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Alexey Dobriyan
f0f37e2f77 const: mark struct vm_struct_operations
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
73964f6bc8 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: IA64=y ACPI=n build fix
  ACPI: Kill overly verbose "power state" log messages
  ACPI: fix Compaq Evo N800c (Pentium 4m) boot hang regression
  ACPI: Clarify resource conflict message
  thinkpad-acpi: fix CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL build problem
2009-09-27 10:38:48 -07:00
Len Brown
e56d953d19 ACPI: IA64=y ACPI=n build fix
ia64's sim_defconfig uses CONFIG_ACPI=n
which now #define's acpi_disabled in <linux/acpi.h>

So we shouldn't re-define it here in <asm/acpi.h>

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-27 04:17:21 -04:00
Tony Luck
2c86963b09 [IA64] implement ticket locks for Itanium
Back in January 2008 Nick Piggin implemented "ticket" spinlocks
for X86 (See commit 314cdbefd1).

IA64 implementation has a couple of differences because of the
available atomic operations ... e.g. we have no fetchadd2 instruction
that operates on a 16-bit quantity so we make ticket locks use
a 32-bit word for each of the current ticket and now-serving values.

Performance on uncontended locks is about 8% worse than the previous
implementation, but this seems a good trade for determinism in the
contended case. Performance impact on macro-level benchmarks is in
the noise.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-25 08:42:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
94a8d5caba Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (39 commits)
  cpumask: Move deprecated functions to end of header.
  cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity
  cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist.
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: um
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mips
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mn10300
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: m32r
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: arm
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: um
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: powerpc
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: mips
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: m32r
  cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: s390
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: powerpc
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha
  cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64
  ...
2009-09-23 18:14:11 -07:00
Rusty Russell
0748bd0177 cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi
Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove
the shim and the #defines.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:47 +09:30
Rusty Russell
e50a6f1953 cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64
There were replaced by topology_core_cpumask and topology_thread_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:43 +09:30
Rusty Russell
da83a84b53 ia64: convert last user of smp_call_function_mask
smp_call_function_many is the new version: it takes a pointer.  Also,
use mm accessor macro while we're changing this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:40 +09:30
Rusty Russell
29c337a034 cpumask: remove obsolete node_to_cpumask now everyone uses cpumask_of_node
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:34 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
c37efa9325 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
  Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
  Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
  Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
  kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
  arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
  kbuild: add static to prototypes
  kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
  kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
  kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
  gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
  kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
  checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
  markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
  checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
  checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
  ctags: usability fix
  kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
  gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
  kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
  kbuild: introduce ld-option
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
2009-09-23 15:37:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b09a75fc5e Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6: (23 commits)
  intel-iommu: Disable PMRs after we enable translation, not before
  intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option.
  intel-iommu: Fix integer wrap on 32 bit kernels
  intel-iommu: Fix integer overflow in dma_pte_{clear_range,free_pagetable}()
  intel-iommu: Limit DOMAIN_MAX_PFN to fit in an 'unsigned long'
  intel-iommu: Fix kernel hang if interrupt remapping disabled in BIOS
  intel-iommu: Disallow interrupt remapping if not all ioapics covered
  intel-iommu: include linux/dmi.h to use dmi_ routines
  pci/dmar: correct off-by-one error in dmar_fault()
  intel-iommu: Cope with yet another BIOS screwup causing crashes
  intel-iommu: iommu init error path bug fixes
  intel-iommu: Mark functions with __init
  USB: Work around BIOS bugs by quiescing USB controllers earlier
  ia64: IOMMU passthrough mode shouldn't trigger swiotlb init
  intel-iommu: make domain_add_dev_info() call domain_context_mapping()
  intel-iommu: Unify hardware and software passthrough support
  intel-iommu: Cope with broken HP DC7900 BIOS
  iommu=pt is a valid early param
  intel-iommu: double kfree()
  intel-iommu: Kill pointless intel_unmap_single() function
  ...

