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Author SHA1 Message Date
Al Viro
afa86fc426 flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28 23:43:42 -05:00
Al Viro
1d4b4b2994 x86, um: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28 22:13:44 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
42859eea96 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread->forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
2012-10-10 12:02:25 +09:00
Al Viro
7076aada10 x86: split ret_from_fork
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-30 22:53:31 -04:00
Suresh Siddha
304bceda6a x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-09-18 15:52:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3fad0953a1 Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull debug-for-linus git tree from Ingo Molnar.

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c due to
a printk() having changed to a pr_info() differently in the two branches.

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Move call to print_modules() out of show_regs()
  x86/mm: Mark free_initrd_mem() as __init
  x86/microcode: Mark microcode_id[] as __initconst
  x86/nmi: Clean up register_nmi_handler() usage
  x86: Save cr2 in NMI in case NMIs take a page fault (for i386)
  x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code
  x86: Save cr2 in NMI in case NMIs take a page fault
  x86/debug: Add KERN_<LEVEL> to bare printks, convert printks to pr_<level>
2012-07-22 12:04:44 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
715c85b1fc x86, cpu: Rename checking_wrmsrl() to wrmsrl_safe()
Rename checking_wrmsrl() to wrmsrl_safe(), to match the naming
convention used by all the other MSR access functions/macros.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-07 13:32:04 -07:00
Joe Perches
c767a54ba0 x86/debug: Add KERN_<LEVEL> to bare printks, convert printks to pr_<level>
Use a more current logging style:

 - Bare printks should have a KERN_<LEVEL> for consistency's sake
 - Add pr_fmt where appropriate
 - Neaten some macro definitions
 - Convert some Ok output to OK
 - Use "%s: ", __func__ in pr_fmt for summit
 - Convert some printks to pr_<level>

Message output is not identical in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337655007.24226.10.camel@joe2Laptop
[ merged two similar patches, tidied up the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 09:17:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ec0d7f18ab Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
2012-05-23 10:59:07 -07:00
Suresh Siddha
55ccf3fe3f fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-16 15:16:26 -07:00
Alex Shi
c6ae41e7d4 x86: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx
Since percpu_xxx() serial functions are duplicated with this_cpu_xxx().
Removing percpu_xxx() definition and replacing them by this_cpu_xxx()
in code. There is no function change in this patch, just preparation for
later percpu_xxx serial function removing.

On x86 machine the this_cpu_xxx() serial functions are same as
__this_cpu_xxx() without no unnecessary premmpt enable/disable.

Thanks for Stephen Rothwell, he found and fixed a i386 build error in
the patch.

Also thanks for Andrew Morton, he kept updating the patchset in Linus'
tree.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-05-14 14:15:31 -07:00
Larry Finger
febb72a6e4 IA32 emulation: Fix build problem for modular ia32 a.out support
Commit ce7e5d2d19 ("x86: fix broken TASK_SIZE for ia32_aout") breaks
kernel builds when "CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=m" with

  ERROR: "set_personality_ia32" [arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.ko] undefined!
  make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

The entry point needs to be exported.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-06 18:26:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a591afc01d Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
  ...
2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6b8212a313 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 updates from Ingo Molnar.

This touches some non-x86 files due to the sanitized INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
config usage.

Fixed up trivial conflicts due to just header include changes (removing
headers due to cpu_idle() merge clashing with the <asm/system.h> split).

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic/amd: Be more verbose about LVT offset assignments
  x86, tls: Off by one limit check
  x86/ioapic: Add io_apic_ops driver layer to allow interception
  x86/olpc: Add debugfs interface for EC commands
  x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
  x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs
  x86: Stop recursive fault in print_context_stack after stack overflow
  x86/io_apic: Move and reenable irq only when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y
  x86/apic: Add separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers
  locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage
  x86/kconfig: Update defconfigs
  x86: Fix excessive MSR print out when show_msr is not specified
2012-03-29 14:28:26 -07:00
David Howells
f05e798ad4 Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86
Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
Richard Weinberger
90e240142b x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
Both functions are mostly identical.
The differences are:

- x86_32's cpu_idle() makes use of check_pgt_cache(), which is a
  nop on both x86_32 and x86_64.

- x86_64's cpu_idle() uses enter/__exit_idle/(), on x86_32 these
  function are a nop.

- In contrast to x86_32, x86_64 calls rcu_idle_enter/exit() in
  the innermost loop because idle notifications need RCU.
  Calling these function on x86_32 also in the innermost loop
  does not hurt.

