of allocated
mmu pages", which is dead wrong.

It's really the high watermark, so let's give it a name to match:
nr_max_mmu_pages.  This change will make the next few patches
much more obvious and easy to read.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Pepper <lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:18 +02:00
Mohammed Gamal 160ce1f1a8 KVM: x86 emulator: Allow accessing IDT via emulator ops
The patch adds a new member get_idt() to x86_emulate_ops.
It also adds a function to get the idt in order to be used by the emulator.

This is needed for real mode interrupt injection and the emulation of int
instructions.

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:59 +02:00
Alexander Graf ba49296236 KVM: Move kvm_guest_init out of generic code
Currently x86 is the only architecture that uses kvm_guest_init(). With
PowerPC we're getting a second user, but the signature is different there
and we don't need to export it, as it uses the normal kernel init framework.

So let's move the x86 specific definition of that function over to the x86
specfic header file.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:49 +02:00
Avi Kivity 2dbd0dd711 KVM: x86 emulator: Decode memory operands directly into a 'struct operand'
Since modrm operand can be either register or memory, decoding it into
a 'struct operand', which can represent both, is simpler.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:40 +02:00
Avi Kivity d4709c78ee KVM: x86 emulator: drop use_modrm_ea
Unused (and has never been).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:34 +02:00
Avi Kivity 1a6440aef6 KVM: x86 emulator: use correct type for memory address in operands
Currently we use a void pointer for memory addresses.  That's wrong since
these are guest virtual addresses which are not directly dereferencable by
the host.

Use the correct type, unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:33 +02:00
Avi Kivity 09ee57cdae KVM: x86 emulator: push segment override out of decode_modrm()
Let it compute modrm_seg instead, and have the caller apply it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:33 +02:00
Gleb Natapov 4fc40f076f KVM: x86 emulator: check io permissions only once for string pio
Do not recheck io permission on every iteration.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:29 +02:00
Avi Kivity ef65c88912 KVM: x86 emulator: allow storing emulator execution function in decode tables
Instead of looking up the opcode twice (once for decode flags, once for
the big execution switch) look up both flags and function in the decode tables.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:22 +02:00
Avi Kivity 9aabc88fc8 KVM: x86 emulator: store x86_emulate_ops in emulation context
It doesn't ever change, so we don't need to pass it around everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:50:21 +02:00
Avi Kivity 9581d442b9 KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt
kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment
descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading
them.

Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead
of home grown unsafe versions.

This is CVE-2010-3698.

KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-19 14:21:45 -02:00
Linus Torvalds 050026feae Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Avoid 'constant_test_bit()' misoptimization due to cast to non-volatile
2010-09-27 21:19:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6a6aa2b7e4 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: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
  x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
  x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
  x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200
  x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
2010-09-27 12:22:21 -07:00
Alexander Chumachenko c9e2fbd909 x86: Avoid 'constant_test_bit()' misoptimization due to cast to non-volatile
While debugging bit_spin_lock() hang, it was tracked down to gcc-4.4
misoptimization of non-inlined constant_test_bit() due to non-volatile
addr when 'const volatile unsigned long *addr' cast to 'unsigned long *'
with subsequent unconditional jump to pause (and not to the test) leading
to hang.

Compiling with gcc-4.3 or disabling CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING yields inlined
constant_test_bit() and correct jump, thus working around the kernel bug.

Other arches than asm-x86 may implement this slightly differently;
2.6.29 mitigates the misoptimization by changing the function prototype
(commit c4295fbb60) but probably fixing the issue
itself is better.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Chumachenko <ledest@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-09-26 22:43:07 -07:00
Jan Beulich a46590533a x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp
Using cpuid_eax() to determine feature availability on other than
the current CPU is invalid. And feature availability should also be
checked in the hotplug code path.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-09-24 11:44:19 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 7329cf0201 Merge branch 'amd-iommu/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent 2010-09-24 11:19:53 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 4c894f47bb x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
This patch adds a workaround for an IOMMU BIOS problem to
the AMD IOMMU driver. The result of the bug is that the
IOMMU does not execute commands anymore when the system
comes out of the S3 state resulting in system failure. The
bug in the BIOS is that is does not restore certain hardware
specific registers correctly. This workaround reads out the
contents of these registers at boot time and restores them
on resume from S3. The workaround is limited to the specific
IOMMU chipset where this problem occurs.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-09-23 16:26:03 +02:00
Joerg Roedel e9bf519711 x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
This patch moves the setting of the configuration and
feature flags out out the acpi table parsing path and moves
it into the iommu-enable path. This is needed to reliably
fix resume-from-s3.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-09-23 16:24:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 87ac6fa26e Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
  x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding
  oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
  kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
2010-09-21 13:21:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a5b617368c 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: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity
  x86, build: Disable -fPIE when compiling with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  x86, cpufeature: Suppress compiler warning with gcc 3.x
  x86, UV: Fix initialization of max_pnode
2010-09-16 19:38:08 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 89e45aac42 x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding
Lengths and types of breakpoints are encoded in a half byte
into CPU registers. However when we extract these values
and store them, we add a high half byte part to them: 0x40 to the
length and 0x80 to the type.
When that gets reloaded to the CPU registers, the high part
is masked.

While making the instruction breakpoints available for perf,
I zapped that high part on instruction breakpoint encoding
and that broke the arch -> generic translation used by ptrace
instruction breakpoints. Writing dr7 to set an inst breakpoint
was then failing.

There is no apparent reason for these high parts so we could get
rid of them altogether. That's an invasive change though so let's
do that later and for now fix the problem by restoring that inst
breakpoint high part encoding in this sole patch.

Reported-by: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2010-09-17 03:24:13 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin c41d68a513 compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 54ff7e595d x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity
This more or less reverts commits 08be979 (x86: Force HPET
readback_cmp for all ATI chipsets) and 30a564be (x86, hpet: Restrict
read back to affected ATI chipsets) to the status of commit 8da854c
(x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET
comparator).

The delta to commit 8da854c is mostly comments and the change from
WARN_ONCE to printk_once as we know the call path of this function
already.

This needs really in depth explanation:

First of all the HPET design is a complete failure. Having a counter
compare register which generates an interrupt on matching values
forces the software to do at least one superfluous readback of the
counter register.

While it is nice in theory to program "absolute" time events it is
practically useless because the timer runs at some absurd frequency
which can never be matched to real world units. So we are forced to
calculate a relative delta and this forces a readout of the actual
counter value, adding the delta and programming the compare
register. When the delta is small enough we run into the danger that
we program a compare value which is already in the past. Due to the
compare for equal nature of HPET we need to read back the counter
value after writing the compare rehgister (btw. this is necessary for
absolute timeouts as well) to make sure that we did not miss the timer
event. We try to work around that by setting the minimum delta to a
value which is larger than the theoretical time which elapses between
the counter readout and the compare register write, but that's only
true in theory. A NMI or SMI which hits between the readout and the
write can easily push us beyond that limit. This would result in
waiting for the next HPET timer interrupt until the 32bit wraparound
of the counter happens which takes about 306 seconds.

So we designed the next event function to look like:

   match = read_cnt() + delta;
   write_compare_ref(match);
   return read_cnt() < match ? 0 : -ETIME;

At some point we got into trouble with certain ATI chipsets. Even the
above "safe" procedure failed. The reason was that the write to the
compare register was delayed probably for performance reasons. The
theory was that they wanted to avoid the synchronization of the write
with the HPET clock, which is understandable. So the write does not
hit the compare register directly instead it goes to some intermediate
register which is copied to the real compare register in sync with the
HPET clock. That opens another window for hitting the dreaded "wait
for a wraparound" problem.

To work around that "optimization" we added a read back of the compare
register which either enforced the update of the just written value or
just delayed the readout of the counter enough to avoid the issue. We
unfortunately never got any affirmative info from ATI/AMD about this.

One thing is sure, that we nuked the performance "optimization" that
way completely and I'm pretty sure that the result is worse than
before some HW folks came up with those.

Just for paranoia reasons I added a check whether the read back
compare register value was the same as the value we wrote right
before. That paranoia check triggered a couple of years after it was
added on an Intel ICH9 chipset. Venki added a workaround (commit
8da854c) which was reading the compare register twice when the first
check failed. We considered this to be a penalty in general and
restricted the readback (thus the wasted CPU cycles) to the known to
be affected ATI chipsets.

This turned out to be a utterly wrong decision. 2.6.35 testers
experienced massive problems and finally one of them bisected it down
to commit 30a564be which spured some further investigation.

Finally we got confirmation that the write to the compare register can
be delayed by up to two HPET clock cycles which explains the problems
nicely. All we can do about this is to go back to Venki's initial
workaround in a slightly modified version.

Just for the record I need to say, that all of this could have been
avoided if hardware designers and of course the HPET committee would
have thought about the consequences for a split second. It's out of my
comprehension why designing a working timer is so hard. There are two
ways to achieve it:

 1) Use a counter wrap around aware compare_reg <= counter_reg
    implementation instead of the easy compare_reg == counter_reg

    Downsides:

	- It needs more silicon.

	- It needs a readout of the counter to apply a relative
	  timeout. This is necessary as the counter does not run in
	  any useful (and adjustable) frequency and there is no
	  guarantee that the counter which is used for timer events is
	  the same which is used for reading the actual time (and
	  therefor for calculating the delta)

    Upsides:

	- None

  2) Use a simple down counter for relative timer events

    Downsides:

	- Absolute timeouts are not possible, which is not a problem
	  at all in the context of an OS and the expected
	  max. latencies/jitter (also see Downsides of #1)

   Upsides:

	- It needs less or equal silicon.

	- It works ALWAYS

	- It is way faster than a compare register based solution (One
	  write versus one write plus at least one and up to four
	  reads)

I would not be so grumpy about all of this, if I would not have been
ignored for many years when pointing out these flaws to various
hardware folks. I really hate timers (at least those which seem to be
designed by janitors).

Though finally we got a reasonable explanation plus a solution and I
want to thank all the folks involved in chasing it down and providing
valuable input to this.

Bisected-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Reported-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Reported-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-09-15 00:55:13 +02:00
Tetsuo Handa 2fd818642a x86, cpufeature: Suppress compiler warning with gcc 3.x
Gcc 3.x generates a warning

  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h: In function `__static_cpu_has':
  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:326: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints

on each file.
But static_cpu_has() for gcc 3.x does not need __static_cpu_has().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
LKML-Reference: <201008300127.o7U1RC6Z044051@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-13 14:48:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds be6200aac9 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: x86: Perform hardware_enable in CPU_STARTING callback
  KVM: i8259: fix migration
  KVM: fix i8259 oops when no vcpus are online
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
2010-09-10 08:02:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1faa6ec8cc 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, mcheck: Avoid duplicate sysfs links/files for thresholding banks
  io-mapping: Fix the address space annotations
  x86: Fix the address space annotations of iomap_atomic_prot_pfn()
  x86, mm: Fix CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G and 2G_OPT trampoline
  x86, hwmon: Fix unsafe smp_processor_id() in thermal_throttle_add_dev
2010-09-08 11:14:10 -07:00
Avi Kivity 16518d5ada KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
operand::val and operand::orig_val are 32-bit on i386, whereas cmpxchg8b
operands are 64-bit.

Fix by adding val64 and orig_val64 union members to struct operand, and
using them where needed.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-09-08 14:50:55 -03:00
Linus Torvalds d56557af19 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: bus speed strings should be const
  PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
  PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
  PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
  PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
  PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
  ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
  ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
  ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
  ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
  PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
  PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
  x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
  PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
2010-09-07 16:00:17 -07:00
Francisco Jerez cc1a8e5233 x86: Fix the address space annotations of iomap_atomic_prot_pfn()
This patch fixes the sparse warnings when the return pointer of
iomap_atomic_prot_pfn() is used as an argument of iowrite32()
and friends.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
LKML-Reference: <1283633804-11749-1-git-send-email-currojerez@riseup.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-05 14:26:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5e686019df Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states
  sched: Fix rq->clock synchronization when migrating tasks
2010-08-25 08:40:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 36423a5ed5 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, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash
  x86, hotplug: Serialize CPU hotplug to avoid bringup concurrency issues
  x86-32: Fix dummy trampoline-related inline stubs
  x86-32: Separate 1:1 pagetables from swapper_pg_dir
  x86, cpu: Fix regression in AMD errata checking code
2010-08-20 14:25:08 -07:00
Suresh Siddha cd7240c0b9 x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states
TSC's get reset after suspend/resume (even on cpu's with invariant TSC
which runs at a constant rate across ACPI P-, C- and T-states). And in
some systems BIOS seem to reinit TSC to arbitrary large value (still
sync'd across cpu's) during resume.

This leads to a scenario of scheduler rq->clock (sched_clock_cpu()) less
than rq->age_stamp (introduced in 2.6.32). This leads to a big value
returned by scale_rt_power() and the resulting big group power set by the
update_group_power() is causing improper load balancing between busy and
idle cpu's after suspend/resume.

This resulted in multi-threaded workloads (like kernel-compilation) go
slower after suspend/resume cycle on core i5 laptops.

Fix this by recomputing cyc2ns_offset's during resume, so that
sched_clock() continues from the point where it was left off during
suspend.

Reported-by: Florian Pritz <flo@xssn.at>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [v2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1282262618.2675.24.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-20 14:59:02 +02:00