Based on patch from Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>.
Don't rely on kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) returning PAGE_SIZE aligned memory
(Xen requires GDT *and* LDT to be page-aligned). Using the page
allocator interface also removes the (albeit small) slab allocator
overhead. The same change being done for 64-bits for consistency.
Further, the Xen hypercall interface expects the LDT address to be
virtual, not machine.
[ Adjusted to unified ldt.c - Jeremy ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove the dead .text.lock. Move _etext and __{start,stop}___ex_table
into their sections.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
I can find no reason for the _p on the serverworks IRQ routing logic, and
a review of the documentation contains no indication that any such delay
is needed so lets try this
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Rather than remove and/or mangle inb_p/outb_p we want to remove the use
of them from inappropriate places. For the PIC/PIT this may eventually
depend on 32/64bitism or similar so start by adding inb/outb_pit and
inb/outb_pic so that we can make them use any scheme we settle on without
disturbing the existing, correct (for ISA), port 0x80 usage. (eg we can
make inb_pit use udelay without messing up inb_p).
Floppy already does this for the fdc. That really only leaves the CMOS as
a core logic item to tackle, and bits of parallel port handling in the
chipset layers.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Highlight peculiar cases in singles-step kprobe handling.
In reenter_kprobe(), a breakpoint in KPROBE_HIT_SS case can only occur
when single-stepping a breakpoint on which a probe was installed. Since
such probes are single-stepped inline, identifying these cases is
unambiguous. All other cases leading up to KPROBE_HIT_SS are possible
bugs. Identify and WARN_ON such cases.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
an otherwise idle system takes about 3 ticks per network
interface in unregister_netdev() due to multiple calls to synchronize_rcu(),
which adds up to quite a few seconds for tearing down thousands of
interfaces. By flushing pending rcu callbacks in the idle loop, the system
makes progress hundreds of times faster. If this is indeed a sane thing to,
it probably needs to be done for other architectures than x86. And yes, the
network stack shouldn't call synchronize_rcu() quite so much, but fixing that
is a little more involved.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The ENDPROCs() were not used everywhere. Some code used just END() instead,
while other code used nothing. um/sys-i386/checksum.S didn't #include
<linux/linkage.h> . I also got confused because gcc puts the
.type near the ENTRY, while ENDPROC puts it on the opposite end.
Signed off by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add caller of is_errata93() to X86_32, ifdef'd to do
nothing.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Comments, indentation, printk format.
Uses task_pid_nr() on X86_64 now, but this is always defined
to task->pid.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Copy the prefetch of map_sem from X86_64 and move the check
notify_page_fault (soon to be kprobe_handle_fault) out of
the unlikely if() statement.
This makes the X86_32|64 pagefault handlers closer to each
other.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
is_prefetch was the last user of get_segment_eip and only on
X86_32. This function returned the faulting instruction's
address and set the upper segment limit.
Instead, use the convert_ip_to_linear helper and rely on
probe_kernel_address to do the segment checks which was
already done everywhere the segment limit was being checked
on X86_32.
Remove get_segment_eip as well.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Rename convert_rip_to_linear to convert_ip_to_linear for shared
X86_32|64 use.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Where x86_32 passed zero in the high 32 bits, use wrmsrl which
will zero extend for us. This allows ifdefs for 32/64 bit to
be eliminated.
Eliminate ifdef in step.c. Similar cleanup was done when unifying
kprobes_32|64.c and wrmsr() was chosen there over wrmsrl(). This
patch changes these to wrmsrl.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change static bios_cpu_apicid array to a per_cpu data variable.
This includes using a static array used during initialization
similar to the way x86_cpu_to_apicid[] is handled.
There is one early use of bios_cpu_apicid in apic_is_clustered_box().
The other reference in cpu_present_to_apicid() is called after
smp_set_apicids() has setup the percpu version of bios_cpu_apicid.
[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the following static arrays sized by NR_CPUS to
per_cpu data variables:
acpi_cpufreq_data *drv_data[NR_CPUS]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the following static arrays sized by NR_CPUS to
per_cpu data variables:
char cpu_to_node_map[NR_CPUS];
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Clean up references to x86_cpu_to_apicid. Removes extraneous
comments and standardizes on "x86_*_early_ptr" for the early
kernel init references.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the following static arrays sized by NR_CPUS to
per_cpu data variables:
i386_cpu cpu_devices[NR_CPUS];
(And change the struct name to x86_cpu.)
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the following static arrays sized by NR_CPUS to
per_cpu data variables:
task_struct *idle_thread_array[NR_CPUS];
This is only done if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined
as otherwise, the array is removed after initialization
anyways.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the following static arrays sized by NR_CPUS to
per_cpu data variables:
powernow_k8_data *powernow_data[NR_CPUS];
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the size of node ids from 8 bits to 16 bits to
accomodate more than 256 nodes.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change the size of APICIDs from u8 to u16. This partially
supports the new x2apic mode that will be present on future
processor chips. (Chips actually support 32-bit APICIDs, but that
change is more intrusive. Supporting 16-bit is sufficient for now).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
I've included just the partial change from u8 to u16 apicids. The
remaining x2apic changes will be in a separate patch.
In addition, the fake_node_to_pxm_map[] and fake_apicid_to_node[]
tables have been moved from local data to the __initdata section
reducing stack pressure when MAX_NUMNODES and MAX_LOCAL_APIC are
increased in size.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor ioport unification to pull out common code.
Cc: mboton@gmail.com
Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ioport unification was broken for 32-bit; it was missing
the acutal pushf/popf EFLAGS manipulation (set_iopl_mask()).
Also, use of volatile looks like leftover cruft.
Cc: mboton@gmail.com
Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ioport_{32|64}.c unification.
This patch unifies the code from the ioport_32.c and ioport_64.c files.
Tested and working fine with i386 and x86_64 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Miguel Botón <mboton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than
4G RAM installed.
when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include
gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than
the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is
still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec
2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES
10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for
vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be
real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost.
Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d
[<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5
[<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198
[<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76
[<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152
[<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2
[<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121
and
[ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0
phys addr is : 0x1c200000
RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said:
PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB
new kernel said:
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000
So could try to disable that GART if possible.
According to Ingo
> hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply
> _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that
> into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out
> from the memory maps and just dont use that memory.
>
> that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old
> or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or
> whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with
> the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass
> us)
>
> it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk
> based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the
> bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to
> punch a hole for it.
>
> and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy
> BIOSes as well.
add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting.
gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
setup_node_zones() calcuates some variables but only use them when
FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP is set
so change the MACRO postion to avoid calculating.
also change it to static, and rename it to flat_setup_node_zones().
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
These are useful in figuring out early-mapping problems.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
printk_address()'s second parameter is the reliability indication,
not the ebp. If we're printing regs->ip we're reliable by definition,
so pass a 1 here.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line
for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the
trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit
x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder
than needed.
This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has
(including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix
to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking)
__get_user.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful
to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace.
Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful
to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even
detect such bugs earlier..
[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
x86 32 bit already has this feature: This patch uses the stack frames with
frame pointer into an exact stack trace, by following the frame pointer.
This only affects kernels built with the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER config option
enabled, and greatly reduces the amount of noise in oopses.
This code uses the traditional method of doing backtraces, but if it
finds a valid frame pointer chain, will use that to show which parts
of the backtrace are reliable and which parts are not
Due to the fragility and importance of the backtrace code, this needs to
be well reviewed and well tested before merging into mainlne.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch turns the x86 64 bit HANDLE_STACK macro in the backtrace code
into a function, just like 32 bit has. This is needed pre work in order to
get exact backtraces for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER to work.
The function and it's arguments are not the same as 32 bit; due to the
exception/interrupt stack way of x86-64 there are a few differences.
This patch should not have any behavior changes, only code movement.
Due to the fragility and importance of the backtrace code, this needs to be
well reviewed and well tested before merging into mainlne.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Right now, we take the stack pointer early during the backtrace path, but
only calculate bp several functions deep later, making it hard to reconcile
the stack and bp backtraces (as well as showing several internal backtrace
functions on the stack with bp based backtracing).
This patch moves the bp taking to the same place we take the stack pointer;
sadly this ripples through several layers of the back tracing stack,
but it's not all that bad in the end I hope.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid
to do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up
and prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still
print a decent backtrace.
This patch changes the backtracer to use the regular backtracing algorithm
at the same time as the EBP backtracer; the EBP backtracer is basically
used to figure out which part of the backtrace are reliable vs those
which are likely to be noise.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For enhancing the 32 bit EBP based backtracer, I need the capability
for the backtracer to tell it's customer that an entry is either
reliable or unreliable, and the backtrace printing code then needs to
print the unreliable ones slightly different.
This patch adds the basic capability, the next patch will add a user
of this capability.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The current x86 32 bit FRAME_POINTER chasing code has a nasty bug in
that the EBP tracer doesn't actually update the value of EBP it is
tracing, so that the code doesn't actually switch to the irq stack
properly.
The result is a truncated backtrace:
WARNING: at timeroops.c:8 kerneloops_regression_test() (Not tainted)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-0.77.rc4.git4.fc9 #1
[<c040649a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0406d41>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0407061>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
[<e0258049>] kerneloops_regression_test+0x44/0x46 [timeroops]
[<c04371ac>] run_timer_softirq+0x127/0x18f
[<c0434685>] __do_softirq+0x78/0xff
[<c0407759>] do_softirq+0x74/0xf7
=======================
This patch fixes the code to update EBP properly, and to check the EIP
before printing (as the non-framepointer backtracer does) so that
the same test backtrace now looks like this:
WARNING: at timeroops.c:8 kerneloops_regression_test()
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #4
[<c0405d17>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0406681>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0406ef2>] dump_stack+0x6a/0x70
[<e01f6040>] kerneloops_regression_test+0x3b/0x3d [timeroops]
[<c0426f07>] run_timer_softirq+0x11b/0x17c
[<c04243ac>] __do_softirq+0x42/0x94
[<c040704c>] do_softirq+0x50/0xb6
[<c04242a9>] irq_exit+0x37/0x67
[<c040714c>] do_IRQ+0x9a/0xaf
[<c04057da>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34
[<c05807fe>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x52/0x78
[<c04034f3>] cpu_idle+0x46/0x60
[<c05fbbd3>] rest_init+0x43/0x45
[<c070aa3d>] start_kernel+0x279/0x27f
=======================
This shows that the backtrace goes all the way down to user context now.
This bug was found during the port to 64 bit of the frame pointer backtracer.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It's not too pretty, but I found this made the "PANIC: early exception"
messages become much more reliably useful: 1. print the vector number,
2. print the %cs value, 3. handle error-code-pushing vs non-pushing vectors.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The check for an unitialized clock event device triggers, when the local
apic timer is registered as a dummy clock event device for broadcasting.
Preset the multiplicator to avoid a false positive.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Check the APIC timer calibration result for sanity. When the frequency
is out of range, issue a warning and disable the local APIC timer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The GDT_ENTRY() macro in pm.c would incorrectly cut the bottom 8 bits
off the base. We didn't define any bases with the bottom 8 bits
nonzero, so it is a non-manifest bug, but it's still a bug.
Pointed out by John Smith <johnsmith9344@gmail.com>.
Cc: John Smith <johnsmith9344@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If we use the bootloader-provided stack pointer, we might end up in a
situation where the bootloader (incorrectly) pointed the stack in the
middle of our heap. Catch this by simply comparing the computed heap
end value to the stack pointer minus the defined stack size.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Push video mode setup as late as possible; messages issued through the
BIOS interface after video mode setup will either not be seen (for
framebuffer modes) or will screw up the cursor (for text modes.)
In particular, this makes the EDD probing message show up correctly.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tell the user to specify edd=off in the case of EDD probing hangs.
Per LKML discussion.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>