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Linus Torvalds 96a3d998fb Merge branch 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 tracing updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds IRQ vector tracepoints that are named after the handler
  and which output the vector #, based on a zero-overhead approach that
  relies on changing the IDT entries, by Seiji Aguchi.

  The new tracepoints look like this:

   # perf list | grep -i irq_vector
    irq_vectors:local_timer_entry                      [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:local_timer_exit                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_entry                    [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_exit                     [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
   [...]"

* 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tracing: Add config option checking to the definitions of mce handlers
  trace,x86: Do not call local_irq_save() in load_current_idt()
  trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c
  x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints
  x86: Rename variables for debugging
  x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq()
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro
2013-07-02 16:31:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 55a0d3ff60 Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc debuggability improvements:

   - Optimize the x86 CPU register printout a bit
   - Expose the tboot TXT log via debugfs
   - Small do_debug() cleanup"

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tboot: Provide debugfs interfaces to access TXT log
  x86: Remove weird PTR_ERR() in do_debug
  x86/debug: Only print out DR registers if they are not power-on defaults
2013-07-02 16:25:06 -07:00
Seiji Aguchi 629f4f9d59 x86: Rename variables for debugging
Rename variables for debugging to describe meaning of them precisely.

Also, introduce a generic way to switch IDT by checking a current state,
debug on/off.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C323A8.7050905@hds.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-20 22:25:13 -07:00
Rusty Russell 5a802e1530 x86: Remove weird PTR_ERR() in do_debug
62edab905 changed the argument to notify_die() from dr6 to &dr6,
but weirdly, used PTR_ERR() to cast it to a long.  Since dr6 is
on the stack, this is an abuse of PTR_ERR().  Cast to long, as
per kernel standard.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371357768-4968-8-git-send-email-rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 15:01:36 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 4d067d8e05 x86: Extend #DF debugging aid to 64-bit
It is sometimes very helpful to be able to pinpoint the location which
causes a double fault before it turns into a triple fault and the
machine reboots. We have this for 32-bit already so extend it to 64-bit.
On 64-bit we get the register snapshot at #DF time and not from the
first exception which actually causes the #DF. It should be close
enough, though.

[ hpa: and definitely better than nothing, which is what we have now. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368093749-31296-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-05-13 13:42:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 01c7cd0ef5 Merge branch 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perparatory x86 kasrl changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains changes from the ongoing KASLR work, by Kees Cook.

  The main changes are the use of a read-only IDT on x86 (which
  decouples the userspace visible virtual IDT address from the physical
  address), and a rework of ELF relocation support, in preparation of
  random, boot-time kernel image relocation."

* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, relocs: Refactor the relocs tool to merge 32- and 64-bit ELF
  x86, relocs: Build separate 32/64-bit tools
  x86, relocs: Add 64-bit ELF support to relocs tool
  x86, relocs: Consolidate processing logic
  x86, relocs: Generalize ELF structure names
  x86: Use a read-only IDT alias on all CPUs
2013-04-30 08:37:24 -07:00
Kees Cook 4eefbe792b x86: Use a read-only IDT alias on all CPUs
Make a copy of the IDT (as seen via the "sidt" instruction) read-only.
This primarily removes the IDT from being a target for arbitrary memory
write attacks, and has the added benefit of also not leaking the kernel
base offset, if it has been relocated.

We already did this on vendor == Intel and family == 5 because of the
F0 0F bug -- regardless of if a particular CPU had the F0 0F bug or
not.  Since the workaround was so cheap, there simply was no reason to
be very specific.  This patch extends the readonly alias to all CPUs,
but does not activate the #PF to #UD conversion code needed to deliver
the proper exception in the F0 0F case except on Intel family 5
processors.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410192422.GA17344@www.outflux.net
Cc: Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-11 13:53:19 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 6c1e0256fa context_tracking: Restore correct previous context state on exception exit
On exception exit, we restore the previous context tracking state based on
the regs of the interrupted frame. Iff that frame is in user mode as
stated by user_mode() helper, we restore the context tracking user mode.

However there is a tiny chunck of low level arch code after we pass through
user_enter() and until the CPU eventually resumes userspace.
If an exception happens in this tiny area, exception_enter() correctly
exits the context tracking user mode but exception_exit() won't restore
it because of the value returned by user_mode(regs).

As a result we may return to userspace with the wrong context tracking
state.

To fix this, change exception_enter() to return the context tracking state
prior to its call and pass this saved state to exception_exit(). This restores
the real context tracking state of the interrupted frame.

