Impact: cleanup
Rename init_gdt() to setup_percpu_segment(), and move it to
setup_percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: standardize all x86 platforms on same setup code
With the preceding changes, Voyager can use the same per-cpu setup
code as all the other x86 platforms.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
generic percpu methods:
percpu_read()
percpu_write()
percpu_add()
percpu_sub()
percpu_and()
percpu_or()
percpu_xor()
and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
back to a default implementation)
The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
instead of this sequence:
return __get_cpu_var(var);
ffffffff8102ca2b: 48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 mov -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
ffffffff8102ca32: 81
ffffffff8102ca33: 48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 mov $0x59d8,%rax
ffffffff8102ca3a: 48 8b 04 10 mov (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax
We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:
return percpu_read(var);
ffffffff8102ca3f: 65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd mov %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax
I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
these new generic percpu primitives.
tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
* added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
* made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now that pda is allocated as part of percpu, percpu doesn't need to be
accessed through pda. Unify x86_64 SMP percpu access with x86_32 SMP
one. Other than the segment register, operand size and the base of
percpu symbols, they behave identical now.
This patch replaces now unnecessary pda->data_offset with a dummy
field which is necessary to keep stack_canary at its place. This
patch also moves per_cpu_offset initialization out of init_gdt() into
setup_per_cpu_areas(). Note that this change also necessitates
explicit per_cpu_offset initializations in voyager_smp.c.
With this change, x86_OP_percpu()'s are as efficient on x86_64 as on
x86_32 and also x86_64 can use assembly PER_CPU macros.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Reduce future system panics due to cpumask operations using NR_CPUS
Insure that code does not look at bits >= nr_cpu_ids as when cpumasks are
allocated based on nr_cpu_ids, these extra bits will not be defined.
Also some other minor updates:
* change in to use cpu accessor function set_cpu_present() instead of
directly accessing cpu_present_map w/cpu_clear() [arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c]
* use cpumask_of() instead of &cpumask_of_cpu() [arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c]
* optimize some cpu_mask_to_apicid_and functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, futureproof
In fact, all cpumask ops will only be valid (in general) for bit
numbers < nr_cpu_ids. So use that instead of NR_CPUS in various
places.
This is always safe: no cpu number can be >= nr_cpu_ids, and
nr_cpu_ids is initialized to NR_CPUS at boot.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Each SMP arch defines these themselves. Move them to a central
location.
Twists:
1) Some archs (m32, parisc, s390) set possible_map to all 1, so we add a
CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE for this rather than break them.
2) mips and sparc32 '#define cpu_possible_map phys_cpu_present_map'.
Those archs simply have phys_cpu_present_map replaced everywhere.
3) Alpha defined cpu_possible_map to cpu_present_map; this is tricky
so I just manipulate them both in sync.
4) IA64, cris and m32r have gratuitous 'extern cpumask_t cpu_possible_map'
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: starvik@axis.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: takata@linux-m32r.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Impact: build/boot fix for x86/Voyager
This change:
| commit 3d44223327
| Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| Date: Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200
|
| Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls
didn't wire up the voyager smp call function correctly, so do that
here. Also make CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS a def_bool y again,
since we now use the generic helpers for every x86 architecture.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <Jens.Axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix x86/Voyager build
Looks like this became static on the rest of x86. Fix it up by adding
an external definition to mach-voyager/setup.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix /proc/cpuinfo output on x86/Voyager
Ever since
| commit 92cb7612ae
| Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
| Date: Fri Oct 19 20:35:04 2007 +0200
|
| x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array
We've had an extra field in cpuinfo_x86 which is cpu_index.
Unfortunately, voyager has never initialised this, although the only
noticeable impact seems to be that /proc/cpuinfo shows all zeros for
the processor ids.
Anyway, fix this by initialising the boot CPU properly and setting the
index when the secondaries update.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix build failure on x86/Voyager
Before:
| commit 329513a35d
| Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
| Date: Wed Jul 2 18:54:40 2008 -0700
|
| x86: move prefill_possible_map calling early
prefill_possible_mask() was hidden under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU rendering
it invisitble to voyager. Since this commit it's exposed, but not
provided by the voyager subarch, so add a dummy stub to fix the link
breakage.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: boot up secondary CPUs as well on x86/Voyager systems
This commit:
| commit 3e9704739d
| Author: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
| Date: Wed May 28 13:01:54 2008 -0300
|
| x86: boot secondary cpus through initial_code
removed the use of initialize_secondary. However, it didn't update
voyager, so the secondary cpus no longer boot. Fix this by adding the
initial_code switch to voyager as well.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array.
Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions.
Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more.
( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build
failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces
new irq_desc[] usage. )
v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc()
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.
The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.
Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
1. let 64bit support 88 and e801 too
2. introduce default_machine_specific_memory_setup, and reuse it
for voyager
v2: fix 64 bit compiling
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
rename update_memory_range to e820_update_range
rename add_memory_region to e820_add_region
to make it more clear that they are about e820 map operations.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This converts x86, x86-64, and xen to use the new helpers for
smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for
smp_call_function_single().
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The map size counter passed into, and back out of, sanitize_e820_map(),
was an eight bit type (char or u8), as derived from its origins in
legacy BIOS E820 structures. This patch changes that type to an 'int',
to allow this sanitize routine to also be used on larger maps (larger
than the 256 count that fits in a char). The legacy BIOS E820 interface
of course does not change; that remains at 8 bits for this count, holding
up to E820MAX == 128 entries. But the kernel internals can handle more
when those additional memory map entries are passed from the BIOS via
EFI interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch is motivated by a subsequent patch which will allow for more
memory map entries on EFI supported systems than can be passed via the x86
legacy BIOS E820 interface. The legacy interface is limited to E820MAX ==
128 memory entries, and that "E820MAX" manifest constant was used as the
size for several arrays and loops over those arrays.
The primary change in this patch is to change code loop sizes over those
arrays from using the constant E820MAX, to using the ARRAY_SIZE() macro
evaluated for the array being looped. That way, a subsequent patch can
change the size of some of these arrays, without breaking this code.
This patch also adds a parameter to the sanitize_e820_map() routine,
which had an implicit size for the array passed it of E820MAX entries.
This new parameter explicitly passes the size of said array. Once again,
this will allow a subsequent patch to change that array size for some
calls to sanitize_e820_map() without breaking the code.
As part of enhancing the sanitize_e820_map() interface this way, I further
combined the unnecessarily distinct x86_32 and x86_64 declarations for
this routine into a single, commonly used, declaration.
This patch in itself should make no difference to the resulting kernel
binary.
[ mingo@elte.hu: merged to -tip ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
James Bottomley reported that the following commit:
| commit 6371b49599
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:40 2008 +0100
|
| x86: change ioremap() to default to uncached
broke Voyager.
James says:
" it broke a class of voyager machines: those which
rely on the quad interrupt controller (QIC). The precis of why they
broke is because the QIC does IPIs (or CPIs in its terminology) via
cache line interference: you interrupt a processor by moving a
designated memory area to write exclusive in the cache (by simply
writing to the line) and the CPU acks the interrupt by moving it back to
read shared (by reading from it). That area, is, of course, mapped by
ioremap, so reversing the ioremap semantics and adding the uncached bit
completely breaks the QIC. "
Sorry about that!
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-xen-next: (52 commits)
xen: add balloon driver
xen: allow compilation with non-flat memory
xen: fold xen_sysexit into xen_iret
xen: allow set_pte_at on init_mm to be lockless
xen: disable preemption during tlb flush
xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver
xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers
xen: Module autoprobing support for frontend drivers
xen blkfront: Delay wait for block devices until after the disk is added
xen/blkfront: use bdget_disk
xen: Make xen-blkfront write its protocol ABI to xenstore
xen: import arch generic part of xencomm
xen: make grant table arch portable
xen: replace callers of alloc_vm_area()/free_vm_area() with xen_ prefixed one
xen: make include/xen/page.h portable moving those definitions under asm dir
xen: add resend_irq_on_evtchn() definition into events.c
Xen: make events.c portable for ia64/xen support
xen: move events.c to drivers/xen for IA64/Xen support
xen: move features.c from arch/x86/xen/features.c to drivers/xen
xen: add missing definitions in include/xen/interface/vcpu.h which ia64/xen needs
...
Make KERNEL_PGD_PTRS common, as previously it was only being defined
for 32-bit.
There are a couple of follow-on changes from this:
- KERNEL_PGD_PTRS was being defined in terms of USER_PGD_PTRS. The
definition of USER_PGD_PTRS doesn't really make much sense on x86-64,
since it can have two different user address-space configurations.
I renamed USER_PGD_PTRS to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, which is meaningful
for all of 32/32, 32/64 and 64/64 process configurations.
- USER_PTRS_PER_PGD was also defined and was being used for similar
purposes. Converting its users to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY left it
completely unused, and so I removed it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove old comments that include the old arch/i386 directory.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Move wakeup code to .c, so that video mode setting code can be shared
between boot and wakeup. Remove nasty assembly code in 64-bit case by
re-using trampoline code. Stack setup was fixed to clear high 16bits
of %esp, maybe that fixes some machines.
.c code sharing and morse code was done H. Peter Anvin, Sam Ravnborg
reviewed kbuild related stuff, and it seems okay to him. Rafael did
some cleanups.
[rjw:
* Made the patch stop breaking compilation on x86-32
* Added arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.h
* Got rid of compiler warnings in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
* Fixed 32-bit compilation on x86-64 systems
* Added include/asm-x86/trampoline.h and fixed the non-SMP
compilation on 64-bit x86
* Removed arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep_32.c which was not used
* Fixed some breakage caused by the integration of smpboot.c done
under us in the meantime]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
voyager would conflict with it, but the types are ultimately
compatible. So remove the extern definition from voyager_smp.c
in favour of the common one
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
make setup_trampoline non-static. This way, it won't conflict
with the extern declaration in smp.h
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change voyager's trampoline base to unsigned char *
instead of u32. This way, it won't conflict with
the other architectures when including smp.h
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit, not __{dev,}init.
I've verified that this is correct for all users.
While doing the latter, I also did the following cleanups:
- remove pointless additional prototypes in C files
- ensure all users #include <linux/delay.h>
This fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1128d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'check_cx686_slop' and 'set_cx86_reorder')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x25102): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'smp_callin' and 'cpu_coregroup_map')
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Avoid a conflict between Voyager's leave_mm and asm-x86/mmu.h's leave_mm.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it from arch/x86
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.
This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Bring the tlbflush.h variants into sync to prepare merging and
paravirt support.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
lindent the mach-voyager files to get rid of more than 300 style errors:
errors lines of code errors/KLOC
arch/x86/mach-voyager/ [old] 409 3729 109.6
arch/x86/mach-voyager/ [new] 71 3678 19.3
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix Voyager section mismatch due to using __devinit instead of __cpuinit.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xd943): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:init_gdt (between 'voyager_smp_prepare_boot_cpu' and 'smp_vic_cmn_interrupt')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There were two problems. Firstly, someone forgot the struct keyword in
front of cpuinfo_x86, so I take it this wasn't even compile checked.
Secondly, the actual definition has this as a SHARED_ALIGNED, so the
definitions mismatch.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
fix do_sys_open() prototype
sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
Typo: depricated -> deprecated
Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
small documentation fixes
Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
remove unused return within void return function
Typo fixes retrun -> return
x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
...
cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.
These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code. An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index. This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index. It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().
cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add missing IRQs and IRQ descriptions to /proc/interrupts.
/proc/interrupts is most useful when it displays every IRQ vector in use by
the system, not just those somebody thought would be interesting.
This patch inserts the following vector displays to the i386 and x86_64
platforms, as appropriate:
rescheduling interrupts
TLB flush interrupts
function call interrupts
thermal event interrupts
threshold interrupts
spurious interrupts
A threshold interrupt occurs when ECC memory correction is occuring at too
high a frequency. Thresholds are used by the ECC hardware as occasional
ECC failures are part of normal operation, but long sequences of ECC
failures usually indicate a memory chip that is about to fail.
Thermal event interrupts occur when a temperature threshold has been
exceeded for some CPU chip. IIRC, a thermal interrupt is also generated
when the temperature drops back to a normal level.
A spurious interrupt is an interrupt that was raised then lowered by the
device before it could be fully processed by the APIC. Hence the apic sees
the interrupt but does not know what device it came from. For this case
the APIC hardware will assume a vector of 0xff.
Rescheduling, call, and TLB flush interrupts are sent from one CPU to
another per the needs of the OS. Typically, their statistics would be used
to discover if an interrupt flood of the given type has been occuring.
AK: merged v2 and v4 which had some more tweaks
AK: replace Local interrupts with Local timer interrupts
AK: Fixed description of interrupt types.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
[ mingo: small cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
