In arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c there is a test for a peek or poke of a
register image (in register backing storage).
The test can be unnecessarily long (and occurs while holding the tasklist_lock).
Especially long on a large system with thousands of active tasks.
The ptrace caller (presumably a debugger) specifies the pid of
its target and an address to peek or poke. But the debugger could be
attached to several tasks.
The idea of find_thread_for_addr() is to find whether the target address
is in the RBS for any of those tasks.
Currently it searches the thread-list of the target pid. If that search
does not find a match, and the shared mm-struct's user count indicates
that there are other tasks sharing this address space (a rare occurrence),
a search is made of all the tasks in the system.
Another approach can drastically shorten this procedure.
It depends upon the fact that in order to peek or poke from/to any task,
the debugger must first attach to that task. And when it does, the
attached task is made a child of the debugger (is chained to its children list).
Therefore we can search just the debugger's children list.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
flush_tlb_all() can be a scaling issue on large SGI Altix systems
since it uses the global call_lock and always executes on all cpus.
When a process enters flush_tlb_range() to purge TLBs for another
process, it is possible to avoid flush_tlb_all() and instead allow
sn2_global_tlb_purge() to purge TLBs only where necessary.
This patch modifies flush_tlb_range() so that this case can be handled
by platform TLB purge functions and updates ia64_global_tlb_purge()
accordingly. sn2_global_tlb_purge() now calculates the region register
value from the mm argument introduced with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
bte_copy() calls calls get_nasid(), which will get flagged if
preemption if enabled. raw_smp_processor_id() is used instead.
It is OK if we migrate off node.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Eliminate the passing in of a scratch buffer used for locating the
reserved page setup for XPC.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
XPC needs to be changed to support up to 16k nasids on an SGI Altix system.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch addresses a few issues with the open/close protocol that
were revealed by the newly added disengage functionality combined
with more extensive testing.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
In arch/ia64 change the explicit use of a for-loop using NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_online_cpu() construct. This widens the scope of potential
future optimizations of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage
of the existing optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is
advantageous when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
In arch/ia64 change the explicit use of for-loops and NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() or for_each_online_cpu() constructs, as
appropriate. This widens the scope of potential future optimizations
of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage of the existing
optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu().
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The new ia64 assembler uses slot 1 for the offset of a long (2-slot)
instruction and the old assembler uses slot 2. The 2.6 kernel assumes
slot 2 and won't boot when the new assembler is used:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1433
This patch will work with either slot 1 or 2.
Patch provided by H.J. Lu
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Fix the "siblings" field value in /proc/cpuinfo so that it now shows the
number of siblings as seen by OS, instead of what is available from
hardware perspective.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The simscsi code at present overflows an int if it's given a large
disk image. The attached patch increases the possible size to 128G.
While it's unlikely that anyone will want to use SKI with such a
large drive, the same framework is currently being used for various
virtualisation experiments.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
allocator should be within the requested limit.
We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
is the only api used for swiotlb.
The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator. But that
would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
alloc_bootmem_low_pages(). We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
cleanup.
With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
arches.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've noticed a kernel hang during a storm of CMC interrupts, which was
tracked down to the continual execution of the interrupt handler.
There's code in the CMC handler that's supposed to disable CMC
interrupts and switch to polling mode when it sees a bunch of CMCs.
Because disabling CMCs across all CPUs isn't safe in interrupt context,
the disable is done with a schedule_work(). But with continual CMC
interrupts, the schedule_work() never gets executed.
The following patch immediately disables CMC interrupts for the current
CPU. This then allows (at least) one CPU to ignore CMC interrupts,
execute the schedule_work() code, and disable CMC interrupts on the rest
of the CPUs.
Acked-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
gensparse_defconfig is a config generated file for SPARSEMEM and GENERIC
kernel configuration (defconfig).
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch is the minimal set of changes required by ia64 to use SPARSEMEM.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
For FLATMEM contig_page_data has been made transparent to the arch code.
This patch conforms to that change.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The patch modifies the Kconfig file to introduce the new memory model
options and other related SPARSEMEM changes. There is also a minor change
in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
/proc/iomem describes a block of memory as "Kernel data",
but the end address is derived from "_edata". The kernel
actually has many other sections beyond _edata. Get the
real end address from _end.
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch adds a #define for SN_SAL_IOIF_PCI_SAFE and makes that the
preferred method of implementing sn_pci_legacy_read() and
sn_pci_legacy_write().
This SAL call has been present in SGI proms since version 4.10. If the
SN_SAL_IOIF_PCI_SAFE call fails, revert to the previous code for compatability
with older proms.
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Address space resources for ACPI devices have a producer/consumer
flag. All devices "consume" the indicated address space. If the
resource is marked as a "producer", the range is also passed on
to child devices.
We currently ignore this flag when setting up MMIO and I/O port
windows for PCI root bridges, so we could mistakenly interpret
a "consumed-only" range, like CSR space for the device itself,
as a window that is routed to children.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Verify the pfn is valid before calling pfn_to_page(),
and cut isolation message if nothing was done.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wire the MCA/INIT handler stacks into DTR[2] and track them in
IA64_KR(CURRENT_STACK). This gives the MCA/INIT handler stacks the
same TLB status as normal kernel stacks. Reload the old CURRENT_STACK
data on return from OS to SAL.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The sd driver now uses scsi_execute_req() for almost everything.
scsi_execute_req() converts requests into scatterlists.
Fix the HP SCSI disk simulator to understand scatterlists for
more commands.
Without this patch the current kernel will not boot on the simulator
(the disks are always detected as having no sectors, and so cannot be
mounted).
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Move acpi_map_iosapics() from pci.c to acpi.c, since it doesn't
have anything to do with PCI.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Update comment about how ar.k0 is used. Make the initialization the
same as in start_secondary() (no functional change, just make it look
more similar).
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
User mode kexec tools expect to find information about physical
memory in /proc/iomem (as they do on x86) to validate the addresses
that the new kernel will use.
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock(). There are some places where we
aren't doing either. This patch fixes those places.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch increases the maximum number of cpus supported on IA64
to 1024. No changes are made to the default SSI size. The patch
simply allows specifying up to 1024p.
There are certainly scaling (& other) issues that also need to be
addressed!!! Additional patches will follow.....
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There were some trailing white spaces, long lines, brackets in
weird style etc. This patch cleans them up.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
