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Linus Torvalds 43c1266ce4 Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Tidy up after the big rename
  perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
  perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
  perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar bfefb7a0c6 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: Bring in changes that the next patch will depend on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:25:03 +02:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 4fe487828b x86: Fix uaccess_32.h typo
Trivial: correct "that the we don't" typo.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917125401.GU3717@localdomain.by>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:19:34 +02:00
Felipe Contreras 878f4f533e x86: Trivial whitespace cleanups
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Tan Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253137123-18047-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:18:57 +02:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 8312136fa8 x86, apic: Fix missed handling of discrete apics
In case of discrete (pretty old) apics we may have cpu_has_apic bit
not set but have to check if smp_found_config (MP spec) is there
and apic was not disabled.

Also don't forget to print apic/io-apic for such case as well.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090915071230.GA10604@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:18:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 78f28b7c55 Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
  x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
  x86: platform: Fix section annotations
  x86: apic namespace cleanup
  x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
  x86: Add Moorestown early detection
  x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
  x86: Add early platform detection
  x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
  x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
  x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
  x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
  x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
  x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
  x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
  x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove do_timer hook
  x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a03fdb7612 Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (34 commits)
  time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec()
  clocksource: Delay clocksource down rating to late boot
  clocksource: clocksource_select must be called with mutex locked
  clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable, fix crash
  timers: Drop a function prototype
  clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable
  timer.c: Fix S/390 comments
  timekeeping: Fix invalid getboottime() value
  timekeeping: Fix up read_persistent_clock() breakage on sh
  timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock(), build fix
  time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
  x86: Do not unregister PIT clocksource on PIT oneshot setup/shutdown
  clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency
  clocksource: Protect the watchdog rating changes with clocksource_mutex
  clocksource: Call clocksource_change_rating() outside of watchdog_lock
  timekeeping: Introduce read_boot_clock
  timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()
  timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine
  timekeeping: Add timekeeper read_clock helper functions
  timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper
  ...

Fix trivial conflict due to MIPS lemote -> loongson renaming.
2009-09-18 09:15:24 -07:00
Jack Steiner 8dc579e868 x86: SGI UV: Add volatile semantics to macros that access chipset registers
Add volatile-semantics to the SGI UV read/write macros that are
used to access chipset memory mapped registers. No direct
references to volatile are made. Instead the readq/writeq macros
are used.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: dwalker@fifo99.com
Cc: cfriesen@nortel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090910143149.GA14273@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 14:05:32 +02:00
Jack Steiner d2374aecda x86: SGI UV: Fix IPI macros
The UV BIOS has changed the way interrupt remapping is being done.
This affects the id used for sending IPIs. The upper id bits no
longer need to be masked off.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090909154104.GA25083@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 14:04:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds df58bee21e Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  x86, mce: Fix compilation with !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in mce-severity.c
  x86, mce: CE in last bank prevents panic by unknown MCE
  x86, mce: Fake panic support for MCE testing
  x86, mce: Move debugfs mce dir creating to mce.c
  x86, mce: Support specifying raise mode for software MCE injection
  x86, mce: Support specifying context for software mce injection
  x86, mce: fix reporting of Thermal Monitoring mechanism enabled
  x86, mce: remove never executed code
  x86, mce: add missing __cpuinit tags
  x86, mce: fix "mce" boot option handling for CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE
  x86, mce: don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
  x86: mce: Lower maximum number of banks to architecture limit
  x86: mce: macros to compute banks MSRs
  x86: mce: Move per bank data in a single datastructure
  x86: mce: Move code in mce.c
  x86: mce: Rename CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE to CONFIG_X86_MCE
  x86: mce: Remove old i386 machine check code
  x86: mce: Update X86_MCE description in x86/Kconfig
  x86: mce: Make CONFIG_X86_ANCIENT_MCE dependent on CONFIG_X86_MCE
  x86, mce: use atomic_inc_return() instead of add by 1
  ...

