- 30 Jan, 2008 40 commits
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Fix a preemption bug in kprobe_handler(). It has to call preempt_enable() before returning. Signed-off-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Venki Pallipadi authored
Aviod TLB flush IPIs during C3 states by voluntary leave_mm() before entering C3. The performance impact of TLB flush on C3 should not be significant with respect to C3 wakeup latency. Also, CPUs tend to flush TLB in hardware while in C3 anyways. On a 8 logical CPU system, running make -j2, the number of tlbflush IPIs goes down from 40 per second to ~ 0. Total number of interrupts during the run of this workload was ~1200 per second, which makes it ~3% savings in wakeups. There was no measurable performance or power impact however. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: symbol export fixes. ] Signed-off-by:
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
we use a few static mapping rules in our pirq routing functions, and for example regression f3ac8432 was due to the pirq being out of range of the remapping array. Put in a few WARN_ON_ONCE() lines so that we get notified about any such out-of-bound incidents. Signed-off-by:
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Gary Hade authored
increasing number of PCI slots in large multi-node systems. The kernel currently attempts by default to allocate memory for all PCI expansion ROMs so there has also been an increasing number of PCI memory allocation failures seen on these systems. This occurs because the BIOS either (1) provides insufficient PCI memory resource for all the expansion ROMs or (2) provides adequate PCI memory resource for expansion ROMs but provides the space in kernel unexpected BIOS assigned P2P non-prefetch windows. The resulting PCI memory allocation failures may be benign when related to memory requests for expansion ROMs themselves but in some cases they can occur when attempting to allocate space for more critical BARs. This can happen when a successful expansion ROM allocation request consumes memory resource that was intended for a non-ROM BAR. We have seen this happen during PCI hotplug of an adapter that contains a P2P bridge where successful memory allocation for an expansion ROM BAR on device behind the bridge consumed memory that was intended for a non-ROM BAR on the P2P bridge. In all cases the allocation failure messages can be very confusing for users. This patch addresses the issue by changing the kernel default behavior so that expansion ROM memory allocations are no longer attempted by default when the BIOS has not assigned a specific address range to the expansion ROM BAR. This was done by changing the 'pci=rom' boot option behavior for BIOS unassigned expansion ROMs to actually match it's current kernel-parameters.txt description which already implies "off" by default. Behavior for BIOS assigned expansion ROMs implemented in pcibios_assign_resources() [arch/x86/pci/i386.c] is unchanged. Signed-off-by:
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by:
"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Parag Warudkar authored
dmi_alloc() for CONFIG_X86_64 is defined to allocate from a static array and it maintains a allocation index which is advanced each time allocation is attempted - it gets incremented even if an allocation fails thereby depriving any future request that may be small enough to be satisfied from the array. Fix this by first testing if allocation is going to be possible and incrementing alloc index only then. Signed-off-by:
Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Parag Warudkar authored
People with HP Desktops (including me) encounter couple of DMI errors during boot - dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory and dmi_string: out of memory. On some HP desktops the DMI data include OEM strings (type 11) out of which only few are meaningful and most other are empty. DMI code religiously creates copies of these 27 strings (65 bytes each in my case) and goes OOM in dmi_string(). If DMI_MAX_DATA is bumped up a little then it goes and fails in dmi_save_oem_strings while allocating dmi_devices of sizeof(struct dmi_device) corresponding to these strings. On x86_64 since we cannot use alloc_bootmem this early, the code uses a static array of 2048 bytes (DMI_MAX_DATA) for allocating the memory DMI needs. It does not survive the creation of empty strings and devices. Fix this by detecting and not newly allocating empty strings and instead using a one statically defined dmi_empty_string. Also do not create a new struct dmi_device for each empty string - use one statically define dmi_device with .name=dmi_empty_string and add that to the dmi_devices list. On x64 this should stop the OOM with same current size of DMI_MAX_DATA and on x86 this should save a good amount of (27*65 bytes + 27*sizeof(struct dmi_device) bootmem. Compile and boot tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
remove unused include/asm-x86/processor_32/64.h. Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions. They are moved to processor.h around ifdefs, and the original files are deleted. Note that there's much less headers included in the final version. Signed-off-by:
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
This patch removes the __init modifier from an extern function declaration in acpi.h. Besides not being strictly needed, it requires the inclusion of linux/init.h, which is usually not even included directly, increasing header mess by a lot. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes duplicated code by calling the generic ptrace_request and compat_ptrace_request functions for the things they already handle. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This makes ELF core dumps of 32-bit processes include a new note type NT_386_TLS (0x200) giving the contents of the TLS slots in struct user_desc format. This lets post mortem examination figure out what the segment registers mean like the debugger does with get_thread_area on a live process. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
Remove the old ia32_binfmt.c file, which is no longer used. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This switches x86-64's 32-bit ELF support to use the shared fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c code instead of our own ia32_binfmt.c. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes a bunch of dead code that is no longer needed now that the user_regset interfaces are being used for all these jobs. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the PTRACE_*REGS* request code so each one is just a simple call to copy_regset_to_user or copy_regset_from_user. The ptrace layouts already match the user_regset formats (core dump formats). Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This switches x86 to the user_regset-based code for ELF core dumps. The core dumps come out exactly the same as before. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This defines task_user_regset_view and the tables describing the x86 user_regset layouts for 32 and 64. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds accessor functions in the user_regset style for the general registers (struct user_regs_struct). Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds accessor functions in the user_regset style for the TLS data. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This cleans up the TLS code to use struct desc_struct and to separate the encoding and installation magic from the interface wrappers. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This removes all the old code that is no longer used after the i387 unification and cleanup. The i387_64.h is renamed to i387.h with no changes, but since it replaces the nonempty one-line stub i387.h it looks like a big diff and not a rename. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This revamps the i387 code to be shared across 32-bit, 64-bit, and 32-on-64. It does so by consolidating the code in one place based on the user_regset accessor interfaces. This switches 32-bit to using the i387_64.h header and 64-bit to using the i387.c that was previously i387_32.c, but that's what took the least cleanup in each file. Here i387.h is stubbed to always include i387_64.h rather than renaming the file, to keep this diff smaller and easier to read. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This renames arch/x86/kernel/{i387_32.c => i387.c}. This is a pure renaming, but paves the way for merging the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this code. Signed-off-by: -
Roland McGrath authored
This converts the ptrace/signal accessors for i387 math_emu state to the user_regset interface style, and calls these from the old interfaces. It also cleans up math_emulate's ptrace check to be a single-step check, which is what it really wants. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This moves some code into asm-x86/i387_64.h in preparation for unifying this code between 32 and 64. The 32-bit versions of some things are copied in some existing names changed to match 32-bit names and share code. For 64, save_i387 is moved into an inline from i387_64.c; this matches restore_i387, which is already an inline, and makes sense since there is exactly one caller (in signal_64.c). The save_i387 function could use more cosmetic cleanup, but it is just moved verbatim in this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
The i387_fxsave_struct formats really have the same layout on 32 and 64, with only some slightly different use of a few fields. The i387_fsave_struct and i387_soft_struct formats are never used by 64-bit kernels, but it doesn't hurt to have the unused types in the union and cuts down on the amount of #ifdef hair required throughout the i387 code. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds hard-wired definitions for the remaining cpu_has_* macros that correspond to flags required-features.h demands are set for 64-bit. Using these can efficiently avoid some #ifdef's when merging 32-bit and 64-bit code together. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds a generic definition of compat_sys_ptrace that calls compat_arch_ptrace, parallel to sys_ptrace/arch_ptrace. Some machines needing this already define a function by that name. The new generic function is defined only on machines that put #define __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE into asm/ptrace.h. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds a compat_ptrace_request that is the analogue of ptrace_request for the things that 32-on-64 ptrace implementations can share in common. So far there are just a couple of requests handled generically. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This makes ptrace_request handle {PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} directly. Every arch_ptrace that could call generic_ptrace_peekdata already has a default case calling ptrace_request, so this keeps things simpler for the arch code. Signed-off-by: -
Roland McGrath authored
This defines two new inlines in linux/regset.h, for use in arch_ptrace implementations and the like. These provide simplified wrappers for using the user_regset interfaces to copy thread regset data into the caller's user-space memory. The inlines are trivial, but make the common uses in places such as ptrace implementation much more concise, easier to read, and less prone to code-copying errors. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds Kconfig and Makefile bits to build fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c, just added. Each arch that wants to use this file needs to add a "select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF" line in its Kconfig bits that enable COMPAT. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c, a wrapper around fs/binfmt_elf.c for 32-bit ELF support on 64-bit kernels. It can replace all the hand-rolled versions of this that each 32/64 arch has, which are all about the same. To use this, an arch's asm/elf.h has to define at least a few compat_* macros that parallel the various macros that fs/binfmt_elf.c uses for native support. There is no attempt to deal with compat macros for the core dump format support. To use this file, the arch has to define compat_gregset_t for linux/elfcore-compat.h and #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET. The 32-bit compatible formats should come automatically from task_user_regset_view called on a 32-bit task. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds some inlines to linux/regset.h intended for arch code to use in its user_regset get and set functions. These make it pretty easy to deal with the interface's optional kernel-space or user-space pointers and its generalized access to a part of the register data at a time. In simple cases where the internal data structure matches the exported layout (core dump format), a get function can be nothing but a call to user_regset_copyout, and a set function a call to user_regset_copyin. In other cases the exported layout is usually made up of a few pieces each stored contiguously in a different internal data structure. These helpers make it straightforward to write a get or set function by processing each contiguous chunk of the data in order. The start_pos and end_pos arguments are always constants, so these inlines collapse to a small amount of code. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This modifies the ELF core dump code under #ifdef CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET. It changes nothing when this macro is not defined. When it's #define'd by some arch header (e.g. asm/elf.h), the arch must support the user_regset (linux/regset.h) interface for reading thread state. This provides an alternate version of note segment writing that is based purely on the user_regset interfaces. When CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET is set, the arch need not define macros such as ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS and ELF_ARCH. All that information is taken from the user_regset data structures. The core dumps come out exactly the same if arch's definitions for its user_regset details are correct. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This pulls out the code for writing the notes segment of an ELF core dump into separate functions. This cleanly isolates into one cluster of functions everything that deals with the note formats and the hooks into arch code to fill them. The top-level elf_core_dump function itself now deals purely with the generic ELF format and the memory segments. This only moves code around into functions that can be inlined away. It should not change any behavior at all. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
The new header <linux/regset.h> defines the types struct user_regset and struct user_regset_view, with some associated declarations. This new set of interfaces will become the standard way for arch code to expose user-mode machine-specific state. A single set of entry points into arch code can do all the low-level work in one place to fill the needs of core dumps, ptrace, and any other user-mode debugging facilities that might come along in the future. For existing arch code to adapt to the user_regset interfaces, each arch can work from the code it already has to support core files and ptrace. The formats you want for user_regset are the core file formats. The only wrinkle in adapting old ptrace implementation code as user_regset get and set functions is that these functions can be called on current as well as on another task_struct that is stopped and switched out as for ptrace. For some kinds of machine state, you may have to load it directly from CPU registers or otherwise differently for current than for another thread. (Your core dump support already handles this in elf_core_copy_regs for current and elf_core_copy_task_regs for other tasks, so just check there.) The set function should also be made to work on current in case that entails some special cases, though this was never required before for ptrace. Adding this flexibility covers the arch needs to open the door to more sophisticated new debugging facilities that don't always need to context-switch to do every little thing. The copyin/copyout helper functions (in a later patch) relieve the arch code of most of the cumbersome details of the flexible get/set interfaces. Signed-off-by:
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Harvey Harrison authored
This adds one case to the MODULE_PROC_FAMILY block testing for X86_64. There are no new things defined on X86_64 than there were before. Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Harvey Harrison authored
Eliminate __always_inline, all of these static functions are only called once. Minor whitespace cleanup. Eliminate one supefluous return at end of void function. Change the one #ifndef to #ifdef to match the sense of the rest of the config tests. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Spelling fixes. Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
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