Fixed up trivial include lines conflict in drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
2009-09-23 10:06:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
31bbb9b58d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer
  hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers
  timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers
  cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1)
  itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit
  itimers: Fix periodic tics precision
  itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF

Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c11f6c8258 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (119 commits)
  ACPI: don't pass handle for fixed hardware notifications
  ACPI: remove null pointer checks in deferred execution path
  ACPI: simplify deferred execution path
  acerhdf: additional BIOS versions
  acerhdf: convert to dev_pm_ops
  acerhdf: fix fan control for AOA150 model
  thermal: add missing Kconfig dependency
  acpi: switch /proc/acpi/{debug_layer,debug_level} to seq_file
  hp-wmi: fix rfkill memory leak on unload
  ACPI: remove unnecessary #ifdef CONFIG_DMI
  ACPI: linux/acpi.h should not include linux/dmi.h
  hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters
  topstar-laptop: add new driver for hotkeys support on Topstar N01
  thinkpad_acpi: fix rfkill memory leak on unload
  thinkpad-acpi: report brightness events when required
  thinkpad-acpi: don't poll by default any of the reserved hotkeys
  thinkpad-acpi: Fix procfs hotkey reset command
  thinkpad-acpi: deprecate hotkey_bios_mask
  thinkpad-acpi: hotkey poll fixes
  thinkpad-acpi: be more strict when detecting a ThinkPad
  ...
2009-09-23 09:32:11 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
3089aa1b0c kcore: use registerd physmem information
For /proc/kcore, each arch registers its memory range by kclist_add().
In usual,

	- range of physical memory
	- range of vmalloc area
	- text, etc...

are registered but "range of physical memory" has some troubles.  It
doesn't updated at memory hotplug and it tend to include unnecessary
memory holes.  Now, /proc/iomem (kernel/resource.c) includes required
physical memory range information and it's properly updated at memory
hotplug.  Then, it's good to avoid using its own code(duplicating
information) and to rebuild kclist for physical memory based on
/proc/iomem.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
9492587cf3 kcore: register text area in generic way
Some 64bit arch has special segment for mapping kernel text.  It should be
entried to /proc/kcore in addtion to direct-linear-map, vmalloc area.
This patch unifies KCORE_TEXT entry scattered under x86 and ia64.

I'm not familiar with other archs (mips has its own even after this patch)
but range of [_stext ..._end) is a valid area of text and it's not in
direct-map area, defining CONFIG_ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT is only a necessary
thing to do.

Note: I left mips as it is now.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
a0614da88b kcore: register vmalloc area in generic way
For /proc/kcore, vmalloc areas are registered per arch.  But, all of them
registers same range of [VMALLOC_START...VMALLOC_END) This patch unifies
them.  By this.  archs which have no kclist_add() hooks can see vmalloc
area correctly.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
c30bb2a25f kcore: add kclist types
Presently, kclist_add() only eats start address and size as its arguments.
Considering to make kclist dynamically reconfigulable, it's necessary to
know which kclists are for System RAM and which are not.

This patch add kclist types as
  KCORE_RAM
  KCORE_VMALLOC
  KCORE_TEXT
  KCORE_OTHER

This "type" is used in a patch following this for detecting KCORE_RAM.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
6e17b17f1f mm: remove duplicate asm/mman.h files
A number of architectures have identical asm/mman.h files so they can all
be merged by using the new generic file.

The remaining asm/mman.h files are substantially different from each
other.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
90f72aa58b mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
meaning to it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
cc013a8890 arches: drop superfluous casts in nr_free_pages() callers
Commit 9617729941 ("Drop free_pages()")
modified nr_free_pages() to return 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned
int'.  This made the casts to 'unsigned long' in most callers superfluous,
so remove them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <zankel@tensilica.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Anand Gadiyar
fd589a8f0a trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
Joe Perches
d200c922bc Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-21 06:27:08 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f86fd30660 kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
caa27b66bd kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:

    make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install

With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]

This patch undos what Ian did in commit:

  0f8e2d62fa
  ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")

The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
Len Brown
985f38781d Merge branch 'acpica' into release 2009-09-19 01:45:22 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
fa877c71e2 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Clean up linker script using standard macros.
  [IA64] Use standard macros for page-aligned data.
  [IA64] Use .ref.text, not .text.init for start_ap.
  [IA64] sgi-xp: fix printk format warnings
  [IA64] ioc4_serial: fix printk format warnings
  [IA64] mbcs: fix printk format warnings
  [IA64] pci_br, fix infinite loop in find_free_ate()
  [IA64] kdump: Short path to freeze CPUs
  [IA64] kdump: Try INIT regardless of
  [IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path
  [IA64] kdump: Don't return APs to SAL from kdump
  [IA64] kexec: Unregister MCA handler before kexec
  [IA64] kexec: Make INIT safe while transition to
  [IA64] kdump: Mask MCA/INIT on frozen cpus

