We have an enum, might as well use it. While we're at it, make it an
inline... there is really no point in calling a function for this
stuff.
LKML-Reference: <1274295685-6774-3-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Always-on local APIC timer (ARAT) has been introduced to Medfield, along
with the platform APB timers we have more timer configuration options
between Moorestown and Medfield.
This patch adds run-time detection of avaiable timer features so that
we can treat Medfield as a variant of Moorestown and set up the optimal
timer options for each platform. i.e.
Medfield: per cpu always-on local APIC timer
Moorestown: per cpu APB timer
Manual override is possible via cmdline option x86_mrst_timer.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1274295685-6774-4-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Medfield is the follow-up of Moorestown, it is treated under the same
HW sub-architecture. However, we do need to know the CPU type in order
for some of the driver to act accordingly.
We also have different optimal clock configuration for each CPU type.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1274295685-6774-3-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, pat: Update the page flags for memtype atomically instead of using memtype_lock
x86, pat: In rbt_memtype_check_insert(), update new->type only if valid
x86, pat: Migrate to rbtree only backend for pat memtype management
x86, pat: Preparatory changes in pat.c for bigger rbtree change
rbtree: Add support for augmented rbtrees
* 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hweight: Use a 32-bit popcnt for __arch_hweight32()
arch, hweight: Fix compilation errors
x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
bitops: Optimize hweight() by making use of compile-time evaluation
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, acpi/irq: Define gsi_end when X86_IO_APIC is undefined
x86, irq: Kill io_apic_renumber_irq
x86, acpi/irq: Handle isa irqs that are not identity mapped to gsi's.
x86, ioapic: Simplify probe_nr_irqs_gsi.
x86, ioapic: Optimize pin_2_irq
x86, ioapic: Move nr_ioapic_registers calculation to mp_register_ioapic.
x86, ioapic: In mpparse use mp_register_ioapic
x86, ioapic: Teach mp_register_ioapic to compute a global gsi_end
x86, ioapic: Fix the types of gsi values
x86, ioapic: Fix io_apic_redir_entries to return the number of entries.
x86, ioapic: Only export mp_find_ioapic and mp_find_ioapic_pin in io_apic.h
x86, acpi/irq: Generalize mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs
x86, acpi/irq: Fix acpi_sci_ioapic_setup so it has both bus_irq and gsi
x86, acpi/irq: pci device dev->irq is an isa irq not a gsi
x86, acpi/irq: Teach acpi_get_override_irq to take a gsi not an isa_irq
x86, acpi/irq: Introduce apci_isa_irq_to_gsi
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler
Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build
x86, atomic64: In selftest, distinguish x86-64 from 586+
x86-32: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero test
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
x86-32: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless test
x86: Implement atomic[64]_dec_if_positive()
lib: Only test atomic64_dec_if_positive on archs having it
x86-32: Rewrite 32-bit atomic64 functions in assembly
lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
x86-32: Allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64
x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use .cfi_sections for assembly code
x86-64: Reduce SMP locks table size
x86, asm: Introduce and use percpu_inc()
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: Reduce stack_trace usage
lockdep: No need to disable preemption in debug atomic ops
lockdep: Actually _dec_ in debug_atomic_dec
lockdep: Provide off case for redundant_hardirqs_on increment
lockdep: Simplify debug atomic ops
lockdep: Fix redundant_hardirqs_on incremented with irqs enabled
lockstat: Make lockstat counting per cpu
i8253: Convert i8253_lock to raw_spinlock
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line option
iommu-api: Remove iommu_{un}map_range functions
x86/amd-iommu: Implement ->{un}map callbacks for iommu-api
x86/amd-iommu: Make amd_iommu_iova_to_phys aware of multiple page sizes
x86/amd-iommu: Make iommu_unmap_page and fetch_pte aware of page sizes
x86/amd-iommu: Make iommu_map_page and alloc_pte aware of page sizes
kvm: Change kvm_iommu_map_pages to map large pages
VT-d: Change {un}map_range functions to implement {un}map interface
iommu-api: Add ->{un}map callbacks to iommu_ops
iommu-api: Add iommu_map and iommu_unmap functions
iommu-api: Rename ->{un}map function pointers to ->{un}map_range
Use a 32-bit popcnt instruction for __arch_hweight32(), even on
x86-64. Even though the input register will *usually* be
zero-extended due to the standard operation of the hardware, it isn't
necessarily so if the input value was the result of truncating a
64-bit operation.
