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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: ce4100: Set pci ops via callback instead of module init
x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock
x86/mm: Handle mm_fault_error() in kernel space
x86: Don't check for BIOS corruption in first 64K when there's no need to
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Setting the pci ops on subsys initcall unconditionally will break
multi platform kernels on anything except ce4100.
Use x86_init.pci.init ops to call this only on real ce4100 platforms.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: sodaville@linutronix.de
LKML-Reference: <20110314093340.GA21026@www.tglx.de>
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-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, UV: Initialize the broadcast assist unit base destination node id properly
x86, numa: Fix numa_emulation code with memory-less node0
x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error
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It's forbidden to take the page_table_lock with the irq disabled
or if there's contention the IPIs (for tlb flushes) sent with
the page_table_lock held will never run leading to a deadlock.
Nobody takes the pgd_lock from irq context so the _irqsave can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <201102162345.p1GNjMjm021738@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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mm_fault_error() should not execute oom-killer, if page fault
occurs in kernel space. E.g. in copy_from_user()/copy_to_user().
This would happen if we find ourselves in OOM on a
copy_to_user(), or a copy_from_user() which faults.
Without this patch, the kernels hangs up in copy_from_user(),
because OOM killer sends SIG_KILL to current process, but it
can't handle a signal while in syscall, then the kernel returns
to copy_from_user(), reexcute current command and provokes
page_fault again.
With this patch the kernel return -EFAULT from copy_from_user().
The code, which checks that page fault occurred in kernel space,
has been copied from do_sigbus().
This situation is handled by the same way on powerpc, xtensa,
tile, ...
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <201103092322.p29NMNPH001682@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Return 0 on failure. This will cause the initialization of the driver
to fail and prevent the driver from loading if the BIOS cannot handle
the PCC interface command to "get frequency". Otherwise, the driver
will load and display a very high value like "4294967274" (which is
actually -EINVAL) for frequency:
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
4294967274
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Due to commit 781c5a67f152c17c3e4a9ed9647f8c0be6ea5ae9 it is
likely that the number of areas to scan for BIOS corruption is 0
-- especially when the first 64K is already reserved
(X86_RESERVE_LOW is 64K by default).
If that's the case then don't set up the scan.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110225202838.2229.71011.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The BAU's initialization of the broadcast description header is
lacking the coherence domain (high bits) in the nasid. This
causes a catastrophic system failure when running on a system
with multiple coherence domains.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <E1PxKBB-0005F0-3U@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This crash happens on a system that does not have RAM on node0.
When numa_emulation is compiled in, and:
1. we boot the system without numa=fake...
2. or we boot the system with numa=fake=128 to make emulation fail
we will get:
[ 0.076025] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.080004] kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c:788!
[ 0.080004] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[...]
need to use early_cpu_to_node() directly, because cpu_to_apicid
and apicid_to_node will return node0 that is not onlined.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6ECF72.5010308@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'devicetree/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
of/promtree: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v5)
x86: OLPC: have prom_early_alloc BUG rather than return NULL
of/flattree: Drop an uninteresting message to pr_debug level
of: Add missing of_address.h to xilinx ehci driver
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod: print EST-capable warning message only once
[CPUFREQ] fix BUG on cpufreq policy init failure
[CPUFREQ] Fix another notifier leak in powernow-k8.
[CPUFREQ] Missing "unregister_cpu_notifier" in powernow-k8.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
intel_idle: disable Atom/Lincroft HW C-state auto-demotion
intel_idle: disable NHM/WSM HW C-state auto-demotion
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..similar to what sparc's prom_early_alloc does.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Ensure build doesn't silently continue despite read failure,
addressing a warning due to the unchecked call.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimxxTMU3=4ry-_zbY6v1xiDi+hW9y1RegTr8vLK@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Print the message only once. I see it 16 times on a 2P box with 16 logical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
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Do the notifier registration later, so we don't have to worry
about freeing it if we fail the msr allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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It appears that when powernow-k8 finds that
No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
and suggests
Try again with latest BIOS.
it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was
registered in powernowk8_init
This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other
poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over.
The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other
clean-up that is needed.
( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces).
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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A customer of ours, complained that when setting the reset
vector back to 0, it trashed other data and hung their box.
They noticed when only 4 bytes were set to 0 instead of 8,
everything worked correctly.
Mathew pointed out:
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| Writing 64 bits is definitely going to overwrite space
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So limit the area modified to u32.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1297139100-424-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86 quirk: Fix polarity for IRQ0 pin2 override on SB800 systems
x86/mrst: Fix apb timer rating when lapic timer is used
x86: Fix reboot problem on VersaLogic Menlow boards
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: SVM: Advance instruction pointer in dr_intercept
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On some SB800 systems polarity for IOAPIC pin2 is wrongly
specified as low active by BIOS. This caused system hangs after
resume from S3 when HPET was used in one-shot mode on such
systems because a timer interrupt was missed (HPET signal is
high active).
For more details see:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129623757413868
Tested-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37.x, 32.x
LKML-Reference: <20110224145346.GD3658@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Need to adjust the clockevent device rating for the structure
that will be registered with clockevent system instead of the
temporary structure.
Without this fix, APB timer rating will be higher than LAPIC
timer such that it can not be released later to be used as the
broadcast timer.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
LKML-Reference: <1298506046-439-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In the dr_intercept function a new cpu-feature called
decode-assists is implemented and used when available. This
code-path does not advance the guest-rip causing the guest
to dead-loop over mov-dr instructions. This is fixed by this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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VersaLogic Menlow based boards hang on reboot unless reboot=bios
is used. Add quirk to reboot through the BIOS.
Tested on at least four boards.
Signed-off-by: Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1298152563-21594-1-git-send-email-kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Just as we had to disable auto-demotion for NHM/WSM,
we need to do the same for Atom (Lincroft version).
In particular, auto-demotion will prevent Lincroft
from entering the S0i3 idle power saving state.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25252
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Hardware C-state auto-demotion is a mechanism where the HW overrides
the OS C-state request, instead demoting to a shallower state,
which is less expensive, but saves less power.
Modern Linux should generally get exactly the states it requests.
In particular, when a CPU is taken off-line, it must not be demoted, else
it can prevent the entire package from reaching deep C-states.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25252
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Several people have reported spurious unknown NMI
messages on some P4 CPUs.
This patch fixes it by checking for an overflow (negative
counter values) directly, instead of relying on the
P4_CCCR_OVF bit.
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinfuTfCck_FfaOHrDqQZZehtRzkBum4SpFoO=KJ@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, dmi, debug: Log board name (when present) in dmesg/oops output
x86, ioapic: Don't warn about non-existing IOAPICs if we have none
x86: Fix mwait_usable section mismatch
x86: Readd missing irq_to_desc() in fixup_irq()
x86: Fix section mismatch in LAPIC initialization
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The "Type 2" SMBIOS record that contains Board Name is not
strictly required and may be absent in the SMBIOS on some
platforms.
( Please note that Type 2 is not listed in Table 3 in Sec 6.2
("Required Structures and Data") of the SMBIOS v2.7
Specification. )
Use the Manufacturer Name (aka System Vendor) name.
Print Board Name only when it is present.
Before the fix:
(i) dmesg output: DMI: /ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
(ii) oops output: Pid: 2170, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 /ProLiant DL380 G6
After the fix:
(i) dmesg output: DMI: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
(ii) oops output: Pid: 2278, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #4 HP ProLiant DL380 G6
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .3x - good for debugging, please apply as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: <20110214224423.2182.13929.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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mp_find_ioapic() prints errors like:
ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 13
if it can't find the IOAPIC that manages that specific GSI. I
see errors like that at every boot of a laptop that apparently
doesn't have any IOAPICs.
But if there are no IOAPICs it doesn't seem to be an error that
none can be found. A solution that gets rid of this message is
to directly return if nr_ioapics (still) is zero. (But keep
returning -1 in that case, so nothing breaks from this change.)
The call chain that generates this error is:
pnpacpi_allocated_resource()
case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_IRQ:
pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource()
acpi_get_override_irq()
mp_find_ioapic()
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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We use it in non __cpuinit code now too so drop marker.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110211171754.GA21047@aftab>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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commit a3c08e5d(x86: Convert irq_chip access to new functions)
accidentally zapped desc = irq_to_desc(irq); in the vector loop.
So we lock some random irq descriptor.
Add it back.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37
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Fix this deadlock - we are already holding the mutex:
=======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.38-rc4-test+ #1
-------------------------------------------------------
bash/1850 is trying to acquire lock:
(text_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
but task is already holding lock:
(smp_alt){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (smp_alt){+.+...}:
[<ffffffff81082d02>] lock_acquire+0xcd/0xf8
[<ffffffff8192e119>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4c/0x339
[<ffffffff8192e4ca>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x43
[<ffffffff8101050f>] alternatives_smp_switch+0x77/0x1d8
[<ffffffff81926a6f>] do_boot_cpu+0xd7/0x762
[<ffffffff819277dd>] native_cpu_up+0xe6/0x16a
[<ffffffff81928e28>] _cpu_up+0x9d/0xee
[<ffffffff81928f4c>] cpu_up+0xd3/0xe7
[<ffffffff82268d4b>] kernel_init+0xe8/0x20a
[<ffffffff8100ba24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
-> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
[<ffffffff81082d02>] lock_acquire+0xcd/0xf8
[<ffffffff8192e119>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4c/0x339
[<ffffffff8192e4ca>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x43
[<ffffffff810568cc>] get_online_cpus+0x41/0x55
[<ffffffff810a1348>] stop_machine+0x1e/0x3e
[<ffffffff819314c1>] text_poke_smp_batch+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff81932b6c>] arch_optimize_kprobes+0x10d/0x11c
[<ffffffff81933a51>] kprobe_optimizer+0x152/0x222
[<ffffffff8106bb71>] process_one_work+0x1d3/0x335
[<ffffffff8106cfae>] worker_thread+0x104/0x1a4
[<ffffffff810707c4>] kthread+0x9d/0xa5
[<ffffffff8100ba24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
-> #0 (text_mutex){+.+.+.}:
other info that might help us debug this:
6 locks held by bash/1850:
#0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
#1: (s_active#75){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
#2: (x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
#3: (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
#4: (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
#5: (smp_alt){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8100a9c1>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
stack backtrace:
Pid: 1850, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4-test+ #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81080eb2>] print_circular_bug+0xa8/0xb7
[<ffffffff8192e4ca>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x43
[<ffffffff81010302>] alternatives_smp_unlock+0x3d/0x93
[<ffffffff81010630>] alternatives_smp_switch+0x198/0x1d8
[<ffffffff8102568a>] native_cpu_die+0x65/0x95
[<ffffffff818cc4ec>] _cpu_down+0x13e/0x202
[<ffffffff8117a619>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144
[<ffffffff8111f5a2>] vfs_write+0xac/0xff
[<ffffffff8111f7a9>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com
Cc: mhiramat@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1297458466.5226.93.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: SVM: Make sure KERNEL_GS_BASE is valid when loading gs_index
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Additionally doing things conditionally upon smp_processor_id()
being zero is generally a bad idea, as this means CPU 0 cannot
be offlined and brought back online later again.
While there may be other places where this is done, I think adding
more of those should be avoided so that some day SMP can really
become "symmetrical".
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D525C7E0200007800030EE1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The gs_index loading code uses the swapgs instruction to
switch to the user gs_base temporarily. This is unsave in an
lightweight exit-path in KVM on AMD because the
KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR is switches lazily. An NMI happening in
the critical path of load_gs_index may use the wrong GS_BASE
value then leading to unpredictable behavior, e.g. a
triple-fault.
This patch fixes the issue by making sure that load_gs_index
is called only with a valid KERNEL_GS_BASE value loaded in
KVM.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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We reserve lowmem for the things that need it, like the ACPI
wakeup code, way early to guarantee availability. This happens
before we set up the proper pagetables, so set_memory_x() has no
effect.
Until we have a better solution, use an initcall to mark the
wakeup code executable.
Originally-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D4F8019.2090104@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32: Make sure the stack is set up before we use it
x86, mtrr: Avoid MTRR reprogramming on BP during boot on UP platforms
x86, nx: Don't force pages RW when setting NX bits
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Since checkin ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7 we call
verify_cpu even in 32-bit mode. Unfortunately, calling a function
means using the stack, and the stack pointer was not initialized in
the 32-bit setup code! This code initializes the stack pointer, and
simplifies the interface slightly since it is easier to rely on just a
pointer value rather than a descriptor; we need to have different
values for the segment register anyway.
This retains start_stack as a virtual address, even though a physical
address would be more convenient for 32 bits; the 64-bit code wants
the other way around...
Reported-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
LKML-Reference: <4D41E86D.8060205@free.fr>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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switching mm
Clearing the cpu in prev's mm_cpumask early will avoid the flush tlb
IPI's while the cr3 is still pointing to the prev mm. And this window
can lead to the possibility of bogus TLB fills resulting in strange
failures. One such problematic scenario is mentioned below.
T1. CPU-1 is context switching from mm1 to mm2 context and got a NMI
etc between the point of clearing the cpu from the mm_cpumask(mm1)
and before reloading the cr3 with the new mm2.
T2. CPU-2 is tearing down a specific vma for mm1 and will proceed with
flushing the TLB for mm1. It doesn't send the flush TLB to CPU-1
as it doesn't see that cpu listed in the mm_cpumask(mm1).
T3. After the TLB flush is complete, CPU-2 goes ahead and frees the
page-table pages associated with the removed vma mapping.
T4. CPU-2 now allocates those freed page-table pages for something
else.
T5. As the CR3 and TLB caches for mm1 is still active on CPU-1, CPU-1
can potentially speculate and walk through the page-table caches
and can insert new TLB entries. As the page-table pages are
already freed and being used on CPU-2, this page walk can
potentially insert a bogus global TLB entry depending on the
(random) contents of the page that is being used on CPU-2.
T6. This bogus TLB entry being global will be active across future CR3
changes and can result in weird memory corruption etc.
To avoid this issue, for the prev mm that is handing over the cpu to
another mm, clear the cpu from the mm_cpumask(prev) after the cr3 is
changed.
Marking it for -stable, though we haven't seen any reported failure that
can be attributed to this.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [v2.6.32+]
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
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()
watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl
watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency
watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic
perf: Fix Pentium4 raw event validation
perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
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Markus Kohn ran into a hard hang regression on an acer aspire
1310, when acpi is enabled. git bisect showed the following
commit as the bad one that introduced the boot regression.
commit d0af9eed5aa91b6b7b5049cae69e5ea956fd85c3
Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Date: Wed Aug 19 18:05:36 2009 -0700
x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
Because of the UP configuration of that platform,
native_smp_prepare_cpus() bailed out (in smp_sanity_check())
before doing the set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init()
Further down the boot path, native_smp_cpus_done() will call the
delayed MTRR initialization for the AP's (mtrr_aps_init()) with
mtrr_aps_delayed_init not set. This resulted in the boot
processor reprogramming its MTRR's to the values seen during the
start of the OS boot. While this is not needed ideally, this
shouldn't have caused any side-effects. This is because the
reprogramming of MTRR's (set_mtrr_state() that gets called via
set_mtrr()) will check if the live register contents are
different from what is being asked to write and will do the actual
write only if they are different.
BP's mtrr state is read during the start of the OS boot and
typically nothing would have changed when we ask to reprogram it
on BP again because of the above scenario on an UP platform. So
on a normal UP platform no reprogramming of BP MTRR MSR's
happens and all is well.
However, on this platform, bios seems to be modifying the fixed
mtrr range registers between the start of OS boot and when we
double check the live registers for reprogramming BP MTRR
registers. And as the live registers are modified, we end up
reprogramming the MTRR's to the state seen during the start of
the OS boot.
During ACPI initialization, something in the bios (probably smi
handler?) don't like this fact and results in a hard lockup.
We didn't see this boot hang issue on this platform before the
commit d0af9eed5aa91b6b7b5049cae69e5ea956fd85c3, because only
the AP's (if any) will program its MTRR's to the value that BP
had at the start of the OS boot.
Fix this issue by checking mtrr_aps_delayed_init before
continuing further in the mtrr_aps_init(). Now, only AP's (if
any) will program its MTRR's to the BP values during boot.
Addresses https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623393
[ By the way, this behavior of the bios modifying MTRR's after the start
of the OS boot is not common and the kernel is not prepared to
handle this situation well. Irrespective of this issue, during
suspend/resume, linux kernel will try to reprogram the BP's MTRR values
to the values seen during the start of the OS boot. So suspend/resume might
be already broken on this platform for all linux kernel versions. ]
Reported-and-bisected-by: Markus Kohn <jabber@gmx.org>
Tested-by: Markus Kohn <jabber@gmx.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@novell.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # [v2.6.32+]
LKML-Reference: <1296694975.4418.402.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Xen want page table pages read only.
But the initial page table (from head_*.S) live in .data or .bss.
That was broken by 64edc8ed5ffae999d8d413ba006850e9e34166cb. There is
absolutely no reason to force these pages RW after they have already
been marked RO.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug-fixes-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/setup: Route halt operations to safe_halt pvop.
xen/e820: Guard against E820_RAM not having page-aligned size or start.
xen/p2m: Mark INVALID_P2M_ENTRY the mfn_list past max_pfn.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu, x86: Fix percpu_xchg_op()
x86: Remove left over system_64.h
x86-64: Don't use pointer to out-of-scope variable in dump_trace()
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This patch fixes some issues with raw event validation on
Pentium 4 (Netburst) based processors.
As I was testing libpfm4 Netburst support, I ran into two
problems in the p4_validate_raw_event() function:
- the shared field must be checked ONLY when HT is on
- the binding to ESCR register was missing
The second item was causing raw events to not be encoded
correctly compared to generic PMU events.
With this patch, I can now pass Netburst events to libpfm4
examples and get meaningful results:
$ task -e global_power_events:running:u noploop 1
noploop for 1 seconds
3,206,304,898 global_power_events:running
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <4d3efb2f.1252d80a.1a80.ffffc83f@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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With this patch, the cpuidle driver does not load and
does not issue the mwait operations. Instead the hypervisor
is doing them (b/c we call the safe_halt pvops call).
This fixes quite a lot of bootup issues wherein the user had
to force interrupts for the continuation of the bootup.
Details are discussed in:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00535.html
[v2: Wrote the commit description]
Reported-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Tested-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Under Dell Inspiron 1525, and Intel SandyBridge SDP's the
BIOS e820 RAM is not page-aligned:
[ 0.000000] Xen: 0000000000100000 - 00000000df66d800 (usable)
We were not handling that and ended up setting up a pagetable
that included up to df66e000 with the disastrous effect that when
memset(NODE_DATA(nodeid), 0, sizeof(pg_data_t));
tried to clear the page it would crash at the 2K mark.
Initially reported by Michael Young @
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00108.html
The fix is to page-align the size and also take into consideration
the start of the E820 (in case that is not page-aligned either). This
fixes the bootup failure on those affected machines.
This patch is a rework of the Micheal A Young initial patch and
considers the case if the start is not page-aligned.
Reported-by: Michael A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
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In case the mfn_list does not have enough entries to fill
a p2m page we do not want the entries from max_pfn up to
the boundary to be filled with unknown values. Hence
set them to INVALID_P2M_ENTRY.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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