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* Merge branch 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-291-2/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 trampoline rework from H. Peter Anvin: "This code reworks all the "trampoline"/"realmode" code (various bits that need to live in the first megabyte of memory, most but not all of which runs in real mode at some point) in the kernel into a single object. The main reason for doing this is that it eliminates the last place in the kernel where we needed pages to be mapped RWX. This code separates all that code into proper R/RW/RX pages." Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile (mca removed next to reboot code), and arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c (reboot code moved around in one branch, modified in this one), and arch/x86/tools/relocs.c (mostly same code came in earlier due to working around the ld bugs just before the 3.4 release). Also remove stale x86-relocs entry from scripts/.gitignore as per Peter Anvin. * commit '61f5446169046c217a5479517edac3a890c3bee7': (36 commits) x86, realmode: Move end signature into header.S x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute x86, relocs: More relocations which may end up as absolute x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug xen-acpi-processor: Add missing #include <xen/xen.h> acpi, bgrd: Add missing <linux/io.h> to drivers/acpi/bgrt.c x86, realmode: Change EFER to a single u64 field x86, realmode: Move kernel/realmode.c to realmode/init.c x86, realmode: Move not-common bits out of trampoline_common.S x86, realmode: Mask out EFER.LMA when saving trampoline EFER x86, realmode: Fix no cache bits test in reboot_32.S x86, realmode: Make sure all generated files are listed in targets x86, realmode: build fix: remove duplicate build x86, realmode: read cr4 and EFER from kernel for 64-bit trampoline x86, realmode: fixes compilation issue in tboot.c x86, realmode: move relocs from scripts/ to arch/x86/tools x86, realmode: header for trampoline code x86, realmode: flattened rm hierachy x86, realmode: don't copy real_mode_header x86, realmode: fix 64-bit wakeup sequence ...
| * x86, realmode: Move kernel/realmode.c to realmode/init.cH. Peter Anvin2012-05-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Keep all the realmode code together, including initialization (only the rm/ subdirectory is actually built as real-mode code, anyway.) Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
| * x86, realmode: Move ACPI wakeup to unified realmode codeJarkko Sakkinen2012-05-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Migrated ACPI wakeup code to the real-mode blob. Code existing in .x86_trampoline can be completely removed. Static descriptor table in wakeup_asm.S is courtesy of H. Peter Anvin. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-7-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| * x86, realmode: Move reboot_32.S to unified realmode codeJarkko Sakkinen2012-05-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Migrated reboot_32.S from x86_trampoline to the real-mode blob. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-5-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| * x86, realmode: Relocator for realmode codeJarkko Sakkinen2012-05-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implements relocator for real mode code that is called as part of setup_arch(). Processes segment relocations and linear relocations. Real-mode code is relocated to a free hole below 1 MB. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-4-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-241-0/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar: "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years in Fedora and RHEL kernels. This version is much rewritten, reviews from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result. This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well. Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc() calls without modifying user-space binaries. First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled. If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed within libc (binaries can be specified as well): $ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6 To probe libc's malloc(): $ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc Added new event: probe_libc:malloc (on 0x7eac0) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1 Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to look very boring): $ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make [ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712 $ perf report | less 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000 | |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 5.07% sh libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.99% python-config libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.54% make libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--7.34%-- glob | | | |--93.18%-- 0x41588f | | | --6.82%-- glob | 0x41588f ... Or: $ perf report -g flat | less # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............. ............. .......... # 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 27.19% malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 24.77% malloc 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 11.02% malloc 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 6.57% malloc ... The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address. vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content. The probe points are kept in an rbtree. If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer. Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a dynamic callback list of event consumers. The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers. The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of entries (which limits probe execution parallelism). The API: uprobes are installed/removed via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate to it. Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed by setting perf_paranoid to -1. You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task." Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of unmap_single_vma(). * 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent uprobes: Update copyright notices uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code ...
| * | Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobesIngo Molnar2012-04-141-0/+1
| |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree), to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | uprobes, mm, x86: Add the ability to install and remove uprobes breakpointsSrikar Dronamraju2012-02-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add uprobes support to the core kernel, with x86 support. This commit adds the kernel facilities, the actual uprobes user-space ABI and perf probe support comes in later commits. General design: Uprobes are maintained in an rb-tree indexed by inode and offset (the offset here is from the start of the mapping). For a unique (inode, offset) tuple, there can be at most one uprobe in the rb-tree. Since the (inode, offset) tuple identifies a unique uprobe, more than one user may be interested in the same uprobe. This provides the ability to connect multiple 'consumers' to the same uprobe. Each consumer defines a handler and a filter (optional). The 'handler' is run every time the uprobe is hit, if it matches the 'filter' criteria. The first consumer of a uprobe causes the breakpoint to be inserted at the specified address and subsequent consumers are appended to this list. On subsequent probes, the consumer gets appended to the existing list of consumers. The breakpoint is removed when the last consumer unregisters. For all other unregisterations, the consumer is removed from the list of consumers. Given a inode, we get a list of the mms that have mapped the inode. Do the actual registration if mm maps the page where a probe needs to be inserted/removed. We use a temporary list to walk through the vmas that map the inode. - The number of maps that map the inode, is not known before we walk the rmap and keeps changing. - extending vm_area_struct wasn't recommended, it's a size-critical data structure. - There can be more than one maps of the inode in the same mm. We add callbacks to the mmap methods to keep an eye on text vmas that are of interest to uprobes. When a vma of interest is mapped, we insert the breakpoint at the right address. Uprobe works by replacing the instruction at the address defined by (inode, offset) with the arch specific breakpoint instruction. We save a copy of the original instruction at the uprobed address. This is needed for: a. executing the instruction out-of-line (xol). b. instruction analysis for any subsequent fixups. c. restoring the instruction back when the uprobe is unregistered. We insert or delete a breakpoint instruction, and this breakpoint instruction is assumed to be the smallest instruction available on the platform. For fixed size instruction platforms this is trivially true, for variable size instruction platforms the breakpoint instruction is typically the smallest (often a single byte). Writing the instruction is done by COWing the page and changing the instruction during the copy, this even though most platforms allow atomic writes of the breakpoint instruction. This also mirrors the behaviour of a ptrace() memory write to a PRIVATE file map. The core worker is derived from KSM's replace_page() logic. In essence, similar to KSM: a. allocate a new page and copy over contents of the page that has the uprobed vaddr b. modify the copy and insert the breakpoint at the required address c. switch the original page with the copy containing the breakpoint d. flush page tables. replace_page() is being replicated here because of some minor changes in the type of pages and also because Hugh Dickins had plans to improve replace_page() for KSM specific work. Instruction analysis on x86 is based on instruction decoder and determines if an instruction can be probed and determines the necessary fixups after singlestep. Instruction analysis is done at probe insertion time so that we avoid having to repeat the same analysis every time a probe is hit. A lot of code here is due to the improvement/suggestions/inputs from Peter Zijlstra. Changelog: (v10): - Add code to clear REX.B prefix as suggested by Denys Vlasenko and Masami Hiramatsu. (v9): - Use insn_offset_modrm as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu. (v7): Handle comments from Peter Zijlstra: - Dont take reference to inode. (expect inode to uprobe_register to be sane). - Use PTR_ERR to set the return value. - No need to take reference to inode. - use PTR_ERR to return error value. - register and uprobe_unregister share code. (v5): - Modified del_consumer as per comments from Peter. - Drop reference to inode before dropping reference to uprobe. - Use i_size_read(inode) instead of inode->i_size. - Ensure uprobe->consumers is NULL, before __uprobe_unregister() is called. - Includes errno.h as recommended by Stephen Rothwell to fix a build issue on sparc defconfig - Remove restrictions while unregistering. - Earlier code leaked inode references under some conditions while registering/unregistering. - Continue the vma-rmap walk even if the intermediate vma doesnt meet the requirements. - Validate the vma found by find_vma before inserting/removing the breakpoint - Call del_consumer under mutex_lock. - Use hash locks. - Handle mremap. - Introduce find_least_offset_node() instead of close match logic in find_uprobe - Uprobes no more depends on MM_OWNER; No reference to task_structs while inserting/removing a probe. - Uses read_mapping_page instead of grab_cache_page so that the pages have valid content. - pass NULL to get_user_pages for the task parameter. - call SetPageUptodate on the new page allocated in write_opcode. - fix leaking a reference to the new page under certain conditions. - Include Instruction Decoder if Uprobes gets defined. - Remove const attributes for instruction prefix arrays. - Uses mm_context to know if the application is 32 bit. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Also-written-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120209092642.GE16600@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Made various small edits to the commit log ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'delete-mca' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-231-1/+0
