Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM,
the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP
systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline.
Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10923
Reported-by: Dionisus Torimens <djtm@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment
descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched
transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that
up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor
registers.
This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620.
Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10927
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fedora reports that mem_init()'s zap_low_mappings(), extended to SMP in
61165d7a03 x86: fix app crashes after SMP
resume causes 32-bit Intel Mac machines to reboot very early when
booting with EFI.
The EFI code appears to manage low mappings for itself when needed; but
like many before it, confuses PSE with PAE. So it has only been mapping
half the space it needed when PSE but not PAE. This remained unnoticed
until we moved the SMP zap_low_mappings() before
efi_enter_virtual_mode(). Presumably could have been noticed years ago
if anyone ran a UP kernel on such machines?
Reported-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ptrace GET/SET FPXREGS broken
x86: fix cpu hotplug crash
x86: section/warning fixes
x86: shift bits the right way in native_read_tscp
When I update kernel 2.6.25 from 2.6.24, gdb does not work.
On 2.6.25, ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, ...) returns ENODEV.
But 2.6.24 kernel's ptrace() returns EIO.
It is issue of compatibility.
I attached test program as pt.c and patch for fix it.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
struct user_fxsr_struct {
unsigned short cwd;
unsigned short swd;
unsigned short twd;
unsigned short fop;
long fip;
long fcs;
long foo;
long fos;
long mxcsr;
long reserved;
long st_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each FP-reg = 128 bytes */
long xmm_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each XMM-reg = 128 bytes */
long padding[56];
};
int main(void)
{
pid_t pid;
pid = fork();
switch(pid){
case -1:/* error */
break;
case 0:/* child */
child();
break;
default:
parent(pid);
break;
}
return 0;
}
int child(void)
{
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME);
kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
sleep(10);
return 0;
}
int parent(pid_t pid)
{
int ret;
struct user_fxsr_struct fpxregs;
ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, pid, 0, &fpxregs);
if(ret < 0){
printf("%d: %s.\n", errno, strerror(errno));
}
kill(pid, SIGCONT);
wait(pid);
return 0;
}
/* in the kerel, at kernel/i387.c get_fpxregs() */
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Vegard Nossum reported crashes during cpu hotplug tests:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121413950227884&w=4
In function _cpu_up, the panic happens when calling
__raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time. Kernel doesn't panic when
calling it at the first time. If just say because of nr_cpu_ids, that's
not right.
By checking the source code, I found that function do_boot_cpu is the culprit.
Consider below call chain:
_cpu_up=>__cpu_up=>smp_ops.cpu_up=>native_cpu_up=>do_boot_cpu.
So do_boot_cpu is called in the end. In do_boot_cpu, if
boot_error==true, cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_possible_map) is executed. So later
on, when _cpu_up calls __raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time to
report CPU_UP_CANCELED, because this cpu is already cleared from
cpu_possible_map, get_cpu_sysdev returns NULL.
Many resources are related to cpu_possible_map, so it's better not to
change it.
Below patch against 2.6.26-rc7 fixes it by removing the bit clearing in
cpu_possible_map.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs
and functions, thereby making it compatible with Xen.
The patch also fixes an initialization bug: on SMP systems the
per-cpu has two different locations early at boot and after CPU
bringup. kvmclock must take that in account when registering the
physical address within the host.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds structs for the paravirt clocksource ABI
used by both xen and kvm (pvclock-abi.h).
It also adds some helper functions to read system time and
wall clock time from a paravirtual clocksource (pvclock.[ch]).
They are based on the xen code. They are enabled using
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK.
Subsequent patches of this series will put the code in use.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
General Software writes their own VSA2 module for their version
of the Geode BIOS, which returns a different ID then the standard
VSA2. This was causing the framebuffer driver to break for most
GSW boards.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for
i386 and prints a error message on failure.
The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification
of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6"
(invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the
kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing
to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from
native_sched_clock().
(This error occurs so early that not even the serial console
can capture it.)
A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7,
via commit 9ccc906c97e34fd91dc6aaf5b69b52d824386910:
>x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable
>
>tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from
>the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace
>tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock()
>decision when to use TSC understandable.
>
>Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets
called before tsc_init().
Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable
which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late
in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip
the TSC and use jiffies instead.
After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable
which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls
to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on
!cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions.
My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled"
state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc"
kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also
allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1
on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all
checks have succeeded.
I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified
that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource
x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs
x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp
suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume
x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY
pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe
PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
Recently (around 2.6.25) I've noticed that RTC no longer works for me. It
turned out this is because I use pnpacpi=off kernel option to work around
the parport_pc bugs. I always did so, but RTC used to work fine in the
past, and now it have regressed.
The patch fixes the problem by creating the platform device for the RTC
when PNP is disabled. This may also help running the PNP-enabled kernel
on an older PCs.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alessandro Suardi reported:
> Recently upgraded my FC6 desktop to Fedora 9; with the
> latest nautilus RPM updates my VNC session went nuts
> with nautilus pegging the CPU for everything that breathed.
>
> I now reverted to an earlier nautilus package, but during
> the peak CPU period my kernel spat this:
>
> [314185.623294] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [314185.623414] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x128()
> [314185.623514] Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
> sunrpc ipv6 fuse snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_rawmidi via686a hwmon parport_pc sg parport uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
> [314185.623924] Pid: 12314, comm: nautilus Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-git2 #4
> [314185.624021] [<c0115b95>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x7b
> [314185.624021] [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021] [<c0128396>] ? up_read+0x16/0x28
> [314185.624021] [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021] [<c012fa33>] ? __lock_acquire+0xbb4/0xbc3
> [314185.624021] [<c012d0a0>] check_flags+0x4c/0x128
> [314185.624021] [<c012fa73>] lock_acquire+0x31/0x7d
> [314185.624021] [<c0128cf6>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x80
> [314185.624021] [<c0128cc6>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x80
> [314185.624021] [<c0128d52>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe
> [314185.624021] [<c0128d81>] notify_die+0x2d/0x2f
> [314185.624021] [<c01043b0>] do_int3+0x1f/0x4d
> [314185.624021] [<c02f2d3b>] int3+0x27/0x2c
> [314185.624021] =======================
> [314185.624021] ---[ end trace 1923f65a2d7bb246 ]---
> [314185.624021] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
> [314185.624021] irq event stamp: 488879
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last enabled at (488879): [<c0102d67>]
> restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last disabled at (488878): [<c0102dca>]
> work_resched+0x19/0x30
> [314185.624021] softirqs last enabled at (488876): [<c011a1ba>]
> __do_softirq+0xa6/0xac
> [314185.624021] softirqs last disabled at (488865): [<c010476e>]
> do_softirq+0x57/0xa6
>
> I didn't seem to find it with some googling, so here it is.
>
> I was incidentally ltracing that process to try and find out
> what was gulping down that much CPU (sorry, no idea
> whether ltrace and the WARNING happened at the same
> time or which came first) and:
Yeah, this is extremely likely to be the source of the warning.
The warning should be harmless, however.
> Box is my trusty noname K7-800, 512MB RAM; if there's
> anything else useful I might be able to provide, just ask.
It would be interesting to see where the int3 comes from. Too bad,
lockdep doesn't provide the register dump. The stacktrace also doesn't
go further than the int3(), I wonder if this int3 came from userspace?
The ltrace readme says "software breakpoints, like gdb", so I guess
this is the case. Yep, seems like it.
This looks relevant:
| commit fb1dac909d
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date: Wed Jan 16 09:51:59 2008 +0100
|
| lockdep: more hardirq annotations for notify_die()
I'm attaching a similarly-looking patch for this case (DO_VM86_ERROR),
though I suspect it might be missing for the other cases
(DO_ERROR/DO_ERROR_INFO) as well.
Reported-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 6e908947b4.
Németh Márton reported:
| there is a problem in 2.6.26-rc3 which was not there in case of
| 2.6.25: the CPU wakes up ~90,000 times per sec instead of ~60 per sec.
|
| I also "git bisected" the problem, the result is:
|
| 6e908947b4 is first bad commit
| commit 6e908947b4
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Fri Mar 21 14:32:36 2008 +0100
|
| x86: fix ioapic bug again
the original problem is fixed by Maciej W. Rozycki in the tip/x86/apic
branch (confirmed by Márton), but those changes are too intrusive for
v2.6.26 so we'll go for the less intrusive (repeated) revert now.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:10:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It also causes these warnings on 32-bit PAE:
>
> AS arch/x86/kernel/head_32.o
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
>
> and I do not see why (the end result seems to be identical).
Fix head_32.S gcc bignum warnings when CONFIG_PAE=y.
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
The assembler was stumbling over the 64-bit constant 0x100000000 in the
KPMDS #define.
Testing: a cmp(1) on head_32.o before and after shows the binary is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: "Siddha Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: "Barnes Jesse" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c always adds __GFP_NORETRY
to the allocation flags, because it wants to be reasonably
sure not to deadlock when calling alloc_pages().
But really that should only be done in two cases:
- when allocating memory in the lower 16 MB DMA zone.
If there's no free memory there, waiting or OOM killing is of no use
- when optimistically trying an allocation in the DMA32 zone
when dma_mask < DMA_32BIT_MASK hoping that the allocation
happens to fall within the limits of the dma_mask
Also blindly adding __GFP_NORETRY to the the gfp variable might
not be a good idea since we then also use it when calling
dma_ops->alloc_coherent(). Clearing it might also not be a
good idea, dma_alloc_coherent()'s caller might have set it
on purpose. The gfp variable should not be clobbered.
[ mingo@elte.hu: converted to delta patch ontop of previous version. ]
Signed-off-by: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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
iommu/gart support misses suspend/resume code, which can do bad stuff,
including memory corruption on resume. Prevent system suspend in case we
would be unable to resume.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Patrick <ragamuffin@datacomm.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the math emulation that got broken with the recent lazy allocation of FPU
area. init_fpu() need to be added for the math-emulation path aswell
for the FPU area allocation.
math emulation enabled kernel booted fine with this, in the presence
of "no387 nofxsr" boot param.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10613
BIOS bug, APIC version is 0 for CPU#0! fixing up to 0x10. (tell your hw vendor)
v2: fix 64 bit compilation
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
iommu/gart support misses suspend/resume code, which can do bad stuff,
including memory corruption on resume. Prevent system suspend in case we
would be unable to resume.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Patrick <ragamuffin@datacomm.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 04:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > So... why not just remove the setting of __GFP_NORETRY? Why is it
> > wrong to oom-kill things in this case?
>
> When the 16MB zone overflows (which can be common in some workloads)
> calling the OOM killer is pretty useless because it has barely any
> real user data [only exception would be the "only 16MB" case Alan
> mentioned]. Killing random processes in this case is bad.
>
> I think for 16MB __GFP_NORETRY is ok because there should be
> nothing freeable in there so looping is useless. Only exception would be the
> "only 16MB total" case again but I'm not sure 2.6 supports that at all
> on x86.
>
> On the other hand d_a_c() does more allocations than just 16MB, especially
> on 64bit and the other zones need different strategies.
Okay, so how about this then ?
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: prevent PGE flush from interruption/preemption
x86: use explicit copy in vdso_gettimeofday()
namespacecheck: automated fixes
x86/xen: fix arbitrary_virt_to_machine()
x86: don't read maxlvt before checking if APIC is mapped
x86: disable TSC for sched_clock() when calibration failed
x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable
x86: fix setup of cyc2ns in tsc_64.c
A check for unmapped apic was added before reading maxlvt but the early
read of maxlvt wasn't removed.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When the TSC calibration fails then TSC is still used in
sched_clock(). Disable it completely in that case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from
the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace
tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock()
decision when to use TSC understandable.
Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the TSC is calibrated against the PIT due to the nonavailability
of PMTIMER/HPET or due to SMI interference then the setup of the per
CPU cyc2ns variables is skipped. This is unlikely to happen but it
would definitely render sched_clock() unusable.
This was introduced with commit 53d517cdba
x86: scale cyc_2_nsec according to CPU frequency
Update the per CPU cyc2ns variables in all exit pathes of tsc_calibrate.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
[PATCH] return to old errno choice in mkdir() et.al.
[Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix wrong return values
[PATCH] get rid of leak in compat_execve()
[Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free
[PATCH] avoid multiplication overflows and signedness issues for max_fds
[PATCH] dup_fd() part 4 - race fix
[PATCH] dup_fd() - part 3
[PATCH] dup_fd() part 2
[PATCH] dup_fd() fixes, part 1
[PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c
The longrun cpufreq module reports a false minimum frequency 3MHz on
300-600MHz Crusoe processor. This may be due to a calculation bug
in the module.
Original patch from Kaz Sasayama <kazssym@hypercore.co.jp>
submitted as http://bugs.debian.org/468149 patch ported to x86
Cc: Kaz Sasayama <kazssym@hypercore.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The most common error with powernow-k8 is an ACPI _PSS error
caused either by failure to load the ACPI processor module
or a bad parse of the _PSS object. Make the error message
returned to the user in these situations more straightforward
and easier to understand.
-Mark Langsdorf
Operating System Research Center
AMD
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The previous revert of 0c07ee38c9 left
out the mwait disable condition for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs.
Andreas Herrman said:
It depends on the CPU. For AMD CPUs that support MWAIT this is wrong.
Family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs will enter C1 on HLT. Powersavings then
depend on a clock divisor and current Pstate of the core.
If all cores of a processor are in halt state (C1) the processor can
enter the C1E (C1 enhanced) state. If mwait is used this will never
happen.
Thus HLT saves more power than MWAIT here.
It might be best to switch off the mwait flag for these AMD CPU
families like it was introduced with commit
f039b75471 (x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD
Family 10)
Re-add the AMD families 10H/11H check and disable the mwait usage for
those.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Vegard Nossum reports:
| powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description
| "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g.
| I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up).
|
| The bisect resulted in this commit:
|
| commit 0c07ee38c9
| Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100
|
| x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states
remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional.
A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes
power to be wasted.
Bisected-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The user_regset_view table for the 32-bit regsets on the 64-bit build had
the wrong sizes for the FP regsets. This bug had no user-visible effect
(just on kernel modules using the user_regset interfaces and the like).
But the fix is trivial and risk-free.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix this symbol export problem:
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 193 modules
ERROR: "csum_partial" [fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2
This is due to a known weakness of symbol exports: if a symbol's
only in-core user is an EXPORT_SYMBOL from a lib-y section, the
symbol is not linked in.
The solution is to move the export to x8664_ksyms_64.c - but the real
solution would be to fix kbuild.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c:954: warning: passing argument 2 of 'set_bit' from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After resume on a 2cpu laptop, kernel builds collapse with a sed hang,
sh or make segfault (often on 20295564), real-time signal to cc1 etc.
Several hurdles to jump, but a manually-assisted bisect led to -rc1's
d2bcbad5f3 x86: do not zap_low_mappings
in __smp_prepare_cpus. Though the low mappings were removed at bootup,
they were left behind (with Global flags helping to keep them in TLB)
after resume or cpu online, causing the crashes seen.
Reinstate zap_low_mappings (with local __flush_tlb_all) for each cpu_up
on x86_32. This used to be serialized by smp_commenced_mask: that's now
gone, but a low_mappings flag will do. No need for native_smp_cpus_done
to repeat the zap: let mem_init zap BSP's low mappings just like on UP.
(In passing, fix error code from native_cpu_up: do_boot_cpu returns a
variety of diagnostic values, Dprintk what it says but convert to -EIO.
And save_pg_dir separately before zap_low_mappings: doesn't matter now,
but zapping twice in succession wiped out resume's swsusp_pg_dir.)
That worked well on the duo and one quad, but wouldn't boot 3rd or 4th
cpu on P4 Xeon, oopsing just after unlock_ipi_call_lock. The TLB flush
IPI now being sent reveals a long-standing bug: the booting cpu has its
APIC readied in smp_callin at the top of start_secondary, but isn't put
into the cpu_online_map until just before that unlock_ipi_call_lock.
So native_smp_call_function_mask to online cpus would send_IPI_allbutself,
including the cpu just coming up, though it has been excluded from the
count to wait for: by the time it handles the IPI, the call data on
native_smp_call_function_mask's stack may well have been overwritten.
So fall back to send_IPI_mask while cpu_online_map does not match
cpu_callout_map: perhaps there's a better APICological fix to be
made at the start_secondary end, but I wouldn't know that.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To allow linker to catch sections overlapping we have to declare
them in appropriate order.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Krzysztof Oledzki