- 09 Apr, 2006 26 commits
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John Blackwood authored
In linux-2.6.16, we have noticed a problem where the gs base value returned from an arch_prtcl(ARCH_GET_GS, ...) call will be incorrect if: - the current/calling task has NOT set its own gs base yet to a non-zero value, - some other task that ran on the same processor previously set their own gs base to a non-zero value. In this situation, the ARCH_GET_GS code will read and return the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE msr register. However, since the __switch_to() code does NOT load/zero the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE register when the task that is switched IN has a zero next->gs value, the caller of arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_GS, ...) will get back the value of some previous tasks's gs base value instead of 0. Change the arch_prctl() ARCH_GET_GS code to only read and return the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE msr register if the 'gs' register of the calling task is non-zero. Side note: Since in addition to using arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_GS, ...), a task can also setup a gs base value by using modify_ldt() and write an index value into 'gs' from user space, the patch below reads 'gs' instead of using thread.gs, since in the modify_ldt() case, the thread.gs value will be 0, and incorrect value would be returned (the task->thread.gs value). When the user has not set its own gs base value and the 'gs' register is zero, then the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE register will not be read and a value of zero will be returned by reading and returning 'task->thread.gs'. The first patch shown below is an attempt at implementing this approach. Signed-off-by:Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Printk doesn't have any value Signed-off-by:
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Jordan Hargrave authored
If the HPET timer is enabled, the clock can drift by ~3 seconds a day. This is due to the HPET timer not being initialized with the correct setting (still using PIT count). If HZ changes, this drift can become even more pronounced. HPET patch initializes tick_nsec with correct tick_nsec settings for HPET timer. Vojtech comments: "It's not entirely correct (it assumes the HPET ticks totally exactly), but it's significantly better than assuming the PIT error there." Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Mostly to get better handling when a extended config space access has to fallback to Type1. Cc: gregkh@suse.de Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Previously only the first bus would be checked against Type 1. Why 16? Checking all would need too much memory and we can assume that systems with more than 16 busses have better than average quality BIOS. This is an additional defense against bad MCFG tables. Signed-off-by:
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai authored
Fixup the read mostly section to start at internode cacheline boundary. Signed-off-by:
Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
Fix WARNING: vmlinux: 'strlen' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux Reported by Mats Johannesson Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Intel EM64T CPUs handle uncanonical return addresses differently from AMD CPUs. The exception is reported in the SYSRET, not the next instruction. This leads to the kernel exception handler running on the user stack with the wrong GS because the kernel didn't expect exceptions on this instruction. This version of the patch has the teething problems that plagued an earlier version fixed. This is CVE-2006-0744 Thanks to Ernie Petrides and Asit B. Mallick for analysis and initial patches. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Machine checks can stall the machine for a long time and it's not good to trigger the nmi watchdog during that. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
The generic linux/numa.h file defines NODES_SHIFT to 0 in case the architecture did not. Every architecture which has a NUMA config option defines NODES_SHIFT in its asm-$ARCH headers, but only if NUMA is enabled, except for x86_64. This should make it like all the rest. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jacob Shin authored
This prevents crashes on dual core system when enough ticks are lost. Replaces earlier patch by me. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
AMD systems have a modern APIC that supports 8 bit IDs, but don't have a XAPIC version number. Add a new "modern_apic" subfunction that handles this correctly and use it (nearly) everywhere where XAPIC is tested for. I removed one wart: the code specified that external APICs would use an 8bit APIC ID. But I checked a real 82093 data sheet and it says clearly that they only use 4bit. So I removed this special case since it would a bit awkward to implement now. I removed the valid APIC tests in mptable parsing completely. On any modern system they only check against the full field width (8bit) anyways and are no-ops. This also fixes them doing the wrong thing on >8 core Opterons. This makes i386 boot again on 16 core Opterons. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Needed for other checks later in ACPI. Pointed out by Len Brown Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
When nolapic was passed or the local APIC was disabled for another reason ACPI would still parse the IO-APICs until these were explicitely disabled with noapic. Usually this resulted in a non booting configuration unless "nolapic noapic" was used. I also disabled the local APIC parsing in this case, although that's only cosmetic (suppresses a few printks) This hopefully makes nolapic work in all cases. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Horus systems don't have anything on bus 0 which makes the Type 1 sanity checks fail. Use the DMI BIOS year to check for newer systems and always assume Type 1 works on them. I used 2001 as an pretty arbitary cutoff year. Cc: gregkh@suse.de Cc: Navin Boppuri <navin.boppuri@newisys.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch introduces a user for the e820_all_mapped function: There have been several machines that don't have a working MMCONFIG, often because of a buggy MCFG table in the ACPI bios. This patch adds a simple sanity check that detects a whole bunch of these cases, and when it detects it, linux now boots rather than crash-and-burns. The accuracy of this detection can in principle be improved if there was a "is this entire range in e820 with THIS attribute", but no such function exist and the complexity needed for this is not really worth it; this simple check already catches most cases anyway. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Introduce a e820_all_mapped() function which checks if the entire range <start,end> is mapped with type. This is done by moving the local start variable to the end of each known-good region; if at the end of the function the start address is still before end, there must be a part that's not of the correct type; otherwise it's a good region. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Rename e820_mapped to e820_any_mapped since it tests if any part of the range is mapped according to the type. Later steps will introduce e820_all_mapped which will check if the entire range is mapped with the type. Both have their merit. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
The node setup code would try to allocate the node metadata in the node itself, but that fails if there is no memory in there. This can happen with memory hotplug when the hotplug area defines an so far empty node. Now use bootmem to try to allocate the mem_map in other nodes. And if it fails don't panic, but just ignore the node. To make this work I added a new __alloc_bootmem_nopanic function that does what its name implies. TBD should try to use nearby nodes here. Currently we just use any. It's hard to do it better because bootmem doesn't have proper fallback lists yet. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
From: Keith Mannthey, Andi Kleen Implement memory hotadd without sparsemem. The memory in the SRAT hotadd area is just preserved instead and can be activated later. There are a few restrictions: - Only one continuous hotadd area allowed per node The main problem is dealing with the many buggy SRAT tables that are out there. The strategy here is to reject anything suspicious. Originally from Keith Mannthey, with several hacks and changes by AK and also contributions from Andrew Morton [ TBD: Problems pointed out by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>: 1) Goto's rebuild_zonelist patch will not work if CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n. Rebuilding zonelist is necessary when the system has just memory < 4G at boot, and hot add memory > 4G. because x86_64 has DMA32, ZONE_NORAML is not included into zonelist at boot time if system doesn't have memory >4G at boot. [AK: should just force the higher zones at boot time when SRAT tells us] 2) zone and node's spanned_pages and present_pages are not incremented. They should be. For example, our server (ia64/Fujitsu PrimeQuest) can equip memory from 4G to 1T(maybe 2T in future), and SRAT will *always* say we have possible 1T +memory. (Microsoft requires "write all possible memory in SRAT") When we reserve memmap for possible 1T memory, Linux will not work well in +minimum 4G configuraion ;) [AK: needs limiting to 5-10% of max memory] ] Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Memory hotadd doesn't need SPARSEMEM, but can be handled by just preallocating mem_maps. This only needs some untangling of ifdefs to enable the necessary code even without SPARSEMEM. Originally from Keith Mannthey, hacked by AK. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Just call IRET always, no need for any special cases. Needed for the next bug fix. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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- 03 Apr, 2006 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Close of the merge window..
