1. 30 Jan, 2008 40 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: use u32 for safe_apic_wait_icr_idle() · 3c6bb07a
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Preperatory patch for merging apic headers.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3c6bb07a
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: rename get_maxlvt to lapic_get_maxlvt · 37e650c7
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Use the same name for the 32 and 64 bit variant.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      37e650c7
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: prepare unification of include/asm-x86/apic_32/64.h · cff90dbf
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      
      Move the K8 local apic defines to apicdef.h, where they belong
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cff90dbf
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      2d539553
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: merge arch/x86/kernel/ldt_32/64.c · 77e463d1
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      77e463d1
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: prepare arch/x86/kernel/ldt_32/64.c for merging · 70f5088d
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style cleanups.
      
      Change unsigned to int. There is no win when we compare mincount against pc->size,
      which is an int as well. Casting pc->size to unsigned just might hide real problems.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      70f5088d
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: introduce ldt_write accessor · fc2d625c
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Create a ldt write accessor like the 32 bit one.
      
      Preparatory patch for merging ldt.c and anyway necessary for
      64bit paravirt ops.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fc2d625c
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up include/asm-x86/desc_64.h · 4edc8f54
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4edc8f54
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/ldt_32/64.c · 78aa1f66
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      78aa1f66
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c · 2f36fa13
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style cleanup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2f36fa13
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: code cleanups in arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c · 05fccb0e
      Ingo Molnar authored
      code cleanups:
      
                                             errors   lines of code   errors/KLOC
       arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c            183             748         244.6
       arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c              0             790             0
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      05fccb0e
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: lindent arch/i386/math-emu, cleanup · e8d591dc
      Ingo Molnar authored
      manually clean up some of the damage that lindent caused.
      (this is a separate commit so that in the unlikely case of
      a typo we can bisect it down to the manual edits.)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e8d591dc
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: lindent arch/i386/math-emu · 3d0d14f9
      Ingo Molnar authored
      lindent these files:
                                             errors   lines of code   errors/KLOC
       arch/x86/math-emu/                      2236            9424         237.2
       arch/x86/math-emu/                       128            8706          14.7
      
      no other changes. No code changed:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         5589802  612739 3833856 10036397         9924ad vmlinux.before
         5589802  612739 3833856 10036397         9924ad vmlinux.after
      
      the intent of this patch is to ease the automated tracking of kernel
      code quality - it's just much easier for us to maintain it if every file
      in arch/x86 is supposed to be clean.
      
      NOTE: it is a known problem of lindent that it causes some style damage
      of its own, but it's a safe tool (well, except for the gcc array range
      initializers extension), so we did the bulk of the changes via lindent,
      and did the manual fixups in a followup patch.
      
      the resulting math-emu code has been tested by Thomas Gleixner on a real
      386 DX CPU as well, and it works fine.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      3d0d14f9
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: mach-voyager, lindent · a4ec1eff
      Ingo Molnar authored
      lindent the mach-voyager files to get rid of more than 300 style errors:
      
                                             errors   lines of code   errors/KLOC
       arch/x86/mach-voyager/   [old]           409            3729         109.6
       arch/x86/mach-voyager/   [new]            71            3678          19.3
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      a4ec1eff
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c printk()s · 31183ba8
      Ingo Molnar authored
      clean up arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c printk()s.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      31183ba8
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c · c140df97
      Ingo Molnar authored
      whitespace cleanup. No code changed:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         2080      76       4    2160     870 aperture_64.o.before
         2080      76       4    2160     870 aperture_64.o.after
      
                                             errors   lines of code   errors/KLOC
       arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c            114             299         381.2
       arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c              0             315             0
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      c140df97
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/mmap32.c · 5bafb671
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5bafb671
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/syscall32.c · 6ec87566
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6ec87566
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c · c202f298
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c202f298
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/ptrace32.c · 5de15d42
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5de15d42
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/ipc32.c · 2da06b4e
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style cleanup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2da06b4e
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c · 99b9cdf7
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      99b9cdf7
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/aout32.c · 8edf8bee
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8edf8bee
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: clean up arch/x86/ia32/fpu32.c · d94448b1
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      White space and coding style clenaup.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d94448b1
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86: unify asm/cpufeature.h · 7b11fb51
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      asm/cpufeature.h was already almost unified; this completes the job.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      7b11fb51
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86: add <asm/asm.h> · e845c06b
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      Create <asm/asm.h>, with common definitions suitable for assembly
      unification.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e845c06b
    • Hiroshi Shimamoto's avatar
      x86: enable irq in default_idle on 64-bit · 39d44a51
      Hiroshi Shimamoto authored
      local_irq_enable() is missing after sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      39d44a51
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: idle wakeup event in the HLT loop · 5ee613b6
      Ingo Molnar authored
      do a proper idle-wakeup event on HLT as well - some CPUs stop the TSC
      in HLT too, not just when going through the ACPI methods.
      
      (the ACPI idle code already does this.)
      
      [ update the 64-bit side too, as noticed by Jiri Slaby. ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      5ee613b6
    • Guillaume Chazarain's avatar
      x86: scale cyc_2_nsec according to CPU frequency · 53d517cd
      Guillaume Chazarain authored
      scale the sched_clock() cyc_2_nsec scaling factor according to
      CPU frequency changes.
      
      [ mingo@elte.hu: simplified it and fixed it for SMP. ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      53d517cd
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      x86: protect against sigaltstack wraparound · 83bd0102
      Roland McGrath authored
      cf http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/3/41
      
      To summarize: on Linux, SA_ONSTACK decides whether you are already on the
      signal stack based on the value of the SP at the time of a signal.  If
      you are not already inside the range, you are not "on the signal stack"
      and so the new signal handler frame starts over at the base of the signal
      stack.
      
      sigaltstack (and sigstack before it) was invented in BSD.  There, the
      SA_ONSTACK behavior has always been different.  It uses a kernel state
      flag to decide, rather than the SP value.  When you first take an
      SA_ONSTACK signal and switch to the alternate signal stack, it sets the
      SS_ONSTACK flag in the thread's sigaltstack state in the kernel.
      Thereafter you are "on the signal stack" and don't switch SP before
      pushing a handler frame no matter what the SP value is.  Only when you
      sigreturn from the original handler context do you clear the SS_ONSTACK
      flag so that a new handler frame will start over at the base of the
      alternate signal stack.
      
      The undesireable effect of the Linux behavior is that an overflow of the
      alternate signal stack can not only go undetected, but lead to a ring
      buffer effect of clobbering the original handler frame at the base of the
      signal stack for each successive signal that comes just after the
      overflow.  This is what Shi Weihua's test case demonstrates.  Normally
      this does not come up because of the signal mask, but the test case uses
      SA_NODEFER for its SIGSEGV handler.
      
      The other subtle part of the existing Linux semantics is that a simple
      longjmp out of a signal handler serves to take you off the signal stack
      in a safe and reliable fashion without having used sigreturn (nor having
      just returned from the handler normally, which means the same).  After
      the longjmp (or even informal stack switching not via any proper libc or
      kernel interface), the alternate signal stack stands ready to be used
      again.
      
      A paranoid program would allocate a PROT_NONE red zone around its
      alternate signal stack.  Then a small overflow would trigger a SIGSEGV in
      handler setup, and be fatal (core dump) whether or not SIGSEGV is
      blocked.  As with thread stack red zones, that cannot catch all overflows
      (or underflows).  e.g., a local array as large as page size allocated in
      a function called from a handler, but not actually touched before more
      calls push more stack, could cause an overflow that silently pushes into
      some unrelated allocated pages.
      
      The BSD behavior does not do anything in particular about overflow.  But
      it does at least avoid the wraparound or "ring buffer effect", so you'll
      just get a straightforward all-out overflow down your address space past
      the low end of the alternate signal stack.  I don't know what the BSD
      behavior is for longjmp out of an SA_ONSTACK handler.
      
      The POSIX wording relating to sigaltstack is pretty minimal.  I don't
      think it speaks to this issue one way or another.  (The program that
      overflows its stack is clearly in undefined behavior territory of one
      sort or another anyhow.)
      
