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- 25 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Andi Kleen authored
Impact: low priority bug fix This removes part of a a patch I added myself some time ago. After some consideration the patch was a bad idea. In particular it stopped machine check exceptions during code patching. To quote the comment: * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this * case we must do something about the corruption. * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race. * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code * patching. So undo the machine check related parts of 8f4e956b NMIs are still disabled. This only removes code, the only additions are a new comment. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 13 Oct, 2008 1 commit
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Thomas Gleixner authored
num_possible_cpus() can be > 1 when disabled CPUs have been accounted. Disabled CPUs are not in the cpu_present_map, so we can use num_present_cpus() as a safe indicator to switch to UP alternatives. Reported-by:
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 Sep, 2008 1 commit
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 Aug, 2008 1 commit
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 15 Aug, 2008 1 commit
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
If a kernel thread is preempted in single-cpu mode right after the NOP (nop about to be turned into a lock prefix), then we CPU hotplug a CPU, and then the thread is scheduled back again, a SMP-unsafe atomic operation will be used on shared SMP variables, leading to corruption. No corruption would happen in the reverse case : going from SMP to UP is ok because we split a bit instruction into tiny pieces, which does not present this condition. Changing the 0x90 (single-byte nop) currently used into a 0x3E DS segment override prefix should fix this issue. Since the default of the atomic instructions is to use the DS segment anyway, it should not affect the behavior. The exception to this are references that use ESP/RSP and EBP/RBP as the base register (they will use the SS segment), however, in Linux (a) DS == SS at all times, and (b) we do not distinguish between segment violations reported as #SS as opposed to #GP, so there is no need to disassemble the instruction to figure out the suitable segment. This patch assumes that the 0x3E prefix will leave atomic operations as-is (thus assuming they normally touch data in the DS segment). Since there seem to be no obvious ill-use of other segment override prefixes for atomic operations, it should be safe. It can be verified with a quick grep -r LOCK_PREFIX include/asm-x86/ grep -A 1 -r LOCK_PREFIX arch/x86/ Taken from This source : AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions States "Instructions that Reference a Non-Stack Segment—If an instruction encoding references any base register other than rBP or rSP, or if an instruction contains an immediate offset, the default segment is the data segment (DS). These instructions can use the segment-override prefix to select one of the non-default segments, as shown in Table 1-5." Therefore, forcing the DS segment on the atomic operations, which already use the DS segment, should not change. This source : http://wiki.osdev.org/X86_Instruction_Encoding States "In 64-bit the CS, SS, DS and ES segment overrides are ignored." Confirmed by "AMD 64-Bit Technology" A.7 http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/x86-64_overview.pdf "In 64-bit mode, the DS, ES, SS and CS segment-override prefixes have no effect. These four prefixes are no longer treated as segment-override prefixes in the context of multipleprefix rules. Instead, they are treated as null prefixes." This patch applies to 2.6.27-rc2, but would also have to be applied to earlier kernels (2.6.26, 2.6.25, ...). Performance impact of the fix : tests done on "xaddq" and "xaddl" shows it actually improves performances on Intel Xeon, AMD64, Pentium M. It does not change the performance on Pentium II, Pentium 3 and Pentium 4. Xeon E5405 2.0GHz : NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 162207948 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 170755422 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 170000118 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 472012134 AMD64 2.0GHz : NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 146674549 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 150273860 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 149982382 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 270000690 Pentium 4 3.0GHz NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 290001195 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 310000560 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000575 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 1050103740 Pentium M 2.0GHz NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 180000523 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 320000345 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000374 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 480000357 Pentium 3 550MHz NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 510000231 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 620000128 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 620000110 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 800000088 Pentium II 350MHz NR_TESTS 10000000 test empty cycles : 200833494 test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 340000130 test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 340000126 * test test LOCK xadd cycles : 530000078 Speed test modules can be found at http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed-32.c http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed.c Macro-benchmarks 2.0GHz E5405 Core 2 dual Quad-Core Xeon Summary * replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup make -j1 kernel/ 33.94 +/- 0.07 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.8 % hackbench 50 2.99 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 25.1 % * replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup make -j1 kernel/ 34.16 +/- 0.32 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.2 % hackbench 50 3.00 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 24.7 % Detail : 1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes make -j1 kernel/ real 0m34.067s user 0m30.630s sys 0m2.980s real 0m33.867s user 0m30.582s sys 0m3.024s real 0m33.939s user 0m30.738s sys 0m2.876s real 0m33.913s user 0m30.806s sys 0m2.808s avg : 33.94s std. dev. : 0.07s hackbench 50 Time: 2.978 Time: 2.982 Time: 3.010 Time: 2.984 Time: 2.982 avg : 2.99 std. dev. : 0.01 1 CPU, noreplace-smp make -j1 kernel/ real 0m35.326s user 0m30.630s sys 0m3.260s real 0m34.325s user 0m30.802s sys 0m3.084s real 0m35.568s user 0m30.722s sys 0m3.168s real 0m34.435s user 0m30.886s sys 0m2.996s avg.: 34.91s std. dev. : 0.27s hackbench 50 Time: 3.733 Time: 3.750 Time: 3.761 Time: 3.737 Time: 3.741 avg : 3.74 std. dev. : 0.01 1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops make -j1 kernel/ real 0m34.139s user 0m30.782s sys 0m2.820s real 0m34.010s user 0m30.630s sys 0m2.976s real 0m34.777s user 0m30.658s sys 0m2.916s real 0m33.924s user 0m30.634s sys 0m2.924s real 0m33.962s user 0m30.774s sys 0m2.800s real 0m34.141s user 0m30.770s sys 0m2.828s avg : 34.16 std. dev. : 0.32 hackbench 50 Time: 2.999 Time: 2.994 Time: 3.004 Time: 2.991 Time: 2.988 avg : 3.00 std. dev. : 0.01 I did more runs (20 runs of each) to compare the nop case to the DS prefix case. Results in seconds. They actually does not seems to show a significant difference. NOP 34.155 33.955 34.012 35.299 35.679 34.141 33.995 35.016 34.254 33.957 33.957 34.008 35.013 34.494 33.893 34.295 34.314 34.854 33.991 34.132 DS 34.080 34.304 34.374 35.095 34.291 34.135 33.940 34.208 35.276 34.288 33.861 33.898 34.610 34.709 33.851 34.256 35.161 34.283 33.865 35.078 Used http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/ttest1.cfm?Format=C to do the T-test (yeah, I'm lazy) : Group Group One (DS prefix) Group Two (nops) Mean 34.37815 34.37070 SD 0.46108 0.51905 SEM 0.10310 0.11606 N 20 20 P value and statistical significance: The two-tailed P value equals 0.9620 By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be not statistically significant. Confidence interval: The mean of Group One minus Group Two equals 0.00745 95% confidence interval of this difference: From -0.30682 to 0.32172 Intermediate values used in calculations: t = 0.0480 df = 38 standard error of difference = 0.155 So, unless these calculus are completely bogus, the difference between the nop and the DS case seems not to be statistically significant. Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org> CC: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 23 May, 2008 2 commits
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Pekka Paalanen authored
text_poke is sleepable. The original fix by Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>. Signed-off-by:
Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead of a jmp over the mcount call. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 25 Apr, 2008 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Clean up the codepath, remove alignment restrictions and do sanity checking of the end result, to make sure we patched the right site. Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jiri Slaby authored
kernel_text_address returns true even for modules which is not wanted in text_poke. Use core_kernel_text instead. This is a regression introduced in e587cadd which caused occasionaly crashes after suspend/resume. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: pageexec@freemail.hu CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 Apr, 2008 3 commits
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote: > > > The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses > > virt_to_page to get the pages from the pointer address. > > > > However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is > > used for modules. > > > > Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use > > kernel_text_address() to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel > > text, not modules. > > actually, i think we should mark module text readonly too. > Yes, but in the meantime, the x86 tree would need this patch to make kprobes work correctly on modules. I suspect that without this fix, with the enhanced hotplug and kprobes patch, kprobes will use text_poke to insert breakpoints in modules (vmalloced pages used), which will map the wrong pages and corrupt random kernel locations instead of updating the correct page. Work that would write protect the module pages should clearly be done, but it can come in a later time. We have to make sure we interact correctly with the page allocation debugging, as an example. Here is the patch against x86.git 2.6.25-rc5 : The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses virt_to_page to get the pages from the pointer address. However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is used for modules. Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use kernel_text_address() to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel text, not modules. Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Fix a memcpy that should be a text_poke (in apply_alternatives). Use kernel_wp_save/kernel_wp_restore in text_poke to support DEBUG_RODATA correctly and so the CPU HOTPLUG special case can be removed. Add text_poke_early, for alternatives and paravirt boot-time and module load time patching. Changelog: - Fix text_set and text_poke alignment check (mixed up bitwise and and or) - Remove text_set - Export add_nops, so it can be used by others. - Document text_poke_early. - Remove clflush, since it breaks some VIA architectures and is not strictly necessary. - Add kerneldoc to text_poke and text_poke_early. - Create a second vmap instead of using the WP bit to support Xen and VMI. - Move local_irq disable within text_poke and text_poke_early to be able to be sleepable in these functions. Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: pageexec@freemail.hu CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Harvey Harrison authored
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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Steven Rostedt authored
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type. The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when executing this code. This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the original section. Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-) Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 30 Jan, 2008 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
An older binutils bug caused us to not fix up alternatives. This problem involved mutex.c but we dont do lockdep section tricks there anymore, so this workaround is moot. Keep the printk nevertheless, just in case ... We can remove that later on. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Andi Kleen authored
On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and retranslate a lot of code. Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel on UP. This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow! Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline. v1->v2: Rename max_cpus v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner) Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
The patch to suppress bitops-related warnings added a pile of ugly casts. Many of these were related to the management of x86 CPU capabilities. Clean these up by adding specific set/clear_cpu_cap macros, and use them consistently. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 19 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Mike Travis authored
cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus. When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes 3,145,728 bytes. These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code. An additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu index. This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the per_cpu index. It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo(). cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP case. Signed-off-by:
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 17 Oct, 2007 3 commits
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Jan Beulich authored
Add support for and use the multi-byte NOPs recently documented to be available on all PentiumPro and later processors. This patch only applies cleanly on top of the "x86: misc. constifications" patch sent earlier. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- include/asm-x86/processor_32.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/asm-x86/processor_64.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Jan Beulich authored
Miscellaneous x86 stuff that can live in .rodata. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fengguang Wu authored
In alternative_instructions(), call free_init_pages() with irqs enabled. It fixes the warning message in smp_call_function*(), which should not be called with irqs disabled. [ 0.310000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) [ 0.310000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) [ 0.310000] CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 [ 0.310000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 0.310000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 25k freed [ 0.310000] WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:397 smp_call_function_mask() [ 0.310000] [ 0.310000] Call Trace: [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8100dbde>] dump_trace+0x3ee/0x4a0 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8100dcd3>] show_trace+0x43/0x70 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8100dd15>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8101cd44>] smp_call_function_mask+0x94/0xa0 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8101d0b2>] smp_call_function+0x32/0x40 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8104277f>] on_each_cpu+0x1f/0x50 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff81026eac>] global_flush_tlb+0x8c/0x110 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff81025c85>] free_init_pages+0xe5/0xf0 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff81549b5e>] alternative_instructions+0x7e/0x150 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff8154a2ea>] check_bugs+0x1a/0x20 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff81540c4a>] start_kernel+0x2da/0x380 [ 0.310000] [<ffffffff81540132>] _sinittext+0x132/0x140 [ 0.310000] [ 0.320000] ACPI: Core revision 20070126 [ 0.560000] Using local APIC timer interrupts. [ 0.590000] Detected 62.496 MHz APIC timer. [ 0.590000] Brought up 1 CPUs [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 16 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of functionally related ops: pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too) pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else pv_time_ops - time-related functions pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state pv_apic_ops - APIC operations pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables There are several motivations for this: 1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be i386/x86-64 specific. This makes it easier to share common stuff while allowing separate implementations where needed. 2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only need selected parts of it. This allows us to export on a case by case basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply). 3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable. Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting into jmp/calls when patching. It is only instantiated when needed. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
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- 14 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Dave Jones authored
> Maybe I just picked a bad time to try, but... > > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c: In function 'apply_alternatives': > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_START' undeclared (first use in this function) > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: for each function it appears in.) > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_END' undeclared (first use in this function) > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/alternative.o] Error 1 > make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2 Try this. Include missing header for vsyscall. Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 11 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 Sep, 2007 1 commit
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Andi Kleen authored
The CLFLUSH for the modified code line in text_poke was supposed to speed up CPU recovery. Unfortunately it seems to cause hangs on some VIA C3s (at least on VIA Esther Model 10 Stepping 9) Remove it. Thanks to Stefan Becker for reporting/testing. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 Aug, 2007 1 commit
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Chris Wright authored
With commit ab144f5e the patching code now collects the complete new instruction stream into a temp buffer before finally patching in the new insns. In some cases the paravirt patchers will choose to leave the patch site unpatched (length mismatch, clobbers mismatch, etc). This causes the new patching code to copy an uninitialized temp buffer, i.e. garbage, to the callsite. Simply make sure to always initialize the buffer with the original instruction stream. A better fix is to audit all the patchers and return proper length so that apply_paravirt() can skip copies when we leave the patch site untouched. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 Aug, 2007 2 commits
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Adrian Bunk authored
It's CONFIG_X86_MCE, not CONFIG_MCE. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Commit 19d36ccd "x86: Fix alternatives and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text" uses code which is being patched for patching. In particular, paravirt_ops does patching in two stages: first it calls paravirt_ops.patch, then it fills any remaining instructions with nop_out(). nop_out calls text_poke() which calls lookup_address() which calls pgd_val() (aka paravirt_ops.pgd_val): that call site is one of the places we patch. If we always do patching as one single call to text_poke(), we only need make sure we're not patching the memcpy in text_poke itself. This means the prototype to paravirt_ops.patch needs to change, to marshal the new code into a buffer rather than patching in place as it does now. It also means all patching goes through text_poke(), which is known to be safe (apply_alternatives is also changed to make a single patch). AK: fix compilation on x86-64 (bad rusty!) AK: fix boot on x86-64 (sigh) AK: merged with other patches Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 Jul, 2007 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts most of commit 19d36ccd. The way to DEBUG_RODATA interactions with KPROBES and CPU hotplug is to just not mark the text as being write-protected in the first place. Both of those facilities depend on rewriting instructions. Having "helpful" debug facilities that just cause more problem is not being helpful. It just adds complexity and bugs. Not worth it. Reported-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 Jul, 2007 3 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
When a machine check or NMI occurs while multiple byte code is patched the CPU could theoretically see an inconsistent instruction and crash. Prevent this by temporarily disabling MCEs and returning early in the NMI handler. Based on discussion with Mathieu Desnoyers. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Reenable kprobes and alternative patching when the kernel text is write protected by DEBUG_RODATA Add a general utility function to change write protected text. The new function remaps the code using vmap to write it and takes care of CPU synchronization. It also does CLFLUSH to make icache recovery faster. There are some limitations on when the function can be used, see the comment. This is a newer version that also changes the paravirt_ops code. text_poke also supports multi byte patching now. Contains bug fixes from Zach Amsden and suggestions from Mathieu Desnoyers. Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Beulich authored
Hence remove its handling in the opposite case. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 07 May, 2007 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
This was broken. It adds complexity, for no good reason. Rather than separate __pa() and __pa_symbol(), we should deprecate __pa_symbol(), and preferably __pa() too - and just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which is more readable and has nicer semantics. However, right now, just undo the separation, and make __pa_symbol() be the exact same as __pa(). That fixes the bugs this patch introduced, and we can do the fairly obvious cleanups later. Do the new __phys_addr() function (which is now the actual workhorse for the unified __pa()/__pa_symbol()) as a real external function, that way all the potential issues with compile/link-time optimizations of constant symbol addresses go away, and we can also, if we choose to, add more sanity-checking of the argument. Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 02 May, 2007 6 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
The other symbols used to delineate the alt-instructions sections have the form __foo/__foo_end. Rename parainstructions to match. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Implement the actual patching machinery. paravirt_patch_default() contains the logic to automatically patch a callsite based on a few simple rules: - if the paravirt_op function is paravirt_nop, then patch nops - if the paravirt_op function is a jmp target, then jmp to it - if the paravirt_op function is callable and doesn't clobber too much for the callsite, call it directly paravirt_patch_default is suitable as a default implementation of paravirt_ops.patch, will remove most of the expensive indirect calls in favour of either a direct call or a pile of nops. Backends may implement their own patcher, however. There are several helper functions to help with this: paravirt_patch_nop nop out a callsite paravirt_patch_ignore leave the callsite as-is paravirt_patch_call patch a call if the caller and callee have compatible clobbers paravirt_patch_jmp patch in a jmp paravirt_patch_insns patch some literal instructions over the callsite, if they fit This patch also implements more direct patches for the native case, so that when running on native hardware many common operations are implemented inline. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Rename struct paravirt_patch to paravirt_patch_site, so that it clearly refers to a callsite, and not the patch which may be applied to that callsite. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT. When inlining code, this option attempts to trash registers in the patch-site's "clobber" field, on the grounds that this should find bugs with incorrect clobbers. Unfortunately, the clobber field really means "registers modified by this patch site", which includes return values. Because of this, this option has outlived its usefulness, so remove it. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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