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Tejun Heo ccbeed3a05 x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32
Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight
        overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit

On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily.  pt_regs
doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary.
In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs
handling optional by doing the followings.

* Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs.

* Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless
  LAZY_GS.  Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL
  even when LAZY_GS.  However, it adds no overhead to common exit path
  and simplifies entry path with error code.

* Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add
  lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS.  The
  lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily.

* Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly.

xen and lguest changes need to be verified.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo d9a89a26e0 x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:58 +01:00
Brian Gerst 03d2989df9 x86: remove idle_timestamp from 32bit irq_cpustat_t
Impact: bogus irq_cpustat field removed

idle_timestamp is left over from the removed irqbalance code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-23 11:03:28 +09:00
Brian Gerst ea9279066d x86-64: Move cpu number from PDA to per-cpu and consolidate with 32-bit.
tj: moved cpu_number definition out of CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
    for voyager.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Ingo Molnar 6dbde35308 percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
generic percpu methods:

  percpu_read()
  percpu_write()
  percpu_add()
  percpu_sub()
  percpu_and()
  percpu_or()
  percpu_xor()

and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
back to a default implementation)

The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
instead of this sequence:

 return __get_cpu_var(var);

 ffffffff8102ca2b:	48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 	mov    -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
 ffffffff8102ca32:	81
 ffffffff8102ca33:	48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 	mov    $0x59d8,%rax
 ffffffff8102ca3a:	48 8b 04 10          	mov    (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax

We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:

 return percpu_read(var);

 ffffffff8102ca3f:	65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd 	mov    %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax

I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
these new generic percpu primitives.

tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
    * added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
    * made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-16 14:20:31 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput befa9e780d x86: process_32.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup

Fix:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/io.h> instead of <asm/io.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/kdebug.h> instead of <asm/kdebug.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/smp.h> instead of <asm/smp.h>
 ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
 ERROR: trailing whitespace
 ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:WxO)
 ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:OxW)

 total: 7 errors, 4 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 13:23:03 +01:00
Markus Metzger bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
Markus Metzger c2724775ce x86, bts: provide in-kernel branch-trace interface
Impact: cleanup

Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 08:08:12 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8b96f01198 tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions
Impact: trace more functions

When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
normal function tracer too.

arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:

I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
"write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
the original return address of the function inside current, we had
crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.

kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:

Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
__kernel_text_address()

To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:44 +01:00
Pekka Enberg e2ce07c804 x86: __show_registers() and __show_regs() API unification
Currently the low-level function to dump user-passed registers on i386 is
called __show_registers() whereas on x86-64 it's called __show_regs(). Unify
the API to simplify porting of kmemcheck to x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:33:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 365d46dc9b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
2008-10-12 12:37:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0962f402af Merge branch 'x86/prototypes' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 18:06:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 19268ed744 Merge branch 'x86/pebs' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
Conflicts:
	include/asm-x86/ds.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 16:17:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ebdd90a8cb Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/pebs 2008-09-24 09:56:20 +02:00
Marc Dionne 1eda81495a x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix
Fix build error introduced by commit 4faac97d44 ("x86: prevent stale
state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online").

process_32.c needs to include idle.h to get the prototype for
c1e_remove_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-24 09:30:10 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 4faac97d44 x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems.

When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast
mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the
broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the
corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs
have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines
we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle.

Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0b88641f1b Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debug 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 90f7d25c6b x86: print DMI information in the oops trace
in order to diagnose hard system specific issues, it's useful to
have the system name in the oops (as provided by DMI)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-17 11:53:03 +02:00
Alex Nixon 913da64b54 x86: build fix for !CONFIG_SMP
Move reset_lazy_tlbstate into tlb_32.c, and define noop versions of
play_dead() in process_{32,64}.c when !CONFIG_SMP.

Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 17:44:08 +02:00
Alex Nixon a21f5d88c1 x86: unify x86_32 and x86_64 play_dead into one function
Add the new play_dead into smpboot.c, as it fits more cleanly in there
alongside other CONFIG_HOTPLUG functions.

Separate out the common code into its own function.

Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25 10:59:19 +02:00
Alex Nixon 3790025863 x86_32: clean up play_dead
The removal of the CPU from the various maps was redundant as it already
happened in cpu_disable.

After cleaning this up, cpu_uninit only resets the tlb state, so rename
it and create a noop version for the X86_64 case (so the two play_deads
can be unified later).

Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25 10:59:18 +02:00
Alex Nixon 93be71b672 x86: add cpu hotplug hooks into smp_ops
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25 10:59:18 +02:00
Mark Langsdorf 394a15051c x86: invalidate caches before going into suspend
When a CPU core is shut down, all of its caches need to be flushed
to prevent stale data from causing errors if the core is resumed.
Current Linux suspend code performs an assignment after the flush,
which can add dirty data back to the cache.  On some AMD platforms,
additional speculative reads have caused crashes on resume because
of this dirty data.

Relocate the cache flush to be the very last thing done before
halting.  Tie into an assembly line so the compile will not
reorder it.  Add some documentation explaining what is going
on and why we're doing this.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Acked-by: Mark Borden <mark.borden@amd.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hohmuth <michael.hohmuth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 14:04:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8d7ccaa545 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into x86/prototypes
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 12:19:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0e2f65ee30 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pebs
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25 11:37:07 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh fb26132b44 x86: process_32.c declare cpu_number before they get used
Moved DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_number) from CONFIG_X86_32_SMP to CONFIG_X86_32
because cpu_number is required for both.
And include asm/smp.h in process_32.c

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
2008-07-22 14:35:59 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh bbc1f698a5 x86: Introducing asm/syscalls.h
Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for x86 architecture

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
2008-07-22 14:35:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9b610fda0d Merge branch 'linus' into timers/nohz 2008-07-18 19:53:16 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner b8f8c3cf0a nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:

	scheduler switch to idle task
	enable interrupts

Window starts here

	----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
	      	irq_exit() stops the tick

	----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)

	return from schedule()
	
	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();

Window ends here

The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.

The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.

Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.

cpu_idle()
{
	preempt_disable();

	while(1) {
		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
		 			          are in the idle loop

		 while (!need_resched())
		       halt();

		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
		 schedule();
		 preempt_disable();
	}
}

In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 

/me grabs a large brown paperbag.

Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>, 
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-18 18:10:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5806b81ac1 Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/lib/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/sched.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
Glauber Costa 1481a3dd42 x86: move cpu_exit_clear to process_32.c
Take it out of smpboot.c, and move it to process_32.c, closer
to its only user.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:48:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 93022136ff Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into x86/cpu 2008-07-08 07:47:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar da7878d75b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pebs 2008-06-25 12:32:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f34bfb1bee Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-23 11:11:42 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 75118a82e2 x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to
Patrick McHardy reported a crash:

> > I get this oops once a day, its apparently triggered by something
> > run by cron, but the process is a different one each time.
> >
> > Kernel is -git from yesterday shortly before the -rc6 release
> > (last commit is the usb-2.6 merge, the x86 patches are missing),
> > .config is attached.
> >
> > I'll retry with current -git, but the patches that have gone in
> > since I last updated don't look related.
> >
> > [62060.043009] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > 000001ff
> > [62060.043009] IP: [<c0102a9b>] __switch_to+0x2f/0x118
> > [62060.043009] *pde = 00000000
> > [62060.043009] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT

Vegard Nossum analyzed it:

> This decodes to
>
>    0:   0f ae 00                fxsave (%eax)
>
> so it's related to the floating-point context. This is the exact
> location of the crash:
>
> $ addr2line -e arch/x86/kernel/process_32.o -i ab0
> include/asm/i387.h:232
> include/asm/i387.h:262
> arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:595
>
> ...so it looks like prev_task->thread.xstate->fxsave has become NULL.
> Or maybe it never had any other value.

Somehow (as described below) TS_USEDFPU is set but the fpu is not
allocated or freed.

Another possible FPU pre-emption issue with the sleazy FPU optimization
which was benign before but not so anymore, with the dynamic FPU allocation
patch.

