The Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Processor x200 Family (codename: Knights
Landing) has an erratum where a processor thread setting the Accessed
or Dirty bits may not do so atomically against its checks for the
Present bit. This may cause a thread (which is about to page fault)
to set A and/or D, even though the Present bit had already been
atomically cleared.
These bits are truly "stray". In the case of the Dirty bit, the
thread associated with the stray set was *not* allowed to write to
the page. This means that we do not have to launder the bit(s); we
can simply ignore them.
If the PTE is used for storing a swap index or a NUMA migration index,
the A bit could be misinterpreted as part of the swap type. The stray
bits being set cause a software-cleared PTE to be interpreted as a
swap entry. In some cases (like when the swap index ends up being
for a non-existent swapfile), the kernel detects the stray value
and WARN()s about it, but there is no guarantee that the kernel can
always detect it.
When we have 64-bit PTEs (64-bit mode or 32-bit PAE), we were able
to move the swap PTE format around to avoid these troublesome bits.
But, 32-bit non-PAE is tight on bits. So, disallow it from running
on this hardware. I can't imagine anyone wanting to run 32-bit
non-highmem kernels on this hardware, but disallowing them from
running entirely is surely the safe thing to do.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: mhocko@suse.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160708001914.D0B50110@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The table mapping CPUID bits to human-readable strings takes up a
non-trivial amount of space, and only exists to support /proc/cpuinfo
and a couple of kernel messages. Since programs depend on the format of
/proc/cpuinfo, force inclusion of the table when building with /proc
support; otherwise, support omitting that table to save space, in which
case the kernel messages will print features numerically instead.
In addition to saving 1408 bytes out of vmlinux, this also saves 1373
bytes out of the uncompressed setup code, which contributes directly to
the size of bzImage.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Checkin e38e05a858 added a 9th CPU flag
word, but didn't adjust the boot code to match. This patch adds the
necessary boot code support.
Note: due to a typo in an #if statement, it didn't trigger the #error
this was supposed to do.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Clean up the code for crashes during SpeedStep probing on older
machines.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
you an amusing message along the lines of.
"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
due to the P4 being family F. Munge it to be 686.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Instead of obscure numbers, print the list of missing CPU features in
cleartext. To conserve space, use a host program (mkcpustr.c) to
produce a compact list of mandatory features only.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
