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A pte may be zapped by the swapper, exiting process, unmapping or page
migration while the accessed or dirty bit handers are about to run. In that
case the accessed bit or dirty is set on an zeroed pte which leads the VM to
conclude that this is a swap pte. This may lead to
- Messages from the vm like
swap_free: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000
- Processes being aborted
swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000
VM: killing process ....
Page migration is particular suitable for the creation of this race since
it needs to remove and restore page table entries.
The fix here is to check for the present bit and simply not update
the pte if the page is not present anymore. If the page is not present
then the fault handler should run next which will take care of the problem
by bringing the page back and then mark the page dirty or move it onto the
active list.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When there is no bus check, the return code should be failure, not success.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This stuff is all in the generic ia64 kernel, and the new initcall error
reporting complains about them.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The MCA recovery messages are currently KERN_DEBUG,
so they don't show up in /var/log/messages (by default).
Increase the severity to KERN_ERR, for the initial
message (and also add the physical address to this
message). Leave the successful isolation message as
KERN_DEBUG, but increase the severity when isolation
fails to KERN_CRIT.
[Russ' patch made these all KERN_CRIT]
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Allow sysadmin to disable all warnings about userland apps
making unaligned accesses by using:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
Rather than having to use prctl on a process by process basis.
Default behaivour leaves the warnings enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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beautify coding style for zeroing end of fsyscall_table entries.
Remove misleading __NR_syscall_last and add more comments.
Drop (now unneeded) "guard against failure to increase NR_syscalls"
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c erroneously marked die_if_kernel()
with a "noreturn" attribute ... which is silly (it returns whenever
the argument regs say that the fault happened in user mode, as one
might expect given the "if_kernel" part of its name!). Thanks to
Alan and Gareth for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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unaligned_access does fetch cr.ipsr, then calls
dispatch_unaligned_handler, but dispatch_unaligned_handler fetches
cr.ipsr again, so delete the first one.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Minor updates to earlier patch.
- Added to documentation to add ia64 as well.
- Minor clarification on how to use disabled cpus
- used plain max instead of max_t per Andew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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It appears that if auditing is enabled, the kernel fails to
check for pending signals before returning to user mode.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Trivial port of this feature from i386
As it stands, panic_on_oops but does nothing on ia64
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The original ia64 udelay() was simple, but flawed for platforms without
synchronized ITCs: a preemption and migration to another CPU during the
while-loop likely resulted in too-early termination or very, very
lengthy looping.
The first fix (now in 2.6.15) broke the delay loop into smaller,
non-preemptible chunks, reenabling preemption between the chunks. This
fix is flawed in that the total udelay is computed to be the sum of just
the non-premptible while-loop pieces, i.e., not counting the time spent
in the interim preemptible periods. If an interrupt or a migration
occurs during one of these interim periods, then that time is invisible
and only serves to lengthen the effective udelay().
This new fix backs out the current flawed fix and returns to a simple
udelay(), fully preemptible and interruptible. It implements two simple
alternative udelay() routines: one a default generic version that uses
ia64_get_itc(), and the other an sn-specific version that uses that
platform's RTC.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Remove symbol exports from ia64_ksyms.c that are already exported in
lib/string.c.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt
give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods
to assist.
- BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables.
- User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter
additional_cpus=X
The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the
physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining
and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Do not set cpu_possible_map for NR_CPUS when ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is set.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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MCA driver can cause panic if kernel gets a state info with no minstate.
This patch adds minstate validation before handling it.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Registers system call for the ia64 architecture.
Reserves space for ppoll and pselect, and adds unshare at system
call number 1296.
Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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There were two problems with enabling the PRINTK_TIME config
option:
1) The first calls to printk() occur before per-cpu data virtual
address is pinned into the TLB, so sched_clock() can fault.
2) sched_clock() is based on ar.itc, which may not be synchronized
across cpus.
Ken Chen started this patch, Tony Luck tinkered with it, and Jes
Sorensen perfected it.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The check of (end != cp) after memparse in efi.c looks wrong to me.
The result is that we can't use mem= and max_addr= kernel parameter at
the same time.
The following patch removed the check just like other arches do.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Make sure to save space for the trailing '\0'.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
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Wire up the ia64 syscalls for *at() functions.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The patch implements cpu topology exportation by sysfs.
Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo.
1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id:
represent the physical package id of cpu X;
2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id:
represent the cpu core id to cpu X;
3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core;
4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package;
To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes.
If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to
implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h.
The 4 defines are:
#define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
#define topology_core_id(cpu)
#define topology_thread_siblings(cpu)
#define topology_core_siblings(cpu)
The type of **_id is int.
