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Linus Torvalds
82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
K.Prasad
b332828c39 hw-breakpoints: prepare the code for Hardware Breakpoint interfaces
The generic hardware breakpoint interface provides an abstraction of
hardware breakpoints in front of specific arch implementations for both kernel
and user side breakpoints.
This includes execution breakpoints and read/write breakpoints, also known as
"watchpoints".

This patch introduces header files containing constants, structure definitions
and declaration of functions used by the hardware breakpoint core and x86
specific code.
It also introduces an array based storage for the debug-register values in
'struct thread_struct', while modifying all users of debugreg<n> member in the
structure.

[ Impact: add headers for new hardware breakpoint interface ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:57 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
4aee2ad461 x86: asm/processor.h: remove double declaration
Remove double declaration of:

 extern void init_scattered_cpuid_features(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 extern unsigned int init_intel_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 extern unsigned short num_cache_leaves;

they are already defined in the same file.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1242733021.3377.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 14:16:24 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0c23590f00 x86, 64-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::ip
struct thread_struct::ip isn't used on x86_64, struct pt_regs::ip is used
instead.

kgdb should be reading 0 always, but I can't check it.

[ Impact: (potentially) reduce thread_struct size on 64-bit ]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090503233015.GJ16631@x200.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 16:23:54 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d756f4adb9 x86, 32-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::fs
After commit 464d1a78fb aka
"[PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs"
%fs saved during context switch moved from thread_struct to pt_regs
and value on thread_struct became unused.

[ Impact: reduce thread_struct size on 32-bit ]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090503232952.GI16631@x200.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 16:23:54 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
3e0c373749 x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling
setup_force_cpu_cap() only have one user (Xen guest code),
but it should not reuse cleared_cpu_cpus, otherwise it
will have problems on SMP.

Need to have a separate cpu_cpus_set array too, for forced-on
flags, beyond the forced-off flags.

Also need to setup handling before all cpus caps are combined.

[ Impact: fix the forced-set CPU feature flag logic ]

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 10:57:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
416dfdcdb8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
              dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
	      here.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24 10:11:23 +02:00
David Howells
9b8de7479d FRV: Fix the section attribute on UP DECLARE_PER_CPU()
In non-SMP mode, the variable section attribute specified by DECLARE_PER_CPU()
does not agree with that specified by DEFINE_PER_CPU().  This means that
architectures that have a small data section references relative to a base
register may throw up linkage errors due to too great a displacement between
where the base register points and the per-CPU variable.

On FRV, the .h declaration says that the variable is in the .sdata section, but
the .c definition says it's actually in the .data section.  The linker throws
up the following errors:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `release_task':
kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o
kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o

To fix this, DECLARE_PER_CPU() should simply apply the same section attribute
as does DEFINE_PER_CPU().  However, this is made slightly more complex by
virtue of the fact that there are several variants on DEFINE, so these need to
be matched by variants on DECLARE.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21 19:39:59 -07:00
Suresh Siddha
a30469e792 x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state
Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks

Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing
capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx

Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure
to support AVX.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 13:08:56 +02:00
Markus Metzger
2311f0de21 x86, ds: add leakage warning
Add a warning in case a debug store context is not removed before
the task it is attached to is freed.

Remove the old warning at thread exit. It is too early.

Declare the debug store context field in thread_struct unconditionally.

Remove ds_copy_thread() and ds_exit_thread() and do the work directly
in process*.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144601.254472000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:28 +02:00
Markus Metzger
35bb7600c1 x86, debugctlmsr: add _on_cpu variants to debugctlmsr functions
Add functions to get and set the debugctlmsr on different cpus.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144554.738772000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:19 +02:00
Markus Metzger
e2b371f00a mm, x86, ptrace, bts: defer branch trace stopping
When a ptraced task is unlinked, we need to stop branch tracing for
that task.

Since the unlink is called with interrupts disabled, and we need
interrupts enabled to stop branch tracing, we defer the work.

Collect all branch tracing related stuff in a branch tracing context.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144550.712401000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
65fb0d23fc Merge branch 'linus' into cpumask-for-linus
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
2009-03-30 23:53:32 +02:00
Rusty Russell
30e1e6d1af cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
Impact: Fix cpu offline when CONFIG_MAXSMP=y

Changeset bc9b83dd1f "cpumask: convert
c1e_mask in arch/x86/kernel/process.c to cpumask_var_t" contained a
bug: c1e_mask is manipulated even if C1E isn't detected (and hence
not allocated).

This is simply fixed by checking for NULL (which gcc optimizes out
anyway of CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n, since it knows ce1_mask can never
be NULL).

In addition, fix a leak where select_idle_routine re-allocates
(and re-clears) c1e_mask on every cpu init.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <200903171450.34549.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-18 09:40:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0ca0f16fd1 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/debug', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/mm', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/setup' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into x86/core 2009-03-14 16:25:40 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
9766cdbcb2 x86: cpu/common.c cleanups
- fix various style problems
 - declare varibles before they get used
 - introduced clear_all_debug_regs
 - fix header files issues

LKML-Reference: <1237009789.4387.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-14 08:59:50 +01:00
Rusty Russell
155dd720d0 cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
Impact: reduce kernel memory usage when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13 14:49:53 +10:30
Jan Beulich
13c6c53282 x86, 32-bit: also use cpuinfo_x86's x86_{phys,virt}_bits members
Impact: 32/64-bit consolidation

In a first step, this allows fixing phys_addr_valid() for PAE (which
until now reported all addresses to be valid). Subsequently, this will
also allow simplifying some MTRR handling code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9101E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 02:37:17 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
db949bba3c x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switching
Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification

x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps.  x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch.  x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.

This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault.  This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.

However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server.  Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.

This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d951734654 x86, mm: rename TASK_SIZE64 => TASK_SIZE_MAX
Impact: cleanup

Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)

This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
de5483029b x86: include/asm/processor.h remove double declaration of print_cpu_info
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 10:12:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b233969eaa Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 13:09:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ab639f3593 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into x86/core 2009-02-13 09:45:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f8a6b2b9ce Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
54321d947a x86: move pte types into pgtable*.h
pgtable*.h is intended for definitions relating to actual pagetables
and their entries, so move all the definitions for
(pte|pmd|pud|pgd)(val)?_t to the appropriate pgtable*.h headers.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-02-11 14:54:10 -08:00
Tejun Heo
60a5317ff0 x86: implement x86_32 stack protector
Impact: stack protector for x86_32

Implement stack protector for x86_32.  GDT entry 28 is used for it.
It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes.
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs
to the stack canary segment on entry.  As %gs is otherwise unused by
the kernel, the canary can be anywhere.  It's defined as a percpu
variable.

x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as
struct pt_regs.  With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the
whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy
back on return thus losing all changed.  For now, -fno-stack-protector
is added to all files which contain those functions.  We definitely
need something better.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
92e2d50846 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-10 00:41:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo
ae6af41f5a x86: math_emu info cleanup
Impact: cleanup

* Come on, struct info?  s/struct info/struct math_emu_info/

* Use struct pt_regs and kernel_vm86_regs instead of defining its own
  register frame structure.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 14:56:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
eca217b36e Merge branch 'x86/paravirt' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-09 12:16:59 +01:00
Brian Gerst
2add8e235c x86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Impact: cleanup and bug fix

Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
that are offset by __per_cpu_load.  This allows the removal of
the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
resume reported by Jiri Slaby.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:30:30 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
11e3a840cd x86: split loading percpu segments from loading gdt
Impact: split out a function, no functional change

Xen needs to be able to access percpu data from very early on.  For
various reasons, it cannot also load the gdt at that time.   It does,
however, have a pefectly functional gdt at that point, so there's no
pressing need to reload the gdt.

Split the function to load the segment registers off, so Xen can call
it directly.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-31 14:28:54 +09:00
Brian Gerst
552be871e6 x86: pass in cpu number to switch_to_new_gdt()
Impact: cleanup, prepare for xen boot fix.

Xen needs to call this function very early to setup the GDT and
per-cpu segments.  Remove the call to smp_processor_id() and just
pass in the cpu number.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-31 14:28:50 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
74b6eb6b93 Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/debug', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/mm', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/pat', 'x86/setup-v2', 'x86/subarch', 'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-01-28 23:13:53 +01:00
Brian Gerst
2697fbd5fa x86: load new GDT after setting up boot cpu per-cpu area
Impact: sync 32 and 64-bit code

Merge load_gs_base() into switch_to_new_gdt().  Load the GDT and
per-cpu state for the boot cpu when its new area is set up.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00
Brian Gerst
1825b8edc2 x86: remove extra barriers from load_gs_base()
Impact: optimization

mb() generates an mfence instruction, which is not needed here.  Only
a compiler barrier is needed, and that is handled by the memory clobber
in the wrmsrl function.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00
Brian Gerst
b2d2f4312b x86: initialize per-cpu GDT segment in per-cpu setup
Impact: cleanup

Rename init_gdt() to setup_percpu_segment(), and move it to
setup_percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00
H. Peter Anvin
b1882e68d1 x86: clean up stray space in <asm/processor.h>
Impact: Whitespace cleanup only

Clean up a stray space character in arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-23 17:54:17 -08:00
Brian Gerst
947e76cdc3 x86: move stack_canary into irq_stack
Impact: x86_64 percpu area layout change, irq_stack now at the beginning

Now that the PDA is empty except for the stack canary, it can be removed.
The irqstack is moved to the start of the per-cpu section.  If the stack
protector is enabled, the canary overlaps the bottom 48 bytes of the irqstack.

tj: * updated subject
    * dropped asm relocation of irq_stack_ptr
    * updated comments a bit
    * rebased on top of stack canary changes

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-20 12:29:20 +09:00
Brian Gerst
26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu
Move the irqstackptr variable from the PDA to per-cpu.  Make the
stacks themselves per-cpu, removing some specific allocation code.
Add a seperate flag (is_boot_cpu) to simplify the per-cpu boot
adjustments.

tj: * sprinkle some underbars around.

    * irq_stack_ptr is not used till traps_init(), no reason to
      initialize it early.  On SMP, just leaving it NULL till proper
      initialization in setup_per_cpu_areas() works.  Dropped
      is_boot_cpu and early irq_stack_ptr initialization.

    * do DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[IRQ_STACK_SIZE], irq_stack)
      instead of (char, irq_stack[IRQ_STACK_SIZE]).

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Markus Metzger
c2724775ce x86, bts: provide in-kernel branch-trace interface
Impact: cleanup

Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 08:08:12 +01:00
Alok Kataria
88b094fb8d x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.

v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
	 behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
	 This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.

This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
#  check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
   cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
#  if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
   if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
   under VMware.

The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.

This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-11-01 18:57:08 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1965aae3c9 x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:

a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:23 -07:00
Al Viro
bb8985586b x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:20 -07:00