This new copy_4K_page() function was originally tuned for the best
performance on the Cell processor, but after testing on more 64bit
powerpc chips it was found that with a small modification it either
matched the performance offered by the current mainline version or
bettered it by a small amount.
It was found that on a Cell-based QS22 blade the amount of system
time measured when compiling a 2.6.26 pseries_defconfig decreased
by 4%. Using the same test, a 4-way 970MP machine saw a decrease of
2% in system time. No noticeable change was seen on Power4, Power5
or Power6.
The 4096 byte page is copied in thirty-two 128 byte strides. An
initial setup loop executes dcbt instructions for the whole source
page and dcbz instructions for the whole destination page. To do
this, the cache line size is retrieved from ppc64_caches.
A new CPU feature bit, CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ, (introduced in the
previous patch) is used to make the modification to this new copy
routine - on Power4, 970 and Cell the feature bit is set so the
setup loop is executed, but on all other 64bit chips the setup
loop is nop'ed out.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Add a new CPU feature bit, CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ, to be added to the
64bit powerpc chips that benefit from having dcbt and dcbz
instructions used in their memory copy routines.
This will be used in a subsequent patch that updates copy_4K_page().
The new bit is added to Cell, PPC970 and Power4 because they show
better performance with the new copy_4K_page() when dcbt and dcbz
instructions are used.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7. However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64. For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors
Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides. I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When running a 31-bit ptrace, on either an s390 or s390x kernel,
reads and writes into a padding area in struct user_regs_struct32
will result in a kernel panic.
This is also known as CVE-2008-1514.
Test case available here:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/user-area-padding.c?cvsroot=systemtap
Steps to reproduce:
1) wget the above
2) gcc -o user-area-padding-31bit user-area-padding.c -Wall -ggdb2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -m31
3) ./user-area-padding-31bit
<panic>
Test status
-----------
Without patch, both s390 and s390x kernels panic. With patch, the test case,
as well as the gdb testsuite, pass without incident, padding area reads
returning zero, writes ignored.
Nb: original version returned -EINVAL on write attempts, which broke the
gdb test and made the test case slightly unhappy, Jan Kratochvil suggested
the change to return 0 on write attempts.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
avr32: pm_standby low-power ram bug fix
avr32: Fix lockup after Java stack underflow in user mode
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix rare boot build breakage
powerpc/spufs: Fix possible scheduling of a context to multiple SPEs
powerpc/spufs: Fix race for a free SPU
powerpc/spufs: Fix multiple get_spu_context()
On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the
default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do
look better.
So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the
CONFIG_X86_64 thing.
The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just
have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for
them.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The second HPC3 could be found only on Guiness systems (Challenge-S),
but not on fullhouse (Indigo2) systems.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A make -j20 powerpc kernel build broke a couple of months ago saying:
In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h:13,
from arch/powerpc/boot/prpmc2800.c:21:
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:85: error: expected ‘:’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘}’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:630: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘Byte’
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:630: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
It happened again yesterday: too rare for me to confirm the fix, but
it looks like the list of dependants on gunzip_util.h was incomplete.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We currently have a race when scheduling a context to a SPE -
after we have found a runnable context in spusched_tick, the same
context may have been scheduled by spu_activate().
This may result in a panic if we try to unschedule a context that has
been freed in the meantime.
This change exits spu_schedule() if the context has already been
scheduled, so we don't end up scheduling it twice.
Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: cpu_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86: pda_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86, xen: Use native_pte_flags instead of native_pte_val for .pte_flags
x86: move mtrr cpu cap setting early in early_init_xxxx
x86: delay early cpu initialization until cpuid is done
x86: use X86_FEATURE_NOPL in alternatives
x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
Exception stacks are allocated each time a CPU is set online.
But the allocated space is never freed. Thus with one CPU hotplug
offline/online cycle there is a memory leak of 24K (6 pages) for
a CPU.
Fix is to allocate exception stacks only once -- when the CPU is
set online for the first time.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
pda->irqstackptr is allocated whenever a CPU is set online.
But it is never freed. This results in a memory leak of 16K
for each CPU offline/online cycle.
Fix is to allocate pda->irqstackptr only once.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Using native_pte_val triggers the BUG_ON() in the paravirt_ops
version of pte_flags().
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Krzysztof Helt found MTRR is not detected on k6-2
root cause:
we moved mtrr_bp_init() early for mtrr trimming,
and in early_detect we only read the CPU capability from cpuid,
so some cpu doesn't have that bit in cpuid.
So we need to add early_init_xxxx to preset those bit before mtrr_bp_init
for those earlier cpus.
this patch is for v2.6.27
Reported-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move early cpu initialization after cpu early get cap so the
early cpu initialization can fix up cpu caps.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch provides an ARM implementation of ioremap_wc().
We use different page table attributes depending on which CPU we
are running on:
- Non-XScale ARMv5 and earlier systems: The ARMv5 ARM documents four
possible mapping types (CB=00/01/10/11). We can't use any of the
cached memory types (CB=10/11), since that breaks coherency with
peripheral devices. Both CB=00 and CB=01 are suitable for _wc, and
CB=01 (Uncached/Buffered) allows the hardware more freedom than
CB=00, so we'll use that.
(The ARMv5 ARM seems to suggest that CB=01 is allowed to delay stores
but isn't allowed to merge them, but there is no other mapping type
we can use that allows the hardware to delay and merge stores, so
we'll go with CB=01.)
- XScale v1/v2 (ARMv5): same as the ARMv5 case above, with the slight
difference that on these platforms, CB=01 actually _does_ allow
merging stores. (If you want noncoalescing bufferable behavior
on Xscale v1/v2, you need to use XCB=101.)
- Xscale v3 (ARMv5) and ARMv6+: on these systems, we use TEXCB=00100
mappings (Inner/Outer Uncacheable in xsc3 parlance, Uncached Normal
in ARMv6 parlance).
The ARMv6 ARM explicitly says that any accesses to Normal memory can
be merged, which makes Normal memory more suitable for _wc mappings
than Device or Strongly Ordered memory, as the latter two mapping
types are guaranteed to maintain transaction number, size and order.
We use the Uncached variety of Normal mappings for the same reason
that we can't use C=1 mappings on ARMv5.
The xsc3 Architecture Specification documents TEXCB=00100 as being
Uncacheable and allowing coalescing of writes, which is also just
what we need.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
After fixing the u32 thinko I sill had occasional hickups on ATI chipsets
with small deltas. There seems to be a delay between writing the compare
register and the transffer to the internal register which triggers the
interrupt. Reading back the value makes sure, that it hit the internal
match register befor we compare against the counter value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We use the HPET only in 32bit mode because:
1) some HPETs are 32bit only
2) on i386 there is no way to read/write the HPET atomic 64bit wide
The HPET code unification done by the "moron of the year" did
not take into account that unsigned long is different on 32 and
64 bit.
This thinko results in a possible endless loop in the clockevents
code, when the return comparison fails due to the 64bit/332bit
unawareness.
unsigned long cnt = (u32) hpet_read() + delta can wrap over 32bit.
but the final compare will fail and return -ETIME causing endless
loops.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in
alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The long noops ("NOPL") are supposed to be detected by family >= 6.
Unfortunately, several non-Intel x86 implementations, both hardware
and software, don't obey this dictum. Instead, probe for NOPL
directly by executing a NOPL instruction and see if we get #UD.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words. In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered). Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/dwmw2-2.6.27:
Revert "[ARM] use the new byteorder headers"
Fix conditional export of kvh.h and a.out.h to userspace.
[MTD] [NAND] tmio_nand: fix base address programming
Currently init_initrd() probes initrd header at the last page of kernel
image, but it is valid only if addinitrd was used. If addinitrd was not
used, the area contains garbage so probing there might misdetect initrd
header (magic number is not strictly robust).
This patch introduces CONFIG_PROBE_INITRD_HEADER to explicitly enable this
probing.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The txx9_pcode variable was introduced in commit
fe1c2bc64f65003b39f331a8e4b0d15b235a4afd ("TXx9: Add 64-bit support")
but was not initialized properly.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
trap_init issues flush_icache_range(), which uses ipi functions to
get icache flushing done on all cpus. But this is done before interrupts
are enabled and caused WARN_ON messages. This changeset introduces
a new local_flush_icache_range() and uses it before interrupts (and
additional CPUs) are enabled to avoid this problem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
With -ffunction-section the entries in __dbe_table aren't no longer
sorted, so the lookup of exception addresses in do_be() failed for
some addresses. To avoid this we now sort __dbe_table.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This reverts commit ae82cbfc8b. It
needs the new byteorder headers to be exported to userspace, and
they aren't yet -- and probably shouldn't be, at this point in the
2.6.27 release cycle (or ever, for that matter).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The minimum reprogramming delta was hardcoded in HPET ticks,
which is stupid as it does not work with faster running HPETs.
The C1E idle patches made this prominent on AMD/RS690 chipsets,
where the HPET runs with 25MHz. Set it to 5us which seems to be
a reasonable value and fixes the problems on the bug reporters
machines. We have a further sanity check now in the clock events,
which increases the delta when it is not sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes a problem within the SH implementation of resume_kernel code,
that implements in assembly the bulk of preempt_schedule_irq function without
taking care of the extra code needed to handle the BKL preemptible.
The patch basically consists of removing this asm code and calling the common
C implementation (see kernel/sched.c) as other archs do.
Another change is the missing 'cli' macro invocation at the beginning of
the resume_kernel.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo.amoroso@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
We currently have a race for a free SPE. With one thread doing a
spu_yield(), and another doing a spu_activate():
thread 1 thread 2
spu_yield(oldctx) spu_activate(ctx)
__spu_deactivate(oldctx)
spu_unschedule(oldctx, spu)
spu->alloc_state = SPU_FREE
spu = spu_get_idle(ctx)
- searches for a SPE in
state SPU_FREE, gets
the context just
freed by thread 1
spu_schedule(ctx, spu)
spu->alloc_state = SPU_USED
spu_schedule(newctx, spu)
- assumes spu is still free
- tries to schedule context on
already-used spu
This change introduces a 'free_spu' flag to spu_unschedule, to indicate
whether or not the function should free the spu after descheduling the
context. We only set this flag if we're not going to re-schedule
another context on this SPU.
Add a comment to document this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Commit 8d5636fbca introduced a reference
count on SPU contexts during find_victim, but this may cause a leak in
the reference count if we later find a better contender for a context to
unschedule.
Change the reference to after we've found our victim context, so we
don't do the extra get_spu_context().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
mcbsp is confused as to what takes a physical or virtual address.
Fix the two instances where it gets it wrong.
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The driver(s) below do not use LINUX_VERSION_CODE nor KERNEL_VERSION.
arch/arm/plat-mxc/clock.c
This patch removes the said #include <version.h>.
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
When calibration against PIT fails, the warning that we print is misleading.
In a virtualized environment the VM may get descheduled while calibration
or, the check in PIT calibration may fail due to other virtualization
overheads.
The warning message explicitly assumes that calibration failed due to SMI's
which may not be the case. Change that to something proper.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix for getting CPU number in power_save_ppc32_restore()
powerpc: Fix build error with 64K pages and !hugetlbfs
powerpc: Work around gcc's -fno-omit-frame-pointer bug
powerpc: Make sure _etext is after all kernel text
powerpc: Only make kernel text pages of linear mapping executable
powerpc: Fix uninitialised variable in VSX alignment code
