- 30 Jan, 2008 40 commits
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Mike Travis authored
'for_each_possible_cpu(i)' when there's a _remote possibility_ of dereferencing a non-allocated per_cpu variable involved. All files except mm/vmstat.c are x86 arch. Thanks to pageexec@freemail.hu for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK request on x86, matching the ia64 feature. The implementation comes from the generic ptrace code and relies on the low-level machine support provided by arch_has_block_step() et al. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adjusts the x86 kprobes implementation to cope with per-thread MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR being set for user mode. I haven't delved deep enough into the kprobes code to be really sure this covers all the cases where the user-mode BTF setting needs to be cleared or restored. It looks about right to me. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This implements user-mode step-until-branch on x86 using the BTF bit in MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. It's just like single-step, only less so. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds low-level support for a per-thread value of MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. The per-thread value is switched in when TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is set. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR, to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag. The Intel documentation says "P6 family" and later processors all have it. I think the Kconfig dependencies are right to have it set for those and unset for others (i.e., when 586 and earlier are supported). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds constant macros for a few of the bits in MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This makes ptrace_request handle PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK along with PTRACE_CONT et al. The new generic code makes use of the arch_has_block_step macro and generic entry points on machines that define them. [ mingo@elte.hu: bugfix ] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This defines the new macro arch_has_block_step() in linux/ptrace.h, a default for when asm/ptrace.h does not define it. This is the analog of arch_has_single_step() for step-until-branch on machines that have it. It declares the new user_enable_block_step function, which goes with the existing user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step. This is not used yet, but paves the way to harmonize on this interface for the arch-specific calls on all machines. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the 32-bit ptrace code to separate the guts of the debug register access from the implementation of PTRACE_PEEKUSR and PTRACE_POKEUSR. The new functions ptrace_[gs]et_debugreg match the new 64-bit entry points for parity, but they don't need to be global. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the ia32 compat ptrace code to use shared code from native ptrace for the implementation guts of debug register access. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the 64-bit ptrace code to separate the guts of the debug register access from the implementation of PTRACE_PEEKUSR and PTRACE_POKEUSR. The new functions ptrace_[gs]et_debugreg are made global so that the ia32 code can later be changed to call them too. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the 64-bit ptrace code to use task_pt_regs instead of its own redundant code that does the same thing a different way. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the 32-bit ptrace code to use task_pt_regs instead of its own redundant code that does the same thing a different way. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the powerpc ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This defines the new standard arch_has_single_step macro. It makes the existing set_single_step and clear_single_step entry points global, and renames them to the new standard names user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step, respectively. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the 32-bit ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the 64-bit ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This makes ptrace_request handle all the ptrace requests that wake up the traced task. These do low-level ptrace implementation magic that is not arch-specific and should be kept out of arch code. The implementations on each arch usually do the same thing. The new generic code makes use of the arch_has_single_step macro and generic entry points to handle PTRACE_SINGLESTEP. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This changes the single-step support to use a new thread_info flag TIF_FORCED_TF instead of the PT_DTRACE flag in task_struct.ptrace. This keeps arch implementation uses out of this non-arch field. This changes the ptrace access to eflags to mask TF and maintain the TIF_FORCED_TF flag directly if userland sets TF, instead of relying on ptrace_signal_deliver. The 64-bit and 32-bit kernels are harmonized on this same behavior. The ptrace_signal_deliver approach works now, but this change makes the low-level register access code reliable when called from different contexts than a ptrace stop, which will be possible in the future. The 64-bit do_debug exception handler is also changed not to clear TF from user-mode registers. This matches the 32-bit kernel's behavior. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes the single-step code from ptrace_32.c and uses the step.c code shared with the 64-bit kernel. The two versions of the code were nearly identical already, so the shared code has only a couple of simple #ifdef's. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This fixes the 64-bit single-step handling code's instruction decoder to grok the 0xf0 (lock) prefix, which the 32-bit code already does correctly. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the single-step code to use the asm/segment.h macros for segment selector magic bits, rather than its own constant. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This moves the single-step support code from ptrace_64.c into a new file step.c, verbatim. This paves the way for consolidating this code between 64-bit and 32-bit versions. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This defines the new standard arch_has_single_step macro. It makes the existing set_singlestep and clear_singlestep entry points global, and renames them to the new standard names user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step, respectively. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This gets rid of the local constant macro TRAP_FLAG. It's redundant with the public constant macro X86_EFLAGS_TF. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This copies into asm-x86/segment_64.h some macros from asm-x86/segment_32.h for dissecting segment selectors. This lets other code use these macros uniformly on 32/64-bit rather than duplicating the constants elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This defines the new macro arch_has_single_step() in linux/ptrace.h, a default for when asm/ptrace.h does not define it. It declares the new user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step functions. This is not used yet, but paves the way to harmonize on this interface for the arch-specific calls on all machines. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Andrew Morton authored
[ mingo@elte.hu: cleanups and made dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM. this caught a handful of bugs already, so lets apply it. If it gets things wrong we'll disable it. ] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Actually, on 386, cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local fall back on cmpxchg_386_u8/16/32: it disables interruptions around non atomic updates to mimic the cmpxchg behavior. The comment: /* Poor man's cmpxchg for 386. Unsuitable for SMP */ already present in cmpxchg_386_u32 tells much about how this cmpxchg implementation should not be used in a SMP context. However, the cmpxchg_local can perfectly use this fallback, since it only needs to be atomic wrt the local cpu. This patch adds a cmpxchg_486_u64 and uses it as a fallback for cmpxchg64 and cmpxchg64_local on 80386 and 80486. Q: but why is it called cmpxchg_486 when the other functions are called A: Because the standard cmpxchg is missing only on 386, but cmpxchg8b is missing both on 386 and 486. Citing Intel's Instruction set reference: cmpxchg: This instruction is not supported on Intel processors earlier than the Intel486 processors. cmpxchg8b: This instruction encoding is not supported on Intel processors earlier than the Pentium processors. Q: What's the reason to have cmpxchg64_local on 32 bit architectures? Without that need all this would just be a few simple defines. A: cmpxchg64_local on 32 bits architectures takes unsigned long long parameters, but cmpxchg_local only takes longs. Since we have cmpxchg8b to execute a 8 byte cmpxchg atomically on pentium and +, it makes sense to provide a flavor of cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local using this instruction. Also, for 32 bits architectures lacking the 64 bits atomic cmpxchg, it makes sense _not_ to define cmpxchg64 while cmpxchg could still be available. Moreover, the fallback for cmpxchg8b on i386 for 386 and 486 is a However, cmpxchg64_local will be emulated by disabling interrupts on all architectures where it is not supported atomically. Therefore, we *could* turn cmpxchg64_local into a cmpxchg_local, but it would make the 386/486 fallbacks ugly, make its design different from cmpxchg/cmpxchg64 (which really depends on atomic operations and cannot be emulated) and require the __cmpxchg_local to be expressed as a macro rather than an inline function so the parameters would not be fixed to unsigned long long in every case. So I think cmpxchg64_local makes sense there, but I am open to suggestions. Q: Are there any callers? A: I am actually using it in LTTng in my timestamping code. I use it to work around CPUs with asynchronous TSCs. I need to update 64 bits values atomically on this 32 bits architecture. Changelog: - Ran though checkpatch. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ralf Baechle authored
The timer code always calls the clock_event_device set_net_event and set_mode methods with interrupts disabled, so no need to use spin_lock_irqsave / spin_unlock_irqrestore for those. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA. Measurements indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher overhead than sparsemem. And FLATMEMs benefits are minimal. So I think its best to simply standardize on sparsemem. Results of page allocator tests (test can be had via git from slab git tree branch tests) Measurements in cycle counts. 1000 allocations were performed and then the average cycle count was calculated. Order FlatMem Discontig SparseMem 0 639 665 641 1 567 647 593 2 679 774 692 3 763 967 781 4 961 1501 962 5 1356 2344 1392 6 2224 3982 2336 7 4869 7225 5074 8 12500 14048 12732 9 27926 28223 28165 10 58578 58714 58682 (Note that FlatMem is an SMP config and the rest NUMA configurations) Memory use: SMP Sparsemem ------------- Kernel size: text data bss dec hex filename 3849268 397739 1264856 5511863 541ab7 vmlinux total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8242252 41164 8201088 0 352 11512 -/+ buffers/cache: 29300 8212952 Swap: 9775512 0 9775512 SMP Flatmem ----------- Kernel size: text data bss dec hex filename 3844612 397739 1264536 5506887 540747 vmlinux So 4.5k growth in text size vs. FLATMEM. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8244052 40544 8203508 0 352 11484 -/+ buffers/cache: 28708 8215344 2k growth in overall memory use after boot. NUMA discontig: text data bss dec hex filename 3888124 470659 1276504 5635287 55fcd7 vmlinux total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8256256 56908 8199348 0 352 11496 -/+ buffers/cache: 45060 8211196 Swap: 9775512 0 9775512 NUMA sparse: text data bss dec hex filename 3896428 470659 1276824 5643911 561e87 vmlinux 8k text growth. Given that we fully inline virt_to_page and friends now that is rather good. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8264720 57240 8207480 0 352 11516 -/+ buffers/cache: 45372 8219348 Swap: 9775512 0 9775512 The total available memory is increased by 8k. This patch makes sparsemem the default and removes discontig and flatmem support from x86. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: allnoconfig build fix ] Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Borislav Petkov authored
