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Linus Torvalds
d1526e2cda Remove stack unwinder for now
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is
apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed.  We can put it back when
it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse.

In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-15 08:47:51 -08:00
Jan Beulich
bcddc0155f [PATCH] x86-64: miscellaneous entry.S adjustments
This patch:
- makes ret_from_sys_call no longer global (all external users were
  previously switched to use int_ret_from_sys_call)
- adjusts placement of a CFI_{REMEMBER,RESTORE}_STATE pair to better
  fit logic flow
- eliminates an unnecessary pair of CFI_{REMEMBER,RESTORE}_STATE
- glues together function- and unwinder-wise the previously separate
  system_call and int_ret_from_sys_call function fragments

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:02 +01:00
Andi Kleen
8cf2c51927 [PATCH] x86: Revert new unwind kernel stack termination
Jan convinced me that it was unnecessary because the assembly stubs do
this already on the stack.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-21 18:37:02 +02:00
Andi Kleen
581910e2eb [PATCH] x86-64: Revert interrupt backlink changes
They break more than they fix
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-21 18:37:02 +02:00
Jan Beulich
cc7d479fe5 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix ENOSYS in system call tracing
This patch:

- out of range system calls failing to return -ENOSYS under
  system call tracing

[AK: split out from another patch by Jan as separate bugfix]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-21 18:37:02 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7d0b0e8ddb [PATCH] x86-64: Annotate interrupt frame backlink in interrupt handlers
Add correct CFI annotation to the backlink on top of the interrupt stack.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-05 18:47:22 +02:00
Andi Kleen
51ec28e1b2 [PATCH] x86: Terminate the kernel stacks for the unwinder
Always make sure RIP/EIP is 0 in the registers stored on the top
of the stack of a kernel thread. This makes sure the unwinder code
won't try a fallback but knows the stack has ended.

AK: this patch is a bit mysterious. in theory they should be terminated
anyways, but it seems to fix at least one crash. Anyways double termination
probably doesn't hurt.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-05 18:47:22 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
3db03b4afb [PATCH] rename the provided execve functions to kernel_execve
Some architectures provide an execve function that does not set errno, but
instead returns the result code directly.  Rename these to kernel_execve to
get the right semantics there.  Moreover, there is no reasone for any of these
architectures to still provide __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ or _syscallN macros, so
remove these right away.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
Andi Kleen
658fdbef66 [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
SYSENTER can cause a NT to be set which might cause crashes on the IRET
in the next task.

Following similar i386 patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Jan Beulich
adf1423698 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
96e540492a [PATCH] Fix a irqcount comment in entry.S
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7a0a2dff1c [PATCH] Add a missing check for irq flags tracing in NMI
NMIs are not supposed to track the irq flags, but TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ
did it anyways. Add a check.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Prasanna S.P
d28c4393a7 [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobes
This patch moves the entry.S:error_entry to .kprobes.text section,
since code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to entry.S::error_entry,
that must be marked unsafe as well.
This patch also moves all the ".previous.text" asm directives to ".previous"
for kprobes section.

AK: Following a similar i386 patch from Chuck Ebbert
AK: Also merged Jeremy's fix in.

+From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

KPROBE_ENTRY does a .section .kprobes.text, and expects its users to
do a .previous at the end of the function.

Unfortunately, if any code within the function switches sections, for
example .fixup, then the .previous ends up putting all subsequent code
into .fixup.  Worse, any subsequent .fixup code gets intermingled with
the code its supposed to be fixing (which is also in .fixup).  It's
surprising this didn't cause more havok.

The fix is to use .pushsection/.popsection, so this stuff nests
properly.  A further cleanup would be to get rid of all
.section/.previous pairs, since they're inherently fragile.

+From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>

Because code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to
entry.S::error_code, that must be marked unsafe as well.
The easiest way to do that is to move the page fault entry
point to just before error_code and let it inherit the same
section.

Also moved all the ".previous" asm directives for kprobes
sections to column 1 and removed ".text" from them.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
44cc45267b [PATCH] Remove obsolete CVS $Id$ from assembler files in arch/x86_64/kernel/*
CVS hasn't been used for a long time for them.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
Andi Kleen
2e91a17b35 [PATCH] Add some comments to entry.S
And remove some old obsolete ones.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7f11d8a5ef [PATCH] Remove all ifdefs for local/io apic
IO-APIC or local APIC can only be disabled at runtime anyways and
Kconfig has forced these options on for a long time now.

The Kconfigs are kept only now for the benefit of the shared acpi
boot.c code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b06babac45 [PATCH] Add proper alignment to ENTRY
Previously it didn't align. Use the same one as the C compiler
in blended mode, which is good for K8 and Core2 and doesn't hurt
on P4.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
2f766d1606 [PATCH] Clean up asm/smp.h includes
No need to include it from entry.S
Drop all the #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
c05991ed12 [PATCH] x86_64: Add kernel thread stack frame termination for properly stopping stack unwinds.
One open question: Should these added pushes perhaps be made
conditional upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND or CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO?
[AK: Not needed -- these are all very slow paths]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:15 -07:00
Andi Kleen
2699500b31 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix backtracing for interrupt stacks
Re-add backlink for old style unwinder to stack switching.  Add proper
stack frame and CFI annotations to call_softirq

This prevents a oops when backtracing with fallback through the
interrupt stack top.

Suggested by Jan Beulich and Herbert Xu wanted it in 2.6.18.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-02 20:19:54 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
2601e64d26 [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, x86_64 support
Add irqflags-tracing support to x86_64.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Rusty Russell
19eadf98c8 [PATCH] x86: increase interrupt vector range
Remove the limit of 256 interrupt vectors by changing the value stored in
orig_{e,r}ax to be the complemented interrupt vector.  The orig_{e,r}ax
needs to be < 0 to allow the signal code to distinguish between return from
interrupt and return from syscall.  With this change applied, NR_IRQS can
be > 256.

Xen extends the IRQ numbering space to include room for dynamically
allocated virtual interrupts (in the range 256-511), which requires a more
permissive interface to do_IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@UNISYS.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:37 -07:00
Jan Beulich
dffead4e42 [PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64 syscall
Adjust the CFA offset for 64- and 32-bit syscall entries so that the five
slots pre-subtracted from the stack pointer do not appear to reside outside
of the current frame.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:17 -07:00
Jan Beulich
1de9c3f67e [PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64 IRQ stack
Change the switching to/from the IRQ stack so that unwind annotations can
be added for it without requiring CFA expressions.

AK: I cleaned it up a bit, making it unconditional and removing the
obsolete DEBUG_INFO full frame code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:17 -07:00
Jan Beulich
b538ed278b [PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64)
These are the x86_64-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. The
only restriction with this is that it currently cannot unwind across the
interrupt->normal stack boundary, as that transition is lacking proper
annotation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:17 -07:00
Jan Beulich
4b787e0b83 [PATCH] x86_64: add END()/ENDPROC() annotations to entry.S
Since END()/ENDPROC() are now available, add respective annotations to
x86_64's entry.S. This should help debugging activities.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:16 -07:00
Andi Kleen
822ff019f7 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't do syscall exit tracing twice
int_ret_from_syscall already does syscall exit tracing, so
no need to do it again in the caller.

This caused problems for UML and some other special programs doing
syscall interception.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-30 20:31:06 -07:00
Andi Kleen
7bf36bbc5e [PATCH] x86_64: When user could have changed RIP always force IRET
Intel EM64T CPUs handle uncanonical return addresses differently
from AMD CPUs.

The exception is reported in the SYSRET, not the next instruction.
This leads to the kernel exception handler running on the user stack
with the wrong GS because the kernel didn't expect exceptions
on this instruction.

This version of the patch has the teething problems that plagued an earlier
version fixed.

This is CVE-2006-0744

Thanks to Ernie Petrides and Asit B. Mallick for analysis and initial
patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:52 -07:00
Andi Kleen
805e8c03c9 [PATCH] x86_64: Clean up execve path
Just call IRET always, no need for any special cases.

Needed for the next bug fix.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:16 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3076a492a5 [PATCH] x86_64: Report SIGSEGV for IRET faults
tcsh is not happy with the -9999 error code.

Suggested by Ernie Petrides

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cbf0ec6ee0 Revert "[PATCH] x86-64: Fix up handling of non canonical user RIPs"
This reverts commit c33d4568ac.

Andrew Clayton and Hugh Dickins report that it's broken for them and
causes strange page table and slab corruption, and spontaneous reboots.

Let's get it right next time.

Cc: Andrew Clayton <andrew@rootshell.co.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14 08:01:47 -08:00
Andi Kleen
c33d4568ac [PATCH] x86-64: Fix up handling of non canonical user RIPs
EM64T CPUs have somewhat weird error reporting for non canonical RIPs in
SYSRET.

We can't handle any exceptions there because the exception handler would
end up running on the user stack which is unsafe.

To avoid problems any code that might end up with a user touched pt_regs
should return using int_ret_from_syscall.  int_ret_from_syscall ends up
using IRET, which allows safe exceptions.

Cc: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-12 22:56:29 -08:00
Andi Kleen
2391c4b594 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't call do_exit with interrupts disabled after IRET exception
This caused a sigreturn with bad argument on a preemptible kernel
to complain with

Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/include/linux/rwsem.h:43
in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1

Call Trace: {__might_sleep+190} {profile_task_exit+21}
       {__do_exit+34} {do_wait+0}

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 08:00:40 -08:00
Jan Beulich
91522a964b [PATCH] x86_64: small fix for CFI annotations
Conditionalize two unwind directives to match other similarly
conditional code.

Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 16:43:15 -08:00
Andi Kleen
eddb6fb9a5 [PATCH] x86_64: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlers
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion
and stack corruption.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 16:43:12 -08:00
Andi Kleen
5f8efbb96f [PATCH] x86_64: Allow nesting of int3 by default for kprobes
This unbreaks recursive kprobes which didn't work anymore
due to an earlier patch which converted the debug entry point
to use an IST.

This also allows nesting of the debug entry point too.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 11:27:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
915f34e20c [PATCH] x86_64: Remove useless KDB vector
It was set as an NMI, but the NMI bit always forces an interrupt
to end up at vector 2. So it was never used. Remove.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:00 -08:00
Andi Kleen
bf2fcc6fdf [PATCH] x86_64: Implement is_compat_task the right way
By setting a flag during a 32bit system call only

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:53 -08:00
Jan Beulich
bd9cb64df1 [PATCH] x86_64: fix page fault from show_trace()
The introduction of call_softirq switching to the interrupt stack several
releases earlier resulted in a problem with the code in show_trace, which
assumes that it can pick the previous stack pointer from the end of the
interrupt stack.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:50 -08:00
Jan Beulich
b556b35e98 [PATCH] x86_64: Move int 3 handler to debug stack and allow to increase it.
This
- switches the INT3 handler to run on an IST stack (to cope with
  breakpoints set by a kernel debugger on places where the kernel's
  %gs base hasn't been set up, yet); the IST stack used is shared with
  the INT1 handler's
[AK: this also allows setting a kprobe on the interrupt/exception entry
points]
- allows nesting of INT1/INT3 handlers so that one can, with a kernel
  debugger, debug (at least) the user-mode portions of the INT1/INT3
  handling; the nesting isn't actively enabled here since a kernel-
  debugger-free kernel doesn't need it

Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:13 -08:00
Jan Beulich
505cc4e1d6 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unprotected iret
Make sure no iret can fault without attached recovery code.
Cannot happen in the normal case, but might be useful
with kernel debuggers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:10 -08:00
Jacob Shin
89b831ef8b [PATCH] x86_64: Support for AMD specific MCE Threshold.
MC4_MISC - DRAM Errors Threshold Register realized under AMD K8 Rev F.
This register is used to count correctable and uncorrectable ECC errors that occur during DRAM read operations.
The user may interface through sysfs files in order to change the threshold configuration.

bank%d/error_count - reads current error count, write to clear.
bank%d/interrupt_enable - set/clear interrupt enable.
bank%d/threshold_limit - read/write the threshold limit.

APIC vector 0xF9 in hw_irq.h.
5 software defined bank ids in mce.h.
new apic.c function to setup threshold apic lvt.
defaults to interrupt off, count enabled, and threshold limit max.
sysfs interface created on /sys/devices/system/threshold.

AK: added some ifdefs to make it compile on UP

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Jan Beulich
7effaa882a [PATCH] x86-64: Fix CFI information
Being the foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this fixes CFI unwind
annotations in many low-level x86_64 routines, plus a config option
(available to all architectures, and also present in the previously sent
patch adding such annotations to i386 code) to enable them separatly
rather than only along with adding full debug information.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:50:56 -07:00
Andi Kleen
e5bc8b6baf [PATCH] x86-64: Make remote TLB flush more scalable
Instead of using a global spinlock to protect the state
of the remote TLB flush use a lock and state for each sending CPU.

To tell the receiver where to look for the state use 8 different
call vectors.  Each CPU uses a specific vector to trigger flushes on other
CPUs. Depending on the received vector the target CPUs look into
the right per cpu variable for the flush data.

When the system has more than 8 CPUs they are hashed to the 8 available
vectors. The limited global vector space forces us to this right now.
In future when interrupts are split into per CPU domains this could be
fixed, at the cost of needing more IPIs in flat mode.

Also some minor cleanup in the smp flush code and remove some outdated
debug code.

Requires patch to move cpu_possible_map setup earlier.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:49:58 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
e2d5df935d kbuild: alpha,x86_64 use generic asm-offsets.h support
Delete obsolete stuff from arch makefiles
Rename .h file to asm-offsets.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09 21:28:48 +02:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
0f2fbdcbb0 [PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions x86_64 changes
This patch contains the x86_64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
ed6b676ca8 [PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in local_bh_enable()
This avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains.
i386 does this too.

TOADD CFI annotation

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3829ee6b1b [PATCH] x86_64: Small assembly improvements
Save a byte here and there.  Ultimatively useless, but these things always
catch my eyes when reading the code so just fix them for now.

Also I got at least one patch fixing of them already, which gives a good
excuse.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
10ffdbb8d6 [PATCH] x86_64: Readd missing tests in entry.S
Cleans up the system exit call slightly and synchronizes with my tree again.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:13 -07:00