The type of siblings is cpumask_t.
To be consistent on all architectures, the 4 attributes should have
deafult values if their values are unavailable. Below is the rule.
1) physical_package_id: If cpu has no physical package id, -1 is the
default value.
2) core_id: If cpu doesn't support multi-core, its core id is 0.
3) thread_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support
HT/multi-thread.
4) core_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support
multi-core and HT/Multi-thread.
So be careful when declaring the 4 defines in include/asm-XXX/topology.h.
If an attribute isn't defined on an architecture, it won't be exported.
Thank Nathan, Greg, Andi, Paul and Venki.
The patch provides defines for i386/x86_64/ia64.
Signed-off-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If SAL_CACHE_FLUSH drops interrupts, complain about it and fall back to
using PAL_CACHE_FLUSH instead.
This is to work around a defect in HP rx5670 firmware: when an interrupt
occurs during SAL_CACHE_FLUSH, SAL drops the interrupt but leaves it marked
"in-service", which leaves the interrupt (and others of equal or lower
priority) masked.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
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branches into release
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Eliminate a hot shared cacheline that occurs if multiple cpus are
taking unaligned exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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sos->os_status is set to a default value of IA64_MCA_COLD_BOOT for an
MCA, but then is incorrectly overwritten with IA64_MCA_SAME_CONTEXT (0).
This makes SAL think that all MCAs have been recovered.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Fix an unnecessary softlockup watchdog warning in the ia64
uncached_build_memmap() that occurs occasionally at 256p and always at
512p. The problem occurs at boot time.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Migrate perfmon from using an old semaphore to a completion handler.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add Montecito PMU description table for perfmon2
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When jprobe is hit, the function parameters of the original function
should be saved before jprobe handler is executed, and restored it after
jprobe handler is executed, because jprobe handler might change the
register values due to tail call optimization by the gcc.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add hotplug cpu support to salinfo.c.
The cpu_event field is a cpumask so use the cpu_* macros consistently,
replacing the existing mixture of cpu_* and *_bit macros.
Instead of counting the number of outstanding events in a semaphore and
trying to track that count over user space context, interrupt context,
non-maskable interrupt context and cpu hotplug, replace the semaphore
with a test for "any bits set" combined with a mutex.
Modify the locking to make the test for "work to do" an atomic
operation.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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We need to handle debug traps in fsys mode non-fatally. They can
happen now that we have fsyscalls which contain probe instructions.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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On return from INIT handler we must convert the address of the
minstate area from a kernel virtual uncached address (0xC...)
to physical uncached (0x8...). A typo (or thinko?) in the code
converted to physical cached.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When this new syscall was added to ia64 in commit
39743889aaf76725152f16aa90ca3c45f6d52da3
fsys.S was forgotten. Add a ".data8 0" there to keep
it in step. [Reported by Stephane Eranian]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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on ia64 thread_info is at the constant offset from task_struct and stack
is embedded into the same beast. Set __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS, made
task_thread_info() just add a constant.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.
The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:
- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.
[ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]
Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:
- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.
This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
any caches.
(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)
Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.
Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:
migration_cost=1000,2000,3000
will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.
Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:
migration_factor=120
will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.
I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:
Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
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[00] [01]
[00]: - 1.7(1)
[01]: 1.7(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
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Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.
Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
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[00] [01] [02] [03]
[00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1)
[01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0)
[02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1)
[03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
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Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.
8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
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[00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07]
[00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1)
[07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
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This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit
on some different cpu. In this case probe handlers can't find a matching
probe instance related to break address. In this case we need to read the
original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3
instruction and recover safely.
Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in
case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race.
Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and
powerpc. All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a
dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file.
This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with
#define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s) do { } while(0)
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests.
This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write
paths.
The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or
64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or
uncacheable). This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a
machine check.
Sample problem scenario:
- Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K
- efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule
- Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0
- hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here")
- Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB
memory, e.g., sx1000)
In the scenario above, the only choices are
- Use WB for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because it causes attribute
aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space.
- Use UC for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because the chipset may not
support UC for that region.
- Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL. That's what this patch does.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
Switch them to the common helpers.
Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface. We don't need the request argument
now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
returns. It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
that do one thing well now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration
This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.
The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process. A process may
have migrated to another node. Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
context. sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.
sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory. Paul
Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
migration if the cpuset of a process is changed. However, a user may decide
to manually control the migration.
This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
functions that are also needed for mbind and friends. The patch also provides
a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
move memory. sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
implementation.
The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
nodeset (which may be a cpuset). When direct page migration becomes available
then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
between different nodesets. The current implementation simply evicts all
pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.
Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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