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Chen Yucong 1b74dde7c4 x86/cpu: Convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...) to pr_<level>(...)
- Use the more current logging style pr_<level>(...) instead of the old
   printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...).

 - Convert pr_warning() to pr_warn().

Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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/1454384702-21707-1-git-send-email-slaoub@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-03 10:30:03 +01:00
Borislav Petkov 362f924b64 x86/cpufeature: Remove unused and seldomly used cpu_has_xx macros
Those are stupid and code should use static_cpu_has_safe() or
boot_cpu_has() instead. Kill the least used and unused ones.

The remaining ones need more careful inspection before a conversion can
happen. On the TODO.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449481182-27541-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-12-19 11:49:55 +01:00
Andy Shevchenko 354dbaa7ff x86/cpu/intel: Enable X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 for Merrifield
The Intel Merrifield SoC is a successor of the Intel MID line of
SoCs. Let's set the neccessary capability for that chip. See commit
c54fdbb282 (x86: Add cpu capability flag X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3)
for the details.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444319786-36125-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-11-07 10:37:30 +01:00
Laura Abbott b51ef52df7 x86/cpu: Restore MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS after resume
MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS is lost after suspend/resume:

	x86_energy_perf_policy -r before

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

	after

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000000
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

Resulting in inconsistent energy policy settings across CPUs.

This register is set via init_intel() at bootup. During resume,
the secondary CPUs are brought online again and init_intel() is
callled which re-initializes the register. The boot CPU however
never reinitializes the register.

Add a syscore callback to reinitialize the register for the boot CPU.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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/1437428878-4105-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 07:51:38 +02:00
Yannick Guerrini a927792c19 x86/cpu/intel: Fix trivial typo in intel_tlb_table[]
Change 'ssociative' to 'associative'

Signed-off-by: Yannick Guerrini <yguerrini@tomshardware.fr>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Cc: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424558510-1420-1-git-send-email-yguerrini@tomshardware.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-22 08:55:58 +01:00
Steven Honeyman f94fe119f2 x86, CPU: Fix trivial printk formatting issues with dmesg
dmesg (from util-linux) currently has two methods for reading the kernel
message ring buffer: /dev/kmsg and syslog(2). Since kernel 3.5.0 kmsg
has been the default, which escapes control characters (e.g. new lines)
before they are shown.

This change means that when dmesg is using /dev/kmsg, a 2 line printk
makes the output messy, because the second line does not get a
timestamp.

For example:

[    0.012863] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[    0.012869] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024
Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024, 1GB 4
[    0.012958] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 28K (ffffffff81d86000 - ffffffff81d8d000)
[    0.014961] dmar: Host address width 39

Because printk.c intentionally escapes control characters, they should
not be there in the first place. This patch fixes two occurrences of
this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414856696-8094-1-git-send-email-stevenhoneyman@gmail.com
[ Boris: make cpu_detect_tlb() static, while at it. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2015-01-11 01:54:54 +01:00
Dave Jones d4e1a0af1d x86: Don't enable F00F workaround on Intel Quark processors
The Intel Quark processor is a part of family 5, but does not have the
F00F bug present in Pentiums of the same family.

Pentiums were models 0 through 8, Quark is model 9.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141028175753.GA12743@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-10-29 08:52:09 +01:00
Bryan O'Donoghue aece118e48 x86: Add cpu_detect_cache_sizes to init_intel() add Quark legacy_cache()
Intel processors which don't report cache information via cpuid(2)
or cpuid(4) need quirk code in the legacy_cache_size callback to
report this data. For Intel that callback is is intel_size_cache().

This patch enables calling of cpu_detect_cache_sizes() inside of
init_intel() and hence the calling of the legacy_cache callback in
intel_size_cache(). Adding this call will ensure that PIII Tualatin
currently in intel_size_cache() and Quark SoC X1000 being added to
intel_size_cache() in this patch will report their respective cache
sizes.

This model of calling cpu_detect_cache_sizes() is consistent with
AMD/Via/Cirix/Transmeta and Centaur.

Also added is a string to idenitfy the Quark as Quark SoC X1000
giving better and more descriptive output via /proc/cpuinfo

Adding cpu_detect_cache_sizes to init_intel() will enable calling
of intel_size_cache() on Intel processors which currently no code
can reach. Therefore this patch will also re-enable reporting
of PIII Tualatin cache size information as well as add
Quark SoC X1000 support.

Comment text and cache flow logic suggested by Thomas Gleixner

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412641189-12415-3-git-send-email-pure.logic@nexus-software.ie
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-10-08 10:07:46 +02:00
Bryan O'Donoghue ee1b5b165c x86/intel/quark: Switch off CR4.PGE so TLB flush uses CR3 instead
Quark x1000 advertises PGE via the standard CPUID method
PGE bits exist in Quark X1000's PTEs. In order to flush
an individual PTE it is necessary to reload CR3 irrespective
of the PTE.PGE bit.

See Quark Core_DevMan_001.pdf section 6.4.11

This bug was fixed in Galileo kernels, unfixed vanilla kernels are expected to
crash and burn on this platform.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411514784-14885-1-git-send-email-pure.logic@nexus-software.ie
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-24 15:06:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ce47479632 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle is the rework of the TLB range flushing
  code, to simplify, fix and consolidate the code.  By Dave Hansen"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Set TLB flush tunable to sane value (33)
  x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush
  x86/mm: Add tracepoints for TLB flushes
  x86/mm: Unify remote INVLPG code
  x86/mm: Fix missed global TLB flush stat
  x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing
  x86/mm: Clean up the TLB flushing code
  x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault
2014-08-04 17:15:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e9c9eecaba Merge branch 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Continued cleanups of CPU bugs mis-marked as 'missing features', by
     Borislav Petkov.

   - Detect the xsaves/xrstors feature and releated cleanup, by Fenghua
     Yu"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Kill cpu_has_mp
  x86, amd: Cleanup init_amd
  x86/cpufeature: Add bug flags to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
  x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature
  x86/cpufeature.h: Reformat x86 feature macros
2014-08-04 17:12:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen e9f4e0a9fe x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing
I think the flush_tlb_mm_range() code that tries to tune the
flush sizes based on the CPU needs to get ripped out for
several reasons:

1. It is obviously buggy.  It uses mm->total_vm to judge the
   task's footprint in the TLB.  It should certainly be using
   some measure of RSS, *NOT* ->total_vm since only resident
   memory can populate the TLB.
2. Haswell, and several other CPUs are missing from the
   intel_tlb_flushall_shift_set() function.  Thus, it has been
   demonstrated to bitrot quickly in practice.
3. It is plain wrong in my vm:
	[    0.037444] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] tlb_flushall_shift: 6
   Which leads to it to never use invlpg.
4. The assumptions about TLB refill costs are wrong:
	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337782555-8088-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
    (more on this in later patches)
5. I can not reproduce the original data: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
   I believe the sample times were too short.  Running the
   benchmark in a loop yields times that vary quite a bit.

Note that this leaves us with a static ceiling of 1 page.  This
is a conservative, dumb setting, and will be revised in a later
patch.

This also removes the code which attempts to predict whether we
are flushing data or instructions.  We expect instruction flushes
to be relatively rare and not worth tuning for explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154055.ABC88E89@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-07-31 08:48:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 2a2261553d x86, cpu: Fix cache topology for early P4-SMT
P4 systems with cpuid level < 4 can have SMT, but the cache topology
description available (cpuid2) does not include SMP information.

Now we know that SMT shares all cache levels, and therefore we can
mark all available cache levels as shared.

We do this by setting cpu_llc_id to ->phys_proc_id, since that's
the same for each SMT thread. We can do this unconditional since if
there's no SMT its still true, the one CPU shares cache with only
itself.

This fixes a problem where such CPUs report an incorrect LLC CPU mask.

This in turn fixes a crash in the scheduler where the topology was
build wrong, it assumes the LLC mask to include at least the SMT CPUs.

Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140722133514.GM12054@laptop.lan
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-07-23 08:16:17 -07:00
Borislav Petkov 9b13a93df2 x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK, X86_FEATURE_11AP and
X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR are not really features but synthetic bits
we use for applying different bug workarounds. Call them what they
really are, and make sure they get the proper cross-CPU behavior (OR
rather than AND).

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403042783-23278-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-06-18 15:27:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 467cbd207a Merge branch 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 old platform removal from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset removes support for several completely obsolete
  platforms, where the maintainers either have completely vanished or
  acked the removal.  For some of them it is questionable if there even
  exists functional specimens of the hardware"

Geert Uytterhoeven apparently thought this was a April Fool's pull request ;)

* 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ
  x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation
  x86, apic: Remove support for IBM Summit/EXA chipset
  x86, apic: Remove support for ia32-based Unisys ES7000
2014-04-02 13:15:58 -07:00
Chris Bainbridge 69f2366c94 x86, cpu: Add forcepae parameter for booting PAE kernels on PAE-disabled Pentium M
Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a functionally usable PAE
implementation. This adds the "forcepae" parameter which bypasses the boot
check for PAE, and sets the CPU as being PAE capable. Using this parameter
will taint the kernel with TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC.

Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140307114040.GA4997@localhost
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-03-20 16:31:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 0b131be8d4 x86, intel: Make MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bit constants systematic
Replace somewhat arbitrary constants for bits in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE
with verbose but systematic ones.  Add _BIT defines for all the rest
of them, too.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-03-13 15:55:46 -07:00
Borislav Petkov c0a639ad0b x86, Intel: Convert to the new bit access MSR accessors
... and save some lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394384725-10796-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-03-13 15:35:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin b5660ba76b x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ
The NUMAQ support seems to be unmaintained, remove it.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/n/530CFD6C.7040705@zytor.com
2014-02-27 08:07:39 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 2b45e0f9f3 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Merge in the x86 changes to apply a fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 09:16:14 +01:00
Mel Gorman b9a3b4c976 mm, x86: Revisit tlb_flushall_shift tuning for page flushes except on IvyBridge
There was a large ebizzy performance regression that was
bisected to commit 611ae8e3 (x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range
support for x86).  The problem was related to the
tlb_flushall_shift tuning for IvyBridge which was altered.  The
problem is that it is not clear if the tuning values for each
CPU family is correct as the methodology used to tune the values
is unclear.

This patch uses a conservative tlb_flushall_shift value for all
CPU families except IvyBridge so the decision can be revisited
if any regression is found as a result of this change.
IvyBridge is an exception as testing with one methodology
determined that the value of 2 is acceptable.  Details are in
the changelog for the patch "x86: mm: Change tlb_flushall_shift
for IvyBridge".

One important aspect of this to watch out for is Xen.  The
original commit log mentioned large performance gains on Xen.
It's possible Xen is more sensitive to this value if it flushes
small ranges of pages more frequently than workloads on bare
metal typically do.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dyzMww3fqugnhbhgo6Gxmtkw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 09:10:44 +01:00
Mel Gorman f98b7a772a x86: mm: change tlb_flushall_shift for IvyBridge
There was a large performance regression that was bisected to
commit 611ae8e3 ("x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for
x86").  This patch simply changes the default balance point
between a local and global flush for IvyBridge.

In the interest of allowing the tests to be reproduced, this
patch was tested using mmtests 0.15 with the following
configurations

	configs/config-global-dhp__tlbflush-performance
	configs/config-global-dhp__scheduler-performance
	configs/config-global-dhp__network-performance

Results are from two machines

Ivybridge   4 threads:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Ivybridge   8 threads:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Page fault microbenchmark showed nothing interesting.

Ebizzy was configured to run multiple iterations and threads.
Thread counts ranged from 1 to NR_CPUS*2. For each thread count,
it ran 100 iterations and each iteration lasted 10 seconds.

Ivybridge 4 threads
                    3.13.0-rc7            3.13.0-rc7
                       vanilla           altshift-v3
Mean   1     6395.44 (  0.00%)     6789.09 (  6.16%)
Mean   2     7012.85 (  0.00%)     8052.16 ( 14.82%)
Mean   3     6403.04 (  0.00%)     6973.74 (  8.91%)
Mean   4     6135.32 (  0.00%)     6582.33 (  7.29%)
Mean   5     6095.69 (  0.00%)     6526.68 (  7.07%)
Mean   6     6114.33 (  0.00%)     6416.64 (  4.94%)
Mean   7     6085.10 (  0.00%)     6448.51 (  5.97%)
Mean   8     6120.62 (  0.00%)     6462.97 (  5.59%)

Ivybridge 8 threads
                     3.13.0-rc7            3.13.0-rc7
                        vanilla           altshift-v3
Mean   1      7336.65 (  0.00%)     7787.02 (  6.14%)
Mean   2      8218.41 (  0.00%)     9484.13 ( 15.40%)
Mean   3      7973.62 (  0.00%)     8922.01 ( 11.89%)
Mean   4      7798.33 (  0.00%)     8567.03 (  9.86%)
Mean   5      7158.72 (  0.00%)     8214.23 ( 14.74%)
Mean   6      6852.27 (  0.00%)     7952.45 ( 16.06%)
Mean   7      6774.65 (  0.00%)     7536.35 ( 11.24%)
Mean   8      6510.50 (  0.00%)     6894.05 (  5.89%)
Mean   12     6182.90 (  0.00%)     6661.29 (  7.74%)
Mean   16     6100.09 (  0.00%)     6608.69 (  8.34%)

Ebizzy hits the worst case scenario for TLB range flushing every
time and it shows for these Ivybridge CPUs at least that the
default choice is a poor on.  The patch addresses the problem.

Next was a tlbflush microbenchmark written by Alex Shi at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133727348217113 .  It
measures access costs while the TLB is being flushed.  The
expectation is that if there are always full TLB flushes that
the benchmark would suffer and it benefits from range flushing

There are 320 iterations of the test per thread count.  The
number of entries is randomly selected with a min of 1 and max
of 512.  To ensure a reasonably even spread of entries, the full
range is broken up into 8 sections and a random number selected
within that section.

iteration 1, random number between 0-64
iteration 2, random number between 64-128 etc

This is still a very weak methodology.  When you do not know
what are typical ranges, random is a reasonable choice but it
can be easily argued that the opimisation was for smaller ranges
and an even spread is not representative of any workload that
matters.  To improve this, we'd need to know the probability
distribution of TLB flush range sizes for a set of workloads
that are considered "common", build a synthetic trace and feed
that into this benchmark.  Even that is not perfect because it
would not account for the time between flushes but there are
limits of what can be reasonably done and still be doing
something useful.  If a representative synthetic trace is
provided then this benchmark could be revisited and the shift values retuned.

Ivybridge 4 threads
                        3.13.0-rc7            3.13.0-rc7
                           vanilla           altshift-v3
Mean       1       10.50 (  0.00%)       10.50 (  0.03%)
Mean       2       17.59 (  0.00%)       17.18 (  2.34%)
Mean       3       22.98 (  0.00%)       21.74 (  5.41%)
Mean       5       47.13 (  0.00%)       46.23 (  1.92%)
Mean       8       43.30 (  0.00%)       42.56 (  1.72%)

Ivybridge 8 threads
                         3.13.0-rc7            3.13.0-rc7
                            vanilla           altshift-v3
Mean       1         9.45 (  0.00%)        9.36 (  0.93%)
Mean       2         9.37 (  0.00%)        9.70 ( -3.54%)
Mean       3         9.36 (  0.00%)        9.29 (  0.70%)
Mean       5        14.49 (  0.00%)       15.04 ( -3.75%)
Mean       8        41.08 (  0.00%)       38.73 (  5.71%)
Mean       13       32.04 (  0.00%)       31.24 (  2.49%)
Mean       16       40.05 (  0.00%)       39.04 (  2.51%)

For both CPUs, average access time is reduced which is good as
this is the benchmark that was used to tune the shift values in
the first place albeit it is now known *how* the benchmark was
used.

The scheduler benchmarks were somewhat inconclusive.  They
showed gains and losses and makes me reconsider how stable those
benchmarks really are or if something else might be interfering
with the test results recently.

Network benchmarks were inconclusive.  Almost all results were
flat except for netperf-udp tests on the 4 thread machine.
These results were unstable and showed large variations between
reboots.  It is unknown if this is a recent problems but I've
noticed before that netperf-udp results tend to vary.

Based on these results, changing the default for Ivybridge seems
like a logical choice.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cqnadffh1tiqrshthRj3Esge@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 09:10:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 5d4863e4cc Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 TLB detection update from Ingo Molnar:
 "A single change that extends our TLB cache size detection+reporting
  code"

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Detect more TLB configuration
2014-01-20 12:04:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2a0fede97f Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu, amd: Fix a shadowed variable situation
  um, x86: Fix vDSO build
  x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
  x86, realmode: Pointer walk cleanups, pull out invariant use of __pa()
  x86/traps: Clean up error exception handler definitions
2014-01-20 12:03:57 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 35af99e646 sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable
In order to avoid the runtime condition and variable load turn
sched_clock_stable into a static_key.

Also provide a shorter implementation of local_clock() and
cpu_clock(int) when sched_clock_stable==1.

                        MAINLINE   PRE       POST

    sched_clock_stable: 1          1         1
    (cold) sched_clock: 329841     221876    215295
    (cold) local_clock: 301773     234692    220773
    (warm) sched_clock: 38375      25602     25659
    (warm) local_clock: 100371     33265     27242
    (warm) rdtsc:       27340      24214     24208
    sched_clock_stable: 0          0         0
    (cold) sched_clock: 382634     235941    237019
    (cold) local_clock: 396890     297017    294819
    (warm) sched_clock: 38194      25233     25609
    (warm) local_clock: 143452     71234     71232
    (warm) rdtsc:       27345      24245     24243

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eummbdechzz37mwmpags1gjr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 15:13:13 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker 663b55b9b3 x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

[ hpa: undid incorrect removal from arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389054026-12947-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-01-06 21:25:18 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov dd360393f4 x86, cpu: Detect more TLB configuration
The Intel Software Developer’s Manual covers few more TLB
configurations exposed as CPUID 2 descriptors:

61H Instruction TLB: 4 KByte pages, fully associative, 48 entries
63H Data TLB: 1 GByte pages, 4-way set associative, 4 entries
76H Instruction TLB: 2M/4M pages, fully associative, 8 entries
B5H Instruction TLB: 4KByte pages, 8-way set associative, 64 entries
B6H Instruction TLB: 4KByte pages, 8-way set associative, 128 entries
C1H Shared 2nd-Level TLB: 4 KByte/2MByte pages, 8-way associative, 1024 entries
C2H DTLB DTLB: 2 MByte/$MByte pages, 4-way associative, 16 entries

Let's detect them as well.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387801018-14499-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-01-03 14:35:42 -08:00
Len Brown 40e2d7f9b5 x86 idle: Repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression
Linux 3.10 changed the timing of how thread_info->flags is touched:

	x86: Use generic idle loop
	(7d1a941731)

This caused Intel NHM-EX and WSM-EX servers to experience a large number
of immediate MONITOR/MWAIT break wakeups, which caused cpuidle to demote
from deep C-states to shallow C-states, which caused these platforms
to experience a significant increase in idle power.

Note that this issue was already present before the commit above,
however, it wasn't seen often enough to be noticed in power measurements.

Here we extend an errata workaround from the Core2 EX "Dunnington"
to extend to NHM-EX and WSM-EX, to prevent these immediate
returns from MWAIT, reducing idle power on these platforms.

While only acpi_idle ran on Dunnington, intel_idle
may also run on these two newer systems.
As of today, there are no other models that are known
to need this tweak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJvTdK=%2BaNN66mYpCGgbHGCHhYQAKx-vB0kJSWjVpsNb_hOAtQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baff264285f6e585df757d58b17788feabc68918.1387403066.git.len.brown@intel.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x, 3.11.x, 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-12-19 11:47:39 -08:00
Jan Beulich 09dc68d958 x86/cpu: Track legacy CPU model data only on 32-bit kernels
struct cpu_dev's c_models is only ever set inside CONFIG_X86_32
conditionals (or code that's being built for 32-bit only), so
there's no use of reserving the (empty) space for the model
names in a 64-bit kernel.

Similarly, c_size_cache is only used in the #else of a
CONFIG_X86_64 conditional, so reserving space for (and in one
case even initializing) that field is pointless for 64-bit
kernels too.

While moving both fields to the end of the structure, I also
noticed that:

 - the c_models array size was one too small, potentially causing
   table_lookup_model() to return garbage on Intel CPUs (intel.c's
   instance was lacking the sentinel with family being zero), so the
   patch bumps that by one,

 - c_models' vendor sub-field was unused (and anyway redundant
   with the base structure's c_x86_vendor field), so the patch deletes it.

Also rename the legacy fields so that their legacy nature stands out
and comment their declarations.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5265036802000078000FC4DB@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-26 13:34:39 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 148f9bb877 x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 01c7cd0ef5 Merge branch 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perparatory x86 kasrl changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains changes from the ongoing KASLR work, by Kees Cook.

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

* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, relocs: Refactor the relocs tool to merge 32- and 64-bit ELF
  x86, relocs: Build separate 32/64-bit tools
  x86, relocs: Add 64-bit ELF support to relocs tool
  x86, relocs: Consolidate processing logic
  x86, relocs: Generalize ELF structure names
  x86: Use a read-only IDT alias on all CPUs
2013-04-30 08:37:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds df8edfa9af Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cpuid changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is x86 CPU bug handling refactoring and cleanups,
  by Borislav Petkov"

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, CPU, AMD: Drop useless label
  x86, AMD: Correct {rd,wr}msr_amd_safe warnings
  x86: Fold-in trivial check_config function
  x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 400
  x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 383
  x86, cpu: Convert Cyrix coma bug detection
  x86, cpu: Convert FDIV bug detection
  x86, cpu: Convert F00F bug detection
  x86, cpu: Expand cpufeature facility to include cpu bugs
2013-04-30 08:34:38 -07:00
Kees Cook 4eefbe792b x86: Use a read-only IDT alias on all CPUs
Make a copy of the IDT (as seen via the "sidt" instruction) read-only.
This primarily removes the IDT from being a target for arbitrary memory
write attacks, and has the added benefit of also not leaking the kernel
base offset, if it has been relocated.

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

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410192422.GA17344@www.outflux.net
Cc: Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-11 13:53:19 -07:00
Borislav Petkov e2604b49e8 x86, cpu: Convert F00F bug detection
... to using the new facility and drop the cpuinfo_x86 member.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2013-04-02 10:12:52 -07:00
Feng Tang c54fdbb282 x86: Add cpu capability flag X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3
On some new Intel Atom processors (Penwell and Cloverview), there is
a feature that the TSC won't stop in S3 state, say the TSC value
won't be reset to 0 after resume. This feature makes TSC a more reliable
clocksource and could benefit the timekeeping code during system
suspend/resume cycle, so add a flag for it.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
[jstultz: Fix checkpatch warning]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-03-15 16:50:26 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 68d00bbebb Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/mm' into x86/mm2
Explicitly merging these two branches due to nontrivial conflicts and
to allow further work.

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/head32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
	arch/x86/realmode/init.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-02-01 02:28:36 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin de65d816aa Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/boot' into x86/mm2
Coming patches to x86/mm2 require the changes and advanced baseline in
x86/boot.

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	mm/nobootmem.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-29 15:10:15 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 7b5c4a65cc Linux 3.8-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.8-rc5' into x86/mm

The __pa() fixup series that follows touches KVM code that is not
present in the existing branch based on v3.7-rc5, so merge in the
current upstream from Linus.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-25 16:31:21 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 094ab1db7c x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_INVLPG
All 486+ CPUs support INVLPG, so remove the fallback 386 support
code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1354132230-21854-6-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-11-29 13:23:02 -08:00
Yinghai Lu c074eaac2a x86, mm: kill numa_64.h
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353123563-3103-44-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-17 11:59:47 -08:00
Alexander Duyck fc8d782677 x86: Use __pa_symbol instead of __pa on C visible symbols
When I made an attempt at separating __pa_symbol and __pa I found that there
were a number of cases where __pa was used on an obvious symbol.

I also caught one non-obvious case as _brk_start and _brk_end are based on the
address of __brk_base which is a C visible symbol.

