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<title>Merge branch 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2011-08-22T18:25:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-08-22T18:25:44+00:00</published>
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* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/tracing: Fix tracing config option properly
  xen: Do not enable PV IPIs when vector callback not present
  xen/x86: replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one
  xen: xen-selfballoon.c needs more header files
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* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/tracing: Fix tracing config option properly
  xen: Do not enable PV IPIs when vector callback not present
  xen/x86: replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one
  xen: xen-selfballoon.c needs more header files
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<title>xen/x86: replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one</title>
<updated>2011-08-17T14:26:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@novell.com</email>
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<published>2011-08-16T14:07:41+00:00</published>
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The order-based approach is not only less efficient (requiring a shift
and a compare, typical generated code looking like this

	mov	eax, [machine_to_phys_order]
	mov	ecx, eax
	shr	ebx, cl
	test	ebx, ebx
	jnz	...

whereas a direct check requires just a compare, like in

	cmp	ebx, [machine_to_phys_nr]
	jae	...

), but also slightly dangerous in the 32-on-64 case - the element
address calculation can wrap if the next power of two boundary is
sufficiently far away from the actual upper limit of the table, and
hence can result in user space addresses being accessed (with it being
unknown what may actually be mapped there).

Additionally, the elimination of the mistaken use of fls() here (should
have been __fls()) fixes a latent issue on x86-64 that would trigger
if the code was run on a system with memory extending beyond the 44-bit
boundary.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
[v1: Based on Jeremy's feedback]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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The order-based approach is not only less efficient (requiring a shift
and a compare, typical generated code looking like this

	mov	eax, [machine_to_phys_order]
	mov	ecx, eax
	shr	ebx, cl
	test	ebx, ebx
	jnz	...

whereas a direct check requires just a compare, like in

	cmp	ebx, [machine_to_phys_nr]
	jae	...

), but also slightly dangerous in the 32-on-64 case - the element
address calculation can wrap if the next power of two boundary is
sufficiently far away from the actual upper limit of the table, and
hence can result in user space addresses being accessed (with it being
unknown what may actually be mapped there).

Additionally, the elimination of the mistaken use of fls() here (should
have been __fls()) fixes a latent issue on x86-64 that would trigger
if the code was run on a system with memory extending beyond the 44-bit
boundary.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
[v1: Based on Jeremy's feedback]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip</title>
<updated>2011-08-13T03:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-08-13T03:46:24+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
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* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
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<title>x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter</title>
<updated>2011-08-11T00:26:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2011-08-10T15:15:32+00:00</published>
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There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall</title>
<updated>2011-08-11T00:26:46+00:00</updated>
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<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2011-08-10T15:15:31+00:00</published>
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getcpu is available as a vdso entry and an emulated vsyscall.
Programs that for some reason don't want to use the vdso should
still be able to call getcpu without relying on the slow emulated
vsyscall.  It costs almost nothing to expose it as a real syscall.

We also need this for the following patch in vsyscall=native mode.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b19f55bdb06a0c32c2fa6dba9b6f222e1fde999.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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getcpu is available as a vdso entry and an emulated vsyscall.
Programs that for some reason don't want to use the vdso should
still be able to call getcpu without relying on the slow emulated
vsyscall.  It costs almost nothing to expose it as a real syscall.

We also need this for the following patch in vsyscall=native mode.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b19f55bdb06a0c32c2fa6dba9b6f222e1fde999.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T23:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T13:31:53+00:00</published>
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Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3
selector is __USER_CS.  This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq
changes cs to the magic value 0xe033.

Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve
vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling"
(c9712944b2a12373cb6ff8059afcfb7e826a6c54), vsyscalls will segfault
if called with Xen's extra CS selector.  This causes a panic when
older init builds die.

It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without
taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the
tests instead with a new paravirt op.  It's a little ugly because
ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3
selector is __USER_CS.  This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq
changes cs to the magic value 0xe033.

Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve
vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling"
(c9712944b2a12373cb6ff8059afcfb7e826a6c54), vsyscalls will segfault
if called with Xen's extra CS selector.  This causes a panic when
older init builds die.

It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without
taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the
tests instead with a new paravirt op.  It's a little ugly because
ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge commit 'v3.0' into x86/vdso</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T23:13:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-08-04T23:13:20+00:00</published>
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<title>x86: don't include xen/xen.h in &lt;asm/io.h&gt; unless XEN is enabled</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T08:00:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T08:00:38+00:00</published>
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Dmitry Kasatkin reports:
  "kernel-devel package with kernel headers have no &lt;include/xen&gt;
   directory if XEN is disabled.  Modules which inclide asm/io.h won't
   compile.

   XEN related content is behind the CONFIG_XEN flag in the io.h.  And
   &lt;xen/xen.h&gt; should be also behind CONFIG_XEN flag."

So move the include of &lt;xen/xen.h&gt; down into the section that is
conditional on CONFIG_XEN.

Reported-by: Dmitry Kasatkin &lt;dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Dmitry Kasatkin reports:
  "kernel-devel package with kernel headers have no &lt;include/xen&gt;
   directory if XEN is disabled.  Modules which inclide asm/io.h won't
   compile.

   XEN related content is behind the CONFIG_XEN flag in the io.h.  And
   &lt;xen/xen.h&gt; should be also behind CONFIG_XEN flag."

So move the include of &lt;xen/xen.h&gt; down into the section that is
conditional on CONFIG_XEN.

Reported-by: Dmitry Kasatkin &lt;dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T07:54:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T07:54:15+00:00</published>
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
  x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
  cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
  cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
  mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
  x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
  cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
  cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
  mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
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<title>x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T23:06:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-03-31T03:52:29+00:00</published>
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...and make it static

no functional change

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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...and make it static

no functional change

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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