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When the IOMMU stays enabled the BIOS may not be able to finish the
machine shutdown properly. So disable the hardware on shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30
to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure
the combination works fine.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'amd-iommu/suspend-resume' and 'amd-iommu/extended-allocator' into amd-iommu/2.6.31
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu.c
arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
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Simplify the code a little bit by using the same unit for all address
space related state in the dma_ops domain structure.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This patch changes the AMD IOMMU address allocator to allow up to 32
aperture ranges per dma_ops domain.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This is a preperation for extended address allocator.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This function is required for suspend/resume support with AMD IOMMU
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This function is required for suspend/resume support with AMD IOMMU
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This patch introduces the for_each_iommu and for_each_iommu_safe macros
to simplify the developers life when having to iterate over all AMD
IOMMUs in the system.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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This kernel parameter will be useful to get some AMD IOMMU related
information in dmesg that is not necessary for the default user but may
be helpful in debug situations.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.
It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:
| commit 8efcbab674de2bee45a2e4cdf97de16b8e609ac8
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| paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation
The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).
If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).
Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:
nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin
CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18%
instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15%
CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03%
cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28%
cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56%
cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31%
branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04%
branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72%
branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67%
wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20%
The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.
(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)
So, what's the fix?
Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.
The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.
[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]
Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit
- the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized
[ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mce: fix boot logging logic
x86, mce: make polling timer interval per CPU
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Rename set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default to x86_pci_root_bus_res_quirks, move
the weak version from common.c to i386.c, and before calling, make sure it's a
root bus.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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The earlier patch to change the poller to a separate function subtly
broke the boot logging logic. This could lead to machine checks
getting logged at boot even when disabled or defaulting to off
on some systems. Fix that.
[ Impact: bug fix - avoid spurious MCE in log ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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In non-SMP mode, the variable section attribute specified by DECLARE_PER_CPU()
does not agree with that specified by DEFINE_PER_CPU(). This means that
architectures that have a small data section references relative to a base
register may throw up linkage errors due to too great a displacement between
where the base register points and the per-CPU variable.
On FRV, the .h declaration says that the variable is in the .sdata section, but
the .c definition says it's actually in the .data section. The linker throws
up the following errors:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `release_task':
kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o
kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o
To fix this, DECLARE_PER_CPU() should simply apply the same section attribute
as does DEFINE_PER_CPU(). However, this is made slightly more complex by
virtue of the fact that there are several variants on DEFINE, so these need to
be matched by variants on DECLARE.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixes guest crash 'lguest: bad read address 0x4800000 len 256'
The new per-cpu allocator ends up handing a non-linear address to
write_gdt_entry. We do __pa() on it, and hand it to the host, which
kills us.
I've long wanted to make the hypercall "LOAD_GDT_ENTRY" to match the IDT
code, but had no pressing reason until now.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix microcode driver newly spewing warnings
x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking for vm_insert_pfn maps
x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for now
x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86
x86: pci-swiotlb.c swiotlb_dma_ops should be static
x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap
x86, PAT: Consolidate code in pat_x_mtrr_type() and reserve_memtype()
x86, PAT: Changing memtype to WC ensuring no WB alias
x86, PAT: Handle faults cleanly in set_memory_ APIs
x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb
x86, CPA: Change idmap attribute before ioremap attribute setup
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86/uv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: UV BAU distribution and payload MMRs
x86: UV: BAU partition-relative distribution map
x86, uv: add Kconfig dependency on NUMA for UV systems
x86: prevent /sys/firmware/sgi_uv from being created on non-uv systems
x86, UV: Fix for nodes with memory and no cpus
x86, UV: system table in bios accessed after unmap
x86: UV BAU messaging timeouts
x86: UV BAU and nodes with no memory
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'for-rc1/xen/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
xen: resume interrupts before system devices.
xen/mmu: weaken flush_tlb_other test
xen/mmu: some early pagetable cleanups
Xen: Add virt_to_pfn helper function
x86-64: remove PGE from must-have feature list
xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid
NULL noise: arch/x86/xen/smp.c
xen: remove xen_load_gdt debug
xen: make xen_load_gdt simpler
xen: clean up xen_load_gdt
xen: split construction of p2m mfn tables from registration
xen: separate p2m allocation from setting
xen: disable preempt for leave_lazy_mmu
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state
x86: fix wrong section of pat_disable & make it static
x86: Fix section mismatches in mpparse
x86: fix set_fixmap to use phys_addr_t
x86: Document get_user_pages_fast()
x86, intr-remap: fix eoi for interrupt remapping without x2apic
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Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing
capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx
Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure
to support AVX.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix kprobes crash on 32-bit with RAM above 4G
Use phys_addr_t for receiving a physical address argument
instead of unsigned long. This allows fixmap to handle
pages higher than 4GB on x86-32.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: systemtap-ml <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <49DE3695.6040800@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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/dev/mem mmap code was doing memtype reserve/free for a while now.
Recently we added memtype tracking in remap_pfn_range, and /dev/mem mmap
uses it indirectly. So, we don't need seperate tracking in /dev/mem code
any more. That means another ~100 lines of code removed :-).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409212709.085210000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Use phys_addr_t for receiving a physical address argument instead of
unsigned long. This allows fixmap to handle pages higher than 4GB on
x86-32.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: cpu_debug remove execute permission
x86: smarten /proc/interrupts output for new counters
x86: DMI match for the Dell DXP061 as it needs BIOS reboot
x86: make 64 bit to use default_inquire_remote_apic
x86, setup: un-resequence mode setting for VGA 80x34 and 80x60 modes
x86, intel-iommu: fix X2APIC && !ACPI build failure
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It seems by mistake these files got execute permissions so removing it.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239211186.9037.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
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PGE may not be available when running paravirtualized, so test the cpuid
bit before using it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Add support for Always Running APIC timer, CPUID_0x6_EAX_Bit2.
This bit means the APIC timer continues to run even when CPU is
in deep C-states.
The advantage is that we can use LAPIC timer on these CPUs
always, and there is no need for "slow to read and program"
external timers (HPET/PIT) and the timer broadcast logic
and related code in C-state entry and exit.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24)
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c: include acpi.h
intel-iommu: Fix oops in device_to_iommu() when devices not found.
intel-iommu: Handle PCI domains appropriately.
intel-iommu: Fix device-to-iommu mapping for PCI-PCI bridges.
x2apic/intr-remap: decouple interrupt remapping from x2apic
x86, dmar: check if it's initialized before disable queue invalidation
intel-iommu: set compatibility format interrupt
Intel IOMMU Suspend/Resume Support - Interrupt Remapping
Intel IOMMU Suspend/Resume Support - Queued Invalidation
Intel IOMMU Suspend/Resume Support - DMAR
intel-iommu: Add for_each_iommu() and for_each_active_iommu() macros
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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: (413 commits)
tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
blktrace: extract duplidate code
blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
blktrace: make classic output more classic
blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
blktrace: fix the original blktrace
blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
include/linux/memory.h
kernel/extable.c
kernel/module.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits)
cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix
cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus
x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed
x86: microcode: cleanup
x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h
cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses.
cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others.
cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain()
cpumask: make Xen use the new operators.
cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions
cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask
cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map
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interrupt remapping must be enabled before enabling x2apic, but
interrupt remapping doesn't depend on x2apic, it can be used
separately. Enable interrupt remapping in init_dmars even x2apic
is not supported.
[dwmw2: Update Kconfig accordingly, fix build with INTR_REMAP && !X2APIC]
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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This patch enables suspend/resume for interrupt remapping. During suspend,
interrupt remapping is disabled. When resume, interrupt remapping is enabled
again.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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This patch replaces a 'nop' uv_enable_timeouts() in the
UV TLB shootdown code. (somehow, long ago that function got
eviscerated)
If any cpu in the destination node does not get interrupted by the
message and post completion in a reasonable time the hardware
should respond to the sender with an error. This function
enables such timeouts.
Tested on the UV hardware simulator.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <E1LpjXU-00007e-Qh@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: unification of pci-dma macros and pci_32.h removal
This patch unifies the definition of the pci_unmap_addr*, pci_unmap_len*
and DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP* macros. This makes sense because the pci_unmap
functions are no longer no-ops anymore when the kernel runs with
CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG. Without an iommu or DMA_API_DEBUG it is a no-op on 32 bit
because the dma mapping path returns a physical address and therefore the
dma-api implementation has no internal state which needs to be destroyed with
an unmap call.
This unification also simplifies the port of x86_64 iommu drivers to 32 bit x86
and let us get rid of pci_32.h.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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Pass the original flags to rwlock arch-code, so that it can re-enable
interrupts if implemented for that architecture.
Initially, make __raw_read_lock_flags and __raw_write_lock_flags stubs
which just do the same thing as non-flags variants.
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls. These syscalls are a
pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write).
They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications.
Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with
locking.
Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check
here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html
The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like
this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family:
ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit)
offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't
allow to do. At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this. As
we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to
glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without
arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is
explicitly splitted into two 32bit values.
The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in
the x86 system call tables. Other archs follow as separate patches.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add macros for using the UV hub to send interrupts. Change the IPI code
to use these macros. These macros will also be used in additional patches
that will follow.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add definitions for x86_64 GRU MMRs.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eliminate compile errors on 32-bit X86 caused by UV.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
include/linux/slub_def.h
lib/Kconfig.debug
mm/slob.c
mm/slub.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (88 commits)
PCI: fix HT MSI mapping fix
PCI: don't enable too much HT MSI mapping
x86/PCI: make pci=lastbus=255 work when acpi is on
PCI: save and restore PCIe 2.0 registers
PCI: update fakephp for bus_id removal
PCI: fix kernel oops on bridge removal
PCI: fix conflict between SR-IOV and config space sizing
powerpc/PCI: include pci.h in powerpc MSI implementation
PCI Hotplug: schedule fakephp for feature removal
PCI Hotplug: rename legacy_fakephp to fakephp
PCI Hotplug: restore fakephp interface with complete reimplementation
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan
PCI: Introduce pci_rescan_bus()
PCI: do not enable bridges more than once
PCI: do not initialize bridges more than once
PCI: always scan child buses
PCI: pci_scan_slot() returns newly found devices
PCI: don't scan existing devices
...
Fix trivial append-only conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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Remove unused/duplicate cruft from asm/suspend.h:
- x86_32: remove unused acpi code
- powerpc: remove duplicate prototypes, see linux/suspend.h
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
(Both cases: changed in Linus' tree, removed in Ingo's).
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask:
oprofile: Thou shalt not call __exit functions from __init functions
cpumask: remove the now-obsoleted pcibus_to_cpumask(): generic
cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core
cpumask: convert rcutorture.c
cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code.
cpumask: remove references to struct irqaction's mask field.
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: kernel/fork.c
cpumask: use set_cpu_active in init/main.c
cpumask: remove node_to_first_cpu
cpumask: fix seq_bitmap_*() functions.
cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL
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