Fix up conflict in arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S as per Tony's
suggestion.
2009-09-18 09:33:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
dcbf77b9e8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
  sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE
  sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system
  sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING
  sched: Fix TASK_WAKING & loadaverage breakage
  sched: Disable wakeup balancing
  sched: Rename flags to wake_flags
  sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair
  sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit
  sched: x86: Name old_perf in a unique way
  sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL
  sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
  sched: Fix sync wakeups again
  sched: Add WF_FORK
  sched: Rename sync arguments
  sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument
  sched: Feature to disable APERF/MPERF cpu_power
  x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf
  x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code
  x86: Move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h due to
nearby addition of amd_get_nb_id() declaration from the EDAC merge.
2009-09-17 21:00:02 -07:00
Anirban Sinha
f4c3f03838 Fix ia64 build breakage in head.S
The "cleanup console_print()" patch in commit
353f6dd2de introduced an "extern"
declaration into an assembly language file.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-16 12:28:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4406c56d0a Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (75 commits)
  PCI hotplug: clean up acpi_run_hpp()
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: shpchp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: pciehp: use generic pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: add pci_configure_slot()
  PCI hotplug: clean up acpi_get_hp_params_from_firmware() interface
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: don't cache hotplug_params in acpiphp_bridge
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: remove superfluous _HPP/_HPX evaluation
  PCI: Clear saved_state after the state has been restored
  PCI PM: Return error codes from pci_pm_resume()
  PCI: use dev_printk in quirk messages
  PCI / PCIe portdrv: Fix pcie_portdrv_slot_reset()
  PCI Hotplug: convert acpi_pci_detect_ejectable() to take an acpi_handle
  PCI Hotplug: acpiphp: find bridges the easy way
  PCI: pcie portdrv: remove unused variable
  PCI / ACPI PM: Propagate wake-up enable for devices w/o ACPI support
  ACPI PM: Replace wakeup.prepared with reference counter
  PCI PM: Introduce device flag wakeup_prepared
  PCI / ACPI PM: Rework some debug messages
  PCI PM: Simplify PCI wake-up code
  ...

Fixed up conflict in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c due to OF device tree
scanning having been moved and merged for the 32- and 64-bit cases.  The
'needs_freset' initialization added in 6e19314cc ("PCI/powerpc: support
PCIe fundamental reset") is now in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_of_scan.c.
2009-09-16 07:49:54 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
182a85f8a1 sched: Disable wakeup balancing
Sysbench thinks SD_BALANCE_WAKE is too agressive and kbuild doesn't
really mind too much, SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE picks up most of the
slack.

On a dual socket, quad core, dual thread nehalem system:

sysbench (--num_threads=16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 13982 tx/s
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 15688 tx/s

kbuild (-j16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 47.648295846  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.312% )
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 47.608607360  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.026% )

(same within noise)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:33 +02:00
Nelson Elhage
6ae8635085 [IA64] Clean up linker script using standard macros.
Aside from using fewer output sections and moving some data around,
the main side effect of this change is changing the alignment of some
sections. In particular:

* cachline-aligned and read_mostly data are now aligned to
  SMP_CACHE_BYTES. (Previously, they were laid out consecutively after
  a PAGE_SIZE alignment)
* .init.ramfs is now page-aligned, per the INIT_RAM_FS
  macro. (Previously it had no explicit alignment).

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-15 09:52:33 -07:00
Nelson Elhage
ed7af3e63b [IA64] Use standard macros for page-aligned data.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-15 09:40:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Tim Abbott
f172468a14 [IA64] Use .ref.text, not .text.init for start_ap.
It seems that start_ap doesn't need to be in a special location in the
kernel, but it references some init code so it should be in .ref.text.

Since this is the only thing in the .text.head section, eliminate
.text.head from the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-15 09:29:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
227423904c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
66a4fe0cb8 Merge branch 'agp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6
* 'agp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
  agp/intel: remove restore in resume
  agp: fix uninorth build
  intel-agp: Set dma mask for i915
  agp: kill phys_to_gart() and gart_to_phys()
  intel-agp: fix sglist allocation to avoid vmalloc()
  intel-agp: Move repeated sglist free into separate function
  agp: Switch agp_{un,}map_page() to take struct page * argument
  agp: tidy up handling of scratch pages w.r.t. DMA API
  intel_agp: Use PCI DMA API correctly on chipsets new enough to have IOMMU
  agp: Add generic support for graphics dma remapping
  agp: Switch mask_memory() method to take address argument again, not page
2009-09-15 09:18:07 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
9b6b93998a [IA64] pci_br, fix infinite loop in find_free_ate()
When
* there is almost out of ates
* one asks for more than one ate
* there are some available at the end of ate array
then the inner for loop will end without incrementing 'index'. This
means the outer loop will start at the same point finding it's available
and runs the inner loop again from the same index. This repeats forever.

