Note the changes from 2.6.18-xen CPU hotplugging:
A vcpu_down request from the remote admin via Xenbus both hotunplugs the
CPU, and disables it by removing it from the cpu_present map, and removing
its entry in /sys.
A vcpu_up request from the remote admin only re-enables the CPU, and does
not immediately bring the CPU up. A udev event is emitted, which can be
caught by the user if he wishes to automatically re-up CPUs when available,
or implement a more complex policy.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It allows paravirt implementations of cpu_disable to share the
cpu_disable_common code, without having to take on board APIC
writes, which may not be appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add the new play_dead into smpboot.c, as it fits more cleanly in there
alongside other CONFIG_HOTPLUG functions.
Separate out the common code into its own function.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The removal of the CPU from the various maps was redundant as it already
happened in cpu_disable.
After cleaning this up, cpu_uninit only resets the tlb state, so rename
it and create a noop version for the X86_64 case (so the two play_deads
can be unified later).
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch lets the files using linux/version.h match the files that
#include it.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: work around MTRR mask setting, v2
x86: fix section mismatch warning - uv_cpu_init
x86: fix VMI for early params
x86: fix two modpost warnings in mm/init_64.c
x86: fix 1:1 mapping init on 64-bit (memory hotplug case)
x86: work around MTRR mask setting
x86: PAT Update validate_pat_support for intel CPUs
devmem, x86: PAT Change /dev/mem mmap with O_SYNC to use UC_MINUS
x86: PAT proper tracking of set_memory_uc and friends
x86: fix BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request (numaq_tsc_disable)
x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL
x86, mmiotrace: silence section mismatch warning - leave_uniprocessor
x86: use WARN() in arch/x86/kernel
x86: use WARN() in arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
werror: fix pci calgary
x86: fix oprofile + hibernation badness
x86, SGI UV: hardcode the TLB flush interrupt system vector
x86: fix Xorg startup/shutdown slowdown with PAT
x86: fix "kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode)"
x86 iommu: remove unneeded parenthesis
None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for
pv_lock_ops to be.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
improve the debug printout:
- make it actually display something
- print it only once
would be nice to have a WARN_ONCE() facility, to feed such things to
kerneloops.org.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cc4): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_cpu_init() to the function .init.text:uv_system_init()
The function __cpuinit uv_cpu_init() references
a function __init uv_system_init().
If uv_system_init is only used by uv_cpu_init then
annotate uv_system_init with a matching annotation.
uv_system_init was ment to be called only once, so do it from codepath
(native_smp_prepare_cpus) which is called once, right before activation
of other cpus (smp_init).
Note: old code relied on uv_node_to_blade being initialized to 0,
but it'a not initialized from anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> -tip testing found this build failure:
>
> arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c: In function ‘spin_time_start’:
> arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c:60: error: implicit declaration of function ‘xen_clocksource_read’
>
> i've excluded these new commits for now from tip/master - could you
> please send a delta fix against tip/x86/xen?
Make xen_clocksource_read non-static.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
while fixing a different bug i moved the call to vmi_init before
early params could be parsed.
This broke the vmi specific commandline parameters.
Fix that, by moving vmi initialization after kernel has got a chance to
parse early parameters.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
early_io{re,un}map() are __init and hence can't be called from __meminit
functions.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While I don't have a hotplug capable system at hand, I think two issues need
fixing:
- pud_phys (in kernel_physical_ampping_init()) would remain uninitialized in
the after_bootmem case
- the locking done just around phys_pmd_{init,update}() would leave out pgd
updates, and it was needlessly covering code portions that do allocations
(perhaps using a more friendly gfp value in alloc_low_page() would then be
possible)
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Joshua Hoblitt reported that only 3 GB of his 16 GB of RAM is
usable. Booting with mtrr_show showed us the BIOS-initialized
MTRR settings - which are all wrong.
So the root cause is that the BIOS has not set the mask correctly:
> [ 0.429971] MSR00000200: 00000000d0000000
> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000003ff0000800
>
> [ 0.436638] MSR00000202: 00000000e0000000
> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.443304] MSR00000204: 0000000000000006
> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000000c00000800
> should be ==> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000003c00000800
>
> [ 0.449970] MSR00000206: 0000000400000006
> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.456636] MSR00000208: 0000000420000006
> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000003ff0000800
So detect this borkage and add the prefix 111.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Measure how long spinlocks spend blocked. Also rename some fields to
be more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If spin_lock is called in an interrupts-enabled context, we can safely
enable interrupts while spinning. We don't bother for the actual spin
loop, but if we timeout and fall back to blocking, it's definitely
worthwhile enabling interrupts if possible.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add support for exporting statistics on mmu updates, multicall
batching and pv spinlocks into debugfs. The base path is xen/ and
each subsystem adds its own directory: mmu, multicalls, spinlocks.