      Given the longjmp issue and the potential for highly subtle complications
      in existing programs relying on this in arcane ways deep in their code, I
      am very dubious about changing the behavior to the BSD style persistent
      flag.  I think Shi Weihua's patches have a similar effect by tracking the
      SP used in the last handler setup.
      
      I think it would be sensible for the signal handler setup code to detect
      when it would itself be causing a stack overflow.  Maybe something like
      the following patch (untested).  This issue exists in the same way on all
      machines, so ideally they would all do a similar check.
      
      When it's the handler function itself or its callees that cause the
      overflow, rather than the signal handler frame setup alone crossing the
      boundary, this still won't help.  But I don't see any way to distinguish
      that from the valid longjmp case.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      83bd0102
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: add DMI quirk for io-delay hangs on Compaq Presario V6000 laptops · f9fc5891
      Ingo Molnar authored
      add the DMI strings provided by Islam Amer <pharon@gmail.com>, for
      the Compaq Presario V6000 (Quanta/30B7).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      f9fc5891
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: make io_delay=0xed the default · d0049e71
      Ingo Molnar authored
      make io_delay=0xed the default. This frees up port 0x80 which is
      a debug port on some machines and locks up certain laptops.
      
      Testing only for now. Try the io_delay=0x80 boot option if this does not
      work for you.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      d0049e71
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay details · 6e7c4025
      Ingo Molnar authored
      various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details:
      
      - add the io_delay=none method
      - make each method selectable from the kernel config
      - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call
      - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl
      - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed
      - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Tested-by: default avatar"David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
      6e7c4025
    • Rene Herman's avatar
      x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. · b02aae9c
      Rene Herman authored
      x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
      
      Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay
      writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate
      diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these.
      
      David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a
      proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine,
      with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger.
      
      Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the
      2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with
      help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has
      two problems.
      
      First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while
      some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically
      problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly
      well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and
      based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which
      would sort of work, but...
      
      Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has.
      It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly
      or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence
      that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus
      locking outb.
      
      Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such,
      this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more
      invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover
      only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems
      to fit that situation.
      
      This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override
      the DMI based choice again:
      
      	io_delay=<standard|alternate>
      
      where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate"
      port 0xed.
      
      This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and
      command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well.
      
      This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using
      the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem
      as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the
      udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also
      fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI
      based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot
      code be.
      
      The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already
      and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the
      problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z.
      
      This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and
      David P. Reed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b02aae9c
    • Mike Galbraith's avatar
      x86: fix: s2ram + P4 + tsc = annoyance · 4c6b8b4d
      Mike Galbraith authored
      s2ram recently became useful here, except for the kernel's annoying
      habit of disabling my P4's perfectly good TSC.
      
      [  107.894470] CPU 1 is now offline
      [  107.894474] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
      [  107.895832] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
      [  107.895836]  domain 0: span 1
      [  107.895838]   groups: 1
      [  107.896097] CPU1 is down
      [    3.726156] Intel machine check architecture supported.
      [    3.726165] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
      [    3.726167] CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
      [    3.726170] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
      [    3.726175] Back to C!
      [    3.726708] Force enabled HPET at resume
      [    3.726775] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
      [    3.727049] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
      [    3.727165] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
      [    3.727858] Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
      [    3.727862] CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=b042f000 soft=b042d000
      [    3.738173] Initializing CPU#1
      [    3.798912] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5986.12 BogoMIPS (lpj=2993061)
      [    3.798920] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000 00000000
      [    3.798931] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
      [    3.798934] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
      [    3.798936] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
      [    3.798938] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00004400 00000000 00000000 00000000
      [    3.798946] Intel machine check architecture supported.
      [    3.798952] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
      [    3.798955] CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
      [    3.798959] CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
      [    3.799161] CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
      [    3.799187] checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
      [    3.819181] Measured 63588552840 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
      [    3.819184] Marking TSC unstable due to: check_tsc_sync_source failed.
      
