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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>PM / Sleep: Fix race between CPU hotplug and freezer</title>
<updated>2012-01-12T19:40:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-02T23:59:25+00:00</published>
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commit 79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20 upstream.

The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
(which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
(Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).

Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.

Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20 upstream.

The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
(which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
(Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).

Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.

Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: _cpu_down(): Don't play with current-&gt;cpus_allowed</title>
<updated>2010-09-20T20:18:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-15T09:10:23+00:00</published>
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commit 6a1bdc1b577ebcb65f6603c57f8347309bc4ab13 upstream

_cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at
the end. The problems are well known: we can't restore old_allowed if it
was bound to the now-dead-cpu, and we can race with the userspace which
can change cpu-affinity during unplug.

_cpu_down() should not play with current-&gt;cpus_allowed at all. Instead,
take_cpu_down() can migrate the caller of _cpu_down() after __cpu_disable()
removes the dying cpu from cpu_online_mask.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100315091023.GA9148@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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commit 6a1bdc1b577ebcb65f6603c57f8347309bc4ab13 upstream

_cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at
the end. The problems are well known: we can't restore old_allowed if it
was bound to the now-dead-cpu, and we can race with the userspace which
can change cpu-affinity during unplug.

_cpu_down() should not play with current-&gt;cpus_allowed at all. Instead,
take_cpu_down() can migrate the caller of _cpu_down() after __cpu_disable()
removes the dying cpu from cpu_online_mask.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100315091023.GA9148@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix incorrect sanity check</title>
<updated>2010-09-20T20:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-21T15:34:27+00:00</published>
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commit 11854247e2c851e7ff9ce138e501c6cffc5a4217 upstream

We moved to migrate on wakeup, which means that sleeping tasks could
still be present on offline cpus. Amend the check to only test running
tasks.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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commit 11854247e2c851e7ff9ce138e501c6cffc5a4217 upstream

We moved to migrate on wakeup, which means that sleeping tasks could
still be present on offline cpus. Amend the check to only test running
tasks.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()</title>
<updated>2010-09-20T20:18:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaotian Feng</name>
<email>dfeng@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T17:04:32+00:00</published>
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commit 9ee349ad6d326df3633d43f54202427295999c47 upstream

Sachin found cpu hotplug test failures on powerpc, which made
the kernel hang on his POWER box.

The problem is that we fail to re-activate a cpu when a
hot-unplug fails. Fix this by moving the de-activation into
_cpu_down after doing the initial checks.

Remove the synchronize_sched() calls and rely on those implied
by rebuilding the sched domains using the new mask.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng &lt;dfeng@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091216170517.500272612@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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commit 9ee349ad6d326df3633d43f54202427295999c47 upstream

Sachin found cpu hotplug test failures on powerpc, which made
the kernel hang on his POWER box.

The problem is that we fail to re-activate a cpu when a
hot-unplug fails. Fix this by moving the de-activation into
_cpu_down after doing the initial checks.

Remove the synchronize_sched() calls and rely on those implied
by rebuilding the sched domains using the new mask.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng &lt;dfeng@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091216170517.500272612@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages</title>
<updated>2010-01-28T23:01:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Travis</name>
<email>travis@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-18T00:22:13+00:00</published>
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commit feae3203d711db0a9965300ee6d592257fdaae4f upstream.

Limit the number of per cpu calibration messages by only
printing out results for the first cpu to boot.

Also, don't print "CPUx is down" as this is expected, and we
don't need 4096 reminders... ;-)

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;rdreier@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yhlu.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091118002219.889552000@alcatraz.americas.sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit feae3203d711db0a9965300ee6d592257fdaae4f upstream.

Limit the number of per cpu calibration messages by only
printing out results for the first cpu to boot.

Also, don't print "CPUx is down" as this is expected, and we
don't need 4096 reminders... ;-)

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;rdreier@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yhlu.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091118002219.889552000@alcatraz.americas.sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race</title>
<updated>2010-01-06T23:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-25T12:31:39+00:00</published>
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commit 6ad4c18884e864cf4c77f9074d3d1816063f99cd upstream.

Since (e761b77: cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo
sched domain managment) we have cpu_active_mask which is suppose to rule
scheduler migration and load-balancing, except it never (fully) did.

The particular problem being solved here is a crash in try_to_wake_up()
where select_task_rq() ends up selecting an offline cpu because
select_task_rq_fair() trusts the sched_domain tree to reflect the
current state of affairs, similarly select_task_rq_rt() trusts the
root_domain.

However, the sched_domains are updated from CPU_DEAD, which is after the
cpu is taken offline and after stop_machine is done. Therefore it can
race perfectly well with code assuming the domains are right.

Cure this by building the domains from cpu_active_mask on
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 6ad4c18884e864cf4c77f9074d3d1816063f99cd upstream.

Since (e761b77: cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo
sched domain managment) we have cpu_active_mask which is suppose to rule
scheduler migration and load-balancing, except it never (fully) did.

The particular problem being solved here is a crash in try_to_wake_up()
where select_task_rq() ends up selecting an offline cpu because
select_task_rq_fair() trusts the sched_domain tree to reflect the
current state of affairs, similarly select_task_rq_rt() trusts the
root_domain.

However, the sched_domains are updated from CPU_DEAD, which is after the
cpu is taken offline and after stop_machine is done. Therefore it can
race perfectly well with code assuming the domains are right.

Cure this by building the domains from cpu_active_mask on
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-09-15T16:19:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-15T16:19:38+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
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* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, intel_txt: clean up the impact on generic code, unbreak non-x86</title>
<updated>2009-09-02T01:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shane Wang</name>
<email>shane.wang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-02T01:25:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move tboot.h from asm to linux to fix the build errors of intel_txt
patch on non-X86 platforms. Remove the tboot code from generic code
init/main.c and kernel/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Move tboot.h from asm to linux to fix the build errors of intel_txt
patch on non-X86 platforms. Remove the tboot code from generic code
init/main.c and kernel/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init</title>
<updated>2009-08-21T23:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-20T01:05:36+00:00</published>
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SDM Vol 3a section titled "MTRR considerations in MP systems" specifies
the need for synchronizing the logical cpu's while initializing/updating
MTRR.

Currently Linux kernel does the synchronization of all cpu's only when
a single MTRR register is programmed/updated. During an AP online
(during boot/cpu-online/resume)  where we initialize all the MTRR/PAT registers,
we don't follow this synchronization algorithm.

This can lead to scenarios where during a dynamic cpu online, that logical cpu
is initializing MTRR/PAT with cache disabled (cr0.cd=1) etc while other logical
HT sibling continue to run (also with cache disabled because of cr0.cd=1
on its sibling).

Starting from Westmere, VMX transitions with cr0.cd=1 don't work properly
(because of some VMX performance optimizations) and the above scenario
(with one logical cpu doing VMX activity and another logical cpu coming online)
can result in system crash.

Fix the MTRR initialization by doing rendezvous of all the cpus. During
boot and resume, we delay the MTRR/PAT init for APs till all the
logical cpu's come online and the rendezvous process at the end of AP's bringup,
will initialize the MTRR/PAT for all AP's.

For dynamic single cpu online, we synchronize all the logical cpus and
do the MTRR/PAT init on the AP that is coming online.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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SDM Vol 3a section titled "MTRR considerations in MP systems" specifies
the need for synchronizing the logical cpu's while initializing/updating
MTRR.

Currently Linux kernel does the synchronization of all cpu's only when
a single MTRR register is programmed/updated. During an AP online
(during boot/cpu-online/resume)  where we initialize all the MTRR/PAT registers,
we don't follow this synchronization algorithm.

This can lead to scenarios where during a dynamic cpu online, that logical cpu
is initializing MTRR/PAT with cache disabled (cr0.cd=1) etc while other logical
HT sibling continue to run (also with cache disabled because of cr0.cd=1
on its sibling).

Starting from Westmere, VMX transitions with cr0.cd=1 don't work properly
(because of some VMX performance optimizations) and the above scenario
(with one logical cpu doing VMX activity and another logical cpu coming online)
can result in system crash.

Fix the MTRR initialization by doing rendezvous of all the cpus. During
boot and resume, we delay the MTRR/PAT init for APs till all the
logical cpu's come online and the rendezvous process at the end of AP's bringup,
will initialize the MTRR/PAT for all AP's.

For dynamic single cpu online, we synchronize all the logical cpus and
do the MTRR/PAT init on the AP that is coming online.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT Sx shutdown support</title>
<updated>2009-07-21T18:50:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Cihula</name>
<email>joseph.cihula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-01T02:31:07+00:00</published>
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Support for graceful handling of sleep states (S3/S4/S5) after an Intel(R) TXT launch.

Without this patch, attempting to place the system in one of the ACPI sleep
states (S3/S4/S5) will cause the TXT hardware to treat this as an attack and
will cause a system reset, with memory locked.  Not only may the subsequent
memory scrub take some time, but the platform will be unable to enter the
requested power state.

This patch calls back into the tboot so that it may properly and securely clean
up system state and clear the secrets-in-memory flag, after which it will place
the system into the requested sleep state using ACPI information passed by the kernel.

 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c     |    2 ++
 drivers/acpi/acpica/hwsleep.c |    3 +++
 kernel/cpu.c                  |    7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula &lt;joseph.cihula@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Support for graceful handling of sleep states (S3/S4/S5) after an Intel(R) TXT launch.

Without this patch, attempting to place the system in one of the ACPI sleep
states (S3/S4/S5) will cause the TXT hardware to treat this as an attack and
will cause a system reset, with memory locked.  Not only may the subsequent
memory scrub take some time, but the platform will be unable to enter the
requested power state.

This patch calls back into the tboot so that it may properly and securely clean
up system state and clear the secrets-in-memory flag, after which it will place
the system into the requested sleep state using ACPI information passed by the kernel.

 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c     |    2 ++
 drivers/acpi/acpica/hwsleep.c |    3 +++
 kernel/cpu.c                  |    7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula &lt;joseph.cihula@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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