I ran into this problem on a system that was unable to obtain NTP sync
because the clock was running very slow (over 10000ppm slow). ntpd had
declared all of its peers 'reject' with 'peer_dist' reason.
On investigation, the tsc_khz variable was significantly incorrect
causing xtime to run slow. After a reboot tsc_khz was correct so I
did a reboot test to see how often the problem occurred:
Test was done on a 2000 Mhz Xeon system. Of 689 reboots, 8 of them
had unacceptable tsc_khz values (>500ppm):
range of tsc_khz # of boots % of boots
---------------- ---------- ----------
< 1999750 0 0.000%
1999750 - 1999800 21 3.048%
1999800 - 1999850 166 24.128%
1999850 - 1999900 241 35.029%
1999900 - 1999950 211 30.669%
1999950 - 2000000 42 6.105%
2000000 - 2000000 0 0.000%
2000050 - 2000100 0 0.000%
[...]
2000100 - 2015000 1 0.145% << BAD
2015000 - 2030000 6 0.872% << BAD
2030000 - 2045000 1 0.145% << BAD
2045000 < 0 0.000%
The worst boot was 2032.577 Mhz, over 1.5% off!
It appears that on rare occasions, mach_countup() is taking longer to
complete than necessary.
I suspect that this is caused by the CPU taking a periodic SMI
interrupt right at the end of the 30ms calibration loop. This would
cause the loop to delay while the SMI BIOS hander runs. The resulting
TSC value is beyond what it actually should be resulting in a higher
tsc_khz.
The below patch makes native_calculate_cpu_khz() take the best
(shortest duration, lowest khz) run of it's 3 calibration loops. If a
SMI goes off causing a bad result (long duration, higher khz) it will
be discarded.
With the patch applied, 300 boots of the same system produce good
results:
range of tsc_khz # of boots % of boots
---------------- ---------- ----------
< 1999750 0 0.000%
1999750 - 1999800 30 10.000%
1999800 - 1999850 166 55.333%
1999850 - 1999900 89 29.667%
1999900 - 1999950 15 5.000%
1999950 < 0 0.000%
Problem was found and tested against 2.6.18. Patch is against 2.6.22.
Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It seems commit 09cadedbdc was incomplete
due to a clash with the x86 architecture merge.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (45 commits)
Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher
Loading bzImage directly.
Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S
Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name.
generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32.
Example launcher handle guests not being ready for input
Update example launcher for virtio
Lguest support for Virtio
Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure.
Remove old lguest bus and drivers.
Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation
Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers.
Virtio console driver
Block driver using virtio.
Net driver using virtio
Virtio interface
Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.
Allow guest to specify syscall vector to use.
Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
Pagetables to use normal kernel types
...
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Add Vitaly Bordug as PPC8xx maintainer
[POWERPC] 4xx: Enable EMAC on Bamboo board
[POWERPC] 4xx: Enable EMAC for PPC405 Walnut board
[POWERPC] 4xx: Fix timebase clock selection on Walnut
[POWERPC] 4xx: Enable EMAC on the PPC 440GP Ebony board
[POWERPC] 4xx: Split early debug output and early boot console for 44x
[POWERPC] 4xx: Enable NEW EMAC support for Sequoia 440EPx.
[POWERPC] 4xx: Add RGMII support for Sequoia 440EPx
Reduce the function pointer mess of the m68knommu timer code by calling
directly to the local hardware's timer setup, and expose the local
common timer interrupt handler to the lower level hardware timer.
Ultimately this will save definitions of all these functions across all
the platform code to setup the function pointers (which for any given
m68knommu CPU family member can be only one set of hardware timer
functions).
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix system call restart handling. We can call directly to the
restart handler, no need to back track through trap that isn't
even implemented on m68knommu.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add make support for the Savant/Rosie1 board.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no separate stack region addresses to print at startup time,
so remove it from the debug listing
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add configure support for the Savant/Rosie1 board.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Updated defconfig with new options for m68knommu.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the system call code for handling syscall tracing, so strace
and gdbserver work properly.
This fix originally developed by Philippe De Muyter and Stuart Hughes.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zero out dma_length in the entry immediately following the last mapped
entry for unmap_sg.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Implement at32_add_device_cf() which will add a platform_device for
the at32_cf driver (not merged yet). Separate out most of the
at32_add_device_ide() code and use it to implement
at32_add_device_cf() as well.
