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o This patch moves the code to verify long mode and SSE to a common file.
This code is now shared by trampoline.S, wakeup.S, boot/setup.S and
boot/compressed/head.S
o So far we used to do very limited check in trampoline.S, wakeup.S and
in 32bit entry point. Now all the entry paths are forced to do the
exhaustive check, including SSE because verify_cpu is shared.
o I am keeping this patch as last in the x86 relocatable series because
previous patches have got quite some amount of testing done and don't want
to distrub that. So that if there is problem introduced by this patch, at
least it can be easily isolated.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to
load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode
component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses.
o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory
area.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o X86_64 kernel should run from 2MB aligned address for two reasons.
- Performance.
- For relocatable kernels, page tables are updated based on difference
between compile time address and load time physical address.
This difference should be multiple of 2MB as kernel text and data
is mapped using 2MB pages and PMD should be pointing to a 2MB
aligned address. Life is simpler if both compile time and load time
kernel addresses are 2MB aligned.
o Flag the error at compile time if one is trying to build a kernel which
does not meet alignment restrictions.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch modifies the x86_64 kernel so that it can be loaded and run
at any 2M aligned address, below 512G. The technique used is to
compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor
is fully relocatable. For the main kernel the page tables are
modified so the kernel remains at the same virtual address. In
addition a variable phys_base is kept that holds the physical address
the kernel is loaded at. __pa_symbol is modified to add that when
we take the address of a kernel symbol.
When loaded with a normal bootloader the decompressor will decompress
the kernel to 2M and it will run there. This both ensures the
relocation code is always working, and makes it easier to use 2M
pages for the kernel and the cpu.
AK: changed to not make RELOCATABLE default in Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.
__pa which is much more common can be implemented much more cheaply
if it is it doesn't have to worry about any other kernel address
spaces. This is especially true with a relocatable kernel as
__pa_symbol needs to peform an extra variable read to resolve
the address.
There is a third macro that is added for the vsyscall data
__pa_vsymbol for finding the physical addesses of vsyscall pages.
Most of this patch is simply sorting through the references to
__pa or __pa_symbol and using the proper one. A little of
it is continuing to use a physical address when we have it
instead of recalculating it several times.
swapper_pgd is now NULL. leave_mm now uses init_mm.pgd
and init_mm.pgd is initialized at boot (instead of compile time)
to the physmem virtual mapping of init_level4_pgd. The
physical address changed.
Except for the for EMPTY_ZERO page all of the remaining references
to __pa_symbol appear to be during kernel initialization. So this
should reduce the cost of __pa in the common case, even on a relocated
kernel.
As this is technically a semantic change we need to be on the lookout
for anything I missed. But it works for me (tm).
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o __pa() should be used only on kernel linearly mapped virtual addresses
and not on kernel text and data addresses.
o Hibernation code needs to determine the physical address associated
with kernel symbol to mark a section boundary which contains pages which
don't have to be saved and restored during hibernate/resume operation.
o Move this piece of code in arch dependent section. So that architectures
which don't have kernel text/data mapped into kernel linearly mapped
region can come up with their own ways of determining physical addresses
associated with a kernel text.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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With the rewrite of the SMP trampoline and the early page
allocator there is nothing that needs identity mapped pages,
once we start executing C code.
So add zap_identity_mappings into head64.c and remove
zap_low_mappings() from much later in the code. The functions
are subtly different thus the name change.
This also kills boot_level4_pgt which was from an earlier
attempt to move the identity mappings as early as possible,
and is now no longer needed. Essentially I have replaced
boot_level4_pgt with trampoline_level4_pgt in trampoline.S
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o Moved wakeup_level4_pgt into the wakeup routine so we can
run the kernel above 4G.
o Now we first go to 64bit mode and continue to run from trampoline and
then then start accessing kernel symbols and restore processor context.
