linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include/uapi, branch v3.12

kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi

2013-08-26T09:46:01+00:00

this is needed by both guest and host.

Originally-from: Srivatsa Vaddagiri 
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T 
Acked-by: Gleb Natapov 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov

KVM: x86: Update symbolic exit codes

2013-08-13T14:58:42+00:00

Add decoding for INVEPT and reorder the list according to the reason
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

nEPT: Nested INVEPT

2013-08-07T13:57:42+00:00

If we let L1 use EPT, we should probably also support the INVEPT instruction.

In our current nested EPT implementation, when L1 changes its EPT table
for L2 (i.e., EPT12), L0 modifies the shadow EPT table (EPT02), and in
the course of this modification already calls INVEPT. But if last level
of shadow page is unsync not all L1's changes to EPT12 are intercepted,
which means roots need to be synced when L1 calls INVEPT. Global INVEPT
should not be different since roots are synced by kvm_mmu_load() each
time EPTP02 changes.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong 
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El 
Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima 
Signed-off-by: Xinhao Xu 
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

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

2013-07-02T23:21:45+00:00

Pull asm/x86 changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc changes, with a bigger processor-flags cleanup/reorganization by
  Peter Anvin"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, asm, cleanup: Replace open-coded control register values with symbolic
  x86, processor-flags: Fix the datatypes and add bit number defines
  x86: Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE
  x86, flags: Rename X86_EFLAGS_BIT1 to X86_EFLAGS_FIXED
  linux/const.h: Add _BITUL() and _BITULL()
  x86/vdso: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  x86: __force_order doesn't need to be an actual variable

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

2013-07-02T23:15:23+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel improvements:

- watchdog driver improvements by Li Zefan
- Power7 CPI stack events related improvements by Sukadev Bhattiprolu
- event multiplexing via hrtimers and other improvements by Stephane
Eranian
- kernel stack use optimization by Andrew Hunter
- AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit
- NMI handling rate-limits by Dave Hansen
- various hw_breakpoint fixes by Oleg Nesterov
- hw_breakpoint overflow period sampling and related signal handling
fixes by Jiri Olsa
- Intel Haswell PMU support by Andi Kleen

Tooling improvements:

- Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process, fix from David
Ahern.
- Makefile reorganization, prep work for Kconfig patches, from Jiri
Olsa.
- Add automated make test suite, from Jiri Olsa.
- Add --percent-limit option to 'top' and 'report', from Namhyung
Kim.
- Sorting improvements, from Namhyung Kim.
- Expand definition of sysfs format attribute, from Michael Ellerman.

Tooling fixes:

- 'perf tests' fixes from Jiri Olsa.
- Make Power7 CPI stack events available in sysfs, from Sukadev
Bhattiprolu.
- Handle death by SIGTERM in 'perf record', fix from David Ahern.
- Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message, from David Ahern.
- Handle realloc failures in 'perf kvm', from David Ahern.
- Fix divide by 0 in variance, from David Ahern.
- Save parent pid in thread struct, from David Ahern.
- Handle JITed code in shared memory, from Andi Kleen.
- Fixes for 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa.
- Remove some unused struct members, from Jiri Olsa.
- Add missing liblk.a dependency for python/perf.so, fix from Jiri
Olsa.
- Respect CROSS_COMPILE in liblk.a, from Rabin Vincent.
- No need to do locking when adding hists in perf report, only 'top'
needs that, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix alignment of symbol column in in the hists browser (top,
report) when -v is given, from NAmhyung Kim.
- Fix 'perf top' -E option behavior, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix bug in isupper() and islower(), from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- Fix compile errors in bp_signal 'perf test', from Sukadev
Bhattiprolu.

... and more things"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (102 commits)
perf/x86: Disable PEBS-LL in intel_pmu_pebs_disable()
perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement
perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting
x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints
perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
x86: Warn when NMI handlers take large amounts of time
hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
hw_breakpoint: Simplify *register_wide_hw_breakpoint()
hw_breakpoint: Introduce cpumask_of_bp()
hw_breakpoint: Simplify the "weight" usage in toggle_bp_slot() paths
hw_breakpoint: Simplify list/idx mess in toggle_bp_slot() paths
perf/x86/intel: Add mem-loads/stores support for Haswell
perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format
perf/x86/intel: Move NMI clearing to end of PMI handler
perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS support
perf/x86/intel: Add simple Haswell PMU support
perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS record support
perf/x86/intel: Fix sparse warning
perf/x86/amd: AMD IOMMU Performance Counter PERF uncore PMU implementation
perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter resource management
...

perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting

2013-06-26T09:59:25+00:00

Recent Intel CPUs like Haswell and IvyBridge have a new
alternative MSR range for perfctrs that allows writing the full
counter width. Enable this range if the hardware reports it
using a new capability bit.

Currently the perf code queries CPUID to get the counter width,
and sign extends the counter values as needed. The traditional
PERFCTR MSRs always limit to 32bit, even though the counter
internally is larger (usually 48 bits on recent CPUs)

When the new capability is set use the alternative range which
do not have these restrictions.

This lowers the overhead of perf stat slightly because it has to
do less interrupts to accumulate the counter value. On Haswell
it also avoids some problems with TSX aborting when the end of
the counter range is reached.

( See the patch "perf/x86/intel: Avoid checkpointed counters
  causing excessive TSX aborts" for more details. )

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372173153-20215-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, processor-flags: Fix the datatypes and add bit number defines

2013-06-25T23:26:06+00:00

The control registers are unsigned long (32 bits on i386, 64 bits on
x86-64), and so make that manifest in the data type for the various
constants.  Add defines with a _BIT suffix which defines the bit
number, as opposed to the bit mask.

This should resolve some issues with ~bitmask that Linus discovered.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cwckhbrib2aux1qbteaebij0@git.kernel.org

x86: Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE

2013-06-25T23:26:06+00:00

Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE to match the SDM.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-buq1evi5dpykxx7ak6amaam0@git.kernel.org

x86, flags: Rename X86_EFLAGS_BIT1 to X86_EFLAGS_FIXED

2013-06-25T23:25:32+00:00

Bit 1 in the x86 EFLAGS is always set.  Name the macro something that
actually tries to explain what it is all about, rather than being a
tautology.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f10rx5vjjm6tfnt8o1wseb3v@git.kernel.org

Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-10T20:59:37+00:00

This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective
reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling
QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware
implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual
mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't
going to work so well.

Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create
variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used"
until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do
until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to
install a bootloader, which is unhelpful.

Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than
5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable
threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt
garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems
that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a
genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to
create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if
it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it.

I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have
a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y  [ dummy variable cleanup ]
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming