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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Molnar
3dd392a407 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pat2
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
2008-10-10 19:30:08 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
8311eb84bf x86, cpa: remove cpa pool code
Interrupt context no longer splits large page in cpa(). So we can do away
with cpa memory pool code.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 19:29:16 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
0b8fdcbcd2 x86, cpa: dont use large pages for kernel identity mapping with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Don't use large pages for kernel identity mapping with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
This will remove the need to split the large page for the
allocated kernel page in the interrupt context.

This will simplify cpa code(as we don't do the split any more from the
interrupt context). cpa code simplication in the subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 19:29:14 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
a2699e477b x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence
In the first pass, kernel physical mapping will be setup using large or
small pages but uses the same PTE attributes as that of the early
PTE attributes setup by early boot code in head_[32|64].S

After flushing TLB's, we go through the second pass, which setups the
direct mapped PTE's with the appropriate attributes (like NX, GLOBAL etc)
which are runtime detectable.

This two pass mechanism conforms to the TLB app note which says:

"Software should not write to a paging-structure entry in a way that would
 change, for any linear address, both the page size and either the page frame
 or attributes."

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 19:29:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0962f402af Merge branch 'x86/prototypes' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 18:06:53 +02:00
Alex Nixon
5132895f14 x86/paravirt: Remove duplicate paravirt_pagetable_setup_{start, done}()
They were already called once in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c - we don't need to call them again.

fixes:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11485

Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 18:10:01 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh
a80495ec92 x86: mm/init_XX.c declare functions before they get used
included <asm/smp.h> in mm/init_32.c for zap_low_mappings()

declared free_initmem() in asm-x86/page_XX.h

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
2008-07-23 17:33:57 +05:30
Ingo Molnar
acee709cab Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:37:17 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
caadbdce24 x86: enable memory tester support on 32-bit
only supports memory below max_low_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:11:58 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
c1f2f09ef6 pvops-64: call paravirt_post_allocator_init() on setup_arch()
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16 10:53:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5806b81ac1 Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/lib/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/sched.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
f361a450bf x86: introduce max_low_pfn_mapped for 64-bit
when more than 4g memory is installed, don't map the big hole below 4g.

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>
2008-07-11 10:24:04 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ef5e94af16 x86_32: remove __PAGE_KERNEL(_EXEC)
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Older x86-32 processors do not support global mappings (PGD), so must
only use it if the processor supports it.

The _PAGE_KERNEL* flags always have _PAGE_KERNEL set, since logically
we always want it set.

This is OK even on processors which do not support PGD, since all
_PAGE flags are masked with __supported_pte_mask before being turned
into a real in-pagetable pte.  On 32-bit systems, __supported_pte_mask
is initialized to not contain _PAGE_GLOBAL, and it is then added if
the CPU is found to support it.

The x86-32 code used to use __PAGE_KERNEL/__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for this
purpose, but they're now redundant and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:29 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
cb95a13a8a x86: merge zones_sizes_init for numa and non numa on 32-bit
move out e820_register_active_regions from non numa zones_sizes_init()
and remove numa version zones_sizes_init().

and let 32 bit call remove_all_active_ranges() in setup_arch() directly
like 64-bit

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:22 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
a04ad82d0b x86: fix init_memory_mapping over boundary, v4
use PMD_SHIFT to calculate boundary also adjust size for pre-allocated
table size

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:07 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
7482b0e962 x86: fix init_memory_mapping over boundary v3
some ram-end boundary only has page alignment, instead of 2M alignment.

v2: make init_memory_mapping more solid: start could be any value other than 0
v3: fix NON PAE by handling left over in kernel_physical_mapping

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:06 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
e7b3789524 x86: move fix mapping page table range early
do that in init_memory_mapping

also remove one init_ohci1394_dma_on_all_controllers

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:01 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
8207c2570a x86: fix pte allocation in "x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit"
The patch "x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit" does not allocate
enough space for PTEs if the CPU does not implement PSE.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:15:58 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
3a58a2a6c8 x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit #3
move kva related early backto initmem_init for numa32

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:33 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
cfb0e53b05 x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit #2
moving relocate_initrd early

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:32 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
4e29684c40 x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit #1
... so can we use mem below max_low_pfn earlier.

this allows us to move several functions more early instead of waiting
to after paging_init.

That includes moving relocate_initrd() earlier in the bootup, and kva
related early setup done in initmem_init. (in followup patches)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:32 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
11cd0bc140 x86: move some func calling from setup_arch to paging_init
those function depend on paging setup pgtable, so they could access
the ram in bootmem region but just get mapped.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:24 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
346cafecde x86: clean up min_low_pfn
for 32bit
we already had early_res support, so don't need to track min_low_pfn.
keep it to 0 always.

also use init_bootmem_node instead of init_bootmem, so don't touch
min_low_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:21 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
2ec65f8b89 x86: clean up using max_low_pfn on 32-bit
so that max_low_pfn is not changed after it is set.
so we can move that early and out of initmem_init.

could call find_low_pfn_range just after max_pfn is set.

also could move reserve_initrd out of setup_bootmem_allocator

so 32bit is more like 64bit.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:20 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
90d967e0ef x86: move find_max_low_pfn to init_32.c
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:18 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
225c37d71b x86: introduce reserve_initrd
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:16 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
b2ac82a090 x86: introduce initmem_init for 32 bit
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:50:15 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
d52d53b8a5 RFC x86: try to remove arch_get_ram_range
want to remove arch_get_ram_range, and use early_node_map instead.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:48:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3de352bbd8 Merge branch 'x86/mpparse' into x86/devel
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 11:14:58 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
cc9f7a0ccf x86: kill bad_ppro
so don't punish all other cpus without that problem when init highmem

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 10:38:19 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
b5bc6c0e55 x86, mm: use add_highpages_with_active_regions() for high pages init v2
use early_node_map to init high pages, so we can remove page_is_ram() and
page_is_reserved_early() in the big loop with add_one_highpage

also remove page_is_reserved_early(), it is not needed anymore.

v2: fix the build of other platforms

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 10:37:25 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
d2dbf34332 x86: clean up reserve_bootmem_generic() and port it to 32-bit
1. add reserve_bootmem_generic for 32bit
2. change len to unsigned long
3. make early_res_to_bootmem to use it

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 10:36:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6924d1ab8b Merge branches 'x86/numa-fixes', 'x86/apic', 'x86/apm', 'x86/bitops', 'x86/build', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpa', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/gart', 'x86/i8259', 'x86/intel', 'x86/irqstats', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/ldt', 'x86/mce', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/pat', 'x86/ptemask', 'x86/resumetrace', 'x86/threadinfo', 'x86/timers', 'x86/vdso' and 'x86/xen' into x86/devel 2008-07-08 09:16:56 +02:00
Andi Kleen
ce0c0e50f9 x86, generic: CPA add statistics about state of direct mapping v4
Add information about the mapping state of the direct mapping to
/proc/meminfo. I chose /proc/meminfo because that is where all the other
memory statistics are too and it is a generally useful metric even
outside debugging situations. A lot of split kernel pages means the
kernel will run slower.

This way we can see how many large pages are really used for it and how
many are split.

Useful for general insight into the kernel.

v2: Add hotplug locking to 64bit to plug a very obscure theoretical race.
    32bit doesn't need it because it doesn't support hotadd for lowmem.
    Fix some typos
v3: Rename dpages_cnt
    Add CONFIG ifdef for count update as requested by tglx
    Expand description
v4: Fix stupid bugs added in v3
    Move update_page_count to pageattr.c

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 08:11:45 +02:00
Huang, Ying
d0ec2c6f2c x86: reserve highmem pages via reserve_early
This patch makes early reserved highmem pages become reserved
pages. This can be used for highmem pages allocated by bootloader such
as EFI memory map, linked list of setup_data, etc.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-05 15:10:02 +02:00
Jan Beulich
4e50e62ce5 x86: eliminate duplicate consistency checks in init_32.c
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 08:58:30 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8f0f996e80 ftrace: dont write protect kernel text
Dynamic ftrace cant work when the kernel has its text write protected.
This patch keeps the kernel from being write protected when
dynamic ftrace is in place.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 21:16:22 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
61165d7a03 x86: fix app crashes after SMP resume
After resume on a 2cpu laptop, kernel builds collapse with a sed hang,
sh or make segfault (often on 20295564), real-time signal to cc1 etc.

Several hurdles to jump, but a manually-assisted bisect led to -rc1's
d2bcbad5f3 x86: do not zap_low_mappings
in __smp_prepare_cpus.  Though the low mappings were removed at bootup,
they were left behind (with Global flags helping to keep them in TLB)
after resume or cpu online, causing the crashes seen.

Reinstate zap_low_mappings (with local __flush_tlb_all) for each cpu_up
on x86_32.  This used to be serialized by smp_commenced_mask: that's now
gone, but a low_mappings flag will do.  No need for native_smp_cpus_done
to repeat the zap: let mem_init zap BSP's low mappings just like on UP.

(In passing, fix error code from native_cpu_up: do_boot_cpu returns a
variety of diagnostic values, Dprintk what it says but convert to -EIO.
And save_pg_dir separately before zap_low_mappings: doesn't matter now,
but zapping twice in succession wiped out resume's swsusp_pg_dir.)

That worked well on the duo and one quad, but wouldn't boot 3rd or 4th
cpu on P4 Xeon, oopsing just after unlock_ipi_call_lock.  The TLB flush
IPI now being sent reveals a long-standing bug: the booting cpu has its
APIC readied in smp_callin at the top of start_secondary, but isn't put
into the cpu_online_map until just before that unlock_ipi_call_lock.

