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Siddha, Suresh B
1e9f28fa1e [PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core
Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches
between cores.  Consider a dual package system, each package containing two
cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package.  If
there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two
processes will be scheduled on different packages.

On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with
specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2
users).

This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared
caches.  On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain
degeneration code.  This new domain can be also used for implementing power
savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..
I will post another patch for power savings policy soon)

Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
14cc3e2b63 [PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexes
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen
ad90573f93 [PATCH] x86_64: Initialize powernow_data[] for all siblings
I got an oops on a dual core system because the lost tick handler
called cpufreq_get() on core 1 and powernow tried to follow
a NULL powernow_data[] pointer there.

Initialize powernow_data for all cores of a CPU.

Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen
9d95dd849c [PATCH] i386/x86-64: List Intel LaGrange AKA SMX in /proc/cpuinfo
Spec just got published so we know the CPUID bit.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
be9bf30c73 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] kzalloc conversion for gx-suspmod
  [CPUFREQ] Whitespace cleanup
  [CPUFREQ] Mark longhaul driver as broken.
  [PATCH] cpufreq: fix section mismatch warnings
  [CPUFREQ] Fix the p4-clockmod N60 errata workaround.
  [CPUFREQ] Fix handling for CPU hotplug
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Let cpufreq driver handle affected CPUs
  [CPUFREQ] Lots of whitespace & CodingStyle cleanup.
  [CPUFREQ] Remove duplicate cpuinfo struct
  [CPUFREQ] Silence powernow-k8 warning on k7's.
2006-03-25 08:52:23 -08:00
Andrew Morton
f081a529f8 [PATCH] cpufreq: speedstep-smi asm fix
Fix bug identified by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>: the `out'
instruction depends upon the state of memory_data[], so we need to tell gcc
that before executing it. (The opcode, not gcc).

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553

Thanks to Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> for testing.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:42:45 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a720115678 [PATCH] more-for_each_cpu-conversions fix
I screwed up this conversion - we should be iterating across online CPUs, not
possible ones.

Spotted by Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:15 -08:00
Andrew Morton
394e3902c5 [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions
When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all.  The correct way of doing this
is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().

This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS.  I found very
few instances of this bug, if any.  But the patch converts lots of open-coded
test to use the preferred helper macros.

Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Shaohua Li
f2d0d263b5 [PATCH] x86: cpuid.4 doesn't need cpu level 5
Detecting cache line using cpuid.4, cpuid level 4 is enough.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:06 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
52f4a91afd [PATCH] Fix the imlicit declaration of mtrr_centaur_report_mcr in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c: In function `centaur_mcr_insert':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c:33: warning: implicit declaration of function `mtrr_centaur_report_mcr'

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:06 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
54a20f8c5d [PATCH] i386: fall back to sensible CPU model name
When vendor-specific i386 initialization code is unavailable the kernel
falls back to a default CPU model name.  Make that model name reflect the
CPU family instead of an internal vendor index.

Tested on Pentium II (family 6 model 5).

/proc/cpuinfo before:
        model name     : ff/05

after:
        model name     : 06/05

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
4f88651125 [PATCH] i386: allow disabling X86_FEATURE_SEP at boot
Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup.  This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall.  Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
3bc9b76bed [PATCH] i386: __devinit should be __cpuinit
Several places in arch/i386/kernel/cpu and kernel/cpu were using __devinit
when they should have been __cpuinit.  Fixing that saves ~4K when
CONFIG_HOTPLUG && !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

Noticed by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
Gerd Hoffmann
9a0b5817ad [PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives
Implement SMP alternatives, i.e.  switching at runtime between different
code versions for UP and SMP.  The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.

With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
of CPUs goes up to 2.

Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
afterwards.

The changes in detail:

  * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
    the SMP alternatives code is added there.

  * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
    .smp_altinstructions
	like .altinstructions, also contains a list
	of alt_instr structs.
    .smp_altinstr_replacement
	like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
	save original instruction before replaving it.
    .smp_locks
	list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
	out on UP.
    The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
    sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores.  It would be possible
    to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
    them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.

 * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
   can be free if they are not needed.

 * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
   use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
Dave Jones
84f0b1ef8c [CPUFREQ] kzalloc conversion for gx-suspmod
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-11 16:13:56 -05:00
Dave Jones
388d6c5180 [CPUFREQ] Whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-11 16:04:53 -05:00
Dave Jones
5e8fb97163 [CPUFREQ] Mark longhaul driver as broken.
This seems to work for a short period of time, but when
used in conjunction with a userspace governor that changes
the frequency regularly, it's only a matter of time before
everything just locks up.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-11 16:03:16 -05:00
Pallipadi, Venkatesh
6d373ea012 [CPUFREQ] Fix the p4-clockmod N60 errata workaround.
Fix the code to disable freqs less than 2GHz in N60 errata.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-10 00:45:35 -05:00
Shaohua Li
ed2da193fe [PATCH] x86: cpu model calculation for family 6 cpu
The x86_model calculation also applies for family 6. early_cpu_detect
does the right thing, but generic_identify misses.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00
Dave Jones
2a1c1c877e [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Let cpufreq driver handle affected CPUs
powernow-k8: Let cpufreq driver handle affected CPUs

Let the cpufreq driver manage AMD Dual-Core CPUs being tied together.

Since cpufreq driver's affected CPUs data, cpufreq_policy->cpus, already
knows about which cores are tied together, powernow driver does not have
keep its internal data for every core.  (even a pointer.. it will never
be called on)  Telling cpufreq driver about cpu_core_map at init time is
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-05 03:35:00 -05:00
Dave Jones
32ee8c3e47 [CPUFREQ] Lots of whitespace & CodingStyle cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-28 00:43:23 -05:00
Dave Jones
8ad5496d23 [CPUFREQ] Remove duplicate cpuinfo struct
We already have one of these declared, so use it, instead
of declaring a second one for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-28 00:37:44 -05:00
Dave Jones
2c906ae67b [CPUFREQ] Silence powernow-k8 warning on k7's.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-28 00:36:32 -05:00
James Bottomley
2b932f6cf0 [PATCH] x86: fix broken SMP boot sequence
Recent GDT changes broke the SMP boot sequence if the booting CPU is
numbered anything other than zero.  There's also a subtle source of error
in that the boot time CPU now uses cpu_gdt_table (which is actually the GDT
for booting CPUs in head.S).  This patch fixes both problems by making GDT
descriptors themselves allocated from a per_cpu area and switching to them
in cpu_init(), which now means that cpu_gdt_table is exclusively used for
booting CPUs again.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a62eaf151d [PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanup
AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution
installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option.

Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make
it independent from sysctl

And marked __read_mostly which it is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 08:00:40 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
fe38d8553c [PATCH] i386 cpu hotplug: don't access freed memory
i386 CPU init code accesses freed init memory when booting a newly-started
processor after CPU hotplug.  The cpu_devs array is searched to find the
vendor and it contains pointers to freed data.

Fix that by:

        1. Zeroing entries for freed vendor data after bootup.
        2. Changing Transmeta, NSC and UMC to all __init[data].
        3. Printing a warning (once only) and setting this_cpu
           to a safe default when the vendor is not found.

This does not change behavior for AMD systems.  They were broken already
but no error was reported.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
59ed2f59e4 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2006-02-01 22:06:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8c475be7b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/x86 2006-01-31 16:21:44 -08:00
Dave Jones
6fe8f479d0 [X86] Add new Intel cache descriptors.
From http://www.intel.com/design/xeon/applnots/24161830.pdf

16MB of 16-way assoc 64 byte per cacheline L3 cache anyone? Yum.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-26 22:40:40 -08:00
Ben Collins
c70ca00f77 [CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod: Workaround for CPU's with N60 errata
Ignore clock frequencies below 2Ghz for CPU's detected with N60 errata bug.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-26 10:44:11 -08:00
Len Brown
9fdb62af92 [ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi branches into release
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-24 17:52:48 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
cdc9cc1d74 [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
This patch fixes the following compile error:

...
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c: In function 'gx_detect_chipset':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_match_id'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
make[3]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o] Error 1

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-19 16:44:27 -08:00
Andi Kleen
aa41eb9915 [PATCH] x86_64: Mark powernow k8 init functions as __cpuinit
cpufreq init can be called when a CPU is set online.
Need to make powernow-k8's initialisation functions __cpuinit to
prevents oopses when a CPU is off/onlined on a AMD system

Cc: trenn@suse.de
Cc: mark.langsdorf@amd.com
Cc: davej@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 11:27:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
2e664aa2ba [PATCH] i386: Move phys_proc_id/early intel workaround to correct function.
early_cpu_detect only runs on the BP, but this code needs to run
on all CPUs.

Looks like a mismerge somewhere.  Also add a warning comment.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen
3f98bc4991 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Update AMD CPUID flags
Print bits for RDTSCP, SVM, CR8-LEGACY.

Also now print power flags on i386 like x86-64 always did.
This will add a new line in the 386 cpuinfo, but that shouldn't
be an issue - did that in the past too and I haven't heard
of any breakage.

I shrunk some of the fields in the i386 cpuinfo_x86 to chars
to make up for the new int "x86_power" field. Overall it's
smaller than before.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
152bf8c55d [PATCH] x86_64: Use X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC now to clean up Intel speedstep drivers
They previously tried to figure this out on their own.

Suggested by Venkatesh.

Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
39b3a79105 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Generalize X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC flag
Define it for i386 too.

This is a synthetic flag that signifies that the CPU's TSC runs
at a constant P state invariant frequency.

Fix up the logic on x86-64/i386 to set it on all known CPUs.
Use the AMD defined bit to set it on future AMD CPUs.

Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:12 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
a941564458 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (arch/)
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
c28ab5d23a remove the outdated arch/i386/kernel/cpu/{,mtrr/}changelog
This patch removes two outdated changelog files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-10 00:15:25 +01:00
Matt Mackall
22c4e3084e [PATCH] tiny: Make x86 doublefault handling optional
This adds configurable support for doublefault reporting on x86

add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-13048 (-13048)
function                                     old     new   delta
cpu_init                                     846     786     -60
doublefault_fn                               188       -    -188
doublefault_stack                           4096       -   -4096
doublefault_tss                             8704       -   -8704

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:11 -08:00
Benoit Boissinot
35f652b5ef [ACPI] fix acpi_cpufreq.c build warrning
Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-07 04:52:41 -05:00
Jordan Crouse
f90b811603 [PATCH] Base support for AMD Geode GX/LX processors
Provide basic support for the AMD Geode GX and LX processors.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:38 -08:00
Zachary Amsden
2891dcdc45 [PATCH] x86: Stop deleting nt
Stop deleting NT bit from EFLAGS.  See arch/i386/kernel/head.S line 223, which
does something even better.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:35 -08:00
Zachary Amsden
7c4cb60e5b [PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fix
Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a
hypervisor.  This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot
data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in
VMware.

Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT
(which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is
allocated dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
Dave Jones
2f27f81758 [X86] Remove pointless versioning of mtrr driver.
It's not like this has changed significantly, and probably never will.
Reduce some bootup dmesg noise.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-05 19:31:51 -08:00
Dave Jones
c32017a43d [X86] Rename MTRR mutex to something more sensible.
I spotted 'main_lock' whilst grovelling through a vmlinux with objdump.
Even if it is static, it's a horrible name.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-20 14:46:07 -08:00
Dave Jones
f8a363b83f [X86] Remove Winchip 4 ID.
This CPU never made it into production.  It went on to
become the basis for the VIA Samuel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-20 12:13:30 -08:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
95235ca2c2 [CPUFREQ] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
What is the value shown in "cpu MHz" of /proc/cpuinfo when CPUs are capable of
changing frequency?

Today the answer is: It depends.
On i386:
SMP kernel - It is always the boot frequency
UP kernel - Scales with the frequency change and shows that was last set.

On x86_64:
There is one single variable cpu_khz that gets written by all the CPUs. So,
the frequency set by last CPU will be seen on /proc/cpuinfo of all the
CPUs in the system. What you see also depends on whether you have constant_tsc
capable CPU or not.

On ia64:
It is always boot time frequency of a particular CPU that gets displayed.

The patch below changes this to:
Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If
cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency
will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-06 19:35:11 -08:00
Mattia Dongili
9a7d82a89a [CPUFREQ] Move PMBASE reading away and do it only once at initialization time
This patch moves away PMBASE reading and only performs it at
cpufreq_register_driver time by exiting with -ENODEV if unable to read
the value.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-06 19:27:15 -08:00
Mattia Dongili
1a10760c91 [CPUFREQ] Measure transition latency at driver initialization
The attached patch introduces runtime latency measurement for ICH[234]
based chipsets instead of using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL. It includes
some sanity checks in case the measured value is out of range and
assigns a safe value of 500uSec that should still be enough on
problematics chipsets (current testing report values ~200uSec). The
measurement is currently done in speedstep_get_freqs in order to avoid
further unnecessary transitions and in the hope it'll come handy for SMI
also.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

 speedstep-ich.c |    4 ++--
 speedstep-lib.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 speedstep-lib.h |    1 +
 speedstep-smi.c |    1 +
 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
2005-12-06 19:27:15 -08:00