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2011-01-20kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERTDavid Rientjes
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.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>
2010-12-18x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operationsChristoph Lameter
Provide support as far as the hardware capabilities of the x86 cpus allow. Define CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL in Kconfig.cpu to allow core code to test for fast cpuops implementations. V1->V2: - Take out the definition for this_cpu_cmpxchg_8 and move it into a separate patch. tj: - Reordered ops to better follow this_cpu_* organization. - Renamed macro temp variables similar to their existing neighbours. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2010-05-03x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handlerBrian Gerst
The cache flush denied error is an erratum on some AMD 486 clones. If an invd instruction is executed in userspace, the processor calls exception 19 (13 hex) instead of #GP (13 decimal). On cpus where XMM is not supported, redirect exception 19 to do_general_protection(). Also, remove die_if_kernel(), since this was the last user. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1269176446-2489-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-03-26x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra
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>
2010-02-28Merge branch 'x86-rwsem-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-rwsem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, rwsem: Avoid store forwarding hazard in __downgrade_write x86-64, rwsem: 64-bit xadd rwsem implementation x86: Fix breakage of UML from the changes in the rwsem system x86-64: support native xadd rwsem implementation x86: clean up rwsem type system
2010-01-13x86-64: support native xadd rwsem implementationLinus Torvalds
This one is much faster than the spinlock based fallback rwsem code, with certain artifical benchmarks having shown 300%+ improvement on threaded page faults etc. Again, note the 32767-thread limit here. So this really does need that whole "make rwsem_count_t be 64-bit and fix the BIAS values to match" extension on top of it, but that is conceptually a totally independent issue. NOT TESTED! The original patch that this all was based on were tested by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, but maybe I screwed up something when I created the cleaned-up series, so caveat emptor.. Also note that it _may_ be a good idea to mark some more registers clobbered on x86-64 in the inline asms instead of saving/restoring them. They are inline functions, but they are only used in places where there are not a lot of live registers _anyway_, so doing for example the clobbers of %r8-%r11 in the asm wouldn't make the fast-path code any worse, and would make the slow-path code smaller. (Not that the slow-path really matters to that degree. Saving a few unnecessary registers is the _least_ of our problems when we hit the slow path. The instruction/cycle counting really only matters in the fast path). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001121810410.17145@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-01-05Revert "x86: Side-step lguest problem by only building cmpxchg8b_emu for ↵Rusty Russell
pre-Pentium" This reverts commit ae1b22f6e46c03cede7cea234d0bf2253b4261cf. As Linus said in 982d007a6ee: "There was something really messy about cmpxchg8b and clone CPU's, so if you enable it on other CPUs later, do it carefully." This breaks lguest for those configs, but we can fix that by emulating if we have to. Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14884 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-08Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits) x86, mm: Correct the implementation of is_untracked_pat_range() x86/pat: Trivial: don't create debugfs for memtype if pat is disabled x86, mtrr: Fix sorting of mtrr after subtracting x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage x86, platform: Change is_untracked_pat_range() to bool; cleanup init x86: Change is_ISA_range() into an inline function x86, mm: is_untracked_pat_range() takes a normal semiclosed range x86, mm: Call is_untracked_pat_range() rather than is_ISA_range() x86: UV SGI: Don't track GRU space in PAT x86: SGI UV: Fix BAU initialization x86, numa: Use near(er) online node instead of roundrobin for NUMA x86, numa, bootmem: Only free bootmem on NUMA failure path x86: Change crash kernel to reserve via reserve_early() x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options x86: When cleaning MTRRs, do not fold WP into UC x86: remove "extern" from function prototypes in <asm/proto.h> x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot x86, mm: Clean up and simplify NX enablement x86, pageattr: Make set_memory_(x|nx) aware of NX support x86, sleep: Always save the value of EFER ... Fix up conflicts (added both iommu_shutdown and is_untracked_pat_range) to 'struct x86_platform_ops') in arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
2009-12-05Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, msr, cpumask: Use struct cpumask rather than the deprecated cpumask_t x86, cpuid: Simplify the code in cpuid_open x86, cpuid: Remove the bkl from cpuid_open() x86, msr: Remove the bkl from msr_open() x86: AMD Geode LX optimizations x86, msr: Unify rdmsr_on_cpus/wrmsr_on_cpus
2009-11-19x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config optionsJan Beulich
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT (with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as the former can be easily calculated from it. To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA to account for last level cache line size (which here matters more than L1 cache line size). Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT, when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a separate option on ix86). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26x86: Side-step lguest problem by only building cmpxchg8b_emu for pre-PentiumRusty Russell
Commit 79e1dd05d1a22 "x86: Provide an alternative() based cmpxchg64()" broke lguest, even on systems which have cmpxchg8b support. The emulation code gets used until alternatives get run, but it contains native instructions, not their paravirt alternatives. The simplest fix is to turn this code off except for 386 and 486 builds. Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <200910261426.05769.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-02x86: AMD Geode LX optimizationsMatteo Croce
Add CPU optimizations for AMD Geode LX. Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <40101cc30910010811v5d15ff4cx9dd57c9cc9b4b045@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-01x86: Optimize cmpxchg64() at build-time some moreLinus Torvalds
