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Stefan Weinhuber
6ed93c827e [PATCH] s390: enable write barriers in the dasd driver
The DASD device driver never reorders the I/O requests and relies on the
hardware to write all data to nonvolatile storage before signaling a
successful write.  Hence, the only thing we have to do to support write
barriers is to set the queue ordered flag.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:59 -07:00
Horst Hummel
f24acd4503 [PATCH] s390: dasd readonly attribute
The independent read-only flags in devmap, dasd_device and gendisk are not
kept in sync.  Use one bit per feature in the dasd driver and keep that bit in
sync with the gendisk bit.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:59 -07:00
Michael Holzheu
e8f0641ef7 [PATCH] s390: allow longer debug feature names
The current limitation of 16 characters of the debug feature names turned out
to be insufficient.  Increase it to 64 characters.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:58 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
15439d74f6 [PATCH] s390: cmm guest sender id
An arbitrary guest must not be allowed to trigger cmm actions.  Only one
specific guest namely the one that serves as the resource monitor may send cmm
messages.  Add a parameter that allows to specify the guest that may send
messages.  z/VMs resource manager has the name 'VMRMSVM' which is the default.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:58 -07:00
Peter Oberparleiter
0b642ede47 [PATCH] s390: default storage key
Provide an easy way to define a non-zero storage key at compile time.  This is
useful for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:58 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
c9e3735359 [PATCH] s390: fix memory holes and cleanup setup_arch
The memory setup didn't take care of memory holes and this makes the memory
management think there would be more memory available than there is in
reality.  That causes the OOM killer to kill processes even if there is enough
memory left that can be written to the swap space.

The patch fixes this by using free_area_init_node with an array of memory
holes instead of free_area_init.  Further the patch cleans up the code in
setup.c by splitting setup_arch into smaller pieces.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:57 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
4b7e070662 [PATCH] s390: idle timer setup
Fix overflow in calculation of the new tod value in stop_hz_timer and fix
wrong virtual timer list idle time in case the virtual timer is already
expired in stop_cpu_timer.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:57 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
b2c6678c85 [PATCH] s390: regenerate defconfig
Regenerate the default configuration for s390.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:57 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2c49be99ed [PATCH] uml ubd: handle readonly status
Use the set_disk_ro() API when the backing file is read-only, to mark the disk
read-only, during the ->open().  The current hack does not work when doing a
mount -o remount.

Also, mark explicitly the code paths which should no more be triggerable (I've
removed the WARN_ON(1) things).  They should actually become BUG()s probably
but I'll avoid that since I'm not so sure the change works so well.  I gave it
only some limited testing.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:57 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
acef2e55d2 [PATCH] uml: commentary about forking flag
Add some commentary about UML internals, for a strange trick.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:56 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ffa0aea681 [PATCH] uml - hostfs: avoid buffers
Use this:
	.set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers,

We already dropped the inclusion of <linux/buffer_head.h>, and we don't have a
backing block device for this FS.

"Without having looked at it, I'm sure that hostfs does not use buffer_heads.
So setting your ->set_page_dirty a_op to point at __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is a reasonable thing to do - it'll provide a slight speedup."

This speedup is one less spinlock held and one less conditional branch, which
isn't bad.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:56 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b97b77cca6 [PATCH] uml: redo console locking
Fix some console locking problems (including scheduling in atomic) and various
reorderings and cleanup in that code.  Not yet ready for 2.6.12 probably.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:56 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
80f9507886 [PATCH] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for x86-64
Reuse asm-x86-64/unistd.h to build our syscall table, like x86-64 already
does.

Like for i386, we must add some #defines for all the (right!) changes UML does
to x86-64 syscall table.

Note: I noted a bogus:
	[ __NR_sched_yield ] = (syscall_handler_t *) yield,

while doing this patch (which could only be a workaround for some strange bug,
but I would ignore this possibility).  I'm changing this without notice.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ddcd6b1757 [PATCH] uml: quick fix syscall table for x86_64
Fix the moved syscall table for the x86_64 SUBARCH:

- redirect __NR_chown and such to versions aware of 32-bit UIDs,

- avoid the useless hack for sys_nfsservctl,

- use sys_sendfile64 in the table rather than sys_sendfile.

- __NR_uselib is sys_ni_syscall on x86_64 (which does not support A.OUT).

- __NR_getrlimit is sys_getrlimit, not sys_old_getrlimit

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
5e7b83ffc6 [PATCH] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for i386
Split the i386 entry.S files into entry.S and syscall_table.S which is
included in the previous one (so actually there is no difference between them)
and use the syscall_table.S in the UML build, instead of tracking by hand the
syscall table changes (which is inherently error-prone).

