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2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: i386 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)Stephane Eranian
Here is a small patch for i386 which adds a cpufeature flag and detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others. It can also be used by perfmon. changelog: - add CPU_FEATURE_BTS - add Branch Trace Store detection signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Make irq_vector staticAdrian Bunk
irq_vector[] can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: handle a negative return valueAdrian Bunk
The Coverity checker noted that bad things might happen if find_isa_irq_apic() returned -1. [akpm@osdl.org: add debugging checks] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: call efi_get_time during suspendArtiom Myaskouvskey
Function efi_get_time called not only during init kernel phase but also during suspend (from get_cmos_time). When it is called from get_cmos_time the corresponding runtime service should be called in virtual and not in physical mode. Signed-off-by: Artiom Myaskouvskey <artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Narayanan, Chandramouli" <chandramouli.narayanan@intel.com> Cc: "Jiossy, Rami" <rami.jiossy@intel.com> Cc: "Satt, Shai" <shai.satt@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: fix the irqbalance quirk for E7320/E7520/E7525Siddha, Suresh B
Move the irqbalance quirks for E7320/E7520/E7525(Errata 23 in http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30304203.pdf) to early quirks. And add a PCI quirk for these platforms to check(which happens very late during the boot) if the APIC routing is indeed set to default flat mode. This fixes the breakage(in x86_64) of this quirk due to cpu hotplug which selects physical mode instead of the logical flat(as needed for this errata workaround). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: change the 'no_control' field to 'hotpluggable' in the struct cpuSiddha, Suresh B
Change the 'no_control' field in the cpu struct to a more positive and better term 'hotpluggable'. And change(/cleanup) the logic accordingly. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: introduce the mechanism of disabling cpu hotplug controlSiddha, Suresh B
Add 'enable_cpu_hotplug' flag and when cleared, the hotplug control file ("online") will not be added under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/ Next patch doing PCI quirks will use this. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: add write_pci_config_byte() to direct PCI access routinesSiddha, Suresh B
Mechanism of selecting physical mode in genapic when cpu hotplug is enabled on x86_64, broke the quirk(quirk_intel_irqbalance()) introduced for working around the transposing interrupt message errata in E7520/E7320/E7525 (revision ID 0x9 and below. errata #23 in http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30304203.pdf). This errata requires the mode to be in logical flat, so that interrupts can be directed to more than one cpu(and thus use hardware IRQ balancing enabled by BIOS on these platforms). Following four patches fixes this by moving the quirk to early quirk and forcing the x86_64 genapic selection to logical flat on these platforms. Thanks to Shaohua for pointing out the breakage. This patch: Add write_pci_config_byte() to direct PCI access routines Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Convert more absolute symbols to section relativeVivek Goyal
o Convert more absolute symbols to section relative to keep the theme in vmlinux.lds.S file and to avoid problem if kernel is relocated. o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and avoid introducing absolute symbols. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: alloc_gdt() staticAdrian Bunk
Make the needlessly global alloc_gdt() static. (against) pda-percpu-init Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: fix MTRR codeJan Beulich
Until not so long ago, there were system log messages pointing to inconsistent MTRR setup of the video frame buffer caused by the way vesafb and X worked. While vesafb was fixed meanwhile, I believe fixing it there only hides a shortcoming in the MTRR code itself, in that that code is not symmetric with respect to the ordering of attempts to set up two (or more) regions where one contains the other. In the current shape, it permits only setting up sub-regions of pre-exisiting ones. The patch below makes this symmetric. While working on that I noticed a few more inconsistencies in that code, namely - use of 'unsigned int' for sizes in many, but not all places (the patch is converting this to use 'unsigned long' everywhere, which specifically might be necessary for x86-64 once a processor supporting more than 44 physical address bits would become available) - the code to correct inconsistent settings during secondary processor startup tried (if necessary) to correct, among other things, the value in IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE, however the newly computed value would never get used (i.e. stored in the respective MSR) - the generic range validation code checked that the end of the to-be-added range would be above 1MB; the value checked should have been the start of the range - when contained regions are detected, previously this was allowed only when the old region was uncacheable; this can be symmetric (i.e. the new region can also be uncacheable) and even further as per Intel's documentation write-trough and write-back for either region is also compatible with the respective opposite in the other Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: conditionalize inclusion of some MTRR flavorsJan Beulich
Avoid inclusion of code that's dead for x86-64. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Don't touch per cpu memory of offline CPUs in touch_nmi_watchdogJan Beulich
Just like on x86-64, don't touch foreign CPUs' memory if the watchdog isn't enabled at all. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: clear_fixmap() should not use set_pte()Jan Beulich