Manually fixed up trivial conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
2009-09-17 21:07:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds dcbf77b9e8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
  sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE
  sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system
  sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING
  sched: Fix TASK_WAKING & loadaverage breakage
  sched: Disable wakeup balancing
  sched: Rename flags to wake_flags
  sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair
  sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit
  sched: x86: Name old_perf in a unique way
  sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL
  sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
  sched: Fix sync wakeups again
  sched: Add WF_FORK
  sched: Rename sync arguments
  sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument
  sched: Feature to disable APERF/MPERF cpu_power
  x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf
  x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code
  x86: Move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h due to
nearby addition of amd_get_nb_id() declaration from the EDAC merge.
2009-09-17 21:00:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ca043a66ae Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: don't use rb-tree based lookup in reserve_memtype()
  x86: Increase MIN_GAP to include randomized stack
2009-09-17 20:58:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1218259b2d Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
  vsnprintf: remove duplicate comment of vsnprintf
  softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name
  oprofile: fix oprofile regression: select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
  tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps
  vsprintf: add %ps that is the same as %pS but is like %pf
  tracing: Fix minor bugs for __unregister_ftrace_function_probe
  tracing: remove notrace from __kprobes annotation
  tracing: optimize global_trace_clock cachelines
  MAINTAINERS: Update tracing tree details
  ftrace: document function and function graph implementation
  tracing: make testing syscall events a separate configuration
  tracing: remove some unused macros
  ftrace: add compile-time check on F_printk()
  tracing: fix F_printk() typos
  tracing: have TRACE_EVENT macro use __flags to not shadow parameter
  tracing: add static to generated TRACE_EVENT functions
  ring-buffer: typecast cmpxchg to fix PowerPC warning
  tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers
  tracing: remove trace_event_types.h
  tracing: use the new trace_entries.h to create format files
  ...
2009-09-17 20:56:37 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 3bb045f1e2 Merge branch 'x86/pat' into x86/urgent
Merge reason:

Suresh Siddha (1):
      x86, pat: don't use rb-tree based lookup in reserve_memtype()

... requires previous x86/pat commits already pushed to Linus.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-17 14:40:49 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 45bd00d31d Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 20:53:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds de55a8958f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp:
  amd64_edac: check NB MCE bank enable on the current node properly
  amd64_edac: Rewrite unganged mode code of f10_early_channel_count
  amd64_edac: cleanup amd64_check_ecc_enabled
  x86, EDAC: Provide function to return NodeId of a CPU
  amd64_edac: build driver only on AMD hardware
2009-09-17 09:55:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4406c56d0a Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (75 commits)
  PCI hotplug: clean up acpi_run_hpp()
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: shpchp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: pciehp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: add pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: clean up acpi_get_hp_params_from_firmware() interface
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: don't cache hotplug_params in acpiphp_bridge
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: remove superfluous _HPP/_HPX evaluation
  PCI: Clear saved_state after the state has been restored
  PCI PM: Return error codes from pci_pm_resume()
  PCI: use dev_printk in quirk messages
  PCI / PCIe portdrv: Fix pcie_portdrv_slot_reset()
  PCI Hotplug: convert acpi_pci_detect_ejectable() to take an acpi_handle
  PCI Hotplug: acpiphp: find bridges the easy way
  PCI: pcie portdrv: remove unused variable
  PCI / ACPI PM: Propagate wake-up enable for devices w/o ACPI support
  ACPI PM: Replace wakeup.prepared with reference counter
  PCI PM: Introduce device flag wakeup_prepared
  PCI / ACPI PM: Rework some debug messages
  PCI PM: Simplify PCI wake-up code
  ...

Fixed up conflict in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c due to OF device tree
scanning having been moved and merged for the 32- and 64-bit cases.  The
'needs_freset' initialization added in 6e19314cc ("PCI/powerpc: support
PCIe fundamental reset") is now in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_of_scan.c.
2009-09-16 07:49:54 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 182a85f8a1 sched: Disable wakeup balancing
Sysbench thinks SD_BALANCE_WAKE is too agressive and kbuild doesn't
really mind too much, SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE picks up most of the
slack.

On a dual socket, quad core, dual thread nehalem system:

sysbench (--num_threads=16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 13982 tx/s
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 15688 tx/s

kbuild (-j16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 47.648295846  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.312% )
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 47.608607360  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.026% )

(same within noise)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:33 +02:00
Feng Tang 7bd867dfb4 x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
get/set_wallclock() have already a set of platform dependent
implementations (default, EFI, paravirt). MRST will add another
variant.