Note: the POPCNT32 variant used on x86-64 has a technically
unnecessary REX prefix to make it five bytes long, the same as a CALL
instruction, therefore avoiding an unnecessary NOP.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005171443060.4195@i5.linux-foundation.org>
In preparation for removing volatile from the atomic_t definition, this
patch adds a volatile cast to all the atomic read functions.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
K8_NB depends on PCI and when the last is disabled (allnoconfig) we fail
at the final linking stage due to missing exported num_k8_northbridges.
Add a header stub for that.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100503183036.GJ26107@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
The newer assemblers support the .cfi_sections directive so we can put
the CFI from .S files into the .debug_frame section that is preserved
in unstripped vmlinux and in separate debuginfo, rather than the
.eh_frame section that is now discarded by vmlinux.lds.S.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100514044303.A6FE7400BE@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
use_xsave() is now just a special case of static_cpu_has(), so use
static_cpu_has().
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
For CPU-feature-specific code that touches performance-critical paths,
introduce a static patching version of [boot_]cpu_has(). This is run
at alternatives time and is therefore not appropriate for most
initialization code, but on the other hand initialization code is
generally not performance critical.
On gcc 4.5+ this uses the new "asm goto" feature.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
The proper constraint for a receiving 8-bit variable is "=qm", not
"=g" which equals "=rim"; even though the "i" will never match, bugs
can and do happen due to the difference between "q" and "r".
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Currently all fpu state access is through tsk->thread.xstate. Since we wish
to generalize fpu access to non-task contexts, wrap the state in a new
'struct fpu' and convert existing access to use an fpu API.
Signal frame handlers are not converted to the API since they will remain
task context only things.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The fpu code currently uses current->thread_info->status & TS_XSAVE as
a way to distinguish between XSAVE capable processors and older processors.
The decision is not really task specific; instead we use the task status to
avoid a global memory reference - the value should be the same across all
threads.
Eliminate this tie-in into the task structure by using an alternative
instruction keyed off the XSAVE cpu feature; this results in shorter and
faster code, without introducing a global memory reference.
[ hpa: in the future, this probably should use an asm jmp ]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Clean up the hypervisor layer and the hypervisor drivers, using an ops
structure instead of an enumeration with if statements.
The identity of the hypervisor, if needed, can be tested by testing
the pointer value in x86_hyper.
The MS-HyperV private state is moved into a normal global variable
(it's per-system state, not per-CPU state). Being a normal bss
variable, it will be left at all zero on non-HyperV platforms, and so
can generally be tested for HyperV-specific features without
additional qualification.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.
Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
My recent changes introducing a global gsi_end variable
failed to take into account the case of using acpi on a system
not built to support IO_APICs, causing the build to fail.
Define gsi_end to 15 when CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is not set to avoid
compile errors.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <m1tyqm14la.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that the generic irq layer is performing the exact same remapping as
io_apic_renumber_irq we can kill this weird es7000 specific function.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-15-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Use the global gsi_end value now that all ioapics have
valid gsi numbers instead of a combination of acpi_probe_gsi
and walking all of the ioapics and couting their number of
entries by hand if acpi_probe_gsi gave us an answer we did
not like.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-13-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the global variable gsi_end and teach mp_register_ioapic
to keep it uptodate as we add more ioapics into the system.
ioapics can only be added early in boot so the code that
runs later can treat gsi_end as a constant.
Remove the have hacks in sfi.c to second guess mp_register_ioapic
by keeping t's own running total of how many gsi's have been seen,
and instead use the gsi_end.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-9-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patches fixes the types of gsi_base and gsi_end values in
struct mp_ioapic_gsi, and the gsi parameter of mp_find_ioapic
and mp_find_ioapic_pin
A gsi is cannonically a u32, not an int.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-8-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Multiple declarations of the same function in different headers
is a pain to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-6-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
K8_NB depends on PCI and when the last is disabled (allnoconfig) we fail
at the final linking stage due to missing exported num_k8_northbridges.