While not strictly required with the current code (as the upper half of page table entries generated by __set_fixmap() cannot be non-zero due to the second parameter of this function being 'unsigned long'), the use of set_pte() in __set_fixmap() in the context of clear_fixmap() is still improper with CONFIG_X86_PAE (see the respective comment in include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h) and would turn into a bug if that second parameter ever gets changed to a 64-bit type. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Add support for compilation for Core2Andi Kleen
gcc doesn't support -mtune=core2 yet, but will be soon. Use -mtune=generic or -mtune=i686 as fallback TBD need benchmarking for INTEL_USERCOPY etc. So far I used the same defaults as MPENTIUMM Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer checkZachary Amsden
Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires 100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs have not yet been delivered. In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs. While here, make check_timer be __init. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> [chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Be careful about touching BIOS address spaceRusty Russell
BIOS ROM areas may not be mapped into the guest address space, so be careful when touching those addresses to make sure they appear to be mapped. [akpm@osdl.org: fix unused var warning] AK: Changed __get_user to probe_kernel_address Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add MMU virtualization to paravirt_opsRusty Russell
Add the three bare TLB accessor functions to paravirt-ops. Most amusingly, flush_tlb is redefined on SMP, so I can't call the paravirt op flush_tlb. Instead, I chose to indicate the actual flush type, kernel (global) vs. user (non-global). Global in this sense means using the global bit in the page table entry, which makes TLB entries persistent across CR3 reloads, not global as in the SMP sense of invoking remote shootdowns, so the term is confusingly overloaded. AK: folded in fix from Zach for PAE compilation Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops.Rusty Russell
Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops. Unfortunately, we need two write functions, as some older broken hardware requires workarounds for Pentium APIC errata - this is the purpose of apic_write_atomic. AK: replaced __inline with inline Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Allow disable power management under hypervisorRusty Russell
Two legacy power management modes are much easier to just explicitly disable when running in paravirtualized mode - neither APM nor PnP is still relevant. The status of ACPI is still debatable, and noacpi is still a common enough boot parameter that it is not necessary to explicitly disable ACPI. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Disable vdso by default when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is enabledAndi Kleen
They don't work together and this way even glibc still works. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Allow selected bug checks to beRusty Russell
Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor, or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under some hypervisors. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualizationRusty Russell
1) Each hypervisor writes a probe function to detect whether we are running under that hypervisor. paravirt_probe() registers this function. 2) If vmlinux is booted with ring != 0, we call all the probe functions (with registers except %esp intact) in link order: the winner will not return. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: cpu_detect extractionRusty Russell
Both lhype and Xen want to call the core of the x86 cpu detect code before calling start_kernel. (extracted from larger patch) AK: folded in start_kernel header patch Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt interceptsRusty Russell
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude, are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it. The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded). Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check. And: Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT. And: AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build And: AK: Fix compilation with defconfig And: ^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and __start_parainstructions. And: AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisationRusty Russell
Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops structure with their own variants. All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier. And: +From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup(). Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior Move memory_setup() to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix double #includes in arch/i386Nicolas Kaiser
Fix double #includes in arch/i386 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: substitute __va lookup with pfn_to_kaddrDavid Rientjes
Substitutes allocate_pgdat virtual address lookup with pfn_to_kaddr macro. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: remove IOPL check on task switchChuck Ebbert
IOPL is implicitly saved and restored on task switch, so explicit check is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix race in IO-APIC routing entry setup.Andi Kleen
Interrupt could happen between setting the IO-APIC entry and setting its interrupt data. Pointed out by Linus. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move memory map printing and other code to e820.cbibo,mao
This patch moves e820 memory map print and memmap boot param parsing function from setup.c to e820.c, also adds limit_regions and print_memory_map declaration in header file. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 158 --------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 153 ----------------------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 3 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move e820/efi memmap walking code to e820.cbibo,mao
