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2008-04-17x86: bump image header to version 2.08.Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.Ian Campbell
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: use ELF format in compressed images.Ian Campbell
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: define DEBUG_SIG in signal_64.cHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: Unify argument names in signal_32|64.cHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: move struct definitions to unifed sigframe.hHarvey Harrison
[ tglx@linutronix.de: cleanup the other structs as well ] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: use sizeof(long) to unify signal_32|64.cHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: Use FIX_EFLAGS define in X86_64Harvey Harrison
[ tglx@linutronix.de: simplified ] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: reduce trivial style differences in signal_32|64.cHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: regparm(3) is mandatory, no need to annotateHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: make X86_32 pt_regs members unsigned longHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: change most X86_32 pt_regs members to unsigned longHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: enable ACPI extended century handling for 32bitAndi Kleen
The extended century readout does not solve the year 2038 problem on 32bit! v2: Fix compilation on !ACPI, pointed out by tglx Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: add warning when RTC clock reports binaryAndi Kleen
We assume that the RTC clock is BCD, so print a warning if it claims to be binary. [ tglx@linutronix.de: changed to WARN_ON - we want to know that! If no one reports it we can remove the complete if (RTC_ALWAYS_BCD) magic, which has RTC_ALWAYS_BCD defined to 1 since Linux 1.0 ... ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: use year 2000 offset for cmos clockAndi Kleen
We know it is already after 2000. Use the year 2000 offset for both 32 and 64 bit, which removes ifdefs and the 1970 magic. [ tglx@linutronix.de: remove 1970 magic, replace bogus commit message ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: clean up find_e820_area(), 64-bitYinghai Lu
Change size to unsigned long, becase caller and user all used unsigned long. Also make bad_addr take an alignment parameter. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: do kernel direct mapping at boot using GB pagesAndi Kleen
The AMD Fam10h CPUs support new Gigabyte page table entry for mapping 1GB at a time. Use this for the kernel direct mapping. Only done for 64bit because i386 does not support GB page tables. This only applies to the data portion of the direct mapping; the kernel text mapping stays with 2MB pages because the AMD Fam10h microarchitecture does not support GB ITLBs and AMD recommends against using GB mappings for code. Can be disabled with disable_gbpages on the kernel command line [ tglx@linutronix.de: simplify enable code ] [ Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>: boot fix on 256 GB RAM ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2008-04-17x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by ↵Arjan van de Ven
kernel developers This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional) /proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be useful in the future as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: tglx@tglx.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86: unify arch/x86/mm/MakefileH. Peter Anvin
Unify arch/x86/mm/Makefile between 32 and 64 bits. All configuration variables that are protected by Kconfig constraints have been put in the common part of the Makefile; however, the NUMA files are totally different between 32 and 64 bits and are handled via an ifdef. 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>
2008-04-17x86: add debug info to DEBUG_PAGEALLOCThomas Gleixner
Add debug information for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to get some statistics about the pool usage and split status. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17x86 vDSO: don't map 32-bit vdso when disabledRoland McGrath
We map a VMA for the 32-bit vDSO even when it's disabled, which is stupid. For the 32-bit kernel it's the vdso_enabled boot parameter/sysctl and for the 64-bit kernel it's the vdso32 boot parameter/syscall32 sysctl. When it's disabled, we don't pass AT_SYSINFO_EHDR so processes don't use the vDSO for anything, but we still map it. For the non-compat vDSO, this means we're always putting an extra VMA somewhere, maybe lousing up the control of the address space the user was hoping for. Honor the setting by doing nothing in arch_setup_additional_pages. [ also see: "x86 vDSO: don't use disabled vDSO for signal trampoline" ] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86 vDSO: don't use disabled vDSO for signal trampolineRoland McGrath
If the vDSO was not mapped, don't use it as the "restorer" for a signal handler. Whether we have a pointer in mm->context.vdso depends on what happened at exec time, so we shouldn't check any global flags now. Background: Currently, every 32-bit exec gets the vDSO mapped even if it's disabled (the process just doesn't get told about it). Because it's in fact always there, the bug that this patch fixes cannot happen now. With the second patch, it won't be mapped at all when it's disabled, which is one of the things that people might really want when they disable it (so nothing they didn't ask for goes into their address space). The 32-bit signal handler setup when SA_RESTORER is not used refers to current->mm->context.vdso without regard to whether the vDSO has been disabled when the process was exec'd. This patch fixes this not to use it when it's null, which becomes possible after the second patch. (This never happens in normal use, because glibc's sigaction call uses SA_RESTORER unless glibc detected the vDSO.) Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: increase the kernel text limit to 512 MBIngo Molnar
people sometimes do crazy stuff like building really large static arrays into their kernels or building allyesconfig kernels. Give more space to the kernel and push modules up a bit: kernel has 512 MB and modules have 1.5 GB. Should be enough for a few years ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: check vmlinux limits, 64-bitIngo Molnar
