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H. Peter Anvin
4bc5aa91fb [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 control register and MSR macros (corrected)
This patch is based on Rusty's recent cleanup of the EFLAGS-related
macros; it extends the same kind of cleanup to control registers and
MSRs.

It also unifies these between i386 and x86-64; at least with regards
to MSRs, the two had definitely gotten out of sync.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b6e3590f81 [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).

Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Andi Kleen
de90c5ce83 [PATCH] i386: Enable bank 0 on non K7 Athlon
As a bug workaround bank 0 on K7s is normally disabled, but no need
to do that on other AMD CPUs.

Cc: davej@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d479d2cc08 [PATCH] i386: Update smp_call_function* comments
Update documentation for i386 smp_call_function* functions.

As reported by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

[ I've posted this before but it seems to have been lost along the way. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
7946331856 [PATCH] i386: Use menuconfig objects - APM
(I hope Andi is the right one to Cc, otherwise please add, thanks!)

Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at
once instead of going through all options.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Andi Kleen
f039b75471 [PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10
It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard
idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking.

I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386

Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c169859d6d [PATCH] x86-64: Clean up asm-x86_64/bugs.h
Most of asm-x86_64/bugs.h is code which should be in a C file, so put it there.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1dbf527c51 [PATCH] i386: Make COMPAT_VDSO runtime selectable.
Now that relocation of the VDSO for COMPAT_VDSO users is done at
runtime rather than compile time, it is possible to enable/disable
compat mode at runtime.

This patch allows you to enable COMPAT_VDSO mode with "vdso=2" on the
kernel command line, or via sysctl.  (Switching on a running system
shouldn't be done lightly; any process which was relying on the compat
VDSO will be upset if it goes away.)

The COMPAT_VDSO config option still exists, but if enabled it just
makes vdso_enabled default to VDSO_COMPAT.

+From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix oops from i386-make-compat_vdso-runtime-selectable.patch.

Even mingetty at system startup finds it easy to trigger an oops
while reading /proc/PID/maps: though it has a good hold on the mm
itself, that cannot stop exit_mm() from resetting tsk->mm to NULL.

(It is usually show_map()'s call to get_gate_vma() which oopses,
and I expect we could change that to check priv->tail_vma instead;
but no matter, even m_start()'s call just after get_task_mm() is racy.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d4f7a2c18e [PATCH] i386: Relocate VDSO ELF headers to match mapped location with COMPAT_VDSO
Some versions of libc can't deal with a VDSO which doesn't have its
ELF headers matching its mapped address.  COMPAT_VDSO maps the VDSO at
a specific system-wide fixed address.  Previously this was all done at
build time, on the grounds that the fixed VDSO address is always at
the top of the address space.  However, a hypervisor may reserve some
of that address space, pushing the fixmap address down.

This patch does the adjustment dynamically at runtime, depending on
the runtime location of the VDSO fixmap.

[ Patch has been through several hands: Jan Beulich wrote the orignal
  version; Zach reworked it, and Jeremy converted it to relocate phdrs
  as well as sections. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
a6c4e076ee [PATCH] i386: clean up identify_cpu
identify_cpu() is used to identify both the boot CPU and secondary
CPUs, but it performs some actions which only apply to the boot CPU.
Those functions are therefore really __init functions, but because
they're called by identify_cpu(), they must be marked __cpuinit.

This patch splits identify_cpu() into identify_boot_cpu() and
identify_secondary_cpu(), and calls the appropriate init functions
from each.  Also, identify_boot_cpu() and all the functions it
dominates are marked __init.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1353ebb4b4 [PATCH] i386: Clean up asm-i386/bugs.h
Most of asm-i386/bugs.h is code which should be in a C file, so put it there.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Andi Kleen
0d08e0d3a9 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix vmalloc_32 to really allocate <4GB on 64bit platforms
Ugly ifdef, but should handle all 64bit platforms that have suitable
zones. On some like Altix it's probably impossible without IOMMU
use to get memory <4GB this way,  but they have to live with that.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Avi Kivity
bbf30a1650 [PATCH] x86-64: fix arithmetic in comment
The xmm space on x86_64 is 256 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5d02d7ae73 [PATCH] x86-64: Use X86_EFLAGS_IF in x86-64/irqflags.h.
As per i386 patch: move X86_EFLAGS_IF et al out to a new header:
processor-flags.h, so we can include it from irqflags.h and use it in
raw_irqs_disabled_flags().

As a side-effect, we could now use these flags in .S files.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Jan Beulich
b92e9fac40 [PATCH] x86: fix amd64-agp aperture validation
Under CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, assuming that a !pfn_valid() implies all
subsequent pfn-s are also invalid is wrong. Thus replace this by
explicitly checking against the E820 map.

AK: make e820 on x86-64 not initdata

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b00742d399 [PATCH] x86-64: Account for module percpu space separately from kernel percpu
Rather than using a single constant PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, compute it as
the sum of kernel_percpu + PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE.  This is now common
to all architectures; if an architecture wants to set
PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM to something special, then it may do so (ia64 is
the only one which does).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Andi Kleen
bbba11c35b [PATCH] i386: Remove unneeded externs in nmi.c
All were already in some header
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Andi Kleen
43c3ab308d [PATCH] x86-64: Change my email address
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
07f3331c6b [PATCH] i386: Add machine_ops interface to abstract halting and rebooting
machine_ops is an interface for the machine_* functions defined in
<linux/reboot.h>.  This is intended to allow hypervisors to intercept
the reboot process, but it could be used to implement other x86
subarchtecture reboots.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
01a2f43556 [PATCH] i386: Add smp_ops interface
Add a smp_ops interface.  This abstracts the API defined by
<linux/smp.h> for use within arch/i386.  The primary intent is that it
be used by a paravirtualizing hypervisor to implement SMP, but it
could also be used by non-APIC-using sub-architectures.

This is related to CONFIG_PARAVIRT, but is implemented unconditionally
since it is simpler that way and not a highly performance-sensitive
interface.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Rusty Russell
4fbb596881 [PATCH] i386: cleanup GDT Access
Now we have an explicit per-cpu GDT variable, we don't need to keep the
descriptors around to use them to find the GDT: expose cpu_gdt directly.

We could go further and make load_gdt() pack the descriptor for us, or even
assume it means "load the current cpu's GDT" which is what it always does.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Bernhard Walle
141f9cfe0a [PATCH] x86-64: Fix "Section mismatch" compile warning
Fix "Section mismatch" warnings in arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Jan Beulich
dd4ecfc2b1 [PATCH] x86-64: adjust EDID retrieval
commit 5e518d7672 did the same change to
i386's variant.

With this change, i386's and x86-64's versions are identical, raising
the question whether the x86-64 one should go (just like there's only
one instance of edd.S).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek
ae32b1297a [PATCH] x86-64: Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.
This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs
are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more
than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed.

It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni, 2, 4, 8
32, and 64 CPU boxes with various memory configuration.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
c8118c6c07 [PATCH] x86-64: vsyscall_gtod_data diet and vgettimeofday() fix
Current vsyscall_gtod_data is large (3 or 4 cache lines dirtied at timer
interrupt). We can shrink it to exactly 64 bytes (1 cache line on AMD64)

Instead of copying a whole struct clocksource, we copy only needed fields.

I deleted an unused field : offset_base

This patch fixes one oddity in vgettimeofday(): It can returns a timeval with
tv_usec = 1000000. Maybe not a bug, but why not doing the right thing ?

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
272a3713bb [PATCH] x86-64: fix vtime() vsyscall
There is a tiny probability that the return value from vtime(time_t *t) is
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

different than the value stored in *t

Using a temporary variable solves the problem and gives a faster code.

   17:   48 85 ff                test   %rdi,%rdi
   1a:   48 8b 05 00 00 00 00    mov    0(%rip),%rax        #
__vsyscall_gtod_data.wall_time_tv.tv_sec
   21:   74 03                   je     26
   23:   48 89 07                mov    %rax,(%rdi)
   26:   c9                      leaveq
   27:   c3                      retq

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
bd8559c38e [PATCH] x86: remove UNEXPECTED_IO_APIC()
Many years ago, UNEXPECTED_IO_APIC() contained printk()'s (but nothing more).

Now that it's completely empty for years, we can as well remove it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:11 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
ca906e4231 [PATCH] x86: sys_ioperm() prototype cleanup
- there's no reason for duplicating the prototype from
  include/linux/syscalls.h in include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
  it's global functions

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
2bff73830c [PATCH] x86-64: use lru instead of page->index and page->private for pgd lists management.
x86_64 currently simulates a list using the index and private fields of the
page struct.  Seems that the code was inherited from i386.  But x86_64 does
not use the slab to allocate pgds and pmds etc.  So the lru field is not
used by the slab and therefore available.

This patch uses standard list operations on page->lru to realize pgd
tracking.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Parag Warudkar
05f36927ed [PATCH] i386: remove the APM_RTC_IS_GMT config option.
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b8716890f3 [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unused stext symbol
suggested by Jan Beulich

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b4531e863d [PATCH] i386: Use X86_EFLAGS_IF in irqflags.h.
Move X86_EFLAGS_IF et al out to a new header: processor-flags.h, so we
can include it from irqflags.h and use it in raw_irqs_disabled_flags().

As a side-effect, we could now use these flags in .S files.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Parag Warudkar
78eea47ac3 [PATCH] i386: get rid of unused variables
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Jan Beulich
6fb14755a6 [PATCH] x86: tighten kernel image page access rights
On x86-64, kernel memory freed after init can be entirely unmapped instead
of just getting 'poisoned' by overwriting with a debug pattern.

On i386 and x86-64 (under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA), kernel text and bug table
can also be write-protected.

Compared to the first version, this one prevents re-creating deleted
mappings in the kernel image range on x86-64, if those got removed
previously. This, together with the original changes, prevents temporarily
having inconsistent mappings when cacheability attributes are being
changed on such pages (e.g. from AGP code). While on i386 such duplicate
mappings don't exist, the same change is done there, too, both for
consistency and because checking pte_present() before using various other
pte_XXX functions is a requirement anyway. At once, i386 code gets
adjusted to use pte_huge() instead of open coding this.

AK: split out cpa() changes

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Jan Beulich
d01ad8dd56 [PATCH] x86: Improve handling of kernel mappings in change_page_attr
Fix various broken corner cases in i386 and x86-64 change_page_attr.

AK: split off from tighten kernel image access rights

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Rusty Russell
90a0a06aa8 [PATCH] i386: rationalize paravirt wrappers
paravirt.c used to implement native versions of all low-level
functions.  Far cleaner is to have the native versions exposed in the
headers and as inline native_XXX, and if !CONFIG_PARAVIRT, then simply
#define XXX native_XXX.

There are several nice side effects:

1) write_dt_entry() now takes the correct "struct Xgt_desc_struct *"
   not "void *".

2) load_TLS is reintroduced to the for loop, not manually unrolled
   with a #error in case the bounds ever change.

3) Macros become inlines, with type checking.

4) Access to the native versions is trivial for KVM, lguest, Xen and
   others who might want it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Sebastien Dugue
52de74dd39 [PATCH] i386: Rename boot_gdt_table to boot_gdt
Rename boot_gdt_table to boot_gdt to avoid the duplicate T(able).

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Rusty Russell
d2cbcc49e2 [PATCH] i386: clean up cpu_init()
We now have cpu_init() and secondary_cpu_init() doing nothing but calling
_cpu_init() with the same arguments.  Rename _cpu_init() to cpu_init() and use
it as a replcement for secondary_cpu_init().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Rusty Russell
bf50467204 [PATCH] i386: Use per-cpu GDT immediately upon boot
Now we are no longer dynamically allocating the GDT, we don't need the
"cpu_gdt_table" at all: we can switch straight from "boot_gdt_table" to the
per-cpu GDT.  This means initializing the cpu_gdt array in C.

The boot CPU uses the per-cpu var directly, then in smp_prepare_cpus() it
switches to the per-cpu copy just allocated.  For secondary CPUs, the
early_gdt_descr is set to point directly to their per-cpu copy.

For UP the code is very simple: it keeps using the "per-cpu" GDT as per SMP,
but we never have to move.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Rusty Russell
ae1ee11be7 [PATCH] i386: Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA
Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain.  Using simple per-cpu variables adds
happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for Xen, which we do in a
followup patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Bernhard Walle
8f9aeca7a0 [PATCH] x86: add command line length to boot protocol
Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's
not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
of the command line the kernel can understand.  The benefit of knowing the
length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long
which prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup.

This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called
"cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding the
terminating zero).

The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64
setup code.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
Ian Campbell
79e030114a [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit
hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace.  The dump created is 64 bit due to
the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility.

It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I
see no reason to disallow it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
Rusty Russell
eab0c72aec [PATCH] x86-64: Introduce load_TLS to the "for" loop.
GCC (4.1 at least) unrolls it anyway, but I can't believe this code
was ever justifiable.  (I've also submitted a patch which cleans up
i386, which is even uglier).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
Rusty Russell
692174b97d [PATCH] i386: Initialize esp0 properly all the time
Whenever we schedule, __switch_to calls load_esp0 which does:

	tss->esp0 = thread->esp0;

This is never initialized for the initial thread (ie "swapper"), so when we're
scheduling that, we end up setting esp0 to 0.  This is fine: the swapper never
leaves ring 0, so this field is never used.

lguest, however, gets upset that we're trying to used an unmapped page as our
kernel stack.  Rather than work around it there, let's initialize it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
Andrew Morton
1b523fb549 [PATCH] i386: VDSO_PRELINK warning fix
The lguest patches somehow managed to trigger this:

In file included from arch/i386/lguest/lguest.c:38:
include/asm/asm-offsets.h:67:1: warning: "VDSO_PRELINK" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:15,
                 from include/linux/device.h:21,
                 from include/linux/interrupt.h:15,
                 from arch/i386/lguest/lguest.c:27:
include/asm/elf.h:140:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

I assume that using the same identifier twice was a bad idea..

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
David Rientjes
20280195f2 [PATCH] x86-64: fake numa for cpusets document
Create a document to explain how to use numa=fake in conjunction with cpusets
for coarse memory resource management.

An attempt to get more awareness and testing for this feature.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
d824395c59 [PATCH] x86: remove constant_tsc reporting from /proc/cpuinfo' power flags
remove the reporting of the constant_tsc flag from the "power management"
field in /proc/cpuinfo.  The NULL value there was replaced by "" because
the former would result in a printout of [8] if the flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
David Rientjes
382591d500 [PATCH] x86-64: fixed size remaining fake nodes
Extends the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option to split the remaining system
memory into nodes of fixed size.  Any leftover memory is allocated to a final
node unless the command-line ends with a comma.

For example:
  numa=fake=2*512,*128	gives two 512M nodes and the remaining system
			memory is split into nodes of 128M each.

This is beneficial for systems where the exact size of RAM is unknown or not
necessarily relevant, but the size of the remaining nodes to be allocated is
known based on their capacity for resource management.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
David Rientjes
14694d736b [PATCH] x86-64: split remaining fake nodes equally
Extends the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option to split the remaining
system memory into equal-sized nodes.

For example:
numa=fake=2*512,4*	gives two 512M nodes and the remaining system
			memory is split into four approximately equal
			chunks.

This is beneficial for systems where the exact size of RAM is unknown or not
necessarily relevant, but the granularity with which nodes shall be allocated
is known.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00
David Rientjes
8b8ca80e19 [PATCH] x86-64: configurable fake numa node sizes
Extends the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option to allow for configurable
node sizes.  These nodes can be used in conjunction with cpusets for coarse
memory resource management.

The old command-line option is still supported:
  numa=fake=32	gives 32 fake NUMA nodes, ignoring the NUMA setup of the
		actual machine.

But now you may configure your system for the node sizes of your choice:
  numa=fake=2*512,1024,2*256
		gives two 512M nodes, one 1024M node, two 256M nodes, and
		the rest of system memory to a sixth node.

The existing hash function is maintained to support the various node sizes
that are possible with this implementation.

Each node of the same size receives roughly the same amount of available
pages, regardless of any reserved memory with its address range.  The total
available pages on the system is calculated and divided by the number of equal
nodes to allocate.  These nodes are then dynamically allocated and their
borders extended until such time as their number of available pages reaches
the required size.

Configurable node sizes are recommended when used in conjunction with cpusets
for memory control because it eliminates the overhead associated with scanning
the zonelists of many smaller full nodes on page_alloc().

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00