Some Xen hypercalls accept an array of operations to work on. In
general this is because its more efficient for the hypercall to the
work all at once rather than as separate hypercalls (even batched as a
multicall).
This patch adds a mechanism (xen_mc_extend_args()) to allocate more
argument space to the last-issued multicall, in order to extend its
argument list.
The user of this mechanism is xen/mmu.c, which uses it to extend the
args array of mmu_update. This is particularly valuable when doing
the update for a large mprotect, which goes via
ptep_modify_prot_commit(), but it also manages to batch updates to
pgd/pmds as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Xen has a pte update function which will update a pte while preserving
its accessed and dirty bits. This means that ptep_modify_prot_start() can be
implemented as a simple read of the pte value. The hardware may
update the pte in the meantime, but ptep_modify_prot_commit() updates it while
preserving any changes that may have happened in the meantime.
The updates in ptep_modify_prot_commit() are batched if we're currently in lazy
mmu mode.
The mmu_update hypercall can take a batch of updates to perform, but
this code doesn't make particular use of that feature, in favour of
using generic multicall batching to get them all into the hypervisor.
The net effect of this is that each mprotect pte update turns from two
expensive trap-and-emulate faults into they hypervisor into a single
hypercall whose cost is amortized in a batched multicall.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds paravirt-ops hooks in pv_mmu_ops for ptep_modify_prot_start and
ptep_modify_prot_commit. This allows the hypervisor-specific backends to
implement these in some more efficient way.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm:
KVM: Remove now unused structs from kvm_para.h
x86: KVM guest: Use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions
KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs
x86: Make xen use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions
x86: Add structs and functions for paravirt clocksource
KVM: VMX: Fix host msr corruption with preemption enabled
KVM: ioapic: fix lost interrupt when changing a device's irq
KVM: MMU: Fix oops on guest userspace access to guest pagetable
KVM: MMU: large page update_pte issue with non-PAE 32-bit guests (resend)
KVM: MMU: Fix rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bug
KVM: close timer injection race window in __vcpu_run
KVM: Fix race between timer migration and vcpu migration
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs
and functions, thereby making it compatible with Xen.
The patch also fixes an initialization bug: on SMP systems the
per-cpu has two different locations early at boot and after CPU
bringup. kvmclock must take that in account when registering the
physical address within the host.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs.
It also makes the paravirt clock compatible with Xen.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch updates the xen guest to use the pvclock structs
and helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds structs for the paravirt clocksource ABI
used by both xen and kvm (pvclock-abi.h).
It also adds some helper functions to read system time and
wall clock time from a paravirtual clocksource (pvclock.[ch]).
They are based on the xen code. They are enabled using
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK.
Subsequent patches of this series will put the code in use.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is
rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped
non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been
broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Switching msrs can occur either synchronously as a result of calls to
the msr management functions (usually in response to the guest touching
virtualized msrs), or asynchronously when preempting a kvm thread that has
guest state loaded. If we're unlucky enough to have the two at the same
time, host msrs are corrupted and the machine goes kaput on the next syscall.
Most easily triggered by Windows Server 2008, as it does a lot of msr
switching during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM has a heuristic to unshadow guest pagetables when userspace accesses
them, on the assumption that most guests do not allow userspace to access
pagetables directly. Unfortunately, in addition to unshadowing the pagetables,
it also oopses.
This never triggers on ordinary guests since sane OSes will clear the
pagetables before assigning them to userspace, which will trigger the flood
heuristic, unshadowing the pagetables before the first userspace access. One
particular guest, though (Xenner) will run the kernel in userspace, triggering
the oops. Since the heuristic is incorrect in this case, we can simply
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm_mmu_pte_write() does not handle 32-bit non-PAE large page backed
guests properly. It will instantiate two 2MB sptes pointing to the same
physical 2MB page when a guest large pte update is trapped.