In each directory, writing 1 to "zero_stats" will cause the
corresponding stats to be zeroed the next time they're updated.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A spinlock can be interrupted while spinning, so make sure we preserve
the previous lock of interest if we're taking a lock from within an
interrupt handler.
We also need to deal with the case where the blocking path gets
interrupted between testing to see if the lock is free and actually
blocking. If we get interrupted there and end up in the state where
the lock is free but the irq isn't pending, then we'll block
indefinitely in the hypervisor. This fix is to make sure that any
nested lock-takers will always leave the irq pending if there's any
chance the outer lock became free.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pentium III and Core Solo/Duo CPUs have an erratum
" Page with PAT set to WC while associated MTRR is UC may consolidate to UC "
which can result in WC setting in PAT to be ineffective. We will disable
PAT on such CPUs, so that we can continue to use MTRR WC setting.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All kernel mappings like ioremap(), etc uses UC_MINUS as the type. /dev/mem
mappings with /dev/mem being opened with O_SYNC however was using UC,
resulting in a conflict with /dev/mem mmap failing. This seems to be
affecting some apps (one being flashrom) which are using O_SYNC and which were
working before.
Switch /dev/mem with O_SYNC also to UC_MINUS.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Big thinko in pat memtype tracking code. reserve_memtype should be called
with physical address and not virtual address.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This section mismatch:
>> Seems to be a section mismatch; init_intel() is __cpuinit while
>> numaq_tsc_disable() is __init. Seems to be introduced in:
>>
>> commit 64898a8bad
>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat Jul 19 18:01:16 2008 -0700
>>
>> x86: extend and use x86_quirks to clean up NUMAQ code
>
> Oops, I am wrong about numaq_tsc_disable() being __init. Still, I
> believe that Yinghai might be able to say what's really wrong :-)
Would lead to this crash:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c08a45f0
IP: [<c08a45f0>] numaq_tsc_disable+0x0/0x40
Fixed by the patch below.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for
pv_lock_ops to be.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x180af): Section mismatch in reference from the function leave_uniprocessor() to the function .cpuinit.text:cpu_up()
The function leave_uniprocessor() references
the function __cpuinit cpu_up().
This is often because leave_uniprocessor lacks a __cpuinit
annotation or the annotation of cpu_up is wrong.
leave_uniprocessor calls cpu_up only when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is set,
so it can be safely annotated as __ref
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.
This also allowed the folding of some if()'s into the WARN()
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix an integer comparison always false warning in the PCI Calgary 64 driver.
A u8 is being compared to something that's 512 by default, resulting in the
following warning:
arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c:1285: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
This was introduced by patch b34e90b8f0.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Vegard Nossum reported oprofile + hibernation problems:
> Now some warnings:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /uio/arkimedes/s29/vegardno/git-working/linux-2.6/kernel/smp.c:328 s
> mp_call_function_mask+0x194/0x1a0()
The usual problem: the suspend function when interrupts are
already disabled calls smp_call_function which is not allowed with
interrupt off. But at this point all the other CPUs should be already
down anyways, so it should be enough to just drop that.
This patch should fix that problem at least by fixing cpu hotplug&
suspend support.
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixed 5 coding style errors. ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's easier to pattern match on Xen function if they all start with xen_.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add some comments explaining the locking and pinning algorithm when
using split pte locks. Also implement a minor optimisation of not
pinning the PTE when not using split pte locks.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It is useful for a pv_lock_ops backend to know whether interrupts are
enabled or not in the context a spin_lock is being called. This
allows it to enable interrupts while spinning, which could be
particularly helpful when spinning becomes blocking.
The default implementation just calls the normal spin_lock op,
ignoring the flags.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are four operating modes Xen code may find itself running in:
- native
- hvm domain
- pv dom0
- pv domU
Clean up predicates for testing for these states to make them more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The UV TLB shootdown mechanism needs a system interrupt vector.
Its vector had been hardcoded as 200, but needs to moved to the reserved
system vector range so that it does not collide with some device vector.
This is still temporary until dynamic system IRQ allocation is provided.
But it will be needed when real UV hardware becomes available and runs 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rene Herman reported significant Xorg startup/shutdown slowdown due
to PAT. It turns out that the memtype list has thousands of entries.
Add cached_entry to list add routine, in order to speed up the
lookup for sequential reserve_memtype calls.
Reported-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cyrix MediaGXm/Cx5530 Unicorn Revision 1.19.3B has stopped
booting starting at v2.6.22.