This enables us to resume even in relocatable kernel context when
kernel might not be loaded at physical addr it has been compiled for.
o Removed the need for modifying any existing kernel page table.
o Increased the size of the wakeup routine to 8K. This is required as
wake page tables are on trampoline itself and they got to be at 4K
boundary, hence one page is not sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o Various cleanups. One of the main purpose of cleanups is that make
wakeup.S as close as possible to trampoline.S.
o Following are the changes
- Indentations for comments.
- Changed the gdt table to compact form and to resemble the
one in trampoline.S
- Take the jump to 32bit from real mode using ljmpl. Makes code
more readable.
- After enabling long mode, directly take a long jump for 64bit
mode. No need to take an extra jump to "reach_comaptibility_mode"
- Stack is not used after real mode. So don't load stack in
32 bit mode.
- No need to enable PGE here.
- No need to do extra EFER read, anyway we trash the read contents.
- No need to enable system call (EFER_SCE). Anyway it will be
enabled when original EFER is restored.
- No need to set MP, ET, NE, WP, AM bits in cr0. Very soon we will
reload the original cr0 while restroing the processor state.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o Use appropriate names for 64bit regsiters.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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o Get rid of dead code in wakeup.S
o We never restore from saved_gdt, saved_idt, saved_ltd, saved_tss, saved_cr3,
saved_cr4, saved_cr0, real_save_gdt, saved_efer, saved_efer2. Get rid
of of associated code.
o Get rid of bogus_magic, bogus_31_magic and bogus_magic2. No longer being
used.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This modifies the SMP trampoline and all of the associated code so
it can jump to a 64bit kernel loaded at an arbitrary address.
The dependencies on having an idenetity mapped page in the kernel
page tables for SMP bootup have all been removed.
In addition the trampoline has been modified to verify
that long mode is supported. Asking if long mode is implemented is
down right silly but we have traditionally had some of these checks,
and they can't hurt anything. So when the totally ludicrous happens
we just might handle it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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EFER varies like %cr4 depending on the cpu capabilities, and which cpu
capabilities we want to make use of. So save/restore it make certain
we have the same EFER value when we are done.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Move __KERNEL32_CS up into the unused gdt entry. __KERNEL32_CS is
used when entering the kernel so putting it first is useful when
trying to keep boot gdt sizes to a minimum.
Set the accessed bit on all gdt entries. We don't care
so there is no need for the cpu to burn the extra cycles,
and it potentially allows the pages to be immutable. Plus
it is confusing when debugging and your gdt entries mysteriously
change.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Use virtual addresses instead of physical addresses
in copy bootdata. In addition fix the implementation
of the old bootloader convention. Everything is
at real_mode_data always. It is just that sometimes
real_mode_data was relocated by setup.S to not sit at
0x90000.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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- Merge physmem_pgt and ident_pgt, removing physmem_pgt. The merge
is broken as soon as mm/init.c:init_memory_mapping is run.
- As physmem_pgt is gone don't export it in pgtable.h.
- Use defines from pgtable.h for page permissions.
- Fix the physical memory identity mapping so it is at the correct
address.
- Remove the physical memory mapping from wakeup_level4_pgt it
is at the wrong address so we can't possibly be usinging it.
- Simply NEXT_PAGE the work to calculate the phys_ alias
of the labels was very cool. Unfortuantely it was a brittle
special purpose hack that makes maitenance more difficult.
Instead just use label - __START_KERNEL_map like we do
everywhere else in assembly.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Early in the boot process we need the ability to set
up temporary mappings, before our normal mechanisms are
initialized. Currently this is used to map pages that
are part of the page tables we are building and pages
during the dmi scan.
The core problem is that we are using the user portion of
the page tables to implement this. Which means that while
this mechanism is active we cannot catch NULL pointer dereferences
and we deviate from the normal ways of handling things.
In this patch I modify early_ioremap to map pages into
the kernel portion of address space, roughly where
we will later put modules, and I make the discovery of
which addresses we can use dynamic which removes all
kinds of static limits and remove the dependencies
on implementation details between different parts of the code.
Now alloc_low_page() and unmap_low_page() use
early_iomap() and early_iounmap() to allocate/map and
unmap a page.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The dma_ops structure can be const since it never changes
after boot.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This patch fixes the reporting of cpu_mhz in /proc/cpuinfo on CPUs with
a constant TSC rate and a kernel with disabled cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 2 -
arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
arch/x86_64/kernel/tsc.c | 12 +++++---
arch/x86_64/kernel/tsc_sync.c | 2 -
include/asm-x86_64/proto.h | 1
5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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Pointed out by Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Hello,
This patch against 2.6.20-git14 makes the NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1
instead of PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0 on processors supporting Intel architectural
perfmon, such as Intel Core 2. Although all PMU events can work on
both counters, the Precise Event-Based Sampling (PEBS) requires that the
event be in PERFCTR0 to work correctly (see section 18.14.4.1 in the
IA32 SDM Vol 3b). This versions has 3 chunks compared to previous where
we had missed on check.
Changelog:
- make the x86-64 NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1 instead of PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0
on processors supporting the Intel architectural perfmon (e.g. Core 2 Duo).
This allows PEBS to work when the NMI watchdog is active.
signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Move prototypes into header files
Remove unneeded includes.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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a userspace fault or a kernelspace fault which will result in the
immediate death of the process. They should not be filled in as a
result of a kernelspace fault which can be fixed up.
Otherwise, if the process is handling SIGSEGV and examining the fault
information, this can result in the kernel space fault trashing the
previously stored fault information if it arrives between the
userspace fault happening and the SIGSEGV being delivered to the process.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
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arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Synchronize i386's smp_send_stop() with x86-64's in only try-locking
the call lock to prevent deadlocks when called from panic().
In both version, disable interrupts before clearing the CPU off the
online map to eliminate races with IRQ handlers inspecting this map.
Also in both versions, save/restore interrupts rather than disabling/
enabling them.
On x86-64, eliminate one function used here by folding it into its
single caller, convert to static, and rename for consistency with i386
(lkcd may like this).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Avoid including asm/vsyscall32.h in virtually every source file.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Move inclusion of asm/fixmap.h to where it is really used rather than
where it may have been used long ago (requires a few other adjustments
to includes due to previous implicit dependencies).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Default to physical mode on hotplug CPU kernels. Furher simplify and clean up
the APIC initialization code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Remove now unused clustered APIC mode code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Remove clustered APIC mode. There's little point in the use of clustered APIC
mode, broadcasting is limited to within the cluster only, and chipsets have
bugs in this area as well. So default to physical APIC mode when the CPU
count is large, and default to logical APIC mode when the CPU count is 8 or
smaller.
(this patch only removes the use of genapic_cluster and cleans up the
resulting genapic.c file - removal of all remaining traces of clustered
mode will be done by another patch.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Fix a couple of inconsistencies/problems I found while reviewing the x86_64
genapic code (when I was chasing mysterious eth0 timeouts that would only
trigger if CPU_HOTPLUG is enabled):
- AMD systems defaulted to the slower flat-physical mode instead
of the flat-logical mode. The only restriction on AMD systems
is that they should not use clustered APIC mode.
- removed the CPU hotplug hacks, switching the default for small
systems back from phys-flat to logical-flat. The switching to logical
flat mode on small systems fixed sporadic ethernet driver timeouts i
was getting on a dual-core Athlon64 system:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 80.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 32 dirty entry 28.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a04a. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a04a.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a04a.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a04a.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1
- The use of '<= 8' was a bug by itself (the valid APIC ids
for logical flat mode go from 0 to 7, not 0 to 8). The new logic
is to use logical flat mode on both AMD and Intel systems, and
to only switch to physical mode when logical mode cannot be used.
If CPU hotplug is racy wrt. APIC shutdown then CPU hotplug needs
fixing, not the whole IRQ system be made inconsistent and slowed
down.
- minor cleanups: simplified some code constructs
build & booted on a couple of AMD and Intel SMP systems.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Obsoleted by Ingo's genapic stuff.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This is obsoleted by new Ingo genapic patches.
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Both old-IDE and libata should be able handle all controllers and
devices found using normal resource reservation methods.
This eliminates the awful, low-performing split-driver configuration
where old-IDE drove the PATA portion of a PCI device, in PIO-only mode,
and libata drove the SATA portion of the /same/ PCI device, in DMA mode.
Typically vendors would ship SATA hard drive / PATA optical
configuration, which would lend itself to slow (PIO-only) CD-ROM
performance.
For Intel users running in combined mode, it is now wholly dependent on
your driver choice (potentially link order, if you compile both drivers
in) whether old-IDE or libata will drive your hardware.
In either case, you will get full performance from both SATA and PATA
ports now, without having to pass a kernel command line parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Adds proper lines to help output of kconfig so people can find the module names.
Also fixed some broken leading spaces versus tabs.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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change_page_attr on x86-64 only flushed the TLB for pages that got
reverted. That's not correct: it has to be flushed in all cases.
This bug was added in some earlier changes.
Just flush all pages for now.
This could be done more efficiently, but for this late in the release
this seem to be the best fix.
Pointed out by Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This patches fixes the silent data corruption problems being seen using the
GART iommu where 4kB of data where incorrect (seen mostly on Nvidia CK804
systems). This fix, to mark the memory regin the GART PTEs reside on as
uncacheable, also brings the code in line with the AGP specification.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[BRIDGE]: Unaligned access when comparing ethernet addresses
[SCTP]: Unmap v4mapped addresses during SCTP_BINDX_REM_ADDR operation.
[SCTP]: Fix assertion (!atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)) failed message
[NET]: Set a separate lockdep class for neighbour table's proxy_queue
[NET]: Fix UDP checksum issue in net poll mode.
[KEY]: Fix conversion between IPSEC_MODE_xxx and XFRM_MODE_xxx.
[NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb_from_cache
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation
[PATCH] x86: Fix gcc 4.2 _proxy_pda workaround
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Since this was added originally for Xen, and Xen has recently (~2.6.18)
stopped using this function, we can safely get rid of it. Good timing
too since this function has started to bit rot.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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cache_k8_northbridges() is storing config values to incorrect locations
(in flush_words) and also its overflowing beyond the allocation, causing
slab verification failures.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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While reviewing this code again I found a potential overflow of the bitmap.
The p4 oprofile can theoretically set bits beyond the reservation bitmap for
specific configurations. Avoid that by sizing the bitmaps properly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Due to an over aggressive optimizer gcc 4.2 cannot optimize away _proxy_pda
in all cases (counter intuitive, but true). This breaks loading of some
modules.
The earlier workaround to just export a dummy symbol didn't work unfortunately
because the module code ignores exports with 0 value.
Make it 1 instead.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Provide a failsafe mechanism to avoid kernel spinning forever at
read_hpet_tsc during early kernel bootup.
This failsafe mechanism was originally introduced in commit
2f7a2a79c3ebb44f8b1b7d9b4fd3a650eb69e544, but looks like the hpet split
from time.c lost it again.
This reintroduces the failsafe mechanism
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:nvidia_bugs from .data between 'early_qrk' (at offset 0x8428) and 'enable_cpu_hotplug'
WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:via_bugs from .data between 'early_qrk' (at offset 0x8438) and 'enable_cpu_hotplug'
WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:ati_bugs from .data between 'early_qrk' (at offset 0x8448) and 'enable_cpu_hotplug'
The compiler is putting it into .data because the __initdata is in the wrong
place.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03
Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug.
Tested on;
i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y
Untested on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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A 4 core Opteron needs longer than 10 ticks for this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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