      If check_tsc_warp() is called after initial boot, and the TSC has in the
      meantime been set (BIOS, user, silicon, elves) to a value lower than the
      last stored/stale value, we blame the TSC.  Reset to pristine condition
      after every test.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4c6b8b4d
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      x86: hibernation: document __save_processor_state() on x86 · 5c9c9bec
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      Document the fact that __save_processor_state() has to save all CPU
      registers referred to by the kernel in case a different kernel is
      used to load and restore a hibernation image containing it.
      Sigend-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      5c9c9bec
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      x86: fix make mrproper · 9484b1eb
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      Michael Opdenacker reported:
      
      For backward compatibility with earlier (< 2.6.24) kernels,
      arch/i386/boot/bzImage or arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage symbolic links to
      arch/x86/boot/bzImage are created when you build an x86 kernel. The
      arch/i386 or arch/x86_64 directories are then created for this only
      purpose.
      
      Issue: these generated directories and symbolic links are *not cleaned
      up* when you run "make mrproper" (and thus "make distclean"). This
      disturbs the production of patches, because the source tree is left with
      generated files and directories.
      
      Sam has an alternative fix:
      
      The directory is killed during make clean as opposed to make mrproper.
      Reported-by: default avatarMichael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      9484b1eb
    • Venki Pallipadi's avatar
      time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime · 6378ddb5
      Venki Pallipadi authored
      Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.
      tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time
      in a fine grained manner.  But, it is not handling the time spent in
      interrupts fully.
      
      Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on
      handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps
      track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.
      
      This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can
      shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the
      frequency.  The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming
      soon.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      6378ddb5
    • john stultz's avatar
      NTP: correct inconsistent ntp interval/tick_length usage · bbe4d18a
      john stultz authored
      I recently noticed on one of my boxes that when synched with an NTP
      server, the drift value reported for the system was ~283ppm. While in
      some cases, clock hardware can be that bad, it struck me as unusual as
      the system was using the acpi_pm clocksource, which is one of the more
      trustworthy and accurate clocksources on x86 hardware.
      
      I brought up another system and let it sync to the same NTP server, and
      I noticed a similar 280some ppm drift.
      
      In looking at the code, I found that the acpi_pm's constant frequency
      was being computed correctly at boot-up, however once the system was up,
      even without the ntp daemon running, the clocksource's frequency was
      being modified by the clocksource_adjust() function.
      
      Digging deeper, I realized that in the code that keeps track of how much
      the clocksource is skewing from the ntp desired time, we were using
      different lengths to establish how long an time interval was.
      
      The clocksource was being setup with the following interval:
      	NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH = NSEC_PER_SEC/NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ
      
      While the ntp code was using the tick_length_base value:
      	tick_length_base ~= (tick_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC * USER_HZ)
      					/NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ
      
      The subtle difference is:
      	(tick_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC * USER_HZ) != NSEC_PER_SEC
      
      This difference in calculation was causing the clocksource correction
      code to apply a correction factor to the clocksource so the two
      intervals were the same, however this results in the actual frequency of
      the clocksource to be made incorrect. I believe this difference would
      affect all clocksources, although to differing degrees depending on the
      clocksource resolution.
      
      The issue was introduced when my HZ free ntp patch landed in 2.6.21-rc1,
      so my apologies for the mistake, and for not noticing it until now.
      
      The following patch, corrects the clocksource's initialization code so
      it uses the same interval length as the code in ntp.c. After applying
      this patch, the drift value for the same system went from ~283ppm to
      only 2.635ppm.
      
      I believe this patch to be good, however it does affect all arches and
      I've only tested on x86, so some caution is advised. I do think it would
      be a likely candidate for a stable 2.6.24.x release.
      
      Any thoughts or feedback would be appreciated.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      bbe4d18a
    • Balaji Rao's avatar
      x86: assign IRQs to HPET timers, fix · 37a47db8
      Balaji Rao authored
      Looks like IRQ 31 is assigned to timer 3, even without the patch!
      I wonder who wrote the number 31. But the manual says that it is
      zero by default.
      
      I think we should check whether the timer has been allocated an IRQ before
      proceeding to assign one to it.  Here is a patch that does this.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBalaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      37a47db8