Commit Graph

27 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Hellwig
098afd9817 x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option
This is something drivers should decide (modulo chipset quirks like
for VIA), which as far as I can tell is how things have been handled
for the last 15 years.

Note that we keep the usedac option for now, as it is used in the wild
to override the too generic VIA quirk.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-05-28 12:48:21 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
06e9552f5f x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option
Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying
the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously
gets in the way of dma mapping work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-05-28 12:48:16 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
84564d1c76 Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c
This is just the minimal workaround.  The file is mostly either stale
and/or duplicative of Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt,
but that is much more work than I'm willing to do right now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-05-28 12:48:12 +02:00
Yazen Ghannam
6057077f6e x86/mce: Update bootlog description to reflect behavior on AMD
The bootlog option is only disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
systems.

Update bootlog description to say this. Change the family value to hex
to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613162835.30750-9-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-14 07:32:10 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
0ee1dd9f5e x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack
values:

  ...
  [registers]
  Stack:
   ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0
   ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321
   0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  Call Trace:
  ...

This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed
anymore.  It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be
actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses.

Linus says:

  "The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be
   useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because
   stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I
   definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having
   used them in the last ten+ years.

   Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've
   likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so
   useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above
   harder."

This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the
'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-25 18:40:37 +02:00
Tony Luck
0f68c088c0 x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
The Intel Software Developer Manual describes bit 24 in the MCG_CAP
MSR:

   MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag,
   bit 24 — Indicates (when set) that the processor supports
   software error recovery

But only some models with this capability bit set will actually
generate recoverable machine checks.

Check the model name and set a synthetic capability bit. Provide
a command line option to set this bit anyway in case the kernel
doesn't recognise the model name.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e5bfb23c89800a036fb8a45fa97a74bb16bc362.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-18 09:28:47 +01:00
Ashok Raj
88d538672e x86/mce: Add infrastructure to support Local MCE
Initialize and prepare for handling LMCEs. Add a boot-time
option to disable LMCEs.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
[ Simplify stuff, align statements for better readability, reflow comments; kill
  unused lmce_clear(); save us an MSR write if LMCE is already enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:33:14 +02:00
Richard Weinberger
ff18dd8f1c Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt
Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-02 14:47:44 +01:00
Naveen N. Rao
9ad95879cd mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors
Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-07-08 11:54:28 -07:00
Dave Hansen
147ea09119 x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually
identical text describing earlyprintk.

This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a
bit.  No one ever documented the:

	earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200

syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk
arch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-11 10:30:40 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
5c8d1b68e0 time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more
'report_lost_ticks' parameter has been removed back in 2007 through
1489939f0a ("time: x86_64: convert x86_64 to use GENERIC_TIME").

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-01-23 12:12:18 +01:00
Naveen N. Rao
450cc20103 x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI threshold
The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down
recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds
a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds
set by the bios.

As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been
initialized by the bios and warn the user.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2012-09-27 10:08:00 -07:00
Joerg Roedel
fffcda1183 x86, gart: Rename pci-gart_64.c to amd_gart_64.c
This file only contains code relevant for the northbridge
gart in AMD processors. This patch renames the file to
represent this fact in the filename.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2011-05-10 17:22:06 +02:00
Olaf Hering
d404ab0a11 move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
a6c3270b04 x86: Fix misspelling and align params
Fix 'upto' misspelling and align parameters.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-2-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
David Rientjes
ca2107c9d6 x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation
Now that numa=fake=<size>[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove
configurable node size support.  The command-line parsing was already
broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes
are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15 14:34:18 -08:00
David Rientjes
8df5bb34de x86, numa: Add fixed node size option for numa emulation
numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.

This patch introduces numa=fake=<size>[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate.  When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.

FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15 14:34:10 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0d5959723e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto
62fdac5913 x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce
and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors.

The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature.

Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable
it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving.

The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected
errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
errors.

The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected
errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci.  All corrected events are
not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.

Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be
a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware
monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in
banks instead of OS.

[ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ]

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 11:42:18 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3c0797925f x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election.
On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to
all CPUs.  This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all
these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect
the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first.

This has some advantages:

- When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as
  quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted
  data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage.

- The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code
  on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well).

- All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that
  another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless
  information (empty machine check) because the real error
  happened on another CPU which came in later.
  This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU
  lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping
  useless information on a machine check.  The problem also occurs
  in a less severe form on older CPUs.

- The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check
  and shut down the system.  This can happen when one CPU is so
  badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore
  or when some external agent wants to stop the system by
  asserting the machine check pin.  This follows Intel hardware
  recommendations.

- This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers.

- The events can be output in true severity order

- When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually
  be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts.

The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting
for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms
(jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature,
so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT"

The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one
second for the other CPUs.  This can be also disabled.

From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast
machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on
non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems.

Includes fixes from Ying Huang
Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto)
Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto
v2: Avoid duplicate messages

[ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:45:12 -07:00
Andi Kleen
8780e8e0f6 x86, mce: improve documentation
Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto

Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables

Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:15 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
888a589f6b mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
after:

 | commit b263295dbf
 | Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
 | Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:30:47 2008 +0100
 |
 |    x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model

we don't have MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE anymore.

Historically, x86-64 had an architecture-specific method for memory hotplug
whereby it scanned the SRAT for physical memory ranges that could be
potentially used for memory hot-add later. By reserving those ranges
without physical memory, the memmap would be allocated and left dormant
until needed. This depended on the DISCONTIG memory model which has been
removed so the code implementing HOTPLUG_RESERVE is now dead.

This patch removes the dead code used by MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE.

(Changelog authored by Mel.)

v2: updated changelog, and remove hotadd= in doc

[ Impact: remove dead code ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Workflow-found-OK-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0C4910.7090508@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 09:13:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5b9a0e14eb x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:17:39 +01:00
Uwe Hermann
71cced6eb0 doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:36:42 +01:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
1befdefcf4 x86: remove 8254 timer texts from Documentation
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 18:20:14 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
23deb06821 x86: move x86-specific documentation into Documentation/x86
The current organization of the x86 documentation makes it appear as
if the "i386" documentation doesn't apply to x86-64, which is does.
Thus, move that documentation into Documentation/x86, and move the
x86-64-specific stuff into Documentation/x86/x86_64 with the eventual
goal to move stuff that isn't actually 64-bit specific back into
Documentation/x86.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-30 17:19:03 -07:00