* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] wire up pselect, ppoll
[IA64] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
[IA64] unwind did not work for processes born with CLONE_STOPPED
[IA64] Optional method to purge the TLB on SN systems
[IA64] SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro cleanup in arch/ia64
[IA64-SN2][KJ] mmtimer.c-kzalloc
[IA64] fix stack alignment for ia32 signal handlers
[IA64] - Altix: hotplug after intr redirect can crash system
[IA64] save and restore cpus_allowed in cpu_idle_wait
[IA64] Removal of percpu TR cleanup in kexec code
[IA64] Fix some section mismatch errors
Recently a few direct accesses to the thread_info in the task structure snuck
back, so this wraps them with the appropriate wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Always ask the hardware to determine the hardware processor id in both UP and
SMP kernels.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the advent of kdump, the assumption that the boot CPU when booting an UP
kernel is always the CPU with a particular hardware ID (often 0) (usually
referred to as BSP on some architectures) is not valid anymore. The reason
being that the dump capture kernel boots on the crashed CPU (the CPU that
invoked crash_kexec), which may be or may not be that particular CPU.
Move definition of hard_smp_processor_id for the UP case to
architecture-specific code ("asm/smp.h") where it belongs, so that each
architecture can provide its own implementation.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds an optional method for purging the TLB on SN IA64 systems.
The change should not affect any non-SN system.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
I agree (with Andi Kleen) this typeof is not needed and more error
prone. All the original atomic.h code that uses cmpxchg (which includes
the atomic_add_unless) uses defines instead of inline functions,
probably to circumvent a circular dependency between system.h and
atomic.h on powerpc (which my patch addresses). Therefore, it makes
sense to use inline functions that will provide type checking.
atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
Digging into the FRV architecture shows me that it is also affected by
such a circular dependency. Here is the diff applying this against the
rest of my atomic.h patches.
It applies over the atomic.h standardization patches.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most architectures defined three macros, MK_IOSPACE_PFN(), GET_IOSPACE()
and GET_PFN() in pgtable.h. However, the only callers of any of these
macros are in Sparc specific code, either in arch/sparc, arch/sparc64 or
drivers/sbus.
This patch removes the redundant macros from all architectures except
sparc and sparc64.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES. Which in turn is
currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.
While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
small. The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes. This
lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
by kmalloc, which was often the case.
It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
the area needs to be. This patch does just that.
If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h. Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice. However, I
think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When redirecting a device interrupt on SN, not all links
between platform specific structures are being updated.
This can result in a system crash if an interrupt
redirection is followed by an unplug of that device.
The complete fix also requires a prom update. Though,
this patch is backward compatable and not dependent on
the prom patch.
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Section mismatch: reference to ...
.init.text:prefill_possible_map from .text between 'setup_per_cpu_areas' and 'cpu_init'
.init.text:iosapic_override_isa_irq from .text between 'iosapic_init' and 'iosapic_remove'
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits)
[PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall
[PATCH] i386: type may be unused
[PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation.
[PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff
[PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu
[PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h
[PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems
[PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64
[PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER
[PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls
[PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0)
[PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning
[PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible
[PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP
[PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386
[PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386
...
Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most architectures' scatterlist.h use the type dma_addr_t, but omit to
include <asm/types.h> which defines it. This could lead to build failures,
so let's add the missing includes.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
an mm. Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are
needed in common code. They are:
arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork
arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an
mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec.
The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific
activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for
other architectures. It's called when an mm is first used.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
SOL_SOCKET sockopt SO_TIMESTAMPNS.
This command is similar to SO_TIMESTAMP, but permits transmission of
a 'timespec struct' instead of a 'timeval struct' control message.
(nanosecond resolution instead of microsecond)
Control message is labelled SCM_TIMESTAMPNS instead of SCM_TIMESTAMP
A socket cannot mix SO_TIMESTAMP and SO_TIMESTAMPNS : the two modes are
mutually exclusive.
sock_recv_timestamp() became too big to be fully inlined so I added a
__sock_recv_timestamp() helper function.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
ioctl() SIOCGSTAMPNS command to get timestamps in 'struct timespec'.
User programs can thus access to nanosecond resolution.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On a SGI Altix TIOCP based PCI bus we need to include the ATE_PIO attribute
bit if we're mapping a 32bit MSI address.
Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Just a one-byter for an ia64 thinko/typo - already fixed for i386 and x86_64.
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled):
0x00000 - 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF supports only UC (uncacheable) access
0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
pci_read_rom() indirectly uses ioremap(0xC0000) to read the shadow VGA option
ROM. ioremap() used to default to a 16MB or 64MB UC kernel identity mapping,
which would cause an MCA when reading 0xC0000 since only WB is supported there.
X uses reads the option ROM to initialize devices. A smaller test case is:
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom
# cp /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom x
To avoid this, we can use the same ioremap_page_range() strategy that most
architectures use for all ioremaps. These page table mappings come out of the
vmalloc area. On ia64, these are in region 5 (0xA... addresses) and typically
use 16KB or 64KB mappings instead of 16MB or 64MB mappings. The smaller
mappings give more flexibility to use the correct attributes.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Fix wrong /proc/iomem on SGI Altix
[IA64] Altix: ioremap vga_console_iobase
[IA64] Fix typo/thinko in crash.c
[IA64] Fix get_model_name() for mixed cpu type systems
[IA64] min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation fix
We have seen bad_pte_print when testing crashdump on an SN machine in
recent 2.6.20 kernel. There are tons of bad pte print (pfn < max_low_pfn)
reports when the crash kernel boots up, all those reported bad pages
are inside initmem range; That is because if the crash kernel code and
data happens to be at the beginning of the 1st node. build_node_maps in
discontig.c will bypass reserved regions with filter_rsvd_memory. Since
min_low_pfn is calculated in build_node_map, so in this case, min_low_pfn
will be greater than kernel code and data.
Because pages inside initmem are freed and reused later, we saw
pfn_valid check fail on those pages.
I think this theoretically happen on a normal kernel. When I check
min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation in contig.c and discontig.c.
I found more issues than this.
1. min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is inconsistent between
contig.c and discontig.c,
min_low_pfn is calculated as the first page number of boot memmap in
contig.c (Why? Though this may work at the most of the time, I don't
think it is the right logic). It is calculated as the lowest physical
memory page number bypass reserved regions in discontig.c.
max_low_pfn is calculated include reserved regions in contig.c. It is
calculated exclude reserved regions in discontig.c.
2. If kernel code and data region is happen to be at the begin or the
end of physical memory, when min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is
bypassed kernel code and data, pages in initmem will report bad.
3. initrd is also in reserved regions, if it is at the begin or at the
end of physical memory, kernel will refuse to reuse the memory. Because
the virt_addr_valid check in free_initrd_mem.
So it is better to fix and clean up those issues.
Calculate min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn in a consistent way.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Add a missing #define for the platform_kernel_launch_event. Without this
fix, a call to platform_kernel_launch_event() becomes a noop on generic
kernels. SN systems require this fix to successfully kdump/kexec from
certain hardware errors.
[bwalle@suse.de: fix it]
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Running ia64 through sparse gives warnings in the unwind code.
include/asm-ia64/unwind.h:84:17: error: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned'
Make the bitfield explicitly unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* Kexec adds some code to arch/ia64/kernel/smp.c which needs ia64_mca_pal_base,
so the kexec patch (actually the kdump patch) declares this
per-cpu variable in include/asm-ia64/kexec.h.
* ia64_mca_pal_base is defined in arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c, so it
seems to me that it would make a lot more sense to declare it in
include/asm-ia64/mca.h.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Function pci_get_legacy_ide_irq is incorrect on ia64. It should return
irq vector instead of GSI. The fixed number 14 and 15 are just GSI.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* Make use of spaces and tabs consistent
* Make long line < 80col
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jack Steiner noticed that duplicate TLB DTC entries do not cause a
linux panic. See discussion:
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0307/6108.html
The current TLB recovery code is recovering from the duplicate itr.d
dropins, masking the underlying problem. This change modifies
the MCA recovery code to look for the TLB check signature of the
duplicate TLB entry and panic in that case.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary
kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is
also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64.
The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type
EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the
entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory.
If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have
data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will
never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it.
So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor
type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel
data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF
core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image.
This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty
straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for
the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the
specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size().
The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.html
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Un-Breaks pthreads, since Oct 2003.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to
facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of
cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to
break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an
architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be
unworkable.
Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by
this code.