these build-time and link-time checks would have prevented the vmlinux size regression. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86, pci: fix off-by-one errors in some pirq warningsBjörn Steinbrink
fix bogus pirq warnings reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10366 safe to be backported to v2.6.25 and earlier. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-15acpi: unneccessary to scan the PCI bus already scannedyakui.zhao@intel.com
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10124 this change: commit 08f1c192c3c32797068bfe97738babb3295bbf42 Author: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Date: Sun Jul 22 00:23:39 2007 +0300 x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of ->sysdata This patch introduces struct pci_sysdata to x86 and x86-64, and converts the existing two users (NUMA, Calgary) to use it. This lays the groundwork for having other users of sysdata, such as the PCI domains work. The Calgary bits are tested, the NUMA bits just look ok. replaces pcibios_scan_root by pci_scan_bus_parented... but in pcibios_scan_root we have a check about scanned busses. Cc: <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Cc: Stian Jordet <stian@jordet.net> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_callRoland McGrath
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10x86: Simplify cpu_idle_waitVenki Pallipadi
This patch also resolves hangs on boot: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093 The bug was causing once-in-few-reboots 10-15 sec wait during boot on certain laptops. Earlier commit 40d6a146629b98d8e322b6f9332b182c7cbff3df added smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless idle. Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle handler). Below is a simplified version of cpu_idle_wait, which just makes a dummy smp_call_function to all cpus, to make them come out of old idle handler and start using the new idle handler. It eliminates code in the idle loop to handle cpu_idle_wait. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-09pop previous section in alternative.cSteven Rostedt
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type. The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when executing this code. This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the original section. Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-07x86: fix call to set_cyc2ns_scale() from time_cpufreq_notifier()Karsten Wiese
In time_cpufreq_notifier() the cpu id to act upon is held in freq->cpu. Use it instead of smp_processor_id() in the call to set_cyc2ns_scale(). This makes the preempt_*able() unnecessary and lets set_cyc2ns_scale() update the intended cpu's cyc2ns. Related mail/thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/130 Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-07revert "x86: tsc prevent time going backwards"Ingo Molnar
revert: | commit 47001d603375f857a7fab0e9c095d964a1ea0039 | Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | Date: Tue Apr 1 19:45:18 2008 +0200 | | x86: tsc prevent time going backwards it has been identified to cause suspend regression - and the commit fixes a longstanding bug that existed before 2.6.25 was opened - so it can wait some more until the effects are better understood. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-06Fix booting pentium+ with dodgy TSCRusty Russell
We handle a broken tsc these days, so no need to panic. We clear the TSC bit when tsc_init decides it's unreliable (eg. under lguest w/ bad host TSC), leading to bogus panic. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-04x86: revert assign IRQs to hpet timerThomas Gleixner
The commits: commit 37a47db8d7f0f38dac5acf5a13abbc8f401707fa Author: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:03 2008 +0100 x86: assign IRQs to HPET timers, fix and commit e3f37a54f690d3e64995ea7ecea08c5ab3070faf Author: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:03 2008 +0100 x86: assign IRQs to HPET timers have been identified to cause a regression on some platforms due to the assignement of legacy IRQs which makes the legacy devices connected to those IRQs disfunctional. Revert them. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10382 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04x86: tsc prevent time going backwardsThomas Gleixner
We already catch most of the TSC problems by sanity checks, but there is a subtle bug which has been in the code for ever. This can cause time jumps in the range of hours. This was reported in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/23/96 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/31/23 I was able to reproduce the problem with a gettimeofday loop test on a dual core and a quad core machine which both have sychronized TSCs. The TSCs seems not to be perfectly in sync though, but the kernel is not able to detect the slight delta in the sync check. Still there exists an extremly small window where this delta can be observed with a real big time jump. So far I was only able to reproduce this with the vsyscall gettimeofday implementation, but in theory this might be observable with the syscall based version as well. CPU 0 updates the clock source variables under xtime/vyscall lock and CPU1, where the TSC is slighty behind CPU0, is reading the time right after the seqlock was unlocked. The clocksource reference data was updated with the TSC from CPU0 and the value which is read from TSC on CPU1 is less than the reference data. This results in a huge delta value due to the unsigned subtraction of the TSC value and the reference value. This algorithm can not be changed due to the support of wrapping clock sources like pm timer. The huge delta is converted to nanoseconds and added to xtime, which is then observable by the caller. The next gettimeofday call on CPU1 will show the correct time again as now the TSC has advanced above the reference value. To prevent this TSC specific wreckage we need to compare the TSC value against the reference value and return the latter when it is larger than the actual TSC value. I pondered to mark the TSC unstable when the readout is smaller than the reference value, but this would render an otherwise good and fast clocksource unusable without a real good reason. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04xen: Clear PG_pinned in release_{pt,pd}()Mark McLoughlin
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04xen: Do not pin/unpin PMD pagesMark McLoughlin
i.e. with this simple test case: int fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY); munmap(mmap((void *)0x40000000, 0x1000_LEN, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0), 0x1000); close(fd); we currently get: kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:678! ... EIP is at xen_release_pt+0x79/0xa9 ... Call Trace: [<c041da25>] ? __pmd_free_tlb+0x1a/0x75 [<c047a192>] ? free_pgd_range+0x1d2/0x2b5 [<c047a2f3>] ? free_pgtables+0x7e/0x93 [<c047b272>] ? unmap_region+0xb9/0xf5 [<c047c1bd>] ? do_munmap+0x193/0x1f5 [<c047c24f>] ? sys_munmap+0x30/0x3f [<c0408cce>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= and xen complains: (XEN) mm.c:2241:d4 Mfn 1cc37 not pinned Further details at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/436453 Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04xen: refactor xen_{alloc,release}_{pt,pd}()Mark McLoughlin
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04x86, agpgart: scary messages are fortunately obsoletePavel Machek
Fix obsolete printks in aperture-64. We used not to handle missing agpgart, but we handle it okay now. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04x86: print message if nmi_watchdog=2 cannot be enabledIngo Molnar
right now if there's no CPU support for nmi_watchdog=2 we'll just refuse it silently. print a useful warning. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-04x86: fix nmi_watchdog=2 on Pentium-D CPUsIngo Molnar
implement nmi_watchdog=2 on this class of CPUs: cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz the watchdog's ->setup() method is safe anyway, so if the CPU cannot support it we'll bail out safely. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-03x86 ptrace: avoid unnecessary wrmsrRoland McGrath
This avoids using wrmsr on MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR when it's not needed. No wrmsr ever needs to be done if noone has ever used block stepping. Without this change, using ptrace on 2.6.25 on an x86 KVM guest will tickle KVM's missing support for the MSR and crash the guest kernel. Though host KVM is the buggy one, this makes for a regression in the guest behavior from 2.6.24->2.6.25 that we can easily avoid. I also corrected some bad whitespace. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02vmcoreinfo: add the symbol "phys_base"Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Fix the problem that makedumpfile sometimes fails on x86_64 machine. This patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a vmcoreinfo data. The vmcoreinfo data has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering. makedumpfile (dump filtering command) gets it to distinguish unnecessary pages, and makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile. On x86_64 kernel which compiled with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x0 and CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, makedumpfile fails like the following: # makedumpfile -d31 /proc/vmcore dumpfile The kernel version is not supported. The created dumpfile may be incomplete. _exclude_free_page: Can't get next online node. makedumpfile Failed. # The cause is the lack of the symbol "phys_base" in a vmcoreinfo data. If the symbol "phys_base" does not exist, makedumpfile considers an x86_64 kernel as non relocatable. As the result, makedumpfile misunderstands the physical address where the kernel is loaded, and it cannot translate a kernel virtual address to physical address correctly. To fix this problem, this patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a vmcoreinfo data. Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-28Avoid false positive warnings in kmap_atomic_prot() with DEBUG_HIGHMEMAndrew Morton
I believe http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10318 is a false positive. There's no way in which networking will be using highmem pages here, so it won't be taking the KM_USER0 kmap slot, so there's no point in performing these checks. Cc: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@artcom.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Really sad. We lose almost all real-life coverage of the debug tests with this patch. Now it will only report problems for the cases where people actually end up using a HIGHMEM page, not when they just _might_ use one. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-28lguest: comment documentation update.Rusty Russell
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-27x86: prefetch fix #2Ingo Molnar
Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness: - we'd return on any instruction fetch fault - we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are the same and make no sense the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-27xen: fix UP setup of shared_infoJeremy Fitzhardinge
We need to set up the shared_info pointer once we've mapped the real shared_info into its fixmap slot. That needs to happen once the general pagetable setup has been done. Previously, the UP shared_info was set up one in xen_start_kernel, but that was left pointing to the dummy shared info. Unfortunately there's no really good place to do a later setup of the shared_info in UP, so just do it once the pagetable setup has been done. [ Stable: needed in 2.6.24.x ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-27xen: fix RMW when unmasking eventsJeremy Fitzhardinge
xen_irq_enable_direct and xen_sysexit were using "andw $0x00ff, XEN_vcpu_info_pending(vcpu)" to unmask events and test for pending ones in one instuction. Unfortunately, the pending flag must be modified with a locked operation since it can be set by another CPU, and the unlocked form of this operation was causing the pending flag to get lost, allowing the processor to return to usermode with pending events and ultimately deadlock. The simple fix would be to make it a locked operation, but that's rather costly and unnecessary. The fix here is to split the mask-clearing and pending-testing into two instructions; the interrupt window between them is of no concern because either way pending or new events will be processed. This should fix lingering bugs in using direct vcpu structure access too. [ Stable: needed in 2.6.24.x ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-27x86: stricter check in follow_huge_addr()Christoph Lameter
The first page of the compound page is determined in follow_huge_addr() but then PageCompound() only checks if the page is part of a compound page. PageHead() allows checking if this is indeed the first page of the compound. Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>