Try to avoid the 'alternates()' code when we can statically determine that cmpxchg8b is fine. We already have that CONFIG_x86_CMPXCHG64 (enabled by PAE support), and we could easily also enable it for some of the CPU cases. Note, this patch only adds CMPXCHG8B for the obvious Intel CPU's, not for others. (There was something really messy about cmpxchg8b and clone CPU's, so if you enable it on other CPUs later, do it carefully.) If we avoid that asm-alternative thing when we can assume the instruction exists, we'll generate less support crud, and we'll avoid the whole issue with that extra 'nop' for padding instruction sizes etc. LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909301743150.6996@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architectureTobias Doerffel
Add another option when selecting CPU family so the kernel can be optimized for Intel Atom CPUs. If GCC supports tuning options for Intel Atom they will be used. Signed-off-by: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <1251018457-19157-1-git-send-email-tobias.doerffel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for nowIngo Molnar
Oleg Nesterov found a couple of races in the ptrace-bts code and fixes are queued up for it but they did not get ready in time for the merge window. We'll merge them in v2.6.31 - until then mark the feature as CONFIG_BROKEN. There's no user-space yet making use of this so it's not a big issue. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-14x86/centaur: merge 32 & 64 bit versionSebastian Andrzej Siewior
there should be no difference, except: * the 64bit variant now also initializes the padlock unit. * ->c_early_init() is executed again from ->c_init() * the 64bit fixups made into 32bit path. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au LKML-Reference: <1237029843-28076-2-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05x86: clean up arch/x86/Kconfig*Ingo Molnar
- Consistent alignment of help text - Use the ---help--- keyword everywhere consistently as a visual separator - fix whitespace mismatches Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the consoleBorislav Petkov
Impact: cleanup Some lines exceed the 80 char width making them unreadable. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21x86: make x86_32 use tlb_64.c, build fix, clean up X86_L1_CACHE_BYTESIngo Molnar
Fix: arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:47: error: ‘CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES’ undeclared here (not in a function) The CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES symbol is only defined on 64-bit, because vsmp support is 64-bit only. Define it on 32-bit too - where it will always be equal to X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES. Also move the default of X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES (which is separate from the more commonly used L1_CACHE_SHIFT kconfig symbol) from 128 bytes to 64 bytes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14x86: change the default cache size to 64 bytesIngo Molnar
Right now the generic cacheline size is 128 bytes - that is wasteful when structures are aligned, as all modern x86 CPUs have an (effective) cacheline sizes of 64 bytes. It was set to 128 bytes due to some cacheline aliasing problems on older P4 systems, but those are many years old and we dont optimize for them anymore. (They'll still get the 128 bytes cacheline size if the kernel is specifically built for Pentium 4) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-05X86_DEBUGCTLMSR won't work on umlAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-25x86, bts, ftrace: a BTS ftrace plug-in prototypeMarkus Metzger
Impact: add new ftrace plugin A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in. The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu. The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace. This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches to become a (hopefully) useful tool. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28x86, bts: improve help text for BTS configMarkus Metzger
Improve the help text of the X86_PTRACE_BTS config. Make X86_DS invisible and depend on X86_PTRACE_BTS. Reported-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13x86: adjust dependencies for CONFIG_X86_CMOVJan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13x86: merge winchip-2 and winchip-2a cpu choicesKrzysztof Helt
The Winchip-2 and Winchip-2A cpu choices select the same options for kernel and compiler. Merge them to save few bytes and reduce confusion. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-12x86: make processor type select depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDEDIngo Molnar
deselecting one of the CPU type CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* config options can render a kernel unbootable. Make sure this option is only available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is enabled. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-12x86: extend processor type select help textIngo Molnar
extend the help text of the CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* config options to express what it does and what effects it has. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detectIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.cYinghai Lu
now that arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c are equal, drop arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and fix up the glue. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge branch 'x86/pebs' into x86/unify-cpu-detectIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu include/asm-x86/ds.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-08x86: disable static NOPLs on 32 bitsLinus Torvalds
On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do look better. So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the CONFIG_X86_64 thing. The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for them. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-08x86: make 64 bit to use amd.cYinghai Lu
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c is now 100% identical to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd_64.c, so use amd.c on 64-bit too and fix up the namespace impact. Simplify the Kconfig glue as well. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-18x86: configuration options to compile out x86 CPU support codeThomas Petazzoni
This patch adds some configuration options that allow to compile out CPU vendor-specific code in x86 kernels (in arch/x86/kernel/cpu). The new configuration options are only visible when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is selected, as they are mostly interesting for space savings reasons. An example of size saving, on x86 with only Intel CPU support: text data bss dec hex filename 1125479 118760 212992 1457231 163c4f vmlinux.old 1121355 116536 212992 1450883 162383 vmlinux -4124 -2224 0 -6348 -18CC +/- However, I'm not exactly sure that the Kconfig wording is correct with regard to !64BIT / 64BIT. [ mingo@elte.hu: convert macro to inline ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pebsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22x86: fix crash due to missing debugctlmsr on AMD K6-3Jan Kratochvil
currently if you use PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK on AMD K6-3 (i586) it will crash. Kernel now wrongly assumes existing DEBUGCTLMSR MSR register there. Removed the assumption also for some other non-K6 CPUs but I am not sure there (but it can only bring small inefficiency there if my assumption is wrong). Based on info from Roland McGrath, Chuck Ebbert and Mikulas Patocka. More info at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456175 Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18x86: APIC: remove apic_write_around(); use alternativesMaciej W. Rozycki
Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time. Remove the X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum. Remove apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed. Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends. The use of ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have used it for readability's sake. I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead and here it is. Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP "feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days). Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I have disregarded it. I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I have left changes to them out. The option will get removed from them at the next run. Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will everywhere. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-09x86: mark x86_64 as having a working WP.Glauber Costa
Select X86_WP_WORKS_OK for x86_64 too. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-12x86: separate cmpxchg8b checking from PAE checkingJan Beulich
.. allowing the former to be use in non-PAE kernels, too. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12x86, ptrace: PEBS supportMarkus Metzger
Polish the ds.h interface and add support for PEBS. Ds.c is meant to be the resource allocator for per-thread and per-cpu BTS and PEBS recording. It is used by ptrace/utrace to provide execution tracing of debugged tasks. It will be used by profilers (e.g. perfmon2). It may be used by kernel debuggers to provide a kernel execution trace. Changes in detail: - guard DS and ptrace by CONFIG macros - separate DS and BTS more clearly - simplify field accesses - add functions to manage PEBS buffers - add simple protection/allocation mechanism - added support for Atom Opens: - buffer overflow handling Currently, only circular buffers are supported. This is all we need for debugging. Profilers would want an overflow notification. This is planned to be added when perfmon2 is made to use the ds.h interface. - utrace intermediate layer Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fixIngo Molnar
move the X86_CPU section out of the !X86_ELAN branch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-26x86, bitops: select the generic bitmap search functionsAlexander van Heukelum
Introduce GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT and GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT in lib/Kconfig, defaulting to off. An arch that wants to use the generic implementation now only has to use a select statement to include them. I added an always-y option (X86_CPU) to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu and used that to select the generic search functions. This way ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 automatically picks up the change too, and arch/um/Kconfig.i386 can therefore be simplified a bit. ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64 does things differently, but still compiles fine. It seems that a "def_bool y" always wins over a "def_bool n"? Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.hAlexander van Heukelum
Some of those can be written in such a way that the same inline assembly can be used to generate both 32 bit and 64 bit code. For ffs and fls, x86_64 unconditionally used the cmov instruction and i386 unconditionally used a conditional branch over a mov instruction. In the current patch I chose to select the version based on the availability of the cmov instruction instead. A small detail here is that x86_64 did not previously set CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y. Improved comments for ffs, ffz, fls and variations. Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26x86: remove NexGen supportDmitri Vorobiev
It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179 Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being essentially dead. As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether. The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test, which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: MPSC should use P6 NOPsHugh Dickins
I've now noticed that the machine I call MPENTIUM4 for 32-bit kernels is called MPSC for 64-bit kernels, and in that case it still doesn't get the P6 NOPs it ought to. hpa explains that MK8 should still be excluded, so it's just a matter of including MPSC along with MPENTIUM4. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-04x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486Hugh Dickins
P4 has been coming out as CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of 6: fix MPENTIUM4 typo. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-26x86: don't use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERICH. Peter Anvin
P6_NOPs are definitely not supported on some VIA CPUs, and possibly (unverified) on AMD K7s. It is also the only thing that prevents a 686 kernel from running on Transmeta TM3x00/5x00 (Crusoe) series. The performance benefit over generic NOPs is very small, so when building for generic consumption, avoid using them. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26x86: require family >= 6 if we are using P6 NOPsH. Peter Anvin
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so enforce that in the boot code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: reduce CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE bloatNick Piggin
CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE bloats text: i386 allmodconf: size mm/built-in.o text data bss dec hex text ratio vanilla: 163082 20372 40120 223574 36956 100.00% bugfix : 163509 20372 40120 224001 36b01 0.26% noppro : 162191 20372 40120 222683 365db - 0.55% both : 162267 20372 40120 222759 36627 - 0.50% (+0.05% vs noppro) So with the ppro memory ordering bug out of the way, the PG_uptodate fix only adds 76 bytes of text. allow this config to be specified by distros. [ mingo@elte.hu: x86.git merge ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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