Return EMULATION_OK/FAILED consistently. Also treat instruction fetch
errors, not restricted to X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE, as EMULATION_FAILED;
although this cannot happen in practice, the current logic will continue
the emulation even if the decoder fails to fetch the instruction.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Fetching the instruction which was to be executed by the guest cannot
fail normally. So compiler should always predict that it will succeed.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of passing ctxt->_eip from insn_fetch() call sites, get it from
ctxt in do_insn_fetch_byte(). This is done by replacing the argument
_eip of insn_fetch() with _ctxt, which should be better than letting the
macro use ctxt silently in its body.
Though this changes the place where ctxt->_eip is incremented from
insn_fetch() to do_insn_fetch_byte(), this does not have any real
effect.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.
Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.
Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.
Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The vmexit tracepoints format the exit_reason to make it human-readable.
Since the exit_reason depends on the instruction set (vmx or svm),
formatting is handled with ftrace_print_symbols_seq() by referring to
the appropriate exit reason table.
However, the ftrace_print_symbols_seq() function is not meant to be used
directly in tracepoints since it does not export the formatting table
which userspace tools like trace-cmd and perf use to format traces.
In practice perf dies when formatting vmexit-related events and
trace-cmd falls back to printing the numeric value (with extra
formatting code in the kvm plugin to paper over this limitation). Other
userspace consumers of vmexit-related tracepoints would be in similar
trouble.
To avoid significant changes to the kvm_exit tracepoint, this patch
moves the vmx and svm exit reason tables into arch/x86/kvm/trace.h and
selects the right table with __print_symbolic() depending on the
instruction set. Note that __print_symbolic() is designed for exporting
the formatting table to userspace and allows trace-cmd and perf to work.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The kvm_exit tracepoint recently added the isa argument to aid decoding
exit_reason. The semantics of exit_reason depend on the instruction set
(vmx or svm) and the isa argument allows traces to be analyzed on other
machines.
Add the isa argument to kvm_nested_vmexit and kvm_nested_vmexit_inject
so these tracepoints can also be self-describing.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 0945d4b228 tried to fix the get_msr path for the
HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr, but was poorly tested. We should be
returning 0 if the read succeeded, and passing the value back to the
caller via the pdata out argument, not returning the value directly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
"get" support for the HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr was missing, even
though it is explicitly enumerated as something the vmm should save in
msrs_to_save and reported to userland via the KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
ioctl.
Add "get" support for HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE. We simply return the
guest visible value of this register, which seems to be correct as a set
on the register is validated for us already.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The patch raises the hard limit of VCPU count to 254.
This will allow developers to easily work on scalability
and will allow users to test high VCPU setups easily without
patching the kernel.
To prevent possible issues with current setups, KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS
now returns the recommended VCPU limit (which is still 64) - this
should be a safe value for everybody, while a new KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS
returns the hard limit which is now 254.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Using the read/write operation to remove the same code
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The operations of read emulation and write emulation are very similar, so we
can abstract the operation of them, in larter patch, it is used to cleanup the
same code
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the range spans a page boundary, the mmio access can be broke, fix it as
write emulation.
And we already get the guest physical address, so use it to read guest data
directly to avoid walking guest page table again
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Src2CL decode (used for double width shifts) erronously decodes only bit 3
of %rcx, instead of bits 7:0.
Fix by decoding %cl in its entirety.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
__update_clear_spte_slow should return original spte while the
current code returns low half of original spte combined with high
half of new spte.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen:
xen/i386: follow-up to "replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one"
xen/irq: Alter the locking to use a mutex instead of a spinlock.
xen/e820: if there is no dom0_mem=, don't tweak extra_pages.
xen: disable PV spinlocks on HVM
On x86-64, they were just wasteful: with the explicitly added (now
unnecessary) padding, the size of the alternatives structure was 16
bytes, and an alignment of 8 bytes didn't hurt much.
However, it was still silly, since the natural size and alignment for
the structure is actually just 12 bytes, 4-byte aligned since commit
59e97e4d6f ("x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative").
So removing the padding, and removing the extra alignment is just a good
idea.
On x86-32, the alignment of 4 bytes was correct, but was incorrectly
hardcoded as 8 bytes in <asm/alternative-asm.h>. That header file had
used to be an x86-64 only header file, but various unification efforts
have made it be used for x86-32 too (ie the unification of rwlock and
rwsem).
That in turn caused x86-32 boot failures, because the extra alignment
would result in random zero-filled words in the altinstructions section,
causing oopses early at boot when doing alternative instruction
replacement.
So just remove all the alignment noise entirely. It's wrong, and it's
unnecessary. The section itself is already properly aligned by the
linker scripts, and all additions to the section had better be of the
proper 12-byte format, keeping it aligned. So if the align directive
were to ever make a difference, that would be an indication of a serious
bug to begin with.
Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.r>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The numbers obtained from the hypervisor really can't ever lead to an
overflow here, only the original calculation going through the order
of the range could have. This avoids the (as Jeremy points outs)
somewhat ugly NULL-based calculation here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The patch "xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM"
(d312ae878b) breaks machines that
do not use 'dom0_mem=' argument with:
reserve RAM buffer: 000000133f2e2000 - 000000133fffffff
(XEN) mm.c:4976:d0 Global bit is set to kernel page fffff8117e
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
...
The reason being that the last E820 entry is created using the
'extra_pages' (which is based on how many pages have been freed).
The mentioned git commit sets the initial value of 'extra_pages'
using a hypercall which returns the number of pages (if dom0_mem
has been used) or -1 otherwise. If the later we return with
MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES as basis for calculation:
return min(max_pages, MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES);
and use it:
extra_limit = xen_get_max_pages();
if (extra_limit >= max_pfn)
extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
else
extra_pages = 0;
which means we end up with extra_pages = 128GB in PFNs (33554432)
- 8GB in PFNs (2097152, on this specific box, can be larger or smaller),
and then we add that value to the E820 making it:
Xen: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen: 0000000100000000 - 000000133f2e2000 (usable)
which is clearly wrong. It should look as so:
Xen: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen: 0000000100000000 - 000000027fbda000 (usable)
Naturally this problem does not present itself if dom0_mem=max:X
is used.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Commit b03e7495a8 ("PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric")
introduced a potential NULL pointer dereference in calls to
pcie_bus_configure_settings due to attempts to access pci_bus self
variables when the self pointer is NULL.
To correct this, verify that the self pointer in pci_bus is non-NULL
before dereferencing it.
Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PV spinlocks cannot possibly work with the current code because they are
enabled after pvops patching has already been done, and because PV
spinlocks use a different data structure than native spinlocks so we
cannot switch between them dynamically. A spinlock that has been taken
once by the native code (__ticket_spin_lock) cannot be taken by
__xen_spin_lock even after it has been released.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain
perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()
perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code
* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen:
xen/smp: Warn user why they keel over - nosmp or noapic and what to use instead.
xen: x86_32: do not enable iterrupts when returning from exception in interrupt context
xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM
We have hit a couple of customer bugs where they would like to
use those parameters to run an UP kernel - but both of those
options turn of important sources of interrupt information so
we end up not being able to boot. The correct way is to
pass in 'dom0_max_vcpus=1' on the Xen hypervisor line and
the kernel will patch itself to be a UP kernel.
Fixes bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637308
CC: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If vmalloc page_fault happens inside of interrupt handler with interrupts
disabled then on exit path from exception handler when there is no pending
interrupts, the following code (arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S:112):
cmpw $0x0001, XEN_vcpu_info_pending(%eax)
sete XEN_vcpu_info_mask(%eax)
will enable interrupts even if they has been previously disabled according to
eflags from the bounce frame (arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S:99)
testb $X86_EFLAGS_IF>>8, 8+1+ESP_OFFSET(%esp)
setz XEN_vcpu_info_mask(%eax)
Solution is in setting XEN_vcpu_info_mask only when it should be set
according to
cmpw $0x0001, XEN_vcpu_info_pending(%eax)
but not clearing it if there isn't any pending events.
Reproducer for bug is attached to RHBZ 707552
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Use the domain's maximum reservation to limit the amount of extra RAM
for the memory balloon. This reduces the size of the pages tables and
the amount of reserved low memory (which defaults to about 1/32 of the
total RAM).
On a system with 8 GiB of RAM with the domain limited to 1 GiB the
kernel reports:
Before:
Memory: 627792k/4472000k available
After:
Memory: 549740k/11132224k available
A increase of about 76 MiB (~1.5% of the unused 7 GiB). The reserved
low memory is also reduced from 253 MiB to 32 MiB. The total
additional usable RAM is 329 MiB.
For dom0, this requires at patch to Xen ('x86: use 'dom0_mem' to limit
the number of pages for dom0') (c/s 23790)
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Commit de2d1a524e ("KVM: Fix register corruption in pvclock_scale_delta")
introduced a mul instruction that may have only a memory operand; the
assembler therefore cannot select the correct size:
pvclock.s:229: Error: no instruction mnemonic suffix given and no register
operands; can't size instruction
In this example the assembler is:
#APP
mul -48(%rbp) ; shrd $32, %rdx, %rax
#NO_APP
A simple solution is to use mulq.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
According to the SFI specification irq number 0xFF means device has no
interrupt or interrupt attached via GPIO.
Currently, we don't handle this special case and set irq field in
*_board_info structs to 255. It leads to confusion in some drivers.
Accelerometer driver tries to register interrupt 255, fails and prints
"Cannot get IRQ" to dmesg.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
entry_32.S contained a hardcoded alternative instruction entry, and the
format changed in commit 59e97e4d6f ("x86: Make alternative
instruction pointers relative").
Replace the hardcoded entry with the altinstruction_entry macro. This
fixes the 32-bit boot with CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG=y.
Reported-and-tested-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While removing custom rendezvous code and switching to stop_machine,
commit 192d885742 ("x86, mtrr: use stop_machine APIs for doing MTRR
rendezvous") completely dropped mtrr setting code on !CONFIG_SMP
breaking MTRR settting on UP.
Fix it by removing the incorrect CONFIG_SMP.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Tested-and-acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The tracing code used sched_clock() to get tracing timestamps, which
ends up calling xen_clocksource_read(). xen_clocksource_read() must
disable preemption, but if preemption tracing is enabled, this results
in infinite recursion.
I've only noticed this when boot-time tracing tests are enabled, but it
seems like a generic bug. It looks like it would also affect
kvm_clocksource_read().
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32, vdso: On system call restart after SYSENTER, use int $0x80
x86, UV: Remove UV delay in starting slave cpus
x86, olpc: Wait for last byte of EC command to be accepted
When we enter a 32-bit system call via SYSENTER or SYSCALL, we shuffle
the arguments to match the int $0x80 calling convention. This was
probably a design mistake, but it's what it is now. This causes
errors if the system call as to be restarted.
For SYSENTER, we have to invoke the instruction from the vdso as the
return address is hardcoded. Accordingly, we can simply replace the
jump in the vdso with an int $0x80 instruction and use the slower
entry point for a post-restart.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFztZ=r5wa0x26KJQxvZOaQq8s2v3u50wCyJcA-Sc4g8gQ@mail.gmail.com
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/tracing: Fix tracing config option properly
xen: Do not enable PV IPIs when vector callback not present
xen/x86: replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one
xen: xen-selfballoon.c needs more header files
Steven Rostedt says we should use CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Cc:Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fix regression for HVM case on older (<4.1.1) hypervisors caused by
commit 99bbb3a84a
Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Thu Dec 2 17:55:10 2010 +0000
xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
This change replaced the SMP operations with event based handlers without
taking into account that this only works when the hypervisor supports
callback vectors. This causes unexplainable hangs early on boot for
HVM guests with more than one CPU.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/791850
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Tested-and-Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: OF: Don't crash when bridge parent is NULL.
PCI: export pcie_bus_configure_settings symbol
PCI: code and comments cleanup
PCI: make cardbus-bridge resources optional
PCI: make SRIOV resources optional
PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources
PCI: honor child buses add_size in hot plug configuration
PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric
The order-based approach is not only less efficient (requiring a shift
and a compare, typical generated code looking like this
mov eax, [machine_to_phys_order]
mov ecx, eax
shr ebx, cl
test ebx, ebx
jnz ...
whereas a direct check requires just a compare, like in
cmp ebx, [machine_to_phys_nr]
jae ...
), but also slightly dangerous in the 32-on-64 case - the element
address calculation can wrap if the next power of two boundary is
sufficiently far away from the actual upper limit of the table, and
hence can result in user space addresses being accessed (with it being
unknown what may actually be mapped there).
Additionally, the elimination of the mistaken use of fls() here (should
have been __fls()) fixes a latent issue on x86-64 that would trigger
if the code was run on a system with memory extending beyond the 44-bit
boundary.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
[v1: Based on Jeremy's feedback]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CONFIG_TASKSTATS just had a change to use netlink, including
a change to "depends on NET". Since "select" does not follow
dependencies, KVM also needs to depend on NET to prevent build
errors when CONFIG_NET is not enabled.
Sample of the reported "undefined reference" build errors:
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f686): undefined reference to `nla_put'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f721): undefined reference to `nla_reserve'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f8fb): undefined reference to `init_net'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f905): undefined reference to `netlink_unicast'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f934): undefined reference to `kfree_skb'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f9e9): undefined reference to `skb_clone'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x90060): undefined reference to `__alloc_skb'
taskstats.c:(.text+0x901e9): undefined reference to `skb_put'
taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4665): undefined reference to `genl_register_family'
taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4699): undefined reference to `genl_register_ops'
taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4710): undefined reference to `genl_unregister_ops'
taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x471c): undefined reference to `genl_unregister_family'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
arch/x86/mm/fault.c needs to include asm/vsyscall.h to fix a
build error:
arch/x86/mm/fault.c: In function '__bad_area_nosemaphore':
arch/x86/mm/fault.c:728: error: 'VSYSCALL_START' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership
perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename
perf sched: Do not delete session object prematurely
perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership
perf, x86: Add model 45 SandyBridge support
perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension
perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration
perf tools: Make clean leaves some files
perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
perf probe: Fix coredump introduced by probe module option
jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order
perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places
perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables
perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method
trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED
perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildid
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
getcpu is available as a vdso entry and an emulated vsyscall.
Programs that for some reason don't want to use the vdso should
still be able to call getcpu without relying on the slow emulated
vsyscall. It costs almost nothing to expose it as a real syscall.
We also need this for the following patch in vsyscall=native mode.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b19f55bdb06a0c32c2fa6dba9b6f222e1fde999.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
As of commit 98d0ac38ca
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 14 06:47:22 2011 -0400
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
user code no longer directly calls into code in arch/x86/kernel/, so
we don't need compile flag hacks to make it safe. All vdso code is
in the vdso directory now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/835cd05a4c7740544d09723d6ba48f4406f9826c.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
