linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include, branch v3.8.2

x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()

2013-02-28T13:38:28+00:00

commit bb112aec5ee41427e9b9726e3d57b896709598ed upstream.

Remove reference to removed function resume_map_numa_kva().

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131005616.1C79F411@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address

2013-02-13T09:02:55+00:00

A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads
/proc/kcore:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
 IP: [] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
 [...]

 Call Trace:
  [] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
  [] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
  [] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
  [] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading
system RAM at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first
address using 1G pages for the virt->phys direct mapping so the
PUD is pointing to a physical address, not a PMD page.

The problem is that the page table walker in kern_addr_valid() is
not checking pud_large() and treats the physical address as if
it was a PMD.  If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll
silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If
the data happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be
walked resulting in the oops above.

This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check.

Unfortunately the problem was not readily reproducible and now
they are running the backup program without accessing
/proc/kcore so the patch has not been validated but I think it
makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'ras_for_3.8' into x86/urgent

2013-02-06T22:18:53+00:00

Retract MCE-specific UAPI exports which are unused and shouldn't be
used.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

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

2013-01-31T06:10:36+00:00

Pull x86 EFI fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a collection of fixes for the EFI support.  The controversial
  bit here is a set of patches which bumps the boot protocol version as
  part of fixing some serious problems with the EFI handover protocol,
  used when booting under EFI using a bootloader as opposed to directly
  from EFI.  These changes should also make it a lot saner to support
  cross-mode 32/64-bit EFI booting in the future.  Getting these changes
  into 3.8 means we avoid presenting an inconsistent ABI to bootloaders.

  Other changes are display detection and fixing efivarfs."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove attribute check from setup_efi_pci
  x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code
  x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode
  x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point
  x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub
  x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol
  x86/boot: Fix minor fd leakage in tools/relocs.c
  x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision
  x86, efi: fix 32-bit warnings in setup_efi_pci()
  efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write()
  efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware
  efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog
  efivarfs: Drop link count of the right inode

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-01-30T19:51:59+00:00

Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Corentin Chary 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Steve Langasek 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol

2013-01-27T23:56:37+00:00

Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional
fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to
live above the 4 GiB mark.

The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the
legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points
are supported.

Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed
bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness
at least until the issue can be researched further.

This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse.

Originally-by: Yinghai Lu 
Originally-by: David Woodhouse 
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu 
Acked-by: David Woodhouse 
Acked-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley 
Cc: Gokul Caushik 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Joe Millenbach

arch/x86/platform/uv: Fix incorrect tlb flush all issue

2013-01-24T14:58:54+00:00

The flush tlb optimization code has logical issue on UV
platform.  It doesn't flush the full range at all, since it
simply ignores its 'end' parameter (and hence also the "all"
indicator) in uv_flush_tlb_others() function.

Cliff's notes:

 | I tested the patch on a UV.  It has the effect of either
 | clearing 1 or all TLBs in a cpu.  I added some debugging to
 | test for the cases when clearing all TLBs is overkill, and in
 | practice it happens very seldom.

Reported-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi 
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman 
Tested-by: Cliff Wickman 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, MCE: Retract most UAPI exports

2013-01-09T13:49:02+00:00

Retract back most macro definitions which went into the
user-visible mce.h header. Even though those bits are mostly
hardware-defined/-architectural, their naming is not. If we export them
to userspace, any kernel unification/renaming/cleanup cannot be done
anymore since those are effectively cast in stone. Besides, if userspace
wants those definitions, they can write their own defines and go crazy.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov

X86: drivers: remove __dev* attributes.

2013-01-03T23:57:04+00:00

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitconst,
and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Daniel Drake 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2012-12-21T02:05:28+00:00

Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

  Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
  SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
  resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
  SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
  include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
  new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
  generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
  introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
  new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
  new helper: restore_altstack()
  unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
  new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
  missing user_stack_pointer() instances
  Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure