linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel, branch v3.2.34

x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facility

2012-11-16T16:46:46+00:00

commit f6365201d8a21fb347260f89d6e9b3e718d63c70 upstream.

The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the
32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the
HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially
it turned off the use of HLT.

This workaround was commented in the code as:

 "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations"

 "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA
  wreckage. It should be safe to remove."

H. Peter Anvin additionally adds:

 "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of
  flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to
  run DOS.  Since DOS did no power management of any kind,
  including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed
  to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT
  caused some of these systems to fail.

  They were by far in the minority even back then."

Alan Cox further says:

 "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT
  occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during
  DMA tended to go astray.

  Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520
  fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of
  use."

So, let's finally drop this.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org
[ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be
  used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler

2012-10-30T23:26:52+00:00

commit a349e23d1cf746f8bdc603dcc61fae9ee4a695f6 upstream.

In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
(-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
/and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
signal.  The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
returned to).

The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
not done a system call).

If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
(-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
-EINTR).  This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
behaviour.

handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
negative value for orig_ax.  For example, for physical interrupts on
bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.

xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
instead of -1.

Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 is consistent with
other non-system call entry points and avoids some of the tests in
handle_signal().

There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback() of both 32 and
64-bit guests. If the fault was corrected and the normal return path
was used then 0 was incorrectly pushed as the value for orig_ax.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Acked-by: Jan Beulich 
Acked-by: Ian Campbell 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels

2012-10-10T02:31:15+00:00

commit cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979 upstream.

Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops
are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be
discarded in a non-modular kernel.  If something later triggers
patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage.

Reported-by: Tomas Racek 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Michael Tokarev 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel

2012-08-09T23:24:53+00:00

commit d6250a3f12edb3a86db9598ffeca3de8b4a219e9 upstream.

The Intel case falls through into the generic case which then changes
the values.  For cases like the P6 it doesn't do the right thing so
this seems to be a screwup.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lww2uirad4skzjlmrm0vru8o@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'

2012-08-04T15:31:12+00:00

commit 141168c36cdee3ff23d9c7700b0edc47cb65479f and
commit 3f806e50981825fa56a7f1938f24c0680816be45 upstream.

Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space.  However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files.  The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	4737168	 506459	 972040	6215667	 5ed7f3	vmlinux.o.before
	4737444	 506459	 972040	6215943	 5ed907	vmlinux.o.after

for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.

If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester 
Cc: Steffen Persvold 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-02T13:37:44+00:00

commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream.

Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.

So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
system-wide.

This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
the BSP:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
...

and disable the interface on the other cores:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
simultaneously.

A more generic fix will follow.

Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup

2012-08-02T13:37:44+00:00

commit e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 upstream.

Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul()
instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul().

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ACPI, x86: fix Dell M6600 ACPI reboot regression via DMI

2012-07-25T03:11:42+00:00

commit 76eb9a30db4bc8fd172f9155247264b5f2686d7b upstream.

Dell Precision M6600 is known to require PCI reboot, so add it to
the reboot blacklist in pci_reboot_dmi_table[].

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42749

cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ACPI: Add a quirk for "AMILO PRO V2030" to ignore the timer overriding

2012-07-25T03:11:42+00:00

commit b939c2acf1dc42b08407ef5174f2e8d6f43dd5ea upstream.

commit f6b54f083cc66cf9b11d2120d8df3c2ad4e0836d upstream.

This is the 2nd part of fix for kernel bugzilla 40002:
    "IRQ 0 assigned to VGA"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40002

The root cause is the buggy FW, whose ACPI tables assign the GSI 16
to 2 irqs 0 and 16(VGA), and the VGA is the right owner of GSI 16.
So add a quirk to ignore the irq0 overriding GSI 16 for the
FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO PRO V2030 platform will solve this issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Szymon Kowalczyk 
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ACPI: Remove one board specific WARN when ignoring timer overriding

2012-07-25T03:11:41+00:00

commit 5752cdb805ff89942d99d12118e2844e7db34df8 upstream.

commit 7f68b4c2e158019c2ec494b5cfbd9c83b4e5b253 upstream.

Current WARN msg is only for the ati_ixp4x0 board, while this function
is used by mulitple platforms. So this one board specific warning
is not appropriate any more.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings