Hello,
Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces
two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to().
The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common
case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used.
This patch covers the x86-64 modifications. A patch for i386 follows.
Changelog:
- add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active
- add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used
- modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags
<signed-off-by>: eranian@hpl.hp.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast
to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space.
x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic
syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility.
I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall.
The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since
what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space
often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time. The norma
methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow
The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct
access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization
it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs
portable
I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow
as needed.
AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.
AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers
to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective
values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables.
AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well
as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h
[AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils]
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted.
Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters
( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This
feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.
What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance
monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid).
And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural
events.
Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver.
Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64.
It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses.
Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004.
This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason
it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted
registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific,
but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad
because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems
won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- nmi_int.c: profile_exceptions_notify()
- nmi_timer_int.c: profile_timer_exceptions_notify()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout.
Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then.
Fix up the panic message to be generic
Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled.
Noticed by Jan Beulich
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline
APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume
method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path.
And:
+From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the
suspend/resume cases more gracefully.
AK: I merged the two patches together
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more
sense when they are displayed. This is mainly a cosmetic fix and
shouldn't impact any normal code path.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To quote Alan Cox:
The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.
A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.
This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.
By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system. By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as
they are no longer needed. The various subsystems are modified to register
with the die_notifier instead.
Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
We need TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in order to support ppoll() and pselect()
system calls. This patch originally came from Andi, and was based
heavily on David Howells' implementation of same on i386. I fixed a typo
which was causing do_signal() to use the wrong signal mask.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path. Instead of being gated by if
the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is
registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog,
reseting it if enabled. This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if
they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback).
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware.
A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read. In addition,
it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the
watchdog or not. This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs
easier.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on x86_64 SMP
aware. A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read. In
addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result
of the watchdog or not. This feature allows the kernel to filter out
unknown NMIs easier.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Incorporates the new performance counter reservation system in oprofile.
Also cleans up a lot of the initialization code. The code original zero'd
out every register associated with performance counters regardless if those
registers were used or not. This causes issues with the nmi watchdog.
Now oprofile tries to reserve registers and gives up if it can't get them.
Cc: levon@movementarian.org
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance
counters on the x86 chips. Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to
make reviewing easier. The SMP portion makes a lot more changes.
Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different
counter. In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate
event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it
will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they
break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters).
This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the
nmi watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
There are some machines around (large xSeries or Unisys ES7000) that
need physical IO-APIC destination mode to access all of their IO
devices. This currently doesn't work in UP kernels as used in
distribution installers.
This patch allows to compile even UP kernels as GENERICARCH which
allows to use physical or clustered APIC mode.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NetLabel]: update docs with website information
[NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 2)
[NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1)
[Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested()
[NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list
[NetLabel]: change the SELinux permissions
[NetLabel]: make the CIPSOv4 cache spinlocks bottom half safe
[NetLabel]: correct improper handling of non-NetLabel peer contexts
[TCP]: make cubic the default
[TCP]: default congestion control menu
[ATM] he: Fix __init/__devinit conflict
[NETFILTER]: Add dscp,DSCP headers to header-y
[DCCP]: Introduce dccp_probe
[DCCP]: Use constants for CCIDs
[DCCP]: Introduce constants for CCID numbers
[DCCP]: Allow default/fallback service code.
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SOUND] sparc/amd7930: Use __devinit and __devinitdata as needed.
[SUNLANCE]: Mark sparc_lance_probe_one as __devinit.
[SPARC64]: Fix section-mismatch errors in solaris emul module.
The v4l2 API documentation for VIDIOC_ENUMSTD says:
To enumerate all standards applications shall begin at index
zero, incrementing by one until the driver returns EINVAL.
The actual code, however, tests the index this way:
if (index<=0 || index >= vfd->tvnormsize) {
ret=-EINVAL;
So any application which passes in index=0 gets EINVAL right off the bat
- and, in fact, this is what happens to mplayer. So I think the
following patch is called for, and maybe even appropriate for a 2.6.18.x
stable release.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Invoking load_module() before param_sysfs_init() is called crashes in
mod_sysfs_setup(), since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet.
In my case, net-pf-1 is getting modprobed as a result of hotplug trying to
create a UNIX socket. Calls to hotplug begin after the topology_init
initcall.
Another patch for the same symptom (module_subsys-initialize-earlier.patch)
moves param_sysfs_init() to the subsys initcalls, but this is still not
early enough in the boot process in some cases. In particular,
topology_init() causes /sbin/hotplug to run, which requests net-pf-1 (the
UNIX socket protocol) which can be compiled as a module. Moving
param_sysfs_init() to the postcore initcalls fixes this particular race,
but there might well be other cases where a usermodehelper causes a module
to load earlier still.
The patch makes load_module() return an error rather than crashing the
kernel if invoked before module_subsys is initialized.
Cc: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If there is only 1 node in the system cpus should think they are apart of
some other node.
If cases where a real numa system boots the Flat numa option make sure the
cpus don't claim to be apart on a non-existent node.
Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Assume that a cpu is *physically* offlined at boot time...
Because smpboot.c::smp_boot_cpu_map() canoot find cpu's sapicid,
numa.c::build_cpu_to_node_map() cannot build cpu<->node map for
offlined cpu.
For such cpus, cpu_to_node map should be fixed at cpu-hot-add.
This mapping should be done before cpu onlining.
This patch also handles cpu hotremove case.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Problem description:
We have additional_cpus= option for allocating possible_cpus. But nid
for possible cpus are not fixed at boot time. cpus which is offlined at
boot or cpus which is not on SRAT is not tied to its node. This will
cause panic at cpu onlining.
Usually, pxm_to_nid() mapping is fixed at boot time by SRAT.
But, unfortunately, some system (my system!) do not include
full SRAT table for possible cpus. (Then, I use
additiona_cpus= option.)
For such possible cpus, pxm<->nid should be fixed at
hot-add. We now have acpi_map_pxm_to_node() which is also
used at boot. It's suitable here.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Seems like not all drivers use the framebuffer_alloc() function and won't
have an initialized mutex. But those don't have a backlight, anyway.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Daniel R Thompson <daniel.thompson@st.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stops panic associated with attempting to free a non slab-allocated
per_cpu_pageset.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START set to a non default values the i386
boot_ioremap code calculated its pte index wrong and users of boot_ioremap
have their areas incorrectly mapped (for me SRAT table not mapped during
early boot). This patch removes the addr < BOOT_PTE_PTRS constraint.
[ Keith says this is applicable to 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey<kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts are disabled.
This works fine, however the kernel module checks the expire timeout and
goes no further if it is zero. This is not the right thing to do at
shutdown as the module is passed an option to expire mounts regardless of
their timeout setting.
This patch allows autofs to honor the force expire option.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fixes section mismatch warnings when built as a module.
Also, mark find_ledma and sun4 init function as __devinit
too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
init_socksys() was marked __init but invoked from a
non-__init function.
Use the correct module_{init,exit}() faciltiies while we're
here and eliminate some seriously bogus ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that all of the supporting pieces of NetLabel have a home at SourceForge
update the Kconfig help text and add an entry to the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At the suggestion of Thomas Graf, rewrite NetLabel's use of Netlink attributes
to better follow the common Netlink attribute usage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At the suggestion of Thomas Graf, rewrite NetLabel's use of Netlink attributes
to better follow the common Netlink attribute usage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a new function, nla_validate_nested(), to validate nested Netlink
attributes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At the top of include/net/netlink.h is a list of Netlink interfaces, however,
the nla_for_each_nested() macro was not listed. This patch adds this interface
to the list at the top of the header file.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