New task is getting exec'd and it is prempted at the below point.

flush_thread() {
	...
	/*
	* Forget coprocessor state..
	*/
	clear_fpu(tsk);
		<----- Preemption point
	clear_used_math();
	...
}

Now when it context switches in again, as the used_math() is still set
and fpu_counter can be > 5, we will do a math_state_restore() which sets
the task's TS_USEDFPU. After it continues from the above preemption point
it does clear_used_math() and much later free_thread_xstate().

Now, at the next context switch, it is quite possible that xstate is
null, used_math() is not set and TS_USEDFPU is still set. This will
trigger unlazy_fpu() causing kernel oops.

Fix this  by clearing tsk's fpu_counter before clearing task's fpu.

Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 10:08:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e765ee90da Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-16 11:15:58 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 00dba56465 x86: move more common idle functions/variables to process.c
more unification. Should cause no change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 15:52:29 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 6ddd2a2794 x86: simplify idle selection
default_idle is selected in cpu_idle(), when no other idle routine is
selected. Select it in select_idle_routine() when mwait is not
selected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 15:52:01 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 870568b390 x86, fpu: fix CONFIG_PREEMPT=y corruption of application's FPU stack
Jürgen Mell reported an FPU state corruption bug under CONFIG_PREEMPT,
and bisected it to commit v2.6.19-1363-gacc2076, "i386: add sleazy FPU
optimization".

Add tsk_used_math() checks to prevent calling math_state_restore()
which can sleep in the case of !tsk_used_math(). This prevents
making a blocking call in __switch_to().

Apparently "fpu_counter > 5" check is not enough, as in some signal handling
and fork/exec scenarios, fpu_counter > 5 and !tsk_used_math() is possible.

It's a side effect though. This is the failing scenario:

process 'A' in save_i387_ia32() just after clear_used_math()

Got an interrupt and pre-empted out.

At the next context switch to process 'A' again, kernel tries to restore
the math state proactively and sees a fpu_counter > 0 and !tsk_used_math()

This results in init_fpu() during the __switch_to()'s math_state_restore()

And resulting in fpu corruption which will be saved/restored
(save_i387_fxsave and restore_i387_fxsave) during the remaining
part of the signal handling after the context switch.

Bisected-by: Jürgen Mell <j.mell@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jürgen Mell <j.mell@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-06-04 16:21:24 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 6cd8a4bb2f ftrace: trace preempt off critical timings
Add preempt off timings. A lot of kernel core code is taken from the RT patch
latency trace that was written by Ingo Molnar.

This adds "preemptoff" and "preemptirqsoff" to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers

Now instead of just tracing irqs off, preemption off can be selected
to be recorded.

When this is selected, it shares the same files as irqs off timings.
One can either trace preemption off, irqs off, or one or the other off.

By echoing "preemptoff" into /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer, recording
of preempt off only is performed. "irqsoff" will only record the time
irqs are disabled, but "preemptirqsoff" will take the total time irqs
or preemption are disabled. Runtime switching of these options is now
supported by simpling echoing in the appropriate trace name into
/debugfs/tracing/current_tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:32:54 +02:00
Andrew Morton 970e725098 x86, ptrace: PEBS support, warning fix
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:566: warning: unused variable 'ds_next'
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:566: warning: unused variable 'ds_prev'

Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <juan.villacis@intel.com>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12 21:27:53 +02:00
Markus Metzger 93fa7636df x86, ptrace: PEBS support
Polish the ds.h interface and add support for PEBS.

Ds.c is meant to be the resource allocator for per-thread and per-cpu
BTS and PEBS recording.
It is used by ptrace/utrace to provide execution tracing of debugged tasks.
It will be used by profilers (e.g. perfmon2).
It may be used by kernel debuggers to provide a kernel execution trace.

Changes in detail:
- guard DS and ptrace by CONFIG macros
- separate DS and BTS more clearly
- simplify field accesses
- add functions to manage PEBS buffers
- add simple protection/allocation mechanism
- added support for Atom

Opens:
- buffer overflow handling
  Currently, only circular buffers are supported. This is all we need
  for debugging. Profilers would want an overflow notification.
  This is planned to be added when perfmon2 is made to use the ds.h
  interface.
- utrace intermediate layer

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12 21:27:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7f424a8b08 fix idle (arch, acpi and apm) and lockdep
OK, so 25-mm1 gave a lockdep error which made me look into this.