Instead of duplicating code to handle this, disallow directory level
updates to happen through kvm_mmu_pte_write(), so the two 2MB sptes
emulating one guest 4MB pte can be correctly created by the page fault
handling path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
rmap_next() does not work correctly after rmap_remove(), as it expects
the rmap chains not to change during iteration. Fix (for now) by restarting
iteration from the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If a timer fires after kvm_inject_pending_timer_irqs() but before
local_irq_disable() the code will enter guest mode and only inject such
timer interrupt the next time an unrelated event causes an exit.
It would be simpler if the timer->pending irq conversion could be done
with IRQ's disabled, so that the above problem cannot happen.
For now introduce a new vcpu requests bit to cancel guest entry.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A guest vcpu instance can be scheduled to a different physical CPU
between the test for KVM_REQ_MIGRATE_TIMER and local_irq_disable().
If that happens, the timer will only be migrated to the current pCPU on
the next exit, meaning that guest LAPIC timer event can be delayed until
a host interrupt is triggered.
Fix it by cancelling guest entry if any vcpu request is pending. This
has the side effect of nicely consolidating vcpu->requests checks.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
into the .text segment so that it is executable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Stable: this isn't a bugfix in itself, but it's a pre-requiste
for "xen: don't drop NX bit" ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
into the .text segment so that it is executable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Stable: this isn't a bugfix in itself, but it's a pre-requiste
for "xen: don't drop NX bit" ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
General Software writes their own VSA2 module for their version
of the Geode BIOS, which returns a different ID then the standard
VSA2. This was causing the framebuffer driver to break for most
GSW boards.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for
i386 and prints a error message on failure.
The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification
of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6"
(invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the
kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing
to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from
native_sched_clock().
(This error occurs so early that not even the serial console
can capture it.)
A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7,
via commit 9ccc906c97:
>x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable
>
>tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from
>the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace
>tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock()
>decision when to use TSC understandable.
>
>Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets
called before tsc_init().
Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable
which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late
in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip
the TSC and use jiffies instead.
After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable
which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls
to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on
!cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions.
My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled"
state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc"
kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also
allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1
on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all
checks have succeeded.
I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified
that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Patrick McHardy reported a crash:
> > I get this oops once a day, its apparently triggered by something
> > run by cron, but the process is a different one each time.
> >
> > Kernel is -git from yesterday shortly before the -rc6 release
> > (last commit is the usb-2.6 merge, the x86 patches are missing),
> > .config is attached.
> >
> > I'll retry with current -git, but the patches that have gone in
> > since I last updated don't look related.
> >
> > [62060.043009] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > 000001ff
> > [62060.043009] IP: [<c0102a9b>] __switch_to+0x2f/0x118
> > [62060.043009] *pde = 00000000
> > [62060.043009] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT
Vegard Nossum analyzed it:
> This decodes to
>
> 0: 0f ae 00 fxsave (%eax)
>
> so it's related to the floating-point context. This is the exact
> location of the crash:
>
> $ addr2line -e arch/x86/kernel/process_32.o -i ab0
> include/asm/i387.h:232
> include/asm/i387.h:262
> arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:595
>
> ...so it looks like prev_task->thread.xstate->fxsave has become NULL.
> Or maybe it never had any other value.
Somehow (as described below) TS_USEDFPU is set but the fpu is not
allocated or freed.
Another possible FPU pre-emption issue with the sleazy FPU optimization
which was benign before but not so anymore, with the dynamic FPU allocation
patch.
New task is getting exec'd and it is prempted at the below point.
flush_thread() {
...
/*
* Forget coprocessor state..
*/
clear_fpu(tsk);
<----- Preemption point
clear_used_math();
...
}
Now when it context switches in again, as the used_math() is still set
and fpu_counter can be > 5, we will do a math_state_restore() which sets
the task's TS_USEDFPU. After it continues from the above preemption point
it does clear_used_math() and much later free_thread_xstate().
Now, at the next context switch, it is quite possible that xstate is
null, used_math() is not set and TS_USEDFPU is still set. This will
trigger unlazy_fpu() causing kernel oops.
