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Linus Torvalds ba33ea811e Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is another big update. Main changes are:

   - lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
     enhancements.  In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
     code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
     corners have been refreshed.  (Andy Lutomirski)

   - vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)

   - lots of other changes ..."

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
  x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
  x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
  x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
  x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
  x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
  x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
  x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
  x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
  x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
  x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
  x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
  x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
  x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
  x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
  selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
  x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
  x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
  uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
  x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
  ...
2016-03-15 09:32:27 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski 2a41aa4feb x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
The first instruction of the SYSENTER entry runs on its own tiny
stack.  That stack can be used if a #DB or NMI is delivered before
the SYSENTER prologue switches to a real stack.

We have code in place to prevent us from overflowing the tiny stack.
For added paranoia, add a canary to the stack and check it in
do_debug() -- that way, if something goes wrong with the #DB logic,
we'll eventually notice.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ff9a806f39098b166dc2c41c1db744df5272f29.1457578375.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-10 09:48:14 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 6dcc94149d x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
The SYSENTER stack is only used on 32-bit kernels.  Remove it on 64-bit kernels.

( We may end up using it down the road on 64-bit kernels. If so,
  we'll re-enable it for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION. )

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dbd18429f9ff61a76b6eda97a9ea20510b9f6ba.1457578375.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-10 09:48:14 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 1f12e32f4c x86/topology: Create logical package id
For per package oriented services we must be able to rely on the number of CPU
packages to be within bounds. Create a tracking facility, which

- calculates the number of possible packages depending on nr_cpu_ids after boot

- makes sure that the package id is within the number of possible packages. If
  the apic id is outside we map it to a logical package id if there is enough
  space available.

Provide interfaces for drivers to query the mapping and do translations from
physcial to logical ids.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Harish Chegondi <harish.chegondi@intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160222221011.541071755@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 09:35:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3a2f2ac9b9 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-18 09:28:03 +01:00
Dmitry Vyukov 75edb54a1d x86: Fix KASAN false positives in thread_saved_pc()
thread_saved_pc() reads stack of a potentially running task.
This can cause false KASAN stack-out-of-bounds reports,
because the running task concurrently poisons and unpoisons
own stack.

The same happens in get_wchan(), and get get_wchan() was fixed
by using READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(). Do the same here.

Example KASAN report triggered by sysrq-t:

  BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in sched_show_task+0x306/0x3b0 at addr ffff880043c97c18
  Read of size 8 by task syz-executor/23839
  [...]
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8175ea0e>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3e/0x40
   [<ffffffff813e7a26>] sched_show_task+0x306/0x3b0
   [<ffffffff813e7bf4>] show_state_filter+0x124/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff82d2ca00>] fn_show_state+0x10/0x20
   [<ffffffff82d2cf98>] k_spec+0xa8/0xe0
   [<ffffffff82d3354f>] kbd_event+0xb9f/0x4000
   [<ffffffff843ca8a7>] input_to_handler+0x3a7/0x4b0
   [<ffffffff843d1954>] input_pass_values.part.5+0x554/0x6b0
   [<ffffffff843d29bc>] input_handle_event+0x2ac/0x1070
   [<ffffffff843d3a47>] input_inject_event+0x237/0x280
   [<ffffffff843e8c28>] evdev_write+0x478/0x680
   [<ffffffff817ac653>] __vfs_write+0x113/0x480
   [<ffffffff817ae0e7>] vfs_write+0x167/0x4a0
   [<ffffffff817b13d1>] SyS_write+0x111/0x220

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: glider@google.com
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kcc@google.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-05 08:41:52 +01:00
Borislav Petkov cd4d09ec6f x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*
Move them to a separate header and have the following
dependency:

  x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h

This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not
include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-30 11:22:17 +01:00
David Vrabel d8c98a1d14 x86/paravirt: Prevent rtc_cmos platform device init on PV guests
Adding the rtc platform device in non-privileged Xen PV guests causes
an IRQ conflict because these guests do not have legacy PIC and may
allocate irqs in the legacy range.

In a single VCPU Xen PV guest we should have:

/proc/interrupts:
           CPU0
  0:       4934  xen-percpu-virq      timer0
  1:          0  xen-percpu-ipi       spinlock0
  2:          0  xen-percpu-ipi       resched0
  3:          0  xen-percpu-ipi       callfunc0
  4:          0  xen-percpu-virq      debug0
  5:          0  xen-percpu-ipi       callfuncsingle0
  6:          0  xen-percpu-ipi       irqwork0
  7:        321   xen-dyn-event     xenbus
  8:         90   xen-dyn-event     hvc_console
  ...

But hvc_console cannot get its interrupt because it is already in use
by rtc0 and the console does not work.

  genirq: Flags mismatch irq 8. 00000000 (hvc_console) vs. 00000000 (rtc0)

We can avoid this problem by realizing that unprivileged PV guests (both
Xen and lguests) are not supposed to have rtc_cmos device and so
adding it is not necessary.

Privileged guests (i.e. Xen's dom0) do use it but they should not have
irq conflicts since they allocate irqs above legacy range (above
gsi_top, in fact).

Instead of explicitly testing whether the guest is privileged we can
extend pv_info structure to include information about guest's RTC
support.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: vkuznets@redhat.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449842873-2613-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-12-19 21:35:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 4302d506d5 Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 sigcontext header cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This series reorganizes and cleans up various aspects of the main
  sigcontext UAPI headers, such as unifying the data structures and
  updating/adding lots of comments to explain all the ABI details and
  quirks.  The headers can now also be built in user-space standalone"

* 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/headers: Clean up too long lines
  x86/headers: Remove <asm/sigcontext.h> references on the kernel side
  x86/headers: Remove direct sigcontext32.h uses
  x86/headers: Convert sigcontext_ia32 uses to sigcontext_32
  x86/headers: Unify 'struct sigcontext_ia32' and 'struct sigcontext_32'
  x86/headers: Make sigcontext pointers bit independent
  x86/headers: Move the 'struct sigcontext' definitions into the UAPI header
  x86/headers: Clean up the kernel's struct sigcontext types to be ABI-clean
  x86/headers: Convert uses of _fpstate_ia32 to _fpstate_32
  x86/headers: Unify 'struct _fpstate_ia32' and i386 struct _fpstate
  x86/headers: Unify register type definitions between 32-bit compat and i386
  x86/headers: Use ABI types consistently in sigcontext*.h
  x86/headers: Separate out legacy user-space structure definitions
  x86/headers: Clean up and better document uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
  x86/headers: Clean up uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
  x86/headers: Fix (old) header file dependency bug in uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
Denys Vlasenko 0b101e62af x86/asm: Force inlining of cpu_relax()
On x86, cpu_relax() simply calls rep_nop(), which generates one
instruction, PAUSE (aka REP NOP).

With this config:

  http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config_OPTIMIZE_INLINING_and_Os

gcc-4.7.2 does not always inline rep_nop(): it generates several
copies of this:

  <rep_nop> (16 copies, 194 calls):
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       f3 90                   pause
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq

See: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66122

This patch fixes this via s/inline/__always_inline/
on rep_nop() and cpu_relax().

( Forcing inlining only on rep_nop() causes GCC to
  deinline cpu_relax(), with almost no change in generated code).

      text     data      bss       dec     hex filename
  88118971 19905208 36421632 144445811 89c1173 vmlinux.before
  88118139 19905208 36421632 144444979 89c0e33 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443096149-27291-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-25 09:44:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar decb4c4115 x86/headers: Remove <asm/sigcontext.h> references on the kernel side
Now that all type definitions are in the UAPI header, include it
directly, instead of through <asm/sigcontext.h>.

[ We still keep asm/sigcontext.h, so that uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
  can include <asm/sigcontext.h>. ]

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-16-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-08 10:06:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 11e612ddb4 Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main x86 bootup related changes in this cycle were:

   - more boot time optimizations.  (Len Brown)

   - implement hex output to allow the debugging of early bootup
     parameters.  (Kees Cook)

   - remove obsolete MCA leftovers.  (Paolo Pisati)"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/smpboot: Remove APIC.wait_for_init_deassert and atomic init_deasserted
  x86/smpboot: Remove SIPI delays from cpu_up()
  x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map
  x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_initialized_map
  x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table
  x86/boot: Add hex output for debugging
2015-09-01 09:04:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 5461bd81bf Linux 4.2-rc7
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Merge tag 'v4.2-rc7' into x86/boot, to refresh the branch before merging new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-17 10:41:59 +02:00
Brian Gerst 9fda6a0681 x86/vm86: Move vm86 fields out of 'thread_struct'
Allocate a separate structure for the vm86 fields.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438148483-11932-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
[ Build fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 13:31:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5b929bd11d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, before applying dependent patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 10:23:35 +02:00
Paolo Pisati 949163015c x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table
The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.

bloat-o-meter output:

  add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  i386_start_kernel                            128     119      -9
  setup_arch                                  1421    1375     -46

Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 10:55:11 +02:00
Brian Gerst ed0b2edb61 x86/entry/vm86: Move userspace accesses to do_sys_vm86()
Move the userspace accesses down into the common function in
preparation for the next set of patches.  Also change to copying
the fields explicitly instead of assuming a fixed order in
pt_regs and the kernel data structures.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437354550-25858-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 09:12:24 +02:00
Brian Gerst 0233606ce5 x86/entry/vm86: Clean up saved_fs/gs
There is no need to save FS and non-lazy GS outside the 32-bit
regs.  Lazy GS still needs to be saved because it wasn't saved
on syscall entry.  Save it in the gs slot of regs32, which is
present but unused.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437354550-25858-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 09:12:23 +02:00
Dave Hansen 0c8c0f03e3 x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'
The FPU rewrite removed the dynamic allocations of 'struct fpu'.
But, this potentially wastes massive amounts of memory (2k per
task on systems that do not have AVX-512 for instance).

Instead of having a separate slab, this patch just appends the
space that we need to the 'task_struct' which we dynamically
allocate already.  This saves from doing an extra slab
allocation at fork().

The only real downside here is that we have to stick everything
and the end of the task_struct.  But, I think the
BUILD_BUG_ON()s I stuck in there should keep that from being too
fragile.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437128892-9831-2-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-18 03:42:35 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e75c73ad64 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
2015-06-22 17:16:11 -07:00
Aravind Gopalakrishnan cc2749e409 x86/cpu/amd: Give access to the number of nodes in a physical package
Stash the number of nodes in a physical processor package
locally and add an accessor to be called by interested parties.
The first user is the MCE injection module which uses it to find
the node base core in a package for injecting a certain type of
errors.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
[ Rewrote the commit message, merged it with the accessor patch and unified naming. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mchehab@osg.samsung.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433868317-18417-2-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-18 11:16:06 +02:00
Dave Hansen 46a6e0cf1c x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
The MPX code can only work on the current task.  You can not,
for instance, enable MPX management in another process or
thread. You can also not handle a fault for another process or
thread.

Despite this, we pass a task_struct around prolifically.  This
patch removes all of the task struct passing for code paths
where the code can not deal with another task (which turns out
to be all of them).

This has no functional changes.  It's just a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183702.6A81DA2C@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-09 12:24:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b8c1b8ea7b x86/fpu: Fix FPU state save area alignment bug
On most configs task-struct is cache line aligned, which makes
the XSAVE area's 64-byte required alignment work out fine.

But on some .config's task_struct is aligned only to 16 bytes
(enforced by ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN), which makes things like
fpu__copy() (that XSAVEOPT uses) not work so well.

I broke this in:

  7366ed771f ("x86/fpu: Simplify FPU handling by embedding the fpstate in task_struct (again)")

which embedded the fpstate in the task_struct.

The alignment requirements of the FPU code were originally present
in ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN, which still has a value of 16, which was the
alignment requirement of the FPU state area prior XSAVE. But this
link was not documented (and not required) and the link got lost
when the FPU state area was made dynamic years ago.

With XSAVEOPT the minimum alignment requirment went up to 64 bytes,
and the embedding of the FPU state area in task_struct exposed it
again - and '16' was not increased to '64'.

So fix this bug, but also try to address the underlying lost link
of information that made it easier to happen:

  - document ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN a bit better

  - use alignof() to recover the current alignment requirements.
    This would work in the future as well, should the alignment
    requirements go up to 128 bytes with things like AVX512.

( We should probably also use the vSMP alignment rules for all
  of x86, but that's for another patch. )

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-25 09:38:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c66e3f2823 x86/fpu: Remove the extra fpu__detect() layer
Now that fpu__detect() has become an empty layer around
fpu__init_system(), eliminate it and make fpu__init_system()
the main system initialization routine.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c5bedc6847 x86/fpu: Get rid of PF_USED_MATH usage, convert it to fpu->fpstate_active
Introduce a simple fpu->fpstate_active flag in the fpu context data structure
and use that instead of PF_USED_MATH in task->flags.

Testing for this flag byte should be slightly more efficient than
testing a bit in a bitmask, but the main advantage is that most
FPU functions can now be performed on a 'struct fpu' alone, they
don't need access to 'struct task_struct' anymore.

There's a slight linecount increase, mostly due to the 'fpu' local
variables and due to extra comments. The local variables will go away
once we move most of the FPU methods to pure 'struct fpu' parameters.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f55f88e25e x86/fpu: Make task_xstate_cachep static
It's now local to fpu/core.c, make it static.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 11ad19277e x86/fpu: Remove the free_thread_xstate() complication
Use fpstate_free() directly to manage FPU state.

Only process.c was using this method, so this is a speedup as well,
as it removes the extra function call and related clobbers.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 14b9675ae9 x86/fpu: Move FPU data structures to asm/fpu_types.h
Move the FPU details to asm/fpu_types.h, to further factor out the
FPU code.

( As an added bonus, the 'struct orig_ist' definition now moves
  next to its other data types - the FPU definitions were
  slapped in the middle of them for some mysterious reason. )

No code changed.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 126009993f x86/fpu: Improve the comment for the fpu::counter field
This was pretty hard to read, improve it.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c0c2803dee x86/fpu: Move thread_info::fpu_counter into thread_info::fpu.counter
This field is kept separate from the main FPU state structure for
no good reason.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1a7dc0db71 x86/fpu: Rename fpu_detect() to fpu__detect()
Use the fpu__*() namespace to organize FPU ops better.

Also document fpu__detect() a bit.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 15:47:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6c8a53c9e6 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel changes:

   - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability
     to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed
     by the kernel) to kprobes.

     This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image
     that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
     (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might
     allow unprivileged use as well.)

     (Alexei Starovoitov)

   - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this
     allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock
     sources for event timestamps traced via perf.

     This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated
     events with external events that were measured with different
     clocks:

       - cluster wide profiling

       - for system wide tracing with user-space events,

       - JIT profiling events

     etc.  Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via
     the -k, --clockid <clockid> parameter to perf record et al.

     (Peter Zijlstra)

  Hardware enablement kernel changes:

   - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer
     on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs.

     The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space
     ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added
     to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the
     necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous.

     This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result.
     A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT
     driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU.
     More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well -
     will probably be ready by 4.2.

     (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware
     feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and
     allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads.

     These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU
     driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events.  (The
     partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged
     as a cgroup extension.)