Also:
The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet
further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So
either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference
to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks
has gone in.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:
The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the
beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an
obsolescent feature.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
If an ATA drive uses legacy mode, ata driver will choose 14 and 15
as the fixed irq number. On ia64 platform, such numbers are GSI and
should be converted to irq vector.
Below patch against kernel 2.6.20 fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
On ia64, drivers/base/dma-mapping.c doesn't build because it calls
dma_alloc_noncoherent() and dma_free_noncoherent(), which appear to be
terminally broken; the calls end up generating errors like
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c: In function 'dmam_noncoherent_release':
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c:32: error: 'struct ia64_machine_vector' has no member named 'platform_dma_free_coherent'
because the multiple levels of macro expansion in <asm/dma-mapping.h> and
<asm/machvec.h> end up turning a call to dma_free_noncoherent() into
ia64_mv.platform_dma_free_coherent (instead of the intended
ia64_mv.dma_free_coherent).
This patch fixes this by converting dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent() into
inline functions that call the corresponding coherent functions, instead of
trying to do this with macros.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Current implementation allows the kernel to receive up to 255 characters from
the bootloader. While the boot protocol allows greater buffers to be sent.
In current environment, the command-line is used in order to specify many
values, including suspend/resume, module arguments, splash, initramfs and
more.
255 characters are not enough anymore.
After edd issue was fixed, and dynammic kernel command-line patch was
accepted, we can extend the COMMAND_LINE_SIZE without runtime memory
requirements.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The line discipline numbers N_* are currently defined for each architecture
individually, but (except for a seeming mistake) identically, in
asm/termios.h. There is no obvious reason why these numbers should be
architecture specific, nor any apparent relationship with the termios
structure. The total number of these, NR_LDISCS, is defined in linux/tty.h
anyway. So I propose the following patch which moves the definitions of
the individual line disciplines to linux/tty.h too.
Three of these numbers (N_MASC, N_PROFIBUS_FDL, and N_SMSBLOCK) are unused
in the current kernel, but the patch still keeps the complete set in case
there are plans to use them yet.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The arch hooks arch_setup_msi_irq and arch_teardown_msi_irq are now
responsible for allocating and freeing the linux irq in addition to
setting up the the linux irq to work with the interrupt.
arch_setup_msi_irq now takes a pci_device and a msi_desc and returns
an irq.
With this change in place this code should be useable by all platforms
except those that won't let the OS touch the hardware like ppc RTAS.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (140 commits)
ACPICA: reduce table header messages to fit within 80 columns
asus-laptop: merge with ACPICA table update
ACPI: bay: Convert ACPI Bay driver to be compatible with sysfs update.
ACPI: bay: new driver is EXPERIMENTAL
ACPI: bay: make drive_bays static
ACPI: bay: make bay a platform driver
ACPI: bay: remove prototype procfs code
ACPI: bay: delete unused variable
ACPI: bay: new driver adding removable drive bay support
ACPI: dock: check if parent is on dock
ACPICA: fix gcc build warnings
Altix: Add ACPI SSDT PCI device support (hotplug)
Altix: ACPI SSDT PCI device support
ACPICA: reduce conflicts with Altix patch series
ACPI_NUMA: fix HP IA64 simulator issue with extended memory domain
ACPI: fix HP RX2600 IA64 boot
ACPI: build fix for IBM x440 - CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT
ACPICA: Update version to 20070126
ACPICA: Fix for incorrect parameter passed to AcpiTbDeleteTable during table load.
ACPICA: Update copyright to 2007.
...
Instead of pinning per-cpu TLB into a DTR, use DTC. This will free up
one TLB entry for application, or even kernel if access pattern to
per-cpu data area has high temporal locality.
Since per-cpu is mapped at the top of region 7 address, we just need to
add special case in alt_dtlb_miss. The physical address of per-cpu data
is already conveniently stored in IA64_KR(PER_CPU_DATA). Latency for
alt_dtlb_miss is not affected as we can hide all the latency. It was
measured that alt_dtlb_miss handler has 23 cycles latency before and
after the patch.
The performance effect is massive for applications that put lots of tlb
pressure on CPU. Workload environment like database online transaction
processing or application uses tera-byte of memory would benefit the most.
Measurement with industry standard database benchmark shown an upward
of 1.6% gain. While smaller workloads like cpu, java also showing small
improvement.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better
served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.
This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)
There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned.
The reasons are:
(1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we
find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question
can not be executed before the patching is done.
(2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.
All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
