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Robert Richter
3370d35856 x86/oprofile: replace macros to calculate control register
This patch introduces op_x86_get_ctrl() to calculate the value of the
performance control register. This is generic code usable for all
models. The event and reserved masks are model specific and stored in
struct op_x86_model_spec. 64 bit MSR functions are used now. The patch
removes many hard to read macros used for ctrl calculation.

The function op_x86_get_ctrl() is common code and the first step to
further merge performance counter implementations for x86 models.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:14 +02:00
Robert Richter
ef8828ddf8 x86/oprofile: pass the model to setup_ctrs() functions
In follow-on patches the setup_ctrs() functions will need data that
describes the model. This patch extends the function argument list to
pass a pointer of the model to these function.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:14 +02:00
Robert Richter
9c59354b48 x86/oprofile: remove unused macros for AMD virtualization profiling
The use of the macros has no effect. The oprofilefs has to be extended
first to support these features.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:13 +02:00
Robert Richter
ec064c093e x86/oprofile: fix and cleanup CTRL_SET_* macros
This patch fixes missing braces around macro parameters. Macro
definitions from intel_arch_perfmon.h are used where possible.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:13 +02:00
Robert Richter
1131a47824 x86/oprofile: remove MSR macros for p4 cpus
The macros CTRL_READ() and CTRL_WRITE() make the code hard to read and
maintain. This patch replaces them by rdmsr()/wrmsr() functions and
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:12 +02:00
Robert Richter
74c9a5c341 x86/oprofile: remove MSR macros for ppro cpus
The macros CTRL_READ() and CTRL_WRITE() make the code hard to read and
maintain. This patch replaces them by rdmsr()/wrmsr() functions and
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:11 +02:00
Robert Richter
d2731a4387 x86/oprofile: remove MSR macros for AMD cpus
The macros CTRL_READ() and CTRL_WRITE() make the code hard to read and
maintain. This patch replaces them by rdmsr()/wrmsr() functions and
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:11 +02:00
Robert Richter
ff9faa8b67 x86/oprofile: move common macros to op_x86_model.h
There are duplicate macro implementations in model specific code. This
patch moves all common macros to op_x86_model.h.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:10 +02:00
Robert Richter
d20f24c660 x86/oprofile: simplify AMD cpu init code
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:41:50 +02:00
Robert Richter
9063759540 x86/oprofile: remove #ifdefs in ibs functions
IBS code is moved to separate functions. This allows the removal
of #ifdefs in functions.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 16:10:13 +02:00
Robert Richter
06552ccc36 x86/oprofile: minor style changes in struct op_x86_model_spec
Some vertical alignments. Variables are now located in the beginning
of the struct.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 16:09:54 +02:00
Robert Richter
e419294ed3 x86/oprofile: moving arch_perfmon counter setup to op_x86_model_spec.init
The function arch_perfmon_init() in nmi_int.c is model specific. This
patch moves it to op_model_ppro.c by using the init function pointer
in struct op_x86_model_spec.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-10 22:09:24 +02:00
Robert Richter
849620fab4 Revert "oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too"
This reverts commit 59512900ba.

arch_perfmon_setup_counters() is actually never called for ppro, so
there is no code that changes the numbers in op_ppro_spec. The patch
as it is has no effect.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-10 22:07:35 +02:00
Robert Richter
0886751c5d Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into oprofile/master 2009-06-10 21:47:10 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
eaa958402e cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_ts
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used,
they are cleared already.  Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-09 22:30:27 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
ccc0d38ec1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  x86/pci: fix mmconfig detection with 32bit near 4g
  PCI: use fixed-up device class when configuring device
2009-06-06 14:33:54 -07:00
Dave Jones
2c701b1028 [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: check space_id of _PCT registers to be FFH
The powernow-k8 driver checks to see that the Performance Control/Status
Registers are declared as FFH (functional fixed hardware) by the BIOS.
However, this check got broken in the commit:
 0e64a0c982
 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8

Fix based on an original patch from Naga Chumbalkar.

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-06-05 13:25:25 -04:00
Rusty Russell
2cb7878a3a lguest: fix 'unhandled trap 13' with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
We don't set up the canary; let's disable stack protector on boot.c so
we can get into lguest_init, then set it up.  As a side effect,
switch_to_new_gdt() sets up %fs for us properly too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04 11:50:06 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
75e613cdc7 x86/pci: fix mmconfig detection with 32bit near 4g
Pascal reported and bisected a commit:
|	x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case

which broke one system system.

ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255
PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space

it didn't have
PCI: updated MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 63
anymore, and try to use 0xf000000 - 0xffffffff for mmconfig

For 32bit, mcfg_res->end could be 32bit only (if 64 resources aren't used)
So use end - 1 to pass the value in mcfg->end to avoid overflow.

We don't need to worry about the e820 path, they are always 64 bit.

Reported-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Bisected-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-06-04 11:31:13 +01:00
Joe Perches
61c8c67e3a acpi-cpufreq: fix printk typo and indentation
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-29 21:26:26 -04:00
Mel Gorman
32b154c0b0 x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302

On x86 and x86-64, it is possible that page tables are shared beween
shared mappings backed by hugetlbfs.  As part of this,
page_table_shareable() checks a pair of vma->vm_flags and they must match
if they are to be shared.  All VMA flags are taken into account, including
VM_LOCKED.

The problem is that VM_LOCKED is cleared on fork().  When a process with a
shared memory segment forks() to exec() a helper, there will be shared
VMAs with different flags.  The impact is that the shared segment is
sometimes considered shareable and other times not, depending on what
process is checking.

What happens is that the segment page tables are being shared but the
count is inaccurate depending on the ordering of events.  As the page
tables are freed with put_page(), bad pmd's are found when some of the
children exit.  The hugepage counters also get corrupted and the Total and
Free count will no longer match even when all the hugepage-backed regions
are freed.  This requires a reboot of the machine to "fix".

This patch addresses the problem by comparing all flags except VM_LOCKED
when deciding if pagetables should be shared or not for hugetlbfs-backed
mapping.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-29 08:40:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cd86a536c8 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: avoid back to back on_each_cpu in cpa_flush_array
  x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
2009-05-26 15:06:12 -07:00
Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2171787be2 x86: avoid back to back on_each_cpu in cpa_flush_array
Cleanup cpa_flush_array() to avoid back to back on_each_cpu() calls.

[ Impact: optimizes fix 0af48f42df ]

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-26 13:12:12 -07:00
Andreas Herrmann
ca446d0635 [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: determine exact CPU frequency for HW Pstates
Slightly modified by trenn@suse.de -> only do this on fam 10h and fam 11h.

Currently powernow-k8 determines CPU frequency from ACPI PSS objects, but
according to AMD family 11h BKDG this frequency is just a rounded value:

  "CoreFreq (MHz) = The CPU COF specified by MSRC001_00[6B:64][CpuFid]
  rounded to the nearest 100 Mhz."

As a consequnce powernow-k8 reports wrong CPU frequency on some systems,
e.g. on Turion X2 Ultra:

  powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82
               processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
  powernow-k8:    0 : pstate 0 (2200 MHz)
  powernow-k8:    1 : pstate 1 (1100 MHz)
  powernow-k8:    2 : pstate 2 (600 MHz)

But this is wrong as frequency for Pstate2 is 550 MHz. x86info reports it
correctly:

  #x86info -a |grep Pstate
  ...
  Pstate-0: fid=e, did=0, vid=24 (2200MHz)
  Pstate-1: fid=e, did=1, vid=30 (1100MHz)
  Pstate-2: fid=e, did=2, vid=3c (550MHz) (current)

Solution is to determine the frequency directly from Pstate MSRs instead
of using rounded values from ACPI table.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:51 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
df1829770d [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 cleanup msg if BIOS does not export ACPI _PSS cpufreq data
- Make the message shorter and easier to grep for
- Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE (functionality of these was mixed)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Langsdorf, Mark <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:51 -04:00
Dave Jones
d38e73e8da [CPUFREQ] powernow-k7 build fix when ACPI=n
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c:172: warning: 'invalidate_entry' defined but not used

Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:50 -04:00
Jarod Wilson
4319503779 [CPUFREQ] add atom family to p4-clockmod
Some atom procs don't do freq scaling (such as the atom 330 on my own
littlefalls2 board). By adding the atom family here, we at least get
the benefit of passive cooling in a thermal emergency. Not sure how
to see that its actually helping any, but the driver does bind and
claim its functioning on my atom 330.

Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:50 -04:00
Tejun Heo
46176b4f6b x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.

When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.

The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.

The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.

[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-25 22:52:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b18f1e2199 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: Fix PDPTR reloading on CR4 writes
  KVM: Make paravirt tlb flush also reload the PAE PDPTRs
2009-05-25 15:51:27 -07:00
Avi Kivity
a2edf57f51 KVM: Fix PDPTR reloading on CR4 writes
The processor is documented to reload the PDPTRs while in PAE mode if any
of the CR4 bits PSE, PGE, or PAE change.  Linux relies on this
behaviour when zapping the low mappings of PAE kernels during boot.

The code already handled changes to CR4.PAE; augment it to also notice changes
to PSE and PGE.

This triggered while booting an F11 PAE kernel; the futex initialization code
runs before any CR3 reloads and writes to a NULL pointer; the futex subsystem
ended up uninitialized, killing PI futexes and pulseaudio which uses them.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-25 20:00:53 +03:00
Avi Kivity
a8cd0244e9 KVM: Make paravirt tlb flush also reload the PAE PDPTRs
The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also
to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used
as a replacement for reloading CR3.  Change the code to do the entire
CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-25 20:00:50 +03:00
Tejun Heo
71c9d8b68b x86: Remove remap percpu allocator for the time being
Remap percpu allocator has subtle bug when combined with page
attribute changing.  Remap percpu allocator aliases PMD pages for the
first chunk and as pageattr doesn't know about the alias it ends up
updating page attributes of the original mapping thus leaving the
alises in inconsistent state which might lead to subtle data
corruption.  Please read the following threads for more information:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/835783

The following is the proposed fix which teaches pageattr about percpu
aliases.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/837157

However, the above changes are deemed too pervasive for upstream
inclusion for 2.6.30 release, so this patch essentially disables
the remap allocator for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A1A0A27.4050301@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 05:37:55 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
0af48f42df x86: cpa_flush_array wbinvd should be done on all CPUs
cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold.
clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition.
wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs.

[ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ]

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-22 13:33:59 -07:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
0b827537e3 x86: bugfix wbinvd() model check instead of family check
wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But,
pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like
an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset
d7c8f21a8c and got copied over to second
place in the same file later.

[ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ]

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-22 13:33:27 -07:00
Suresh Siddha
0c752a9335 x86: introduce noxsave boot parameter
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.

[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-22 13:10:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
bca23dba76 x86, setup: revert ACPI 3 E820 extended attributes support
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support.  At least one
vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at
24.  This bug may be present in other BIOSes.

The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably
completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on
their existence.  Therefore, drop support completely.  We may want to
revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually
needing the flags.

This reverts all or part of the following checkins:

     cd670599b7
     c549e71d07

However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into
a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround.  Put in a
comment to explain that part.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some
additional information.

[ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ]

Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
2009-05-22 11:14:02 -07:00
Zhang Rui
88dff4936c x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot
x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot,
see:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901

[ Impact: fix hung reboot on certain systems ]

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1242963350.32574.53.camel@rzhang-dt>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 09:11:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
13bba6fda9 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: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels
  xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp()
  x86: fix percpu_{to,from}_op()
  x86: mtrr: Fix high_width computation when phys-addr is >= 44bit
  x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code
2009-05-18 09:17:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0130b2d701 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
  x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
2009-05-18 09:15:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b4ecc12699 x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.

It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:

 | commit 8efcbab674
 | Date:   Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
 |
 |     paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation

The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test).  The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons).  This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions.  But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).

If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).

Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:

		nopv		Pv-nospin	Pv-spin
CPU cycles	100.00%		99.89%		102.18%
instructions	100.00%		100.10%		100.15%
CPI		100.00%		99.79%		102.03%
cache ref	100.00%		100.84%		100.28%
cache miss	100.00%		90.47%		88.56%
cache miss rate	100.00%		89.72%		88.31%
branches	100.00%		99.93%		100.04%
branch miss	100.00%		103.66%		107.72%
branch miss rt	100.00%		103.73%		107.67%
wallclock	100.00%		99.90%		102.20%

The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.

(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates.  Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined.  On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)

So, what's the fix?

Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls.  For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:

<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq  *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>:	nop; nop		/* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled).  That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case.  The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.

The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks.  Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin).  Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.

[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]

Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 20:07:42 +02:00
Jason Wessel
33ab1979bc kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386.
This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from
2.6.27 to now.  The regression was a result of the original merge
consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86.

The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from
working correctly in gdb.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2009-05-15 07:56:25 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
aa512a27e9 x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
After upgrading from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke.
Investigating, I found that in the asm that replaces the return value,
gcc was using the same register for the old value as it was for the
new value.

	mov	(addr), old
	mov	new, (addr)

But if old and new are the same register, we clobber new with old!
I first thought this was a bug in gcc 4.4.0 and reported it:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40132

Andrew Pinski responded (quickly), saying that it was correct gcc behavior
and the code needed to denote old as an "early clobber".

Instead of "=r"(old), we need "=&r"(old).

[Impact: keep function graph tracer from breaking with gcc 4.4.0 ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-13 13:52:19 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
44408ad736 xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings:

 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-13 15:43:55 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
7b6c6c7773 x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp()
Use &regs->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)

[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12 00:39:52 +02:00
Jan Beulich
3c598766a2 x86: fix percpu_{to,from}_op()
- the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit
- the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized

[ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 08:54:33 -07:00
Avi Kivity
99f85a28a7 KVM: SVM: Remove port 80 passthrough
KVM optimizes guest port 80 accesses by passthing them through to the host.
Some AMD machines die on port 80 writes, allowing the guest to hard-lock the
host.

Remove the port passthrough to avoid the problem.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-11 14:40:51 +03:00
Yinghai Lu
917a015362 x86: mtrr: Fix high_width computation when phys-addr is >= 44bit
found one system where cpu address line is 44bits, mtrr printout
is not right:

 [    0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
 [    0.000000]   0 base 0   00000000 mask FF0 00000000 write-back
 [    0.000000]   1 base 10  00000000 mask FFF 80000000 write-back
 [    0.000000]   2 base 0   80000000 mask FFF 80000000 uncachable
 [    0.000000]   3 base 0   7F800000 mask FFF FF800000 uncachable

Li Zefan and Frederic pointed out the high_width could be -4 some how.

It turns out when phys_addr is 44bit, size_or_mask will be
ffffffff,00000000 so ffs(size_or_mask) will be 0.

Try to check low 32 bit, to get correct high_width.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kerne.org>
Also-analyzed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Also-analyzed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A026540.8060504@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 11:40:43 +02:00
Avi Kivity
e286e86e6d KVM: Make EFER reads safe when EFER does not exist
Some processors don't have EFER; don't oops if userspace wants us to
read EFER when we check NX.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-11 11:19:00 +03:00
Avi Kivity
334b8ad7b1 KVM: Fix NX support reporting
NX support is bit 20, not bit 1.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-11 11:18:48 +03:00
Andre Przywara
19bca6ab75 KVM: SVM: Fix cross vendor migration issue with unusable bit
AMDs VMCB does not have an explicit unusable segment descriptor field,
so we emulate it by using "not present". This has to be setup before
the fixups, because this field is used there.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-05-11 11:18:04 +03:00