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Brian Gerst
b12bdaf11f x86: use regparm(3) for passed-in pt_regs pointer
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.

Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-11 14:00:56 -08:00
Brian Gerst
9c8bb6b534 x86: drop -fno-stack-protector annotations after pt_regs fixes
Now that no functions rely on struct pt_regs being passed by value,
various "no stack protector" annotations can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:45 +01:00
Brian Gerst
253f29a4ae x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:45 +01:00
Brian Gerst
aa78bcfa01 x86: use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not_available()
The generic exception handler (error_code) passes in the pt_regs
pointer and the error code (unused in this case).  The commit
"x86: fix math_emu register frame access" changed this to pass by
value, which doesn't work correctly with stack protector enabled.
Change it back to use the pt_regs pointer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:44 +01:00
Tejun Heo
5c79d2a517 x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs
Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector

Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary
instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary
value for all threads.  Fixing this also exposed the following bugs.

* cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary()

* stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making
  the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value.

Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about
calling boot_init_stack_canary().

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 11:33:49 +01:00
Tejun Heo
60a5317ff0 x86: implement x86_32 stack protector
Impact: stack protector for x86_32

Implement stack protector for x86_32.  GDT entry 28 is used for it.
It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes.
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs
to the stack canary segment on entry.  As %gs is otherwise unused by
the kernel, the canary can be anywhere.  It's defined as a percpu
variable.

x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as
struct pt_regs.  With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the
whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy
back on return thus losing all changed.  For now, -fno-stack-protector
is added to all files which contain those functions.  We definitely
need something better.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:01 +01:00
Tejun Heo
ccbeed3a05 x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32
Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight
        overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit

On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily.  pt_regs
doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary.
In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs
handling optional by doing the followings.

* Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs.

* Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless
  LAZY_GS.  Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL
  even when LAZY_GS.  However, it adds no overhead to common exit path
  and simplifies entry path with error code.

* Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add
  lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS.  The
  lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily.

* Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly.

xen and lguest changes need to be verified.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d9a89a26e0 x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:58 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f0d96110f9 x86: use asm .macro instead of cpp #define in entry_32.S
Impact: cleanup

Use .macro instead of cpp #define where approriate.  This cleans up
code and will ease future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
92e2d50846 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-10 00:41:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5d96218b4a Merge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpu 2009-02-10 00:40:48 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d315760ffa x86: fix math_emu register frame access
do_device_not_available() is the handler for #NM and it declares that
it takes a unsigned long and calls math_emu(), which takes a long
argument and surprisingly expects the stack frame starting at the zero
argument would match struct math_emu_info, which isn't true regardless
of configuration in the current code.

This patch makes do_device_not_available() take struct pt_regs like
other exception handlers and initialize struct math_emu_info with
pointer to it and pass pointer to the math_emu_info to math_emulate()
like normal C functions do.  This way, unless gcc makes a copy of
struct pt_regs in do_device_not_available(), the register frame is
correctly accessed regardless of kernel configuration or compiler
used.

This doesn't fix all math_emu problems but it at least gets it
somewhat working.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:39:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
249d51b53a Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-09 14:58:11 +01:00
Alok Kataria
55a8ba4b7f x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
Commit 6194ba6ff6 ("x86: don't special-case
pmd allocations as much") made changes to the way we handle pmd allocations,
and while doing that it dropped a call to  paravirt_release_pd on the
pgd page from the pgd_dtor code path.

As a result of this missing release, the hypervisor is now unaware of the
pgd page being freed, and as a result it ends up tracking this page as a
page table page.

After this the guest may start using the same page for other purposes, and
depending on what use the page is put to, it may result in various performance
and/or functional issues ( hangs, reboots).

Since this release is only required for VMI, I now release the pgd page from
the (vmi)_pgd_free hook.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2009-02-09 13:10:13 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
3f4a739c6a x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
Impact: find right nr_irqs_gsi on some systems.

One test-system has gap between gsi's:

[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfeafd000] gsi_base[48])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 0, address 0xfeafd000, GSI 48-54
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x06] address[0xfeafc000] gsi_base[56])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 6, version 0, address 0xfeafc000, GSI 56-62
...
[    0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 38

So nr_irqs_gsi is not right. some irq for MSI will overwrite with io_apic.

need to get that with acpi_probe_gsi when acpi io_apic is used

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 12:42:59 +01:00
Pallipadi, Venkatesh
e736ad548d x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].

This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.

[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
    section in specification update document of 7400 series
    http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 11:15:15 +01:00
Brian Gerst
2add8e235c x86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Impact: cleanup and bug fix

Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
that are offset by __per_cpu_load.  This allows the removal of
the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
resume reported by Jiri Slaby.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:30:30 +01:00
Len Brown
2d29c6a075 Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', 'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release 2009-02-07 01:34:56 -05:00
H. Peter Anvin
327641da8e Merge branch 'core/percpu' into x86/paravirt 2009-02-04 16:58:26 -08:00
Alex Chiang
4560839939 x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
Fix user-visible grammo.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 01:14:38 +01:00
Kyle McMartin
48ec4d9537 x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
This patch echoes what we already do on 32-bit since
90f7d25c6b, and prints the DMI
product name in show_regs, so that system specific problems can be
easily identified.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04 22:10:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bb960a1e42 Merge branch 'core/xen' into x86/urgent 2009-02-04 14:54:56 +01:00
Thomas Renninger
62663ea822 ACPI: cpufreq: Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/../performance proc entries
They were long enough set deprecated...

Update Documentation/cpu-freq/users-guide.txt:
The deprecated files listed there seen not to exist for some time anymore
already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-04 00:12:24 -05:00
Borislav Petkov
858770619d x86: APIC: enable workaround on AMD Fam10h CPUs
Impact: fix to enable APIC for AMD Fam10h on chipsets with a missing/b0rked
	ACPI MP table (MADT)

Booting a 32bit kernel on an AMD Fam10h CPU running on chipsets with
missing/b0rked MP table leads to a hang pretty early in the boot process
due to the APIC not being initialized. Fix that by falling back to the
default APIC base address in 32bit code, as it is done in the 64bit
codepath.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-03 18:09:33 -08:00
Martin Hicks
a67798cd7b x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder
Impact: Fixes dumpstack and KDB on 64 bits

This re-adds the old stack pointer to the top of the irqstack to help
with unwinding.  It was removed in commit d99015b1ab
as part of the save_args out-of-line work.

Both dumpstack and KDB require this information.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-02 21:18:03 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
ef3892bd63 x86, percpu: fix kexec with vmlinux
Impact: fix regression with kexec with vmlinux

Split data.init into data.init, percpu, data.init2 sections
instead of let data.init wrap percpu secion.

Thus kexec loading will be happy, because sections will not
overlap.

Before the patch we have:

Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x200000
There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD           0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000
                 0x0000000000ca6000 0x0000000000ca6000  R E    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000000ea6000 0xffffffff80ea6000 0x0000000000ea6000
                 0x000000000014dfe0 0x000000000014dfe0  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000001000000 0xffffffffff600000 0x0000000000ff4000
                 0x0000000000000888 0x0000000000000888  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x00000000011f6000 0xffffffff80ff6000 0x0000000000ff6000
                 0x0000000000073086 0x0000000000a2d938  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000001400000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000000106a000
                 0x00000000001d2ce0 0x00000000001d2ce0  RWE    200000
  NOTE           0x00000000009e2c1c 0xffffffff809e2c1c 0x00000000009e2c1c
                 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024         4

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .builtin_fw __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param
   01     .data .init.rodata .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly
   02     .vsyscall_0 .vsyscall_fn .vsyscall_gtod_data .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vgetcpu_mode .jiffies
   03     .data.init_task .smp_locks .init.text .init.data .init.setup .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .x86_cpu_dev.init .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs .bss
   04     .data.percpu
   05     .notes

After patch we've got:

Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x200000
There are 7 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD           0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000
                 0x0000000000ca6000 0x0000000000ca6000  R E    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000000ea6000 0xffffffff80ea6000 0x0000000000ea6000
                 0x000000000014dfe0 0x000000000014dfe0  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000001000000 0xffffffffff600000 0x0000000000ff4000
                 0x0000000000000888 0x0000000000000888  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x00000000011f6000 0xffffffff80ff6000 0x0000000000ff6000
                 0x0000000000073086 0x0000000000073086  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000001400000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000000106a000
                 0x00000000001d2ce0 0x00000000001d2ce0  RWE    200000
  LOAD           0x000000000163d000 0xffffffff8123d000 0x000000000123d000
                 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000007e6938  RWE    200000
  NOTE           0x00000000009e2c1c 0xffffffff809e2c1c 0x00000000009e2c1c
                 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024         4

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .builtin_fw __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param
   01     .data .init.rodata .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly
   02     .vsyscall_0 .vsyscall_fn .vsyscall_gtod_data .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vgetcpu_mode .jiffies
   03     .data.init_task .smp_locks .init.text .init.data .init.setup .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .x86_cpu_dev.init .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs
   04     .data.percpu
   05     .bss
   06     .notes

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 06:11:18 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
664c795472 x86/vmi: fix interrupt enable/disable/save/restore calling convention.
Zach says:
> Enable/Disable have no clobbers at all.
> Save clobbers only return value, %eax
> Restore also clobbers nothing.

This is precisely compatible with the calling convention, so we can
just call them directly without wrapping.

(Compile tested only.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-02 08:06:33 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
10b888d6ce irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_desc
Eric Paris reported:

> I have an hp dl785g5 which is unable to successfully run
> 2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64 or 2.6.29-rc2-next-20090126.  During bootup
> (early in userspace daemons starting) I get the below BUG, which quickly
> renders the machine dead.  I assume it is because sparse_irq_lock never
> gets released when the BUG kills that task.

Adjust lock sequence when migrating a descriptor with
CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC enabled.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01 11:36:31 +01:00
Dave Jones
9a8ecae87a x86: add cache descriptors for Intel Core i7
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01 11:06:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f6490438fc Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, ds, bts: cleanup/fix DS configuration
  ring-buffer: reset timestamps when ring buffer is reset
  trace: set max latency variable to zero on default
  trace: stop all recording to ring buffer on ftrace_dump
  trace: print ftrace_dump at KERN_EMERG log level
  ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer fail
  tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk
  ring-buffer: fix alignment problem
2009-01-31 15:53:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e81cfd214f Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86 setup: fix asm constraints in vesa_store_edid
  xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest
  x86: tone down mtrr_trim_uncached_memory() warning
  x86: correct the CPUID pattern for MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE availability
2009-01-31 15:52:46 -08:00
James Bottomley
92ab78315c x86/Voyager: make it build and boot
[
  mingo@elte.hu: these fixes are a subset of changes cherry-picked from:

     git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/voyager-2.6.git

  They fix various problems that recent x86 changes caused in the Voyager
  subarchitecture: both APIC changes and cpumask changes and certain
  cleanups caused subarch assumptions to break.

  Most of these changes are obsolete as the subarch code has been removed
  from the x86 development tree - but we merge them upstream to make Voyager
  build and boot.
]

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-31 18:26:07 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
11e3a840cd x86: split loading percpu segments from loading gdt
Impact: split out a function, no functional change

Xen needs to be able to access percpu data from very early on.  For
various reasons, it cannot also load the gdt at that time.   It does,
however, have a pefectly functional gdt at that point, so there's no
pressing need to reload the gdt.

Split the function to load the segment registers off, so Xen can call
it directly.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-31 14:28:54 +09:00
Brian Gerst
552be871e6 x86: pass in cpu number to switch_to_new_gdt()
Impact: cleanup, prepare for xen boot fix.

Xen needs to call this function very early to setup the GDT and
per-cpu segments.  Remove the call to smp_processor_id() and just
pass in the cpu number.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-31 14:28:50 +09:00
Cliff Wickman
2749ebe320 x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and_wait()
Impact: fix possible tlb mis-flushing on UV

uv_flush_send_and_wait() should return a pointer if the broadcast
remote tlb shootdown requests fail. That causes the conventional IPI
method of shootdown to be used.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-31 14:23:37 +09:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
da5de7c22e x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etc
Impact: Optimization

In the native case, pte_val, make_pte, etc are all just identity
functions, so there's no need to clobber a lot of registers over them.

(This changes the 32-bit callee-save calling convention to return both
EAX and EDX so functions can return 64-bit values.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30 14:51:45 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ecb93d1ccd x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressure
Impact: Optimization

One of the problems with inserting a pile of C calls where previously
there were none is that the register pressure is greatly increased.
The C calling convention says that the caller must expect a certain
set of registers may be trashed by the callee, and that the callee can
use those registers without restriction.  This includes the function
argument registers, and several others.

This patch seeks to alleviate this pressure by introducing wrapper
thunks that will do the register saving/restoring, so that the
callsite doesn't need to worry about it, but the callee function can
be conventional compiler-generated code.  In many cases (particularly
performance-sensitive cases) the callee will be in assembler anyway,
and need not use the compiler's calling convention.

Standard calling convention is:
	 arguments	    return	scratch
x86-32	 eax edx ecx	    eax		?
x86-64	 rdi rsi rdx rcx    rax		r8 r9 r10 r11

The thunk preserves all argument and scratch registers.  The return
register is not preserved, and is available as a scratch register for
unwrapped callee code (and of course the return value).

Wrapped function pointers are themselves wrapped in a struct
paravirt_callee_save structure, in order to get some warning from the
compiler when functions with mismatched calling conventions are used.

The most common paravirt ops, both statically and dynamically, are
interrupt enable/disable/save/restore, so handle them first.  This is
particularly easy since their calls are handled specially anyway.

XXX Deal with VMI.  What's their calling convention?

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30 14:51:45 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b8aa287f77 x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
Impact: Fix latent bug

The clobber is trying to say that anything except RDI is available for
clobbering, but actually clobbers everything.  This hasn't mattered
because the clobbers were basically ignored, but subsequent patches
will rely on them.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30 14:51:44 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
41edafdb78 x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching
Impact: Optimization

Several paravirt ops implementations simply return their arguments,
the most obvious being the make_pte/pte_val class of operations on
native.

On 32-bit, the identity function is literally a no-op, as the calling
convention uses the same registers for the first argument and return.
On 64-bit, it can be implemented with a single "mov".

This patch adds special identity functions for 32 and 64 bit argument,
and machinery to recognize them and replace them with either nops or a
mov as appropriate.

At the moment, the only users for the identity functions are the
pagetable entry conversion functions.

The result is a measureable improvement on pagetable-heavy benchmarks
(2-3%, reducing the pvops overhead from 5 to 2%).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30 14:51:44 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
9b7ed8faa0 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into x86/paravirt 2009-01-30 14:50:57 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
c43e0e46ad Merge branch 'linus' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-01-30 18:23:30 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
5872fb94f8 Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/
Move DMA-mapping.txt to Documentation/PCI/.

DMA-mapping.txt was supposed to be moved from Documentation/ to
Documentation/PCI/.  The 00-INDEX files in those two directories
were updated, along with a few other text files, but the file
itself somehow escaped being moved, so move it and update more
text files and source files with its new location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
bf3647c44b x86: tone down mtrr_trim_uncached_memory() warning
kerneloops.org is reporting a lot of these warnings that come due to
vmware not setting up any MTRRs for emulated CPUs:

| Reported 709 times (14696 total reports)
| BIOS bug (often in VMWare) where the MTRR's are set up incorrectly
| or not at all
|
| This warning was last seen in version 2.6.29-rc2-git1, and first
| seen in 2.6.24.
|
| More info:
|   http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mtrr_trim_uncached_memory

Keep a one-liner KERN_INFO about it - so that we have so notice if empty
MTRRs are caused by native hardware/BIOS weirdness.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-29 11:45:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4369f1fb7c Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c

Semantic conflict:

	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-27 12:03:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3ddeb51d9c Merge branch 'linus' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
2009-01-27 12:01:51 +01:00
Tejun Heo
cf3997f507 x86: clean up indentation in setup_per_cpu_areas()
Impact: cosmetic cleanup

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 14:25:05 +09:00
James Bottomley
22f25138c3 x86: fix build breakage on voyage
Impact: build fix

x86_cpu_to_apicid and x86_bios_cpu_apicid aren't defined for voyage.
Earlier patch forgot to conditionalize early percpu clearing.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 14:21:37 +09:00
Brian Gerst
2697fbd5fa x86: load new GDT after setting up boot cpu per-cpu area
Impact: sync 32 and 64-bit code

Merge load_gs_base() into switch_to_new_gdt().  Load the GDT and
per-cpu state for the boot cpu when its new area is set up.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00
Brian Gerst
b2d2f4312b x86: initialize per-cpu GDT segment in per-cpu setup
Impact: cleanup

Rename init_gdt() to setup_percpu_segment(), and move it to
setup_percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00
Brian Gerst
89c9c4c58e x86: make Voyager use x86 per-cpu setup.
Impact: standardize all x86 platforms on same setup code

With the preceding changes, Voyager can use the same per-cpu setup
code as all the other x86 platforms.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-27 12:56:48 +09:00