<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel, branch v3.2.62</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>x86_32, entry: Store badsys error code in %eax</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T17:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Wegener</name>
<email>sven.wegener@stealer.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-22T08:26:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=dc79279294628d41b32e86b2e0e2a850ee67dd95'/>
<id>dc79279294628d41b32e86b2e0e2a850ee67dd95</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 8142b215501f8b291a108a202b3a053a265b03dd upstream.

Commit 554086d ("x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys
(CVE-2014-4508)") introduced a regression in the x86_32 syscall entry
code, resulting in syscall() not returning proper errors for undefined
syscalls on CPUs supporting the sysenter feature.

The following code:

&gt; int result = syscall(666);
&gt; printf("result=%d errno=%d error=%s\n", result, errno, strerror(errno));

results in:

&gt; result=666 errno=0 error=Success

Obviously, the syscall return value is the called syscall number, but it
should have been an ENOSYS error. When run under ptrace it behaves
correctly, which makes it hard to debug in the wild:

&gt; result=-1 errno=38 error=Function not implemented

The %eax register is the return value register. For debugging via ptrace
the syscall entry code stores the complete register context on the
stack. The badsys handlers only store the ENOSYS error code in the
ptrace register set and do not set %eax like a regular syscall handler
would. The old resume_userspace call chain contains code that clobbers
%eax and it restores %eax from the ptrace registers afterwards. The same
goes for the ptrace-enabled call chain. When ptrace is not used, the
syscall return value is the passed-in syscall number from the untouched
%eax register.

Use %eax as the return value register in syscall_badsys and
sysenter_badsys, like a real syscall handler does, and have the caller
push the value onto the stack for ptrace access.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener &lt;sven.wegener@stealer.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.11.1407221022380.31021@titan.int.lan.stealer.net
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 8142b215501f8b291a108a202b3a053a265b03dd upstream.

Commit 554086d ("x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys
(CVE-2014-4508)") introduced a regression in the x86_32 syscall entry
code, resulting in syscall() not returning proper errors for undefined
syscalls on CPUs supporting the sysenter feature.

The following code:

&gt; int result = syscall(666);
&gt; printf("result=%d errno=%d error=%s\n", result, errno, strerror(errno));

results in:

&gt; result=666 errno=0 error=Success

Obviously, the syscall return value is the called syscall number, but it
should have been an ENOSYS error. When run under ptrace it behaves
correctly, which makes it hard to debug in the wild:

&gt; result=-1 errno=38 error=Function not implemented

The %eax register is the return value register. For debugging via ptrace
the syscall entry code stores the complete register context on the
stack. The badsys handlers only store the ENOSYS error code in the
ptrace register set and do not set %eax like a regular syscall handler
would. The old resume_userspace call chain contains code that clobbers
%eax and it restores %eax from the ptrace registers afterwards. The same
goes for the ptrace-enabled call chain. When ptrace is not used, the
syscall return value is the passed-in syscall number from the untouched
%eax register.

Use %eax as the return value register in syscall_badsys and
sysenter_badsys, like a real syscall handler does, and have the caller
push the value onto the stack for ptrace access.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener &lt;sven.wegener@stealer.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.11.1407221022380.31021@titan.int.lan.stealer.net
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T17:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T21:03:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6806fa8b6795aba9be8742a8f598f60eed26f875'/>
<id>6806fa8b6795aba9be8742a8f598f60eed26f875</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 246f2d2ee1d715e1077fc47d61c394569c8ee692 upstream.

It is not safe to use LAR to filter when to go down the espfix path,
because the LDT is per-process (rather than per-thread) and another
thread might change the descriptors behind our back.  Fortunately it
is always *safe* (if a bit slow) to go down the espfix path, and a
32-bit LDT stack segment is extremely rare.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 246f2d2ee1d715e1077fc47d61c394569c8ee692 upstream.

It is not safe to use LAR to filter when to go down the espfix path,
because the LDT is per-process (rather than per-thread) and another
thread might change the descriptors behind our back.  Fortunately it
is always *safe* (if a bit slow) to go down the espfix path, and a
32-bit LDT stack segment is extremely rare.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel: ignore CondChgd bit to avoid false NMI handling</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T17:07:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>HATAYAMA Daisuke</name>
<email>d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T01:09:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0fda305647fbf6894015df9b350aebdcf540d0cf'/>
<id>0fda305647fbf6894015df9b350aebdcf540d0cf</id>
<content type='text'>
commit b292d7a10487aee6e74b1c18b8d95b92f40d4a4f upstream.

Currently, any NMI is falsely handled by a NMI handler of NMI watchdog
if CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR is set.

For example, we use external NMI to make system panic to get crash
dump, but in this case, the external NMI is falsely handled do to the
issue.

This commit deals with the issue simply by ignoring CondChgd bit.

Here is explanation in detail.

On x86 NMI watchdog uses performance monitoring feature to
periodically signal NMI each time performance counter gets overflowed.

intel_pmu_handle_irq() is called as a NMI_LOCAL handler from a NMI
handler of NMI watchdog, perf_event_nmi_handler(). It identifies an
owner of a given NMI by looking at overflow status bits in
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR. If some of the bits are set, then it
handles the given NMI as its own NMI.

The problem is that the intel_pmu_handle_irq() doesn't distinguish
CondChgd bit from other bits. Unlike the other status bits, CondChgd
bit doesn't represent overflow status for performance counters. Thus,
CondChgd bit cannot be thought of as a mark indicating a given NMI is
NMI watchdog's.

As a result, if CondChgd bit is set, any NMI is falsely handled by the
NMI handler of NMI watchdog. Also, if type of the falsely handled NMI
is either NMI_UNKNOWN, NMI_SERR or NMI_IO_CHECK, the corresponding
action is never performed until CondChgd bit is cleared.

I noticed this behavior on systems with Ivy Bridge processors: Intel
Xeon CPU E5-2630 v2 and Intel Xeon CPU E7-8890 v2. On both systems,
CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR has already been set
in the beginning at boot. Then the CondChgd bit is immediately cleared
by next wrmsr to MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR and appears to remain
0.

On the other hand, on older processors such as Nehalem, Xeon E7540,
CondChgd bit is not set in the beginning at boot.

I'm not sure about exact behavior of CondChgd bit, in particular when
this bit is set. Although I read Intel System Programmer's Manual to
figure out that, the descriptions I found are:

  In 18.9.1:

  "The MSR_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR also provides a ¡sticky bit¢ to
   indicate changes to the state of performancmonitoring hardware"

  In Table 35-2 IA-32 Architectural MSRs

  63 CondChg: status bits of this register has changed.

These are different from the bahviour I see on the actual system as I
explained above.

At least, I think ignoring CondChgd bit should be enough for NMI
watchdog perspective.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke &lt;d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140625.103503.409316067.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit b292d7a10487aee6e74b1c18b8d95b92f40d4a4f upstream.

Currently, any NMI is falsely handled by a NMI handler of NMI watchdog
if CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR is set.

For example, we use external NMI to make system panic to get crash
dump, but in this case, the external NMI is falsely handled do to the
issue.

This commit deals with the issue simply by ignoring CondChgd bit.

Here is explanation in detail.

On x86 NMI watchdog uses performance monitoring feature to
periodically signal NMI each time performance counter gets overflowed.

intel_pmu_handle_irq() is called as a NMI_LOCAL handler from a NMI
handler of NMI watchdog, perf_event_nmi_handler(). It identifies an
owner of a given NMI by looking at overflow status bits in
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR. If some of the bits are set, then it
handles the given NMI as its own NMI.

The problem is that the intel_pmu_handle_irq() doesn't distinguish
CondChgd bit from other bits. Unlike the other status bits, CondChgd
bit doesn't represent overflow status for performance counters. Thus,
CondChgd bit cannot be thought of as a mark indicating a given NMI is
NMI watchdog's.

As a result, if CondChgd bit is set, any NMI is falsely handled by the
NMI handler of NMI watchdog. Also, if type of the falsely handled NMI
is either NMI_UNKNOWN, NMI_SERR or NMI_IO_CHECK, the corresponding
action is never performed until CondChgd bit is cleared.

I noticed this behavior on systems with Ivy Bridge processors: Intel
Xeon CPU E5-2630 v2 and Intel Xeon CPU E7-8890 v2. On both systems,
CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR has already been set
in the beginning at boot. Then the CondChgd bit is immediately cleared
by next wrmsr to MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR and appears to remain
0.

On the other hand, on older processors such as Nehalem, Xeon E7540,
CondChgd bit is not set in the beginning at boot.

I'm not sure about exact behavior of CondChgd bit, in particular when
this bit is set. Although I read Intel System Programmer's Manual to
figure out that, the descriptions I found are:

  In 18.9.1:

  "The MSR_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR also provides a ¡sticky bit¢ to
   indicate changes to the state of performancmonitoring hardware"

  In Table 35-2 IA-32 Architectural MSRs

  63 CondChg: status bits of this register has changed.

These are different from the bahviour I see on the actual system as I
explained above.

At least, I think ignoring CondChgd bit should be enough for NMI
watchdog perspective.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke &lt;d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140625.103503.409316067.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys (CVE-2014-4508)</title>
<updated>2014-07-11T12:33:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-23T21:22:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bb99d6796995968ca6a42b17fbfb48d073bb234c'/>
<id>bb99d6796995968ca6a42b17fbfb48d073bb234c</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 554086d85e71f30abe46fc014fea31929a7c6a8a upstream.

The bad syscall nr paths are their own incomprehensible route
through the entry control flow.  Rearrange them to work just like
syscalls that return -ENOSYS.

This fixes an OOPS in the audit code when fast-path auditing is
enabled and sysenter gets a bad syscall nr (CVE-2014-4508).

This has probably been broken since Linux 2.6.27:
af0575bba0 i386 syscall audit fast-path

Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e09c499eade6fc321266dd6b54da7beb28d6991c.1403558229.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 554086d85e71f30abe46fc014fea31929a7c6a8a upstream.

The bad syscall nr paths are their own incomprehensible route
through the entry control flow.  Rearrange them to work just like
syscalls that return -ENOSYS.

This fixes an OOPS in the audit code when fast-path auditing is
enabled and sysenter gets a bad syscall nr (CVE-2014-4508).

This has probably been broken since Linux 2.6.27:
af0575bba0 i386 syscall audit fast-path

Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e09c499eade6fc321266dd6b54da7beb28d6991c.1403558229.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:29:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-14T23:33:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=434ffe9cc9c9336f375f1acfb00993ee6f18bd80'/>
<id>434ffe9cc9c9336f375f1acfb00993ee6f18bd80</id>
<content type='text'>
commit fa81511bb0bbb2b1aace3695ce869da9762624ff upstream.

Checkin:

b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

disabled 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels due to an information
leak.  However, it does seem that people are genuinely using Wine to
run old 16-bit Windows programs on Linux.

A proper fix for this ("espfix64") is coming in the upcoming merge
window, but as a temporary fix, create a sysctl to allow the
administrator to re-enable support for 16-bit segments.

It adds a "/proc/sys/abi/ldt16" sysctl that defaults to zero (off). If
you hit this issue and care about your old Windows program more than
you care about a kernel stack address information leak, you can do

   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/abi/ldt16

as root (add it to your startup scripts), and you should be ok.

The sysctl table is only added if you have COMPAT support enabled on
x86-64, but I assume anybody who runs old windows binaries very much
does that ;)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFw9BPoD10U1LfHbOMpHWZkvJTkMcfCs9s3urPr1YyWBxw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit fa81511bb0bbb2b1aace3695ce869da9762624ff upstream.

Checkin:

b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

disabled 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels due to an information
leak.  However, it does seem that people are genuinely using Wine to
run old 16-bit Windows programs on Linux.

A proper fix for this ("espfix64") is coming in the upcoming merge
window, but as a temporary fix, create a sysctl to allow the
administrator to re-enable support for 16-bit segments.

It adds a "/proc/sys/abi/ldt16" sysctl that defaults to zero (off). If
you hit this issue and care about your old Windows program more than
you care about a kernel stack address information leak, you can do

   echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/abi/ldt16

as root (add it to your startup scripts), and you should be ok.

The sysctl table is only added if you have COMPAT support enabled on
x86-64, but I assume anybody who runs old windows binaries very much
does that ;)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFw9BPoD10U1LfHbOMpHWZkvJTkMcfCs9s3urPr1YyWBxw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T15:23:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-16T22:31:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a862b5c4076b1ba4dd6c87aebac478853dc6db47'/>
<id>a862b5c4076b1ba4dd6c87aebac478853dc6db47</id>
<content type='text'>
commit b3b42ac2cbae1f3cecbb6229964a4d48af31d382 upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  We have
a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but
it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in
32-bit mode.

Since 16-bit support is somewhat crippled anyway on a 64-bit kernel
(no V86 mode), and most (if not quite all) 64-bit processors support
virtualization for the users who really need it, simply reject
attempts at creating a 16-bit segment when running on top of a 64-bit
kernel.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kicdm89kzw9lldryb1br9od0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit b3b42ac2cbae1f3cecbb6229964a4d48af31d382 upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  We have
a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but
it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in
32-bit mode.

Since 16-bit support is somewhat crippled anyway on a 64-bit kernel
(no V86 mode), and most (if not quite all) 64-bit processors support
virtualization for the users who really need it, simply reject
attempts at creating a 16-bit segment when running on top of a 64-bit
kernel.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kicdm89kzw9lldryb1br9od0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, hyperv: Bypass the timer_irq_works() check</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T15:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-28T03:30:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5bb8af45843a01663197cfc41afa9c30c350cc07'/>
<id>5bb8af45843a01663197cfc41afa9c30c350cc07</id>
<content type='text'>
commit ca3ba2a2f4a49a308e7d78c784d51b2332064f15 upstream.

This patch bypass the timer_irq_works() check for hyperv guest since:

- It was guaranteed to work.
- timer_irq_works() may fail sometime due to the lpj calibration were inaccurate
  in a hyperv guest or a buggy host.

In the future, we should get the tsc frequency from hypervisor and use preset
lpj instead.

[ hpa: I would prefer to not defer things to "the future" in the future... ]

Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393558229-14755-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit ca3ba2a2f4a49a308e7d78c784d51b2332064f15 upstream.

This patch bypass the timer_irq_works() check for hyperv guest since:

- It was guaranteed to work.
- timer_irq_works() may fail sometime due to the lpj calibration were inaccurate
  in a hyperv guest or a buggy host.

In the future, we should get the tsc frequency from hypervisor and use preset
lpj instead.

[ hpa: I would prefer to not defer things to "the future" in the future... ]

Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393558229-14755-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/amd/numa: Fix northbridge quirk to assign correct NUMA node</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T23:58:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel J Blueman</name>
<email>daniel@numascale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T11:43:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b10349aded21e5cab89ab99cbc2aa90d00314ee6'/>
<id>b10349aded21e5cab89ab99cbc2aa90d00314ee6</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 847d7970defb45540735b3fb4e88471c27cacd85 upstream.

For systems with multiple servers and routed fabric, all
northbridges get assigned to the first server. Fix this by also
using the node reported from the PCI bus. For single-fabric
systems, the northbriges are on PCI bus 0 by definition, which
are on NUMA node 0 by definition, so this is invarient on most
systems.

Tested on fam10h and fam15h single and multi-fabric systems and
candidate for stable.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Persvold &lt;sp@numascale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394710981-3596-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 847d7970defb45540735b3fb4e88471c27cacd85 upstream.

For systems with multiple servers and routed fabric, all
northbridges get assigned to the first server. Fix this by also
using the node reported from the PCI bus. For single-fabric
systems, the northbriges are on PCI bus 0 by definition, which
are on NUMA node 0 by definition, so this is invarient on most
systems.

Tested on fam10h and fam15h single and multi-fabric systems and
candidate for stable.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Persvold &lt;sp@numascale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394710981-3596-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86: Fix event scheduling</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T23:58:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-21T15:03:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=43e2f50d5845b7bc29e3ccf464144c66d2eab7da'/>
<id>43e2f50d5845b7bc29e3ccf464144c66d2eab7da</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 26e61e8939b1fe8729572dabe9a9e97d930dd4f6 upstream.

Vince "Super Tester" Weaver reported a new round of syscall fuzzing (Trinity) failures,
with perf WARN_ON()s triggering. He also provided traces of the failures.

This is I think the relevant bit:

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_disable: x86_pmu_disable
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926156: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926158: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926159: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926160: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 1, n_added: 0, n_txn: 1
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926161: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926162: x86_pmu_state:   0-&gt;33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926163: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926166: collect_events: Adding event: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)

So we add the insn:p event (fd[23]).

At this point we should have:

  n_events = 2, n_added = 1, n_txn = 1

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926170: collect_events: Adding event: 0 (ffff8800c9e01800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926172: collect_events: Adding event: 4 (ffff8800cbab2c00)

We try and add the {BP,cycles,br_insn} group (fd[3], fd[4], fd[15]).
These events are 0:cycles and 4:br_insn, the BP event isn't x86_pmu so
that's not visible.

	group_sched_in()
	  pmu-&gt;start_txn() /* nop - BP pmu */
	  event_sched_in()
	     event-&gt;pmu-&gt;add()

So here we should end up with:

  0: n_events = 3, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2
  4: n_events = 4, n_added = 3, n_txn = 3

But seeing the below state on x86_pmu_enable(), the must have failed,
because the 0 and 4 events aren't there anymore.

Looking at group_sched_in(), since the BP is the leader, its
event_sched_in() must have succeeded, for otherwise we would not have
seen the sibling adds.

But since neither 0 or 4 are in the below state; their event_sched_in()
must have failed; but I don't see why, the complete state: 0,0,1:p,4
fits perfectly fine on a core2.

However, since we try and schedule 4 it means the 0 event must have
succeeded!  Therefore the 4 event must have failed, its failure will
have put group_sched_in() into the fail path, which will call:

	event_sched_out()
	  event-&gt;pmu-&gt;del()

on 0 and the BP event.

Now x86_pmu_del() will reduce n_events; but it will not reduce n_added;
giving what we see below:

 n_event = 2, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_enable: x86_pmu_enable
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926179: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926181: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926182: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 2, n_added: 2, n_txn: 2
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926186: x86_pmu_state:   0-&gt;33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state:   1-&gt;0 tag: 1 config: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926190: x86_pmu_enable: S0: hwc-&gt;idx: 33, hwc-&gt;last_cpu: 0, hwc-&gt;last_tag: 1 hwc-&gt;state: 0

So the problem is that x86_pmu_del(), when called from a
group_sched_in() that fails (for whatever reason), and without x86_pmu
TXN support (because the leader is !x86_pmu), will corrupt the n_added
state.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140221150312.GF3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 26e61e8939b1fe8729572dabe9a9e97d930dd4f6 upstream.

Vince "Super Tester" Weaver reported a new round of syscall fuzzing (Trinity) failures,
with perf WARN_ON()s triggering. He also provided traces of the failures.

This is I think the relevant bit:

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_disable: x86_pmu_disable
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926156: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926158: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926159: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926160: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 1, n_added: 0, n_txn: 1
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926161: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926162: x86_pmu_state:   0-&gt;33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926163: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926166: collect_events: Adding event: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)

So we add the insn:p event (fd[23]).

At this point we should have:

  n_events = 2, n_added = 1, n_txn = 1

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926170: collect_events: Adding event: 0 (ffff8800c9e01800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926172: collect_events: Adding event: 4 (ffff8800cbab2c00)

We try and add the {BP,cycles,br_insn} group (fd[3], fd[4], fd[15]).
These events are 0:cycles and 4:br_insn, the BP event isn't x86_pmu so
that's not visible.

	group_sched_in()
	  pmu-&gt;start_txn() /* nop - BP pmu */
	  event_sched_in()
	     event-&gt;pmu-&gt;add()

So here we should end up with:

  0: n_events = 3, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2
  4: n_events = 4, n_added = 3, n_txn = 3

But seeing the below state on x86_pmu_enable(), the must have failed,
because the 0 and 4 events aren't there anymore.

Looking at group_sched_in(), since the BP is the leader, its
event_sched_in() must have succeeded, for otherwise we would not have
seen the sibling adds.

But since neither 0 or 4 are in the below state; their event_sched_in()
must have failed; but I don't see why, the complete state: 0,0,1:p,4
fits perfectly fine on a core2.

However, since we try and schedule 4 it means the 0 event must have
succeeded!  Therefore the 4 event must have failed, its failure will
have put group_sched_in() into the fail path, which will call:

	event_sched_out()
	  event-&gt;pmu-&gt;del()

on 0 and the BP event.

Now x86_pmu_del() will reduce n_events; but it will not reduce n_added;
giving what we see below:

 n_event = 2, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2

	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_enable: x86_pmu_enable
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926179: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926181: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926182: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 2, n_added: 2, n_txn: 2
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926186: x86_pmu_state:   0-&gt;33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state:   1-&gt;0 tag: 1 config: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state: }
	&gt;    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926190: x86_pmu_enable: S0: hwc-&gt;idx: 33, hwc-&gt;last_cpu: 0, hwc-&gt;last_tag: 1 hwc-&gt;state: 0

So the problem is that x86_pmu_del(), when called from a
group_sched_in() that fails (for whatever reason), and without x86_pmu
TXN support (because the leader is !x86_pmu), will corrupt the n_added
state.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140221150312.GF3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Add check for number of available vectors before CPU down</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T23:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prarit Bhargava</name>
<email>prarit@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T11:51:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a7c1da5bf2f334a742de21376f2c37ade925b4a5'/>
<id>a7c1da5bf2f334a742de21376f2c37ade925b4a5</id>
<content type='text'>
commit da6139e49c7cb0f4251265cb5243b8d220adb48d upstream.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64791

When a cpu is downed on a system, the irqs on the cpu are assigned to
other cpus.  It is possible, however, that when a cpu is downed there
aren't enough free vectors on the remaining cpus to account for the
vectors from the cpu that is being downed.

This results in an interesting "overflow" condition where irqs are
"assigned" to a CPU but are not handled.

For example, when downing cpus on a 1-64 logical processor system:

&lt;snip&gt;
[  232.021745] smpboot: CPU 61 is now offline
[  238.480275] smpboot: CPU 62 is now offline
[  245.991080] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  245.996270] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:264 dev_watchdog+0x246/0x250()
[  246.005688] NETDEV WATCHDOG: p786p1 (ixgbe): transmit queue 0 timed out
[  246.013070] Modules linked in: lockd sunrpc iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sb_edac ixgbe microcode e1000e pcspkr joydev edac_core lpc_ich ioatdma ptp mdio mfd_core i2c_i801 dca pps_core i2c_core wmi acpi_cpufreq isci libsas scsi_transport_sas
[  246.037633] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0+ #14
[  246.044451] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S4600LH ........../SVRBD-ROW_T, BIOS SE5C600.86B.01.08.0003.022620131521 02/26/2013
[  246.057371]  0000000000000009 ffff88081fa03d40 ffffffff8164fbf6 ffff88081fa0ee48
[  246.065728]  ffff88081fa03d90 ffff88081fa03d80 ffffffff81054ecc ffff88081fa13040
[  246.074073]  0000000000000000 ffff88200cce0000 0000000000000040 0000000000000000
[  246.082430] Call Trace:
[  246.085174]  &lt;IRQ&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff8164fbf6&gt;] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[  246.091633]  [&lt;ffffffff81054ecc&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[  246.098352]  [&lt;ffffffff81054fb6&gt;] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[  246.104786]  [&lt;ffffffff815710d6&gt;] dev_watchdog+0x246/0x250
[  246.110923]  [&lt;ffffffff81570e90&gt;] ? dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.31+0x80/0x80
[  246.119097]  [&lt;ffffffff8106092a&gt;] call_timer_fn+0x3a/0x110
[  246.125224]  [&lt;ffffffff8106280f&gt;] ? update_process_times+0x6f/0x80
[  246.132137]  [&lt;ffffffff81570e90&gt;] ? dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.31+0x80/0x80
[  246.140308]  [&lt;ffffffff81061db0&gt;] run_timer_softirq+0x1f0/0x2a0
[  246.146933]  [&lt;ffffffff81059a80&gt;] __do_softirq+0xe0/0x220
[  246.152976]  [&lt;ffffffff8165fedc&gt;] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[  246.158920]  [&lt;ffffffff810045f5&gt;] do_softirq+0x55/0x90
[  246.164670]  [&lt;ffffffff81059d35&gt;] irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0
[  246.170227]  [&lt;ffffffff8166062a&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4a/0x60
[  246.177324]  [&lt;ffffffff8165f40a&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
[  246.184041]  &lt;EOI&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff81505a1b&gt;] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x5b/0xe0
[  246.191559]  [&lt;ffffffff81505a17&gt;] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x57/0xe0
[  246.198374]  [&lt;ffffffff81505b5d&gt;] cpuidle_idle_call+0xbd/0x200
[  246.204900]  [&lt;ffffffff8100b7ae&gt;] arch_cpu_idle+0xe/0x30
[  246.210846]  [&lt;ffffffff810a47b0&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0xd0/0x250
[  246.217371]  [&lt;ffffffff81646b47&gt;] rest_init+0x77/0x80
[  246.223028]  [&lt;ffffffff81d09e8e&gt;] start_kernel+0x3ee/0x3fb
[  246.229165]  [&lt;ffffffff81d0989f&gt;] ? repair_env_string+0x5e/0x5e
[  246.235787]  [&lt;ffffffff81d095a5&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[  246.242990]  [&lt;ffffffff81d0969f&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf8/0xfc
[  246.249610] ---[ end trace fb74fdef54d79039 ]---
[  246.254807] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: initiating reset due to tx timeout
[  246.262489] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: Reset adapter
Last login: Mon Nov 11 08:35:14 from 10.18.17.119
[root@(none) ~]# [  246.792676] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: detected SFP+: 5
[  249.231598] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
[  246.792676] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: detected SFP+: 5
[  249.231598] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX

(last lines keep repeating.  ixgbe driver is dead until module reload.)

If the downed cpu has more vectors than are free on the remaining cpus on the
system, it is possible that some vectors are "orphaned" even though they are
assigned to a cpu.  In this case, since the ixgbe driver had a watchdog, the
watchdog fired and notified that something was wrong.

This patch adds a function, check_vectors(), to compare the number of vectors
on the CPU going down and compares it to the number of vectors available on
the system.  If there aren't enough vectors for the CPU to go down, an
error is returned and propogated back to userspace.

v2: Do not need to look at percpu irqs
v3: Need to check affinity to prevent counting of MSIs in IOAPIC Lowest
    Priority Mode
v4: Additional changes suggested by Gong Chen.
v5/v6/v7/v8: Updated comment text

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389613861-3853-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Gong Chen &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Zhang &lt;yang.z.zhang@Intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Janet Morgan &lt;janet.morgan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ruiv Wang &lt;ruiv.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gong Chen &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit da6139e49c7cb0f4251265cb5243b8d220adb48d upstream.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64791

When a cpu is downed on a system, the irqs on the cpu are assigned to
other cpus.  It is possible, however, that when a cpu is downed there
aren't enough free vectors on the remaining cpus to account for the
vectors from the cpu that is being downed.

This results in an interesting "overflow" condition where irqs are
"assigned" to a CPU but are not handled.

For example, when downing cpus on a 1-64 logical processor system:

&lt;snip&gt;
[  232.021745] smpboot: CPU 61 is now offline
[  238.480275] smpboot: CPU 62 is now offline
[  245.991080] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  245.996270] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:264 dev_watchdog+0x246/0x250()
[  246.005688] NETDEV WATCHDOG: p786p1 (ixgbe): transmit queue 0 timed out
[  246.013070] Modules linked in: lockd sunrpc iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sb_edac ixgbe microcode e1000e pcspkr joydev edac_core lpc_ich ioatdma ptp mdio mfd_core i2c_i801 dca pps_core i2c_core wmi acpi_cpufreq isci libsas scsi_transport_sas
[  246.037633] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0+ #14
[  246.044451] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S4600LH ........../SVRBD-ROW_T, BIOS SE5C600.86B.01.08.0003.022620131521 02/26/2013
[  246.057371]  0000000000000009 ffff88081fa03d40 ffffffff8164fbf6 ffff88081fa0ee48
[  246.065728]  ffff88081fa03d90 ffff88081fa03d80 ffffffff81054ecc ffff88081fa13040
[  246.074073]  0000000000000000 ffff88200cce0000 0000000000000040 0000000000000000
[  246.082430] Call Trace:
[  246.085174]  &lt;IRQ&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff8164fbf6&gt;] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[  246.091633]  [&lt;ffffffff81054ecc&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[  246.098352]  [&lt;ffffffff81054fb6&gt;] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[  246.104786]  [&lt;ffffffff815710d6&gt;] dev_watchdog+0x246/0x250
[  246.110923]  [&lt;ffffffff81570e90&gt;] ? dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.31+0x80/0x80
[  246.119097]  [&lt;ffffffff8106092a&gt;] call_timer_fn+0x3a/0x110
[  246.125224]  [&lt;ffffffff8106280f&gt;] ? update_process_times+0x6f/0x80
[  246.132137]  [&lt;ffffffff81570e90&gt;] ? dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.31+0x80/0x80
[  246.140308]  [&lt;ffffffff81061db0&gt;] run_timer_softirq+0x1f0/0x2a0
[  246.146933]  [&lt;ffffffff81059a80&gt;] __do_softirq+0xe0/0x220
[  246.152976]  [&lt;ffffffff8165fedc&gt;] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[  246.158920]  [&lt;ffffffff810045f5&gt;] do_softirq+0x55/0x90
[  246.164670]  [&lt;ffffffff81059d35&gt;] irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0
[  246.170227]  [&lt;ffffffff8166062a&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4a/0x60
[  246.177324]  [&lt;ffffffff8165f40a&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
[  246.184041]  &lt;EOI&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff81505a1b&gt;] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x5b/0xe0
[  246.191559]  [&lt;ffffffff81505a17&gt;] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x57/0xe0
[  246.198374]  [&lt;ffffffff81505b5d&gt;] cpuidle_idle_call+0xbd/0x200
[  246.204900]  [&lt;ffffffff8100b7ae&gt;] arch_cpu_idle+0xe/0x30
[  246.210846]  [&lt;ffffffff810a47b0&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0xd0/0x250
[  246.217371]  [&lt;ffffffff81646b47&gt;] rest_init+0x77/0x80
[  246.223028]  [&lt;ffffffff81d09e8e&gt;] start_kernel+0x3ee/0x3fb
[  246.229165]  [&lt;ffffffff81d0989f&gt;] ? repair_env_string+0x5e/0x5e
[  246.235787]  [&lt;ffffffff81d095a5&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[  246.242990]  [&lt;ffffffff81d0969f&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf8/0xfc
[  246.249610] ---[ end trace fb74fdef54d79039 ]---
[  246.254807] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: initiating reset due to tx timeout
[  246.262489] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: Reset adapter
Last login: Mon Nov 11 08:35:14 from 10.18.17.119
[root@(none) ~]# [  246.792676] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: detected SFP+: 5
[  249.231598] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
[  246.792676] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: detected SFP+: 5
[  249.231598] ixgbe 0000:c2:00.0 p786p1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX

(last lines keep repeating.  ixgbe driver is dead until module reload.)

If the downed cpu has more vectors than are free on the remaining cpus on the
system, it is possible that some vectors are "orphaned" even though they are
assigned to a cpu.  In this case, since the ixgbe driver had a watchdog, the
watchdog fired and notified that something was wrong.

This patch adds a function, check_vectors(), to compare the number of vectors
on the CPU going down and compares it to the number of vectors available on
the system.  If there aren't enough vectors for the CPU to go down, an
error is returned and propogated back to userspace.

v2: Do not need to look at percpu irqs
v3: Need to check affinity to prevent counting of MSIs in IOAPIC Lowest
    Priority Mode
v4: Additional changes suggested by Gong Chen.
v5/v6/v7/v8: Updated comment text

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389613861-3853-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Gong Chen &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Zhang &lt;yang.z.zhang@Intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Janet Morgan &lt;janet.morgan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ruiv Wang &lt;ruiv.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gong Chen &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