In mark_rodata_ro I was able to reduce the overhead of kernel symbol to
virtual memory translation by using a combination of __va(__pa_symbol())
instead of page_address(virt_to_page()).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215640.8521.80483.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-16 16:42:09 -08:00
Borislav Petkov 5b556332c3 x86, cpu: Push TLB detection CPUID check down
Push the max CPUID leaf check into the ->detect_tlb function and remove
general test case from the generic path.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344272439-29080-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Acked-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-08-06 19:18:29 -07:00
Alex Shi c4211f42d3 x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU
Testing show different CPU type(micro architectures and NUMA mode) has
different balance points between the TLB flush all and multiple invlpg.
And there also has cases the tlb flush change has no any help.

This patch give a interface to let x86 vendor developers have a chance
to set different shift for different CPU type.

like some machine in my hands, balance points is 16 entries on
Romely-EP; while it is at 8 entries on Bloomfield NHM-EP; and is 256 on
IVB mobile CPU. but on model 15 core2 Xeon using invlpg has nothing
help.

For untested machine, do a conservative optimization, same as NHM CPU.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-27 19:29:10 -07:00
Alex Shi e0ba94f14f x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU
For 4KB pages, x86 CPU has 2 or 1 level TLB, first level is data TLB and
instruction TLB, second level is shared TLB for both data and instructions.

For hupe page TLB, usually there is just one level and seperated by 2MB/4MB
and 1GB.

Although each levels TLB size is important for performance tuning, but for
genernal and rude optimizing, last level TLB entry number is suitable. And
in fact, last level TLB always has the biggest entry number.

This patch will get the biggest TLB entry number and use it in furture TLB
optimizing.

Accroding Borislav's suggestion, except tlb_ll[i/d]_* array, other
function and data will be released after system boot up.

For all kinds of x86 vendor friendly, vendor specific code was moved to its
specific files.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-2-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-27 19:28:24 -07:00
Kevin Winchester 141168c36c x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'
Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space.  However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files.  The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	4737168	 506459	 972040	6215667	 5ed7f3	vmlinux.o.before
	4737444	 506459	 972040	6215943	 5ed907	vmlinux.o.after

for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.

If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 09:25:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen 30963c0ac7 x86, intel: Use c->microcode for Atom errata check
Now that the cpu update level is available the Atom PSE errata
check can use it directly without reading the MSR again.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-14 13:16:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 506ed6b53e x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode
update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode"
field to /proc/cpuinfo.

The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks
together with the other CPUID model information.

I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver,
it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode
is updated it fills in the new values too.

I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it
being optimized away when the result is not used.

This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
information manually. This is done in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-14 13:16:35 +02:00
Len Brown 17edf2d79f x86, intel, power: Correct the MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS message
Fix the printk_once() so that it actually prints (didn't print before
due to a stray comma.)

[ hpa: changed to an incremental patch and adjusted the description
  accordingly. ]

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107151732480.18606@x980
Cc: <table@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-15 15:13:55 -07:00
Len Brown abe48b1082 x86, intel, power: Initialize MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS
Since 2.6.36 (23016bf0d2), Linux prints the existence of "epb" in /proc/cpuinfo,
Since 2.6.38 (d5532ee7b4), the x86_energy_perf_policy(8) utility has
been available in-tree to update MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS.

However, the typical BIOS fails to initialize the MSR, presumably
because this is handled by high-volume shrink-wrap operating systems...

Linux distros, on the other hand, do not yet invoke x86_energy_perf_policy(8).
As a result, WSM-EP, SNB, and later hardware from Intel will run in its
default hardware power-on state (performance), which assumes that users
care for performance at all costs and not for energy efficiency.
While that is fine for performance benchmarks, the hardware's intended default
operating point is "normal" mode...

Initialize the MSR to the "normal" by default during kernel boot.

x86_energy_perf_policy(8) is available to change the default after boot,
should the user have a different preference.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107140051020.18606@x980
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-07-14 12:13:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0162818804 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0
  Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
  x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks
  x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion
  x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs
  x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure
  x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4
  x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family"

Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b
"x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed
some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e6 "jump
label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
2011-05-19 17:55:12 -07:00