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2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in KconfigPekka Paalanen
Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it was forgotten. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64. Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there. Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05x86: clean up arch/x86/Kconfig*Ingo Molnar
- Consistent alignment of help text - Use the ---help--- keyword everywhere consistently as a visual separator - fix whitespace mismatches Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-29x86: replace CONFIG_X86_SMP with CONFIG_SMPIngo Molnar
The x86/Voyager subarch used to have this distinction between 'x86 SMP support' and 'Voyager SMP support': config X86_SMP bool depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64) This is a pointless distinction - Voyager can (and already does) use smp_ops to implement various SMP quirks it has - and it can be extended more to cover all the specialities of Voyager. So remove this complication in the Kconfig space. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-31Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h kernel/fork.c
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-23Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core
2008-10-27trace: add the MMIO-tracer to the tracer menu, cleanupPekka Paalanen
Impact: cleanup We can remove MMIOTRACE_HOOKS and replace it with just MMIOTRACE. MMIOTRACE_HOOKS is a remnant from the time when I thought that something else could also use the kmmio facilities. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23x86: change OPTIMIZE_INLINING help to say enabling makes smaller kernelsSitsofe Wheeler
Impact: clarify Kconfig help text The OPTIMIZE_INLINING help currently says "The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there." This contradicts other parts of the help text and my own tests: 5463127 2008-10-11 19:51 vmlinux.no-opt 5456152 2008-10-11 19:56 vmlinux.opt Reword text to say that enabling OPTIMIZE_INLINING will lead to smaller kernels with gcc 4.x or later. Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22x86, mm: enable GBPAGES option by defaultNick Piggin
DIRECT_GBPAGES was under DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by default. Turn it on by default and put it under EMBEDDED. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-15Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/Makefile include/asm-x86/pda.h
2008-07-26x86: usb debug port early console, fixIngo Molnar
fix: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `nvidia_set_debug_port': early_printk.c:(.text+0xf8b1): undefined reference to `read_pci_config' early_printk.c:(.text+0xf8dc): undefined reference to `write_pci_config' arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `setup_early_printk': early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x5487): undefined reference to `early_pci_allowed' early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x54cb): undefined reference to `read_pci_config' early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x54ec): undefined reference to `read_pci_config_16' [...] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26x86: usb debug port early console, v4Yinghai Lu
based on work from Eric, and add some timeout so don't dead loop when debug device is not installed v2: fix checkpatch warning v3: move ehci struct def to linux/usrb/ehci_def.h from host/ehci.h also add CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP to disable it by default v4: address comments from Ingo, seperate ehci reg def moving to another patch also add auto detect port that connect to debug device for Nvidia southbridge Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-21x86: Fix help message for STRICT_DEVMEM config optionLinus Torvalds
The message talked about "left on" when it meant to say disabled. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-21Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus
2008-07-20Subject: devmem, x86: fix rename of CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEMIngo Molnar
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:47:17 -0700 CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM was a rather confusing name - but renaming it to CONFIG_PROMISC_DEVMEM causes problems on architectures that do not support this feature; this patch renames it to CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, so that architectures can opt-in into it. ( the polarity of the option is still the same as it was originally; it needs to be for now to not break architectures that don't have the infastructure yet to support this feature) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "V.Radhakrishnan" <rk@atr-labs.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> ---
2008-07-18x86: re-enable OPTIMIZE_INLININGIngo Molnar
re-enable OPTIMIZE_INLINING more widely. Jeff Dike fixed the remaining outstanding issue in this commit: | commit 4f81c5350b44bcc501ab6f8a089b16d064b4d2f6 | Author: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | Date: Mon Jul 7 13:36:56 2008 -0400 | | [UML] fix gcc ICEs and unresolved externs [...] | This patch reintroduces unit-at-a-time for gcc >= 4.0, bringing back the | possibility of Uli's crash. If that happens, we'll debug it. it's still default-off and thus opt-in. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18x86: rename CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM to CONFIG_PROMISC_DEVMEMIngo Molnar
Linus observed: > The real bug is that we shouldn't have "double negatives", and > certainly not negative config options. Making that "promiscuous > /dev/mem" option a negated thing as a config option was bad. right ... lets rename this option. There should never be a negation in config options. [ that reminds me of CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER, but that is for another commit ;-) ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14x86: MMIOTRACE should not default to onLinus Torvalds
Even the help-text makes it clear that normal people shouldn't enable it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-14Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linusIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c arch/x86/lib/Makefile include/asm-x86/irqflags.h kernel/Makefile kernel/sched.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'x86/numa' into x86/develIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/e820.c arch/x86/kernel/efi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c arch/x86/kernel/setup.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c arch/x86/mm/init_64.c include/asm-x86/proto.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: cleanup early per cpu variables/accesses v4Mike Travis
* Introduce a new PER_CPU macro called "EARLY_PER_CPU". This is used by some per_cpu variables that are initialized and accessed before there are per_cpu areas allocated. ["Early" in respect to per_cpu variables is "earlier than the per_cpu areas have been setup".] This patchset adds these new macros: DEFINE_EARLY_PER_CPU(_type, _name, _initvalue) EXPORT_EARLY_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(_name) DECLARE_EARLY_PER_CPU(_type, _name) early_per_cpu_ptr(_name) early_per_cpu_map(_name, _idx) early_per_cpu(_name, _cpu) The DEFINE macro defines the per_cpu variable as well as the early map and pointer. It also initializes the per_cpu variable and map elements to "_initvalue". The early_* macros provide access to the initial map (usually setup during system init) and the early pointer. This pointer is initialized to point to the early map but is then NULL'ed when the actual per_cpu areas are setup. After that the per_cpu variable is the correct access to the variable. The early_per_cpu() macro is not very efficient but does show how to access the variable if you have a function that can be called both "early" and "late". It tests the early ptr to be NULL, and if not then it's still valid. Otherwise, the per_cpu variable is used instead: #define early_per_cpu(_name, _cpu) \ (early_per_cpu_ptr(_name) ? \ early_per_cpu_ptr(_name)[_cpu] : \ per_cpu(_name, _cpu)) A better method is to actually check the pointer manually. In the case below, numa_set_node can be called both "early" and "late": void __cpuinit numa_set_node(int cpu, int node) { int *cpu_to_node_map = early_per_cpu_ptr(x86_cpu_to_node_map); if (cpu_to_node_map) cpu_to_node_map[cpu] = node; else per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_node_map, cpu) = node; } * Add a flag "arch_provides_topology_pointers" that indicates pointers to topology cpumask_t maps are available. Otherwise, use the function returning the cpumask_t value. This is useful if cpumask_t set size is very large to avoid copying data on to/off of the stack. * The coverage of CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS has been increased while the non-debug case has been optimized a bit. * Remove an unreferenced compiler warning in drivers/base/topology.c * Clean up #ifdef in setup.c For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree. Based on: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'x86/mpparse' into x86/develIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c arch/x86/mm/init_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: let MPS support be selectable, v2Yinghai Lu
v2: seperate "fix for compiling when MPPARSE is not set" to another patch make X86_MPPARSE to be selectable only when acpi is set and X86_MPPARSE will be set if acpi is not set. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'linus' into tmp.x86.mpparse.newIngo Molnar
2008-07-08Merge branch 'x86/setup' into x86/develIngo Molnar
2008-07-07Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/mmiotraceIngo Molnar
2008-07-03x86: config option to disable info from decompression of the kernelBen Collins
This patch allows the disabling of decompression messages during x86 bootup. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
2008-06-05x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help textStefan Richter
Here is an attempt to translate the prompt and help text into something which is legible and, as a bonus, correct. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-26x86: if stackprotector is enabled, thn use stack-protector-all by defaultIngo Molnar
also enable the rodata and nx tests. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25x86: allow MPPARSE to be deselected in SMP configsAlexey Starikovskiy
2008-05-24x86/mmiotrace: uses/depends on PCIRandy Dunlap
Don't try to build mmiotrace when CONFIG_PCI=n. next-20080416/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c: In function 'mmio_print_pcidev': next-20080416/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c:62: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_dev_driver' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24mmiotrace: add user documentationPekka Paalanen
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24ftrace: mmiotrace, updatesPekka Paalanen
here is a patch that makes mmiotrace work almost well within the tracing framework. The patch applies on top of my previous patch. I have my own output formatting in place now. Summary of changes: - fix the NULL dereference that was due to not calling tracing_reset() - add print_line() callback into struct tracer - implement print_line() for mmiotrace, producing up-to-spec text - add my output header, but that is not really called in the right place - rewrote the main structs in mmiotrace - added two new trace entry types: TRACE_MMIO_RW and TRACE_MMIO_MAP - made some functions in trace.c non-static - check current==NULL in tracing_generic_entry_update() - fix(?) comparison in trace_seq_printf() Things seem to work fine except a few issues. Markers (text lines injected into mmiotrace log) are missing, I did not feel hacking them in before we have variable length entries. My output header is printed only for 'trace' file, but not 'trace_pipe'. For some reason, despite my quick fix, iter->trace is NULL in print_trace_line() when called from 'trace_pipe' file, which means I don't get proper output formatting. I only tried by loading nouveau.ko, which just detects the card, and that is traced fine. I didn't try further. Map, two reads and unmap. Works perfectly. I am missing the information about overflows, I'd prefer to have a counter for lost events. I didn't try, but I guess currently there is no way of knowning when it overflows? So, not too far from being fully operational, it seems :-) And looking at the diffstat, there also is some 700-900 lines of user space code that just became obsolete. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24ftrace: add mmiotrace pluginPekka Paalanen
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:07:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > i'd suggest the following: pull x86.git and sched-devel.git into a > > > single tree [the two will combine without rejects]. Then try to add a > > > kernel/tracing/trace_mmiotrace.c ftrace plugin. The trace_sysprof.c > > > plugin might be a good example. > > > > I did this and now I have mmiotrace enabled/disabled via the tracing > > framework (what do we call this, since ftrace is one of the tracers?). > > cool! could you send the patches for that? (even if they are not fully > functional yet) Patch attached in the end. Nice to see how much code disappeared. I tried to mark all the features I had to break with XXX-comments. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24x86: mmiotrace, preview 2Pekka Paalanen
Kconfig.debug, Makefile and testmmiotrace.c style fixes. Use real mutex instead of mutex. Fix failure path in register probe func. kmmio: RCU read-locked over single stepping. Generate mapping id's. Make mmio-mod.c built-in and rewrite its locking. Add debugfs file to enable/disable mmiotracing. kmmio: use irqsave spinlocks. Lots of cleanups in mmio-mod.c Marker file moved from /proc into debugfs. Call mmiotrace entrypoints directly from ioremap.c. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in do_page_fault()Pekka Paalanen
The custom page fault handler list is replaced with a single function pointer. All related functions and variables are renamed for mmiotrace. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: pq@iki.fi Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24x86: mmiotrace - trace memory mapped IOPekka Paalanen
Mmiotrace is a tool for trapping memory mapped IO (MMIO) accesses within the kernel. It is used for debugging and especially for reverse engineering evil binary drivers. Mmiotrace works by wrapping the ioremap family of kernel functions and marking the returned pages as not present. Access to the IO memory triggers a page fault, which will be handled by mmiotrace's custom page fault handler. This will single-step the faulted instruction with the MMIO page marked as present. Access logs are directed to user space via relay and debug_fs. This page fault approach is necessary, because binary drivers have readl/writel etc. calls inlined and therefore extremely difficult to trap with with e.g. kprobes. This patch depends on the custom page fault handlers patch. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23x86: add a list for custom page fault handlers.Pekka Paalanen
Provides kernel modules a way to register custom page fault handlers. On every page fault this will call a list of registered functions. The functions may handle the fault and force do_page_fault() to return immediately. This functionality is similar to the now removed page fault notifiers. Custom page fault handlers are used by debugging and reverse engineering tools. Mmiotrace is one such tool and a patch to add it into the tree will follow. The custom page fault handlers are called earlier in do_page_fault() than the page fault notifiers were. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: Mark OPTIMIZE_INLINING brokenLinus Torvalds
So Ingo finally did figure out why UML broke with this option: UML passes gcc the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag, and apparently that wreaks havoc with gcc's inlining. We could turn off -fno-unit-at-a-time for UML for gcc4+ (which is what x86 does), but there's bad blood about this whole option, and it does show that the thing is just fragile as heck. So let tempers cool, and disable the thing, and we can revisit the decision later. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30x86: 8K stacks by defaultIngo Molnar
Switch back to 8K stacks as the safer default. Out-of-memory situations are less problematic than silent and hard to debug stack corruption. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: optimize inlining offIngo Molnar
default to inline optimizing off. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: Kconfig fixIngo Molnar
Andrew noticed that OPTIMIZE_INLINING appeared in the toplevel menu - fix it. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-26x86: add optimized inliningIngo Molnar
add CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y. allow gcc to optimize the kernel image's size by uninlining functions that have been marked 'inline'. Previously gcc was forced by Linux to always-inline these functions via a gcc attribute: #define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline)) Especially when the user has already selected CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y this can make a huge difference in kernel image size (using a standard Fedora .config): text data bss dec hex filename 5613924 562708 3854336 10030968 990f78 vmlinux.before 5486689 562708 3854336 9903733 971e75 vmlinux.after that's a 2.3% text size reduction (!). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24/dev/mem: make promisc the defaultIngo Molnar
default to the old semantics. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config optionArjan van de Ven
This patch introduces a restriction on /dev/mem: Only non-memory can be read or written unless the newly introduced config option is set. The X server needs access to /dev/mem for the PCI space, but it doesn't need access to memory; both the file permissions and SELinux permissions of /dev/mem just make X effectively super-super powerful. With the exception of the BIOS area, there's just no valid app that uses /dev/mem on actual memory. Other popular users of /dev/mem are rootkits and the like. (note: mmap access of memory via /dev/mem was already not allowed since a really long time) People who want to use /dev/mem for kernel debugging can enable the config option. The restrictions of this patch have been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for at least 4 years without any problems. 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>
2008-04-17x86: 4kstacks defaultIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: add gbpages switchesIngo Molnar
These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature, the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs. Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet. Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then nogbpages boot option disables it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: clean up the page table dumper and add 32-bit supportH. Peter Anvin
Clean up the page table dumper (fix boundary conditions, table driven address ranges, some formatting changes since it is no longer using the kernel log but a separate virtual file), and generalize to 32 bits. [ mingo@elte.hu: x86: fix the pagetable dumper ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>