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commit 34ddc81a230b15c0e345b6b253049db731499f7e upstream.
After all the FPU state cleanups and finally finding the problem that
caused all our FPU save/restore problems, this re-introduces the
preloading of FPU state that was removed in commit b3b0870ef3ff ("i387:
do not preload FPU state at task switch time").
However, instead of simply reverting the removal, this reimplements
preloading with several fixes, most notably
- properly abstracted as a true FPU state switch, rather than as
open-coded save and restore with various hacks.
In particular, implementing it as a proper FPU state switch allows us
to optimize the CR0.TS flag accesses: there is no reason to set the
TS bit only to then almost immediately clear it again. CR0 accesses
are quite slow and expensive, don't flip the bit back and forth for
no good reason.
- Make sure that the same model works for both x86-32 and x86-64, so
that there are no gratuitous differences between the two due to the
way they save and restore segment state differently due to
architectural differences that really don't matter to the FPU state.
- Avoid exposing the "preload" state to the context switch routines,
and in particular allow the concept of lazy state restore: if nothing
else has used the FPU in the meantime, and the process is still on
the same CPU, we can avoid restoring state from memory entirely, just
re-expose the state that is still in the FPU unit.
That optimized lazy restore isn't actually implemented here, but the
infrastructure is set up for it. Of course, older CPU's that use
'fnsave' to save the state cannot take advantage of this, since the
state saving also trashes the state.
In other words, there is now an actual _design_ to the FPU state saving,
rather than just random historical baggage. Hopefully it's easier to
follow as a result.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit b3b0870ef3ffed72b92415423da864f440f57ad6 upstream.
Yes, taking the trap to re-load the FPU/MMX state is expensive, but so
is spending several days looking for a bug in the state save/restore
code. And the preload code has some rather subtle interactions with
both paravirtualization support and segment state restore, so it's not
nearly as simple as it should be.
Also, now that we no longer necessarily depend on a single bit (ie
TS_USEDFPU) for keeping track of the state of the FPU, we migth be able
to do better. If we are really switching between two processes that
keep touching the FP state, save/restore is inevitable, but in the case
of having one process that does most of the FPU usage, we may actually
be able to do much better than the preloading.
In particular, we may be able to keep track of which CPU the process ran
on last, and also per CPU keep track of which process' FP state that CPU
has. For modern CPU's that don't destroy the FPU contents on save time,
that would allow us to do a lazy restore by just re-enabling the
existing FPU state - with no restore cost at all!
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function. This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.
With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.
Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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events from the cpuidle layer
Currently intel_idle and acpi_idle driver show double cpu_idle "exit idle"
events -> this patch fixes it and makes cpu_idle events throwing less complex.
It also introduces cpu_idle events for all architectures which use
the cpuidle subsystem, namely:
- arch/arm/mach-at91/cpuidle.c
- arch/arm/mach-davinci/cpuidle.c
- arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/cpuidle.c
- arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle34xx.c
- arch/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c (for all cases, not only mwait)
- arch/x86/kernel/process.c (did throw events before, but was a mess)
- drivers/idle/intel_idle.c (did throw events before)
Convention should be:
Fire cpu_idle events inside the current pm_idle function (not somewhere
down the the callee tree) to keep things easy.
Current possible pm_idle functions in X86:
c1e_idle, poll_idle, cpuidle_idle_call, mwait_idle, default_idle
-> this is really easy is now.
This affects userspace:
The type field of the cpu_idle power event can now direclty get
mapped to:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateX/{name,desc,usage,time,...}
instead of throwing very CPU/mwait specific values.
This change is not visible for the intel_idle driver.
For the acpi_idle driver it should only be visible if the vendor
misses out C-states in his BIOS.
Another (perf timechart) patch reads out cpuidle info of cpu_idle
events from:
/sys/.../cpuidle/stateX/*, then the cpuidle events are mapped
to the correct C-/cpuidle state again, even if e.g. vendors miss
out C-states in their BIOS and for example only export C1 and C3.
-> everything is fine.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: Robert Schoene <robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de>
CC: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add these new power trace events:
power:cpu_idle
power:cpu_frequency
power:machine_suspend
The old C-state/idle accounting events:
power:power_start
power:power_end
Have now a replacement (but we are still keeping the old
tracepoints for compatibility):
power:cpu_idle
and
power:power_frequency
is replaced with:
power:cpu_frequency
power:machine_suspend is newly introduced.
Jean Pihet has a patch integrated into the generic layer
(kernel/power/suspend.c) which will make use of it.
the type= field got removed from both, it was never
used and the type is differed by the event type itself.
perf timechart userspace tool gets adjusted in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@newoldbits.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
LKML-Reference: <1294073445-14812-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290072314-31155-2-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
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Systems using the idle thread from process_32.c and process_64.c
do not generate power_end events which could be traced using
perf. This patch adds the event generation for such systems.
Signed-off-by: Robert Schoene <robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1276515440.5441.45.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler
Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
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Currently all fpu state access is through tsk->thread.xstate. Since we wish
to generalize fpu access to non-task contexts, wrap the state in a new
'struct fpu' and convert existing access to use an fpu API.
Signal frame handlers are not converted to the API since they will remain
task context only things.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.
It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.
Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.
So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy
x86: Merge show_regs()
x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors
x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements
x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h
x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h
x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers
x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_*
x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
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Using kernel_stack_pointer() allows 32-bit and 64-bit versions to
be merged. This is more correct for 64-bit, since the old %rsp is
always saved on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263397555-27695-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Andrew Morton reported a strange looking kmemcheck warning:
WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff88004fba6c20)
0000000000000000310000000000000000000000000000002413000000c9ffff
u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u
[<ffffffff810af3aa>] kmemleak_scan+0x25a/0x540
[<ffffffff810afbcb>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x5b/0xe0
[<ffffffff8104d0fe>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0
[<ffffffff81003074>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
The above printout is missing register dump completely. The
problem here is that the output comes from syslog which doesn't
show KERN_INFO log-level messages. We didn't see this before
because both of us were testing on 32-bit kernels which use the
_default_ log-level.
Fix that up by explicitly using KERN_DEFAULT log-level for
__show_regs() printks.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261988819.4641.2.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: it's stable so lets push it upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The arg should be in %eax, but that is clobbered by the return value
of clone. The function pointer can be in any register. Also, don't
push args onto the stack, since regparm(3) is the normal calling
convention now.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Change 32-bit sys_clone to new PTREGSCALL stub, and merge with 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260403316-5679-7-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Change 32-bit sys_execve to PTREGSCALL3, and merge with 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260403316-5679-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Unify x86_32 and x86_64 implementations of __show_regs() header,
standardizing on the x86_64 format string in the process. Also,
32-bit will now call print_modules.
Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091208082942.GA27174@hexapodia.org>
[ v2: resolved conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Limit number of per cpu TSC sync messages
x86: dumpstack, 64-bit: Disable preemption when walking the IRQ/exception stacks
x86: dumpstack: Clean up the x86_stack_ids[][] initalization and other details
x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes
x86: Suppress stack overrun message for init_task
x86: Fix cpu_devs[] initialization in early_cpu_init()
x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too
x86: Minimise printk spew from per-vendor init code
x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's
cpumask: Avoid cpumask_t in arch/x86/kernel/apic/nmi.c
x86: Make sure we also print a Code: line for show_regs()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix a section mismatch in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
x86: Fixup last users of irq_chip->typename
x86: Remove BKL from apm_32
x86: Remove BKL from microcode
x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in kprobes.c
x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in kgdb.c
x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in dumpstack.c
x86: use kernel_stack_pointer() in process_32.c
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This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.
Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..
The new layering is now made as follows:
ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall
\ | / /
\ | / /
/
Core breakpoint API /
/
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Breakpoints perf events
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Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
(Part of core breakpoint API)
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Hardware debug registers
Reasons of this rewrite:
- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)
Impact:
- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
thread breakpoints references.
Todo (in the order):
- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools
Changes in v2:
- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch
Changes in v3:
- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
to the host.
Changes in v4:
- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
set when the guest used debug registers.
(Waiting for a reliable optimization)
Changes in v5:
- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c
Changes in v6:
- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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show_regs() is called as a mini BUG() equivalent in some places,
specifically for the "scheduling while atomic" case.
Unfortunately right now it does not print a Code: line unlike
a real bug/oops.
This patch changes the x86 implementation of show_regs() so that
it calls the same function as oopses do to print the registers
as well as the Code: line.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091102165915.4a980fc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The way to obtain a kernel-mode stack pointer from a struct pt_regs in
32-bit mode is "subtle": the stack doesn't actually contain the stack
pointer, but rather the location where it would have been marks the
actual previous stack frame. For clarity, use kernel_stack_pointer()
instead of coding this weirdness explicitly.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
Semantic conflict fixed in:
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED()
x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
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On x86_64, percpu variables current_task and kernel_stack are used for
get_current() and current_thread_info() respectively and thus are
often used close to each other. Move definition of current_task to
kernel/cpu/common.c right above kernel_stack definition and align it
to cacheline so that they always fall into the same cacheline. Two
percpu variables defined there together - irq_stack_ptr and irq_count
- are also pretty hot and will benefit from sharing the cacheline.
For consistency, current_task definition for x86_32 is also moved to
kernel/cpu/common.c.
Putting current_task and kernel_stack into the same cacheline was
suggested by Linus Torvalds.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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If we're preloading the fpu state during context switch, make sure the clts
happens while we're batching the cpu context update, then do the actual
__math_state_restore once the updates are flushed.
This allows more efficient context switches when running paravirtualized,
as all the hypercalls can be folded together into one.
[ Impact: optimise paravirtual FPU context switch ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86/power/cpu.c
arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
kernel/Makefile
Semantic conflict:
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to
put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
xen: add "capabilities" file
xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
xen: add irq_from_evtchn
xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
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process/thread code
This patch enables the use of abstract debug registers in
process-handling routines, according to the new hardware breakpoint
Api.
[ Impact: adapt thread breakpoints handling code to the new breakpoint Api ]
Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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<stdarg.h> is not needed by these files, remove them.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090512032956.5040.77055.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge arch_align_stack() and arch_randomize_brk(), since
they are the same.
Tested on x86_64.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* commit 'origin/master': (4825 commits)
Fix build errors due to CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
parport: Use the PCI IRQ if offered
tty: jsm cleanups
Adjust path to gpio headers
KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module
Change KCONFIG name
tty: Blackin CTS/RTS
Change hardware flow control from poll to interrupt driven
Add support for the MAX3100 SPI UART.
lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100
serqt: initial clean up pass for tty side
tty: Use the generic RS485 ioctl on CRIS
tty: Correct inline types for tty_driver_kref_get()
splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp
nilfs2: introduce secondary super block
nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments
nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation
nilfs2: clean up sketch file
nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
drivers/xen/manage.c
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Add a warning in case a debug store context is not removed before
the task it is attached to is freed.
Remove the old warning at thread exit. It is too early.
Declare the debug store context field in thread_struct unconditionally.
Remove ds_copy_thread() and ds_exit_thread() and do the work directly
in process*.c.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144601.254472000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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First argument unused since 2.3.11.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Impact: fix lazy context switch API
Pass the previous and next tasks into the context switch start
end calls, so that the called functions can properly access the
task state (esp in end_context_switch, in which the next task
is not yet completely current).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes
Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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With x86-32 and -64 using the same mechanism for managing the
tss io permissions bitmap, large chunks of process*.c are
trivially unifyable, including:
- exit_thread
- flush_thread
- __switch_to_xtra (along with tsc enable/disable)
and as bonus pickups:
- sys_fork
- sys_vfork
(Note: asmlinkage expands to empty on x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification
x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps. x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch. x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.
This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault. This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.
However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server. Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.
This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c
Semantic conflict resolution:
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Damien Wyart reported high ksoftirqd CPU usage (20%) on an
otherwise idle system.
The function-graph trace Damien provided:
> 799.521187 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.521371 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.521555 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.521738 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.521934 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522068 | 1) ksoftir-2324 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522208 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522392 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522575 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522759 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.522956 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523074 | 1) ksoftir-2324 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523214 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523397 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523579 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523762 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.523960 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.524079 | 1) ksoftir-2324 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.524220 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.524403 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.524587 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> 799.524770 | 1) <idle>-0 | | rcu_check_callbacks() {
> [ . . . ]
Shows rcu_check_callbacks() being invoked way too often. It should be called
once per jiffy, and here it is called no less than 22 times in about
3.5 milliseconds, meaning one call every 160 microseconds or so.
Why do we need to call rcu_pending() and rcu_check_callbacks() from the
idle loop of 32-bit x86, especially given that no other architecture does
this?
The following patch removes the call to rcu_pending() and
rcu_check_callbacks() from the x86 32-bit idle loop in order to
reduce the softirq load on idle systems.
Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Impact: bogus irq_cpustat field removed
idle_timestamp is left over from the removed irqbalance code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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