revert the BTS ptrace extension for now.
based on general objections from Roland McGrath:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/323
we'll let the BTS functionality cook some more and re-enable
it in v2.6.26. We'll leave the dead code around to help the
development of this code.
(X86_BTS is not defined at the moment)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
avoid over-eager large page splitup.
When the target area needs to be split or is split already (ioremap)
then the current code enforces the split of large mappings in the alias
regions even if we could avoid it.
Use a separate variable processed in the cpa_data structure to carry
the number of pages which have been processed instead of reusing the
numpages variable. This keeps numpages intact and gives the alias code
a chance to keep large mappings intact.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
delay the removal of this symbol export by one more kernel release,
giving external modules such as VirtualBox a chance to stop using it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jan Beulich noticed it during code review that if a driver's ioremap()
fails (say due to -ENOMEM) then we might leak the struct vm_area.
Free it properly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Priit Laes discovered that the sed command processing nm output was
sensitive to locale settings. This was addressed in commit
03994f01e8 by using [:alnum:] in place of
[a-zA-Z0-9].
But that solution too is locale-dependent and may not always match
the identifiers it needs to. The better fix is just to run sed et al
with a fixed locale setting in all builds.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
a recent fix:
commit ce28b9864b
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed Feb 20 23:57:30 2008 +0100
x86: fix vsyscall wreckage
removed the broken /kernel/vsyscall64 handler completely.
This triggers the following debug check:
sysctl table check failed: /kernel/vsyscall64 No proc_handler
Restore the sane part of the proc handler.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix a kernel bug (vmware boot problem) reported by Tomasz Grobelny,
which occurs with certain .config variants and gccs.
The x86 TLS cleanup in commit efd1ca52d0
made the sys_set_thread_area and sys_get_thread_area functions ripe for
tail call optimization. If the compiler chooses to use it for them, it
can clobber the user trap frame because these are asmlinkage functions.
Reported-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Diffing dmesg between git7 and git8 doesn't sched any light since
> git8 also removed the printouts of the x86 caps as they were being
> initialised and updated. I'm currently adding those printouts back
> in the hope of seeing where and when the caps get broken.
That turned out to be very illuminating:
--- dmesg-2.6.24-git7 2008-02-24 18:01:25.295851000 +0100
+++ dmesg-2.6.24-git8 2008-02-24 18:01:25.530358000 +0100
...
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+CPU: After applying cleared_cpu_caps, caps: 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Notice how the TSC cap bit goes from Off to On.
(The first two lines are printout loops from -git7 forward-ported
to -git8, the third line is the same printout loop added just after
the xor-with-cleared_cpu_caps[] loop.)
Here's how the breakage occurs:
1. arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c:tsc_init() sees !cpu_has_tsc,
so bails and calls setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC).
2. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h:setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit) clears
the bit in boot_cpu_data and sets it in cleared_cpu_caps
3. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:identify_cpu() XORs all caps
in with cleared_cpu_caps
HOWEVER, at this point c->x86_capability correctly has TSC
Off, cleared_cpu_caps has TSC On, so the XOR incorrectly
sets TSC to On in c->x86_capability, with disastrous results.
The real bug is that clearing bits with XOR only works if the
bits are known to be 1 prior to the XOR, and that's not true here.
A simple fix is to convert the XOR to AND-NOT instead. The following
patch does that, and allows my 486 to boot 2.6.25-rc kernels again.
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixed a similar bug in setup_64.c as well. ]
The breakage was introduced via commit 7d851c8d3d.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some locales regex range [a-zA-Z] does not work as it is supposed to.
so we have to use [:alnum:] and [:xdigit:] to make it work as intended.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alphabet
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, c_idle is declared in the stack, and thus, have no static address.
Peter Zijlstra points out this simple solution, in which c_idle.work
is initializated separatedly. Note that the INIT_WORK macro has a static
declaration of a key inside.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, there is no way for print_stack_trace() to determine whether
a given stack trace entry was deemed reliable or not, simply because
save_stack_trace() does not record this information. (Perhaps needless
to say, this makes the saved stack traces A LOT harder to read, and
probably with no other benefits, since debugging features that use
save_stack_trace() most likely also require frame pointers, etc.)
This patch reverts to the old behaviour of only recording the reliable trace
entries for saved stack traces.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There doesn't seem to be any reason for swapper_pg_pmd being global.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Inside a KVM virtual machine the MTRRs are usually blank. This confuses Linux
and causes a warning message at boot. This patch removes that warning message
when running Linux as a KVM guest.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu:
> what happens here is that gcc treats the argument area as owned by the
> callee, not the caller and is allowed to do certain tricks. for ssp it
> will make a copy of the struct passed by value into the local variable
> area and pass *its* address down, and it won't copy it back into the
> original instance stored in the argument area.
