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Sheng Yang
be43f83dad x86: Raise vsyscall priority on hotplug notifier chain
KVM need vsyscall_init() to initialize MSR_TSC_AUX before it read the value.
Per Avi's suggestion, this patch raised vsyscall priority on hotplug notifier
chain, to 30.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:40 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
fbf07eac7b Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Fix /proc/timer_list regression
  itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields
  timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp
2009-12-08 19:28:09 -08:00
Lin Ming
0696b711e4 timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp
Since commit 0a544198 "timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier
to struct timekeeper" the clock multiplier of vsyscall is updated with
the unmodified clock multiplier of the clock source and not with the
NTP adjusted multiplier of the timekeeper.

This causes user space observerable time warps:
new CLOCK-warp maximum: 120 nsecs,  00000025c337c537 -> 00000025c337c4bf

Add a new argument "mult" to update_vsyscall() and hand in the
timekeeping internal NTP adjusted multiplier.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258436990.17765.83.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-17 11:52:34 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
24a065624d sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys  .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code.  Remove them.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:04 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
john stultz
da15cfdae0 time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
only get low-res tick grained time resolution.

This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
on a system.

With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
trade-off for themselves.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-21 21:43:46 +02:00
Petr Tesarik
7d96fd41ca x86: move rdtsc_barrier() into the TSC vread method
The *fence instructions were moved to vsyscall_64.c by commit
cb9e35dce9.  But this breaks the
vDSO, because vread methods are also called from there.

Besides, the synchronization might be unnecessary for other
time sources than TSC.

[ Impact: fix potential time warp in VDSO ]

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <9d0ea9ea0f866bdc1f4d76831221ae117f11ea67.1243241859.git.ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2009-05-28 14:15:54 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
2ed84eeb88 trace: rename unlikely profiler to branch profiler
Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler

Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE
to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I
went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations
to a "BRANCH" variant.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 22:27:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2b7d0390a6 tracing: branch tracer, fix vdso crash
Impact: fix bootup crash

the branch tracer missed arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c from
disabling tracing, which caused such bootup crashes:

  [  201.840097] init[1]: segfault at 7fffed3fe7c0 ip 00007fffed3fea2e sp 000077

also clean up the ugly ifdefs in arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c by
creating DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE facility for code to turn off
instrumentation on a per file basis.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 13:26:38 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
1f0d69a9fc tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler

Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile
likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal.

When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached
to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition
are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by:

  /debugfs/tracing/profile_likely    - All likely markers
  /debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely  - All unlikely markers.

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head
 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
    2167        0   0 do_arch_prctl                  process_64.c         832
       0        0   0 do_arch_prctl                  process_64.c         804
    2670        0   0 IS_ERR                         err.h                34
   71230     5693   7 __switch_to                    process_64.c         673
   76919        0   0 __switch_to                    process_64.c         639
   43184    33743  43 __switch_to                    process_64.c         624
   12740    64181  83 __switch_to                    process_64.c         594
   12740    64174  83 __switch_to                    process_64.c         590

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \
  awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20
   44963    35259  43 __switch_to                    process_64.c         624
   12762    67454  84 __switch_to                    process_64.c         594
   12762    67447  84 __switch_to                    process_64.c         590
    1478      595  28 syscall_get_error              syscall.h            51
       0     2821 100 syscall_trace_leave            ptrace.c             1567
       0        1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus        smpboot.c            1237
   86338   265881  75 calc_delta_fair                sched_fair.c         408
  210410   108540  34 calc_delta_mine                sched.c              1267
       0    54550 100 sched_info_queued              sched_stats.h        222
   51899    66435  56 pick_next_task_fair            sched_fair.c         1422
       6       10  62 yield_task_fair                sched_fair.c         982
    7325     2692  26 rt_policy                      sched.c              144
       0     1270 100 pre_schedule_rt                sched_rt.c           1261
    1268    48073  97 pick_next_task_rt              sched_rt.c           884
       0    45181 100 sched_info_dequeued            sched_stats.h        177
       0       15 100 sched_move_task                sched.c              8700
       0       15 100 sched_move_task                sched.c              8690
   53167    33217  38 schedule                       sched.c              4457
       0    80208 100 sched_info_switch              sched_stats.h        270
   30585    49631  61 context_switch                 sched.c              2619