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- 02 Apr, 2006 13 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Apparently nobody had tried to compile the ALSA CVS tree without power management enabled. Signed-off-by: -
git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] splice: fix page stealing LRU handling. [PATCH] splice: page stealing needs to wait_on_page_writeback() [PATCH] splice: export generic_splice_sendpage [PATCH] splice: add a SPLICE_F_MORE flag [PATCH] splice: add comments documenting more of the code [PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealing [PATCH] splice: fix shadow[] filling logic
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Jens Axboe authored
Originally from Nick Piggin, just adapted to the newer branch. You can't check PageLRU without holding zone->lru_lock. The page release code can get away with it only because the page refcount is 0 at that point. Also, you can't reliably remove pages from the LRU unless the refcount is 0. Ever. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Jens Axboe authored
Thanks to Andrew for the good explanation of why this is so. akpm writes: If a page is under writeback and we remove it from pagecache, it's still going to get written to disk. But the VFS no longer knows about that page, nor that this page is about to modify disk blocks. So there might be scenarios in which those blocks-which-are-about-to-be-written-to get reused for something else. When writeback completes, it'll scribble on those blocks. This won't happen in ext2/ext3-style filesystems in normal mode because the page has buffers and try_to_release_page() will fail. But ext2 in nobh mode doesn't attach buffers at all - it just sticks the page in a BIO, finds some new blocks, points the BIO at those blocks and lets it rip. While that write IO's in flight, someone could truncate the file. Truncate won't block on the writeout because the page isn't in pagecache any more. So truncate will the free the blocks from the file under the page's feet. Then something else can reallocate those blocks. Then write data to them. Now, the original write completes, corrupting the filesystem. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
Forgot that one, thanks Jeff. Also move the other EXPORT_SYMBOL to right below the functions. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
This lets userspace indicate whether more data will be coming in a subsequent splice call. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
Hopefully this will make Andrew a little more happy. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
By cleaning up the writeback logic (killing write_one_page() and the manual set_page_dirty()), we can get rid of ->stolen inside the pipe_buffer and just keep it local in pipe_to_file(). This also adds dirty page balancing logic and O_SYNC handling. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
Clear the entire range, and don't increment pidx or we keep filling the same position again and again. Thanks to KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki. Signed-off-by: -
Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (27 commits) [ARM] 3433/1: ARM: OMAP: 8/8 Update board files [ARM] 3455/1: ARM: OMAP: 7/8 Misc updates, take 2 [ARM] 3454/1: ARM: OMAP: 6/8 Update framebuffer low-level init code, take 2 [ARM] 3430/1: ARM: OMAP: 5/8 Update PM [ARM] 3429/1: ARM: OMAP: 4/8 Update GPIO [ARM] 3428/1: ARM: OMAP: 3/8 Update pin multiplexing [ARM] 3427/1: ARM: OMAP: 2/8 Update timers [ARM] 3426/1: ARM: OMAP: 1/8 Update clock framework [ARM] 3396/2: AT91RM9200 Platform devices update [ARM] 3395/2: AT91RM9200 Dataflash Card vs MMC selection [ARM] 3393/2: AT91RM9200 LED support [ARM] 3453/1: Poodle: Correctly set the memory size [ARM] 3446/1: i.MX: MMC/SD SDHC controller registration for i.MX/MX1 MX1ADS board [ARM] 3444/1: i.MX: Scatter-gather DMA emulation for i.MX/MX1 [ARM] 3451/1: ep93xx: use the m48t86 rtc driver on the ts72xx platform [ARM] 3450/1: ep93xx: use the ep93xx rtc driver [ARM] 3452/1: [S3C2410] RX3715 - add nand information [ARM] 3449/1: [S3C2410] Anubis - fix NAND timings [ARM] 3448/1: [S3C2410] Settle delay when _enabling_ USB PLL [ARM] 3442/1: [S3C2410] SMDK: NAND device setup ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc: [ARM] 3457/1: i.MX: SD/MMC support for i.MX/MX1 [ARM] 3456/1: AT91RM9200 support for 2.6 (MMC/SD driver)
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git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Provide XFS support for the splice syscall. [XFS] Reenable write barriers by default. [XFS] Make project quota enforcement return an error code consistent with [XFS] Implement the silent parameter to fill_super, previously ignored. [XFS] Cleanup comment to remove reference to obsoleted function
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (28 commits) [ALSA] Kconfig SND_SEQUENCER_OSS help text fix [ALSA] Add Aux input switch control for Aureon Universe [ALSA] pcxhr - Fix the crash with REV01 board [ALSA] sound/pci/hda: use create_singlethread_workqueue() [ALSA] hda-intel - Add support of ATI SB600 [ALSA] cs4281 - Fix the check of timeout in probe [ALSA] cs4281 - Fix the check of right channel [ALSA] Test volume resolution of usb audio at initialization [ALSA] maestro3.c: fix BUG, optimization [ALSA] HDA/Realtek: multiple input mux definitions and pin mode additions [ALSA] AdLib FM card driver [ALSA] Fix / clean up PCM-OSS setup hooks [ALSA] Clean up PCM codes (take 2) [ALSA] Tiny clean up of PCM codes [ALSA] ISA drivers bailing on first !enable[i] [ALSA] Remove obsolete kfree_nocheck call [ALSA] Remove obsolete kfree_nocheck call [ALSA] Add snd-als300 driver for Avance Logic ALS300/ALS300+ soundcards [ALSA] Add snd-riptide driver for Conexant Riptide chip [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix noisy output wtih AD1986A 3stack model ...
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