(May be this patch was suggested to me, I don't recall exactly. If so,
sorry for the missing credit).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-07 17:10:11 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 56dd9470d7 context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic code
Exceptions handling on context tracking should share common
treatment: on entry we exit user mode if the exception triggered
in that context. Then on exception exit we return to that previous
context.

Generalize this to avoid duplication across archs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-07 17:09:25 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin 8170e6bed4 x86, 64bit: Use a #PF handler to materialize early mappings on demand
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>
2013-01-29 15:20:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1bd12c91de Merge branch 'x86/nuke386' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull one final 386 removal patch from Peter Anvin.

IRQ 13 FPU error handling is gone.  That was not one of the proudest
moments in PC history.

* 'x86/nuke386' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, 386 removal: Remove support for IRQ 13 FPU error reporting
2012-12-19 13:02:23 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin bc3eba6068 x86, 386 removal: Remove support for IRQ 13 FPU error reporting
Remove support for FPU error reporting via IRQ 13, as opposed to
exception 16 (#MF).  One last remnant of i386 gone.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
2012-12-17 11:42:40 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 91d1aa43d3 context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.

This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.

We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-30 11:40:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ac07f5c3cb Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving
  support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor
  FPU state saving instructions.

  There are also various Sparse fixes"

Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end()
  x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit()
  x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state
  x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt
  x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
  x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
  lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models
  x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
  x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
  x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()
  x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe
  x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels
  x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state
  x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32
2012-10-01 11:10:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds da8347969f Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of 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
2012-10-01 10:46:27 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 6ba3c97a38 x86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
Add necessary hooks to x86 exception for userspace
RCU extended quiescent state support.

This includes traps, page fault, debug exceptions, etc...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-26 15:47:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker ef3f628872 x86: Unspaghettize do_general_protection()
There is some unnatural label based layout in this function.
Convert the unnecessary goto to readable conditional blocks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-26 15:47:06 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c416ddf5b9 x86: Unspaghettize do_trap()
Cleanup the label maze in this function. Having a
seperate function to first handle the traps that don't
generate a signal makes it easier to convert into
more readable conditional paths.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348577479-2564-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ Fixed 32-bit build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-26 13:36:50 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 5d2bd7009f x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-09-18 15:52:22 -07:00
Suresh Siddha 304bceda6a x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-09-18 15:52:11 -07:00
Joe Perches c767a54ba0 x86/debug: Add KERN_<LEVEL> to bare printks, convert printks to pr_<level>
Use a more current logging style:

 - Bare printks should have a KERN_<LEVEL> for consistency's sake
 - Add pr_fmt where appropriate
 - Neaten some macro definitions
 - Convert some Ok output to OK
 - Use "%s: ", __func__ in pr_fmt for summit
 - Convert some printks to pr_<level>

Message output is not identical in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337655007.24226.10.camel@joe2Laptop
[ merged two similar patches, tidied up the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 09:17:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a192cd0413 ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints
When the function tracer starts modifying the code via breakpoints
it sets a variable (modifying_ftrace_code) to inform the breakpoint
handler to call the ftrace int3 code.

But there's no synchronization between setting this code and the
handler, thus it is possible for the handler to be called on another
CPU before it sees the variable. This will cause a kernel crash as
the int3 handler will not know what to do with it.

I originally added smp_mb()'s to force the visibility of the variable
but H. Peter Anvin suggested that I just make it atomic.

[ Added comments as suggested by Peter Zijlstra ]

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-31 23:12:17 -04:00
Linus Torvalds d5b4bb4d10 Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker:
 "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but
  realistically, nobody is using them anymore.  They were mostly limited
  to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than
  64MB of RAM.  Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have
  dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching
  various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware.

  So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA.  There is no point
  carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it;
  wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git
  grep'ping over it, and so on."

Let's see if anybody screams.  It generally has compiled, and James
Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that
allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines.  So in *theory*
there may be users out there.

But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually
have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar
that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't
argue for keeping MCA support either.

So we could bring it back.  But somebody had better speak up and talk
about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern
kernels for us to do that.  And David already took the patch to delete
all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net:
delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA").

* 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
  scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code
  serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support.
  arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA
2012-05-23 17:12:06 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker bb8187d35f MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
of memory.  A quick search on the internet, and you see that
even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.

This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
kernel code and from the x86 architecture.  There is no point in
carrying this any further into the future.

One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-05-17 19:06:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 08d636b6d4 ftrace/x86: Have arch x86_64 use breakpoints instead of stop machine
This method changes x86 to add a breakpoint to the mcount locations
instead of calling stop machine.

Now that iret can be handled by NMIs, we perform the following to
update code:

1) Add a breakpoint to all locations that will be modified

2) Sync all cores

3) Update all locations to be either a nop or call (except breakpoint
   op)

4) Sync all cores

5) Remove the breakpoint with the new code.

6) Sync all cores

[
  Added updates that Masami suggested:
   Use unlikely(modifying_ftrace_code) in int3 trap to keep kprobes efficient.
   Don't use NOTIFY_* in ftrace handler in int3 as it is not a notifier.
]

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-27 21:10:44 -04:00
Linus Torvalds eb05df9e7e Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of 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
2012-03-29 18:21:35 -07:00
David Howells f05e798ad4 Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86
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
2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
Srikar Dronamraju 51e7dc7011 x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct
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>
2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
Kees Cook c94082656d x86: Use enum instead of literals for trap values
The traps are referred to by their numbers and it can be difficult to
understand them while reading the code without context. This patch adds
enumeration of the trap numbers and replaces the numbers with the correct
enum for x86.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310000710.GA32667@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-03-09 16:47:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1361b83a13 i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
While various modules include <asm/i387.h> to get access to things we
actually *intend* for them to use, most of that header file was really
pretty low-level internal stuff that we really don't want to expose to
others.

So split the header file into two: the small exported interfaces remain
in <asm/i387.h>, while the internal definitions that are only used by
core architecture code are now in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The guiding principle for this was to expose functions that we export to
modules, and leave them in <asm/i387.h>, while stuff that is used by
task switching or was marked GPL-only is in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The fpu-internal.h file could be further split up too, especially since
arch/x86/kvm/ uses some of the remaining stuff for its module.  But that
kvm usage should probably be abstracted out a bit, and at least now the
internal FPU accessor functions are much more contained.  Even if it
isn't perhaps as contained as it _could_ be.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202211340330.5354@i5.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-02-21 14:12:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 80ab6f1e8c i387: use 'restore_fpu_checking()' directly in task switching code
This inlines what is usually just a couple of instructions, but more
importantly it also fixes the theoretical error case (can that FPU
restore really ever fail? Maybe we should remove the checking).

We can't start sending signals from within the scheduler, we're much too
deep in the kernel and are holding the runqueue lock etc.  So don't
bother even trying.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-20 10:58:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 34ddc81a23 i387: re-introduce FPU state preloading at context switch time
After all the FPU state cleanups and finally finding the problem that
caused all our FPU save/restore problems, this re-introduces the
preloading of FPU state that was removed in commit b3b0870ef3 ("i387:
do not preload FPU state at task switch time").

However, instead of simply reverting the removal, this reimplements
preloading with several fixes, most notably

 - properly abstracted as a true FPU state switch, rather than as
   open-coded save and restore with various hacks.

   In particular, implementing it as a proper FPU state switch allows us
   to optimize the CR0.TS flag accesses: there is no reason to set the
   TS bit only to then almost immediately clear it again.  CR0 accesses
   are quite slow and expensive, don't flip the bit back and forth for
   no good reason.

 - Make sure that the same model works for both x86-32 and x86-64, so
   that there are no gratuitous differences between the two due to the
   way they save and restore segment state differently due to
   architectural differences that really don't matter to the FPU state.

 - Avoid exposing the "preload" state to the context switch routines,
   and in particular allow the concept of lazy state restore: if nothing
   else has used the FPU in the meantime, and the process is still on
   the same CPU, we can avoid restoring state from memory entirely, just
   re-expose the state that is still in the FPU unit.

   That optimized lazy restore isn't actually implemented here, but the
   infrastructure is set up for it.  Of course, older CPU's that use
   'fnsave' to save the state cannot take advantage of this, since the
   state saving also trashes the state.

In other words, there is now an actual _design_ to the FPU state saving,
rather than just random historical baggage.  Hopefully it's easier to
follow as a result.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-18 14:03:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f94edacf99 i387: move TS_USEDFPU flag from thread_info to task_struct
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>
2012-02-18 10:19:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4903062b54 i387: move AMD K7/K8 fpu fxsave/fxrstor workaround from save to restore
The AMD K7/K8 CPUs don't save/restore FDP/FIP/FOP unless an exception is
pending.  In order to not leak FIP state from one process to another, we
need to do a floating point load after the fxsave of the old process,
and before the fxrstor of the new FPU state.  That resets the state to
the (uninteresting) kernel load, rather than some potentially sensitive
user information.

We used to do this directly after the FPU state save, but that is
actually very inconvenient, since it

 (a) corrupts what is potentially perfectly good FPU state that we might
     want to lazy avoid restoring later and

 (b) on x86-64 it resulted in a very annoying ordering constraint, where
     "__unlazy_fpu()" in the task switch needs to be delayed until after
     the DS segment has been reloaded just to get the new DS value.

Coupling it to the fxrstor instead of the fxsave automatically avoids
both of these issues, and also ensures that we only do it when actually
necessary (the FP state after a save may never actually get used).  It's
simply a much more natural place for the leaked state cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 19:11:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b3b0870ef3 i387: do not preload FPU state at task switch time
Yes, taking the trap to re-load the FPU/MMX state is expensive, but so
is spending several days looking for a bug in the state save/restore
code.  And the preload code has some rather subtle interactions with
both paravirtualization support and segment state restore, so it's not
nearly as simple as it should be.

Also, now that we no longer necessarily depend on a single bit (ie
TS_USEDFPU) for keeping track of the state of the FPU, we migth be able
to do better.  If we are really switching between two processes that
keep touching the FP state, save/restore is inevitable, but in the case
of having one process that does most of the FPU usage, we may actually
be able to do much better than the preloading.

In particular, we may be able to keep track of which CPU the process ran
on last, and also per CPU keep track of which process' FP state that CPU
has.  For modern CPU's that don't destroy the FPU contents on save time,
that would allow us to do a lazy restore by just re-enabling the
existing FPU state - with no restore cost at all!

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 15:45:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6d59d7a9f5 i387: don't ever touch TS_USEDFPU directly, use helper functions
This creates three helper functions that do the TS_USEDFPU accesses, and
makes everybody that used to do it by hand use those helpers instead.

In addition, there's a couple of helper functions for the "change both
CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU at the same time" case, and the places that do
that together have been changed to use those.  That means that we have
fewer random places that open-code this situation.

The intent is partly to clarify the code without actually changing any
semantics yet (since we clearly still have some hard to reproduce bug in
this area), but also to make it much easier to use another approach
entirely to caching the CR0.TS bit for software accesses.

Right now we use a bit in the thread-info 'status' variable (this patch
does not change that), but we might want to make it a full field of its
own or even make it a per-cpu variable.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 13:33:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 15d8791cae i387: fix x86-64 preemption-unsafe user stack save/restore
Commit 5b1cbac377 ("i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust")
added a sanity check to the #NM handler to verify that we never cause
the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode.

However, that check actually pinpointed a (fundamental) race where we do
cause that exception as part of the signal stack FPU state save/restore
code.

Because we use the floating point instructions themselves to save and
restore state directly from user mode, we cannot do that atomically with
testing the TS_USEDFPU bit: the user mode access itself may cause a page
fault, which causes a task switch, which saves and restores the FP/MMX
state from the kernel buffers.

This kind of "recursive" FP state save is fine per se, but it means that
when the signal stack save/restore gets restarted, it will now take the
'#NM' exception we originally tried to avoid.  With preemption this can
happen even without the page fault - but because of the user access, we
cannot just disable preemption around the save/restore instruction.

There are various ways to solve this, including using the
"enable/disable_page_fault()" helpers to not allow page faults at all
during the sequence, and fall back to copying things by hand without the
use of the native FP state save/restore instructions.

However, the simplest thing to do is to just allow the #NM from kernel
space, but fix the race in setting and clearing CR0.TS that this all
exposed: the TS bit changes and the TS_USEDFPU bit absolutely have to be
atomic wrt scheduling, so while the actual state save/restore can be
interrupted and restarted, the act of actually clearing/setting CR0.TS
and the TS_USEDFPU bit together must not.

Instead of just adding random "preempt_disable/enable()" calls to what
is already excessively ugly code, this introduces some helper functions
that mostly mirror the "kernel_fpu_begin/end()" functionality, just for
the user state instead.

Those helper functions should probably eventually replace the other
ad-hoc CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU tests too, but I'll need to think about it
some more: the task switching functionality in particular needs to
expose the difference between the 'prev' and 'next' threads, while the
new helper functions intentionally were written to only work with
'current'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 09:15:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 5b1cbac377 i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust
Some code - especially the crypto layer - wants to use the x86
FP/MMX/AVX register set in what may be interrupt (typically softirq)
context.

That *can* be ok, but the tests for when it was ok were somewhat
suspect.  We cannot touch the thread-specific status bits either, so
we'd better check that we're not going to try to save FP state or
anything like that.