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }'
   39900    36577  47 pick_next_task                 sched.c              4397
   20824    15233  42 switch_mm                      mmu_context_64.h     18
       0        7 100 __cancel_work_timer            workqueue.c          560
     617    66484  99 clocksource_adjust             timekeeping.c        456
       0   346340 100 audit_syscall_exit             auditsc.c            1570
      38   347350  99 audit_get_context              auditsc.c            732
       0   345244 100 audit_syscall_entry            auditsc.c            1541
      38     1017  96 audit_free                     auditsc.c            1446
       0     1090 100 audit_alloc                    auditsc.c            862
    2618     1090  29 audit_alloc                    auditsc.c            858
       0        6 100 move_masked_irq                migration.c          9
       1      198  99 probe_sched_wakeup             trace_sched_switch.c 58
       2        2  50 probe_wakeup                   trace_sched_wakeup.c 227
       0        2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch      trace_sched_wakeup.c 144
    4514     2090  31 __grab_cache_page              filemap.c            2149
   12882   228786  94 mapping_unevictable            pagemap.h            50
       4       11  73 __flush_cpu_slab               slub.c               1466
  627757   330451  34 slab_free                      slub.c               1731
    2959    61245  95 dentry_lru_del_init            dcache.c             153
     946     1217  56 load_elf_binary                binfmt_elf.c         904
     102       82  44 disk_put_part                  genhd.h              206
       1        1  50 dst_gc_task                    dst.c                82
       0       19 100 tcp_mss_split_point            tcp_output.c         1126

As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking
the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits
that were more than 25%.

Note:  After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton
  showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up
  the following ideas from:

  1)  Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values.
  2)  Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers.
  3)  Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely
       annotations from vsyscall_64.c.

Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar
for their feed back on this patch.

(*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls
 (a few of them) had to have profiling disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:52:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
cb9e35dce9 x86: clean up rdtsc_barrier() use
Impact: cleanup

Move rdtsc_barrier() use to vsyscall_64.c where it's relied on,
and point out its role in the context of its use.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 20:27:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1a781a777b Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 21:55:59 +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
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
fc8b8a60ff x86, 64-bit: use write_gdt_entry in vsyscall_set_cpu
Use write_gdt_entry to generate the special vgetcpu descriptor in the
vsyscall page.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.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 13:10:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe
15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8691e5a8f6 smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
23adec554a x86: add notrace annotations to vsyscall.
Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are
not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not)
be called.

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 20:31:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a4928cffe6 "make namespacecheck" fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
d67bbacb4b x86: restore vsyscall64 prochandler
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>
2008-02-29 18:55:39 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
ce28b9864b x86: fix vsyscall wreckage
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>
2008-02-26 12:55:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e402644013 x86: map vsyscalls early enough
map vsyscalls early enough. This is important if a __vsyscall_fn
function is used by other kernel code too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:39 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
f6dc247cac x86: change gdt acessor macro name
This patch changes the name of x86_64 macro used to access the per-cpu
gdt. It is now equal to the i386 version, which will allow code to be shared.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:12 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
8f12dea613 x86: introduce native_read_tscp
Targetting paravirt, this patch introduces native_read_tscp, in
place of rdtscp() macro. When in a paravirt guest, this will
involve a function call, and thus, cannot be done in the vdso area.
These users then have to call the native version directly

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:06 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
65ea5b0349 x86: rename the struct pt_regs members for 32/64-bit consistency
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers.  In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.

This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.

