"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Make sure SWAPGS and PARAVIRT_ADJUST_EXCEPTION_FRAME are properly
defined when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is off.
Fixes Ingo's build failure:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1201: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1205: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1209: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1213: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
64-bit Xen pushes a couple of extra words onto an exception frame.
Add a hook to deal with them.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The manual padding to align on cacheline size only worked in 32 bit
In 64 bit the structure was not aligned and contained wasted space.
use the compiler ____cachline_aligned to save space & properly align
this structure.
x86_64_default size goes from 9136 -> 8960
x86_64_AMD size goes from 9136 -> 8896
built & running on 2.6.26-rc8.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The comment says it should have been removed in 2.6.25.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
OK, so 25-mm1 gave a lockdep error which made me look into this.
The first thing that I noticed was the horrible mess; the second thing I
saw was hacks like: 71e93d1561
The problem is that arch idle routines are somewhat inconsitent with
their IRQ state handling and instead of fixing _that_, we go paper over
the problem.
So the thing I've tried to do is set a standard for idle routines and
fix them all up to adhere to that. So the rules are:
idle routines are entered with IRQs disabled
idle routines will exit with IRQs enabled
Nearly all already did this in one form or another.
Merge the 32 and 64 bit bits so they no longer have different bugs.
As for the actual lockdep warning; __sti_mwait() did a plainly un-annotated
irq-enable.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
essentially dead.
As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL
above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.
The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.
for example: on my system after boot, there are around 300 processes, with
only 17 using FPU.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration
of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following
two optimizations:
1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the first
lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. Next patch
does this lazy allocation.
2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always.
Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will take advantage
of this.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch implements the PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC prctl()
commands on the x86 platform (both 32 and 64 bit.) These
commands control the ability to read the timestamp counter
from userspace (the RDTSC instruction.)
While the RDTSC instuction is a useful profiling tool,
it is also the source of some non-determinism in ring-3.
For deterministic replay applications it is useful to be
able to trap and emulate (and record the outcome of) this
instruction.
This patch uses code earlier used to disable the timestamp
counter for the SECCOMP framework. A side-effect of this
patch is that the SECCOMP environment will now also disable
the timestamp counter on x86_64 due to the addition of the
TIF_NOTSC define on this platform.
The code which enables/disables the RDTSC instruction during
context switches is in the __switch_to_xtra function, which
already handles other unusual conditions, so normal
performance should not have to suffer from this change.
Signed-off-by: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch replaces numeric constant with an appropriate macro
Also 0x800000000000UL is changed to bit shifting which is complement
to the code comment (thanks hpa for notice)
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Otherwise, enabling (or better, subsequent disabling) of single
stepping would cause a kernel oops on CPUs not having this MSR.
The patch could have been added a conditional to the MSR write in
user_disable_single_step(), but centralizing the updates seems safer
and (looking forward) better manageable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
store initial_apicid from early identify. it is could be different from
phys_proc_id later.
also print it out in /proc/cpuinfo.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In x86_64, hlt always work. in i386, we'll query the cpuinfo associated
with this cpu
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch removes the mca-pentium boot option that was a noop.
besides the source code cleanup factor, this saves some text as well:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
651 77 4 732 2dc bugs.o.before
631 53 4 688 2b0 bugs.o.after
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're
required whether or not A.OUT format is available.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are already various options to disable specific cpuid bits
on the command line. They all use their own variable. Add a generic
mask to make this easier in the future.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the size of APICIDs from u8 to u16. This partially
supports the new x2apic mode that will be present on future
processor chips. (Chips actually support 32-bit APICIDs, but that
change is more intrusive. Supporting 16-bit is sufficient for now).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
I've included just the partial change from u8 to u16 apicids. The
remaining x2apic changes will be in a separate patch.
In addition, the fake_node_to_pxm_map[] and fake_apicid_to_node[]
tables have been moved from local data to the __initdata section
reducing stack pressure when MAX_NUMNODES and MAX_LOCAL_APIC are
increased in size.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Make sure pte_t, whatever its definition, has a pte element with type
pteval_t. This allows common code to access it without needing to be
specifically parameterised on what pagetable mode we're compiling for.
For 32-bit, this means that pte_t becomes a union with "pte" and "{
pte_low, pte_high }" (PAE) or just "pte_low" (non-PAE).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Moving things out of processor.h is always a good thing.
Also needed to avoid include loop in later patch.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds paravirt hook for swapgs operation, which is a privileged
operation in x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly
integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions. They are moved
to processor.h around ifdefs, and the original files are deleted. Note that
there's much less headers included in the final version.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The i387_fxsave_struct formats really have the same layout
on 32 and 64, with only some slightly different use of a few
fields. The i387_fsave_struct and i387_soft_struct formats
are never used by 64-bit kernels, but it doesn't hurt to
have the unused types in the union and cuts down on the
amount of #ifdef hair required throughout the i387 code.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves i387 definitions from processor_32.h and processor_64.h
to processor.h. They are different. Very different. And there's appearently
nothing we can do about it, so they're enclosed inside ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There's only one difference between the NOPs used in asm code for i386 and x86_64:
i386 has a lot more variants. The code is moved to processor.h, and adjusted
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the prefetch[w]? functions to processor.h
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves definitions that are present in only one of the files
(between processor_32.h and processor_64.h), to processor.h. They're mostly
structures and function definitions.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the mm_segment_t structure definition to processor.h
This makes mmsegment.h file useless, and it is deleted.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
x86_cpuinfo is one more to the family of "not fundamentally different"
structs. It's unified in processor.h, with very specific fields enclosed
around ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the TASK_ALIGN constraints to common header.
The base of it is the same for x86_64 and i386. The only difference
is the presence of vSMP in x86_64. As it's not a worry in i386, we can
safely use the same code for both.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The thread_struct is not fundamentally different between architectures, and
this patch puts it in the common header. What's really unique for each of
them is enclosed in ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Paravirt guests need to inform the underlying hypervisor whenever the sp0
tss field changes. i386 already has such a function, and we use it for
x86_64 too. There's an unnecessary (for 64-bit) msr handling part in the original
version, and it is placed around an ifdef. Making no more sense in
processor_32.h, it is moved to the common header
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Although slighly different, the tss_struct is very similar in x86_64 and
i386. The really different part, which matchs the hardware vision of it, is
now called x86_hw_tss, and each of the architectures provides yours.
It's then used as a field in the outter tss_struct.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
current_text_addr() has a different implementation in x86_64 and
i386, but it is not fundamentally different. I stick to the i386
implementation, that seem to be a common base, and move it to processor.h
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the pieces of processor_32.h and processor_64 that are
equal to processor.h. Only what's exactly the same is moved around, the rest
not being touched.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the definition of set_iopl_mask to processor.h,
instead of letting it at processor_32.h.
For x86_64, nothing is done, as we don't really need such a function.
However, having it on both arches saves us from putting an ifdef in the
pv_cpu_ops struct.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch unifies the paravirt pieces of processor.h
The functionality present in 32 bit, but not (yet) in 64-bit,
like load_sp0 is _not_ done here, and let to a different patch.
With this unification, we get paravirt for free in x86_64 processor.h
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There are currently two definitions of load_cr3, that essentially do the
same thing. This patch moves them all to processor.h.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There's no need for the *_MASK flags (TF_MASK, IF_MASK, etc), found in
processor.h (both _32 and _64). They have a one-to-one mapping with the
EFLAGS value. This patch removes the definitions, and use the already
existent X86_EFLAGS_ version when applicable.
[ roland@redhat.com: KVM build fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