Add a header stub for that.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100503183036.GJ26107@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The only difference between FPU and SIMD exceptions is where the
status bits are read from (cwd/swd vs. mxcsr). This also fixes
the discrepency introduced by commit adf77bac, which fixed FPU
but not SIMD.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269176446-2489-3-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance
the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints
through the HBP_NUM macro.
However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get
this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between
different versions.
To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro
and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a
new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have
CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once
as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints
together.
For the others it will be called first to get the number of
instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the
data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a
parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots().
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The current policies of breakpoints in x86 and SH are the following:
- task bound breakpoints can only break on userspace addresses
- cpu wide breakpoints can only break on kernel addresses
The former rule prevents ptrace breakpoints to be set to trigger on
kernel addresses, which is good. But as a side effect, we can't
breakpoint on kernel addresses for task bound breakpoints.
The latter rule simply makes no sense, there is no reason why we
can't set breakpoints on userspace while performing cpu bound
profiles.
We want the following new policies:
- task bound breakpoint can set userspace address breakpoints, with
no particular privilege required.
- task bound breakpoints can set kernelspace address breakpoints but
must be privileged to do that.
- cpu bound breakpoints can do what they want as they are privileged
already.
To implement these new policies, this patch checks if we are dealing
with a kernel address breakpoint, if so and if the exclude_kernel
parameter is set, we tell the user that the breakpoint is invalid,
which makes a good generic ptrace protection.
If we don't have exclude_kernel, ensure the user has the right
privileges as kernel breakpoints are quite sensitive (risk of
trap recursion attacks and global performance impacts).
[ Paul Mundt: keep addr space check for sh signal delivery and fix
double function declaration]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
When specifying the 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' kernel parameter,
the kernel will stop booting due to a early_ioremap bug that
relates to commit 8827247ff.
The root cause of boot failure problem is the value of
'slot_virt[i]' was initialized in setup_arch->early_ioremap_init().
But later in setup_arch, the function 'parse_early_param' will
modify 'FIXADDR_TOP' when 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' being specified.
The simplest fix might be use __fix_to_virt(idx0) to get updated
value of 'FIXADDR_TOP' in '__early_ioremap' instead of reference
old value from slot_virt[slot] directly.
Changelog since v0:
-v1: When reservetop being handled then FIXADDR_TOP get
adjusted, Hence check prev_map then re-initialize slot_virt and
PMD based on new FIXADDR_TOP.
-v2: place fixup_early_ioremap hence call early_ioremap_init in
reserve_top_address to re-initialize slot_virt and
corresponding PMD when parse_reservertop
-v3: move fixup_early_ioremap out of reserve_top_address to make
sure other clients of reserve_top_address like xen/lguest won't
broken
Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1272621711-8683-1-git-send-email-liang.li@windriver.com>
[ fixed three small cleanliness details in fixup_early_ioremap() ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Checkin b3ac891b67:
x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
... did not define LOCK_PREFIX_HERE in the case of a uniprocessor
build. As a result, it would cause any of the usages of this macro to
fail on a uniprocessor build. Fix this by defining LOCK_PREFIX_HERE
as a null string.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-2-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF2690020000780003B340@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reduce the SMP locks table size by using relative pointers instead of
absolute ones, thus cutting the table size by half.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
While testing an application using the xpmem (out of kernel) driver, we
noticed a significant page fault rate reduction of x86_64 with respect
to ia64. For one test running with 32 cpus, one thread per cpu, it
took 01:08 for each of the threads to vm_insert_pfn 2GB worth of pages.
For the same test running on 256 cpus, one thread per cpu, it took 14:48
to vm_insert_pfn 2 GB worth of pages.
The slowdown was tracked to lookup_memtype which acquires the
spinlock memtype_lock. This heavily contended lock was slowing down
vm_insert_pfn().
With the cmpxchg on page->flags method, both the 32 cpu and 256 cpu
cases take approx 00:01.3 seconds to complete.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100423153627.751194346@gulag1.americas.sgi.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Below patch introduces perf_guest_info_callbacks and related
register/unregister functions. Add more PERF_RECORD_MISC_XXX bits
meaning guest kernel and guest user space.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
