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    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      x86: fix math_emu register frame access · d315760f
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

do_device_not_available() is the handler for #NM and it declares that
it takes a unsigned long and calls math_emu(), which takes a long
argument and surprisingly expects the stack frame starting at the zero
argument would match struct math_emu_info, which isn't true regardless
of configuration in the current code.

This patch makes do_device_not_available() take struct pt_regs like
other exception handlers and initialize struct math_emu_info with
pointer to it and pass pointer to the math_emu_info to math_emulate()
like normal C functions do.  This way, unless gcc makes a copy of
struct pt_regs in do_device_not_available(), the register frame is
correctly accessed regardless of kernel configuration or compiler
used.

This doesn't fix all math_emu problems but it at least gets it
somewhat working.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d315760f
    • David Howells's avatar
      FRV: in_interrupt() requires #inclusion of linux/hardirq.h not asm/hardirq.h now · a8e807f7
      David Howells authored 
      

in_interrupt() requires #inclusion of linux/hardirq.h not asm/hardirq.h now.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a8e807f7
    • Kyle McMartin's avatar
      x86: spinlocks: define dummy __raw_spin_is_contended · a5ef7ca0
      Kyle McMartin authored 
      

Architectures other than mips and x86 are not using ticket spinlocks.
Therefore, the contention on the lock is meaningless, since there is
nobody known to be waiting on it (arguably /fairly/ unfair locks).

Dummy it out to return 0 on other architectures.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a5ef7ca0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      x86: math_emu info cleanup · ae6af41f
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

Impact: cleanup

* Come on, struct info?  s/struct info/struct math_emu_info/

* Use struct pt_regs and kernel_vm86_regs instead of defining its own
  register frame structure.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ae6af41f
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump · 914c3d63
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

Impact: dump the correct %gs into a.out core dump

aout_dump_thread() read %gs but didn't include it in core dump.  Fix
it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      914c3d63
    • Alok Kataria's avatar
      x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor · 55a8ba4b
      Alok Kataria authored 
      

Commit 6194ba6f ("x86: don't special-case
pmd allocations as much") made changes to the way we handle pmd allocations,
and while doing that it dropped a call to  paravirt_release_pd on the
pgd page from the pgd_dtor code path.

As a result of this missing release, the hypervisor is now unaware of the
pgd page being freed, and as a result it ends up tracking this page as a
page table page.

After this the guest may start using the same page for other purposes, and
depending on what use the page is put to, it may result in various performance
and/or functional issues ( hangs, reboots).

Since this release is only required for VMI, I now release the pgd page from
the (vmi)_pgd_free hook.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      55a8ba4b
    • Yinghai Lu's avatar
      x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing · 3f4a739c
      Yinghai Lu authored 
      

Impact: find right nr_irqs_gsi on some systems.

One test-system has gap between gsi's:

[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfeafd000] gsi_base[48])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 0, address 0xfeafd000, GSI 48-54
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x06] address[0xfeafc000] gsi_base[56])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 6, version 0, address 0xfeafc000, GSI 56-62
...
[    0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 38

So nr_irqs_gsi is not right. some irq for MSI will overwrite with io_apic.

need to get that with acpi_probe_gsi when acpi io_apic is used

Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3f4a739c
    • Pallipadi, Venkatesh's avatar
      x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series · e736ad54
      Pallipadi, Venkatesh authored 
      For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].

This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.

[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
    section in specification update document of 7400 series
    http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf



Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e736ad54
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc64: Fix probe_kernel_{read,write}(). · aeb39876
      David S. Miller authored 
      

This is based upon a report from Chris Torek and his initial patch.
From Chris's report:

--------------------
This came up in testing kgdb, using the built-in tests -- turn
on CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS, then

    echo V1 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts

-- but it would affect using kgdb if you were debugging and looking
at bad pointers.
--------------------

When we get a copy_{from,to}_user() request and the %asi is set to
something other than ASI_AIUS (which is userspace) then we branch off
to a routine called memcpy_user_stub().  It just does a straight
memcpy since we are copying from kernel to kernel in this case.

The logic was that since source and destination are both kernel
pointers we don't need to have exception checks.

But for what probe_kernel_{read,write}() is trying to do, we have to
have the checks, otherwise things like kgdb bad kernel pointer
accesses don't do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      aeb39876
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc64: Kill .fixup section bloat. · 40bdac7d
      David S. Miller authored 
      

This is an implementation of a suggestion made by Chris Torek:
--------------------
Something else I noticed in passing: the EX and EX_LD/EX_ST macros
scattered throughout the various .S files make a fair bit of .fixup
code, all of which does the same thing.  At the cost of one symbol
in copy_in_user.S, you could just have one common two-instruction
retl-and-mov-1 fixup that they all share.
--------------------

The following is with a defconfig build:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3972767	 344024	 584449	4901240	 4ac978	vmlinux.orig
39688877	 344024	 584449	4897360	 4aba50	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      40bdac7d
  9. Feb 07, 2009
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      x86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return · c09249f8
      Roland McGrath authored 
      

One of my past fixes to this code introduced a different new bug.
When using 32-bit "int $0x80" entry for a bogus syscall number,
the return value is not correctly set to -ENOSYS.  This only happens
when neither syscall-audit nor syscall tracing is enabled (i.e., never
seen if auditd ever started).  Test program:

	/* gcc -o int80-badsys -m32 -g int80-badsys.c
	   Run on x86-64 kernel.
	   Note to reproduce the bug you need auditd never to have started.  */

	#include <errno.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	int
	main (void)
	{
	  long res;
	  asm ("int $0x80" : "=a" (res) : "0" (99999));
	  printf ("bad syscall returns %ld\n", res);
	  return res != -ENOSYS;
	}

The fix makes the int $0x80 path match the sysenter and syscall paths.

Reported-by: default avatarDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      c09249f8
  11. Feb 06, 2009