- 26 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
Previously it didn't align. Use the same one as the C compiler in blended mode, which is good for K8 and Core2 and doesn't hurt on P4. Signed-off-by:Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen authored
rwlocks are now out of line, so it near never triggers. Also it was incompatible with the new dwarf2 unwinder because it had unannotiatable push/pops. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
- Move the slow path fallbacks to their own assembly files This makes them much easier to read and is needed for the next change. - Add CFI annotations for unwinding (XXX need review) - Remove constant case which can never happen with out of line spinlocks - