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2011-12-21x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpointsSteven Rostedt
We want to allow NMI handlers to have breakpoints to be able to remove stop_machine from ftrace, kprobes and jump_labels. But if an NMI interrupts a current breakpoint, and then it triggers a breakpoint itself, it will switch to the breakpoint stack and corrupt the data on it for the breakpoint processing that it interrupted. Instead, have the NMI check if it interrupted breakpoint processing by checking if the stack that is currently used is a breakpoint stack. If it is, then load a special IDT that changes the IST for the debug exception to keep the same stack in kernel context. When the NMI is done, it puts it back. This way, if the NMI does trigger a breakpoint, it will keep using the same stack and not stomp on the breakpoint data for the breakpoint it interrupted. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-04x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt opAndy Lutomirski
Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3 selector is __USER_CS. This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq changes cs to the magic value 0xe033. Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling" (c9712944b2a12373cb6ff8059afcfb7e826a6c54), vsyscalls will segfault if called with Xen's extra CS selector. This causes a panic when older init builds die. It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the tests instead with a new paravirt op. It's a little ugly because ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-27x86, asm: Clean up desc.h a bitIngo Molnar
I have looked at this file and found it rather ugly - improve readability a bit. No change in functionality. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-incpt6y26yd8586idx65t9ll@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-05x86: Make sure get_user_desc() doesn't sign extend.Chris Lalancette
The current implementation of get_user_desc() sign extends the return value because of integer promotion rules. For the most part, this doesn't matter, because the top bit of base2 is usually 0. If, however, that bit is 1, then the entire value will be 0xffff... which is probably not what the caller intended. This patch casts the entire thing to unsigned before returning, which generates almost the same assembly as the current code but replaces the final "cltq" (sign extend) with a "mov %eax %eax" (zero-extend). This fixes booting certain guests under KVM. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-19x86: Introduce set_desc_base() and set_desc_limit()Akinobu Mita
Rename set_base()/set_limit to set_desc_base()/set_desc_limit() and rewrite them in C. These are naturally introduced by the idea of get_desc_base()/get_desc_limit(). The conversion actually found the bug in apm_32.c: bad_bios_desc is written at run-time, but it is defined const variable. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090718151105.GC11294@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17x86: de-assembler-ize asm/desc.hAlexander van Heukelum
asm/desc.h is included in three assembly files, but the only macro it defines, GET_DESC_BASE, is never used. This patch removes the includes, removes the macro GET_DESC_BASE and the ASSEMBLY guard from asm/desc.h. Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-21FRV: Fix the section attribute on UP DECLARE_PER_CPU()David Howells
In non-SMP mode, the variable section attribute specified by DECLARE_PER_CPU() does not agree with that specified by DEFINE_PER_CPU(). This means that architectures that have a small data section references relative to a base register may throw up linkage errors due to too great a displacement between where the base register points and the per-CPU variable. On FRV, the .h declaration says that the variable is in the .sdata section, but the .c definition says it's actually in the .data section. The linker throws up the following errors: kernel/built-in.o: In function `release_task': kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o To fix this, DECLARE_PER_CPU() should simply apply the same section attribute as does DEFINE_PER_CPU(). However, this is made slightly more complex by virtue of the fact that there are several variants on DEFINE, so these need to be matched by variants on DECLARE. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-11x86: cpu architecture debug code, build fix, cleanupJaswinder Singh Rajput
move store_ldt outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section and also clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2Yinghai Lu
Impact: fix lguest, clean up 32-bit lguest used used_vectors to record vectors, but that model of allocating vectors changed and got broken, after we changed vector allocation to a per_cpu array. Try enable that for 64bit, and the array is used for all vectors that are not managed by vector_irq per_cpu array. Also kill system_vectors[], that is now a duplication of the used_vectors bitmap. [ merged in cpus4096 due to io_apic.c cpumask changes. ] [ -v2, fix build failure ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guardsH. Peter Anvin
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>