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2009-03-14x86: fix get_mtrr() warning about smp_processor_id() with CONFIG_PREEMPT=yYinghai Lu
Impact: fix debug warning Jaswinder noticed that there is a warning about smp_processor_id() in get_mtrr(). Fix it by wrapping the printout into a get/put_cpu() pair. Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <49BAB7FF.4030107@kernel.org> [ changed to get/put_cpu(), cleaned up surrounding code a it. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRsAndreas Herrmann
Impact: bug fix + BIOS workaround BIOS is expected to clear the SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] on AMD CPUs after fixed MTRRs are configured. Some BIOSes do not clear SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] on BP (and on APs). This can lead to obfuscation in Linux when this bit is not cleared on BP but cleared on APs. A consequence of this is that the saved fixed-MTRR state (from BP) differs from the fixed-MTRRs of APs -- because RdDram/WrDram bits are read as zero when SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] is cleared -- and Linux tries to sync fixed-MTRR state from BP to AP. This implies that Linux sets SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramEn] and activates those bits. More important is that (some) systems change these bits in SMM when ACPI is enabled. Hence it is racy if Linux modifies RdMem/WrMem bits, too. (1) The patch modifies an old fix from Bernhard Kaindl to get suspend/resume working on some Acer Laptops. Bernhard's patch tried to sync RdMem/WrMem bits of fixed MTRR registers and that helped on those old Laptops. (Don't ask me why -- can't test it myself). But this old problem was not the motivation for the patch. (See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/3/110) (2) The more important effect is to fix issues on some more current systems. On those systems Linux panics or just freezes, see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11541 (and also duplicates of this bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11737 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11714) The affected systems boot only using acpi=ht, acpi=off or when the kernel is built with CONFIG_MTRR=n. The acpi options prevent full enablement of ACPI. Obviously when ACPI is enabled the BIOS/SMM modfies RdMem/WrMem bits. When CONFIG_MTRR=y Linux also accesses and modifies those bits when it needs to sync fixed-MTRRs across cores (Bernhard's fix, see (1)). How do you synchronize that? You can't. As a consequence Linux shouldn't touch those bits at all (Rationale are AMD's BKDGs which recommend to clear the bit that makes RdMem/WrMem accessible). This is the purpose of this patch. And (so far) this suffices to fix (1) and (2). I suggest not to touch RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed-MTRRs and SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramEn] and to clear SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] as suggested by AMD K8, and AMD family 10h/11h BKDGs. BIOS is expected to do this anyway. This should avoid that Linux and SMM tread on each other's toes ... Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: trenn@suse.de Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20090312163937.GH20716@alberich.amd.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13x86: separate mtrr cleanup/mtrr_e820 trim to separate fileYinghai Lu
Impact: cleanup mtrr main.c is too big, seperate mtrr cleanup and mtrr e820 trim code to another file. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <49B87C7B.80809@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13x86: print out mtrr_range_state when user specify sizeYinghai Lu
Impact: print more debug info Keep it consistent with autodetect version. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <49B87C0A.4010105@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13x86: more MTRR debug printoutsYinghai Lu
Impact: improve MTRR debugging messages There's still inefficiencies suspected with the MTRR sanitizing code, so make sure we get all the info we need from a dmesg. - Remove unneeded mtrr_show (It will only printout one time by first cpu, so it is no big deal.) - Also print out directly from get_mtrr, because it doesn't update mtrr_state. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <49B9BA5A.40108@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/debug', 'x86/mm', 'x86/setup', 'x86/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
and 'linus' into x86/core
2009-03-11x86: cpu architecture debug code, build fix, cleanupJaswinder Singh Rajput
move store_ldt outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section and also clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-11Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/kexec', 'x86/mce2' and 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-11x86: convert obsolete irq_desc_t typedef to struct irq_descThomas Gleixner
Impact: cleanup Convert the last remaining users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-03-10x86, mce: use round_jiffies() instead round_jiffies_relative()KOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: saving power _very_ little round_jiffies() round up absolute jiffies to full second. round_jiffies_relative() round up relative jiffies to full second. The "t->expires" is absolute jiffies. Then, round_jiffies() should be used instead round_jiffies_relative(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-10x86, kexec: x86_64: add kexec jump support for x86_64Huang Ying
Impact: New major feature This patch add kexec jump support for x86_64. More information about kexec jump can be found in corresponding x86_32 support patch. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-10x86, kexec: x86_64: add identity map for pages at image->startHuang Ying
Impact: Fix corner case that cannot yet occur image->start may be outside of 0 ~ max_pfn, for example when jumping back to original kernel from kexeced kenrel. This patch add identity map for pages at image->start. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-10x86, kexec: fix kexec x86 coding styleHuang Ying
Impact: Cleanup Fix some coding style issue for kexec x86. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-10x86: cpu architecture debug codeJaswinder Singh Rajput
Introduce: cat /sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* for Intel and AMD processors to view / debug the state of each CPU. By using this we can debug whole range of registers and other cpu information for debugging purpose and monitor how things are changing. This can be useful for developers as well as for users. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1236701373.3387.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10x86: BUG to BUG_ON changesStoyan Gaydarov
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1236661850-8237-8-git-send-email-stoyboyker@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/urgent', 'linus' and 'core/percpu' into x86/core
2009-03-09Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Add p4-clockmod sysfs-ui removal to feature-removal schedule. Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."
2009-03-09Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."Dave Jones
This reverts commit e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6. Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a regression in bug 12826. Course of action: - Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically. If it isn't, we need to fix that. - mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated - try again with the removal in six months. It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-03-08x86: remove smp_apply_quirks()/smp_checks()Yinghai Lu
Impact: cleanup and code size reduction on 64-bit This code is only applied to Intel Pentium and AMD K7 32-bit cpus. Move those checks to intel_init()/amd_init() for 32-bit so 64-bit will not build this code. Also change to use cpu_index check to see if we need to emit warning. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <49B377D2.8030108@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-08x86: UV: remove uv_flush_tlb_others() WARN_ONCliff Wickman
In uv_flush_tlb_others() (arch/x86/kernel/tlb_uv.c), the "WARN_ON(!in_atomic())" fails if CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled. And CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled by default in the distribution that most UV owners will use. We could #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT the warning, but that is not good form. And there seems to be no suitable fix to in_atomic() when CONFIG_PREMPT is not on. As Ingo commented: > and we have no proper primitive to test for atomicity. (mainly > because we dont know about atomicity on a non-preempt kernel) So we drop the WARN_ON. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06x86, pebs: correct qualifier passed to ds_write_config() from ds_request_pebs()Markus Metzger
ds_write_config() can write the BTS as well as the PEBS part of the DS config. ds_request_pebs() passes the wrong qualifier, which results in the wrong configuration to be written. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090305085721.A22550@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06x86, bts: remove bad warningMarkus Metzger
In case a ptraced task is reaped (while the tracer is still attached), ds_exit_thread() is called before ptrace_exit(). The latter will release the bts_tracer and remove the thread's ds_ctx. The former will WARN() if the context is not NULL. Oleg Nesterov submitted patches that move ptrace_exit() before exit_thread() and thus reverse the order of the above calls. Remove the bad warning. I will add it again when Oleg's changes are in. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090305084954.A22000@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06x86, percpu: setup reserved percpu area for x86_64Tejun Heo
Impact: fix relocation overflow during module load x86_64 uses 32bit relocations for symbol access and static percpu symbols whether in core or modules must be inside 2GB of the percpu segement base which the dynamic percpu allocator doesn't guarantee. This patch makes x86_64 reserve PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE bytes in the first chunk so that module percpu areas are always allocated from the first chunk which is always inside the relocatable range. This problem exists for any percpu allocator but is easily triggered when using the embedding allocator because the second chunk is located beyond 2GB on it. This patch also changes the meaning of PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE such that it only indicates the size of the area to reserve for dynamic allocation as static and dynamic areas can be separate. New PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVED is increased by 4k for both 32 and 64bits as the reserved area separation eats away some allocatable space and having slightly more headroom (currently between 4 and 8k after minimal boot sans module area) makes sense for common case performance. x86_32 can address anywhere from anywhere and doesn't need reserving. Mike Galbraith first reported the problem first and bisected it to the embedding percpu allocator commit. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
2009-03-06percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu ↵Tejun Heo
variables Impact: add reserved allocation functionality and use it for module percpu variables This patch implements reserved allocation from the first chunk. When setting up the first chunk, arch can ask to set aside certain number of bytes right after the core static area which is available only through a separate reserved allocator. This will be used primarily for module static percpu variables on architectures with limited relocation range to ensure that the module perpcu symbols are inside the relocatable range. If reserved area is requested, the first chunk becomes reserved and isn't available for regular allocation. If the first chunk also includes piggy-back dynamic allocation area, a separate chunk mapping the same region is created to serve dynamic allocation. The first one is called static first chunk and the second dynamic first chunk. Although they share the page map, their different area map initializations guarantee they serve disjoint areas according to their purposes. If arch doesn't setup reserved area, reserved allocation is handled like any other allocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-03-06x86: make embedding percpu allocator return excessive free spaceTejun Heo
Impact: reduce unnecessary memory usage on certain configurations Embedding percpu allocator allocates unit_size * smp_num_possible_cpus() bytes consecutively and use it for the first chunk. However, if the static area is small, this can result in excessive prellocated free space in the first chunk due to PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE restriction. This patch makes embedding percpu allocator preallocate only what's necessary as described by PERPCU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE and return the leftover to the bootmem allocator. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-03-06percpu: use negative for auto for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() argumentsTejun Heo
Impact: argument semantic cleanup In pcpu_setup_first_chunk(), zero @unit_size and @dyn_size meant auto-sizing. It's okay for @unit_size as 0 doesn't make sense but 0 dynamic reserve size is valid. Alos, if arch @dyn_size is calculated from other parameters, it might end up passing in 0 @dyn_size and malfunction when the size is automatically adjusted. This patch makes both @unit_size and @dyn_size ssize_t and use -1 for auto sizing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/uv' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/mm' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/mce2' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05x86: pre-initialize boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits to avoid system_state testsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: cleanup, micro-optimization Pre-initialize boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits to a reasonable default to remove the use of system_state tests in __virt_addr_valid() and __phys_addr(). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05x86: UV, SGI RTC: fix uv_time.c for UPDimitri Sivanich
Fix non-smp build of uv_time.c. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20090304220246.GC6288@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: add Dell XPS710 reboot quirkLeann Ogasawara
Dell XPS710 will hang on reboot. This is resolved by adding a quirk to set bios reboot. Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: "manoj.iyer" <manoj.iyer@canonical.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1236196380.3231.89.camel@emiko> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: reserve exact size of mptableYinghai Lu
Impact: save a bit of RAM Get the exact size for the reserve_bootmem() call. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <49AE4922.605@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: ioremap mptableYinghai Lu
Impact: fix boot with mptable above max_low_mapped Try to use early_ioremap() to map MPC to make sure it works even it is at the end of ram. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <49AE4901.3090801@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
2009-03-04x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != currentDaniel Glöckner
Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get a null pointer exception in finit. This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction. An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined. The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h. Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au> LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: UV, SGI RTC: add UV RTC clocksource/clockeventsDimitri Sivanich
This patch provides a high resolution clock/timer source using the SGI UV system-wide synchronized RTC clock/timer hardware. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090304185918.GC24419@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vectorDimitri Sivanich
This patch allocates a system interrupt vector for various platform specific uses. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090304185605.GA24419@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/mmIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: EFI: Back efi_ioremap with init_memory_mapping instead of FIX_MAPHuang Ying
Impact: Fix boot failure on EFI system with large runtime memory range Brian Maly reported that some EFI system with large runtime memory range can not boot. Because the FIX_MAP used to map runtime memory range is smaller than run time memory range. This patch fixes this issue by re-implement efi_ioremap() with init_memory_mapping(). Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1236135513.6204.306.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: fix DMI on EFIBrian Maly
Impact: reactivate DMI quirks on EFI hardware DMI tables are loaded by EFI, so the dmi calls must happen after efi_init() and not before. Currently Apple hardware uses DMI to determine the framebuffer mappings for efifb. Without DMI working you also have no video on MacBook Pro. This patch resolves the DMI issue for EFI hardware (DMI is now properly detected at boot), and additionally efifb now loads on Apple hardware (i.e. video works). Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: ying.huang@intel.com LKML-Reference: <49ADEDA3.1030406@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2009-03-04x86, mce: fix build failure in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.cIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix The APIC code rewrite in the x86 tree broke the x86/mce branch: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c: In function ‘mce_threshold_interrupt’: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c:24: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ack_APIC_irq’ Also tidy up the file a bit while at it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/mce2H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-04Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-03-04Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
2009-03-03x86, signals: fix xine & firefox bustageHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: fix bad frame in rt_sigreturn on 64-bit After commit 97286a2b64725aac2d584ddd1f94871f9991d5a1 some applications fail to return from signal handler: [ 145.150133] firefox[3250] bad frame in rt_sigreturn frame:00007f902b44eb28 ip:352e80b307 sp:7f902b44ef70 orax:ffffffffffffffff in libpthread-2.9.so[352e800000+17000] [ 665.519017] firefox[5420] bad frame in rt_sigreturn frame:00007faa8deaeb28 ip:352e80b307 sp:7faa8deaef70 orax:ffffffffffffffff in libpthread-2.9.so[352e800000+17000] The root cause is forgetting to keep 64 byte aligned value of fpstate for next stack pointer calculation. Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> LKML-Reference: <49AC85C1.7060600@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall holeRoland McGrath
On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80. In both these cases, audit_syscall_entry() will use the wrong system call number table and the wrong system call argument registers. This could be used to circumvent a syscall audit configuration that filters based on the syscall numbers or argument details. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-02x86: unify chunks of kernel/process*.cJeremy Fitzhardinge
With x86-32 and -64 using the same mechanism for managing the tss io permissions bitmap, large chunks of process*.c are trivially unifyable, including: - exit_thread - flush_thread - __switch_to_xtra (along with tsc enable/disable) and as bonus pickups: - sys_fork - sys_vfork (Note: asmlinkage expands to empty on x86-64) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switchingJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks with io permission bitmaps. x86-64 simply copies the next tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch. x86-32 invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the appropriate IO bitmap. This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction slower due to the extra fault. This tradeoff only makes sense if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they don't actually use IO instructions very often. However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on a server. Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from 64-bit code. This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to unifying this code in a later change. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02x86_32: apic/numaq_32, fix section mismatchJiri Slaby
Remove __cpuinitdata section placement for translation_table structure, since it is referenced from a functions within .text. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>