Now, it may be that the TS bit is always cleared *before* we set the
USEDFPU bit (and only set when we had already cleared the USEDFP
before), so the TS bit test may actually have been sufficient, but it
certainly was not obviously so.

So this explicitly verifies that we will not touch the TS_USEDFPU bit,
and adds a few related sanity-checks.  Because it seems that somehow
AES-NI is corrupting user FP state.  The cause is not clear, and this
patch doesn't fix it, but while debugging it I really wanted the code to
be more obviously correct and robust.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-13 13:56:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds be98c2cdb1 i387: math_state_restore() isn't called from asm
It was marked asmlinkage for some really old and stale legacy reasons.
Fix that and the equally stale comment.

Noticed when debugging the irq_fpu_usable() bugs.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-13 13:47:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 83c2f912b4 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  perf tools: Fix compile error on x86_64 Ubuntu
  perf report: Fix --stdio output alignment when --showcpuutilization used
  perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check
  perf annotate: Fix usage string
  perf kmem: Fix a memory leak
  perf kmem: Add missing closedir() calls
  perf top: Add error message for EMFILE
  perf test: Change type of '-v' option to INCR
  perf script: Add missing closedir() calls
  tracing: Fix compile error when static ftrace is enabled
  recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects.
  perf tools: Add const.h to MANIFEST to make perf-tar-src-pkg work again
  perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
  perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default
  perf top: Don't update total_period on process_sample
  perf hists: Stop using 'self' for struct hist_entry
  perf hists: Rename total_session to total_period
  x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled
  x86: Allow NMIs to hit breakpoints in i386
  x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpoints
  ...
2012-01-15 11:26:35 -08:00
Steven Rostedt 42181186ad x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with
NMIs running on the debug stack:

  int3 -> interrupt -> NMI -> int3

Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that
it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case,
interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in
an a location in the exception table (fixup).

  userspace -> int3 -> interurpt -> NMI -> int3

All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed
without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will
panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location
within the kernel.

Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while
using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case.
If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug
stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to
change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will
corrupt the stack if it does).

Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h
and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to
inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires
smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-21 15:38:56 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 228bdaa95f x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpoints
We want to allow NMI handlers to have breakpoints to be able to
remove stop_machine from ftrace, kprobes and jump_labels. But if
an NMI interrupts a current breakpoint, and then it triggers a
breakpoint itself, it will switch to the breakpoint stack and
corrupt the data on it for the breakpoint processing that it
interrupted.

Instead, have the NMI check if it interrupted breakpoint processing
by checking if the stack that is currently used is a breakpoint
stack. If it is, then load a special IDT that changes the IST
for the debug exception to keep the same stack in kernel context.
When the NMI is done, it puts it back.

This way, if the NMI does trigger a breakpoint, it will keep
using the same stack and not stomp on the breakpoint data for
the breakpoint it interrupted.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-21 15:38:55 -05:00
Srikar Dronamraju cc3a1bf52a x86: Clean up and extend do_int3()
Since there is a possibility of !KPROBES int3 listeners
(such as kgdb) and since DIE_TRAP is currently not being
used by anybody, notify all listeners with DIE_INT3.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111025142159.GB21225@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:20:37 +01:00
Don Zickus 1d48922c14 x86, nmi: Split out nmi from traps.c
The nmi stuff is changing a lot and adding more functionality.  Split it
out from the traps.c file so it doesn't continue to pollute that file.

This makes it easier to find and expand all the future nmi related work.

No real functional changes here.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-10 06:56:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 06e727d2a5 Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
2011-08-12 20:46:24 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski 3ae36655b9 x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-10 19:26:46 -05:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski 5cec93c216 x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page.  It contains
a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who
knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of
some other code.

Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic
incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real
vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the
middle.

This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real
syscalls.  Fortunately sensible programs don't use them.
The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc
through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times
per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the
development tree.

This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet
functions are still at a fixed address.  Fixing that might
involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
[ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 10:02:35 +02:00
Don Zickus f2fd43954a x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi()
Just re-arrange the code a bit to make it easier to follow what is
going on.  Basically un-negating the if-statement and swapping the code
inside the if-statement with code outside.

No functional changes.

Originally-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294348732-15030-7-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:08:53 +01:00
Don Zickus ab846f13f6 x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
In original NMI handler, NMI reason io port (0x61) is only processed
on BSP.  This makes it impossible to hot-remove BSP.  To solve the
issue, a raw spinlock is used to allow the port to be processed on any
CPU.

Originally-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294348732-15030-6-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:08:53 +01:00