Hence make sure we check we were at the end of ate array and return
an error in such case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Found-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-15 08:40:49 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
b8a543ea5a sched: Reduce forkexec_idx
If we're looking to place a new task, we might as well find the
idlest position _now_, not 1 tick ago.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:23 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
0ec9fab3d1 sched: Improve latencies and throughput
Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.

Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
78e7ed53c9 sched: Tweak wake_idx
When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
balancing more aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c88d591089 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()
The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like
cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent
RT interaction.

To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which
leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self().

Modify sched_balance_self() to:

  - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree,
    (it only called it for the top domain, but it should
     have done this anyway), which allows us to remove
    this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up().

  - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains
    both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for
    WAKE invocations.

Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle().

This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and
SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE.

SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective.

Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags --
platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE
conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional
feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this
enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f86054c245 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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: (23 commits)
  at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early()
  PM: Reset transition_started at dpm_resume_noirq
  PM: Update kerneldoc comments in drivers/base/power/main.c
  PM: Add convenience macro to make switching to dev_pm_ops less error-prone
  hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  floppy: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  PM: Trivial fixes
  PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone()
  PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory
  PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/
  PM: Run-time PM platform device bus support
  PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)
  Driver Core: Make PM operations a const pointer
  PM: Remove platform device suspend_late()/resume_early() V2
  USB: Rework musb suspend()/resume_early()
  I2C: Rework i2c-s3c2410 suspend_late()/resume() V2
  I2C: Rework i2c-pxa suspend_late()/resume_early()
  DMA: Rework txx9dmac suspend_late()/resume_early()
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/base/platform.c (due to same
constification patch being merged in both sides, along with some other
PM work in the PM branch)
2009-09-14 20:03:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Anirban Sinha
353f6dd2de cleanup console_print()
console_print() is an old legacy interface mostly unused in the entire
kernel tree. It's best to clean up its existing use and let developers
use their own implementation of it as they feel fit.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-14 17:41:42 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
0cced40e7c [IA64] kdump: Short path to freeze CPUs
Setting monarch_cpu = -1 to let slaves frozen might not work, because
there might be slaves being late, not entered the rendezvous yet.
Such slaves might be caught in while (monarch_cpu == -1) loop.

Use kdump_in_progress instead of monarch_cpus to break INIT rendezvous
and let all slaves enter DIE_INIT_SLAVE_LEAVE smoothly.

And monarch no longer need to manage rendezvous if once kdump_in_progress
is set, catch the monarch in DIE_INIT_MONARCH_ENTER then.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:19:24 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
5959906ee9 [IA64] kdump: Try INIT regardless of
kdump_on_init

CPUs should be frozen if possible, otherwise it might hinder kdump.
So if there are CPUs not respond to IPI, try INIT to stop them.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:19:10 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
1726b0883d [IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path
Summary:

  Asserting INIT might block kdump if the system is already going to
  start kdump via panic.

Description:

  INIT can interrupt anywhere in panic path, so it can interrupt in
  middle of kdump kicked by panic.  Therefore there is a race if kdump
  is kicked concurrently, via Panic and via INIT.

  INIT could fail to invoke kdump if the system is already going to
  start kdump via panic.  It could not restart kdump from INIT handler
  if some of cpus are already playing dead with INIT masked.  It also
  means that INIT could block kdump's progress if no monarch is entered
  in the INIT rendezvous.

  Panic+INIT is a rare, but possible situation since it can be assumed
  that the kernel or an internal agent decides to panic the unstable
  system while another external agent decides to send an INIT to the
  system at same time.

How to reproduce:

  Assert INIT just after panic, before all other cpus have frozen

Expected results:

  continue kdump invoked by panic, or restart kdump from INIT

Actual results:

  might be hang, crashdump not retrieved

Proposed Fix:

  This patch masks INIT first in panic path to take the initiative on
  kdump, and reuse atomic value kdump_in_progress to make sure there is
  only one initiator of kdump.  All INITs asserted later should be used
  only for freezing all other cpus.

  This mask will be removed soon by rfi in relocate_kernel.S, before jump
  into kdump kernel, after all cpus are frozen and no-op INIT handler is
  registered.  So if INIT was in the interval while it is masked, it will
  pend on the system and will received just after the rfi, and handled by
  the no-op handler.

  If there was a MCA event while psr.mc is 1, in theory the event will
  pend on the system and will received just after the rfi same as above.
  MCA handler is unregistered here at the time, so received MCA will not
  reach to OS_MCA and will result in warmboot by SAL.

  Note that codes in this masked interval are relatively simpler than
  that in MCA/INIT handler which also executed with the mask.  So it can
  be said that probability of error in this interval is supposed not so
  higher than that in MCA/INIT handler.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:18:54 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
68cb14c7c4 [IA64] kdump: Don't return APs to SAL from kdump
Summary:

  Asserting INIT on cpu going to be offline will result in unexpected
  behavior.  It will be a real problem in kdump cases where INIT might
  be asserted to unstable APs going to be offline by returning to SAL.

Description:

  Since psr.mc is cleared when bits in psr are set to SAL_PSR_BITS_TO_SET
  in ia64_jump_to_sal(), there is a small window (~few msecs) that the
  cpu can receive INIT even if the cpu enter there via INIT handler.
  In this window we do restore of registers for SAL, so INIT asserted
  here will not work properly.

  It is hard to remove this window by masking INIT (i.e. setting psr.mc)
  because we have to unmask it later in OS, because we have to use branch
  instruction (br.ret, not rfi) to return SAL, due to OS_BOOT_RENDEZ to
  SAL return convention.

  I suppose this window will not be a real problem on cpu offline if we
  can educate people not to push INIT button during hotplug operation.
  However, only exception is a race in kdump and INIT.  Now kdump returns
  APs to SAL before processing dump, but the kernel might receive INIT at
  that point in time.  Such INIT might be asserted by kdump itself if an
  AP doesn't react IPI soon and kdump decided to use INIT to stop the AP.
  Or it might be asserted by operator or an external agent to start dump
  on the unstable system.

  Such panic+INIT or INIT+INIT cases should be rare, but it will be happy
  if we can retrieve crashdump even in such cases.

How to reproduce:

  panic+INIT or INIT+INIT, with kdump configured

Expected results:

  crashdump is retrieved anyway

Actual results:

  panic, hang etc. (unexpected)

Proposed fix

  To avoid the window on the way to SAL, this patch stops returning APs
  to SAL in case of kdump.  In other words, this patch makes APs spin
  in OS instead of spinning in SAL.

  (* Note: What impact would be there?  If a cpu is spinning in SAL,
   the cpu is in BOOT_RENDEZ loop, as same as offlined cpu.
   In theory if an INIT is asserted there, cpus in the BOOT_RENDEZ loop
   should not invoke OS_INIT on it.  So in either way, no matter where
   the cpu is spinning actually in, once cpu starts spin and act as
   "frozen," INIT on the cpu have no effects.
   From another point of view, all debug information on the cpu should
   have stored to memory before the cpu start to be frozen.  So no more
   action on the cpu is required.)

  I confirmed that the kdump sometime hangs by concurrent INITs (another
  INIT after an INIT), and it doesn't hang after applying this patch.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:18:37 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
6cc3efcdf0 [IA64] kexec: Unregister MCA handler before kexec
Summary:

  MCA on the beginning of kdump/kexec kernel will result in unexpected
  behavior because MCA handler for previous kernel is invoked on the
  kdump kernel.

Description:

  Once a cpu is passed to new kernel, all resources in previous kernel
  should not be used from the cpu.  Even the resources for MCA handler
  are no exception.  So we cannot handle MCAs and its machine check
  errors during kernel transition, until new handler for new kernel is
  registered with new resources ready for handling the MCA.

How to reproduce:

  Assert MCA while kdump kernel is booting, before new MCA handler for
  kdump kernel is registered.

Expected(Desirable) results:

  No recovery, cancel kdump and reboot the system.

Actual results:

  MCA handler for previous kernel is invoked on the kdump kernel.
  => panic, hang etc. (unexpected)

Proposed fix:

  To avoid entering MCA handler from early stage of new kernel,
  unregister the entry point from SAL before leave from current
  kernel.  Then SAL will make all MCAs to warmboot safely, without
  invoking OS_MCA.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:18:17 -07:00