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2008-10-19Merge branch 'linus' into tracing-v28-for-linus-v3Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: init/main.c kernel/module.c scripts/bootgraph.pl
2008-10-16Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning softirqs, debug: preemption check x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap() IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system() generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses softirq: allocate less vectors IO resources: fix/remove printk printk: robustify printk, update comment printk: robustify printk, fix #2 printk: robustify printk, fix printk: robustify printk Fixed up conflicts in: arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype manually.
2008-10-16Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructsJan Beulich
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-15Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus
2008-10-14ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86Steven Rostedt
Enable the use of the __mcount_loc infrastructure on x86_64 and i386. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: include/asm-x86/statfs.h
2008-10-12Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2
2008-10-12Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-checkIngo Molnar
2008-10-11Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-BIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c arch/x86/kernel/setup.c drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into ↵Ingo Molnar
x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-06Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
2008-10-01x86: change MTRR_SANITIZER to def_bool yYinghai Lu
This option has been added in v2.6.26 as a default-disabled feature and went through several revisions since then. The feature fixes a wide range of MTRR setup problems that BIOSes leave us with: slow system, slow Xorg, slow system when adding lots of RAM, etc., so we want to enable it by default for v2.6.28. See: [Bug 10508] Upgrade to 4GB of RAM messes up MTRRs http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10508 and the test results in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/273 1. hpa reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0x13c000000 (5056MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg05: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 128M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 000000013c000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 5056MB, range: 64MB, type UC 2. Dylan Taft reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1 reg04: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg05: base=0xc7e00000 (3198MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1 reg06: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 4M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c8000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 128MB, type WB hole: 00000000c7e00000 - 00000000c8000000 Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3198MB, range: 2MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 256MB, type WB 3. Gabriel reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 7 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000d0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 256MB, type WB hole: 00000000cf600000 - 00000000cf800000 Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3318MB, range: 2MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 128MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 6, base: 4736MB, range: 64MB, type WB 4. Mika Fischer reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg04: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 5 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-24Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/microcodeIngo Molnar
2008-09-23x86: moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.cDmitry Adamushko
Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent). Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h into their respective arch-specific .c files. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19AMD IOMMU: add MSI interrupt supportJoerg Roedel
The AMD IOMMU can generate interrupts for various reasons. This patch adds the basic interrupt enabling infrastructure to the driver. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2008-09-16x86: add X86_RESERVE_LOW_64KIngo Molnar
This bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237 Documents a wide range of systems where the BIOS utilizes the first 64K of physical memory during suspend/resume and other hardware events. Currently we reserve this memory on all AMI and Phoenix BIOS systems. Life is too short to hunt subtle memory corruption problems like this, so we try to be robust by default. Still, allow this to be overriden: allow users who want that first 64K of memory to be available to the kernel disable the quirk, via CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=n. Also, allow the early reservation to overlap with other early reservations. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_tJeremy Fitzhardinge
There's no good reason why a resource_size_t shouldn't just be a physical address, so simply redefine it in terms of phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addressesJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold any physical address. By default it equals the word size of the architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14x86: simpler SYSVIPC_COMPAT definitionAlexey Dobriyan
X86_64 part is entirely redundant. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-09seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC_FSAlexey Dobriyan
seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: default corruption check to off, but put parameter default in KconfigJeremy Fitzhardinge
Default the low memory corruption check to off, but make the default setting of the memory_corruption_check kernel parameter a config parameter. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parametersJeremy Fitzhardinge
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime. This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruptionJeremy Fitzhardinge
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k. This change: - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel. Things like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however. - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it. - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero. Currently it's called in the x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06Introduce HAVE_AOUT symbol to remove hard-coded arch list for BINFMT_AOUTDavid Woodhouse