The reason is this commit:
> commit f25f64ed5b
> Author: Juergen Beisert <juergen@kreuzholzen.de>
> Date: Sun Jul 22 11:12:38 2007 +0200
>
> x86: Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions.
this commit activated a macro which was dormant before due to (buggy)
macro side-effects.
I've looked through various datasheets and found that the GXm and GXLV
Geode processors don't have an incrementor.
Remove the incrementor setup entirely. As the incrementor value
differs according to clock speed and we would hope that the BIOS
configures it correctly, it is probably the right solution.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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: add acpi_find_root_bridge_handle
PCI: acpi_pcihp: run _OSC on a root bridge
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Ibex Peak PCHs
x86/PCI: allow scanning of 255 PCI busses
x86, pci: detect end_bus_number according to acpi/e820 reserved, v2
pci: debug extra pci bus resources
pci: debug extra pci resources range
This reverts commit 34ae7f35a2, which has
been reported to cause a number of problems. During suspend and resume,
it apparently causes a crash in a CPU hotplug notifier to happen,
although the exact details are sketchy because of the inability to get
good traces during the suspend sequence.
See buzilla entries
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11296http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339
for more examples and details.
[ Mark: "Revert the patch for now. I'm still looking into getting a
reliable reproduction and I do not have a fix at this time." ]
Requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@inux-foundation.org>
The parenthesis in __iommu_queue_command() are not needed when assigning
into 'target' variable.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This recent patch
commit c3965bd151
Author: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Wed May 14 08:15:34 2008 -0700
x86 boot: proper use of ARRAY_SIZE instead of repeated E820MAX constant
caused these new warnings during a normal build:
In file included from linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/memory.c:17:
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u32':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:34: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u64':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:42: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls64'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__roundup_pow_of_two ':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls_long'
I tried to fix them in log2.h, but it's difficult because the real mode
environment is completely different from a normal kernel environment. Instead
define an own ARRAY_SIZE macro in boot.h, similar to the other private
macros there.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x27032): Section mismatch in reference from the function get_tce_space_from_tar() to the function .init.text:calgary_bus_has_devices()
The function get_tce_space_from_tar() references
the function __init calgary_bus_has_devices().
This is often because get_tce_space_from_tar lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of calgary_bus_has_devices is wrong.
get_tce_space_from_tar is called only from __init function (calgary_init)
and calls __init function (calgary_bus_has_devices).
So annotate it properly.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Take out part of get_local_pda referencing __init function (free_bootmem)
to new (static) function marked as __ref. It's safe to do because free_bootmem
is called before __init sections are dropped.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cd7): Section mismatch in reference from the function get_local_pda() to the function .init.text:free_bootmem()
The function __cpuinit get_local_pda() references
a function __init free_bootmem().
If free_bootmem is only used by get_local_pda then
annotate free_bootmem with a matching annotation.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c __save_processor_state calls read_cr4()
only a i486 CPU doesn't have the CR4 register. Trying to read it
produces an invalid opcode oops during suspend to disk.
Use the safe rc4 reading op instead. If the value to be written is
zero the write is skipped.
arch/x86/power/hibernate_asm_32.S
done: swapped the use of %eax and %ecx to use jecxz for
the zero test and jump over store to %cr4.
restore_image: s/%ecx/%eax/ to be consistent with done:
In addition to __save_processor_state, acpi_save_state_mem,
efi_call_phys_prelog, and efi_call_phys_epilog had checks added
(acpi restore was in assembly and already had a check for
non-zero). There were other reads and writes of CR4, but MCE and
virtualization shouldn't be executed on a i486 anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x118f7): Section mismatch in reference from the function construct_ioapic_table() to the function .init.text:MP_bus_info()
The function construct_ioapic_table() references
the function __init MP_bus_info().
This is often because construct_ioapic_table lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of MP_bus_info is wrong.
construct_ioapic_table is called only from construct_default_ISA_mptable which is __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x1591): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_amd() to the function .init.text:check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi()
The function __cpuinit init_amd() references
a function __init check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi().
If check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only used by init_amd then
annotate check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi with a matching annotation.
check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only called from init_amd which is __cpuinit
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x1fe7): Section mismatch in reference from the function MP_processor_info() to the variable .init.data:x86_quirks
The function __cpuinit MP_processor_info() references
a variable __initdata x86_quirks.
If x86_quirks is only used by MP_processor_info then
annotate x86_quirks with a matching annotation.
MP_processor_info uses x86_quirks which is __init and is used only from
smp_read_mpc and construct_default_ISA_mptable which are __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Alex Nixon