So we can merge both functions.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332709204-22496-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-26 03:16:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
35cb8d9e18 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/fpu changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
  i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules
2012-03-22 09:41:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c5c7fb8fbd Merge branches 'x86-cpu-for-linus', 'x86-boot-for-linus', 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus', 'x86-process-for-linus' and 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull trivial x86 branches from Ingo Molnar: small one-liners to fix up
details.

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove some noise from boot log when starting cpus

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, boot: Fix port argument to inl() function

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpufeature: Add CPU features from Intel document 319433-012A

* 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins

* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/UV: Lower UV rtc clocksource rating
2012-03-22 09:28:15 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
bd2f55361f sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-01 10:28:03 +01:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
42dfc43ee5 x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins
task->thread.usersp is unusable immediately after a binary is exec()'d
until it undergoes a context switch cycle. The start_thread() function
called during execve() saves the stack pointer into pt_regs and into
old_rsp, but fails to record it into task->thread.usersp.

Because of this, KSTK_ESP(task) returns an incorrect value for a
64-bit program until the task is switched out and back in since
switch_to swaps %rsp values in and out into task->thread.usersp.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330273075-2949-1-git-send-email-siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-26 12:59:04 -08:00
Bobby Powers
00194b2e84 x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
Commits bb212724 and d1a797f3 both added a call to
clear_thread_flag(TIF_X32) under set_personality_64bit() - only one is
needed.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330228774-24223-1-git-send-email-bobbypowers@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-25 20:42:23 -08:00
Bobby Powers
ce5f7a99df x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
If a process has a non-x32 ia32 personality and changes to x32, the
process would keep its TS_COMPAT flag. x32 uses the presence of the
x32 flag on a syscall to determine compat status, so make sure
TS_COMPAT is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330230338-25077-1-git-send-email-bobbypowers@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-25 20:42:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1361b83a13 i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
While various modules include <asm/i387.h> to get access to things we
actually *intend* for them to use, most of that header file was really
pretty low-level internal stuff that we really don't want to expose to
others.

So split the header file into two: the small exported interfaces remain
in <asm/i387.h>, while the internal definitions that are only used by
core architecture code are now in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The guiding principle for this was to expose functions that we export to
modules, and leave them in <asm/i387.h>, while stuff that is used by
task switching or was marked GPL-only is in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The fpu-internal.h file could be further split up too, especially since
arch/x86/kvm/ uses some of the remaining stuff for its module.  But that
kvm usage should probably be abstracted out a bit, and at least now the
internal FPU accessor functions are much more contained.  Even if it
isn't perhaps as contained as it _could_ be.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202211340330.5354@i5.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-02-21 14:12:54 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
d1a797f388 x32: Handle process creation
Allow an x32 process to be started.

Originally-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2012-02-20 12:52:05 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
bb2127240c x32: Add a thread flag for x32 processes
An x32 process is *almost* the same thing as a 64-bit process with a
32-bit address limit, but there are a few minor differences -- in
particular core dumps are 32 bits and signal handling is different.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-20 12:48:49 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
6bd330083e x86: Factor out TIF_IA32 from 32-bit address space
Factor out IA32 (compatibility instruction set) from 32-bit address
space in the thread_info flags; this is a precondition patch for x32
support.

Originally-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4pr1xnnksprt7t0h3w5fw4rv@git.kernel.org
2012-02-20 12:48:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7e16838d94 i387: support lazy restore of FPU state
This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches
what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore
entirely if so.

To do this, we add two new data fields:

 - a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we
   update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer
   to the task that owns the CPU.  The exception is when we save the FPU
   state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU
   state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the
   task whose FP state still remains on the CPU.

 - a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread
   used its FPU on last.  We update this on every context switch
   (writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't
   leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that*
   thread has done nothing else with the FPU since.

These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the
task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the
task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU
usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current
CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no
other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match
what was saved on last context switch.

In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the
CR0.TS bit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-20 10:58:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cea20ca3f3 i387: fix up some fpu_counter confusion
This makes sure we clear the FPU usage counter for newly created tasks,
just so that we start off in a known state (for example, don't try to
preload the FPU state on the first task switch etc).

It also fixes a thinko in when we increment the fpu_counter at task
switch time, introduced by commit 34ddc81a23 ("i387: re-introduce FPU
state preloading at context switch time").  We should increment the
*new* task fpu_counter, not the old task, and only if we decide to use
that state (whether lazily or preloaded).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-20 10:24:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
34ddc81a23 i387: re-introduce FPU state preloading at context switch time
After all the FPU state cleanups and finally finding the problem that
caused all our FPU save/restore problems, this re-introduces the
preloading of FPU state that was removed in commit b3b0870ef3 ("i387:
do not preload FPU state at task switch time").

However, instead of simply reverting the removal, this reimplements
preloading with several fixes, most notably

 - properly abstracted as a true FPU state switch, rather than as
   open-coded save and restore with various hacks.

   In particular, implementing it as a proper FPU state switch allows us
   to optimize the CR0.TS flag accesses: there is no reason to set the
   TS bit only to then almost immediately clear it again.  CR0 accesses
   are quite slow and expensive, don't flip the bit back and forth for
   no good reason.

 - Make sure that the same model works for both x86-32 and x86-64, so
   that there are no gratuitous differences between the two due to the
   way they save and restore segment state differently due to
   architectural differences that really don't matter to the FPU state.

 - Avoid exposing the "preload" state to the context switch routines,
   and in particular allow the concept of lazy state restore: if nothing
   else has used the FPU in the meantime, and the process is still on
   the same CPU, we can avoid restoring state from memory entirely, just
   re-expose the state that is still in the FPU unit.

   That optimized lazy restore isn't actually implemented here, but the
   infrastructure is set up for it.  Of course, older CPU's that use
   'fnsave' to save the state cannot take advantage of this, since the
   state saving also trashes the state.

In other words, there is now an actual _design_ to the FPU state saving,
rather than just random historical baggage.  Hopefully it's easier to
follow as a result.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-18 14:03:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4903062b54 i387: move AMD K7/K8 fpu fxsave/fxrstor workaround from save to restore
The AMD K7/K8 CPUs don't save/restore FDP/FIP/FOP unless an exception is
pending.  In order to not leak FIP state from one process to another, we
need to do a floating point load after the fxsave of the old process,
and before the fxrstor of the new FPU state.  That resets the state to
the (uninteresting) kernel load, rather than some potentially sensitive
user information.

We used to do this directly after the FPU state save, but that is
actually very inconvenient, since it

 (a) corrupts what is potentially perfectly good FPU state that we might
     want to lazy avoid restoring later and

 (b) on x86-64 it resulted in a very annoying ordering constraint, where
     "__unlazy_fpu()" in the task switch needs to be delayed until after
     the DS segment has been reloaded just to get the new DS value.

Coupling it to the fxrstor instead of the fxsave automatically avoids
both of these issues, and also ensures that we only do it when actually
necessary (the FP state after a save may never actually get used).  It's
simply a much more natural place for the leaked state cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 19:11:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b3b0870ef3 i387: do not preload FPU state at task switch time
Yes, taking the trap to re-load the FPU/MMX state is expensive, but so
is spending several days looking for a bug in the state save/restore
code.  And the preload code has some rather subtle interactions with
both paravirtualization support and segment state restore, so it's not
nearly as simple as it should be.

Also, now that we no longer necessarily depend on a single bit (ie
TS_USEDFPU) for keeping track of the state of the FPU, we migth be able
to do better.  If we are really switching between two processes that
keep touching the FP state, save/restore is inevitable, but in the case
of having one process that does most of the FPU usage, we may actually
be able to do much better than the preloading.

In particular, we may be able to keep track of which CPU the process ran
on last, and also per CPU keep track of which process' FP state that CPU
has.  For modern CPU's that don't destroy the FPU contents on save time,
that would allow us to do a lazy restore by just re-enabling the
existing FPU state - with no restore cost at all!

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-16 15:45:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cf3f33551b Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Use "do { } while(0)" for empty lock_cmos()/unlock_cmos() macros
  x86: Use "do { } while(0)" for empty flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() macro
  x86, CPU: Drop superfluous get_cpu_cap() prototype
  arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c: Quiet sparse noise; local functions should be static
  arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c: Quiet sparse noise
  x86: Use kmemdup() in copy_thread(), rather than duplicating its implementation
  x86: Replace the EVT_TO_HPET_DEV() macro with an inline function
2012-01-06 14:00:12 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e37e112de3 x86: Enter rcu extended qs after idle notifier call
The idle notifier, called by enter_idle(), enters into rcu read
side critical section but at that time we already switched into
the RCU-idle window (rcu_idle_enter() has been called). And it's
illegal to use rcu_read_lock() in that state.

This results in rcu reporting its bad mood:

[    1.275635] WARNING: at include/linux/rcupdate.h:194 __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110()
[    1.275635] Hardware name: AMD690VM-FMH
[    1.275635] Modules linked in:
[    1.275635] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc6+ #252
[    1.275635] Call Trace:
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81051c8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81051cd5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817d6f22>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817d6f71>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff810018a0>] enter_idle+0x20/0x30
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81001995>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0x110
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817a7465>] rest_init+0xe5/0x140
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817a73c8>] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5ca3>] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5321>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5412>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf4
[    1.275635] ---[ end trace a22d306b065d4a66 ]---

Fix this by entering rcu extended quiescent state later, just before
the CPU goes to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:37 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2bbb6817c0 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
the tick is stopped.

To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().

If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().

Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:

- rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
to sleep.
- rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
up.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
280f06774a nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay
the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two
places:

- From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode
- From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick
idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in
case the irq changed some internal state that requires this
action.

There are only few minor differences between both that
are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle
cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees
that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually
interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended
quiescent state from idle loop entry only.

Split this function into:

- tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters
dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU
extended quiescent state.

- tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode
when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called).

To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed
into tick_nohz_idle_exit().

This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need
for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between
dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to
further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle
loop.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:35 -08:00
Thomas Meyer
cced402299 x86: Use kmemdup() in copy_thread(), rather than duplicating its implementation
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321569820.1624.275.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 13:54:39 +01:00
Don Zickus
b227e23399 x86, nmi: Add in logic to handle multiple events and unknown NMIs
Previous patches allow the NMI subsystem to process multipe NMI events
in one NMI.  As previously discussed this can cause issues when an event
triggered another NMI but is processed in the current NMI.  This causes the
next NMI to go unprocessed and become an 'unknown' NMI.

To handle this, we first have to flag whether or not the NMI handler handled
more than one event or not.  If it did, then there exists a chance that
the next NMI might be already processed.  Once the NMI is flagged as a
candidate to be swallowed, we next look for a back-to-back NMI condition.

This is determined by looking at the %rip from pt_regs.  If it is the same
as the previous NMI, it is assumed the cpu did not have a chance to jump
back into a non-NMI context and execute code and instead handled another NMI.

If both of those conditions are true then we will swallow any unknown NMI.

There still exists a chance that we accidentally swallow a real unknown NMI,
but for now things seem better.

An optimization has also been added to the nmi notifier rountine.  Because x86
can latch up to one NMI while currently processing an NMI, we don't have to
worry about executing _all_ the handlers in a standalone NMI.  The idea is
if multiple NMIs come in, the second NMI will represent them.  For those
back-to-back NMI cases, we have the potentail to drop NMIs.  Therefore only
execute all the handlers in the second half of a detected back-to-back NMI.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-10 06:57:01 +02:00
Len Brown
a0bfa13738 cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
cpuidle users should call cpuidle_call_idle() directly
rather than via (pm_idle)() function pointer.

Architecture may choose to continue using (pm_idle)(),
but cpuidle need not depend on it:

  my_arch_cpu_idle()
	...
	if(cpuidle_call_idle())
		pm_idle();

cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 19:06:37 -04:00
Mathias Krause
dac853ae89 exec: delay address limit change until point of no return
Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function.  This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.

With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.

Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-09 12:50:05 -07:00
Stephen Wilson
375906f876 x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode
This patch simply follows the same practice as for setting the TIF_IA32 flag.
In particular, an mm is marked as holding 32-bit tasks when a 32-bit binary is
exec'ed.  Both ELF and a.out formats are updated.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-23 16:36:53 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
f77cfe4ea2 cpuidle/x86/perf: fix power:cpu_idle double end events and throw cpu_idle events from the cpuidle layer
Currently intel_idle and acpi_idle driver show double cpu_idle "exit idle"
events -> this patch fixes it and makes cpu_idle events throwing less complex.

It also introduces cpu_idle events for all architectures which use
the cpuidle subsystem, namely:
  - arch/arm/mach-at91/cpuidle.c
  - arch/arm/mach-davinci/cpuidle.c
  - arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/cpuidle.c
  - arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle34xx.c
  - arch/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c (for all cases, not only mwait)
  - arch/x86/kernel/process.c (did throw events before, but was a mess)
  - drivers/idle/intel_idle.c (did throw events before)

Convention should be:
Fire cpu_idle events inside the current pm_idle function (not somewhere
down the the callee tree) to keep things easy.

