linux-toradex.git/Documentation/x86, branch v4.4.93

Revert "x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options"

2016-11-01T01:56:26+00:00

This reverts commit fcf5e5198b447969ed2a56ec335dae3c695a6b46 which is
548acf19234dbda5a52d5a8e7e205af46e9da840 upstream.

Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options

2016-10-31T10:14:00+00:00

commit 548acf19234dbda5a52d5a8e7e205af46e9da840 upstream.

Huge amounts of help from  Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.

Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:

  ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
    in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '

The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.

We start out with three handlers:

 1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
 2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
 3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/pat: Document the PAT initialization sequence

2016-08-16T07:30:50+00:00

commit b6350c21cfe8aa9d65e189509a23c0ea4b8362c2 upstream.

Update PAT documentation to describe how PAT is initialized under
various configurations.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: elliott@hpe.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-8-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-09-01T17:07:40+00:00

Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The dominant change in this cycle was the continued work to isolate
  kernel drivers from MTRR legacies: this tree gets rid of all kernel
  internal driver interfaces to MTRRs (mostly by rewriting it to proper
  PAT interfaces), the only access left is the /proc/mtrr ABI.

  This work was done by Luis R Rodriguez.

  There's also some related PCI interface additions for which I've
  Cc:-ed Bjorn"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()
  s390/io: Add pci_iomap_wc() and pci_iomap_wc_range()
  drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style
  drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants
  drivers/video/fbdev/gxt4500: Use pci_ioremap_wc_bar() to map framebuffer
  drivers/video/fbdev/kyrofb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  PCI: Add pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  x86/mm: Make kernel/check.c explicitly non-modular
  x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular
  x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables
  arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_uc() to all architectures
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Replace MTRR UC hole with strong UC
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Clarify ioremap() base and length used
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Carve out framebuffer length fudging into a helper
  x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-09-01T16:04:31+00:00

Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main x86 bootup related changes in this cycle were:

   - more boot time optimizations.  (Len Brown)

   - implement hex output to allow the debugging of early bootup
     parameters.  (Kees Cook)

   - remove obsolete MCA leftovers.  (Paolo Pisati)"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/smpboot: Remove APIC.wait_for_init_deassert and atomic init_deasserted
  x86/smpboot: Remove SIPI delays from cpu_up()
  x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map
  x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_initialized_map
  x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table
  x86/boot: Add hex output for debugging

x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()

2015-08-28T08:09:28+00:00

The effort to replace mtrr_add() with architecture agnostic
arch_phys_wc_add() is complete, this will ensure write-combining
implementations (PAT on x86) is taken advantage instead of using
MTRR. With the effort done now, hide direct MTRR access for
drivers.

The legacy user-space /proc/mtrr ABI is not affected.

Update x86 documentation on MTRR to reflect the completion of
the phasing out of direct access to MTRR, also add a note on
platform firmware code use of MTRRs based on the obituary
discussion of MTRRs on Linux [0].

  [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438991330.3109.196.camel@hp.com

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Walls 
Cc: Antonino Daplas 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Doug Ledford 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suresh Siddha 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Ville Syrjälä 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vinod.koul@intel.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440443613-13696-12-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZE

2015-08-24T17:42:41+00:00

The IRQSTACKSIZE was renamed to the IRQ_STACK_SIZE in the
(26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu) commit,
but it still named IRQSTACKSIZE in the documentation. This
patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table

2015-07-21T08:55:11+00:00

The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.

bloat-o-meter output:

  add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  i386_start_kernel                            128     119      -9
  setup_arch                                  1421    1375     -46

Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm/entry/64: Update path names

2015-07-02T09:08:50+00:00

The paths mentioned in this file weren't updated through some file
rename commits. Fix them to refer to the correct path.

Signed-off-by: James C Boyd 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435781606-3037-1-git-send-email-jcboyd.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/urgent

2015-06-30T05:57:04+00:00

Merge branch that got ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar