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o __pa() should be used only on kernel linearly mapped virtual addresses
and not on kernel text and data addresses.
o Hibernation code needs to determine the physical address associated
with kernel symbol to mark a section boundary which contains pages which
don't have to be saved and restored during hibernate/resume operation.
o Move this piece of code in arch dependent section. So that architectures
which don't have kernel text/data mapped into kernel linearly mapped
region can come up with their own ways of determining physical addresses
associated with a kernel text.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single are almost complete
duplicates of the same logic. This patch combines them by
implementing them in terms of the more general
smp_call_function_mask().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hi!
I sent this simple patch to lkml about two weeks ago and also cc'ed
to Linus, but seems that the patch got ignored. I decided to write to
you, because you have modified the relevant file most recently.
Below is a copy of the mail that is also available at
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/28/230>.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The reboot_fixups stuff seems to be a bit of a mess, specifically the
header is in linux/ when its a purely i386-specific piece of code. I'm
not sure why it has its config option; its only currently needed for
"geode-gx1/cs5530a", so perhaps whatever config option controls that
hardware should enable this?
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The kernel only supports gcc 3.2+ now so it doesn't make sense
anymore to explicitely check for options this compiler version
already has.
This actually fixes a bug. The -mprefered-stack-boundary check
never worked because gcc rightly complains
CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
cc1: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is not between 4 and 12
We just never saw the error because of cc-options.
I changed it to 4 to actually work.
Tested by compiling i386 and x86-64 defconfig with gcc 3.2.
Should speed up the build time a tiny bit and improve
stack usage on i386 slightly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Change sysenter_setup to __cpuinit.
Change __INIT & __INITDATA to be cpu hotplug aware.
Resolve MODPOST warnings similar to:
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sysenter_setup from
.text between 'identify_cpu' (at offset 0xc040a380) and 'detect_ht'
and
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:vsyscall_int80_end
from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset 0xc041a269) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_int80_start from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset
0xc041a26e) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_sysenter_end from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset
0xc041a275) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_sysenter_start from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at
offset 0xc041a27a) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Add __init to probe_bigsmp. All callers are __init and data being examined
is __initdata.
Resolves MODPOST warning similar to:
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'probe_bigsmp' (at offset 0xc0401e56) and 'init_apic_ldr'
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Hello,
This patch against 2.6.20-git14 makes the NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1
instead of PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0 on processors supporting Intel architectural
perfmon, such as Intel Core 2. Although all PMU events can work on
both counters, the Precise Event-Based Sampling (PEBS) requires that the
event be in PERFCTR0 to work correctly (see section 18.14.4.1 in the
IA32 SDM Vol 3b).
A similar patch for x86-64 is to follow.
Changelog:
- make the i386 NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1 instead of PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0
on processors supporting the Intel architectural perfmon (e.g. Core 2 Duo).
This allows PEBS to work when the NMI watchdog is active.
signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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a userspace fault or a kernelspace fault which will result in the
immediate death of the process. They should not be filled in as a
result of a kernelspace fault which can be fixed up.
Otherwise, if the process is handling SIGSEGV and examining the fault
information, this can result in the kernel space fault trashing the
previously stored fault information if it arrives between the
userspace fault happening and the SIGSEGV being delivered to the process.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
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arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Remove the assumption that if the first page of a legacy ROM is mapped,
it'll all be mapped. This'll also stop people reading this code from
wondering if they're looking at a bug...
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Murray <murrayma@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The VIA C7 is a 686 (with TSC) that supports MMX, SSE and SSE2, it also has
a cache line length of 64 according to
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/cpu/rmma-via-c7.html. This patch sets
gcc to -march=686 and select s the correct cache shift.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Eliminated the arch/i386/kernel/timers in 2.6.18, use clocksoures instead.
pit_latch_buggy was referred in timers/timer_tsc.c, and currently removed.
Therefore nobody refer it.
Until 2.6.17, MediaGX's TSC works correctly. after 2.6.18, warned "TSC
appears to be running slowly. Marking it as unstable". So marked unstable
TSC when CS55x0.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Whether a region is below 1Mb is determined by its start rather than
its end.
This hunk got erroneously dropped from a previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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No need to use -traditional for processing asm in i386/kernel/
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Synchronize i386's smp_send_stop() with x86-64's in only try-locking
the call lock to prevent deadlocks when called from panic().
In both version, disable interrupts before clearing the CPU off the
online map to eliminate races with IRQ handlers inspecting this map.
Also in both versions, save/restore interrupts rather than disabling/
enabling them.
On x86-64, eliminate one function used here by folding it into its
single caller, convert to static, and rename for consistency with i386
(lkcd may like this).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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- make the page table contents printing PAE capable
- make sure the address stored in current->thread.cr2 is unmodified
from what was read from CR2
- don't call oops_may_print() multiple times, when one time suffices
- print pte even in highpte case, as long as the pte page isn't in
actually in high memory (which is specifically the case for all page
tables covering kernel space)
(Changes to v3: Use sizeof()*2 rather than the suggested sizeof()*4 for
printing width, use fixed 16-nibble width for PAE, and also apply the
max_low_pfn range check to the middle level lookup on PAE.)
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Default to physical mode on hotplug CPU kernels. Furher simplify and clean up
the APIC initialization code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Obsoleted by Ingo's genapic stuff.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This is unneeded with Ingo's genapic rework.
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (86 commits)
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup in drivers/ata/pata_winbond.c
drivers/ata/pata_cmd640.c: fix build with CONFIG_PM=n
pata_hpt37x: Further small fixes
pata_hpt3x2n: Add HPT371N support and other bits
ata: printk warning fixes
libata: separate ATA_EHI_DID_RESET into DID_SOFTRESET and DID_HARDRESET
ahci: consolidate common port flags
ata_timing: ensure t->cycle is always correct
libata: add missing call to ->cable_detect() in new EH path
pata_amd: remove contamination added during cable_detect conversion
libata: Handle drives that require a spin-up command before first access
libata: HPA support
libata: kill probe_ent and related helpers
libata: convert the remaining PATA drivers to new init model
libata: convert the remaining SATA drivers to new init model
libata: convert ata_pci_init_native_mode() users to new init model
libata: convert drivers with combined SATA/PATA ports to new init model
libata: add init helpers including ata_pci_prepare_native_host()
libata: convert native PCI host handling to new init model
libata: convert legacy PCI host handling to new init model
...
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Both old-IDE and libata should be able handle all controllers and
devices found using normal resource reservation methods.
This eliminates the awful, low-performing split-driver configuration
where old-IDE drove the PATA portion of a PCI device, in PIO-only mode,
and libata drove the SATA portion of the /same/ PCI device, in DMA mode.
Typically vendors would ship SATA hard drive / PATA optical
configuration, which would lend itself to slow (PIO-only) CD-ROM
performance.
For Intel users running in combined mode, it is now wholly dependent on
your driver choice (potentially link order, if you compile both drivers
in) whether old-IDE or libata will drive your hardware.
In either case, you will get full performance from both SATA and PATA
ports now, without having to pass a kernel command line parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The following patch prevent this warning to be displayed again & again (eg:
nine times on my NForce2 motherboard) and thus improve signal to noise
ratio in logs.
The ATI quirk below probably needs a similar "fix" but I don't have
the hardware to test.
Btw arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c::nvidia_bugs() would probably need to
be synced (but I don't have an x86_64 NVidia motherboard to boot test it).
Still it shows the usefullity of the recent x86 merge thread.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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noreplacement is dangerous on modern systems because it will not replace the
context switch FNSAVE with SSE aware FXSAVE. But other places in the kernel still assume
SSE and do FXSAVE and the CPU will then access FXSAVE information with
FNSAVE and cause corruption.
Easiest way to avoid this is to remove the option. It was mostly for paranoia
reasons anyways and alternative()s have been stable for some time.
Thanks to Jeremy F. for reporting and helping debug it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Support for Longhaul ver. 2 broke driver for VIA C3 Eden 600MHz with
Samuel 2 core. Processor is not able to switch frequency anymore. I
don't know much about this issue at the moment, but until (if ever) I
will know why, this part should be reversed.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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While reviewing this code again I found a potential overflow of the bitmap.
The p4 oprofile can theoretically set bits beyond the reservation bitmap for
specific configurations. Avoid that by sizing the bitmaps properly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Due to an over aggressive optimizer gcc 4.2 cannot optimize away _proxy_pda
in all cases (counter intuitive, but true). This breaks loading of some
modules.
The earlier workaround to just export a dummy symbol didn't work unfortunately
because the module code ignores exports with 0 value.
Make it 1 instead.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Fix logic error in VMI relocation processing. NOPs would always cause
a BUG_ON to fire because the != RELOCATION_NONE in the first if clause
precluding the == VMI_RELOCATION_NOP in the second clause. Make these
direct equality tests and just warn for unsupported relocation types
(which should never happen), falling back to native in that case.
Thanks to Anthony Liguori for noting this!
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:irqbalance_disable from .text between 'quirk_intel_irqbalance' (at offset 0x80a5) and 'i8237A_suspend'
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since lazy MMU batching mode still allows interrupts to enter, it is
possible for interrupt handlers to try to use kmap_atomic, which fails when
lazy mode is active, since the PTE update to highmem will be delayed. The
best workaround is to issue an explicit flush in kmap_atomic_functions
case; this is the only way nested PTE updates can happen in the interrupt
handler.
Thanks to Jeremy Fitzhardinge for noting the bug and suggestions on a fix.
This patch gets reverted again when we start 2.6.22 and the bug gets fixed
differently.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2
[PATCH] x86-64: Increase NMI watchdog probing timeout
[PATCH] x86-64: Let oprofile reserve MSR on all CPUs
[PATCH] x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E
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The __copy_to_user_inatomic() calls in file_read_actor() and pipe_read()
are broken on original i386 machines, where WP-works-ok == false, as
__copy_to_user_inatomic() on such systems calls functions which might
sleep and/or contain cond_resched() calls inside of a kmap_atomic()
region.
The original check for WP-works-ok was in access_ok(), but got moved
during the 2.5 series to fix a race vs. swap.
Return the number of bytes to copy in the case where we are in an atomic
region, so the non atomic code pathes in file_read_actor() and
pipe_read() are taken.
This could be optimized to avoid the kmap_atomicby moving the check for
WP-works-ok into fault_in_pages_writeable(), but this is more intrusive
and can be done later.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the regression resulting from the recent change of suspend code
ordering that causes systems based on Intel x86 CPUs using the microcode
driver to hang during the resume.
The problem occurs since the microcode driver uses request_firmware() in
its CPU hotplug notifier, which is called after tasks has been frozen and
hangs. It can be fixed by telling the microcode driver to use the
microcode stored in memory during the resume instead of trying to load it
from disk.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Maxim <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03
Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug.
Tested on;
i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y
Untested on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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A 4 core Opteron needs longer than 10 ticks for this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The MSR reservation is per CPU and oprofile would only allocate them
on the CPU it was initialized on. Change this to handle all CPUs.
This also fixes a warning about unprotected use of smp_processor_id()
in preemptible kernels.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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AMD dual core laptops with C1E do not run the APIC timer correctly
when they go idle. Previously the code assumed this only happened
on C2 or deeper. But not all of these systems report support C2.
Use a AMD supplied snippet to detect C1E being enabled and then disable
local apic timer use.
This supercedes an earlier workaround using DMI detection of specific systems.
Thanks to Mark Langsdorf for the detection snippet.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This adds support of suspend/resume on i386 for HPET, which fixes a
number of timer-related failures around STR.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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So I think the right solution is to simply make pci_enable_device just
flip enable bits and move the rest of the work someplace else.
However a thorough cleanup is a little extreme for this point in the
release cycle, so I think a quick hack that makes the code not stomp the
irq when msi irq's are enabled should be the first fix. Then we can
later make the code not change the irqs at all.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The clockevents / tick management code expects an error value, when the
event is already expired. hpet_next_event() returns 1 in that case.
Fix it to return the proper -ETIME error code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch automatically enables pci=bfsort for the Dell PowerEdge
R900. This is necessary to ensure the onboard NICs enumerate in the
proper order, similar to the other systems already on the list.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit f9690982b8c2f9a2c65acdc113e758ec356676a3 removed the check for
cpu_khz from sched_clock(), which prevented early access to the TSC by
non obvious magic.
This is harmless as long as the CPU has a TSC. On TSCless systems this
results in an illegal instruction trap.
Replace tsc_disabled and tsc_unstable by tsc_enabled, which is only set
when the tsc is available and not unstable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It turned out that it is almost impossible to trust ACPI, BIOS & Co.
regarding the C states. This was the reason to switch the local apic
timer off in C2 state already. OTOH there are sane and well behaving
systems, which get punished by that decision.
Allow the user to confirm that the local apic timer is trustworthy in C2
state. This keeps the default behaviour on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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latest -git triggers an irqtrace/lockdep warning of a leaked
irqs-off condition:
BUG: at kernel/fork.c:1033 copy_process()
after some debugging it turns out that commit ca1b940c accidentally left
interrupts disabled - which trickled down all the way to the first time
we fork a kernel thread and triggered the warning.
the fix is to re-enable interrupts in the 'else' branch of
setup_boot_APIC_clock()'s pmtimers calibration path.
Reported-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@brown.paperbag.linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States. This is handled by
the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick managment
code.
Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but switch
into deeper C-States behind the kernels back. This delays the local apic
timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable.
Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi
quirk for known broken systems.
Andi sayeth:
While not wrong by itself i think it is still better to use some heuristic
-- like "has battery in ACPI" With the DMI table if the problem is more wide
spread we will just continue extending it.
But anyways should be ok now for .21 although I'm not really happy with
it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The PIT has no dedicated mode for shut down. The only way to disable PIT
is to put it into one shot mode. AMD implementations of PIT on Geode
(also observed on Cyrix) are confused by an "empty" transition from
CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED to CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN, which puts the PIT
into one shot mode momentarily.
I realized after staring helpless at the bug report
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8027 for quite a while, that
the only change, which might influence the bogomips calibration, is the
above transition during the PIT initialization.
Avoiding the unnecessary switch to oneshot and later to periodic mode
fixes the weird bogomips value and also the resulting slowness.
The fix is confirmed on OLPC and another Geode based box.
Note: this is unrelated to the Dual Core problem discussed here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/17/48
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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