Currently the index to the ret_stack is updated and the real return address
is saved in the ret_stack. Then we call the trace function. The trace
function could decide that it doesn't want to trace this function
(ex. set_graph_function does not match) and it will return 0 which means
not to trace this call.
The normal function graph tracer has this code:
if (!(trace->depth || ftrace_graph_addr(trace->func)) ||
ftrace_graph_ignore_irqs())
return 0;
What this states is, if the trace depth (which is curr_ret_stack)
is zero (top of nested functions) then test if we want to trace this
function. If this function is not to be traced, then return 0 and
the rest of the function graph tracer logic will not trace this function.
The problem arises when an interrupt comes in after we updated the
curr_ret_stack. The next function that gets called will have a trace->depth
of 1. Which fools this trace code into thinking that we are in a nested
function, and that we should trace. This causes interrupts to be traced
when they should not be.
The solution is to trace the function first and then update the ret_stack.
Reported-by: zhiping zhong <xzhong86@163.com>
Reported-by: wu zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291421609-14665-8-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
You can crash the kernel (with root/admin privileges) using kprobe tracer by running:
echo "p system_call_after_swapgs" > ./kprobe_events
echo 1 > ./events/kprobes/enable
The reason is that at the system_call_after_swapgs label, the
kernel stack is not set up. If optimized kprobes are enabled,
the user space stack is being used in this case (see optimized
kprobe template) and this might result in a crash.
There are several places like this over the entry code
(entry_$BIT). As it seems there's no any reasonable/maintainable
way to disable only those places where the stack is not ready, I
switched off the whole entry code from kprobe optimizing.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <1298298313-5980-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.
Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.
Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:
before patch:
19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% )
after patch:
16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% )
The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.
Whole perf output follows:
- results for current tip tree:
Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):
19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% )
2676914223 instructions # 0.497 IPC ( +- 0.079% )
5389516026 cycles ( +- 0.144% )
0.206267711 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.138% )
- results for current tip tree with the patch applied:
Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):
16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% )
2717734941 instructions # 0.502 IPC ( +- 0.079% )
5414756975 cycles ( +- 0.148% )
0.206747566 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.137% )
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299119690-13991-5-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Intel Nehalem and Westmere CPUs the generic perf LLC-* events count the
L2 caches, not the real L3 LLC - this was inconsistent with behavior on
other CPUs.
Fixing this requires the use of the special OFFCORE_RESPONSE
events which need a separate mask register.
This has been implemented by the previous patch, now use this infrastructure
to set correct events for the LLC-* on Nehalem and Westmere.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299119690-13991-3-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change logs against Andi's original version:
- Extends perf_event_attr:config to config{,1,2} (Peter Zijlstra)
- Fixed a major event scheduling issue. There cannot be a ref++ on an
event that has already done ref++ once and without calling
put_constraint() in between. (Stephane Eranian)
- Use thread_cpumask for percore allocation. (Lin Ming)
- Use MSR names in the extra reg lists. (Lin Ming)
- Remove redundant "c = NULL" in intel_percore_constraints
- Fix comment of perf_event_attr::config1
Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event
that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core.
This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's
also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly.
Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate
register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per
CPU thread.
This patch:
- Teaches perf_events that OFFCORE_RESPONSE needs extra parameters.
The extra parameters are passed by user space in the
perf_event_attr::config1 field.
- Adds support to the Intel perf_event core to schedule per
core resources. This adds fairly generic infrastructure that
can be also used for other per core resources.
The basic code has is patterned after the similar AMD northbridge
constraints code.
Thanks to Stephane Eranian who pointed out some problems
in the original version and suggested improvements.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299119690-13991-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch updates PEBS event constraints for Intel Atom, Nehalem, Westmere.
This patch also reorganizes the PEBS format/constraint detection code. It is
now based on processor model and not PEBS format. Two processors may use the
same PEBS format without have the same list of PEBS events.
In this second version, we simplified the initialization of the PEBS
constraints by leveraging the existing switch() statement in perf_event_intel.c.
We also renamed the constraint tables to be more consistent with regular
constraints.
In this 3rd version, we drop BR_INST_RETIRED.MISPRED from Intel Atom as it does
not seem to work. Use MISPREDICTED_BRANCH_RETIRED instead. Also add FP_ASSIST.*
o both Intel Nehalem and Westmere. I misssed those in the earlier patches.
