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2006-12-07[PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_freeAlan Stern
The patch (as824b) makes percpu_free() ignore NULL arguments, as one would expect for a deallocation routine. (Note that free_percpu is #defined as percpu_free in include/linux/percpu.h.) A few callers are updated to remove now-unneeded tests for NULL. A few other callers already seem to assume that passing a NULL pointer to percpu_free() is okay! The patch also removes an unnecessary NULL check in percpu_depopulate(). Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Fix kunmap_atomic's use of kpte_clear_flush()Jeremy Fitzhardinge
kunmap_atomic() will call kpte_clear_flush with vaddr/ptep arguments which don't correspond if the vaddr is just a normal lowmem address (ie, not in the KMAP area). This patch makes sure that the pte is only cleared if kmap area was actually used for the mapping. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] mm: pagefault_{disable,enable}()Peter Zijlstra
Introduce pagefault_{disable,enable}() and use these where previously we did manual preempt increments/decrements to make the pagefault handler do the atomic thing. Currently they still rely on the increased preempt count, but do not rely on the disabled preemption, this might go away in the future. (NOTE: the extra barrier() in pagefault_disable might fix some holes on machines which have too many registers for their own good) [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb pageChen, Kenneth W
Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only. The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss. With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher application performance. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling()Adrian Bunk
- remove the write-only local variable "bandwidth" - don't set "max_cache_size" in the (cachesize < 0) case: that's already handled in kernel/sched.c:measure_migration_cost() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATAJan Beulich
The .eh_frame section contents is never written to, so it can as well benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. Diff-ed against firstfloor tree. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs()Oleg Nesterov
We don't need to setup _irq_regs in smp_xxx_interrupt (except apic timer). These handlers run with irqs disabled and do not call functions which need "struct pt_regs". Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEMRandy Dunlap
Generally better for allmodconfig coverage. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 codeAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variableDavid Rientjes
Remove unused variable in msr_write(). Reported by D Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR codeBurman Yan
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build errorRandy Dunlap
CC arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c:120: error: static declaration of 'xquad_portio' follows non-static declaration include/asm/io.h:275: error: previous declaration of 'xquad_portio' was here make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] unwinder: more sanity checks in Dwarf2 unwinderJan Beulich
Tighten the requirements on both input to and output from the Dwarf2 unwinder. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: always enable regparmAdrian Bunk
-mregparm=3 has been enabled by default for some time on i386, and AFAIK there aren't any problems with it left. This patch removes the REGPARM config option and sets -mregparm=3 unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: touch softlockup during backtracingDave Jones
Sometimes the soft watchdog fires after we're done oopsing. See http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-25-11-2006.html for an example. AK: changed to touch_nmi_watchdog() Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_printChuck Ebbert
Add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_print. This lets users change the amount of raw stack data printed in dump_stack() without having to reboot. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: remove duplicate printkDave Jones
We do the exact same printk about a dozen lines above with no intermediate printk's. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Preserve EFI run time regions with memmap parameterArtiom Myaskouvskey
When using memmap kernel parameter in EFI boot we should also add to memory map memory regions of runtime services to enable their mapping later. AK: merged and cleaned up the patch Signed-off-by: Artiom Myaskouvskey <artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Regard MSRs in lapic_suspend()/lapic_resume()Karsten Wiese
Read/Write APIC_LVTPC and APIC_LVTTHMR only, if get_maxlvt() returns certain values. This is done like everywhere else in i386/kernel/apic.c, so I guess its correct. Suspends/Resumes to disk fine and eleminates an smp_error_interrupt() here on a K8. AK: ported to x86-64 too Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Avoid boot warning with apic=debugAndi Kleen
There are two consumers of apic=: the apic debug level and the low level generic architecture code. early_param would warn when the low level code rejected "debug". Avoid this. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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>