Moving them to platform ops simplifies the existing code and minimizes
the effort to integrate new variants.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-09-16 14:34:50 +02:00
Andreas Herrmann 6a8126911a x86, EDAC: Provide function to return NodeId of a CPU
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-16 11:33:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 227423904c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1aaf2e5913 Merge branch 'x86-txt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-txt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, intel_txt: clean up the impact on generic code, unbreak non-x86
  x86, intel_txt: Handle ACPI_SLEEP without X86_TRAMPOLINE
  x86, intel_txt: Fix typos in Kconfig help
  x86, intel_txt: Factor out the code for S3 setup
  x86, intel_txt: tboot.c needs <asm/fixmap.h>
  intel_txt: Force IOMMU on for Intel TXT launch
  x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT Sx shutdown support
  x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT reboot/halt shutdown support
  x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support
2009-09-15 09:19:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 66a4fe0cb8 Merge branch 'agp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6
* 'agp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
  agp/intel: remove restore in resume
  agp: fix uninorth build
  intel-agp: Set dma mask for i915
  agp: kill phys_to_gart() and gart_to_phys()
  intel-agp: fix sglist allocation to avoid vmalloc()
  intel-agp: Move repeated sglist free into separate function
  agp: Switch agp_{un,}map_page() to take struct page * argument
  agp: tidy up handling of scratch pages w.r.t. DMA API
  intel_agp: Use PCI DMA API correctly on chipsets new enough to have IOMMU
  agp: Add generic support for graphics dma remapping
  agp: Switch mask_memory() method to take address argument again, not page
2009-09-15 09:18:07 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 5cbc19a983 x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code
Move some of the aperf/mperf code out from the cpufreq driver
thingy so that other people can enjoy it too.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a8303aaf2b x86: Move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE
Move the APERFMPERF capacility into a X86_FEATURE flag so that it
can be used outside of the acpi cpufreq driver.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b8a543ea5a sched: Reduce forkexec_idx
If we're looking to place a new task, we might as well find the
idlest position _now_, not 1 tick ago.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:23 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 0ec9fab3d1 sched: Improve latencies and throughput
Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.

Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 78e7ed53c9 sched: Tweak wake_idx
When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
balancing more aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c88d591089 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()
The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like
cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent
RT interaction.

To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which
leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self().

Modify sched_balance_self() to:

  - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree,
    (it only called it for the top domain, but it should
     have done this anyway), which allows us to remove
    this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up().

  - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains
    both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for
    WAKE invocations.

Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle().

This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and
SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE.

SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective.

Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags --
platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE
conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional
feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this
enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f86054c245 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: (23 commits)
  at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early()
  PM: Reset transition_started at dpm_resume_noirq
  PM: Update kerneldoc comments in drivers/base/power/main.c
  PM: Add convenience macro to make switching to dev_pm_ops less error-prone
  hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  floppy: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  PM: Trivial fixes
  PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone()
  PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory
  PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/
  PM: Run-time PM platform device bus support
  PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)
  Driver Core: Make PM operations a const pointer
  PM: Remove platform device suspend_late()/resume_early() V2
  USB: Rework musb suspend()/resume_early()
  I2C: Rework i2c-s3c2410 suspend_late()/resume() V2
  I2C: Rework i2c-pxa suspend_late()/resume_early()
  DMA: Rework txx9dmac suspend_late()/resume_early()
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/base/platform.c (due to same
constification patch being merged in both sides, along with some other
PM work in the PM branch)
2009-09-14 20:03:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki ac8d513a68 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2009-09-14 20:26:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 55e0715f61 Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
  x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED()
  x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
2009-09-14 08:01:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7dfd54a905 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, highmem_32.c: Clean up comment
  x86, pgtable.h: Clean up types
  x86: Clean up dump_pagetable()
2009-09-14 07:59:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 625037cc40 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64: move clts into batch cpu state updates when preloading fpu
  x86-64: move unlazy_fpu() into lazy cpu state part of context switch
  x86-32: make sure clts is batched during context switch
  x86: split out core __math_state_restore
2009-09-14 07:58:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c7208de304 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: (22 commits)
  x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
  x86, msr: change msr-reg.o to obj-y, and export its symbols
  x86: Use hard_smp_processor_id() to get apic id for AMD K8 cpus
  x86, sched: Workaround broken sched domain creation for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, mcheck: Use correct cpumask for shared bank4
  x86, cacheinfo: Fixup L3 cache information for AMD multi-node processors
  x86: Fix CPU llc_shared_map information for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, msr: Fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1, on 32-bit too
  x86: Move kernel_fpu_using to irq_fpu_usable in asm/i387.h
  x86, msr: fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1
  x86, msr: Export the register-setting MSR functions via /dev/*/msr
  x86, msr: Create _on_cpu helpers for {rw,wr}msr_safe_regs()
  x86, msr: Have the _safe MSR functions return -EIO, not -EFAULT
  x86, msr: CFI annotations, cleanups for msr-reg.S
  x86, asm: Make _ASM_EXTABLE() usable from assembly code
  x86, asm: Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros
  x86, AMD: Disable wrongly set X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM CPUID bit
  x86, msr: Rewrite AMD rd/wrmsr variants
  x86, msr: Add rd/wrmsr interfaces with preset registers
  x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture
  ...
2009-09-14 07:57:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9b74aec028 Merge branch 'x86-asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: remove all now-duplicate header files
  x86: convert termios.h to the asm-generic version
  x86: convert almost generic headers to asm-generic version
  x86: convert trivial headers to asm-generic version
  x86: add copies of some headers to convert to asm-generic
2009-09-14 07:55:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b581af5110 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/i386: Put aligned stack-canary in percpu shared_aligned section
  x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned
  x86: Detect stack protector for i386 builds on x86_64
  x86: allow "=rm" in native_save_fl()
  x86: properly annotate alternatives.c
  x86: Introduce GDT_ENTRY_INIT(), initialize bad_bios_desc statically
  x86, 32-bit: Use generic sys_pipe()
  x86: Introduce GDT_ENTRY_INIT(), fix APM
  x86: Introduce GDT_ENTRY_INIT()
  x86: Introduce set_desc_base() and set_desc_limit()
  x86: Remove unused patch_espfix_desc()
  x86: Use get_desc_base()
2009-09-14 07:53:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ffaf854b01 Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
  ACPI, x86: expose some IO-APIC routines when CONFIG_ACPI=n
  x86, apic: Slim down stack usage in early_init_lapic_mapping()
  x86, ioapic: Get rid of needless check and simplify ioapic_setup_resources()
  x86, ioapic: Define IO_APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE constant
  x86: Fix x86_model test in es7000_apic_is_cluster()
  x86, apic: Move dmar_table_init() out of enable_IR()
  x86, ioapic: Panic on irq-pin binding only if needed
  x86/apic: Enable x2APIC without interrupt remapping under KVM
  x86, apic: Drop redundant bit assignment
  x86, ioapic: Throw BUG instead of NULL dereference
  x86, ioapic: Introduce for_each_irq_pin() helper
  x86: Remove superfluous NULL pointer check in destroy_irq()
  x86/ioapic.c: unify ioapic_retrigger_irq()
  x86/ioapic.c: convert __target_IO_APIC_irq to conventional for() loop
  x86/ioapic.c: clean up replace_pin_at_irq_node logic and comments
  x86/ioapic.c: convert replace_pin_at_irq_node to conventional for() loop
  x86/ioapic.c: simplify add_pin_to_irq_node()
  x86/ioapic.c: convert io_apic_level_ack_pending loop to normal for() loop
  x86/ioapic.c: move lost comment to what seems like appropriate place
  x86/ioapic.c: remove redundant declaration of irq_pin_list
  ...
2009-09-14 07:51:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 483e3cd6a3 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
  ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
  ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
  tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
  tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
  tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
  tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
  tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
  tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
  tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
  tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
  tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
  tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
  tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
  ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
  ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
  ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
  ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
  ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
  ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
  ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
  ...
2009-09-11 13:24:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 774a694f8c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
  sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
  sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
  sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
  sched: Turn off child_runs_first
  sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
  sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
  sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
  sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
  sched: Clean up topology.h
  sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
  sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity
  sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
  sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
  sched: Add smt_gain
  sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
  ...
2009-09-11 13:23:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4f0ac85416 Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
  perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
  perf stat: More advanced variance computation
  perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
  perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
  perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
  perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
  perf trace: Fix read_string()
  perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
  perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
  perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
  perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
  perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
  perf trace: Sample the CPU too
  perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
  perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
  perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
  ...
2009-09-11 13:22:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a66a50054e Merge branch 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (59 commits)
  x86/gart: Do not select AGP for GART_IOMMU
  x86/amd-iommu: Initialize passthrough mode when requested
  x86/amd-iommu: Don't detach device from pt domain on driver unbind
  x86/amd-iommu: Make sure a device is assigned in passthrough mode
  x86/amd-iommu: Align locking between attach_device and detach_device
  x86/amd-iommu: Fix device table write order
  x86/amd-iommu: Add passthrough mode initialization functions
  x86/amd-iommu: Add core functions for pd allocation/freeing
  x86/dma: Mark iommu_pass_through as __read_mostly
  x86/amd-iommu: Change iommu_map_page to support multiple page sizes
  x86/amd-iommu: Support higher level PTEs in iommu_page_unmap
  x86/amd-iommu: Remove old page table handling macros
  x86/amd-iommu: Use 2-level page tables for dma_ops domains
  x86/amd-iommu: Remove bus_addr check in iommu_map_page
  x86/amd-iommu: Remove last usages of IOMMU_PTE_L0_INDEX
  x86/amd-iommu: Change alloc_pte to support 64 bit address space
  x86/amd-iommu: Introduce increase_address_space function
  x86/amd-iommu: Flush domains if address space size was increased
  x86/amd-iommu: Introduce set_dte_entry function
  x86/amd-iommu: Add a gneric version of amd_iommu_flush_all_devices
  ...
2009-09-11 13:16:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 989aa44a5f Merge branch 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debug lockups: Improve lockup detection, fix generic arch fallback
  debug lockups: Improve lockup detection
2009-09-11 13:15:55 -07:00
Michal Hocko 80938332d8 x86: Increase MIN_GAP to include randomized stack
Currently we are not including randomized stack size when calculating
mmap_base address in arch_pick_mmap_layout for topdown case. This might
cause that mmap_base starts in the stack reserved area because stack is
randomized by 1GB for 64b (8MB for 32b) and the minimum gap is 128MB.