Events were tested using libpfm4 perf_examples.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d6e6b02.815bdf0a.637b.07a7@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'devicetree/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
of/promtree: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness (v5)
x86: OLPC: have prom_early_alloc BUG rather than return NULL
of/flattree: Drop an uninteresting message to pr_debug level
of: Add missing of_address.h to xilinx ehci driver
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod: print EST-capable warning message only once
[CPUFREQ] fix BUG on cpufreq policy init failure
[CPUFREQ] Fix another notifier leak in powernow-k8.
[CPUFREQ] Missing "unregister_cpu_notifier" in powernow-k8.c
..similar to what sparc's prom_early_alloc does.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
This patch adds basic SandyBridge support, including hardware
cache events and PEBS events support.
It has been tested on SandyBridge CPUs with perf stat and also
with PEBS based profiling - both work fine.
The patch does not affect other models.
v2 -> v3:
- fix PEBS event 0xd0 with right umask combinations
- move snb pebs constraint assignment to intel_pmu_init
v1 -> v2:
- add more raw and PEBS events constraints
- use offcore events for LLC-* cache events
- remove the call to Nehalem workaround enable_all function
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
LKML-Reference: <1299072424.2175.24.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Do the notifier registration later, so we don't have to worry
about freeing it if we fail the msr allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
It appears that when powernow-k8 finds that
No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
and suggests
Try again with latest BIOS.
it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was
registered in powernowk8_init
This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other
poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over.
The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other
clean-up that is needed.
( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces).
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
A customer of ours, complained that when setting the reset
vector back to 0, it trashed other data and hung their box.
They noticed when only 4 bytes were set to 0 instead of 8,
everything worked correctly.
Mathew pointed out:
|
| We're supposed to be resetting trampoline_phys_low and
| trampoline_phys_high here, which are two 16-bit values.
| Writing 64 bits is definitely going to overwrite space
| that we're not supposed to be touching.
|
So limit the area modified to u32.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1297139100-424-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86 quirk: Fix polarity for IRQ0 pin2 override on SB800 systems
x86/mrst: Fix apb timer rating when lapic timer is used
x86: Fix reboot problem on VersaLogic Menlow boards
On some SB800 systems polarity for IOAPIC pin2 is wrongly
specified as low active by BIOS. This caused system hangs after
resume from S3 when HPET was used in one-shot mode on such
systems because a timer interrupt was missed (HPET signal is
high active).
For more details see:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129623757413868
Tested-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37.x, 32.x
LKML-Reference: <20110224145346.GD3658@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Need to adjust the clockevent device rating for the structure
that will be registered with clockevent system instead of the
temporary structure.
Without this fix, APB timer rating will be higher than LAPIC
timer such that it can not be released later to be used as the
broadcast timer.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
LKML-Reference: <1298506046-439-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In the dr_intercept function a new cpu-feature called
decode-assists is implemented and used when available. This
code-path does not advance the guest-rip causing the guest
to dead-loop over mov-dr instructions. This is fixed by this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
VersaLogic Menlow based boards hang on reboot unless reboot=bios
is used. Add quirk to reboot through the BIOS.
Tested on at least four boards.
Signed-off-by: Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1298152563-21594-1-git-send-email-kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With no caller left, the function and the DIE_NMIWATCHDOG
enumerator can both go away.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D5D521C0200007800032702@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Just as we had to disable auto-demotion for NHM/WSM,
we need to do the same for Atom (Lincroft version).
In particular, auto-demotion will prevent Lincroft
from entering the S0i3 idle power saving state.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25252
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Hardware C-state auto-demotion is a mechanism where the HW overrides
the OS C-state request, instead demoting to a shallower state,
which is less expensive, but saves less power.
Modern Linux should generally get exactly the states it requests.
In particular, when a CPU is taken off-line, it must not be demoted, else
it can prevent the entire package from reaching deep C-states.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25252
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This patch adds support for AMD family 15h core counters. There are
major changes compared to family 10h. First, there is a new perfctr
msr range for up to 6 counters. Northbridge counters are separate
now. This patch only adds support for core counters. Second, certain
events may only be scheduled on certain counters. For this we need to
extend the event scheduling and constraints.
We use cpu feature flags to calculate family 15h msr address offsets.
This way we later can implement a faster ALTERNATIVE() version for
this.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110215135210.GB5874@erda.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of storing the base addresses we can store the counter's msr
addresses directly in config_base/event_base of struct hw_perf_event.
This avoids recalculating the address with each msr access. The
addresses are configured one time. We also need this change to later
modify the address calculation.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1296664860-10886-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch allows the reservation of perfctrs with new msr addresses
introduced for AMD cpu family 15h (0xc0010200/0xc0010201, etc).