>
> so once sys_execve returns, the pt_regs passed by value hasn't at all
> changed and its default content will cause a nice double fault (FWIW,
> this part took me the longest to debug, being down with cold didn't
> help it either ;).
To fix this we pass in pt_regs by pointer.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
based on a report from Arne Georg Gleditsch about user-space apps
misbehaving after toggling /proc/sys/kernel/vsyscall64, a review
of the code revealed that the "NOP patching" done there is
fundamentally unsafe for a number of reasons:
1) the patching code runs without synchronizing other CPUs
2) it inserts NOPs even if there is no clock source which provides vread
3) when the clock source changes to one without vread we run in
exactly the same problem as in #2
4) if nobody toggles the proc entry from 1 to 0 and to 1 again, then
the syscall is not patched out
as a result it is possible to break user-space via this patching.
The only safe thing for now is to remove the patching.
This code was broken since v2.6.21.
Reported-by: Arne Georg Gleditsch <arne.gleditsch@dolphinics.no>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE constant was mis-named, as we not only map the kernel
text but data, bss and init sections as well.
That name led me on the wrong path with the KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE regression,
because i knew how big of _text_ my images have and i knew about the 40 MB
"text" limit so i wrongly thought to be on the safe side of the 40 MB limit
with my 29 MB of text, while the total image size was slightly above 40 MB.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously
rebooting during early bootup.
after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out
that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel
image:
#define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (40*1024*1024)
which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass:
text data bss dec hex filename
29703744 4222751 8646224 42572719 2899baf vmlinux
40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/
So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is
the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-)
So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped.
(should anyone be that crazy or lazy)
We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these
mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather
pointless and arbitrary.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
notsc is ignored in 32-bit kernels if CONFIG_X86_TSC is on.. which is
bad, fix it.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix mtrr kernel-doc warning:
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:677): No description found for parameter 'end_pfn'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The proper way to terminate the e820 chain is with %ebx == 0 on the
last legitimate memory block. However, several BIOSes don't do that
and instead return error (CF = 1) when trying to read off the end of
the list. For this error return, %eax doesn't necessarily return the
SMAP signature -- correctly so, since %ah should contain an error code
in this case.
To deal with some particularly broken BIOSes, we clear the entire e820
chain if the SMAP signature is missing in the middle, indicating a
plain insane e820 implementation. However, we need to make the test
for CF = 1 before the SMAP check.
This fixes at least one HP laptop (nc6400) for which none of the
memory-probing methods (e820, e801, 88) functioned fully according to
spec.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
P6_NOPs are definitely not supported on some VIA CPUs, and possibly
(unverified) on AMD K7s. It is also the only thing that prevents a
686 kernel from running on Transmeta TM3x00/5x00 (Crusoe) series.
The performance benefit over generic NOPs is very small, so when
building for generic consumption, avoid using them.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so
enforce that in the boot code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We have been promoting Transmeta TM3x00/TM5x00 chips to i686-class
based on the notion that they contain all the user-space visible
features of an i686-class chip. However, this is not actually true:
they lack the EA-taking long NOPs (0F 1F /0). Since this is a
userspace-visible incompatibility, downgrade these CPUs to the
manufacturer-defined i586 level.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Use PF_MEMALLOC to prevent recursive calls in the DBEUG_PAGEALLOC
case. This makes the code simpler and more robust against allocation
failures.
This fixes the following fallback to non-mmconfig:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/551http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10083
Also, for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n reduce the pool size to one page.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Hi all,
Beginning from commits close to v2.6.25-rc2, running lguest always oopses
the host kernel. Oops is at [1].
