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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Gcc might emit an absolute address for the the "m" constraint which
gas unfortunately does not permit.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Proposed fix for ptep_get_and_clear_full PAE bug. Pte_clear had the same bug,
so use the same fix for both. Turns out pmd_clear had it as well, but pgds
are not affected.
The problem is rather intricate. Page table entries in PAE mode are 64-bits
wide, but the only atomic 8-byte write operation available in 32-bit mode is
cmpxchg8b, which is expensive (at least on P4), and thus avoided. But it can
happen that the processor may prefetch entries into the TLB in the middle of an
operation which clears a page table entry. So one must always clear the P-bit
in the low word of the page table entry first when clearing it.
Since the sequence *ptep = __pte(0) leaves the order of the write dependent on
the compiler, it must be coded explicitly as a clear of the low word followed
by a clear of the high word. Further, there must be a write memory barrier
here to enforce proper ordering by the compiler (and, in the future, by the
processor as well).
On > 4GB memory machines, the implementation of pte_clear for PAE was clearly
deficient, as it could leave virtual mappings of physical memory above 4GB
aliased to memory below 4GB in the TLB. The implementation of
ptep_get_and_clear_full has a similar bug, although not nearly as likely to
occur, since the mappings being cleared are in the process of being destroyed,
and should never be dereferenced again.
But, as luck would have it, it is possible to trigger bugs even without ever
dereferencing these bogus TLB mappings, even if the clear is followed fairly
soon after with a TLB flush or invalidation. The problem is that memory above
4GB may now be aliased into the first 4GB of memory, and in fact, may hit a
region of memory with non-memory semantics. These regions include AGP and PCI
space. As such, these memory regions are not cached by the processor. This
introduces the bug.
The processor can speculate memory operations, including memory writes, as long
as they are committed with the proper ordering. Speculating a memory write to
a linear address that has a bogus TLB mapping is possible. Normally, the
speculation is harmless. But for cached memory, it does leave the falsely
speculated cacheline unmodified, but in a dirty state. This cache line will be
eventually written back. If this cacheline happens to intersect a region of
memory that is not protected by the cache coherency protocol, it can corrupt
data in I/O memory, which is generally a very bad thing to do, and can cause
total system failure or just plain undefined behavior.
These bugs are extremely unlikely, but the severity is of such magnitude, and
the fix so simple that I think fixing them immediately is justified. Also,
they are nearly impossible to debug.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Repair /proc/devices early-termination regression.
2.6.16 broke /proc/devices. An application often gets an
EOF before the end of data is reached, if that application
uses a series of short read(2)s to access the data. I have
used read buffers of varying sizes with varying degrees
of unsuccess (larger sizes get further into the data than
smaller sizes, following a simple pattern). It appears
that the only safe way to get the data is to use a single
read buffer larger than all the data in /proc/devices.
The following example demonstates the problem:
# dd if=/proc/devices bs=1
Character devices:
1 mem
27+0 records in
27+0 records out
This patch is a backport of the fix recently accepted to
Linus's tree:
commit 68eef3b4791572ecb70249c7fb145bb3742dd899
[PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regression
It replaces the complex, state-machine algorithm introduced
in 2.6.16 with a simple algorithm, modeled on the implementation
of /proc/interrupts.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Backport for_each_possible_cpu() into 2.6.16. Fixes the alpha build, and any
future occurrences.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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AMD K7/K8 CPUs only save/restore the FOP/FIP/FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE
when an exception is pending. This means the value leak through context
switches and allow processes to observe some x87 instruction state of
other processes.
This was actually documented by AMD, but nobody recognized it as being
different from Intel before.
The fix first adds an optimization: instead of unconditionally calling
FNCLEX after each FXSAVE test if ES is pending and skip it when not
needed. Then do a x87 load from a kernel variable to clear FOP/FIP/FDP.
This means other processes always will only see a constant value defined
by the kernel in their FP state.
I took some pain to make sure to chose a variable that's already in L1
during context switch to make the overhead of this low.
Also alternative() is used to patch away the new code on CPUs who don't
need it.
Patch for both i386/x86-64.
The problem was discovered originally by Jan Beulich. Richard Brunner
provided the basic code for the workarounds, with contribution from Jan.
This is CVE-2006-1056
Cc: richard.brunner@amd.com
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Rohit found an obscure bug causing buddy list corruption.
page_is_buddy is using a non-atomic test (PagePrivate && page_count == 0)
to determine whether or not a free page's buddy is itself free and in the
buddy lists.
Each of the conjuncts may be true at different times due to unrelated
conditions, so the non-atomic page_is_buddy test may find each conjunct to
be true even if they were not both true at the same time (ie. the page was
not on the buddy lists).
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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SMP kernel
This patch fixes a boot problem of the m32r SMP kernel 2.6.16-rc1-mm3 or
later.
In this patch, cpu_possible_map is statically initialized, and cpu_present_map
is also copied from cpu_possible_map in smp_prepare_cpus(), because the m32r
architecture has not supported CPU hotplug yet.
Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara.hayato@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Update {get,put}_user macros for m32r kernel.
- Modify get_user to use __get_user_asm macro, instead of __get_user_x macro.
- Remove arch/m32r/lib/{get,put}user.S.
- Some cosmetic updates.
I would like to thank NIIBE Yutaka for his reporting about the m32r kernel's
security problem in {get,put}_user macros.
There were no address checking for user space access in {get,put}_user macros.
;-)
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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[NETFILTER]: Fix fragmentation issues with bridge netfilter
The conntrack code doesn't do re-fragmentation of defragmented packets
anymore but relies on fragmentation in the IP layer. Purely bridged
packets don't pass through the IP layer, so the bridge netfilter code
needs to take care of fragmentation itself.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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A couple of /proc/vmcore data structures overflow with 32bit systems having
memory more than 4G. This patch fixes those.
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The monochrome->color expansion routine that handles bitmaps which have
(widths % 8) != 0 (slow_imageblit) produces corrupt characters in big-endian.
This is caused by a bogus bit test in slow_imageblit().
Fix.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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We used to assume that a DMA mapping request with a NULL dev was for
ISA DMA. This assumption was broken at some point. Now we explicitly
pass the detected ISA PCI device in the floppy setup.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Both R1BIO_Barrier and R1BIO_Returned are 4 !!!!
This means that barrier requests don't get returned (i.e. b_endio called)
because it looks like they already have been.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Git patch 52dfa9a64cfb3dd01fa1ee1150d589481e54e28e
[PATCH] move rtc_interrupt() prototype to rtc.h
broke strace(1) builds. The below moves the kernel-only additions lower,
under the already provided #ifdef __KERNEL__ statement.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Doing (int < NR_CPUS) doesn't dtrt if it's negative..
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel.
[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset().
[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug.
[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width.
[MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock.
[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>.
[MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200
[MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off.
[MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fix
[MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard.
[MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib.
Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.
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The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and
5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices
behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device.
For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind
the 5714.
All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround.
Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing
the patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3
(or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall
through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any
other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet.
Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported
AX.25 dialects.
The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather
unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole.
Coverity #651.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:
sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining
value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised,
it immediately resets and begins to count down again.
If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after
the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and
taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value
(or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles
the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump
forward 1ms.
Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare
timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at
1Mhz with a full 23bit counter. This eliminated the custom
do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic
fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:
Field width should be 23 bits not 20 bits.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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If a call to set_io_port_base() was being followed by usage of
mips_io_port_base in the same function gcc was possibly using the old
value due to some clever abuse of const. Adding a barrier will keep
the optimization and result in correct code with latest gcc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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If dcache_size != icache_size or dcache_size != scache_size, or
set-associative cache, icache/scache does not flushed properly. Make
blast_?cache_page_indexed() masks its index value correctly. Also,
use physical address for physically indexed pcache/scache.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The SB1 core has a three cycle interrupt disable hazard but we were
wrongly treating it as fully interlocked.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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It is broken, the condition is checked out of socket lock. It is
wonderful the bug survived for so long time.
[ This fixes bugzilla #6233:
race condition in tcp_sendmsg when connection became established ]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
powerpc: update defconfigs
[PATCH] powerpc: properly configure DDR/P5IOC children devs
[PATCH] powerpc: remove duplicate EXPORT_SYMBOLS
[PATCH] powerpc: RTC memory corruption
[PATCH] powerpc: enable NAP only on cpus who support it to avoid memory corruption
[PATCH] powerpc: Clarify wording for CRASH_DUMP Kconfig option
[PATCH] powerpc/64: enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105
[PATCH] powerpc: correct cacheflush loop in zImage
powerpc: Fix problem with time going backwards
powerpc: Disallow lparcfg being a module
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The dynamic add path for PCI Host Bridges can fail to configure children
adapters under P5IOC controllers. It fails to properly fixup bus/device
resources, and it fails to properly enable EEH. Both of these steps
need to occur before any children devices are enabled in
pci_bus_add_devices().
Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Patch from Ben Dooks
The enable_hlt and disable_hlt should be declared in
include/asm/setup.h. This fixes sparse errors from
arch/arm/kernel/process.c
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] iwmmxt thread state alignment
[ARM] 3350/1: Enable 1-wire on ARM
[ARM] 3356/1: Workaround for the ARM1136 I-cache invalidation problem
[ARM] 3355/1: NSLU2: remove propmt depends
[ARM] 3354/1: NAS100d: fix power led handling
[ARM] Fix muldi3.S
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This patch removes the reliance of iwmmxt on hand coded alignments.
Since thread_info is always 8K aligned, specifying that fpstate is
8-byte aligned achieves the same effect without needing to resort
to hand coded alignments.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for
__put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that
patch. But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as
__put_task_struct wasn't exported. There are not callers of it in modular
code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold
references to task_structs.
This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into
__put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller.
[1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in
ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from
try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal
handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable.
This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages.
http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115
Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote
per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number
of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms.
Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays.
This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable.
Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and
the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in
cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to
completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The
time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches
are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback
here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer.
Details:
1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification
of the node to drain of pcp pages.
2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA
that manage a per cpu reap_node counter.
3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node.
For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms
cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel
slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor
compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with
the additional interrupt holdoff reductions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We require that all archs implement atomic_cmpxchg(), for the generic
version of atomic_add_unless().
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform.
The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h.
And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold
size_t values.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is gluing the build of cirrusfb but really the mess that would need
cleaning and fixing is <video/vga.h> and <linux/vt_buffer.h> ...
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs
[PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message
[PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm
powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs
powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions
powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
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ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC
timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is
because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU
ends up processing it twice.
This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0.
I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple
and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but
to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds
options to enable/disable too)
Ported over from a similar x86-64 change.
I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but
tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI.
Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone.
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would
freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a
kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7
instead would work fine.
The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.
The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -
llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730 0 758844
At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following
patch I fixes this problem.
This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.
Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are
two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch
(blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark,
qlowmark).
By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input
RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent
state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting
batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot.
If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems
anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the
batch limit is set to the default.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of
percpu_counter_read_positive().
We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file
accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU
counts.
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If the 'ptr' is a const, this code cause "assignment of read-only variable"
error on gcc 4.x.
Use __u64 instead of __typeof__(*(ptr)) for temporary variable to get
rid of errors on gcc 4.x.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We fixed this:
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: In function `eeh_add_device_tree_late':
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: warning: implicit declaration of function `eeh_add_device_late'
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: At top level:
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:918: error: conflicting types for 'eeh_add_device_late'
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: error: previous implicit declaration of 'eeh_add_device_late' was here
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.o] Error 1
But we forgot the !CONFIG_EEH stub.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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They aren't used (nor even really usable) outside of pipe.c anyway
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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A careful reading of the recent changes to the system call entry/exit
paths revealed several problems, plus some things that could be
simplified and improved:
* 32-bit wasn't testing the _TIF_NOERROR bit in the syscall fast exit
path, so it was only doing anything with it once it saw some other
bit being set. In other words, the noerror behaviour would apply to
the next system call where we had to reschedule or deliver a signal,
which is not necessarily the current system call.
* 32-bit wasn't doing the call to ptrace_notify in the syscall exit
path when the _TIF_SINGLESTEP bit was set.
* _TIF_RESTOREALL was in both _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK and
_TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK, which is odd since _TIF_RESTOREALL is only set
by system calls. I took it out of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK.
* On 64-bit, _TIF_RESTOREALL wasn't causing the non-volatile registers
to be restored (unless perhaps a signal was delivered or the syscall
was traced or single-stepped). Thus the non-volatile registers
weren't restored on exit from a signal handler. We probably got
away with it mostly because signal handlers written in C wouldn't
alter the non-volatile registers.
* On 32-bit I simplified the code and made it more like 64-bit by
making the syscall exit path jump to ret_from_except to handle
preemption and signal delivery.
* 32-bit was calling do_signal unnecessarily when _TIF_RESTOREALL was
set - but I think because of that 32-bit was actually restoring the
non-volatile registers on exit from a signal handler.
* I changed the order of enabling interrupts and saving the
non-volatile registers before calling do_syscall_trace_leave; now we
enable interrupts first.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Patch from Catalin Marinas
Chapter B2.7.3 in the latest ARM ARM (with v6 information) states that
the completion of a TLB maintenance operation is only guaranteed by
the execution of a DSB (Data Syncronization Barrier, formerly Data
Write Barrier or Drain Write Buffer).
Note that a DSB is only needed in the flush_tlb_kernel_* functions
since the completion is guaranteed by a mode change (i.e. switching
back to user mode) for the flush_tlb_user_* functions.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Systems with extemely large numbers of nodes or cpus need to kmalloc
structures larger than is currently supported. This patch increases the
maximum supported size for very large systems.
This patch should have no effect on current systems.
(akpm: why not just use alloc_pages() for sysfs_cpus?)
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:53: warning: 'struct page' declared inside parameter list
(akpm: I tossed in a couple more possibly-needed-sometime struct decls too)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined compiling fails with an
undefined reference to account_vtime().
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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