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commit 0ee364eb316348ddf3e0dfcd986f5f13f528f821 upstream.
A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads
/proc/kcore:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
[<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
[<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
[<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
[<ffffffff81449692>] 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 <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.coM>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit c94082656dac74257f63e91f78d5d458ac781fa5 upstream.
The traps are referred to by their numbers and it can be difficult to
understand them while reading the code without context. This patch adds
enumeration of the trap numbers and replaces the numbers with the correct
enum for x86.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310000710.GA32667@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cherry-picked-for: v2.3.37
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream.
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 <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
- Adjust context (a lot)
- Add efi_is_native() function from commit 5189c2a7c776
('x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel')
- Make efi_init() bail out when booted non-native, as it would previously
not be called in this case
- Drop inapplicable changes to start_kernel()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 1022623842cb72ee4d0dbf02f6937f38c92c3f41 upstream.
In 32 bit the stack address provided by kernel_stack_pointer() may
point to an invalid range causing NULL pointer access or page faults
while in NMI (see trace below). This happens if called in softirq
context and if the stack is empty. The address at ®s->sp is then
out of range.
Fixing this by checking if regs and ®s->sp are in the same stack
context. Otherwise return the previous stack pointer stored in struct
thread_info. If that address is invalid too, return address of regs.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000a
IP: [<c1004237>] print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
Pid: 4434, comm: perl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc3-oprofile-i386-standard-g4411a05 #4 Hewlett-Packard HP xw9400 Workstation/0A1Ch
EIP: 0060:[<c1004237>] EFLAGS: 00010093 CPU: 0
EIP is at print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d
EAX: ffffe000 EBX: 0000000a ECX: f4435f94 EDX: 0000000a
ESI: f4435f94 EDI: f4435f94 EBP: f5409ec0 ESP: f5409ea0
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0000000a CR3: 34ac9000 CR4: 000007d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Process perl (pid: 4434, ti=f5408000 task=f5637850 task.ti=f4434000)
Stack:
000003e8 ffffe000 00001ffc f4e39b00 00000000 0000000a f4435f94 c155198c
f5409ef0 c1003723 c155198c f5409f04 00000000 f5409edc 00000000 00000000
f5409ee8 f4435f94 f5409fc4 00000001 f5409f1c c12dce1c 00000000 c155198c
Call Trace:
[<c1003723>] dump_trace+0x7b/0xa1
[<c12dce1c>] x86_backtrace+0x40/0x88
[<c12db712>] ? oprofile_add_sample+0x56/0x84
[<c12db731>] oprofile_add_sample+0x75/0x84
[<c12ddb5b>] op_amd_check_ctrs+0x46/0x260
[<c12dd40d>] profile_exceptions_notify+0x23/0x4c
[<c1395034>] nmi_handle+0x31/0x4a
[<c1029dc5>] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45
[<c13950ed>] do_nmi+0xa0/0x2ff
[<c1029dc5>] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45
[<c13949e5>] nmi_stack_correct+0x28/0x2d
[<c1029dc5>] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45
[<c1003603>] ? do_softirq+0x4b/0x7f
<IRQ>
[<c102a06f>] irq_exit+0x35/0x5b
[<c1018f56>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x7a
[<c1394746>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x30
Code: 89 fe eb 08 31 c9 8b 45 0c ff 55 ec 83 c3 04 83 7d 10 00 74 0c 3b 5d 10 73 26 3b 5d e4 73 0c eb 1f 3b 5d f0 76 1a 3b 5d e8 73 15 <8b> 13 89 d0 89 55 e0 e8 ad 42 03 00 85 c0 8b 55 e0 75 a6 eb cc
EIP: [<c1004237>] print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d SS:ESP 0068:f5409ea0
CR2: 000000000000000a
---[ end trace 62afee3481b00012 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
V2:
* add comments to kernel_stack_pointer()
* always return a valid stack address by falling back to the address
of regs
Reported-by: Yang Wei <wei.yang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120912135059.GZ8285@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jun Zhang <jun.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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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 <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 upstream.
In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none. For pmds
that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better.
However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate
pmd_present too. This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non
present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent
there and the comment above it.
If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a
pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with
split_huge_page.
Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and
when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit,
but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present
must always keep PROT_NONE into account.
This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the
lists.
The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and
if it races with split_huge_page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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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 <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 4ad33411308596f2f918603509729922a1ec4411 upstream.
It makes sense to label "Digital Thermal Sensor" as "DTS", but
unfortunately the string "dts" was already used for "Debug Store", and
/proc/cpuinfo is a user space ABI.
Therefore, rename this to "dtherm".
This conflict went into mainline via the hwmon tree without any x86
maintainer ack, and without any kind of hint in the subject.
a4659053 x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE34BCB.5050305@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the coretemp device table change]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit e4eed03fd06578571c01d4f1478c874bb432c815 upstream.
In the x86 32bit PAE CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y case while holding the
mmap_sem for reading, cmpxchg8b cannot be used to read pmd contents under
Xen.
So instead of dealing only with "consistent" pmdvals in
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() (which would be conceptually
simpler) we let pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() deal with pmdvals
where the low 32bit and high 32bit could be inconsistent (to avoid having
to use cmpxchg8b).
The only guarantee we get from pmd_read_atomic is that if the low part of
the pmd was found null, the high part will be null too (so the pmd will be
considered unstable). And if the low part of the pmd is found "stable"
later, then it means the whole pmd was read atomically (because after a
pmd is stable, neither MADV_DONTNEED nor page faults can alter it anymore,
and we read the high part after the low part).
In the 32bit PAE x86 case, it is enough to read the low part of the pmdval
atomically to declare the pmd as "stable" and that's true for THP and no
THP, furthermore in the THP case we also have a barrier() that will
prevent any inconsistent pmdvals to be cached by a later re-read of the
*pmd.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 26c191788f18129af0eb32a358cdaea0c7479626 upstream.
When holding the mmap_sem for reading, pmd_offset_map_lock should only
run on a pmd_t that has been read atomically from the pmdp pointer,
otherwise we may read only half of it leading to this crash.
PID: 11679 TASK: f06e8000 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "do_race_2_panic"
#0 [f06a9dd8] crash_kexec at c049b5ec
#1 [f06a9e2c] oops_end at c083d1c2
#2 [f06a9e40] no_context at c0433ded
#3 [f06a9e64] bad_area_nosemaphore at c043401a
#4 [f06a9e6c] __do_page_fault at c0434493
#5 [f06a9eec] do_page_fault at c083eb45
#6 [f06a9f04] error_code (via page_fault) at c083c5d5
EAX: 01fb470c EBX: fff35000 ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000100 EBP:
00000000
DS: 007b ESI: 9e201000 ES: 007b EDI: 01fb4700 GS: 00e0
CS: 0060 EIP: c083bc14 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010246
#7 [f06a9f38] _spin_lock at c083bc14
#8 [f06a9f44] sys_mincore at c0507b7d
#9 [f06a9fb0] system_call at c083becd
start len
EAX: ffffffda EBX: 9e200000 ECX: 00001000 EDX: 6228537f
DS: 007b ESI: 00000000 ES: 007b EDI: 003d0f00
SS: 007b ESP: 62285354 EBP: 62285388 GS: 0033
CS: 0073 EIP: 00291416 ERR: 000000da EFLAGS: 00000286
This should be a longstanding bug affecting x86 32bit PAE without THP.
Only archs with 64bit large pmd_t and 32bit unsigned long should be
affected.
With THP enabled the barrier() in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
would partly hide the bug when the pmd transition from none to stable,
by forcing a re-read of the *pmd in pmd_offset_map_lock, but when THP is
enabled a new set of problem arises by the fact could then transition
freely in any of the none, pmd_trans_huge or pmd_trans_stable states.
So making the barrier in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
unconditional isn't good idea and it would be a flakey solution.
This should be fully fixed by introducing a pmd_read_atomic that reads
the pmd in order with THP disabled, or by reading the pmd atomically
with cmpxchg8b with THP enabled.
Luckily this new race condition only triggers in the places that must
already be covered by pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() so the fix
is localized there but this bug is not related to THP.
NOTE: this can trigger on x86 32bit systems with PAE enabled with more
than 4G of ram, otherwise the high part of the pmd will never risk to be
truncated because it would be zero at all times, in turn so hiding the
SMP race.
This bug was discovered and fully debugged by Ulrich, quote:
----
[..]
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() loads the content of edx and
eax.
496 static inline int pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd_t
*pmd)
497 {
498 /* depend on compiler for an atomic pmd read */
499 pmd_t pmdval = *pmd;
// edi = pmd pointer
0xc0507a74 <sys_mincore+548>: mov 0x8(%esp),%edi
...
// edx = PTE page table high address
0xc0507a84 <sys_mincore+564>: mov 0x4(%edi),%edx
...
// eax = PTE page table low address
0xc0507a8e <sys_mincore+574>: mov (%edi),%eax
[..]
Please note that the PMD is not read atomically. These are two "mov"
instructions where the high order bits of the PMD entry are fetched
first. Hence, the above machine code is prone to the following race.
- The PMD entry {high|low} is 0x0000000000000000.
The "mov" at 0xc0507a84 loads 0x00000000 into edx.
- A page fault (on another CPU) sneaks in between the two "mov"
instructions and instantiates the PMD.
- The PMD entry {high|low} is now 0x00000003fda38067.
The "mov" at 0xc0507a8e loads 0xfda38067 into eax.
----
Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit d5d2d2eea84b0d8450b082edbc3dbde41fb8bfd8 upstream.
The SGI Altix UV2 BAU (Broadcast Assist Unit) as used for
tlb-shootdown (selective broadcast mode) always uses UV2
broadcast descriptor format. There is no need to clear the
'legacy' (UV1) mode, because the hardware always uses UV2 mode
for selective broadcast.
But the BIOS uses general broadcast and legacy mode, and the
hardware pays attention to the legacy mode bit for general
broadcast. So the kernel must not clear that mode bit.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1SccoO-0002Lh-Cb@eag09.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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commit 9993bc635d01a6ee7f6b833b4ee65ce7c06350b1 upstream.
When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset. However,
when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be
carried over from the previous kernel. The computation of
cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the
machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec. The
overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is
enough room to store the final answer.
We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and
remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing
the multiplication separately on the two components.
Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous
fix in __cycles_2_ns().
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c2226fc9e87ba3da060e47333657cd6616652b84 upstream.
On hosts without this patch, 32bit guests will crash (and 64bit guests
may behave in a wrong way) for example by simply executing following
nasm-demo-application:
[bits 32]
global _start
SECTION .text
_start: syscall
(I tested it with winxp and linux - both always crashed)
Disassembly of section .text:
00000000 <_start>:
0: 0f 05 syscall
The reason seems a missing "invalid opcode"-trap (int6) for the
syscall opcode "0f05", which is not available on Intel CPUs
within non-longmodes, as also on some AMD CPUs within legacy-mode.
(depending on CPU vendor, MSR_EFER and cpuid)
Because previous mentioned OSs may not engage corresponding
syscall target-registers (STAR, LSTAR, CSTAR), they remain
NULL and (non trapping) syscalls are leading to multiple
faults and finally crashs.
Depending on the architecture (AMD or Intel) pretended by
guests, various checks according to vendor's documentation
are implemented to overcome the current issue and behave
like the CPUs physical counterparts.
[mtosatti: cleanup/beautify code]
Signed-off-by: Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit bdb42f5afebe208eae90406959383856ae2caf2b upstream.
In order to be able to proceed checks on CPU-specific properties
within the emulator, function "get_cpuid" is introduced.
With "get_cpuid" it is possible to virtually call the guests
"cpuid"-opcode without changing the VM's context.
[mtosatti: cleanup/beautify code]
Signed-off-by: Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 1018faa6cf23b256bf25919ef203cd7c129f06f2 upstream.
It turned out that a performance counter on AMD does not
count at all when the GO or HO bit is set in the control
register and SVM is disabled in EFER.
This patch works around this issue by masking out the HO bit
in the performance counter control register when SVM is not
enabled.
The GO bit is not touched because it is only set when the
user wants to count in guest-mode only. So when SVM is
disabled the counter should not run at all and the
not-counting is the intended behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330523852-19566-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 34ddc81a230b15c0e345b6b253049db731499f7e upstream.
After all the FPU state cleanups and finally finding the problem that
caused all our FPU save/restore problems, this re-introduces the
preloading of FPU state that was removed in commit b3b0870ef3ff ("i387:
do not preload FPU state at task switch time").
However, instead of simply reverting the removal, this reimplements
preloading with several fixes, most notably
- properly abstracted as a true FPU state switch, rather than as
open-coded save and restore with various hacks.
In particular, implementing it as a proper FPU state switch allows us
to optimize the CR0.TS flag accesses: there is no reason to set the
TS bit only to then almost immediately clear it again. CR0 accesses
are quite slow and expensive, don't flip the bit back and forth for
no good reason.
- Make sure that the same model works for both x86-32 and x86-64, so
that there are no gratuitous differences between the two due to the
way they save and restore segment state differently due to
architectural differences that really don't matter to the FPU state.
- Avoid exposing the "preload" state to the context switch routines,
and in particular allow the concept of lazy state restore: if nothing
else has used the FPU in the meantime, and the process is still on
the same CPU, we can avoid restoring state from memory entirely, just
re-expose the state that is still in the FPU unit.
That optimized lazy restore isn't actually implemented here, but the
infrastructure is set up for it. Of course, older CPU's that use
'fnsave' to save the state cannot take advantage of this, since the
state saving also trashes the state.
In other words, there is now an actual _design_ to the FPU state saving,
rather than just random historical baggage. Hopefully it's easier to
follow as a result.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit f94edacf998516ac9d849f7bc6949a703977a7f3 upstream.
This moves the bit that indicates whether a thread has ownership of the
FPU from the TS_USEDFPU bit in thread_info->status to a word of its own
(called 'has_fpu') in task_struct->thread.has_fpu.
This fixes two independent bugs at the same time:
- changing 'thread_info->status' from the scheduler causes nasty
problems for the other users of that variable, since it is defined to
be thread-synchronous (that's what the "TS_" part of the naming was
supposed to indicate).
So perfectly valid code could (and did) do
ti->status |= TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK;
and the compiler was free to do that as separate load, or and store
instructions. Which can cause problems with preemption, since a task
switch could happen in between, and change the TS_USEDFPU bit. The
change to TS_USEDFPU would be overwritten by the final store.
In practice, this seldom happened, though, because the 'status' field
was seldom used more than once, so gcc would generally tend to
generate code that used a read-modify-write instruction and thus
happened to avoid this problem - RMW instructions are naturally low
fat and preemption-safe.
- On x86-32, the current_thread_info() pointer would, during interrupts
and softirqs, point to a *copy* of the real thread_info, because
x86-32 uses %esp to calculate the thread_info address, and thus the
separate irq (and softirq) stacks would cause these kinds of odd
thread_info copy aliases.
This is normally not a problem, since interrupts aren't supposed to
look at thread information anyway (what thread is running at
interrupt time really isn't very well-defined), but it confused the
heck out of irq_fpu_usable() and the code that tried to squirrel
away the FPU state.
(It also caused untold confusion for us poor kernel developers).
It also turns out that using 'task_struct' is actually much more natural
for most of the call sites that care about the FPU state, since they
tend to work with the task struct for other reasons anyway (ie
scheduling). And the FPU data that we are going to save/restore is
found there too.
Thanks to Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> for pointing us to
the %esp issue.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia>
Acked-and-tested-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 4903062b5485f0e2c286a23b44c9b59d9b017d53 upstream.
The AMD K7/K8 CPUs don't save/restore FDP/FIP/FOP unless an exception is
pending. In order to not leak FIP state from one process to another, we
need to do a floating point load after the fxsave of the old process,
and before the fxrstor of the new FPU state. That resets the state to
the (uninteresting) kernel load, rather than some potentially sensitive
user information.
We used to do this directly after the FPU state save, but that is
actually very inconvenient, since it
(a) corrupts what is potentially perfectly good FPU state that we might
want to lazy avoid restoring later and
(b) on x86-64 it resulted in a very annoying ordering constraint, where
"__unlazy_fpu()" in the task switch needs to be delayed until after
the DS segment has been reloaded just to get the new DS value.
Coupling it to the fxrstor instead of the fxsave automatically avoids
both of these issues, and also ensures that we only do it when actually
necessary (the FP state after a save may never actually get used). It's
simply a much more natural place for the leaked state cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit b3b0870ef3ffed72b92415423da864f440f57ad6 upstream.
Yes, taking the trap to re-load the FPU/MMX state is expensive, but so
is spending several days looking for a bug in the state save/restore
code. And the preload code has some rather subtle interactions with
both paravirtualization support and segment state restore, so it's not
nearly as simple as it should be.
Also, now that we no longer necessarily depend on a single bit (ie
TS_USEDFPU) for keeping track of the state of the FPU, we migth be able
to do better. If we are really switching between two processes that
keep touching the FP state, save/restore is inevitable, but in the case
of having one process that does most of the FPU usage, we may actually
be able to do much better than the preloading.
In particular, we may be able to keep track of which CPU the process ran
on last, and also per CPU keep track of which process' FP state that CPU
has. For modern CPU's that don't destroy the FPU contents on save time,
that would allow us to do a lazy restore by just re-enabling the
existing FPU state - with no restore cost at all!
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 6d59d7a9f5b723a7ac1925c136e93ec83c0c3043 upstream.
This creates three helper functions that do the TS_USEDFPU accesses, and
makes everybody that used to do it by hand use those helpers instead.
In addition, there's a couple of helper functions for the "change both
CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU at the same time" case, and the places that do
that together have been changed to use those. That means that we have
fewer random places that open-code this situation.
The intent is partly to clarify the code without actually changing any
semantics yet (since we clearly still have some hard to reproduce bug in
this area), but also to make it much easier to use another approach
entirely to caching the CR0.TS bit for software accesses.
Right now we use a bit in the thread-info 'status' variable (this patch
does not change that), but we might want to make it a full field of its
own or even make it a per-cpu variable.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit b6c66418dcad0fcf83cd1d0a39482db37bf4fc41 upstream.
Touching TS_USEDFPU without touching CR0.TS is confusing, so don't do
it. By moving it into the callers, we always do the TS_USEDFPU next to
the CR0.TS accesses in the source code, and it's much easier to see how
the two go hand in hand.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 15d8791cae75dca27bfda8ecfe87dca9379d6bb0 upstream.
Commit 5b1cbac37798 ("i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust")
added a sanity check to the #NM handler to verify that we never cause
the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode.
However, that check actually pinpointed a (fundamental) race where we do
cause that exception as part of the signal stack FPU state save/restore
code.
Because we use the floating point instructions themselves to save and
restore state directly from user mode, we cannot do that atomically with
testing the TS_USEDFPU bit: the user mode access itself may cause a page
fault, which causes a task switch, which saves and restores the FP/MMX
state from the kernel buffers.
This kind of "recursive" FP state save is fine per se, but it means that
when the signal stack save/restore gets restarted, it will now take the
'#NM' exception we originally tried to avoid. With preemption this can
happen even without the page fault - but because of the user access, we
cannot just disable preemption around the save/restore instruction.
There are various ways to solve this, including using the
"enable/disable_page_fault()" helpers to not allow page faults at all
during the sequence, and fall back to copying things by hand without the
use of the native FP state save/restore instructions.
However, the simplest thing to do is to just allow the #NM from kernel
space, but fix the race in setting and clearing CR0.TS that this all
exposed: the TS bit changes and the TS_USEDFPU bit absolutely have to be
atomic wrt scheduling, so while the actual state save/restore can be
interrupted and restarted, the act of actually clearing/setting CR0.TS
and the TS_USEDFPU bit together must not.
Instead of just adding random "preempt_disable/enable()" calls to what
is already excessively ugly code, this introduces some helper functions
that mostly mirror the "kernel_fpu_begin/end()" functionality, just for
the user state instead.
Those helper functions should probably eventually replace the other
ad-hoc CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU tests too, but I'll need to think about it
some more: the task switching functionality in particular needs to
expose the difference between the 'prev' and 'next' threads, while the
new helper functions intentionally were written to only work with
'current'.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c38e23456278e967f094b08247ffc3711b1029b2 upstream.
The check for save_init_fpu() (introduced in commit 5b1cbac37798: "i387:
make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust") was the wrong way around, but
I hadn't noticed, because my "tests" were bogus: the FPU exceptions are
disabled by default, so even doing a divide by zero never actually
triggers this code at all unless you do extra work to enable them.
So if anybody did enable them, they'd get one spurious warning.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5b1cbac37798805c1fee18c8cebe5c0a13975b17 upstream.
Some code - especially the crypto layer - wants to use the x86
FP/MMX/AVX register set in what may be interrupt (typically softirq)
context.
That *can* be ok, but the tests for when it was ok were somewhat
suspect. We cannot touch the thread-specific status bits either, so
we'd better check that we're not going to try to save FP state or
anything like that.
Now, it may be that the TS bit is always cleared *before* we set the
USEDFPU bit (and only set when we had already cleared the USEDFP
before), so the TS bit test may actually have been sufficient, but it
certainly was not obviously so.
So this explicitly verifies that we will not touch the TS_USEDFPU bit,
and adds a few related sanity-checks. Because it seems that somehow
AES-NI is corrupting user FP state. The cause is not clear, and this
patch doesn't fix it, but while debugging it I really wanted the code to
be more obviously correct and robust.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit be98c2cdb15ba26148cd2bd58a857d4f7759ed38 upstream.
It was marked asmlinkage for some really old and stale legacy reasons.
Fix that and the equally stale comment.
Noticed when debugging the irq_fpu_usable() bugs.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5a51467b146ab7948d2f6812892eac120a30529c upstream.
uv_gpa_to_soc_phys_ram() was inadvertently ignoring the
shift values. This fix takes the shift into account.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120119020753.GA7228@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c5d35d399e685acccc85a675e8765c26b2a9813a upstream.
This patch implements a workaround for a UV2 hardware bug.
The bug is a non-atomic update of a memory-mapped register. When
hardware message delivery and software message acknowledge occur
simultaneously the pending message acknowledge for the arriving
message may be lost. This causes the sender's message status to
stay busy.
Part of the workaround is to not acknowledge a completed message
until it is verified that no other message is actually using the
resource that is mistakenly recorded in the completed message.
Part of the workaround is to test for long elapsed time in such
a busy condition, then handle it by using a spare sending
descriptor. The stay-busy condition is eventually timed out by
hardware, and then the original sending descriptor can be
re-used. Most of that logic change is in keeping track of the
current descriptor and the state of the spares.
The occurrences of the workaround are added to the BAU
statistics.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120116211947.GC5767@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit da87c937e5a2374686edd58df06cfd5050b125fa upstream.
Update the use of the Broadcast Assist Unit on SGI Altix UV2 to
the use of native UV2 mode on new hardware (not the legacy mode).
UV2 native mode has a different format for a broadcast message.
We also need quick differentiaton between UV1 and UV2.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120116211750.GA5767@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 24d25dbfa63c376323096660bfa9ad45a08870ce upstream.
This factors out the AMD native MMCONFIG discovery so we can use it
outside amd_bus.c.
amd_bus.c reads AMD MSRs so it can remove the MMCONFIG area from the
PCI resources. We may also need the MMCONFIG information to work
around BIOS defects in the ACPI MCFG table.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This hangs my MacBook Air at boot time; I get no console
messages at all. I reverted this on top of -rc5 and my machine
boots again.
This reverts commit e8c7106280a305e1ff2a3a8a4dfce141469fb039.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321621751-3650-1-git-send-email-matt@console
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If we encounter an efi_memory_desc_t without EFI_MEMORY_WB set
in ->attribute we currently call set_memory_uc(), which in turn
calls __pa() on a potentially ioremap'd address.
On CONFIG_X86_32 this is invalid, resulting in the following
oops on some machines:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f7f22280
IP: [<c10257b9>] reserve_ram_pages_type+0x89/0x210
[...]
Call Trace:
[<c104f8ca>] ? page_is_ram+0x1a/0x40
[<c1025aff>] reserve_memtype+0xdf/0x2f0
[<c1024dc9>] set_memory_uc+0x49/0xa0
[<c19334d0>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1c2/0x3aa
[<c19216d4>] start_kernel+0x291/0x2f2
[<c19211c7>] ? loglevel+0x1b/0x1b
[<c19210bf>] i386_start_kernel+0xbf/0xc8
A better approach to this problem is to map the memory region
with the correct attributes from the start, instead of modifying
it after the fact. The uncached case can be handled by
ioremap_nocache() and the cached by ioremap_cache().
Despite first impressions, it's not possible to use
ioremap_cache() to map all cached memory regions on
CONFIG_X86_64 because EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA regions really
don't like being mapped into the vmalloc space, as detailed in
the following bug report,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748516
Therefore, we need to ensure that any EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA
regions are covered by the direct kernel mapping table on
CONFIG_X86_64. To accomplish this we now map E820_RESERVED_EFI
regions via the direct kernel mapping with the initial call to
init_memory_mapping() in setup_arch(), whereas previously these
regions wouldn't be mapped if they were after the last E820_RAM
region until efi_ioremap() was called. Doing it this way allows
us to delete efi_ioremap() completely.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321621751-3650-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
intr_remapping: Fix section mismatch in ir_dev_scope_init()
intel-iommu: Fix section mismatch in dmar_parse_rmrr_atsr_dev()
x86, amd: Fix up numa_node information for AMD CPU family 15h model 0-0fh northbridge functions
x86, AMD: Correct align_va_addr documentation
x86/rtc, mrst: Don't register a platform RTC device for for Intel MID platforms
x86/mrst: Battery fixes
x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to be synchronous, regardless of lazy_mmu mode
x86: Fix "Acer Aspire 1" reboot hang
x86/mtrr: Resolve inconsistency with Intel processor manual
x86: Document rdmsr_safe restrictions
x86, microcode: Fix the failure path of microcode update driver init code
Add TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND on MTRR fixup
x86/mpparse: Account for bus types other than ISA and PCI
x86, mrst: Change the pmic_gpio device type to IPC
mrst: Added some platform data for the SFI translations
x86,mrst: Power control commands update
x86/reboot: Blacklist Dell OptiPlex 990 known to require PCI reboot
x86, UV: Fix UV2 hub part number
x86: Add user_mode_vm check in stack_overflow_check
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock
sched: Fix buglet in return_cfs_rq_runtime()
sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible
sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernels
sched, rt: Provide means of disabling cross-cpu bandwidth sharing
sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values
sched_fair: Fix a typo in the comment describing update_sd_lb_stats
sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a pain
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Intel MID x86 platforms have a memory mapped virtual RTC
instead. No MID platform have the default ports (and
accessing them may do weird stuff).
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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into x86/urgent
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Recently, I got bitten by using rdmsr_safe too early in the boot
process. Document its shortcomings for future reference.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ED5B70F.606@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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On the Intel MID devices SCU commands are issued to manage power
off and the like. We need to issue different ones for
non-Lincroft based devices.