     (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P
     Waskiewicz Jr)

   - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell
     feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus
     tooling support.  To activate this feature you have to enable it
     via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option:

        perf record --call-graph lbr
        perf report

     or:

        perf top --call-graph lbr

     This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf
     based unwinding, but has some limitations:

       - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and
         branch record can not be enabled at the same time.

       - It is only available for user-space callchains.

     (Yan, Zheng)

   - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and
     event table fixes for earlier models.

     (Andi Kleen)

   - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds.  This is a complex
     CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter
     value corruption.  The mitigation code is automatically enabled and
     is transparent.

     (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian)

  The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so
  I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to
  the tooling changes outlined above:

  User visible changes affecting all tools:

      - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa)
      - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song)
      - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa)
      - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song)
      - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  User visible changes in individual tools:

    'perf data':

        New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially
        for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa,
        Sebastian Siewior)

    'perf diff':

        Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern)

    'perf list':

        Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song)

        Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song)

    'perf kmem':

        Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa)

        Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim)

        Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim)

        Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim)

    'perf probe':

        Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu)

    'perf record':

        Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra)

        Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen)

    'perf sched':

        Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song)

    'perf report' and 'perf top':

        Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the
        TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern)

        Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one
        cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT
        events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

    'perf stat':

        Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose)

        Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen)

    'perf trace':

        Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
        be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
        place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the
  split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes -
  see the shortlog and changelog for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init()
  perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail
  perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option
  perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries
  perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits
  perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis
  perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads
  perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread
  perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
  perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL.
  perf tests: Fix attr tests
  perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error
  perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions
  perf record: Add clockid parameter
  perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10
  perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
  perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files
  perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task
  perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads
  perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
  ...
2015-04-14 14:37:47 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski cf9328cc99 x86/asm/entry/32: Stop caching MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP in tss.sp1
We write a stack pointer to MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP exactly once,
and we unnecessarily cache the value in tss.sp1.  We never
read the cached value.

Remove all of the caching.  It serves no purpose.

Suggested-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/05a0163eb33ef5208363f0015496855da7cebadd.1428002830.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:30:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ac9af4983e x86/asm/entry/64: Remove thread_struct::usersp
Nothing uses thread_struct::usersp anymore, so remove it.

Originally-from: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 16:01:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9854dd74c3 x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify 'old_rsp' usage
Remove all manipulations of PER_CPU(old_rsp) in C code:

 - it is not used on SYSRET return anymore, and system entries
   are atomic, so updating it from the fork and context switch
   paths is pointless.

 - Tweak a few related comments as well: we no longer have a
   "partial stack frame" on entry, ever.

Based on (split out of) patch from Denys Vlasenko.

Originally-from: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426599779-8010-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 16:01:41 +01:00
Denys Vlasenko d828c71fba x86/asm/entry/32: Document the 32-bit SYSENTER "emergency stack" better
Before the patch, the 'tss_struct::stack' field was not referenced anywhere.

It was used only to set SYSENTER's stack to point after the last byte
of tss_struct, thus the trailing field, stack[64], was used.

But grep would not know it. You can comment it out, compile,
and kernel will even run until an unlucky NMI corrupts
io_bitmap[] (which is also not easily detectable).

This patch changes code so that the purpose and usage of this
field is not mysterious anymore, and can be easily grepped for.

This does change generated code, for a subtle reason:
since tss_struct is ____cacheline_aligned, there happens to be
5 longs of padding at the end. Old code was using the padding
too; new code will strictly use it only for SYSENTER_stack[].

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425912738-559-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 09:25:29 +01:00
Denys Vlasenko 5c39403e00 x86/asm/entry: Simplify task_pt_regs() macro definition
Before this change, task_pt_regs() was using KSTK_TOP(),
and it was the only use of that macro. In turn, KSTK_TOP used
THREAD_SIZE_LONGS, and it was the only use of that macro too.

Fold these macros into task_pt_regs(). Tweak comment
about "- 8" - we now use a symbolic constant, not literal 8.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426255743-5394-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 09:25:28 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 76e4c4908a x86/asm/entry/32: Document our abuse of x86_hw_tss::ss1 and x86_hw_tss::sp1
This has confused me for a while.  Now that I figured it out, document it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7efc1b7364039824776f68e9ddee9ec1500e894.1426009661.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 09:25:27 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski d9e05cc5a5 x86/asm/entry: Unify and fix initial thread_struct::sp0 values
x86_32 and x86_64 need slightly different thread_struct::sp0 values, and
x86_32's was incorrect for init.

This never mattered -- the init thread never runs user code, so we never
used thread_struct::sp0 for anything.

Fix it and mostly unify them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1b810c1d2e797e27bb4a7708c426101161edd1f6.1426009661.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 09:25:27 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 3ee4298f44 x86/asm/entry: Create and use a 'TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING' macro
x86_32, unlike x86_64, pads the top of the kernel stack, because the
hardware stack frame formats are variable in size.

Document this padding and give it a name.

This should make no change whatsoever to the compiled kernel
image. It also doesn't fix any of the current bugs in this area.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/02bf2f54b8dcb76a62a142b6dfe07d4ef7fc582e.1426009661.git.luto@amacapital.net
[ Fixed small details, such as a missed magic constant in entry_32.S pointed out by Denys Vlasenko. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-17 09:25:26 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski a7fcf28d43 x86/asm/entry: Replace this_cpu_sp0() with current_top_of_stack() and fix it on x86_32
I broke 32-bit kernels.  The implementation of sp0 was correct
as far as I can tell, but sp0 was much weirder on x86_32 than I
realized.  It has the following issues:

 - Init's sp0 is inconsistent with everything else's: non-init tasks
   are offset by 8 bytes.  (I have no idea why, and the comment is unhelpful.)

 - vm86 does crazy things to sp0.

Fix it up by replacing this_cpu_sp0() with
current_top_of_stack() and using a new percpu variable to track
the top of the stack on x86_32.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 75182b1632 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d09dbe270883433776e0cbee3c7079433349e96d.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-07 09:34:03 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski d0a0de21f8 x86/asm/entry: Remove INIT_TSS and fold the definitions into 'cpu_tss'
The INIT_TSS is unnecessary.  Just define the initial TSS where
'cpu_tss' is defined.

While we're at it, merge the 32-bit and 64-bit definitions.  The
only syntactic change is that 32-bit kernels were computing sp0
as long, but now they compute it as unsigned long.

Verified by objdump: the contents and relocations of
.data..percpu..shared_aligned are unchanged on 32-bit and 64-bit
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8fc39fa3f6c5d635e93afbdd1a0fe0678a6d7913.1425611534.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-06 08:32:58 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 24933b82c0 x86/asm/entry: Rename 'init_tss' to 'cpu_tss'
It has nothing to do with init -- there's only one TSS per cpu.

Other names considered include:

 - current_tss: Confusing because we never switch the tss.
 - singleton_tss: Too long.

This patch was generated with 's/init_tss/cpu_tss/g'.  Followup
patches will fix INIT_TSS and INIT_TSS_IST by hand.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da29fb2a793e4f649d93ce2d1ed320ebe8516262.1425611534.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-06 08:32:58 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 8ef46a672a x86/asm/entry: Add this_cpu_sp0() to read sp0 for the current cpu
We currently store references to the top of the kernel stack in
multiple places: kernel_stack (with an offset) and
init_tss.x86_tss.sp0 (no offset).  The latter is defined by
hardware and is a clean canonical way to find the top of the
stack.  Add an accessor so we can start using it.

This needs minor paravirt tweaks.  On native, sp0 defines the
top of the kernel stack and is therefore always correct.  On Xen
and lguest, the hypervisor tracks the top of the stack, but we
want to start reading sp0 in the kernel.  Fixing this is simple:
just update our local copy of sp0 as well as the hypervisor's
copy on task switches.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d675581859712bee09a055ed8f785d80dac1eca.1425611534.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-06 08:32:57 +01:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr cbc82b1726 x86: Add support for Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) detection
This patch adds support for the new Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM)
feature found in future Intel Xeon processors.  It includes the
new values to track CQM resources to the cpuinfo_x86 structure,
plus the CPUID detection routines for CQM.

CQM allows a process, or set of processes, to be tracked by the CPU
to determine the cache usage of that task group.  Using this data
from the CPU, software can be written to extract this data and
report cache usage and occupancy for a particular process, or
group of processes.

More information about Cache QoS Monitoring can be found in the
Intel (R) x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual, section 17.14.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-5-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-25 13:53:31 +01:00
Borislav Petkov a930dc4543 x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives
This is based on a patch originally by hpa.

With the current improvements to the alternatives, we can simply use %P1
as a mem8 operand constraint and rely on the toolchain to generate the
proper instruction sizes. For example, on 32-bit, where we use an empty
old instruction we get:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c104648b, len: 4), repl: (c195566c, len: 4)
  c104648b: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90
  c195566c: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 4b 5c

  ...

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c18e09b4, len: 3), repl: (c1955948, len: 3)
  c18e09b4: alt_insn: 90 90 90
  c1955948: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 08

  ...

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c1190cf9, len: 7), repl: (c1955a79, len: 7)
  c1190cf9: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
  c1955a79: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 0d a0 d4 85 c1

all with the proper padding done depending on the size of the
replacement instruction the compiler generates.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2015-02-23 13:44:17 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 375074cc73 x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
CR4 manipulation was split, seemingly at random, between direct
(write_cr4) and using a helper (set/clear_in_cr4).  Unfortunately,
the set_in_cr4 and clear_in_cr4 helpers also poke at the boot code,
which only a small subset of users actually wanted.

This patch replaces all cr4 access in functions that don't leave cr4
exactly the way they found it with new helpers cr4_set_bits,
cr4_clear_bits, and cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: "hillf.zj" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/495a10bdc9e67016b8fd3945700d46cfd5c12c2f.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-04 12:10:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3100e448e7 Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 vdso updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various vDSO updates from Andy Lutomirski, mostly cleanups and
  reorganization to improve maintainability, but also some
  micro-optimizations and robustization changes"

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86_64/vsyscall: Restore orig_ax after vsyscall seccomp
  x86_64: Add a comment explaining the TASK_SIZE_MAX guard page
  x86_64,vsyscall: Make vsyscall emulation configurable
  x86_64, vsyscall: Rewrite comment and clean up headers in vsyscall code
  x86_64, vsyscall: Turn vsyscalls all the way off when vsyscall==none
  x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu
  x86: vdso: Fix build with older gcc
  x86_64/vdso: Clean up vgetcpu init and merge the vdso initcalls
  x86_64/vdso: Remove jiffies from the vvar page
  x86/vdso: Make the PER_CPU segment 32 bits
  x86/vdso: Make the PER_CPU segment start out accessed
  x86/vdso: Change the PER_CPU segment to use struct desc_struct
  x86_64/vdso: Move getcpu code from vsyscall_64.c to vdso/vma.c
  x86_64/vsyscall: Move all of the gate_area code to vsyscall_64.c
2014-12-10 14:24:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b6444bd0a1 Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot and percpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains a bootable images documentation update plus three
  slightly misplaced x86/asm percpu changes/optimizations"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64: Use RIP-relative addressing for most per-CPU accesses
  x86-64: Handle PC-relative relocations on per-CPU data
  x86: Convert a few more per-CPU items to read-mostly ones
  x86, boot: Document intermediates more clearly
2014-12-10 12:10:24 -08:00
Dave Hansen fe3d197f84 x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables
This is really the meat of the MPX patch set.  If there is one patch to
review in the entire series, this is the one.  There is a new ABI here
and this kernel code also interacts with userspace memory in a
relatively unusual manner.  (small FAQ below).

Long Description:

This patch adds two prctl() commands to provide enable or disable the
management of bounds tables in kernel, including on-demand kernel
allocation (See the patch "on-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables")
and cleanup (See the patch "cleanup unused bound tables"). Applications
do not strictly need the kernel to manage bounds tables and we expect
some applications to use MPX without taking advantage of this kernel
support. This means the kernel can not simply infer whether an application
needs bounds table management from the MPX registers.  The prctl() is an
explicit signal from userspace.

PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT is meant to be a signal from userspace to
require kernel's help in managing bounds tables.

PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT is the opposite, meaning that userspace don't
want kernel's help any more. With PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT, the kernel
won't allocate and free bounds tables even if the CPU supports MPX.

PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT will fetch the base address of the bounds
directory out of a userspace register (bndcfgu) and then cache it into
a new field (->bd_addr) in  the 'mm_struct'.  PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT
will set "bd_addr" to an invalid address.  Using this scheme, we can
use "bd_addr" to determine whether the management of bounds tables in
kernel is enabled.

Also, the only way to access that bndcfgu register is via an xsaves,
which can be expensive.  Caching "bd_addr" like this also helps reduce
the cost of those xsaves when doing table cleanup at munmap() time.
Unfortunately, we can not apply this optimization to #BR fault time
because we need an xsave to get the value of BNDSTATUS.

==== Why does the hardware even have these Bounds Tables? ====

MPX only has 4 hardware registers for storing bounds information.
If MPX-enabled code needs more than these 4 registers, it needs to
spill them somewhere. It has two special instructions for this
which allow the bounds to be moved between the bounds registers
and some new "bounds tables".

They are similar conceptually to a page fault and will be raised by
the MPX hardware during both bounds violations or when the tables
are not present. This patch handles those #BR exceptions for
not-present tables by carving the space out of the normal processes
address space (essentially calling the new mmap() interface indroduced
earlier in this patch set.) and then pointing the bounds-directory
over to it.

The tables *need* to be accessed and controlled by userspace because
the instructions for moving bounds in and out of them are extremely
frequent. They potentially happen every time a register pointing to
memory is dereferenced. Any direct kernel involvement (like a syscall)
to access the tables would obviously destroy performance.

==== Why not do this in userspace? ====

This patch is obviously doing this allocation in the kernel.
However, MPX does not strictly *require* anything in the kernel.
It can theoretically be done completely from userspace. Here are
a few ways this *could* be done. I don't think any of them are
practical in the real-world, but here they are.

Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so
   that we never have to allocate them?
A: As noted earlier, these tables are *HUGE*. An X-GB virtual
   area needs 4*X GB of virtual space, plus 2GB for the bounds
   directory. If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of
   user virtual address space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB,
   which is larger than the entire virtual address space today.
   This means they can not be reserved ahead of time. Also, a
   single process's pre-popualated bounds directory consumes 2GB
   of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely
   infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories.

Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory
   is allocated which might contain pointers that might eventually
   need bounds tables?
A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every
   memory allocation syscall. This can be done for small,
   constrained applications. But, it isn't practical at a larger
   scale since a given app has no way of controlling how all the
   parts of the app might allocate memory (think libraries). The
   kernel is really the only place to intercept these calls.

Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables
   allocated there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel?
A: (thanks to tglx) mmap() is not on the list of safe async
   handler functions and even if mmap() would work it still
   requires locking or nasty tricks to keep track of the
   allocation state there.

Having ruled out all of the userspace-only approaches for managing
bounds tables that we could think of, we create them on demand in
the kernel.

Based-on-patch-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151829.AD4310DE@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-18 00:58:53 +01:00