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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
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The vsyscall page now consists entirely of trap instructions.
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/637648f303f2ef93af93bae25186e9a1bea093f5.1310639973.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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A few parts of the driver were missing in drivers/iommu.
Move them there to have the complete driver in that
directory.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This should ease finding similarities with different platforms,
with the intention of solving problems once in a generic framework
which everyone can use.
Compile-tested on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page. It contains
a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who
knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of
some other code.
Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic
incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real
vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the
middle.
This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real
syscalls. Fortunately sensible programs don't use them.
The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc
through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times
per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the
development tree.
This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet
functions are still at a fixed address. Fixing that might
involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
[ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The commit 44259b1abfaa8bb819d25d41d71e8e33e25dd36a
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible options
Removed the -pg from tsc.o which caused the function graph tracer
to go into an infinite function call recursion as it uses the tsc
internally outside its recursion protection, thus tracing the tsc
breaks the function graph tracer.
This commit also added the file vread_tsc_64.c that gets used
by vdso but failed to prevent GCOV from monkeying with it,
causing userspace to try to access kernel data when GCOV was
enabled.
Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for pointing out GCOV as the likely
culprit that added strange kernel accesses into the vread_tsc()
call.
Cc: Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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vread_tsc is short and hot, and it's userspace code so the usual
reasons to enable -pg and turn off sibling calls don't apply.
(OK, turning off sibling calls has no effect. But it might
someday...)
As an added benefit, tsc.c is profilable now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C99c6d7f5efa3ccb65b4ac6eb443e1ab7bad47d7b.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Introduce pci_map_biosrom()
x86, olpc: Use device tree for platform identification
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This file only contains code relevant for the northbridge
gart in AMD processors. This patch renames the file to
represent this fact in the filename.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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8237A utilizes the interface provided by CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API, specifically
claim_dma_lock() and release_dma_lock(). Thus, there's a strict
dependency on the config option and the module should only be loaded if
the kernel supports ISA-style DMA.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix binutils-2.21 symbol related build failures
x86-64, trampoline: Remove unused variable
x86, reboot: Fix the use of passed arguments in 32-bit BIOS reboot
x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file
x86: Make the GDT_ENTRY() macro in <asm/segment.h> safe for assembly
x86, trampoline: Use the unified trampoline setup for ACPI wakeup
x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
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The isci driver needs to retrieve its preboot OROM image which contains
necessary runtime parameters like platform specific sas addresses and
phy configuration. There is no ROM BAR associated with this area,
instead we will need to scan legacy expansion ROM space.
1/ Promote the probe_roms_32 implementation to x86-64
2/ Add a facility to find and map an adapter rom by pci device (according to
PCI Firmware Specification Revision 3.0)
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110308183226.6246.90354.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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The extra tsc_sync.o goal definition is superflous.
CONFIG_X86_64_SMP depends on CONFIG_SMP
and tsc_sync.o is already in the definition of CONFIG_SMP.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <1299826956-8607-1-git-send-email-henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds minimal support for device tree on x86. The device
tree blob is passed to the kernel via setup_data which requires at
least boot protocol 2.09.
Memory size, restricted memory regions, boot arguments are gathered
the traditional way so things like cmd_line are just here to let the
code compile.
The current plan is use the device tree as an extension and to gather
information which can not be enumerated and would have to be hardcoded
otherwise. This includes things like
- which devices are on this I2C/SPI bus?
- how are the interrupts wired to IO APIC?
- where could my hpet be?
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: sodaville@linutronix.de
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <1298405266-1624-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Move the real-mode reboot code out to an assembly file (reboot_32.S)
which is allocated using the common lowmem trampoline allocator.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D5DFBE4.7090104@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
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Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines. This code installs
the trampolines permanently in low memory very early. It also permits
multiple pieces of code to be used for this purpose.
This code also introduces a standard infrastructure for computing
symbol addresses in the trampoline code.
The only change to the actual SMP trampolines themselves is that the
64-bit trampoline has been made reusable -- the previous version would
overwrite the code with a status variable; this moves the status
variable to a separate location.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D5DFBE4.7090104@intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, earlyprintk: Move mrst early console to platform/ and fix a typo
x86, apbt: Setup affinity for apb timers acting as per-cpu timer
ce4100: Add errata fixes for UART on CE4100
x86: platform: Move iris to x86/platform where it belongs
x86, mrst: Check platform_device_register() return code
x86/platform: Add Eurobraille/Iris power off support
x86, mrst: Add explanation for using 1960 as the year offset for vrtc
x86, mrst: Fix dependencies of "select INTEL_SCU_IPC"
x86, mrst: The shutdown for MRST requires the SCU IPC mechanism
x86: Ce4100: Add reboot_fixup() for CE4100
ce4100: Add PCI register emulation for CE4100
x86: Add CE4100 platform support
x86: mrst: Set vRTC's IRQ to level trigger type
x86: mrst: Add audio driver bindings
rtc: Add drivers/rtc/rtc-mrst.c
x86: mrst: Add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device
x86: mrst: Add Moorestown specific reboot/shutdown support
x86: mrst: Parse SFI timer table for all timer configs
x86/mrst: Add SFI platform device parsing code
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This implements arch_remove_reservations() so allocate_resource() can
avoid any arch-specific reserved areas. This currently just avoids the
BIOS area (the first 1MB), but could be used for E820 reserved areas if
that turns out to be necessary.
We previously avoided this area in pcibios_align_resource(). This patch
moves the test from that PCI-specific path to a generic path, so *all*
resource allocations will avoid this area.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Move the code to arch/x86/platform/mrst/. Also fix a typo to use
the correct config option: ONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_MRST
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1291348298-21263-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The Iris machines from Eurobraille do not have APM or ACPI support
to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is
needed to do so. This modle runs this I/O sequence at
kernel shutdown when its force parameter is set to 1.
Signed-off-by: Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
[ did minor coding style edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, iommu: Update header comments with appropriate naming
ia64, iommu: Add a dummy iommu_table.h file in IA64.
x86, iommu: Fix IOMMU_INIT alignment rules
x86, doc: Adding comments about .iommu_table and its neighbors.
x86, iommu: Utilize the IOMMU_INIT macros functionality.
x86, VT-d: Make Intel VT-d IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros.
x86, GART/AMD-VI: Make AMD GART and IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros.
x86, calgary: Make Calgary IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros.
x86, xen-swiotlb: Make Xen-SWIOTLB use IOMMU_INIT_* macros.
x86, swiotlb: Make SWIOTLB use IOMMU_INIT_* macros.
x86, swiotlb: Simplify SWIOTLB pci_swiotlb_detect routine.
x86, iommu: Add proper dependency sort routine (and sanity check).
x86, iommu: Make all IOMMU's detection routines return a value.
x86, iommu: Add IOMMU_INIT macros, .iommu_table section, and iommu_table_entry structure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI
x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support
Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-olpc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, olpc: XO-1 uses/depends on PCI
x86, olpc: Register XO-1 platform devices
x86, olpc: Add XO-1 poweroff support
x86, olpc: Don't retry EC commands forever
x86, olpc: Rework BIOS signature check
x86, olpc: Only enable PCI configuration type override on XO-1
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mrst-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: sfi: Make local functions static
x86, earlyprintk: Add hsu early console for Intel Medfield platform
x86, earlyprintk: Add earlyprintk for Intel Moorestown platform
x86: Add two helper macros for fixed address mapping
x86, mrst: A function in a header file needs to be marked "inline"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Remove stale pmtimer_64.c
x86, cleanups: Use clear_page/copy_page rather than memset/memcpy
x86: Remove unnecessary #ifdef ACPI/X86_IO_ACPI
x86, cleanup: Remove obsolete boot_cpu_id variable
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-amd-nb-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, amd_nb: Enable GART support for AMD family 0x15 CPUs
x86, amd: Use compute unit information to determine thread siblings
x86, amd: Extract compute unit information for AMD CPUs
x86, amd: Add support for CPUID topology extension of AMD CPUs
x86, nmi: Support NMI watchdog on newer AMD CPU families
x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs
x86, k8: Rename k8.[ch] to amd_nb.[ch] and CONFIG_K8_NB to CONFIG_AMD_NB
x86, k8-gart: Decouple handling of garts and northbridges
x86, cacheinfo: Fix dependency of AMD L3 CID
x86, kvm: add new AMD SVM feature bits
x86, cpu: Fix allowed CPUID bits for KVM guests
x86, cpu: Update AMD CPUID feature bits
x86, cpu: Fix renamed, not-yet-shipping AMD CPUID feature bit
x86, AMD: Remove needless CPU family check (for L3 cache info)
x86, tsc: Remove CPU frequency calibration on AMD
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Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This file is unused since the apic unification in 2.6.29, but nobody
noticed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add a pm_power_off handler for the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
The driver can be built modular and follows the behaviour of the
APM driver, setting pm_power_off to NULL on unload. However, the
ability to unload the module will probably be removed (with a simple
__module_get(THIS_MODULE)) if/when XO-1 suspend/resume support is
added to this file at a later date.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101010094032.9AE669D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Intel Moorestown platform has a spi-uart device(Maxim3110),
which connects to a Designware spi core controller. This patch
will add early console function based on it.
As it will be used long before Linux spi subsystem get
initialised, we simply directly manipulate the spi controller's
register to acheive the early console func. This is safe as it
will be disabled when devices subsytem get initialised.
To use it, user need enable CONFIG_X86_MRST_EARLY_PRINTK in
kenrel config and add "earlyprintk=mrst" in kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com
LKML-Reference: <1284361736-23011-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/hists.c
Merge reason: fix the conflict and merge in changes for dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The guest can use the paravirt clock in kvmclock.c which is used
by sched_clock(), which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism
for timestamps, which leads to infinite recursion.
Disable mcount/tracing for kvmclock.o.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When using a paravirt clock, pvclock.c can be used by sched_clock(),
which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism for timestamps,
which leads to infinite recursion.
Disable mcount/tracing for pvclock.o.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C9A9A3F.4040201@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The file names are somehow misleading as the code is not specific to
AMD K8 CPUs anymore. The files accomodate code for other AMD CPU
northbridges as well.
Same is true for the config option which is valid for AMD CPU
northbridges in general and not specific to K8.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917160343.GD4958@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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We are using a very simple sort routine which sorts the .iommu_table
array in the order of dependencies. Specifically each structure
of iommu_table_entry has a field 'depend' which contains the function
pointer to the IOMMU that MUST be run before us. We sort the array
of structures so that the struct iommu_table_entry with no
'depend' field are first, and then the subsequent ones are the
ones for which the 'depend' function has been already invoked
(in other words, precede us).
Using the kernel's version 'sort', which is a mergeheap is
feasible, but would require making the comparison operator
scan recursivly the array to satisfy the "heapify" process: setting the
levels properly. The end result would much more complex than it should
be an it is just much simpler to utilize this simple sort routine.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282845485-8991-4-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Fujita Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.
Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Add support for saving OFW's cif, and later calling into it to run OFW
commands. OFW remains resident in memory, living within virtual range
0xff800000 - 0xffc00000. A single page directory entry points to the
pgdir that OFW actually uses, so rather than saving the entire page
table, we grab and install that one entry permanently in the kernel's
page table.
This is currently only used by the OLPC XO. Note that this particular
calling convention breaks PAE and PAT, and so cannot be used on newer
x86 hardware.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100618174653.7755a39a@dev.queued.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.
It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.
Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.
So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers. Instead it
has a bank of eight APB timers. The number of available timers to the os
is exposed via SFI mtmr tables. All APB timer interrupts are routed via
ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI.
Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2
for clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A318D2D2@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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With generic modular drivers handling all of this stuff, the
geode-specific code can go away. The cs5535-gpio, cs5535-mfgpt, and
cs5535-clockevt drivers now handle this.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
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