So native_smp_call_function_mask to online cpus would send_IPI_allbutself,
including the cpu just coming up, though it has been excluded from the
count to wait for: by the time it handles the IPI, the call data on
native_smp_call_function_mask's stack may well have been overwritten.

So fall back to send_IPI_mask while cpu_online_map does not match
cpu_callout_map: perhaps there's a better APICological fix to be
made at the start_secondary end, but I wouldn't know that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-13 19:36:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
180c06efce hotplug-memory: make online_page() common
All architectures use an effectively identical definition of online_page(), so
just make it common code.  x86-64, ia64, powerpc and sh are actually
identical; x86-32 is slightly different.

x86-32's differences arise because it puts its hotplug pages in the highmem
zone.  We can handle this in the generic code by inspecting the page to see if
its in highmem, and update the totalhigh_pages count appropriately.  This
leaves init_32.c:free_new_highpage with a single caller, so I folded it into
add_one_highpage_init.

I also removed an incorrect comment referring to the NUMA case; any NUMA
details have already been dealt with by the time online_page() is called.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix indenting]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamez.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamez.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
f7f17a67c5 x86: remove NexGen support
It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179

Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
essentially dead.

As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL
above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.

The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 17:35:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bf16ae2509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-pat
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-pat:
  generic: add ioremap_wc() interface wrapper
  /dev/mem: make promisc the default
  pat: cleanups
  x86: PAT use reserve free memtype in mmap of /dev/mem
  x86: PAT phys_mem_access_prot_allowed for dev/mem mmap
  x86: PAT avoid aliasing in /dev/mem read/write
  devmem: add range_is_allowed() check to mmap of /dev/mem
  x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option
2008-04-25 12:48:08 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
68db065c84 x86: unify KERNEL_PGD_PTRS
Make KERNEL_PGD_PTRS common, as previously it was only being defined
for 32-bit.

There are a couple of follow-on changes from this:
 - KERNEL_PGD_PTRS was being defined in terms of USER_PGD_PTRS.  The
   definition of USER_PGD_PTRS doesn't really make much sense on x86-64,
   since it can have two different user address-space configurations.
   I renamed USER_PGD_PTRS to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, which is meaningful
   for all of 32/32, 32/64 and 64/64 process configurations.

 - USER_PTRS_PER_PGD was also defined and was being used for similar
   purposes.  Converting its users to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY left it
   completely unused, and so I removed it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6944a9c894 x86: rename paravirt_alloc_pt etc after the pagetable structure
Rename (alloc|release)_(pt|pd) to pte/pmd to explicitly match the name
of the appropriate pagetable level structure.

[ x86.git merge work by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
ae531c26c5 x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option
This patch introduces a restriction on /dev/mem: Only non-memory can be
read or written unless the newly introduced config option is set.

The X server needs access to /dev/mem for the PCI space, but it doesn't need
access to memory; both the file permissions and SELinux permissions of /dev/mem
just make X effectively super-super powerful. With the exception of the
BIOS area, there's just no valid app that uses /dev/mem on actual memory.
Other popular users of /dev/mem are rootkits and the like.
(note: mmap access of memory via /dev/mem was already not allowed since
a really long time)

People who want to use /dev/mem for kernel debugging can enable the config
option.

The restrictions of this patch have been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for
at least 4 years without any problems.

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>
2008-04-24 23:40:47 +02:00
WANG Cong
cf9b111c17 x86: remove pointless comments
Remove old comments that include the old arch/i386 directory.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:54 +02:00
Andi Kleen
f5c24a7fd0 x86: don't use large pages to map the first 2/4MB of memory
Intel recommends to not use large pages for the first 1MB
of the physical memory because there are fixed size MTRRs there
which cause splitups in the TLBs.

On AMD doing so is also a good idea.

The implementation is a little different between 32bit and 64bit.
On 32bit I just taught the initial page table set up about this
because it was very simple to do. This also has the advantage
that the risk of a prefetch ever seeing the page even
if it only exists for a short time is minimized.

On 64bit that is not quite possible, so use set_memory_4k() a little
later (in check_bugs) instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:30 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
67794292c8 x86: replace the now useless max_pfn_mapped define
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:30 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7d1116a92d x86: implement true end_pfn_mapped for 32bit
Even on 32bit 2MB pages can map more memory than is in the true
max_low_pfn if end_pfn is not highmem and not aligned to 2MB.
Add a end_pfn_map similar to x86-64 that accounts for this
fact. This is important for code that really needs to know about
all mapping aliases.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:30 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
4e4eee0e01 x86: enhance DEBUG_RODATA support for hotplug and kprobes
Standardize DEBUG_RODATA, removing special cases for hotplug and kprobes.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:58 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
7bfeab9af9 x86: include proper prototypes for rodata_test
extern should not appear in C files.  Also, the definitions
do not match the prototype currently, not sure what way you
want to go with this, I've switched the prototype to return
int, but I can see going to the void return as well.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-14 23:30:20 +01:00