This changes the API in the following ways:
* The board code must initialize data->cs to the chipselect ID to
use before calling any of these functions.
* The board code must use GPIO_PIN_NONE to indicate unused CF pins.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Implement functions for adding platform devices for TWI, MCI, AC97C
and ABDAC. They may need to be modified to cope with platform data,
etc. when the corresponding drivers are ready to be merged, but such
changes are much less likely to conflict than adding support for a
whole new type of device.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
This patch adds platform code for PATA devices on the AP7000.
[hskinnemoen@atmel.com: board code left out for now since stk1000
doesn't support IDE out of the box]
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen <kngregertsen@norway.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c: In function 'pa11_dma_map_sg':
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:487: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c: In function 'pa11_dma_unmap_sg':
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:508: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:508: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c: In function 'pa11_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu':
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:535: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:535: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c: In function 'pa11_dma_sync_sg_for_device':
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:545: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c:545: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
arch/arm/common/dmabounce.c: In function 'dma_map_sg':
arch/arm/common/dmabounce.c:445: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_page'
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard
boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.
The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
and commandline for us, saving more code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices.
We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable
length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and
implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data.
We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host
virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the
host when it changes.
We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early
console output. We could have another hypercall, but this hack works
quite well.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make
way for a generic virtio mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest
implementation:
1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements).
2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element.
3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
4) They no longer place used[] on a separate page, just a separate
cacheline.
5) We do a modulo on a variable. We could be tricky if we cared.
6) Interrupts and notifies are suppressed using flags within the rings.
Users need only get the ring pages and provide a notify hook (KVM
wants the guest to allocate the rings, lguest does it sanely).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.
2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.
3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.
4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.
5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).
6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
hypercall give us that, too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
(Based on Ron Minnich's LGUEST_PLAN9_SYSCALL patch).
This patch allows Guests to specify what system call vector they want,
and we try to reserve it. We only allow one non-Linux system call
vector, to try to avoid DoS on the Host.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Clean up the hypercall code to make the code in hypercalls.c
architecture independent. First process the common hypercalls and
then call lguest_arch_do_hcall() if the call hasn't been handled.
Rename struct hcall_ring to hcall_args.
This patch requires the previous patch which reorganize the layout of
struct lguest_regs on i386 so they match the layout of struct
hcall_args.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Separate i386 architecture specific from core.c and move it to
x86/core.c and add x86/lguest.h header file to match.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest
support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops). This moves the
guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
1) Group all the "guest OS" support options together, under a PARAVIRT_GUEST
menu.
2) Make those options select CONFIG_PARAVIRT, as suggested by Andi.
3) Make kconfig help titles consistent.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6:
Blackfin arch: use KBUILD_CFLAGS and KBUILD_AFLAGS in Makefile
Blackfin arch: Javier Herrer writes: fix building when icache and dcache is disabled
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Enable restart support for lite5200 board
[POWERPC] Add restart support for mpc52xx based platforms
[POWERPC] Update device tree binding for mpc5200 gpt
[POWERPC] Add mpc52xx_find_and_map_path(), refactor utility functions
[POWERPC] bestcomm: Restrict bus prefetch bugfix to original mpc5200 silicon.
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] time: Make c0_compare_int_usable more bullet proof
[MIPS] Kbuild: Use the new cc-cross-prefix feature.
[MIPS] Fix include wrapper symbol to something sane.
[MIPS] Malta: Delete dead code.
[MIPS] time: Add GT641xx timer0 clockevent driver
[MIPS] time: SMP-proofing of Sibyte clockevent/clocksource code.
[MIPS] time: SMP/NUMA-proofing of IP27 HUB RT timer code.
[MIPS] time: Fix calculation in clockevent_set_clock()
* 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SG sg validation
Change table chaining layout
Update arch/ to use sg helpers
Update swiotlb to use sg helpers
Update net/ to use sg helpers
Update fs/ to use sg helpers
[SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers
[SG] Update crypto/ to sg helpers
[SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers
[SG] Add helpers for manipulating SG entries
And make use of it for Cobalt. A few others such as the Malta could make
use of it as well.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The BCM148 has 4 cores but there are also just 4 generic timers available
so use the ZBbus cycle counter instead of it. In addition the ZBbus
counter also offers a much higher resolution and 64-bit counting so I'm
considering a later complete conversion to it once I figure out if all
members of the Sibyte SOC family support it - the docs seem to agree but
the headers files seem to disagree ...
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