Current possible pm_idle functions in X86:
c1e_idle, poll_idle, cpuidle_idle_call, mwait_idle, default_idle
-> this is really easy is now.

This affects userspace:
The type field of the cpu_idle power event can now direclty get
mapped to:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateX/{name,desc,usage,time,...}
instead of throwing very CPU/mwait specific values.
This change is not visible for the intel_idle driver.
For the acpi_idle driver it should only be visible if the vendor
misses out C-states in his BIOS.
Another (perf timechart) patch reads out cpuidle info of cpu_idle
events from:
/sys/.../cpuidle/stateX/*, then the cpuidle events are mapped
to the correct C-/cpuidle state again, even if e.g. vendors miss
out C-states in their BIOS and for example only export C1 and C3.
-> everything is fine.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: Robert Schoene <robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de>
CC: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-01-12 18:05:16 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
25e41933b5 perf: Clean up power events by introducing new, more generic ones
Add these new power trace events:

 power:cpu_idle
 power:cpu_frequency
 power:machine_suspend

The old C-state/idle accounting events:
  power:power_start
  power:power_end

Have now a replacement (but we are still keeping the old
tracepoints for compatibility):

  power:cpu_idle

and
  power:power_frequency

is replaced with:
  power:cpu_frequency

power:machine_suspend is newly introduced.

Jean Pihet has a patch integrated into the generic layer
(kernel/power/suspend.c) which will make use of it.

the type= field got removed from both, it was never
used and the type is differed by the event type itself.

perf timechart userspace tool gets adjusted in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@newoldbits.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
LKML-Reference: <1294073445-14812-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290072314-31155-2-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
2011-01-04 08:16:54 +01:00
Brian Gerst
a4d4fbc773 x86-64, fpu: Disable preemption when using TS_USEDFPU
Consolidates code and fixes the below race for 64-bit.

commit 9fa2f37bfeb798728241cc4a19578ce6e4258f25
Author: torvalds <torvalds>
Date:   Tue Sep 2 07:37:25 2003 +0000

    Be a lot more careful about TS_USEDFPU and preemption

    We had some races where we testecd (or set) TS_USEDFPU together
    with sequences that depended on the setting (like clearing or
    setting the TS flag in %cr0) and we could be preempted in between,
    which screws up the FPU state, since preemption will itself change
    USEDFPU and the TS flag.

    This makes it a lot more explicit: the "internal" low-level FPU
    functions ("__xxxx_fpu()") all require preemption to be disabled,
    and the exported "real" functions will make sure that is the case.

    One case - in __switch_to() - was switched to the non-preempt-safe
    internal version, since the scheduler itself has already disabled
    preemption.

    BKrev: 3f5448b5WRiQuyzAlbajs3qoQjSobw

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1283563039-3466-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-09 14:16:45 -07:00
Robert Schöne
c882e0feb9 x86, perf: Add power_end event to process_*.c cpu_idle routine
Systems using the idle thread from process_32.c and process_64.c
do not generate power_end events which could be traced using
perf. This patch adds the event generation for such systems.

Signed-off-by: Robert Schoene <robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1276515440.5441.45.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 11:35:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
41d59102e1 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
  x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
  x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
  x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
  x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
  x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
  x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
  x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
  x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
  x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler

Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
2010-05-18 08:58:16 -07:00
Avi Kivity
8660328332 x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
Currently all fpu state access is through tsk->thread.xstate.  Since we wish
to generalize fpu access to non-task contexts, wrap the state in a new
'struct fpu' and convert existing access to use an fpu API.

Signal frame handlers are not converted to the API since they will remain
task context only things.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-05-10 10:48:55 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
3ca50496c2 Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into perf/core
Merge reason: update to the latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-30 09:56:44 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
7ce5a2b9bb x86-64: Clear a 64-bit FS/GS base on fork if selector is nonzero
When we do a thread switch, we clear the outgoing FS/GS base if the
corresponding selector is nonzero.  This is taken by __switch_to() as
an entry invariant; it does not verify that it is true on entry.
However, copy_thread() doesn't enforce this constraint, which can
result in inconsistent results after fork().

Make copy_thread() match the behavior of __switch_to().

Reported-and-tested-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BD1E061.8030605@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-04-23 16:49:51 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
faa4602e47 x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a7f16d10b5 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy
  x86: Merge show_regs()
  x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors
  x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements
  x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h
  x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h
  x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers
  x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
  x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
  x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_*
  x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
2010-02-28 10:35:09 -08:00