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While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit:
0812a579c92fefa57506821fa08e90f47cb6dbdd) may have been an improvement
for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is
deterimental for small writes. Unixbench's fstime test gives the
following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000:
2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ):
283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300
2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec):
313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900
2.6.18
395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850
See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0. Basically, the above test
consists of counting how much we can write in this manner:
alarm(10);
while (!sigalarm) {
for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) {
write(f, buf, 256);
}
lseek(f, 0L, 0);
}
Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression
that are not addressed here.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
There was an attempt to bring build-time checking for
missed ENTRY_X86/END_X86 and KPROBE... pairs. Using
them will add messy in code. Get just rid of them.
This commit could be easily restored if the need appear
in future.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If the code is time critical and this entry is called
from other places we use ENTRY to have it globally defined
and especially aligned.
Contrary we have some snippets which are size
critical. So we use plane ".globl name; name:"
directive. Introduce GLOBAL macro for this.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Introduced by:
51c78eb: x86: create _types.h counterparts for page*.h
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'x86/paravirt', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/xen'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into x86/core
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When testing for a dom0/initial/privileged domain, make sure the
predicate evaluates to a compile-time 0 if CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 isn't
enabled. This will make most of the dom0 code evaporate without
much more effort.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
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Commit 976e8f677e42757e5586ea04a9ac8bb8ddaa037e ("x86: asm/io.h: unify
virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt") changed the return of virt_to_phys from long
to phys_addr_t which is unsigned long long on a PAE platform.
So, I could suggest a fix below since isa addresses may never be above
32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To properly pick up details like PTE_FLAGS_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To properly pick up types relied on by prototypes like 'bool'.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
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'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/headers' and 'x86/minor-fixes' into x86/core
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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Impact: avoid access to percpu vars in preempible context
They are intended to be used whenever there's the possibility
that there's some stale state which is going to be overwritten
with a queued update, or to force a state change when we may be
in lazy mode. Either way, we could end up calling it with
preemption enabled, so wrap the functions in their own little
preempt-disable section so they can be safely called in any
context (though preemption should never be enabled if we're actually
in a lazy state).
(Move out of line to avoid #include dependencies.)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Jeff Mahoney reported:
> With Suse's hwinfo tool, on -tip:
> WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:637 reserve_pfn_range+0x5b/0x26d()
reserve_pfn_range() is not tracking the memory range below 1MB
as non-RAM and as such is inconsistent with similar checks in
reserve_memtype() and free_memtype()
Rename the pagerange_is_ram() to pat_pagerange_is_ram() and add the
"track legacy 1MB region as non RAM" condition.
And also, fix reserve_pfn_range() to return -EINVAL, when the pfn
range is RAM. This is to be consistent with this API design.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: Fixes warning
Fix uv.h struct usage:
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: 'struct mm_struct' declared inside parameter list
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Impact: cleanup
With the recent changes in the 32-bit code to make system calls which
use struct pt_regs take a pointer, sys_rt_sigreturn() have become
identical between 32 and 64 bits, and both are empty wrappers around
do_rt_sigreturn(). Remove both wrappers and rename both to
sys_rt_sigreturn().
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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pgtable*.h is intended for definitions relating to actual pagetables
and their entries, so move all the definitions for
(pte|pmd|pud|pgd)(val)?_t to the appropriate pgtable*.h headers.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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The kernel tends to call definition-only headers *_types.h, so rename
the x86 page/pgtable headers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.
Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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* commit 'remotes/tip/x86/paravirt': (175 commits)
xen: use direct ops on 64-bit
xen: make direct versions of irq_enable/disable/save/restore to common code
xen: setup percpu data pointers
xen: fix 32-bit build resulting from mmu move
x86/paravirt: return full 64-bit result
x86, percpu: fix kexec with vmlinux
x86/vmi: fix interrupt enable/disable/save/restore calling convention.
x86/paravirt: don't restore second return reg
xen: setup percpu data pointers
x86: split loading percpu segments from loading gdt
x86: pass in cpu number to switch_to_new_gdt()
x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and_wait()
x86/paravirt: fix missing callee-save call on pud_val
x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etc
x86/paravirt: implement PVOP_CALL macros for callee-save functions
x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressure
x86/paravirt: selectively save/restore regs around pvops calls
x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching
xen: move remaining mmu-related stuff into mmu.c
...
Conflicts:
arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
i8327: fix outb() parameter order
x86: fix math_emu register frame access
x86: math_emu info cleanup
x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
x86: disable intel_iommu support by default
x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes
x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console
x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
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Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The generic exception handler (error_code) passes in the pt_regs
pointer and the error code (unused in this case). The commit
"x86: fix math_emu register frame access" changed this to pass by
value, which doesn't work correctly with stack protector enabled.
Change it back to use the pt_regs pointer.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector
Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary
instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary
value for all threads. Fixing this also exposed the following bugs.
* cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary()
* stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making
the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value.
Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about
calling boot_init_stack_canary().
Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: build fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: stack protector for x86_32
Implement stack protector for x86_32. GDT entry 28 is used for it.
It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes.
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs
to the stack canary segment on entry. As %gs is otherwise unused by
the kernel, the canary can be anywhere. It's defined as a percpu
variable.
x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as
struct pt_regs. With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the
whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy
back on return thus losing all changed. For now, -fno-stack-protector
is added to all files which contain those functions. We definitely
need something better.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight
overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit
On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily. pt_regs
doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary.
In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs
handling optional by doing the followings.
* Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs.
* Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless
LAZY_GS. Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL
even when LAZY_GS. However, it adds no overhead to common exit path
and simplifies entry path with error code.
* Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add
lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS. The
lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily.
* Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly.
xen and lguest changes need to be verified.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily. It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places. Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly. Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.
While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.
This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: misc udpate
* wrap content with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR so that other arch files
can include it directly
* add missing includes
This will help future changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
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do_device_not_available() is the handler for #NM and it declares that
it takes a unsigned long and calls math_emu(), which takes a long
argument and surprisingly expects the stack frame starting at the zero
argument would match struct math_emu_info, which isn't true regardless
of configuration in the current code.
This patch makes do_device_not_available() take struct pt_regs like
other exception handlers and initialize struct math_emu_info with
pointer to it and pass pointer to the math_emu_info to math_emulate()
like normal C functions do. This way, unless gcc makes a copy of
struct pt_regs in do_device_not_available(), the register frame is
correctly accessed regardless of kernel configuration or compiler
used.
This doesn't fix all math_emu problems but it at least gets it
somewhat working.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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enable_IO_APIC() is defined for both 32- and 64-bit x86, so it should
be declared for both.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Unstatic ioapic_write_entry and setup_ioapic_entry functions so that
the Xen code can do its own ioapic routing setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Add mp_find_ioapic_pin() to find an IO APIC's specific pin from a GSI,
and use this function within acpi/boot. Make it non-static so other
code can use it too.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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