Signed-off-by: Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There was a mixup when the SGI UV2 hub chip was sent to be
fabricated, and it ended up with the wrong part number in the
HRP_NODE_ID mmr. Future versions of the chip will (may) have the
correct part number. Change the UV infrastructure to recognize
both part numbers as valid IDs of a UV2 hub chip.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129210058.GA20452@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code. It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).
But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle. This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.
In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:
Brought up 2 CPUs
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81015d1d>] [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8100e2ed>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
[<ffffffff8149ee78>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
RIP [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
RSP <ffff8801d28ddf10>
In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall. Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.
The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.
We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen. This patch
does that.
Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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(Added the missing signed-off-by line)
In hundreds of days, the __cycles_2_ns calculation in sched_clock
has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing
the final value to become zero. We can solve this without losing
any precision.
We can decompose TSC into quotient and remainder of division by the
scale factor, and then use this to convert TSC into nanoseconds.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111115221121.7262.88871.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Moorestown/Medfield platform does not have port 0x61 to report
NMI status, nor does it have external NMI sources. The only NMI
sources are from lapic, as results of perf counter overflow or
IPI, e.g. NMI watchdog or spin lock debug.
Reading port 0x61 on Moorestown will return 0xff which misled
NMI handlers to false critical errors such memory parity error.
The subsequent ioport access for NMI handling can also cause
undefined behavior on Moorestown.
This patch allows kernel process NMI due to watchdog or backrace
dump without unnecessary hangs.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[hand applied]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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lapic timer calibration can be combined with tsc in platform
specific calibration functions. if such calibration result is
obtained early, we can skip the redundant calibration loops.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some wall clock devices use MMIO based HW register, this new
function will give them a chance to do some initialization work
before their get/set_time service get called.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but
mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its
write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own
character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts
that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to
a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub
function in the mce code, with a registration helper that
mce-inject can call when it is loaded.
Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow
mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function,
and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for
potential future patches.
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
xen/dom0: set wallclock time in Xen
xen: add dom0_op hypercall
xen/acpi: Domain0 acpi parser related platform hypercall
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
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* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/sameo/mfd-2.6: (80 commits)
mfd: Fix missing abx500 header file updates
mfd: Add missing <linux/io.h> include to intel_msic
x86, mrst: add platform support for MSIC MFD driver
mfd: Expose TurnOnStatus in ab8500 sysfs
mfd: Remove support for early drop ab8500 chip
mfd: Add support for ab8500 v3.3
mfd: Add ab8500 interrupt disable hook
mfd: Convert db8500-prcmu panic() into pr_crit()
mfd: Refactor db8500-prcmu request_clock() function
mfd: Rename db8500-prcmu init function
mfd: Fix db5500-prcmu defines
mfd: db8500-prcmu voltage domain consumers additions
mfd: db8500-prcmu reset code retrieval
mfd: db8500-prcmu tweak for modem wakeup
mfd: Add db8500-pcmu watchdog accessor functions for watchdog
mfd: hwacc power state db8500-prcmu accessor
mfd: Add db8500-prcmu accessors for PLL and SGA clock
mfd: Move to the new db500 PRCMU API
mfd: Create a common interface for dbx500 PRCMU drivers
mfd: Initialize DB8500 PRCMU regs
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx31moboard.c
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3beagle.c
arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/irqs.h
drivers/mfd/wm831x-spi.c
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* git://github.com/herbertx/crypto: (48 commits)
crypto: user - Depend on NET instead of selecting it
crypto: user - Add dependency on NET
crypto: talitos - handle descriptor not found in error path
crypto: user - Initialise match in crypto_alg_match
crypto: testmgr - add twofish tests
crypto: testmgr - add blowfish test-vectors
crypto: Make hifn_795x build depend on !ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - fix ctr blocksize to 1
crypto: blowfish-x86_64 - fix ctr blocksize to 1
crypto: whirlpool - count rounds from 0
crypto: Add userspace report for compress type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for cipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for rng type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for pcompress type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for nivaead type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for aead type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for givcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for ablkcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for blkcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for ahash type algorithms
...
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The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.
The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.
- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)
As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.
There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.
Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.
There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.
For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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