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>
2008-01-30 13:30:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c00046c279 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
  fix do_sys_open() prototype
  sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
  Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
  Typo: depricated -> deprecated
  Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
  fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
  proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
  small documentation fixes
  Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
  docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
  documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
  Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
  include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
  trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
  Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
  file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
  remove unused return within void return function
  Typo fixes retrun -> return
  x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
  ...
2007-10-19 20:36:17 -07:00
Simon Arlott
676b1855de spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/
Spelling fixes in arch/x86_64/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:25:36 +02:00
Mike Travis
92cb7612ae x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array
cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS.  This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.

These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code.  An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index.  This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index.  It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().

cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-19 20:35:04 +02:00
Siddha, Suresh B
957ff882f9 x86, vsyscall: fix the oops crash with __pa_vsymbol()
Appended patch fixes an oops while changing the vsyscall sysctl.
I am sure no one tested this code before integrating into mainline :(

BTW, using ioremap() in vsyscall_sysctl_change() to get the virtual
address of a kernel symbol sounds like an over kill.. I wonder if we
can define a simple __va_vsymbol() which will return directly the
kernel direct mapping. comments in the code which says gcc has trouble
with __va(__pa()) sounds bogus to me. __pa() on a vsyscall address will
not work anyhow :(

And also, the whole nop out syscall in vsyscall page infrastructure
(vsyscall_sysctl_change()) is added to make some attacks difficult,
and yet I don't see this nop out being done by default. This area
requires more cleanups?

Fix an oops with __pa_vsymbol(). VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE is a fixmap index.
We want the starting virtual address of the vsyscall page and not the index.

[ mingo: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Reported-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-19 20:35:02 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
c80544dc0b sparse pointer use of zero as null
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
282a821f18 sysctl: x86_64 remove unnecessary binary paths
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:22 -07:00
Tony Breeds
2c62214831 Fix discrepancy between VDSO based gettimeofday() and sys_gettimeofday().
On platforms that copy sys_tz into the vdso (currently only x86_64, soon to
include powerpc), it is possible for the vdso to get out of sync if a user
calls (admittedly unusual) settimeofday(NULL, ptr).

This patch adds a hook for architectures that set
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to ensure when sys_tz is updated they can also
updatee their copy in the vdso.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c861eff88c x86: remove duplicated vsyscall nsec update
Spotted by Chuck Ebbert

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17 20:17:02 +02:00
Mike Travis
98c9e27a56 x86: fix cpu_to_node references
In x86_64 and i386 architectures most arrays that are sized using
NR_CPUS lay in local memory on node 0.  Not only will most (99%?) of the
systems not use all the slots in these arrays, particularly when NR_CPUS
is increased to accommodate future very high cpu count systems, but a
number of cache lines are passed unnecessarily on the system bus when
these arrays are referenced by cpus on other nodes.

Typically, the values in these arrays are referenced by the cpu
accessing it's own values, though when passing IPI interrupts, the cpu
does access the data relevant to the targeted cpu/node.  Of course, if
the referencing cpu is not on node 0, then the reference will still
require cross node exchanges of cache lines.  A common use of this is
for an interrupt service routine to pass the interrupt to other cpus
local to that node.

Ideally, all the elements in these arrays should be moved to the per_cpu
data area.  In some cases (such as x86_cpu_to_apicid) the array is
referenced before the per_cpu data areas are setup.  In this case, a
static array is declared in the __initdata area and initialized by the
booting cpu (BSP).  The values are then moved to the per_cpu area after
it is initialized and the original static array is freed with the rest
of the __initdata.

This patch:

Fix four instances where cpu_to_node is referenced by array instead of
via the cpu_to_node macro.  This is preparation to moving it to the
per_cpu data area.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17 20:16:37 +02:00
Dave Jones
835c34a168 Delete filenames in comments.
Since the x86 merge, lots of files that referenced their own filenames
are no longer correct.  Rather than keep them up to date, just delete
them, as they add no real value.

Additionally:
- fix up comment formatting in scx200_32.c
- Remove a credit from myself in setup_64.c from a time when we had no SCM
- remove longwinded history from tsc_32.c which can be figured out from
  git.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-13 10:01:23 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
250c22777f x86_64: move kernel
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:24 +02:00