This patch moves e820/efi memmap table walking function from setup.c to e820.c, also this patch adds extern declaration in header file. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 118 ----------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 118 ----------------------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move find_max_pfn function to e820.cbibo,mao
Move more code from setup.c into e820.c Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: create e820.c for e820 map sanitize and copy functionbibo,mao
This patch moves bios e820 map sanitize and copy function from setup.c to e820.c Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 240 -------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: i386 create e820.c to handle standard io/mem resourcesbibo,mao
This patch creates new file named e820.c to hanle standard io/mem resources, moving request_standard_resources function from setup.c to e820.c. Also this patch modifies Makfile to compile file e820.c. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Makefile | 2 arch/i386/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 276 ------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user in fault pathsAndi Kleen
Makes the intention of the code cleaner to read and avoids a potential deadlock on mmap_sem. Also change the types of the arguments to not include __user because they're really not user addresses. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Use CLFLUSH instead of WBINVD in change_page_attrAndi Kleen
CLFLUSH is a lot faster than WBINVD so try to use that. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Retrieve CLFLUSH size from CPUIDAndi Kleen
Also report it in /proc/cpuinfo similar to x86-64. Needed for followon patch Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix entry.S code with !CONFIG_VM86Joe Korty
The entry.S code at work_notifysig is surely wrong. It drops into unrelated code if the branch to work_notifysig_v86 is taken, and CONFIG_VM86=n. [PATCH] Make vm86 support optional tree 9b5daef5280800a0006343a17f63072658d91a1d pushed to git Jan 8, 2006, and first appears in 2.6.16 The 'fix' here is to also compile out the vm86 test & branch when CONFIG_VM86=n. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Mark CONFIG_RELOCATABLE EXPERIMENTALVivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernelVivek Goyal
Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Implement CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGNVivek Goyal
o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address 1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do that. o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment restrictions. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Warn upon absolute relocations being presentVivek Goyal
o Relocations generated w.r.t absolute symbols are not processed as by definition, absolute symbols are not to be relocated. Explicitly warn user about absolutions relocations present at compile time. o These relocations get introduced either due to linker optimizations or some programming oversights. o Also create a list of symbols which have been audited to be safe and don't emit warnings for these. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel supportEric W. Biederman
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START cleanupEric W. Biederman
Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much more maintainer and hopefully user friendly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Reserve kernel memory starting from _textEric W. Biederman
Currently when we are reserving the memory the kernel text resides in we start at __PHYSICAL_START which happens to be correct but not very obvious. In addition when we start relocating the kernel __PHYSICAL_START is the wrong value, as it is an absolute symbol that does not get relocated. By starting the reservation at __pa_symbol(_text) the code is clearer and will be correct when relocated. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Add comment for align to vmlinux.ldsVivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Distinguish absolute symbolsVivek Goyal
Ld knows about 2 kinds of symbols, absolute and section relative. Section relative symbols symbols change value when a section is moved and absolute symbols do not. Currently in the linker script we have several labels marking the beginning and ending of sections that are outside of sections, making them absolute symbols. Having a mixture of absolute and section relative symbols refereing to the same data is currently harmless but it is confusing. This must be done carefully as newer revs of ld do not place symbols that appear in sections without data and instead ld makes those symbols global :( My ultimate goal is to build a relocatable kernel. The safest and least intrusive technique is to generate relocation entries so the kernel can be relocated at load time. The only penalty would be an increase in the size of the kernel binary. The problem is that if absolute and relocatable symbols are not properly specified absolute symbols will be relocated or section relative symbols won't be, which is fatal. The practical motivation is that when generating kernels that will run from a reserved area for analyzing what caused a kernel panic, it is simpler if you don't need to hard code the physical memory location they will run at, especially for the distributions. [AK: and merged:] o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and avoid introducing absolute symbols. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Mention PCI instead of RAM in NMI parity error messageAndi Kleen
On modern systems RAM errors don't cause NMIs, but it's usually caused by PCI SERR. Mention PCI instead of RAM in the printk. Reported by r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp (Ryutaro Hayashi) Cc: r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: remove last two pci_find offenders in the core codeAlan Cox
Resending as I believe the discussion about them established they were correct. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>