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  1. 19 Oct, 2007 6 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: fix CONFIG_NUMA and nosmp | maxcpus=0/1 crash · 54ffaa45
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      x86 NUMA kernels crash in the scheduler setup code if "nosmp" or
"maxcpus=0" is passed on the boot command line:

| Brought up 1 CPUs
| BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
| printing eip: c011f0b5 *pde = 00000000
| Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
|
| Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.23 #67)
| EIP: 0060:[<c011f0b5>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
| EIP is at sd_degenerate+0x35/0x40

the reason is sloppy spaghetti code in smpboot_32.c that resulted in a
missing map_cpu_to_logical_apicid() call - which also had the side-effect
of setting up the cpu_2_node[] entry for the lone CPU. That resulted in
node_to_cpumask(0) resulting in 00000000 - confusing the sched-domains
setup code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      54ffaa45
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      x86: use relative symlink for bzImage · 3ceba781
      Sam Ravnborg authored 
      Use relative symlinks so we can refer bzImage from different tree
structures aka via NFS.

Moved the creation of directory + symlink after a successful build of
the boot parts.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3ceba781
    • Siddha, Suresh B's avatar
      x86, vsyscall: fix the oops crash with __pa_vsymbol() · 957ff882
      Siddha, Suresh B authored 
      Appended patch fixes an oops while changing the vsyscall sysctl.
I am sure no one tested this code before integrating into mainline :(

BTW, using ioremap() in vsyscall_sysctl_change() to get the virtual
address of a kernel symbol sounds like an over kill.. I wonder if we
can define a simple __va_vsymbol() which will return directly the
kernel direct mapping. comments in the code which says gcc has trouble
with __va(__pa()) sounds bogus to me. __pa() on a vsyscall address will
not work anyhow :(

And also, the whole nop out syscall in vsyscall page infrastructure
(vsyscall_sysctl_change()) is added to make some attacks difficult,
and yet I don't see this nop out being done by default. This area
requires more cleanups?

Fix an oops with __pa_vsymbol(). VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE is a fixmap index.
We want the starting virtual address of the vsyscall page and not the index.

[ mingo: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Reported-by: default avatarYanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      957ff882
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: update .gitignore entries · f322727b
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      vdso / vsycall create .so.dbg files now.
Add *.so.dbg to the main .ignore file

Exclude the compile time created boot directory in arch/x86_64 as well
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f322727b
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: fix global_flush_tlb() bug · 9a24d04a
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      While we were reviewing pageattr_32/64.c for unification,
Thomas Gleixner noticed the following serious SMP bug in
global_flush_tlb():

	down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
	list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
	up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);

this is SMP-unsafe because list_replace_init() done on two CPUs in
parallel can corrupt the list.

This bug has been introduced about a year ago in the 64-bit tree:

       commit ea7322de
       Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
       Date:   Thu Dec 7 02:14:05 2006 +0100

       [PATCH] x86-64: Speed and clean up cache flushing in change_page_attr

                down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
        -       dpage = xchg(&deferred_pages, NULL);
        +       list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
                up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);

the xchg() based version was SMP-safe, but list_replace_init() is not.
So this "cleanup" introduced a nasty bug.

why this bug never become prominent is a mystery - it can probably be
explained with the (still) relative obscurity of the x86_64 architecture.

the safe fix for now is to write-lock init_mm.mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      9a24d04a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 · 4fa4d23f
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  pcnet32: remove private net_device_stats structure
  vortex_up should initialize "err"
  pcnet32: remove compile warnings in non-napi mode
  pcnet32: fix non-napi packet reception
  fix EMAC driver for proper napi_synchronize API
  sky2: shutdown cleanup
  napi_synchronize: waiting for NAPI
  forcedeth msi bugfix
  gianfar: fix obviously wrong #ifdef CONFIG_GFAR_NAPI placement
  fs_enet: Update for API changes
  gianfar: remove orphan struct.
  forcedeth: fix rx-work condition in nv_rx_process_optimized() too
      4fa4d23f
  3. 18 Oct, 2007 34 commits