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2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Be careful about touching BIOS address spaceRusty Russell
BIOS ROM areas may not be mapped into the guest address space, so be careful when touching those addresses to make sure they appear to be mapped. [akpm@osdl.org: fix unused var warning] AK: Changed __get_user to probe_kernel_address Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add MMU virtualization to paravirt_opsRusty Russell
Add the three bare TLB accessor functions to paravirt-ops. Most amusingly, flush_tlb is redefined on SMP, so I can't call the paravirt op flush_tlb. Instead, I chose to indicate the actual flush type, kernel (global) vs. user (non-global). Global in this sense means using the global bit in the page table entry, which makes TLB entries persistent across CR3 reloads, not global as in the SMP sense of invoking remote shootdowns, so the term is confusingly overloaded. AK: folded in fix from Zach for PAE compilation Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops.Rusty Russell
Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops. Unfortunately, we need two write functions, as some older broken hardware requires workarounds for Pentium APIC errata - this is the purpose of apic_write_atomic. AK: replaced __inline with inline Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Allow disable power management under hypervisorRusty Russell
Two legacy power management modes are much easier to just explicitly disable when running in paravirtualized mode - neither APM nor PnP is still relevant. The status of ACPI is still debatable, and noacpi is still a common enough boot parameter that it is not necessary to explicitly disable ACPI. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Disable vdso by default when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is enabledAndi Kleen
They don't work together and this way even glibc still works. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Allow selected bug checks to beRusty Russell
Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor, or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under some hypervisors. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualizationRusty Russell
1) Each hypervisor writes a probe function to detect whether we are running under that hypervisor. paravirt_probe() registers this function. 2) If vmlinux is booted with ring != 0, we call all the probe functions (with registers except %esp intact) in link order: the winner will not return. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: cpu_detect extractionRusty Russell
Both lhype and Xen want to call the core of the x86 cpu detect code before calling start_kernel. (extracted from larger patch) AK: folded in start_kernel header patch Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt interceptsRusty Russell
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude, are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it. The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded). Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check. And: Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT. And: AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build And: AK: Fix compilation with defconfig And: ^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and __start_parainstructions. And: AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisationRusty Russell
Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops structure with their own variants. All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier. And: +From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup(). Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior Move memory_setup() to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix double #includes in arch/i386Nicolas Kaiser
Fix double #includes in arch/i386 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: substitute __va lookup with pfn_to_kaddrDavid Rientjes
Substitutes allocate_pgdat virtual address lookup with pfn_to_kaddr macro. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Don't force inlining of do_csumAndi Kleen
It's two big and used by two callers. Calls should be cheap enough anyways. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: remove IOPL check on task switchChuck Ebbert
IOPL is implicitly saved and restored on task switch, so explicit check is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Fix race in IO-APIC routing entry setup.Andi Kleen
Interrupt could happen between setting the IO-APIC entry and setting its interrupt data. Pointed out by Linus. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix race in IO-APIC routing entry setup.Andi Kleen
Interrupt could happen between setting the IO-APIC entry and setting its interrupt data. Pointed out by Linus. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Make x86_64 udelay() round up instead of down.Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Port two patches from i386 to x86_64 delay.c to make sure all rounding is done upward instead of downward. There is no sign in commit messages that the mismatch was done on purpose, and "delay() guarantees sleeping at least for the specified time" is still a valid rule IMHO. The original x86 patches are both from pre-GIT era, i.e.: "[PATCH] round up in __udelay()" in commit 54c7e1f5cc6771ff644d7bc21a2b829308bd126f "[PATCH] add 1 in __const_udelay()" in commit 42c77a9801b8877d8b90f65f75db758822a0bccc (both commits are from converted BK repository to x86_64). AK: fixed gcc warning linux/arch/x86_64/lib/delay.c:43: warning: suggest parentheses around + or - inside shift (did this actually work?) Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Calgary: allow compiling Calgary in but not using it by defaultMuli Ben-Yehuda
This patch makes it possible to compile Calgary in but not use it by default. In this mode, use 'iommu=calgary' to activate it. Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Calgary: check BBAR ioremap success when ioremappingMuli Ben-Yehuda
This patch cleans up the previous "Use BIOS supplied BBAR information" patch. Mostly stylistic clenaups, but also check for ioremap failure when we ioremap the BBAR rather than when trying to use it. Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Calgary: use BIOS supplied BBARs and topology informationLaurent Vivier
Find the BBAR register address of each Calgary using the "Extended BIOS Data Area" rather than calculating it ourselves. Also get the bus topology (what PHB each bus is on) from Calgary rather than calculating it ourselves. This patch fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7407. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] calgary: phb_shift can be intMuli Ben-Yehuda
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move memory map printing and other code to e820.cbibo,mao
This patch moves e820 memory map print and memmap boot param parsing function from setup.c to e820.c, also adds limit_regions and print_memory_map declaration in header file. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 158 --------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 153 ----------------------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 3 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move e820/efi memmap walking code to e820.cbibo,mao
This patch moves e820/efi memmap table walking function from setup.c to e820.c, also this patch adds extern declaration in header file. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 118 ----------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 118 ----------------------------------------------- include/asm-i386/e820.h | 2 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Move find_max_pfn function to e820.cbibo,mao
Move more code from setup.c into e820.c Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: create e820.c for e820 map sanitize and copy functionbibo,mao
This patch moves bios e820 map sanitize and copy function from setup.c to e820.c Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 240 -------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: i386 create e820.c to handle standard io/mem resourcesbibo,mao
This patch creates new file named e820.c to hanle standard io/mem resources, moving request_standard_resources function from setup.c to e820.c. Also this patch modifies Makfile to compile file e820.c. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Makefile | 2 arch/i386/kernel/Makefile | 2 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 276 ------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-)
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Support -mregparm arguments for signals with SA_SIGINFO in ↵Albert Cahalan
compat mode The recent change to make x86_64 support i386 binaries compiled with -mregparm=3 only covered signal handlers without SA_SIGINFO. (the 3-arg "real-time" ones) To be compatible with i386, both types should be supported. Signed-off-by: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Try multiple timer variants in check_timerAndi Kleen
Instead of adding all kinds of more quirks try various timer routing variants in check_timer. In particular this tries to handle quirks from: - Nvidia NF2-4 reference BIOS: wrong timer override - Asus: Wrong timer override but no HPET table - ATI: require timer disabled in 8259 - Some boards: require timer enabled in 8259 We just try many of the the known variants in the hopefully right order in check_timer. Trying pin 0/2 on Nvidia suggested by Tim Hockin. TBD Experimental. Needs a lot of testing Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user in fault pathsAndi Kleen
Makes the intention of the code cleaner to read and avoids a potential deadlock on mmap_sem. Also change the types of the arguments to not include __user because they're really not user addresses. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Use probe_kernel_address in arch/x86_64/*Andi Kleen
Instead of open coded __get_user Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Extend clear_irq_vectorYinghai Lu
Clear the irq releated entries in irq_vector, irq_domain and vector_irq instead of clearing irq_vector only. So when new irq is created, it could reuse that vector. (actually is the second loop scanning from FIRST_DEVICE_VECTOR+8). This could avoid the vectors are used up with enough module inserting and removing Cc: Eric W. Biedierman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-By: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Use CLFLUSH instead of WBINVD in change_page_attrAndi Kleen
CLFLUSH is a lot faster than WBINVD so try to use that. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Retrieve CLFLUSH size from CPUIDAndi Kleen
Also report it in /proc/cpuinfo similar to x86-64. Needed for followon patch Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86-64: Speed and clean up cache flushing in change_page_attrAndi Kleen
CLFLUSH is a lot faster than WBINVD so avoid the later if at all possible. Always pass the complete list of pages to other CPUs to cut down the number of IPIs. Minor other cleanup and sync with i386 version. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Fix entry.S code with !CONFIG_VM86Joe Korty