HAVE_AOUT doesn't quite do the same thing as the recently removed ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT config option. That was set even on platforms where binfmt_aout isn't supported, although it's not entirely clear why. So it's best just to introduce a new symbol, handled consistently with other similar HAVE_xxx symbols; with a simple 'select' in the arch Kconfig. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-06Remove redundant CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUTDavid Woodhouse
We don't need this any more; arguably we never really did. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-05Merge branch 'linus' into x86/defconfigIngo Molnar
2008-09-05Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehookIngo Molnar
2008-08-25[x86] Clean up MAXSMP Kconfig, and limit NR_CPUS to 512Linus Torvalds
This fixes a regression that was indirectly caused by commit 1184dc2ffe2c8fb9afb766d870850f2c3165ef25 ("x86: modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus"). Allowing 4k CPU's is not practical at this time, because we still have a number of places that have several 'cpumask_t's on the stack, and a 4k-bit cpumask is 512 bytes of stack-space for each such variable. This literally caused functions like 'smp_call_function_mask' to have a 2.5kB stack frame, and several functions to have 2kB stackframes. With an 8kB stack total, smashing the stack was simply much too likely. At least bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342 was due to this. The earlier commit to not inline load_module() into sys_init_module() fixed the particular symptoms of this that Alan Brunelle saw in that bugzilla entry, but the huge stack waste by cpumask_t's was the more direct cause. Some day we'll have allocation helpers that allocate large CPU masks dynamically, but in the meantime we simply cannot allow cpumasks this large. Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-21Merge branch 'linus' into x86/docIngo Molnar
2008-08-15Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehookIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15x86, bootup: add built-in kernel command line for x86 (v2)Tim Bird
Allow x86 to support a built-in kernel command line. The built-in command line can override the one provided by the boot loader, for those cases where the boot loader is broken or it is difficult to change the command line in the the boot loader. H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Best would be to make it really apparent in the code that nothing >> changes if this config option is not set. Preferably there should be >> no extra code at all in that case. >> > > I would like to see this: [...Nested ifdefs...] OK. This version changes absolutely nothing if CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set (the default). Also, no space is appended even when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is set, but the builtin string is empty. This is less sloppy all the way around, IMHO. Note that I use the same option names as on other arches for this feature. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15arch/x86/Kconfig: clean up, experimental adjustementPavel Machek
Adjust experimental tags in Kconfig, update config to notice that i386/x86_64 is now single architecture. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14Merge branch 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-12mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL itRusty Russell
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST. Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-11x86: make sparsemem more availableJeff Chua
With CONFIG_X86_PC, I can set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y. With CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_SPARSEMEM depends on CONFIG_NUMA. I'm using the patch below to enable sparsemem instead of flatmem. System booted and is running. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11x86: remove EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPUDimitri Sivanich
This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU on the x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h include/asm-x86/namei.h include/asm-x86/uaccess.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/microcodeIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c Manual resolutions: arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherentIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28x86: AMD microcode patch loading supportPeter Oruba
This patch introduces microcode patch loading for AMD processors. It is based on previous corresponding work for Intel processors. It hooks into the general patch loading module. Main difference is that a container file format is used to hold all patch data for multiple processors as well as an equivalent CPU table, which comes seperately, as opposed to Intel's microcode patching solution. Kconfig and Makefile have been changed provice config and build option for new source file. Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28x86: major refactoringPeter Oruba
Refactored code by introducing a two-module solution. There is one general module in which vendor specific modules can hook into. However, that is exclusive, there is only one vendor specific module allowed at a time. A CPU vendor check makes sure only the correct module for the underlying system gets called. Functinally in terms of patch loading itself there are no changes. This refactoring provides a basis for future implementations of other vendors' patch loaders. Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdirRandy Dunlap
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26x86: tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOKRoland McGrath
The x86 arch code has all the prerequisites, so set HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-07-26Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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, AMD IOMMU: include amd_iommu_last_bdf in device initialization x86: fix IBM Summit based systems' phys_cpu_present_map on 32-bit kernels x86, RDC321x: remove gpio.h complications x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default crashdump: fix undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr' flag parameters: fix compile error of sys_epoll_create1
2008-07-26x86: lockless get_user_pages_fast()Nick Piggin
Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86. Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any page table locks or even mmap_sem. Page table existence is guaranteed by turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the constraints of the TLB shootdown design). Basically we can do this lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes. This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8 core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5 "To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at 2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel. Comparing runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance benefit of ~9.8%. Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from __up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%. Monitoring the /proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was zero." (fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked). The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each issuing direct-IO. Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks. I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases. In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain. The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work. However this should not be the common case in most performance critical code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26kexec jump: save/restore device stateHuang Ying
This patch implements devices state save/restore before after kexec. This patch together with features in kexec_jump patch can be used for following: - A simple hibernation implementation without ACPI support. You can kexec a hibernating kernel, save the memory image of original system and shutdown the system. When resuming, you restore the memory image of original system via ordinary kexec load then jump back. - Kernel/system debug through making system snapshot. You can make system snapshot, jump back, do some thing and make another system snapshot. - Cooperative multi-kernel/system. With kexec jump, you can switch between several kernels/systems quickly without boot process except the first time. This appears like swap a whole kernel/system out/in. - A general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to invoke BIOS code under Linux. The following user-space tools can be used with kexec jump: - kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL: source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2 patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2 binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10 - makedumpfile with patches are used as memory image saving tool, it can exclude free pages from original kernel memory image file. The patches and the precompiled makedumpfile can be download from the following URL: source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-src_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2 patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile-patches_cvs_kh10.tar.bz2 binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_cvs_kh10 - An initramfs image can be used as the root file system of kexeced kernel. An initramfs image built with "BuildRoot" can be downloaded from the following URL: initramfs image: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/initramfs/rootfs_cvs_kh10.gz All user space tools above are included in the initramfs image. Usage example of simple hibernation: 1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected: CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y 2. Build an initramfs image contains kexec-tool and makedumpfile, or download the pre-built initramfs image, called rootfs.gz in following text. 3. Prepare a partition to save memory image of original kernel, called hibernating partition in following text. 4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel A). 5. In the kernel A, load kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel B) with /sbin/kexec. The shell command line can be as follow: /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context /boot/bzImage --mem-min=0x100000 --mem-max=0xffffff --initrd=rootfs.gz 6. Boot the kernel B with following shell command line: /sbin/kexec -e 7. The kernel B will boot as normal kexec. In kernel B the memory image of kernel A can be saved into hibernating partition as follow: jump_back_entry=`cat /proc/cmdline | tr ' ' '\n' | grep kexec_jump_back_entry | cut -d '='` echo $jump_back_entry > kexec_jump_back_entry cp /proc/vmcore dump.elf Then you can shutdown the machine as normal. 8. Boot kernel compiled in step 1 (kernel C). Use the rootfs.gz as root file system. 9. In kernel C, load the memory image of kernel A as follow: /sbin/kexec -l --args-none --entry=`cat kexec_jump_back_entry` dump.elf 10. Jump back to the kernel A as follow: /sbin/kexec -e Then, kernel A is resumed. Implementation point: To support jumping between two kernels, before jumping to (executing) the new kernel and jumping back to the original kernel, the devices are put into quiescent state, and the state of devices and CPU is saved. After jumping back from kexeced kernel and jumping to the new kernel, the state of devices and CPU are restored accordingly. The devices/CPU state save/restore code of software suspend is called to implement corresponding function. Known issues: - Because the segment number supported by sys_kexec_load is limited, hibernation image with many segments may not be load. This is planned to be eliminated by adding a new flag to sys_kexec_load to make a image can be loaded with multiple sys_kexec_load invoking. Now, only the i386 architecture is supported. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26kexec jumpHuang Ying
This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the following features: - Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after kexec. - Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec. The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under Linux. kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL: source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2 patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2 binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10 Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return: 1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected: CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y 2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one. 3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode" 4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1. 5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command line can be as follow: /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode 6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line: /sbin/kexec -e Implementation point: To support jumping without reserving memory. One shadow backup page (source page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination page). When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped. Before jumping to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the destination pages and the source pages are swapped too. C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between kernel and called code. A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back. Now, only the i386 architecture is supported. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/gpio.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26Merge branch 'x86/x2apic' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/i8259.h include/asm-x86/msidef.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>