The first thing that I noticed was the horrible mess; the second thing I
saw was hacks like: 71e93d1561

The problem is that arch idle routines are somewhat inconsitent with
their IRQ state handling and instead of fixing _that_, we go paper over
the problem.

So the thing I've tried to do is set a standard for idle routines and
fix them all up to adhere to that. So the rules are:

  idle routines are entered with IRQs disabled
  idle routines will exit with IRQs enabled

Nearly all already did this in one form or another.

Merge the 32 and 64 bit bits so they no longer have different bugs.

As for the actual lockdep warning; __sti_mwait() did a plainly un-annotated
irq-enable.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-27 00:01:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a4928cffe6 "make namespacecheck" fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00
Suresh Siddha aa283f4927 x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v5
Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.

for example: on my system after boot, there are around 300 processes, with
only 17 using FPU.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 61c4628b53 x86, fpu: split FPU state from task struct - v5
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration
of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following
two optimizations:

1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the first
lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. Next patch
does this lazy allocation.

2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always.
Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will take advantage
of this.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
Erik Bosman 529e25f646 x86: implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC
This patch implements the PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC prctl()
commands on the x86 platform (both 32 and 64 bit.) These
commands control the ability to read the timestamp counter
from userspace (the RDTSC instruction.)

While the RDTSC instuction is a useful profiling tool,
it is also the source of some non-determinism in ring-3.
For deterministic replay applications it is useful to be
able to trap and emulate (and record the outcome of) this
instruction.

This patch uses code earlier used to disable the timestamp
counter for the SECCOMP framework. A side-effect of this
patch is that the SECCOMP environment will now also disable
the timestamp counter on x86_64 due to the addition of the
TIF_NOTSC define on this platform.

The code which enables/disables the RDTSC instruction during
context switches is in the __switch_to_xtra function, which
already handles other unusual conditions, so normal
performance should not have to suffer from this change.

Signed-off-by: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven  <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
Jacek Luczak 120d5bf128 x86: remove vm86.h inclusion from process_32.c
I've made a small investigation about vm86.h inclusion rules and it
looks like everything is more or less ok.

Files that rely on asm/vm86.h symbols are:

  - kprobes.c
  - process_32.c
  - signal_32.c
  - traps_32.c
  - vm86_32.c

File process_32.c includes vm86.h explicitly. We can remove that
include and it won't break anything.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 13af4836b3 x86: improve default idle
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:34 +02:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 3b22ec7b13 x86: always enable irqs when entering idle
This matches x86_64 behaviour, which is a superior one IMHO

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:00 +02:00
Jan Beulich 5b0e508415 x86: prevent unconditional writes to DebugCtl MSR
Otherwise, enabling (or better, subsequent disabling) of single
stepping would cause a kernel oops on CPUs not having this MSR.

The patch could have been added a conditional to the MSR write in
user_disable_single_step(), but centralizing the updates seems safer
and (looking forward) better manageable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 513ad84bf6 x86: de-macro start_thread()
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:49 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 92bc205685 x86: change most X86_32 pt_regs members to unsigned long
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
Venki Pallipadi 783e391b7b x86: Simplify cpu_idle_wait
This patch also resolves hangs on boot:
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093

The bug was causing once-in-few-reboots 10-15 sec wait during boot on
certain laptops.

Earlier commit 40d6a14662 added
smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless
idle.  Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be
over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle
handler).

Below is a simplified version of cpu_idle_wait, which just makes a dummy
smp_call_function to all cpus, to make them come out of old idle handler
and start using the new idle handler.  It eliminates code in the idle
loop to handle cpu_idle_wait.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 15:38:29 -07:00
Ingo Molnar b4ef95de00 x86: disable BTS ptrace extensions for now
revert the BTS ptrace extension for now.

based on general objections from Roland McGrath:

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/323

we'll let the BTS functionality cook some more and re-enable
it in v2.6.26. We'll leave the dead code around to help the
development of this code.

(X86_BTS is not defined at the moment)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29 18:55:42 +01:00
David Howells 1eb1141123 aout: remove unnecessary inclusions of {asm, linux}/a.out.h
Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
David Howells 7fa3031500 aout: suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.

Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.

To make this work, this patch also does the following:

 (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
     CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.

 (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
     core dumping code.

 (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
     is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
     code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
     the core kernel.

 (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
     needed) and FRV.

This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
format is available.

[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 7bb308a1ea x86: small sparse fix in process_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:254:43: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-04 16:48:04 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg 4c02ad1efd x86: fix section mismatch warning in process_*.c
Fix the following warning:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x3): Section mismatch: reference to .cpuinit.data:force_mwait in 'mwait_usable'
[Seen on 64 bit only but similar pattern exist on 32 bit so fix it there too]

mwait_usable() were only used by a function annotated __cpuinit
so annotate mwait_usable() with __cpuinit to fix the warning.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:37 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 27415a4fe3 x86: move warning message of polling idle and HT enabled
The warning message at idle_setup() is never shown because
smp_num_sibling hasn't been updated at this point yet.

Move this polling idle and HT enabled warning to select_idle_routine().
I also implement this warning on 64-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:18 +01:00
Andi Kleen 0c07ee38c9 x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states
Previously there was a AMD specific quirk to handle the case of
AMD Fam10h MWAIT not supporting any C states. But it turns out
that CPUID already has ways to detectly detect that without
using special quirks.

The new code simply checks if MWAIT supports at least C1 and doesn't
use it if it doesn't. No more vendor specific code.

Note this is does not simply clear MWAIT because MWAIT can be still
useful even without C states.

Credit goes to Ben Serebrin for pointing out the (nearly) obvious.

Cc: "Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:16 +01:00
Benjamin LaHaise 0723a69a63 x86: fix synchronize_rcu(): high latency on idle system
an otherwise idle system takes about 3 ticks per network
interface in unregister_netdev() due to multiple calls to synchronize_rcu(),
which adds up to quite a few seconds for tearing down thousands of
interfaces.  By flushing pending rcu callbacks in the idle loop, the system
makes progress hundreds of times faster.  If this is indeed a sane thing to,
it probably needs to be done for other architectures than x86.  And yes, the
network stack shouldn't call synchronize_rcu() quite so much, but fixing that
is a little more involved.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:13 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 5bc27dc2f5 x86: pull bp calculation earlier into the backtrace path
Right now, we take the stack pointer early during the backtrace path, but
only calculate bp several functions deep later, making it hard to reconcile
the stack and bp backtraces (as well as showing several internal backtrace
functions on the stack with bp based backtracing).

This patch moves the bp taking to the same place we take the stack pointer;
sadly this ripples through several layers of the back tracing stack,
but it's not all that bad in the end I hope.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:07 +01:00
Roland McGrath 60b3b9af35 x86: x86 user_regset cleanup
This removes a bunch of dead code that is no longer needed now
that the user_regset interfaces are being used for all these jobs.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:55 +01:00
Jan Beulich bdb4f15606 i386: hard_{en,dis}able_TSC can be static
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:21 +01:00
Harvey Harrison 75604d7f7f x86: remove all definitions with fastcall
fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it from arch/x86

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:17 +01:00
Markus Metzger eee3af4a2c x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)
Resend using different mail client

Changes to the last version:
- split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace
- renamed TIF's
- save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra()
- make block-stepping only look at BTF bit

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:09 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 6612538ca9 x86: clean up process_32/64.c
White space and coding style clean up.
Make process_32/64.c similar.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:03 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin faca62273b x86: use generic register name in the thread and tss structures
This changes size-specific register names (eip/rip, esp/rsp, etc.) to
generic names in the thread and tss structures.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:02 +01:00
Roland McGrath 0f5340933f x86: x86-32 thread_struct.debugreg
This replaces the debugreg[7] member of thread_struct with individual
members debugreg0, etc.  This saves two words for the dummies 4 and 5,
and harmonizes the code between 32 and 64.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:59 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin 153d5f2e57 x86: use generic register names in struct user_regs_struct
Switch struct user_regs_struct (defined in <asm/user.h>, which is no
longer exported to userspace) to using register names without e- or
r-prefixes for both 32 and 64 bit x86.  This is intended as a
preliminary step in unifying this code between architectures.

Also, be a bit more strict in truncating 32-bit "extended" segment
register values to 16 bits.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:56 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin 65ea5b0349 x86: rename the struct pt_regs members for 32/64-bit consistency
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers.  In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.

This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:56 +01:00
Roland McGrath 7e9916040b x86: debugctlmsr context switch
This adds low-level support for a per-thread value of MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR.
The per-thread value is switched in when TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is set.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:54 +01:00
Roland McGrath e1f287735c x86 single_step: TIF_FORCED_TF
This changes the single-step support to use a new thread_info flag
TIF_FORCED_TF instead of the PT_DTRACE flag in task_struct.ptrace.
This keeps arch implementation uses out of this non-arch field.

This changes the ptrace access to eflags to mask TF and maintain
the TIF_FORCED_TF flag directly if userland sets TF, instead of
relying on ptrace_signal_deliver.  The 64-bit and 32-bit kernels
are harmonized on this same behavior.  The ptrace_signal_deliver
approach works now, but this change makes the low-level register
access code reliable when called from different contexts than a
ptrace stop, which will be possible in the future.

The 64-bit do_debug exception handler is also changed not to clear TF
from user-mode registers.  This matches the 32-bit kernel's behavior.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:50 +01:00
Roland McGrath efd1ca52d0 x86: TLS cleanup
This consolidates the four different places that implemented the same
encoding magic for the GDT-slot 32-bit TLS support.  The old tls32.c was
renamed and is now only slightly modified to be the shared implementation.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:46 +01:00
Jiri Kosina c1d171a002 x86: randomize brk
Randomize the location of the heap (brk) for i386 and x86_64.  The range is
randomized in the range starting at current brk location up to 0x02000000
offset for both architectures.  This, together with
pie-executable-randomization.patch and
pie-executable-randomization-fix.patch, should make the address space
randomization on i386 and x86_64 complete.

Arjan says:

This is known to break older versions of some emacs variants, whose dumper
code assumed that the last variable declared in the program is equal to the
start of the dynamically allocated memory region.

(The dumper is the code where emacs effectively dumps core at the end of it's
compilation stage; this coredump is then loaded as the main program during
normal use)

iirc this was 5 years or so; we found this way back when I was at RH and we
first did the security stuff there (including this brk randomization).  It
wasn't all variants of emacs, and it got fixed as a result (I vaguely remember
that emacs already had code to deal with it for other archs/oses, just
ifdeffed wrongly).

It's a rare and wrong assumption as a general thing, just on x86 it mostly
happened to be true (but to be honest, it'll break too if gcc does
something fancy or if the linker does a non-standard order).  Still its
something we should at least document.

Note 2: afaik it only broke the emacs *build*.  I'm not 100% sure about that
(it IS 5 years ago) though.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: deuglification ]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:40 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 718fc13b46 x86: move debug related declarations to kdebug.h
Move them and fixup some users.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30 13:30:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5ee613b675 x86: idle wakeup event in the HLT loop
do a proper idle-wakeup event on HLT as well - some CPUs stop the TSC
in HLT too, not just when going through the ACPI methods.

(the ACPI idle code already does this.)

[ update the 64-bit side too, as noticed by Jiri Slaby. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:06 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 40d6a14662 Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait
Sometimes cpu_idle_wait gets stuck because it might miss CPUS that are
already in idle, have no tasks waiting to run and have no interrupts going
to them.  This is common on bootup when switching cpu idle governors.

This patch gives those CPUS that don't check in an IPI kick.

 Background:
 -----------
I notice this while developing the mcount patches, that every once in a
while the system would hang. Looking deeper, the hang was always at boot
up when registering init_menu of the cpu_idle menu governor. Talking
with Thomas Gliexner, we discovered that one of the CPUS had no timer
events scheduled for it and it was in idle (running with NO_HZ). So the
CPU would not set the cpu_idle_state bit.

Hitting sysrq-t a few times would eventually route the interrupt to the
stuck CPU and the system would continue.

Note, I would have used the PDA isidle but that is set after the
cpu_idle_state bit is cleared, and would leave a window open where we
may miss being kicked.

hmm, looking closer at this, we still have a small race window between
clearing the cpu_idle_state and disabling interrupts (hence the RFC).

    CPU0:                          CPU 1:
  ---------                       ---------
 cpu_idle_wait():                 cpu_idle():
      |                           __cpu_cpu_var(is_idle) = 1;
      |                           if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state)) /* == 0 */
 per_cpu(cpu_idle_state, 1) = 1;         |
 if (per_cpu(is_idle, 1)) /* == 1 */     |
 smp_call_function(1)                    |
      |                             receives ipi and runs do_nothing.
 wait on map == empty               idle();
   /* waits forever */

So really we need interrupts off for most of this then. One might think
that we could simply clear the cpu_idle_state from do_nothing, but I'm
assuming that cpu_idle governors can be removed, and this might cause a
race that a governor might be used after the module was removed.

Venki said:

  I think your RFC patch is the right solution here.  As I see it, there is
  no race with your RFC patch.  As long as you call a dummy smp_call_function
  on all CPUs, we should be OK.  We can get rid of cpu_idle_state and the
  current wait forever logic altogether with dummy smp_call_function.  And so
  there wont be any wait forever scenario.

  The whole point of cpu_idle_wait() is to make all CPUs come out of idle
  loop atleast once.  The caller will use cpu_idle_wait something like this.

  // Want to change idle handler

  - Switch global idle handler to always present default_idle

  - call cpu_idle_wait so that all cpus come out of idle for an instant
    and stop using old idle pointer and start using default idle

  - Change the idle handler to a new handler

  - optional cpu_idle_wait if you want all cpus to start using the new
    handler immediately.

Maybe the below 1s patch is safe bet for .24.  But for .25, I would say we
just replace all complicated logic by simple dummy smp_call_function and
remove cpu_idle_state altogether.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 3446fa057c x86_32: select_idle_routine() must be __cpuinit
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1199a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.5:select_idle_routine (between 'init_intel' and 'init_nexgen')

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-19 23:20:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 60812a4a99 Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86: (33 commits)
  x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array
  x86: introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer()
  x86 & generic: change to __builtin_prefetch()
  i386: do not BUG_ON() when MSR is unknown
  x86: acpi use cpu_physical_id
  x86: convert cpu_llc_id to be a per cpu variable
  x86: convert cpu_to_apicid to be a per cpu variable
  i386: introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors.
  x86: use raw locks during oopses
  x86: honor _PAGE_PSE bit on page walks
  i386: do cpuid_device_create() in CPU_UP_PREPARE instead of CPU_ONLINE.
  x86: implement missing x86_64 function smp_call_function_mask()
  x86: use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly
  i386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386
  i386: make callgraph use dump_trace() on i386/x86_64
  x86: enable iommu_merge by default
  i386: i386 add AMD64 Barcelona PMU MSR definitions to msr.h
  x86: Unify i386 and x86-64 early quirks
  x86: enable HPET on ICH3 and ICH4
  x86: force enable HPET on VT8235/8237 chipsets
  ...

Manually fix trivial conflict with task pid container helper changes in
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
2007-10-19 15:06:00 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 19c5870c0e Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 9d975ebda5 i386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386
Both functions printk the same information, except for CRx and
debug registers in the show_registers() one and a bit different
manner. So move the common code into one place. This is already
done for x86_64, so I think it's worth having the same on i386.

This saves 100 bytes of .rodata section :) ...
   but only 8 from .text :(

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-19 20:35:03 +02:00
Dave Jones 835c34a168 Delete filenames in comments.
Since the x86 merge, lots of files that referenced their own filenames
are no longer correct.  Rather than keep them up to date, just delete
them, as they add no real value.

Additionally:
- fix up comment formatting in scx200_32.c
- Remove a credit from myself in setup_64.c from a time when we had no SCM
- remove longwinded history from tsc_32.c which can be figured out from
  git.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-13 10:01:23 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 9a163ed8e0 i386: move kernel
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:01 +02:00