The entry.S code at work_notifysig is surely wrong. It drops into unrelated code if the branch to work_notifysig_v86 is taken, and CONFIG_VM86=n. [PATCH] Make vm86 support optional tree 9b5daef5280800a0006343a17f63072658d91a1d pushed to git Jan 8, 2006, and first appears in 2.6.16 The 'fix' here is to also compile out the vm86 test & branch when CONFIG_VM86=n. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Mark CONFIG_RELOCATABLE EXPERIMENTALVivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernelVivek Goyal
Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Implement CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGNVivek Goyal
o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address 1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do that. o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment restrictions. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Warn upon absolute relocations being presentVivek Goyal
o Relocations generated w.r.t absolute symbols are not processed as by definition, absolute symbols are not to be relocated. Explicitly warn user about absolutions relocations present at compile time. o These relocations get introduced either due to linker optimizations or some programming oversights. o Also create a list of symbols which have been audited to be safe and don't emit warnings for these. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel supportEric W. Biederman
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbolsEric W. Biederman
Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported from their object files. Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't define it otherwise linker will fail. 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START cleanupEric W. Biederman
Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much more maintainer and hopefully user friendly. 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Reserve kernel memory starting from _textEric W. Biederman
Currently when we are reserving the memory the kernel text resides in we start at __PHYSICAL_START which happens to be correct but not very obvious. In addition when we start relocating the kernel __PHYSICAL_START is the wrong value, as it is an absolute symbol that does not get relocated. By starting the reservation at __pa_symbol(_text) the code is clearer and will be correct when relocated. 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Add comment for align to vmlinux.ldsVivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Distinguish absolute symbolsVivek Goyal
Ld knows about 2 kinds of symbols, absolute and section relative. Section relative symbols symbols change value when a section is moved and absolute symbols do not. Currently in the linker script we have several labels marking the beginning and ending of sections that are outside of sections, making them absolute symbols. Having a mixture of absolute and section relative symbols refereing to the same data is currently harmless but it is confusing. This must be done carefully as newer revs of ld do not place symbols that appear in sections without data and instead ld makes those symbols global :( My ultimate goal is to build a relocatable kernel. The safest and least intrusive technique is to generate relocation entries so the kernel can be relocated at load time. The only penalty would be an increase in the size of the kernel binary. The problem is that if absolute and relocatable symbols are not properly specified absolute symbols will be relocated or section relative symbols won't be, which is fatal. The practical motivation is that when generating kernels that will run from a reserved area for analyzing what caused a kernel panic, it is simpler if you don't need to hard code the physical memory location they will run at, especially for the distributions. [AK: and merged:] o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and avoid introducing absolute symbols. 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Mention PCI instead of RAM in NMI parity error messageAndi Kleen
On modern systems RAM errors don't cause NMIs, but it's usually caused by PCI SERR. Mention PCI instead of RAM in the printk. Reported by r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp (Ryutaro Hayashi) Cc: r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: remove last two pci_find offenders in the core codeAlan Cox
Resending as I believe the discussion about them established they were correct. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: Don't use nested idle loopsAndi Kleen
Currently the idle loop has two nested loops -- one high level in cpu_idle and in some low level idle functions another one. Looping in the low level idle functions breaks the idle notifiers because interrupts waking up sleep states need to execute exit_idle() which is only in cpu_idle(). So don't do that, only loop in cpu_idle(). This only removes code. In some cases e.g. poll_idle the idle loop is a little longer now because cpu_idle checks more things. I hope that isn't a problem ACPI idle doesn't change behaviour because it never looped anyways. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Implement "current" with the PDAJeremy Fitzhardinge
Use the pcurrent field in the PDA to implement the "current" macro. This ends up compiling down to a single instruction to get the current task. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] i386: Implement smp_processor_id() with the PDAJeremy Fitzhardinge
Use the cpu_number in the PDA to implement raw_smp_processor_id. This is a little simpler than using thread_info, though the cpu field in thread_info cannot be removed since it is used for things other than getting the current CPU in common code. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>