Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable
x86: fix kernel_physical_mapping_init() for large x86 systems
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ftrace: do not trace library functions
ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions
ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP
ftrace: fix merge buglet
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c: In function ‘numaq_tsc_disable’:
arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c:99: warning: ‘return’ with a value, in function returning void
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-tip testing found a bootup hang here:
initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
the bootup should have continued with:
initcall acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57 returned 0 after 45 msecs
but it hung hard there instead.
bisection led to this commit:
| commit 5806b81ac1
| Merge: d14c8a6... 6712e29...
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Mon Jul 14 16:11:52 2008 +0200
| Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
turns out that i made this mistake in the merge:
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
# Do not profile debug utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_64.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_32.o = -pg
those two files got unified meanwhile - so the dont-profile annotation
got lost. The proper rule is:
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc.o = -pg
i guess this could have been caught sooner if the CFLAGS_REMOVE* kbuild
rule aborted the build if it met a target that does not exist anymore?
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
PCI: handle pci_name() being const
PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
...
Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
991528d734
(ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAIT)
started passing C2C3_FFH to _PDC to tell the BIOS
that Linux supports MWAIT for deep C-states.
However, we should first double check with the hardware
that it actually supports MWAIT before potentially exposing
a BIOS bug of an MWAIT _CST on HW that doesn't support MWAIT.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Dave Hansen reported a build error on 32bit which went unnoticed
as newer gcc versions seem to optimize unused static functions
away before compiling them.
Make vread_tsc() depend on CONFIG_X86_64
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'timers/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: add PCI ID for 6300ESB force hpet
x86: add another PCI ID for ICH6 force-hpet
kernel-paramaters: document pmtmr= command line option
acpi_pm clccksource: fix printk format warning
nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport
nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead
hrtimer: Remove unused variables in ktime_divns()
hrtimer: remove warning in hres_timers_resume
posix-timers: print RT watchdog message
* 'for-2.6.27' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6: (64 commits)
firmware: convert sb16_csp driver to use firmware loader exclusively
dsp56k: use request_firmware
edgeport-ti: use request_firmware()
edgeport: use request_firmware()
vicam: use request_firmware()
dabusb: use request_firmware()
cpia2: use request_firmware()
ip2: use request_firmware()
firmware: convert Ambassador ATM driver to request_firmware()
whiteheat: use request_firmware()
ti_usb_3410_5052: use request_firmware()
emi62: use request_firmware()
emi26: use request_firmware()
keyspan_pda: use request_firmware()
keyspan: use request_firmware()
ttusb-budget: use request_firmware()
kaweth: use request_firmware()
smctr: use request_firmware()
firmware: convert ymfpci driver to use firmware loader exclusively
firmware: convert maestro3 driver to use firmware loader exclusively
...
Fix up trivial conflicts with BKL removal in drivers/char/dsp56k.c and
drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c manually.
* 'core/printk' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, generic: mark early_printk as asmlinkage
printk: export console_drivers
printk: remember the message level for multi-line output
printk: refactor processing of line severity tokens
printk: don't prefer unsuited consoles on registration
printk: clean up recursion check related static variables
namespacecheck: more kernel/printk.c fixes
namespacecheck: fix kernel printk.c
* 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (228 commits)
ftrace: build fix for ftraced_suspend
ftrace: separate out the function enabled variable
ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
ftrace: use current CPU for function startup
ftrace: start wakeup tracing after setting function tracer
ftrace: check proper config for preempt type
ftrace: trace schedule
ftrace: define function trace nop
ftrace: move sched_switch enable after markers
ftrace: prevent ftrace modifications while being kprobe'd, v2
fix "ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip"
mmiotrace broken in linux-next (8-bit writes only)
ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
kprobes: enable clean usage of get_kprobe
ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
ftrace: build fix with gcc 4.3
namespacecheck: fixes
ftrace: fix "notrace" filtering priority
ftrace: fix printout
...