Remove repeated comment from the linker script for the x86-32 target. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Yinghai Lu authored
In init/main.c boot_cpu_init() does that later. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Yinghai Lu authored
Some BIOSes that support two/four dualcore/quadcore systems, will get: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:1 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:1 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x02] enabled) Processor #2 15:1 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] enabled) Processor #3 15:1 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x84] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x85] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x86] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x87] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x09] lapic_id[0x88] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0a] lapic_id[0x89] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0b] lapic_id[0x8a] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0c] lapic_id[0x8b] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0d] lapic_id[0x8c] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0e] lapic_id[0x8d] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0f] lapic_id[0x8e] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x10] lapic_id[0x8f] disabled) SMP: Allowing 16 CPUs, 12 hotplug CPUs the /proc/cpuinfo will show a bunch of NULL cpus with cpu_index=0 so assign impossible cpu_index value at first instead of 0. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Vladimir Berezniker authored
Sanitize user specified e820 memory ranges, using the same logic that is applied to the values returned by the BIOS. This ensures consistent handling regardless of the source of the memory mappings. Allows overriding portions of the memory map without specifying one in it's entirety (memmap=exactmap). E.g. marking a range of bad RAM as reserved with memmap=48M$528M BIOS supplied range BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable) becomes user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000021000000 (usable) user: 0000000021000000 - 0000000024000000 (reserved) user: 0000000024000000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable) Previously this did not work, as the original BIOS range was left untouched while the user defined range was appended to the end of the memory map. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Berezniker <vmpn@hitechman.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This consolidates the four different places that implemented the same encoding magic for the GDT-slot 32-bit TLS support. The old tls32.c was renamed and is now only slightly modified to be the shared implementation. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This renames arch/x86/ia32/tls32.c to arch/x86/kernel/tls.c, which does nothing now but paves the way to consolidate this code for 32-bit too. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
This replaces the desc_empty macro with an inline. It now handles easily any of the four different types used between 32/64 code to refer to these 8 bytes. It's identical in both asm-x86/processor_64.h and asm-x86/processor_32.h, so if these files ever get merged this function can be in the common code. This also removes the desc_equal macro because nothing uses it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
The fs_base and gs_base fields are available in user_regs_struct. But reading these via ptrace (PTRACE_GETREGS or PTRACE_PEEKUSR) does not give a reliably useful value. The thread_struct fields are 0 when do_arch_prctl decided to use a GDT slot instead of MSR_FS_BASE, which it does for a value under 1<<32. This changes ptrace access to fs_base and gs_base to work like PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL does. That is, it reads the base address that user-mode memory access using the fs/gs instruction prefixes will use, regardless of how it's being implemented in the kernel. The MSR vs GDT is an implementation detail that is pretty much hidden from userland in the actual using, and there is no reason that ptrace should give the internal implementation picture rather than the user-mode semantic picture. In the case of setting the value, this can implicitly change the fsindex/gsindex value (also separately in user_regs_struct), which is what happens when the thread calls arch_prctl itself. In a PTRACE_SETREGS, the fs_base change will come after the fsindex change due to the order of the struct, and so a change the debugger made to fs_base will have the effect intended, another part of the user_regs_struct will now differ when read back from what the debugger wrote. This makes PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL obsolete. We could consider declaring it deprecated and removing it one day, though there is no hurry. For the foreseeable future, debuggers have to assume an old kernel that does not report reliable fs_base/gs_base values in user_regs_struct and stick to PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL anyway. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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