We must only insert the right #defines to inject the changes we need from the
i386 syscall table (for instance some different function names); also, we
don't implement some i386 syscalls, as ioperm(), nor some TLS-related ones
(yet to provide).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
e9c527163d [PATCH] uml: move va_copy conditional def
GCC 2.95 uses __va_copy instead of va_copy.  Handle it inside compiler.h
instead of in a casual file, and avoid the risk that this breaks with a newer
compiler (which it could do).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:54 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
c16993d900 [PATCH] uml: inline empty proc
Cleanup: make an inline of this empty proc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:54 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
c45166be3c [PATCH] uml: support AES i586 crypto driver
We want to make possible, for the user, to enable the i586 AES implementation.
This requires a restructure.

- Add a CONFIG_UML_X86 to notify that we are building a UML for i386.

- Rename CONFIG_64_BIT to CONFIG_64BIT as is used for all other archs

- Tell crypto/Kconfig that UML_X86 is as good as X86

- Tell it that it must exclude not X86_64 but 64BIT, which will give the
  same results.

- Tell kbuild to descend down into arch/i386/crypto/ to build what's needed.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:54 -07:00
Rob Landley
b05d85a87d [PATCH] uml: workaround old problematic sed behaviour
Old versions of sed from 1998 (predating the first release of gcc 2.95, but
still in use by debian stable) don't understand the single-line version of the
sed append command.  Since newer versions of sed still understand the...
ahem, "vintage" form of the command, change our code to use that.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:54 -07:00
Andree Leidenfrost
6aec307283 [PATCH] uml: fix handling of no fpx_regs
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

Fix the error path, which is triggered when the processor misses the fpx
regs (i.e.  the "fxsr" cpuinfo feature).  For instance by VIA C3 Samuel2.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:53 -07:00
blaisorblade@yahoo.it
8e7a4f69e4 [PATCH] uml: add nfsd syscall when nfsd is modular
This trick is useless, because sys_ni.c will handle this problem by itself,
like it does even on UML for other syscalls.

Also, it does not provide the NFSD syscall when NFSD is compiled as a
module, which is a big problem.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:53 -07:00
Jeff Dike
92eac95287 [PATCH] uml: fix oops related to exception table
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

Prevent the kernel from oopsing during the extable sorting, as it can do
now, because the extable is in the readonly section of the binary.

Jeff says: The exception table turned RO in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 for some reason.
Moving it causes it to land in the writable data section of the binary.

Paolo says: This patch fixes a oops on startup, which can be easily
triggered by compiling with CONFIG_MODE_TT disabled, and STATIC_LINK either
disabled or enabled.  The resulting kernel will always Oops on startup,
after printing this simple output:

I've verified, by binary search on the BitKeeper repository (synced up as
of 2.6.12-rc2), starting from the range 2.6.11-2.6.12-rc1, that this bug
shows up on BitKeeper revisions in the range [@1.1994.11.168,+inf), i.e.
starting from this:

[PATCH] lib/sort: Replace insertion sort in exception tables

Since UML does not use the exception table, it's likely that insertion sort
didn't happen to write anything on the table.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:53 -07:00
Pavel Machek
31df7b7fc6 [PATCH] hp100: fix card names
Those cards really need A in their names. Otherwise it is pretty hard
to find anything about them on the net.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:52 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
429e9c5eeb [PATCH] x86_64: saved_command_line overflow fix
This strcpy can run off the end of saved_command_line, and we don't need it any more anyway.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:52 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
8059b2a292 [PATCH] x86-64: Handle empty E820 regions correctly
Brings sanitize_e820_map() in x86-64 in sync with that of i386.

x86_64 version was missing the changes from this patch.
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@3e5e4083Y3HevldZl5KCy94V4DcZww?nav=index.html|src/|src/arch|src/arch/i386|src/arch/i386/kernel|related/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:52 -07:00
Pavel Pisa
ad6714230f [PATCH] Linux 2.6.x VM86 interrupt emulation fixes
Patch solves VM86 interrupt emulation deadlock on SMP systems.  The VM86
interrupt emulation has been heavily tested and works well on UP systems
after last update, but it seems to deadlock when we have used it on SMP/HT
boxes now.

It seems, that disable_irq() cannot be called from interrupts, because it
waits until disabled interrupt handler finishes
(/kernel/irq/manage.c:synchronize_irq():while(IRQ_INPROGRESS);).  This
blocks one CPU after another.  Solved by use disable_irq_nosync.

There is the second problem.  If IRQ source is fast, it is possible, that
interrupt is sometimes processed and re-enabled by the second CPU, before
it is disabled by the first one, but negative IRQ disable depths are not
allowed.  The spinlocking and disabling IRQs over call to
disable_irq_nosync/enable_irq is the only solution found reliable till now.

Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@control.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:52 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
f9ba70535d [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128
The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on
the number of e820 entries.  But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32.
With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries
reaching close to 32.  Patch below bumps the number upto 128.

The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820).
As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect
on bootloader-setup code interface.

Patch covers both i386 and x86-64.

Tested on:
* grub booting bzImage
* lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled
* pxeboot of bzImage

Side-effect:
bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K
on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:51 -07:00
Andi Kleen
be9e68703c [PATCH] x86_64: interrupt handling fix
- Initialize workmask correctly on interrupt signal handling

- Readd missing cli's in the interrupt return path.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:51 -07:00
Zwane Mwaikambo
3c3b73b6f5 [PATCH] cpuid x87 bit on AMD falsely marked as PNI
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4426

vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 2204.807
<snipped>
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 4358.14

We're marking bit 0 of extended function 0x80000001 cpuid as PNI support on
AMD processors, when it actually denotes x87 FPU present.  Patch for i386
and x86_64 below.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:51 -07:00
Jason Gaston
2f1b381825 [PATCH] hda_intel: Intel ESB2 support
This adds the Intel ESB2 HD Audio DID to the hda_intel.c audio driver.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:50 -07:00
Jason Gaston
4d24a439a6 [PATCH] irq and pci_ids for Intel ICH7DH & ICH7-M DH
This patch adds the Intel ICH7DH and ICH7-M DH DID's to the irq.c and
pci_ids.h files.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:50 -07:00
john stultz
35492df5ae [PATCH] i386: fix hpet for systems that don't support legacy replacement
Currently the i386 HPET code assumes the entire HPET implementation from
the spec is present.  This breaks on boxes that do not implement the
optional legacy timer replacement functionality portion of the spec.

This patch, which is very similar to my x86-64 patch for the same issue,
fixes the problem allowing i386 systems that cannot use the HPET for the
timer interrupt and RTC to still use the HPET as a time source.  I've
tested this patch on a system systems without HPET, with HPET but without
legacy timer replacement, as well as HPET with legacy timer replacement.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:50 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5b7abc6fdc [PATCH] CPUID bug and inconsistency fix
The recent support for K8 multicore was misported from x86-64 to i386, due
to an unnecessary inconsistency between the CPUID code.  Sure, there is are
no x86-64 VIA chips yet, but it should happen eventually.

This patch fixes the i386 bug as well as makes x86-64 match i386 in the
handing of the CPUID array.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:49 -07:00
Lee Revell
a6954ba2e8 [PATCH] Enable write combining for server works LE rev > 6
Enable write combining for server works LE rev > 6 per
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.3/1007.html

Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:49 -07:00
Stas Sergeev
48c88211a6 [PATCH] x86: entry.S trap return fixes
do_debug() and do_int3() return void.

This patch fixes the CONFIG_KPROBES variant of do_int3() to return void too
and adjusts entry.S accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:49 -07:00
Jaya Kumar
a2f7c35415 [PATCH] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a
This patch by Jaya Kumar introduces a generic infrastructure to deal with
x86 chipsets with nonstandard reset sequences, and adds support for the
Geode gx1/cs5530a chipset.

Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:49 -07:00
Jack F Vogel
67701ae976 [PATCH] check nmi watchdog is broken
A bug against an xSeries system showed up recently noting that the
check_nmi_watchdog() test was failing.

I have been investigating it and discovered in both i386 and x86_64 the
recent change to the routine to use the cpu_callin_map has uncovered a
problem.  Prior to that change, on an SMP box, the test was trivally
passing because all cpu's were found to not yet be online, but now with the
callin_map they are discovered, it goes on to test the counter and they
have not yet begun to increment, so it announces a CPU is stuck and bails
out.

On all the systems I have access to test, the announcement of failure is
also bougs...  by the time you can login and check /proc/interrupts, the
NMI count is happily incrementing on all CPUs.  Its just that the test is
being done too early.

I have tried moving the call to the test around a bit, and it was always
too early.  I finally hit on this proposed solution, it delays the routine
via a late_initcall(), seems like the right solution to me.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:48 -07:00
H. J. Lu
fd51f666fa [PATCH] i386/x86_64 segment register access update
The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving
between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e.,

        movl (%eax),%ds
        movl %ds,(%eax)

To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a
16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66,

        mov (%eax),%ds
        mov %ds,(%eax)

should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The
assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support

        movw (%eax),%ds
        movw %ds,(%eax)

without the 0x66 prefix. I am enclosing patches for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
here. The resulting kernel binaries should be unchanged as before, with
old and new assemblers, if gcc never generates memory access for

               unsigned gsindex;
               asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=g" (gsindex));

If gcc does generate memory access for the code above, the upper bits
in gsindex are undefined and the new assembler doesn't allow it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:48 -07:00
Denis Vlasenko
d5b63d78f1 [PATCH] fix i386 memcpy
This patch shortens non-constant memcpy() by two bytes and fixes spurious
out-of-line constant memcpy().

# size vmlinux.org vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3954591 1553426  236544 5744561  57a7b1 vmlinux.org
3952615 1553426  236544 5742585  579ff9 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:48 -07:00
Jake Moilanen
d637413f3f [PATCH] ppc64: reverse prediction on spinlock busy loop code
On our raw spinlocks, we currently have an attempt at the lock, and if we do
not get it we enter a spin loop.  This spinloop will likely continue for
awhile, and we pridict likely.

Shouldn't we predict that we will get out of the loop so our next instructions
are already prefetched.  Even when we miss because the lock is still held, it
won't matter since we are waiting anyways.

I did a couple quick benchmarks, but the results are inconclusive.

	16-way 690 running specjbb with original code
	# ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120
	    ...
	Valid run, Score is 59282

	16-way 690 running specjbb with unlikely code
	# ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120
	    ...
	Valid run, Score is 59541

I saw a smaller increase on a JS20 (~1.6%)

	JS20 specjbb w/ original code
	# ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120
	   ...
	Valid run, Score is 20460

	JS20 specjbb w/ unlikely code
	# ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120
	   ...
	Valid run, Score is 20803

Anton said:

Mispredicting the spinlock busy loop also means we slow down the rate at which
we do the loads which can be good for heavily contended locks.

Note: There are some gcc issues with our default build and branch prediction,
but a CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY build should emit them correctly.  I'm working with
Alan Modra on it now.

Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:47 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
d59dd4620f [PATCH] use smp_mb/wmb/rmb where possible
Replace a number of memory barriers with smp_ variants.  This means we won't
take the unnecessary hit on UP machines.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:47 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
0d8d4d42f2 [PATCH] ppc64: use smp_mb and smp_wmb
Use smp_mb and smp_wmb. In particular smp_wmb is lighter weight than wmb.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:47 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
eeb24de431 [PATCH] ppc64: enforce medium thread priority in hypervisor calls
Calls into the hypervisor do not raise the thread priority.  Ensure we are
running at medium priority upon entry to the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:46 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
c4005e4f66 [PATCH] ppc64: firmware workaround
Recent gcc 4.0 testing uncovered a firmware issue.  Some properties are larger
than 31 bytes and due to gcc 4.0s better stack allocation this overflow ran
over non volatile register storage.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:46 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
4b88e927e8 [PATCH] ppc64: remove unnecessary include
We no longer use any ppcdebug stuff in a.out.h, so remove the define.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:46 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
a2f95a5ae9 [PATCH] ppc64: noexec fixes
There were a few issues with the ppc64 noexec support:

The 64bit ABI has a non executable stack by default.  At the moment 64bit apps
require a PT_GNU_STACK section in order to have a non executable stack.

Disable the read implies exec workaround on the 64bit ABI.  The 64bit
toolchain has never had problems with incorrect mmap permissions (the 32bit
has, thats why we need to retain the workaround).

With these fixes as well as a gcc fix from Alan Modra (that was recently
committed) 64bit apps work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:45 -07:00
Olof Johansson
d03853d566 [PATCH] PPC64: Remove hot busy-wait loop in __hash_page
It turns out that our current __hash_page code will do a very hot busy-wait
loop waiting on _PAGE_BUSY to be cleared.  It even does ldarx/stdcx in the
loop, which will bounce reservations around like crazy if there's more than
one CPU spinning on the same PTE (or even another PTE in the same
reservation granule).  The end result is that each fault takes longer when
there's contention, which in turn increases the chance of another thread
hitting the same fault and also piling up.  Not pretty.

There's two options here:
1. Do an out-of-line busy loop a'la spinlocks with just loads (no
   reserves)
2. Just bail and refault if needed.

(2) makes sense here: If the PTE is busy, chances are it's in flux anyway
and the other code path making a change might just be ready to hash it.

This fixes a stampede seen on a large-ish system where a multithreaded
HPC app faults in the same text pages on several cpus at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:45 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
66faf9845a [PATCH] ppc64: tell firmware about kernel capabilities
On pSeries systems, according to the platform architecture specs, we are
supposed to be supplying a structure to firmware that tells firmware about
our capabilities, such as which version of the data structures that
describe available memory we are expecting to see.  The way we end up
having to supply this data structure is a bit gross, since it was designed
for AIX and doesn't suit us very well.  This patch adds the code to supply
this data structure to the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:45 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
58366af586 [PATCH] ppc64: update to use the new 4L headers
This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the
"fixup" header.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
0339ad77c4 [PATCH] ppc64: nvram cleanups
- Fix

  arch/ppc64/kernel/nvram.c:342: warning: `part' might be used uninitialized in this function

- Various codingstyle tweaks.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00