Explain that we set up the descriptors for Big Real Mode, and why we
do so. In particular, one system that is known to fail without it is
the Lenovo X61.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The explanation for recent video BIOS suspend quirk failures is that
the VESA BIOS expects to be entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff)
instead of ordinary Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffff).
This patch changes the segment descriptors to Big Real Mode instead.
The segment descriptor registers (what Intel calls "segment cache") is
always active. The only thing that changes based on CR0.PE is how it is
*loaded* and the interpretation of the CS flags.
The segment descriptor registers contain of the following sub-registers:
selector (the "visible" part), base, limit and flags. In protected mode
or long mode, they are loaded from descriptors (or fs.base or gs.base can
be manipulated directly in long mode.) In real mode, the only thing
changed by a segment register load is the selector and the base, where the
base <- selector << 4. In particular, *the limit and the flags are not
changed*.
As far as the handling of the CS flags: a code segment cannot be writable
in protected mode, whereas it is "just another segment" in real mode, so
there is some kind of quirk that kicks in for this when CR0.PE <- 0. I'm
not sure if this is accomplished by actually changing the cs.flags register
or just changing the interpretation; it might be something that is
CPU-specific. In particular, the Transmeta CPUs had an explicit "CS is
writable if you're in real mode" override, so even if you had loaded CS
with an execute-only segment it'd be writable (but not readable!) on return
to real mode. I'm not at all sure if that is how other CPUs behave.
Signed-off-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
when try to make hpet_enable use io_remap instead fixmap got
ioremap: invalid physical address fed00000
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:161 __ioremap_caller+0x8c/0x2f3()
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc9-tip-01873-ga9827e7-dirty #358
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8026615e>] warn_on_slowpath+0x6c/0xa7
[<ffffffff802e2313>] ? __slab_alloc+0x20a/0x3fb
[<ffffffff802d85c5>] ? mpol_new+0x88/0x17d
[<ffffffff8022a4f4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[<ffffffff8022a4f4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[<ffffffff8024b0d2>] __ioremap_caller+0x8c/0x2f3
[<ffffffff80e86dbd>] ? hpet_enable+0x39/0x241
[<ffffffff8022a4f4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[<ffffffff8024b466>] ioremap_nocache+0x2a/0x40
[<ffffffff80e86dbd>] hpet_enable+0x39/0x241
[<ffffffff80e7a1f6>] hpet_time_init+0x21/0x4e
[<ffffffff80e730e9>] start_kernel+0x302/0x395
[<ffffffff80e722aa>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb9/0xd4
[<ffffffff80e722fe>] ? x86_64_init_pda+0x39/0x4f
[<ffffffff80e72400>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xec/0x107
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
it seems for amd system that is set later...
try to move setting early in early_identify_cpu.
and remove same code for intel and centaur.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
only add direct mapping for aperture
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Strengthen the return type for the _node_to_cpumask_ptr to be
a const pointer. This adds compiler checking to insure that
node_to_cpumask_map[] is not changed inadvertently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that IRQ2 is never made available to the I/O APIC, there is no need
to special-case it and mask as a workaround for broken systems. Actually,
because of the former, mask_IO_APIC_irq(2) is a no-op already.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
got this on a test-system:
calling numaq_tsc_disable+0x0/0x39
NUMAQ: disabling TSC
initcall numaq_tsc_disable+0x0/0x39 returned 0 after 0 msecs
that's because we should not be using arch_initcall to call numaq_tsc_disable.
need to call it in setup_arch before time_init()/tsc_init()
and call it in init_intel() to make the cpu feature bits right.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
end_user_pfn used to modify the meaning of the e820 maps.
Now that all e820 operations are cleaned up, unified, tightened up,
the e820 map always get updated to reality, we don't need to keep
this secondary mechanism anymore.
If you hit this commit in bisection it means something slipped through.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tighten the boundary checks around max_low_pfn_mapped - dont overmap
nor undermap into holes.
also print out tseg for AMD cpus, for diagnostic purposes.
