- 05 Mar, 2007 40 commits
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Florian Zumbiehl authored
Otherwise we can potentially try to dereference a NULL device pointer in some cases. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yasuyuki Kozakai authored
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Miroslaw authored
Fix reference counting (memory leak) problem in __nfulnl_send() and callers related to packet queueing. Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
Count module references correctly: after instance_destroy() there might be timer pending and holding a reference for this netlink instance. Based on patch by Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Miroslaw authored
Eliminate possible NULL pointer dereference in nfulnl_recv_config(). Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Miroslaw authored
Fix the nasty NULL dereference on multiple packets per netlink message. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 printing eip: f8a4b3bf *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: nfnetlink_log ipt_ttl ipt_REDIRECT xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state ipt_ipp2p xt_NFLOG xt_hashlimit ip6_tables iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_mark ipt_set iptable_raw xt_MARK iptable_mangle ip_tables cls_fw cls_u32 sch_esfq sch_htb ip_set_ipmap ip_set ipt_ULOG x_tables dm_snapshot dm_mirror loop e1000 parport_pc parport e100 floppy ide_cd cdrom CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f8a4b3bf>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.20 #5) EIP is at __nfulnl_send+0x24/0x51 [nfnetlink_log] eax: 00000000 ebx: f2b5cbc0 ecx: c03f5f54 edx: c03f4000 esi: f2b5cbc8 edi: c03f5f54 ebp: f8a4b3ec esp: c03f5f30 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c03f4000 task=c03bece0 task.ti=c03f4000) Stack: f2b5cbc0 f8a4b401 00000100 c0444080 c012af49 00000000 f6f19100 f6f19000 c1707800 c03f5f54 c03f5f54 00000123 00000021 c03e8d08 c0426380 00000009 c0126932 00000000 00000046 c03e9980 c03e6000 0047b007 c01269bd 00000000 Call Trace: [<f8a4b401>] nfulnl_timer+0x15/0x25 [nfnetlink_log] [<c012af49>] run_timer_softirq+0x10a/0x164 [<c0126932>] __do_softirq+0x60/0xba [<c01269bd>] do_softirq+0x31/0x35 [<c0104f6e>] do_IRQ+0x62/0x74 [<c01036cb>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 [<c0101018>] default_idle+0x0/0x3f [<c0101045>] default_idle+0x2d/0x3f [<c01010fa>] cpu_idle+0xa0/0xb9 [<c03fb7f5>] start_kernel+0x1a8/0x1ac [<c03fb293>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x181 ======================= Code: 5e 5f 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 53 89 c3 8d 40 1c 83 7b 1c 00 74 05 e8 2c ee 6d c7 83 7b 14 00 75 04 31 c0 eb 34 83 7b 10 01 76 09 8b 43 18 <66> c7 40 04 03 00 8b 53 34 8b 43 14 b9 40 00 00 00 e8 08 9a 84 EIP: [<f8a4b3bf>] __nfulnl_send+0x24/0x51 [nfnetlink_log] SS:ESP 0068:c03f5f30 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt <0>Rebooting in 5 seconds.. Panic no more! Signed-off-by: Micha Mirosaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Miroslaw authored
Paranoia: instance_put() might have freed the inst pointer when we spin_unlock_bh(). Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Miroslaw authored
Stop reference leaking in nfulnl_log_packet(). If we start a timer we are already taking another reference. Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
Some stacks apparently send packets with SYN|URG set. Linux accepts these packets, so TCP conntrack should to. Pointed out by Martijn Posthuma <posthuma@sangine.com>. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
The nf_conntrack_netlink config option is named CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK, but multiple files use CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK or CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK for ifdefs. Fix this and reformat all CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK ifdefs to only use a line. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling: - unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means we might iterate forever without making forward progress. This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different packet is handled. - taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped. Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark them as dying and skip confirmation based on that. Reported and tested by Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ingo Molnar authored
CONFIG_PARAVIRT broke old glibc bootup: it silently turned off the selectability of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO and thus rendered distro kernels unbootable on old-style VDSO glibc setups. the proper solution is to keep COMPAT_VDSO available - if a hypervisor needs any modification of that concept then we'll judge those changes in full context, once those changes are submitted. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlightLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight: backlight: Allow enable/disable of fb backlights, fixing regressions backlight: Fix nvidia backlight initial brightness
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Ingo Molnar authored
there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that so KVM doesnt have emulation for that yet. So KVM injects a #GP, which crashes the Linux guest: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c011a8ae>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00000246 (2.6.20-rc5-rt0 #3) EIP is at setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+0x26d/0x3d3 and no, i did /not/ request an nmi_watchdog on the boot command line! Solution: turn off that darn thing! It's a debug tool, not a 'make life harder' tool!! with this patch the KVM guest boots up just fine. And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stopped its sporadic hard hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup, sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's generally the fact of NMI injection that is causing problems, not the NMI watchdog variant, nor any particular bootup code. [ NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM -Arjan ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
do not use default=y for CONFIG_VMI (we do not do that for any driver or special-hardware feature): the overwhelming majority of Linux users does not need it, and interested users and distributions can enable it as-needed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text. As can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels. It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Miller authored
CT based mach64 cards were reported to hang on sparc64 boxes when compiled with gcc-4.1.x and later. Looking at this piece of code, it's no surprise. A critical delay was implemented as an empty for() loop, and gcc 4.0.x and previous did not optimize it away, so we did get a delay. But gcc-4.1.x and later can optimize it away, and we get crashes. Use a real udelay() to fix this. Fix verified on SunBlade100. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
CC arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c: In function 'vmi_map_pt_hook': /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE0' undeclared (first use in this function) /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: for each function it appears in.) /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE1' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Replacing use of UTS_RELEASE with utsname()->release avoids that the usb-storage driver is recompiled each time the kernel version changes. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland Kletzing authored
Add some documentation for the new and very useful io-accounting feature. It's being added to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Antonino A. Daplas authored
Fix the following compile error: MODPOST 327 modules WARNING: "aty_st_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined! WARNING: "aty_ld_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: *** [modules] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Piotrowski authored
"drivers/char/epca.c:2741: warning: 'get_termio' defined but not used" Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Doing something like this on a two cpu system # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online will give me this: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.21-rc2-g562aa1d4-dirty #7 ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1282 is trying to acquire lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f17e>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xc6/0x240 but task is already holding lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key#2){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f174>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xbc/0x240 which lock already depends on the new lock. This happens because we have the following code in kernel/hrtimer.c: migrate_hrtimers(int cpu) [...] old_base = &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu); new_base = &get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases); [...] spin_lock(&new_base->lock); spin_lock(&old_base->lock); Which means the spinlocks are taken in an order which depends on which cpu gets shut down from which other cpu. Therefore lockdep complains that there might be an ABBA deadlock. Since migrate_hrtimers() gets only called on cpu hotplug it's safe to assume that it isn't executed concurrently on a The same problem exists in kernel/timer.c: migrate_timers(). As pointed out by Christian Borntraeger one possible solution to avoid the locking order complaints would be to make sure that the locks are always taken in the same order. E.g. by taking the lock of the cpu with the lower number first. To achieve this we introduce two new spinlock functions double_spin_lock and double_spin_unlock which lock or unlock two locks in a given order. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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john stultz authored
This patch resolves the issue found here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426 The basic summary is: Currently we register most of i386/x86_64 clocksources at module_init time. Then we enable clocksource selection at late_initcall time. This causes some problems for drivers that use gettimeofday for init calibration routines (specifically the es1968 driver in this case), where durring module_init, the only clocksource available is the low-res jiffies clocksource. This may cause slight calibration errors, due to the small sampling time used. It should be noted that drivers that require fine grained time may not function on architectures that do not have better then jiffies resolution timekeeping (there are a few). However, this does not discount the reasonable need for such fine-grained timekeeping at init time. Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall). This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own boxes. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes authored
Removes unused 'flags' variable from setup_IO_APIC_irq(). Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christian Krafft authored
ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could be found elsewhere. On PPC we have a function to check, if these legacy IO ports are accessible. This patch adds a check for these ports on PPC. This patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module on PPC machines without a BMC. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dmitriy Monakhov authored
- In fact we don't have to fail if AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE was returned from prepare_write or commit_write. It is beter to retry attempt where it is possible. - Rearange ecryptfs_get_lower_page() error handling logic, make it more clean. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dmitriy Monakhov authored