If the stack really grows down to mmap_base then we can get silent mmap
region overwrite by the stack values.

Let's include maximum stack randomization size into MIN_GAP which is
used as the low bound for the gap in mmap.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1252400515-6866-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>
2009-09-10 17:00:12 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 5367b6887e x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
As reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/511703> and
<http://bugs.debian.org/515982>, kernels with paravirt-alternatives
enabled crash in text_poke_early() on at least some 486-class
processors.

The problem is that text_poke_early() itself uses inline functions
affected by paravirt-alternatives and so will modify instructions that
have already been prefetched.  Pentium and later processors will
invalidate the prefetched instructions in this case, but 486-class
processors do not.

Change sync_core() to limit prefetching on 486-class (and 386-class)
processors, and move the call to sync_core() above the call to the
modifiable local_irq_restore().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1252547631.3423.134.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-10 16:50:19 -07:00
Steven Rostedt fc06b8520b x86/tracing: comment need for atomic nop
The dynamic function tracer relys on the macro P6_NOP5 always being
an atomic NOP. If for some reason it is changed to be two operations
(like a nop2 nop3) it can faults within the kernel when the function
tracer modifies the code.

This patch adds a comment to note that the P6_NOPs are expected to
be atomic. This will hopefully prevent anyone from changing that.

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyer <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-10 17:22:44 -04:00
Avi Kivity 0a79b00952 KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
Debug registers may only be accessed from cpl 0.  Unfortunately, vmx will
code to emulate the instruction even though it was issued from guest
userspace, possibly leading to an unexpected trap later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:10 +03:00