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker: "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but realistically, nobody is using them anymore. They were mostly limited to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than 64MB of RAM. Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware. So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA. There is no point carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it; wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git grep'ping over it, and so on." Let's see if anybody screams. It generally has compiled, and James Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines. So in *theory* there may be users out there. But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't argue for keeping MCA support either. So we could bring it back. But somebody had better speak up and talk about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern kernels for us to do that. And David already took the patch to delete all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA"). * 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support. arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA
| * | | MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.Paul Gortmaker2012-05-171-1/+0
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in carrying this any further into the future. One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* / | x86: Use generic init_taskThomas Gleixner2012-05-051-1/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Same code. Use the generic version. The special Makefile treatment is pointless anyway as init_task.o contains only data which is handled by the linker script. So no point on being treated like head text. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.739963562@linutronix.de Cc: x86@kernel.org
* / x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.cMasami Hiramatsu2012-03-061-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split out optprobe related code to arch/x86/kernel/kprobes-opt.c for maintenanceability. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org Cc: anderson@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305133222.5982.54794.stgit@localhost.localdomain [ Tidied up the code a tiny bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-161-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h x86, um: Fix typo in 32-bit system call modifications um: Use $(srctree) not $(KBUILD_SRC) x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly x86, um: Use the same style generated syscall tables as native um: Generate headers before generating user-offsets.s um: Run host archheaders, allow use of host generated headers kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in comment x86: Simplify syscallhdr.sh x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables checksyscalls: Use arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl as source x86: Machine-readable syscall tables and scripts to process them trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c x86-64, ia32: Move compat_ni_syscall into C and its own file x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target kbuild: Add support for installing generated asm headers
| * x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tablesH. Peter Anvin2011-11-171-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h automatically from the tables in arch/x86/syscalls. All other information, like NR_syscalls, is auto-generated, some of which is in asm-offsets_*.c. This allows us to keep all the system call information in one place, and allows for kernel space and user space to see different information; this is currently used for the ia32 system call numbers when building the 64-bit kernel, but will be used by the x32 ABI in the near future. This also removes some gratuitious differences between i386, x86-64 and ia32; in particular, now all system call tables are generated with the same mechanism. Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftestDon Zickus2011-12-051-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous patch modified the stop cpus path to use NMI instead of IRQ as the way to communicate to the other cpus to shutdown. There were some concerns that various machines may have problems with using an NMI IPI. This patch creates a selftest to check if NMI is working at boot. The idea is to help catch any issues before the machine panics and we learn the hard way. Loosely based on the locking-selftest.c file, this separate file runs a couple of simple tests and reports the results. The output looks like: ... Brought up 4 CPUs ---------------- | NMI testsuite: -------------------- remote IPI: ok | local IPI: ok | -------------------- Good, all 2 testcases passed! | --------------------------------- Total of 4 processors activated (21330.61 BogoMIPS). ... Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: mjg@redhat.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: gong.chen@intel.com Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, nmi: Split out nmi from traps.cDon Zickus2011-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nmi stuff is changing a lot and adding more functionality. Split it out from the traps.c file so it doesn't continue to pollute that file. This makes it easier to find and expand all the future nmi related work. No real functional changes here. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-08-121-13/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip * 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip: x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment. x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
| * x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall codeAndy Lutomirski2011-08-101-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of commit 98d0ac38ca7b1b7a552c9a2359174ff84decb600 Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Date: Thu Jul 14 06:47:22 2011 -0400 x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO user code no longer directly calls into code in arch/x86/kernel/, so we don't need compile flag hacks to make it safe. All vdso code is in the vdso directory now. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/835cd05a4c7740544d09723d6ba48f4406f9826c.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-221-6/+2
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment Document the vDSO and add a reference parser ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys) x86-64: Map the HPET NX x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl x86-64: Give vvars their own page x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
| * x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSOAndy Lutomirski2011-07-141-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The vsyscall page now consists entirely of trap instructions. Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/637648f303f2ef93af93bae25186e9a1bea093f5.1310639973.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| * x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscallsAndy Lutomirski2011-06-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page. It contains a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of some other code. Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the middle. This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real syscalls. Fortunately sensible programs don't use them. The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the development tree. This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet functions are still at a fixed address. Fixing that might involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu [ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | iommu/amd: Move missing parts to drivers/iommuJoerg Roedel2011-06-211-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few parts of the driver were missing in drivers/iommu. Move them there to have the complete driver in that directory. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* | x86: amd_iommu: move to drivers/iommu/Ohad Ben-Cohen2011-06-211-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This should ease finding similarities with different platforms, with the intention of solving problems once in a generic framework which everyone can use. Compile-tested on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* x86: Put back -pg to tsc.o and add no GCOV to vread_tsc_64.oSteven Rostedt2011-05-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit 44259b1abfaa8bb819d25d41d71e8e33e25dd36a Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible options Removed the -pg from tsc.o which caused the function graph tracer to go into an infinite function call recursion as it uses the tsc internally outside its recursion protection, thus tracing the tsc breaks the function graph tracer. This commit also added the file vread_tsc_64.c that gets used by vdso but failed to prevent GCOV from monkeying with it, causing userspace to try to access kernel data when GCOV was enabled. Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for pointing out GCOV as the likely culprit that added strange kernel accesses into the vread_tsc() call. Cc: Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible optionsAndy Lutomirski2011-05-241-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vread_tsc is short and hot, and it's userspace code so the usual reasons to enable -pg and turn off sibling calls don't apply. (OK, turning off sibling calls has no effect. But it might someday...) As an added benefit, tsc.c is profilable now. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C99c6d7f5efa3ccb65b4ac6eb443e1ab7bad47d7b.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Introduce pci_map_biosrom() x86, olpc: Use device tree for platform identification
| * x86: Introduce pci_map_biosrom()Dan Williams2011-03-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The isci driver needs to retrieve its preboot OROM image which contains necessary runtime parameters like platform specific sas addresses and phy configuration. There is no ROM BAR associated with this area, instead we will need to scan legacy expansion ROM space. 1/ Promote the probe_roms_32 implementation to x86-64 2/ Add a facility to find and map an adapter rom by pci device (according to PCI Firmware Specification Revision 3.0) Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20110308183226.6246.90354.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | x86, gart: Rename pci-gart_64.c to amd_gart_64.cJoerg Roedel2011-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This file only contains code relevant for the northbridge gart in AMD processors. This patch renames the file to represent this fact in the filename. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* | x86: only compile 8237A if CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API is enabledDavid Rientjes2011-03-221-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8237A utilizes the interface provided by CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API, specifically claim_dma_lock() and release_dma_lock(). Thus, there's a strict dependency on the config option and the module should only be loaded if the kernel supports ISA-style DMA. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-161-2/+2
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix binutils-2.21 symbol related build failures x86-64, trampoline: Remove unused variable x86, reboot: Fix the use of passed arguments in 32-bit BIOS reboot x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file x86: Make the GDT_ENTRY() macro in <asm/segment.h> safe for assembly x86, trampoline: Use the unified trampoline setup for ACPI wakeup x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
| * x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly fileH. Peter Anvin2011-02-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the real-mode reboot code out to an assembly file (reboot_32.S) which is allocated using the common lowmem trampoline allocator. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4D5DFBE4.7090104@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
| * x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolinesH. Peter Anvin2011-02-171-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines. This code installs the trampolines permanently in low memory very early. It also permits multiple pieces of code to be used for this purpose. This code also introduces a standard infrastructure for computing symbol addresses in the trampoline code. The only change to the actual SMP trampolines themselves is that the 64-bit trampoline has been made reusable -- the previous version would overwrite the code with a status variable; this moves the status variable to a separate location. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4D5DFBE4.7090104@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* | x86: Remove superflous goal definition of tsc_syncHenrik Kretzschmar2011-03-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The extra tsc_sync.o goal definition is superflous. CONFIG_X86_64_SMP depends on CONFIG_SMP and tsc_sync.o is already in the definition of CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> LKML-Reference: <1299826956-8607-1-git-send-email-henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: Add device tree supportSebastian Andrzej Siewior2011-02-231-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds minimal support for device tree on x86. The device tree blob is passed to the kernel via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09. Memory size, restricted memory regions, boot arguments are gathered the traditional way so things like cmd_line are just here to let the code compile. The current plan is use the device tree as an extension and to gather information which can not be enumerated and would have to be hardcoded otherwise. This includes things like - which devices are on this I2C/SPI bus? - how are the interrupts wired to IO APIC? - where could my hpet be? Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: sodaville@linutronix.de Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <1298405266-1624-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-061-1/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, earlyprintk: Move mrst early console to platform/ and fix a typo x86, apbt: Setup affinity for apb timers acting as per-cpu timer ce4100: Add errata fixes for UART on CE4100 x86: platform: Move iris to x86/platform where it belongs x86, mrst: Check platform_device_register() return code x86/platform: Add Eurobraille/Iris power off support x86, mrst: Add explanation for using 1960 as the year offset for vrtc x86, mrst: Fix dependencies of "select INTEL_SCU_IPC" x86, mrst: The shutdown for MRST requires the SCU IPC mechanism x86: Ce4100: Add reboot_fixup() for CE4100 ce4100: Add PCI register emulation for CE4100 x86: Add CE4100 platform support x86: mrst: Set vRTC's IRQ to level trigger type x86: mrst: Add audio driver bindings rtc: Add drivers/rtc/rtc-mrst.c x86: mrst: Add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device x86: mrst: Add Moorestown specific reboot/shutdown support x86: mrst: Parse SFI timer table for all timer configs x86/mrst: Add SFI platform device parsing code
| * x86, earlyprintk: Move mrst early console to platform/ and fix a typoFeng Tang2010-12-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the code to arch/x86/platform/mrst/. Also fix a typo to use the correct config option: ONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_MRST Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: alan@linux.intel.com LKML-Reference: <1291348298-21263-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * x86: platform: Move iris to x86/platform where it belongsThomas Gleixner2010-11-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * x86/platform: Add Eurobraille/Iris power off supportShérab2010-11-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Iris machines from Eurobraille do not have APM or ACPI support to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is needed to do so. This modle runs this I/O sequence at kernel shutdown when its force parameter is set to 1. Signed-off-by: Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [ did minor coding style edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address spaceBjorn Helgaas2010-12-171-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements arch_remove_reservations() so allocate_resource() can avoid any arch-specific reserved areas. This currently just avoids the BIOS area (the first 1MB), but could be used for E820 reserved areas if that turns out to be necessary. We previously avoided this area in pcibios_align_resource(). This patch moves the test from that PCI-specific path to a generic path, so *all* resource allocations will avoid this area. Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* x86: Move olpc to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-4/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
* x86: Move uv to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
* x86: Move mrst to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
* x86: Move scx200 to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-3/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: Move visws to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: Move efi to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
* x86: Move sfi to platformThomas Gleixner2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'x86-iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-211-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, iommu: Update header comments with appropriate naming ia64, iommu: Add a dummy iommu_table.h file in IA64. x86, iommu: Fix IOMMU_INIT alignment rules x86, doc: Adding comments about .iommu_table and its neighbors. x86, iommu: Utilize the IOMMU_INIT macros functionality. x86, VT-d: Make Intel VT-d IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros. x86, GART/AMD-VI: Make AMD GART and IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros. x86, calgary: Make Calgary IOMMU use IOMMU_INIT_* macros. x86, xen-swiotlb: Make Xen-SWIOTLB use IOMMU_INIT_* macros. x86, swiotlb: Make SWIOTLB use IOMMU_INIT_* macros. x86, swiotlb: Simplify SWIOTLB pci_swiotlb_detect routine. x86, iommu: Add proper dependency sort routine (and sanity check). x86, iommu: Make all IOMMU's detection routines return a value. x86, iommu: Add IOMMU_INIT macros, .iommu_table section, and iommu_table_entry structure
| * x86, iommu: Add proper dependency sort routine (and sanity check).Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2010-08-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We are using a very simple sort routine which sorts the .iommu_table array in the order of dependencies. Specifically each structure of iommu_table_entry has a field 'depend' which contains the function pointer to the IOMMU that MUST be run before us. We sort the array of structures so that the struct iommu_table_entry with no 'depend' field are first, and then the subsequent ones are the ones for which the 'depend' function has been already invoked (in other words, precede us). Using the kernel's version 'sort', which is a mergeheap is feasible, but would require making the comparison operator scan recursivly the array to satisfy the "heapify" process: setting the levels properly. The end result would much more complex than it should be an it is just much simpler to utilize this simple sort routine. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1282845485-8991-4-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Fujita Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-211-1/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
| * | x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel supportAlok Kataria2010-08-231-1/+0
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this feature from the hypervisor. Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels still work fine on VMware's platform. Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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