- Currently after path_lookup succeed we dot't have any guarantie what it is DIR. This must be explicitly demanded. - path_lookup can't return negative dentry, So inode check is useless. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (54->54)! CPU#1: NMI appears to be stuck (0->0)! Keep the PIT/HPET alive when nmi_watchdog = 1 is given on the command line. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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NeilBrown authored
Recent patch for raid6 reshape had a change missing that showed up in subsequent review. Many places in the raid5 code used "conf->raid_disks-1" to mean "number of data disks". With raid6 that had to be changed to "conf->raid_disk - conf->max_degraded" or similar. One place was missed. This bug means that if a raid6 reshape were aborted in the middle the recorded position would be wrong. On restart it would either fail (as the position wasn't on an appropriate boundary) or would leave a section of the array unreshaped, causing data corruption. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
Critical fixes for SMP. Fix a couple functions which needed to be __devinit and fix a bogus parameter to AP startup that just so happened to work because the low virtual mapping of memory was still established. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
Use para_fill instead of directly setting the APIC ops to the result of the vmi_get_function call - this allows one to implement a VMI ROM without implementing APIC functions, just using the native APIC functions. While doing this, I realized that there is a lot more cleanup that should have been done. Basically, we should never assume that the ROM implements a specific set of functions, and always allow fallback to the native implementation. This is critical for future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
More goo from hrtimers integration. We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ enabled. There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but that was since fixed. And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure. This actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of on_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
The time_init_hook in paravirt-ops no longer functions in the correct manner after the integration of the hrtimers code. The problem is that now the call path for time initialization is: time_init : late_time_init = hpet_time_init; late_time_init -> hpet_time_init: setup_pit_timer (BAD) do_time_init --> (via paravirt.h) time_init_hook --> (via arch_hooks.h) time_init_hook (in SUBARCH/setup.c) If this isn't confusing enough, the paravirt case goes through an indirect function pointer in the paravirt-ops table. The problem is, by the time the paravirt hook is called, the pit timer is already enabled. But paravirt guests have their own timer, and don't want to use the PIT. Rather than intensify the struggle for power going on here, just make it all nice and simple and just unconditionally do all timer setup in the late_time_init hook. This also has the advantage of enabling timers in the same place in all code paths, so everyone has the same bugs and we don't have outliers who break other code because they turn on timer too early or too late. So the paravirt-ops time init function is now by default hpet_time_init, which is the time init function used for native hardware. Paravirt guests have the chance to override this when they setup the paravirt-ops table, and should need no change. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
Not respecting udelay causes problems with any virtual hardware that is passed through to real hardware. This can be noticed by any device that interacts with the real world in real time - like AP startup, which takes real time. Or keyboard LEDs, which should blink in real-time. Or floppy drives, but only when passed through to a real floppy controller on OSes which can't sufficiently buffer the floppy commands to emulate a zero latency floppy. Or IDE drives, when connecting to a physical CDROM. This was mostly a hack to get the kernel to boot faster, but it introduced a number of misvirtualization bugs, and Alan and Pavel argued pretty strongly against it. We were the only client, and now want to clean up this cruft. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping page tables. This information is required so the physical address of PTE updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks. So lets not mess up arch neutral code to achieve this, but keep the horror in an #ifdef HIGHPTE in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h. I had to use macros here because some types are not yet defined in all the include paths for this header. This patch is absolutely required for HIGHPTE kernels to operate properly with VMI. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code. This value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
The custom_sched_clock hook is broken. The result from sched_clock needs to be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles. The TSC is insufficient for this purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled). To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time, that is scheduled time. So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along. This allows the tsc.c code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops backends. It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even got in the wrong units. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zachary Amsden authored
Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code. 1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm armed. Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately. This fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate than the non-idle case. 2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock acquisition. Drop this. We don't need to check for wallclock time at every tick, it can be done in userspace instead. 3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation. This is useful as a last minute workaround, or testing measure. 4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured in as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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