Replace the no longer working links and email address in the
documentation and in source code.
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: gart iommu have direct mapping when agp is present too
Stress-testing KVM's latest NMI support with kgdbts inside an SMP guest,
I came across spurious unhandled NMIs while running the singlestep test.
Looking closer at the code path each NMI takes when KGDB is enabled, I
noticed that kgdb_nmicallback is called twice per event: One time via
DIE_NMI_IPI notification, the second time on DIE_NMI. Removing the first
invocation cures the unhandled NMIs here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
There is a bug in the BIOSes of some HP boxes with AMD Turions which
connects IO-APIC pins with ACPI thermal trip points in such a way that
if the state of the IO-APIC is not as expected by the (buggy) BIOS, the
thermal trip points are set to insanely low values (usually all of them
become 16 degrees Celsius). As a result, thermal throttling kicks in
and knock the system down to its shoes.
Unfortunately some of the recent IO-APIC changes made the bug show up.
To prevent this from happening, blacklist machines that are known to be
affected (nx6115 and 6715b in this particular case).
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11516 listed as
a regression from 2.6.26.
On my box it was caused by:
commit 691874fa96
Author: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Date: Tue May 27 21:19:51 2008 +0100
x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A second-chance
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
and the whole story is described in this (huge) thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121358440508410&w=4
Matthew Garrett told us about that happening on the nx6125:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121396307411930&w=4
and then Maciej analysed the breakage on the basis of a DSDT from the
nx6325:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121401068718826&w=4
As far as the Dmitry's and Jason's boxes are concerned, I recognized the
symptoms and asked them to verify that the blacklisting helped.
It appears that the buggy BIOS code has been copy-pasted to the entire
range of machines, for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
move init_memory_mapping() out of init_k8_gatt.
for: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11676
2.6.27-rc2 to rc8, apgart fails, iommu=soft works, regression
This is needed because we need to map the GART aperture even
if the GATT is not initialized.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel
When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited
sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done
incorrectly. This causes a segfault for some people when building the
relocatable 32-bit kernel.
Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56
After investigating a JRE failure, I found this bug was introduced a long time
ago, and had already managed to survive another bugfix which occurred on the
same line. The result is a total failure of the JRE due to LDT selectors not
working properly.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After investigating a JRE failure, I found this bug was introduced a
long time ago, and had already managed to survive another bugfix which
occurred on the same line. The result is a total failure of the JRE due
to LDT selectors not working properly.
This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On x86_64 the gdb serial register structure defines the PS (also known
as eflags), CS and SS registers as 4 bytes entities.
This patch splits the x86_64 regnames enum into a 32 and 64 version to
account for the 32 bit entities in the gdb serial packets.
Also the program counter is properly filled in for the sleeping
threads.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.
First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.
On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core. The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping. This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix
The OLPC doesn't support APM but also doesn't have DMI, so we can't detect
and disable it based on DMI data. So, just disable based on machine_is_olpc()
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix build error introduced by commit 4faac97d44 ("x86: prevent stale
state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online").
process_32.c needs to include idle.h to get the prototype for
c1e_remove_cpu()
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load
x86, oprofile: BUG scheduling while atomic
AMD IOMMU: protect completion wait loop with iommu lock
AMD IOMMU: set iommu sunc flag after command queuing
Impact: Functional TSC is marked unstable on AMD family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs.
This would be wrong because for those CPUs "invariant TSC" means:
"The TSC counts at the same rate in all P-states, all C states, S0,
or S1"
(See "Processor BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guides" for those CPUs.)
[ tglx: Changed C1E to AMD C1E in the printks to avoid confusion
with Intel C1E ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: System hang when AMD C1E machines switch into C2/C3
AMD C1E enabled systems do not work with normal ACPI C-states
even if the BIOS is advertising them. Limit the C-states to
C1 for the ACPI processor idle code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems.
When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast
mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the
broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the
corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs
have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines
we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle.
Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules.
Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the
pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out
to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3).
vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however,
apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to
freed memory location.
Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The unlocked polling of the ComWaitInt bit in the IOMMU completion wait
path is racy. Protect it with the iommu lock.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The iommu->need_sync flag must be set after the command is queued to
avoid race conditions.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Completely disable NOPL on 32 bits. It turns out that Microsoft
Virtual PC is so broken it can't even reliably *fail* in the presence
of NOPL.
This leaves the infrastructure in place but disables it
unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
They were already called once in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c - we don't need to call them again.
fixes:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11485
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PFN_PHYS() can truncate large addresses unless its passed a suitable
large type. This is fixed more generally in the patch series
introducing phys_addr_t, but we need a short-term fix to solve a
Xen regression reported by Roberto De Ioris.
Reported-by: Roberto De Ioris <roberto@unbit.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline:
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15a-dirty #5
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
[<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4
[<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932
[<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a
[<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8
[<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632
[<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367
[<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7
[<ffffffff808492b0>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7
RIP 0x10
Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit
processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit
processors).
Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with
_PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once
we've established that the processor does indeed support NX. That will
prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it.
The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier.
Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As well as discard fake accessed bit and dirty bit of EPT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Accesses to CR4 are intercepted even with Nested Paging enabled. But the code
does not check if the guest wants to do a global TLB flush. So this flush gets
lost. This patch adds the check and the flush to svm_set_cr4.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch introduces a guest TLB flush on every NPF exit in KVM. This fixes
random segfaults and #UD exceptions in the guest seen under some workloads
(e.g. long running compile workloads or tbench). A kernbench run with and
without that fix showed that it has a slowdown lower than 0.5%
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data.
Note that at the point of the change, node has not yet been stored in d, so
it is not affected by the existing cleanup code.
The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@
(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
|
x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
|
return@p2 ...;
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the
default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do
look better.
So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the
CONFIG_X86_64 thing.
The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just
have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for
them.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: cpu_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86: pda_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86, xen: Use native_pte_flags instead of native_pte_val for .pte_flags
x86: move mtrr cpu cap setting early in early_init_xxxx
x86: delay early cpu initialization until cpuid is done
x86: use X86_FEATURE_NOPL in alternatives
x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
Exception stacks are allocated each time a CPU is set online.
But the allocated space is never freed. Thus with one CPU hotplug
offline/online cycle there is a memory leak of 24K (6 pages) for
a CPU.
Fix is to allocate exception stacks only once -- when the CPU is
set online for the first time.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
pda->irqstackptr is allocated whenever a CPU is set online.
But it is never freed. This results in a memory leak of 16K
for each CPU offline/online cycle.
Fix is to allocate pda->irqstackptr only once.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Using native_pte_val triggers the BUG_ON() in the paravirt_ops
version of pte_flags().
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Krzysztof Helt found MTRR is not detected on k6-2
root cause:
we moved mtrr_bp_init() early for mtrr trimming,
and in early_detect we only read the CPU capability from cpuid,
so some cpu doesn't have that bit in cpuid.
So we need to add early_init_xxxx to preset those bit before mtrr_bp_init
for those earlier cpus.
this patch is for v2.6.27
Reported-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move early cpu initialization after cpu early get cap so the
early cpu initialization can fix up cpu caps.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After fixing the u32 thinko I sill had occasional hickups on ATI chipsets
with small deltas. There seems to be a delay between writing the compare
register and the transffer to the internal register which triggers the
interrupt. Reading back the value makes sure, that it hit the internal
match register befor we compare against the counter value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We use the HPET only in 32bit mode because:
1) some HPETs are 32bit only
2) on i386 there is no way to read/write the HPET atomic 64bit wide
The HPET code unification done by the "moron of the year" did
not take into account that unsigned long is different on 32 and
64 bit.
This thinko results in a possible endless loop in the clockevents
code, when the return comparison fails due to the 64bit/332bit
unawareness.
unsigned long cnt = (u32) hpet_read() + delta can wrap over 32bit.
but the final compare will fail and return -ETIME causing endless
loops.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in
alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The long noops ("NOPL") are supposed to be detected by family >= 6.
Unfortunately, several non-Intel x86 implementations, both hardware
and software, don't obey this dictum. Instead, probe for NOPL
directly by executing a NOPL instruction and see if we get #UD.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words. In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered). Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Németh Márton
Linus Torvalds
Jan Kiszka
Rafael J. Wysocki
Yinghai Lu
H. Peter Anvin
Zachary Amsden
J.A. Magallón
Jason Wessel
Jeremy Katz
Marc Dionne
Andreas Herrmann
Thomas Gleixner
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Andrea Righi
Joerg Roedel
Alex Nixon
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Sheng Yang
Julia Lawall
Prarit Bhargava
Eduardo Habkost
Krzysztof Helt