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* Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/setupH. Peter Anvin2009-05-232485-64551/+64928
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Resolved conflicts: arch/x86/boot/memory.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * x86: cpa_flush_array wbinvd should be done on all CPUsvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2009-05-221-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold. clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition. wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs. [ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ] Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * x86: bugfix wbinvd() model check instead of family checkvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2009-05-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But, pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset d7c8f21a8cad0228c7c5ce2bb6dbd95d1ee49d13 and got copied over to second place in the same file later. [ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ] Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * x86: introduce noxsave boot parameterSuresh Siddha2009-05-222-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues. [ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * x86, setup: revert ACPI 3 E820 extended attributes supportH. Peter Anvin2009-05-221-16/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at 24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes. The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually needing the flags. This reverts all or part of the following checkins: cd670599b7b00d9263f6f11a05c0edeb9cbedaf3 c549e71d073a6e9a4847497344db28a784061455 However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a comment to explain that part. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some additional information. [ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ] Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
| * x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS rebootZhang Rui2009-05-221-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot, see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901 [ Impact: fix hung reboot on certain systems ] Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1242963350.32574.53.camel@rzhang-dt> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge branch 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds2009-05-192-20/+34
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: microblaze: Fix kind-of-intr checking against number of interrupts microblaze: Update Microblaze defconfig
| | * microblaze: Fix kind-of-intr checking against number of interruptsMichal Simek2009-05-181-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | + Fix typographic fault. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
| | * microblaze: Update Microblaze defconfigMichal Simek2009-05-181-18/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
| * | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-191-1/+1
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6: regulator: da903x: add missing __devexit_p()
| | * | regulator: da903x: add missing __devexit_p()Mike Frysinger2009-05-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The remove function uses __devexit, so the .remove assignment needs __devexit_p() to fix a build error with hotplug disabled. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> CC: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> CC: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> CC: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
| * | | Avoid ICE in get_random_int() with gcc-3.4.5Linus Torvalds2009-05-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Martin Knoblauch reports that trying to build 2.6.30-rc6-git3 with RHEL4.3 userspace (gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) causes an internal compiler error (ICE): drivers/char/random.c: In function `get_random_int': drivers/char/random.c:1672: error: unrecognizable insn: (insn 202 148 150 0 /scratch/build/linux-2.6.30-rc6-git3/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h:23 (set (reg:SI 0 ax [91]) (subreg:SI (plus:DI (plus:DI (reg:DI 0 ax [88]) (subreg:DI (reg:SI 6 bp) 0)) (const_int -4 [0xfffffffffffffffc])) 0)) -1 (nil) (nil)) drivers/char/random.c:1672: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2083 and after some debugging it turns out that it's due to the code trying to figure out the rough value of the current stack pointer by taking an address of an uninitialized variable and casting that to an integer. This is clearly a compiler bug, but it's not worth fighting - while the current stack kernel pointer might be somewhat hard to predict in user space, it's also not generally going to change for a lot of the call chains for a particular process. So just drop it, and mumble some incoherent curses at the compiler. Tested-by: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | nfs: Fix NFS v4 client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission.Frank Filz2009-05-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem is that permission checking is skipped if atomic open is possible, but when exec opens a file, it just opens it O_READONLY which means EXEC permission will not be checked at that time. This problem is observed by the following sequence (executed as root): mount -t nfs4 server:/ /mnt4 echo "ls" >/mnt4/foo chmod 744 /mnt4/foo su guest -c "mnt4/foo" Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-184-55/+76
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Explicit alignment for .data.cacheline_aligned powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig powerpc/ftrace: Fix constraint to be early clobber powerpc/ftrace: Use pr_devel() in ftrace.c powerpc: Do not assert pte_locked for hugepage PTE entries
| | * | | powerpc: Explicit alignment for .data.cacheline_alignedBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-05-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I don't think anything guarantees that the objects in data.page_aligned are a multiple of PAGE_SIZE, thus the section may end on any boundary. So the following section, .data.cacheline_aligned needs an explicit alignment. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * | | powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfigGeoff Levand2009-05-181-43/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refresh and set these options: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2: y -> n CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK: y -> n CONFIG_HID_SONY: n -> m CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PS3: - -> m Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * | | powerpc/ftrace: Fix constraint to be early clobberSteven Rostedt2009-05-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After upgrading my distcc boxes from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke. This was discovered on my x86 boxes. The issue is that gcc used the same register for an output as it did for an input in an asm statement. I first thought this was a bug in gcc and reported it. I was notified that gcc was correct and that the output had to be flagged as an "early clobber". I noticed that powerpc had the same issue and this patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * | | powerpc/ftrace: Use pr_devel() in ftrace.cMichael Ellerman2009-05-181-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pr_debug() can now result in code being generated even when #DEBUG is not defined. That's not really desirable in the ftrace code which we want to be snappy. With CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y: size before: text data bss dec hex filename 3334 672 4 4010 faa arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.o size after: text data bss dec hex filename 2616 360 4 2980 ba4 arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.o Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * | | powerpc: Do not assert pte_locked for hugepage PTE entriesMel Gorman2009-05-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, an assertion is made when changing the protection flags of a PTE that the PTE is locked. Huge pages use a different pagetable format and the assertion is bogus and will always trigger with a bug looking something like Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xf1a00235800006f8 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000034a80 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA Maple Modules linked in: dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod loop evdev ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod ide_pci_generic pata_amd ata_generic ipr libata tg3 libphy scsi_mod windfarm_pid windfarm_smu_sat windfarm_max6690_sensor windfarm_lm75_sensor windfarm_cpufreq_clamp windfarm_core i2c_powermac NIP: c000000000034a80 LR: c000000000034b18 CTR: 0000000000000003 REGS: c000000003037600 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.30-rc3-autokern1) MSR: 9000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 28002484 XER: 200fffff DAR: f1a00235800006f8, DSISR: 0000000040010000 TASK = c0000002e54cc740[2960] 'map_high_trunca' THREAD: c000000003034000 CPU: 2 GPR00: 4000000000000000 c000000003037880 c000000000895d30 c0000002e5a2e500 GPR04: 00000000a0000000 c0000002edc40880 0000005700000393 0000000000000001 GPR08: f000000011ac0000 01a00235800006e8 00000000000000f5 f1a00235800006e8 GPR12: 0000000028000484 c0000000008dd780 0000000000001000 0000000000000000 GPR16: fffffffffffff000 0000000000000000 00000000a0000000 c000000003037a20 GPR20: c0000002e5f4ece8 0000000000001000 c0000002edc40880 0000000000000000 GPR24: c0000002e5f4ece8 0000000000000000 00000000a0000000 c0000002e5f4ece8 GPR28: 0000005700000393 c0000002e5a2e500 00000000a0000000 c000000003037880 NIP [c000000000034a80] .assert_pte_locked+0xa4/0xd0 LR [c000000000034b18] .ptep_set_access_flags+0x6c/0xb4 Call Trace: [c000000003037880] [c000000003037990] 0xc000000003037990 (unreliable) [c000000003037910] [c000000000034b18] .ptep_set_access_flags+0x6c/0xb4 [c0000000030379b0] [c00000000014bef8] .hugetlb_cow+0x124/0x674 [c000000003037b00] [c00000000014c930] .hugetlb_fault+0x4e8/0x6f8 [c000000003037c00] [c00000000013443c] .handle_mm_fault+0xac/0x828 [c000000003037cf0] [c0000000000340a8] .do_page_fault+0x39c/0x584 [c000000003037e30] [c0000000000057b0] handle_page_fault+0x20/0x5c Instruction dump: 7d29582a 7d200074 7800d182 0b000000 3c004000 3960ffff 780007c6 796b00c4 7d290214 7929a302 1d290068 7d6b4a14 <800b0010> 7c000074 7800d182 0b000000 This patch fixes the problem by not asseting the PTE is locked for VMAs backed by huge pages. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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| *-. \ \ \ Merge branches 'sched-fixes-for-linus-2' and 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-182-3/+4
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffies * 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES and MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS
| | | * | | | lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES and MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINSIngo Molnar2009-05-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that lockdep coverage has increased it has become easier to run out of entries: [ 21.401387] BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low! [ 21.402007] turning off the locking correctness validator. [ 21.402007] Pid: 1555, comm: S99local Not tainted 2.6.30-rc5-tip #2 [ 21.402007] Call Trace: [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff81069789>] add_lock_to_list+0x53/0xba [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff810eb615>] ? lookup_mnt+0x19/0x53 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106be14>] check_prev_add+0x14b/0x1c7 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c304>] validate_chain+0x474/0x52a [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c6fc>] __lock_acquire+0x342/0x3c7 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c842>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff810eb615>] ? lookup_mnt+0x19/0x53 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8153aedc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66 Double the size - as we've done in the past. [ Impact: allow lockdep to cover more locks ] Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffiesRon2009-05-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Account for the initial offset to the jiffy count. [ Impact: fix printk timestamps on architectures using fallback sched_clock() ] Signed-off-by: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-1813-24/+58
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp() x86: fix percpu_{to,from}_op() x86: mtrr: Fix high_width computation when phys-addr is >= 44bit x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code
| | * | | | | | x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernelsJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-05-157-10/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native. It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized spinlocks introduced by: | commit 8efcbab674de2bee45a2e4cdf97de16b8e609ac8 | Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700 | | paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7% (seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions executed). If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown). Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a no-pvops build as baseline: nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18% instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15% CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03% cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28% cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56% cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31% branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04% branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72% branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67% wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20% The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is directly reflected in the final wallclock time. (The other interesting effect is that the more ops are out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside, the branch misses go up correspondingly...) So, what's the fix? Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so _spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is: <_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax <_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax) <_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30 <_spin_lock+22>: retq The indirect call will get patched to: <_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax <_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax) <_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock> <_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */ <_spin_lock+22>: retq One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial. The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user). But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a reasonable short-term workaround. [ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ] Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com> Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com> Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org> [ fixed the help text ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLRandy Dunlap2009-05-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings: arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL' arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp()Masami Hiramatsu2009-05-122-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use &regs->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode. (on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack) [ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> [ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ] Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | x86: fix percpu_{to,from}_op()Jan Beulich2009-05-111-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit - the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized [ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| | * | | | | | x86: mtrr: Fix high_width computation when phys-addr is >= 44bitYinghai Lu2009-05-111-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | found one system where cpu address line is 44bits, mtrr printout is not right: [ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled: [ 0.000000] 0 base 0 00000000 mask FF0 00000000 write-back [ 0.000000] 1 base 10 00000000 mask FFF 80000000 write-back [ 0.000000] 2 base 0 80000000 mask FFF 80000000 uncachable [ 0.000000] 3 base 0 7F800000 mask FFF FF800000 uncachable Li Zefan and Frederic pointed out the high_width could be -4 some how. It turns out when phys_addr is 44bit, size_or_mask will be ffffffff,00000000 so ffs(size_or_mask) will be 0. Try to check low 32 bit, to get correct high_width. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kerne.org> Also-analyzed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Also-analyzed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A026540.8060504@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic codeSam Ravnborg2009-05-101-4/+4
| | |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [ Impact: reduce kernel image size a bit, annotate away warnings ] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> [ modified and tested it ] Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <b9df5fa10905090235s4bfd26a8o979f93809c9727ad@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-182-2/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
| | * | | | | | tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README fileGeunSik Lim2009-05-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file. This is trivial issue. Fix typo Mini Howto file(README) for ftrace. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: williams <williams@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1242289418.31161.45.camel@centos51> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return valueSteven Rostedt2009-05-131-1/+1
| | |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After upgrading from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke. Investigating, I found that in the asm that replaces the return value, gcc was using the same register for the old value as it was for the new value. mov (addr), old mov new, (addr) But if old and new are the same register, we clobber new with old! I first thought this was a bug in gcc 4.4.0 and reported it: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40132 Andrew Pinski responded (quickly), saying that it was correct gcc behavior and the code needed to denote old as an "early clobber". Instead of "=r"(old), we need "=&r"(old). [Impact: keep function graph tracer from breaking with gcc 4.4.0 ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | Fix oops on close of hot-unplugged FTDI serial converterDavid Woodhouse2009-05-181-8/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit c45d6320 ("fix reference counting of ftdi_private") stopped ftdi_sio_port_remove() from directly freeing the port-private data, with the intention if the port was still open, it would be freed when ftdi_close() is eventually called and releases the last refcount on the structure. That's all very well, but ftdi_sio_port_remove() still contains a call to usb_set_serial_port_data(port, NULL) -- so by the time we get to ftdi_close() for the port which was unplugged, it _still_ oopses on dereferencing that NULL pointer, as it did before (and does in 2.6.29). The fix is just not to clear the private data in ftdi_sio_port_remove(). Then the refcount is properly reduced to zero when the final kref_put() happens in ftdi_close(). Remove a bogus comment too, while we're at it. And stop doing things inside "if (priv)" -- it must _always_ be there. Based loosely on an earlier patch by Daniel Mack, and suggestions by Alan Stern. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Tested-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | mtd_dataflash: unbreak erase supportPeter Korsgaard2009-05-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 5b7f3a50 (fix dataflash 64-bit divisions) unfortunately introduced a typo. Erase addr and len were swapped in the pageaddr calculation, causing the wrong sectors to get erased. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macroRoel Kluin2009-05-181-1/+1
| | |_|_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `local_add_unless(x, y, z)' will be expanded to `(&(x)->y, (y), (x))', but `&(x)->y' should be `&(x)->a' Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate()Toshiyuki Okajima2009-05-171-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wb_kupdate() function has a bug on linux-2.6.30-rc5. This bug causes generic_sync_sb_inodes() to start to write inodes back much earlier than our expectations because it miscalculates oldest_jif in wb_kupdate(). This bug was introduced in 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f ('mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"'). Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-05-174-4/+37
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: padlock - Revert aes-all alias to aes crypto: api - Fix algorithm module auto-loading crypto: eseqiv - Fix IV generation for sync algorithms crypto: ixp4xx - check firmware for crypto support
| | * | | | crypto: padlock - Revert aes-all alias to aesHerbert Xu2009-04-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the padlock-aes driver doesn't require a fallback (it's only padlock-sha that does), it should use the aes alias rather than aes-all so that ones that do need a fallback can use it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| | * | | | crypto: api - Fix algorithm module auto-loadingHerbert Xu2009-04-211-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit a760a6656e6f00bb0144a42a048cf0266646e22c (crypto: api - Fix module load deadlock with fallback algorithms) broke the auto-loading of algorithms that require fallbacks. The problem is that the fallback mask check is missing an and which cauess bits that should be considered to interfere with the result. Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| | * | | | crypto: eseqiv - Fix IV generation for sync algorithmsSteffen Klassert2009-04-151-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If crypto_ablkcipher_encrypt() returns synchronous, eseqiv_complete2() is called even if req->giv is already the pointer to the generated IV. The generated IV is overwritten with some random data in this case. This patch fixes this by calling eseqiv_complete2() just if the generated IV has to be copied to req->giv. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| | * | | | crypto: ixp4xx - check firmware for crypto supportChristian Hohnstaedt2009-04-121-1/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - the loaded firmware may not support crypto at all or only support DES and 3DES but not AES or support DES, 3DES and AES. - in case of no crypto support of the firmware, the module load will fail. - in case of missing AES support, the AES algorithms are not registered and a warning is printed during module load. Signed-off-by: Christian Hohnstaedt <chohnstaedt@innominate.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-171-2/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM: check sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) return value
| | * | | | | PM: check sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) return valueBjorn Helgaas2009-05-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check the return value of sysdev_suspend(). I think this was a typo. Without this change, the following "if" check is always false. I also changed the error message so it's distinguishable from the similar message a few lines above. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
| * | | | | | reiserfs: fixup perms when xattrs are disabledJeff Mahoney2009-05-172-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR protection from reiserfs_permission. This is needed to avoid warnings during file deletions and chowns with xattrs disabled. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | reiserfs: deal with NULL xattr root w/ xattrs disabledJeff Mahoney2009-05-172-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This avoids an Oops in open_xa_root that can occur when deleting a file with xattrs disabled. It assumes that the xattr root will be there, and that is not guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | reiserfs: clean up ifdefsJeff Mahoney2009-05-171-23/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With xattr cleanup even with xattrs disabled, much of the initial setup is still performed. Some #ifdefs are just not needed since the options they protect wouldn't be available anyway. This cleans those up. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-173-2/+488
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: mm: SLOB fix reclaim_state mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab slub: enforce MAX_ORDER
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| | *-. \ \ \ \ \ Merge branches 'topic/documentation', 'topic/slub/fixes' and 'topic/urgent' ↵Pekka Enberg2009-05-062-2/+9
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| | | | * | | | | | mm: SLOB fix reclaim_stateNick Piggin2009-05-061-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLOB does not correctly account reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab, so it will break memory reclaim. Account it like SLAB does. Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
| | | | * | | | | | mm: SLUB fix reclaim_stateNick Piggin2009-05-061-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLUB does not correctly account reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab, so it will break memory reclaim. Account it like SLAB does. Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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