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1296664860-10886-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds helper functions to calculate perfctr msr addresses.
We need this to later add support for AMD family 15h cpus. For this we
have to change the algorithms to generate the perfctr's msr addresses.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1296664860-10886-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use helper function in x86_pmu_enable_all() to minimize access to
x86_pmu.eventsel in the fast path. The counter's msr address is now
calculated using struct hw_perf_event. Later we add code that
calculates the msr addresses with a table lookup which shouldn't be
done in the fast path.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1296664860-10886-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Several people have reported spurious unknown NMI
messages on some P4 CPUs.
This patch fixes it by checking for an overflow (negative
counter values) directly, instead of relying on the
P4_CCCR_OVF bit.
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinfuTfCck_FfaOHrDqQZZehtRzkBum4SpFoO=KJ@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, dmi, debug: Log board name (when present) in dmesg/oops output
x86, ioapic: Don't warn about non-existing IOAPICs if we have none
x86: Fix mwait_usable section mismatch
x86: Readd missing irq_to_desc() in fixup_irq()
x86: Fix section mismatch in LAPIC initialization
The "Type 2" SMBIOS record that contains Board Name is not
strictly required and may be absent in the SMBIOS on some
platforms.
( Please note that Type 2 is not listed in Table 3 in Sec 6.2
("Required Structures and Data") of the SMBIOS v2.7
Specification. )
Use the Manufacturer Name (aka System Vendor) name.
Print Board Name only when it is present.
Before the fix:
(i) dmesg output: DMI: /ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
(ii) oops output: Pid: 2170, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 /ProLiant DL380 G6
After the fix:
(i) dmesg output: DMI: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
(ii) oops output: Pid: 2278, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #4 HP ProLiant DL380 G6
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .3x - good for debugging, please apply as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: <20110214224423.2182.13929.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
mp_find_ioapic() prints errors like:
ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 13
if it can't find the IOAPIC that manages that specific GSI. I
see errors like that at every boot of a laptop that apparently
doesn't have any IOAPICs.
But if there are no IOAPICs it doesn't seem to be an error that
none can be found. A solution that gets rid of this message is
to directly return if nr_ioapics (still) is zero. (But keep
returning -1 in that case, so nothing breaks from this change.)
The call chain that generates this error is:
pnpacpi_allocated_resource()
case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_IRQ:
pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource()
acpi_get_override_irq()
mp_find_ioapic()
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We use it in non __cpuinit code now too so drop marker.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110211171754.GA21047@aftab>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
commit a3c08e5d(x86: Convert irq_chip access to new functions)
accidentally zapped desc = irq_to_desc(irq); in the vector loop.
So we lock some random irq descriptor.
Add it back.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37
Additionally doing things conditionally upon smp_processor_id()
being zero is generally a bad idea, as this means CPU 0 cannot
be offlined and brought back online later again.
While there may be other places where this is done, I think adding
more of those should be avoided so that some day SMP can really
become "symmetrical".
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D525C7E0200007800030EE1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The gs_index loading code uses the swapgs instruction to
switch to the user gs_base temporarily. This is unsave in an
lightweight exit-path in KVM on AMD because the
KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR is switches lazily. An NMI happening in
the critical path of load_gs_index may use the wrong GS_BASE
value then leading to unpredictable behavior, e.g. a
triple-fault.
This patch fixes the issue by making sure that load_gs_index
is called only with a valid KERNEL_GS_BASE value loaded in
KVM.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We reserve lowmem for the things that need it, like the ACPI
wakeup code, way early to guarantee availability. This happens
before we set up the proper pagetables, so set_memory_x() has no
effect.
Until we have a better solution, use an initcall to mark the
wakeup code executable.
Originally-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D4F8019.2090104@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32: Make sure the stack is set up before we use it
x86, mtrr: Avoid MTRR reprogramming on BP during boot on UP platforms
x86, nx: Don't force pages RW when setting NX bits
Since checkin ebba638ae7 we call
verify_cpu even in 32-bit mode. Unfortunately, calling a function
means using the stack, and the stack pointer was not initialized in
the 32-bit setup code! This code initializes the stack pointer, and
simplifies the interface slightly since it is easier to rely on just a
pointer value rather than a descriptor; we need to have different
values for the segment register anyway.
This retains start_stack as a virtual address, even though a physical
address would be more convenient for 32 bits; the 64-bit code wants
the other way around...
Reported-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
LKML-Reference: <4D41E86D.8060205@free.fr>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