(this is an SMM area, and we split up any big mappings around that area)
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On three of the several paths in entry_64.S that call
do_notify_resume() on the way back to user mode, we fail to properly
check again for newly-arrived work that requires another call to
do_notify_resume() before going to user mode. These paths set the
mask to check only _TIF_NEED_RESCHED, but this is wrong. The other
paths that lead to do_notify_resume() do this correctly already, and
entry_32.S does it correctly in all cases.
All paths back to user mode have to check all the _TIF_WORK_MASK
flags at the last possible stage, with interrupts disabled.
Otherwise, we miss any flags (TIF_SIGPENDING for example) that were
set any time after we entered do_notify_resume(). More work flags
can be set (or left set) synchronously inside do_notify_resume(), as
TIF_SIGPENDING can be, or asynchronously by interrupts or other CPUs
(which then send an asynchronous interrupt).
There are many different scenarios that could hit this bug, most of
them races. The simplest one to demonstrate does not require any
race: when one signal has done handler setup at the check before
returning from a syscall, and there is another signal pending that
should be handled. The second signal's handler should interrupt the
first signal handler before it actually starts (so the interrupted PC
is still at the handler's entry point). Instead, it runs away until
the next kernel entry (next syscall, tick, etc).
This test behaves correctly on 32-bit kernels, and fails on 64-bit
(either 32-bit or 64-bit test binary). With this fix, it works.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/ucontext.h>
#ifndef REG_RIP
#define REG_RIP REG_EIP
#endif
static sig_atomic_t hit1, hit2;
static void
handler (int sig, siginfo_t *info, void *ctx)
{
ucontext_t *uc = ctx;
if ((void *) uc->uc_mcontext.gregs[REG_RIP] == &handler)
{
if (sig == SIGUSR1)
hit1 = 1;
else
hit2 = 1;
}
printf ("%s at %#lx\n", strsignal (sig),
uc->uc_mcontext.gregs[REG_RIP]);
}
int
main (void)
{
struct sigaction sa;
sigset_t set;
sigemptyset (&sa.sa_mask);
sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
sa.sa_sigaction = &handler;
if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, NULL)
|| sigaction (SIGUSR2, &sa, NULL))
return 2;
sigemptyset (&set);
sigaddset (&set, SIGUSR1);
sigaddset (&set, SIGUSR2);
if (sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL))
return 3;
printf ("main at %p, handler at %p\n", &main, &handler);
raise (SIGUSR1);
raise (SIGUSR2);
if (sigprocmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL))
return 4;
if (hit1 + hit2 == 1)
{
puts ("PASS");
return 0;
}
puts ("FAIL");
return 1;
}
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We have two conflicting DMA-based quirks in there for the same set of
boxes (HP nx6325 and nx6125) and one of them actually breaks my box.
So remove the extra code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?T=F6r=F6k_Edwin?= <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In the course of the recent unification of the NMI watchdog an assignment
to timer_ack to switch off unnecesary POLL commands to the 8259A in the
case of a watchdog failure has been accidentally removed. The statement
used to be limited to the 32-bit variation as since the rewrite of the
timer code it has been relevant for the 82489DX only. This change brings
it back.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is no such entity as ISA IRQ2. The ACPI spec does not make it
explicitly clear, but does not preclude it either -- all it says is ISA
legacy interrupts are identity mapped by default (subject to overrides),
but it does not state whether IRQ2 exists or not. As a result if there is
no IRQ0 override, then IRQ2 is normally initialised as an ISA interrupt,
which implies an edge-triggered line, which is unmasked by default as this
is what we do for edge-triggered I/O APIC interrupts so as not to miss an
edge.
To the best of my knowledge it is useless, as IRQ2 has not been in use
since the PC/AT as back then it was taken by the 8259A cascade interrupt
to the slave, with the line position in the slot rerouted to newly-created
IRQ9. No device could thus make use of this line with the pair of 8259A
chips. Now in theory INTIN2 of the I/O APIC may be usable, but the
interrupt of the device wired to it would not be available in the PIC mode
at all, so I seriously doubt if anybody decided to reuse it for a regular
device.
However there are two common uses of INTIN2. One is for IRQ0, with an
ACPI interrupt override (or its equivalent in the MP table). But in this
case IRQ2 is gone entirely with INTIN0 left vacant. The other one is for
an 8959A ExtINTA cascade. In this case IRQ0 goes to INTIN0 and if ACPI is
used INTIN2 is assumed to be IRQ2 (there is no override and ACPI has no
way to report ExtINTA interrupts). This is where a problem happens.
The problem is INTIN2 is configured as a native APIC interrupt, with a
vector assigned and the mask cleared. And the line may indeed get active
and inject interrupts if the master 8959A has its timer interrupt enabled
(it might happen for other interrupts too, but they are normally masked in
the process of rerouting them to the I/O APIC). There are two cases where
it will happen:
* When the I/O APIC NMI watchdog is enabled. This is actually a misnomer
as the watchdog pulses are delivered through the 8259A to the LINT0
inputs of all the local APICs in the system. The implication is the
output of the master 8259A goes high and low repeatedly, signalling
interrupts to INTIN2 which is enabled too!
[The origin of the name is I think for a brief period during the
development we had a capability in our code to configure the watchdog to
use an I/O APIC input; that would be INTIN2 in this scenario.]
* When the native route of IRQ0 via INTIN0 fails for whatever reason -- as
it happens with the system considered here. In this scenario the timer
pulse is delivered through the 8259A to LINT0 input of the local APIC of
the bootstrap processor, quite similarly to how is done for the watchdog
described above. The result is, again, INTIN2 receives these pulses
too. Rafael's system used to escape this scenario, because an incorrect
IRQ0 override would occupy INTIN2 and prevent it from being unmasked.
My conclusion is IRQ2 should be excluded from configuration in all the
cases and the current exception for ACPI systems should be lifted. The
reason being the exception not only being useless, but harmful as well.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Unlike the 32-bit one, the 64-bit variation of the LVT0 setup code for
the "8259A Virtual Wire" through the local APIC timer configuration does
not fully configure the relevant irq_chip structure. Instead it relies on
the preceding I/O APIC code to have set it up, which does not happen if
the I/O APIC variants have not been tried.
The patch includes corresponding changes to the 32-bit variation too
which make them both the same, barring a small syntactic difference
involving sequence of functions in the source. That should work as an aid
with the upcoming merge.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
IRQ0 is edge-triggered, but the "8259A Virtual Wire" through the local
APIC configuration in the 32-bit version uses the "fasteoi" handler
suitable for level-triggered APIC interrupt. Rewrite code so that the
"edge" handler is used. The 64-bit version uses different code and is
unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The RING0_INT_FRAME macro defines a CFI_STARTPROC.
So we should really be using CFI_ENDPROC after it.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add pseudo-feature bits to describe whether the CPU supports sysenter
and/or syscall from ia32-compat userspace. This removes a hardcoded
test in vdso32-setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Yinghai Lu reported crashes on 64-bit x86:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff80253b17>] hrtick_start_fair+0x89/0x173
[...]
And with a long session of debugging and a lot of difficulty, tracked it down
to this commit:
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8fbbc4b45c is first bad commit
commit 8fbbc4b45c
Author: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Date: Tue Jul 1 11:43:34 2008 -0700
x86: merge tsc_init and clocksource code
<--------------
The problem is that the TSC unification missed these Makefile rules
in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile:
# Do not profile debug and lowlevel utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_64.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_32.o = -pg
...
CFLAGS_tsc_64.o := $(nostackp)
...
which rules make sure that various instrumentation and debugging
facilities are disabled for code that might end up in a VDSO - such as
the TSC code.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