Fix this by clearing tsk's fpu_counter before clearing task's fpu.
Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Most users by far do not care about the exact return value (they only
really care about whether the copy succeeded in its entirety or not),
but a few special core routines actually care deeply about exactly how
many bytes were copied from user space.
And the unrolled versions of the x86-64 user copy routines would
sometimes report that it had copied more bytes than it actually had.
Very few uses actually have partial copies to begin with, but to make
this bug even harder to trigger, most x86 CPU's use the "rep string"
instructions for normal user copies, and that version didn't have this
issue.
To make it even harder to hit, the one user of this that really cared
about the return value (and used the uncached version of the copy that
doesn't use the "rep string" instructions) was the generic write
routine, which pre-populated its source, once more hiding the problem by
avoiding the exception case that triggers the bug.
In other words, very special thanks to Bron Gondwana who not only
triggered this, but created a test-program to show it, and bisected the
behavior down to commit 08291429cf ("mm:
fix pagecache write deadlocks") which changed the access pattern just
enough that you can now trigger it with 'writev()' with multiple
iovec's.
That commit itself was not the cause of the bug, it just allowed all the
stars to align just right that you could trigger the problem.
[ Side note: this is just the minimal fix to make the copy routines
(with __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache as the particular version that
was involved in showing this) have the right return values.
We really should improve on the exceptional case further - to make the
copy do a byte-accurate copy up to the exact page limit that causes it
to fail. As it is, the callers have to do extra work to handle the
limit case gracefully. ]
Reported-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(which didn't have this problem), and since
most users that do the carethis was very hard to trigger, but
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource
x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs
x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp
suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume
x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY
pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe
PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
Recently (around 2.6.25) I've noticed that RTC no longer works for me. It
turned out this is because I use pnpacpi=off kernel option to work around
the parport_pc bugs. I always did so, but RTC used to work fine in the
past, and now it have regressed.
The patch fixes the problem by creating the platform device for the RTC
when PNP is disabled. This may also help running the PNP-enabled kernel
on an older PCs.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Changed the call to find_e820_area_size to pass u64 instead of unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Alessandro Suardi reported:
> Recently upgraded my FC6 desktop to Fedora 9; with the
> latest nautilus RPM updates my VNC session went nuts
> with nautilus pegging the CPU for everything that breathed.
>
> I now reverted to an earlier nautilus package, but during
> the peak CPU period my kernel spat this:
>
> [314185.623294] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [314185.623414] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x128()
> [314185.623514] Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
> sunrpc ipv6 fuse snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_rawmidi via686a hwmon parport_pc sg parport uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
> [314185.623924] Pid: 12314, comm: nautilus Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-git2 #4
> [314185.624021] [<c0115b95>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x7b
> [314185.624021] [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021] [<c0128396>] ? up_read+0x16/0x28
> [314185.624021] [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021] [<c012fa33>] ? __lock_acquire+0xbb4/0xbc3
> [314185.624021] [<c012d0a0>] check_flags+0x4c/0x128
> [314185.624021] [<c012fa73>] lock_acquire+0x31/0x7d
> [314185.624021] [<c0128cf6>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x80
> [314185.624021] [<c0128cc6>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x80
> [314185.624021] [<c0128d52>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe
> [314185.624021] [<c0128d81>] notify_die+0x2d/0x2f
> [314185.624021] [<c01043b0>] do_int3+0x1f/0x4d
> [314185.624021] [<c02f2d3b>] int3+0x27/0x2c
> [314185.624021] =======================
> [314185.624021] ---[ end trace 1923f65a2d7bb246 ]---
> [314185.624021] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
> [314185.624021] irq event stamp: 488879
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last enabled at (488879): [<c0102d67>]
> restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last disabled at (488878): [<c0102dca>]
> work_resched+0x19/0x30
> [314185.624021] softirqs last enabled at (488876): [<c011a1ba>]
> __do_softirq+0xa6/0xac
> [314185.624021] softirqs last disabled at (488865): [<c010476e>]
> do_softirq+0x57/0xa6
>
> I didn't seem to find it with some googling, so here it is.
>
> I was incidentally ltracing that process to try and find out
> what was gulping down that much CPU (sorry, no idea
> whether ltrace and the WARNING happened at the same
> time or which came first) and:
Yeah, this is extremely likely to be the source of the warning.
The warning should be harmless, however.
> Box is my trusty noname K7-800, 512MB RAM; if there's
> anything else useful I might be able to provide, just ask.
It would be interesting to see where the int3 comes from. Too bad,
lockdep doesn't provide the register dump. The stacktrace also doesn't
go further than the int3(), I wonder if this int3 came from userspace?
The ltrace readme says "software breakpoints, like gdb", so I guess
this is the case. Yep, seems like it.
This looks relevant:
| commit fb1dac909d
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date: Wed Jan 16 09:51:59 2008 +0100
|
| lockdep: more hardirq annotations for notify_die()
I'm attaching a similarly-looking patch for this case (DO_VM86_ERROR),
though I suspect it might be missing for the other cases
(DO_ERROR/DO_ERROR_INFO) as well.
Reported-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix an incompatible pointer type warning on x86_64 compilations.
early_memtest() is passing a u64* to find_e820_area_size() which is expecting
an unsigned long. Change t_start and t_size to unsigned long as those are
also 64-bit types on x88_64.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 6e908947b4.
Németh Márton reported:
| there is a problem in 2.6.26-rc3 which was not there in case of
| 2.6.25: the CPU wakes up ~90,000 times per sec instead of ~60 per sec.
|
| I also "git bisected" the problem, the result is:
|
| 6e908947b4 is first bad commit
| commit 6e908947b4
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Fri Mar 21 14:32:36 2008 +0100
|
| x86: fix ioapic bug again
the original problem is fixed by Maciej W. Rozycki in the tip/x86/apic
branch (confirmed by Márton), but those changes are too intrusive for
v2.6.26 so we'll go for the less intrusive (repeated) revert now.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:10:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It also causes these warnings on 32-bit PAE:
>
> AS arch/x86/kernel/head_32.o
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
>
> and I do not see why (the end result seems to be identical).
Fix head_32.S gcc bignum warnings when CONFIG_PAE=y.
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
The assembler was stumbling over the 64-bit constant 0x100000000 in the
KPMDS #define.
Testing: a cmp(1) on head_32.o before and after shows the binary is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: "Siddha Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: "Barnes Jesse" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Page faults in kernel address space between PAGE_OFFSET up to
VMALLOC_START should not try to map as vmalloc.
Fix rarely endless page faults inside mount_block_root for root
filesystem at boot time.
All 32bit kernels up to 2.6.25 can fail into this hole.
I can not present this under native linux kernel. I see, that the 64bit
has fixed the problem. I copied the same lines into 32bit part.
Recorded debugs are from coLinux kernel 2.6.22.18 (virtualisation):
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/testing/pfn-check-0.7.3/20080410-antinx/bug16-recursive-page-fault-endless.txt
The physicaly memory was trimmed down to 192MB to better catch the bug.
More memory gets the bug more rarely.
Details, how every x86 32bit system can fail:
Start from "mount_block_root",
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/init/do_mounts.c#L297
There the variable "fs_names" got one memory page with 4096 bytes.
Variable "p" walks through the existing file system types. The first
string is no problem.
But, with the second loop in mount_block_root the offset of "p" is not
at beginning of page, the offset is for example +9, if "reiserfs" is the
first in list.
Than calls do_mount_root, and lands in sys_mount.
Remember: Variable "type_page" contains now "fs_type+9" and not contains
a full page.
The sys_mount copies 4096 bytes with function "exact_copy_from_user()":
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1540
Mostly exist pages after the buffer "fs_names+4096+9" and the page fault
handler was not called. No problem.
In the case, if the page after "fs_names+4096" is not mapped, the page
fault handler was called from http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1320
The do_page_fault gots an address 0xc03b4000.
It's kernel address, address >= TASK_SIZE, but not from vmalloc! It's
from "__getname()" alias "kmem_cache_alloc".
The "error_code" is 0. "vmalloc_fault" will be call:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L332
"vmalloc_fault" tryed to find the physical page for a non existing
virtual memory area. The macro "pte_present" in vmalloc_fault()
got a next page fault for 0xc0000ed0 at:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L282
No PTE exist for such virtual address. The page fault handler was trying
to sync the physical page for the PTE lockup.
This called vmalloc_fault() again for address 0xc000000, and that also
was not existing. The endless began...
In normal case the cpu would still loop with disabled interrrupts. Under
coLinux this was catched by a stack overflow inside printk debugs.
Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'core/iter-div' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
always_inline timespec_add_ns
add an inlined version of iter_div_u64_rem
common implementation of iterative div/mod
We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used
when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor.
Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this
into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and
even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc.
The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent
gcc from performing the transformation.
This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it
to replace the open-coded versions I know about.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is a SLIT sanity checking patch. It moves slit_valid() function to
generic ACPI code and does sanity checking for both x86 and ia64. It sets up
node_distance with LOCAL_DISTANCE and REMOTE_DISTANCE when hitting invalid
SLIT table on ia64. It also cleans up unused variable localities in
acpi_parse_slit() on x86.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm:
KVM: MMU: Fix is_empty_shadow_page() check
KVM: MMU: Fix printk() format string
KVM: IOAPIC: only set remote_irr if interrupt was injected
KVM: MMU: reschedule during shadow teardown
KVM: VMX: Clear CR4.VMXE in hardware_disable
KVM: migrate PIT timer
KVM: ppc: Report bad GFNs
KVM: ppc: Use a read lock around MMU operations, and release it on error
KVM: ppc: Remove unmatched kunmap() call
KVM: ppc: add lwzx/stwz emulation
KVM: ppc: Remove duplicate function
KVM: s390: Fix race condition in kvm_s390_handle_wait
KVM: s390: Send program check on access error
KVM: s390: fix interrupt delivery
KVM: s390: handle machine checks when guest is running
KVM: s390: fix locking order problem in enable_sie
KVM: s390: use yield instead of schedule to implement diag 0x44
KVM: x86 emulator: fix hypercall return value on AMD
KVM: ia64: fix zero extending for mmio ld1/2/4 emulation in KVM
Currently arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c always adds __GFP_NORETRY
to the allocation flags, because it wants to be reasonably
sure not to deadlock when calling alloc_pages().
But really that should only be done in two cases:
- when allocating memory in the lower 16 MB DMA zone.
If there's no free memory there, waiting or OOM killing is of no use
- when optimistically trying an allocation in the DMA32 zone
when dma_mask < DMA_32BIT_MASK hoping that the allocation
happens to fall within the limits of the dma_mask
Also blindly adding __GFP_NORETRY to the the gfp variable might
not be a good idea since we then also use it when calling
dma_ops->alloc_coherent(). Clearing it might also not be a
good idea, dma_alloc_coherent()'s caller might have set it
on purpose. The gfp variable should not be clobbered.
[ mingo@elte.hu: converted to delta patch ontop of previous version. ]
Signed-off-by: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86/PCI: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
PCI/x86: fix up PCI stuff so that PCI_GOANY supports OLPC
Shadows for large guests can take a long time to tear down, so reschedule
occasionally to avoid softlockup warnings.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Clear CR4.VMXE in hardware_disable. There's no reason to leave it set
after doing a VMXOFF.
VMware Workstation 6.5 checks CR4.VMXE as a proxy for whether the CPU is
in VMX mode, so leaving VMXE set means we'll refuse to power on. With this
change the user can power on after unloading the kvm-intel module. I
tested on kvm-67 and kvm-69.
Signed-off-by: Eli Collins <ecollins@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>