Bisection led to the following commit:
commit 37cc8d7f96
x86/early_ioremap: don't assume we're using swapper_pg_dir
At the early stages of boot, before the kernel pagetable has been
fully initialized, a Xen kernel will still be running off the
Xen-provided pagetables rather than swapper_pg_dir[]. Therefore,
readback cr3 to determine the base of the pagetable rather than
assuming swapper_pg_dir[].
static inline pmd_t * __init early_ioremap_pmd(unsigned long addr)
{
- pgd_t *pgd = &swapper_pg_dir[pgd_index(addr)];
+ /* Don't assume we're using swapper_pg_dir at this point */
+ pgd_t *base = __va(read_cr3());
+ pgd_t *pgd = &base[pgd_index(addr)];
pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
Trying to analyze the problem, it seems on the guest side of lguest,
%cr3 has a different value from &swapper_pg-dir (which
is AFAIK fine on a pravirt guest):
Putting some debugging messages in early_ioremap_pmd:
/* Appears 3 times */
[ 0.000000] ***************************
[ 0.000000] __va(%cr3) = c0000000, &swapper_pg_dir = c02cc000
[ 0.000000] ***************************
After 8 hours of debugging and staring on lguest code, I noticed something
strange in paravirt_ops->set_pmd hypercall invocation:
static void lguest_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmdval)
{
*pmdp = pmdval;
lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PMD, __pa(pmdp)&PAGE_MASK,
(__pa(pmdp)&(PAGE_SIZE-1))/4, 0);
}
The first hcall parameter is global pgdir which looks fine. The second
parameter is the pmd index in the pgdir which is suspectful.
AFAIK, calculating the index of pmd does not need a divisoin over four.
Removing the division made lguest work fine again . Patch is at [2].
I am not sure why the division over four existed in the first place. It
seems bogus, maybe the Xen patch just made the problem appear ?
[2]: The patch:
[PATCH] lguest: fix pgdir pmd index cacluation
Remove an error in index calculation which leads to removing
a not existing shadow page table (leading to a Null dereference).
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Added a declaration to asm-x86/lguest.h and moved the extern arrays there
as well. As an alternative to including asm/lguest.h directly, an
include could be put in linux/lguest.h
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It's always been broken, but recent fixes actually made it do something,
and now the brokenness shows up as the resulting kernel simply not
working at all.
So it used to be that you could enable this config option, and it just
didn't do anything. Now we'd better stop people from enabling it by
mistake, since it _does_ do something, but does it so badly as to be
unusable.
Code to actually make it work is pending, but incomplete and won't be
merged into 2.6.25 in any case.
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simple typo fix for regression introduced by the user_regset changes.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make hibernation work with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC set on x86, by
checking if the pages to be copied are marked as present in the
kernel mapping and temporarily marking them as present if that's not
the case. No functional modifications are introduced if
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is unset.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'agp-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
agp: fix missing casts that produced a warning.
agp: add support for 662/671 to agp driver
fix historic ioremap() abuse in AGP
agp/sis: Suspend support for SiS AGP
agp/sis: Clear bit 2 from aperture size byte as well
page_is_ram() has a special case for the 640k-1M bios area, however
due to a thinko the special case checks the e820 table entry and
not the memory the user has asked for. This patch fixes the bug.
[ mingo@elte.hu: this too is better solved in the e820 space, but those
fixes are too intrusive for v2.6.25. ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch teaches page_is_ram() about the fact that the first
4Kb of memory are special on x86, even though the E820 table
normally doesn't exclude it.
This fixes the WARN_ON() reported by Laurent Riffard who was also
very helpful in diagnosing the issue.
[ mingo@elte.hu: we are working on doing this properly in the e820
space, but for 2.6.25 this is the better fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQS] element initialization in
init_ISA_irqs(). irq_desc[NR_IRQS] is already statically
initialized with the same values in kernel/irq/handle.c .
besides the clean-up value this also saves some space:
text data bss dec hex filename
1389 356 14 1759 6df i8259_32.o.before
1325 356 14 1695 69f i8259_32.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
I suggest to make the vdso_install step independent as
in following patch.
This solves the issue at ahnd and still gives us the posibility
to install the files should they be needed.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
change back the IO delay to 0x80.
Alan says that 0xed is known to break some older boxes, and given that
the get-rid-of-outb-APIs efforts are well underway we should just let
them be finished.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Though we use PDA for regular task stack but that
is not acceptable for init_task wich is special
one. We still have to allocate init_task's stack
in that manner.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It's much better to use PAGE_SIZE then magic 4096
(though it's almost synonym in most cases on x86 but
not for *all* cases ;)
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
By including <asm/processor-flags.h> we're allowed to use
X86_CR4_PGE instead of numeric constant.
md5 sums of compiled files are differ due to this inclusion
but .text section remains the same.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This simple patch makes the file error free (according to
checkpatch.pl)
no code changed:
arch/x86/lib/io_64.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
308 0 0 308 134 io_64.o.before
308 0 0 308 134 io_64.o.after
md5:
3c64f9ed83d091678e849b36ca27bee3 io_64.o.before.asm
3c64f9ed83d091678e849b36ca27bee3 io_64.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
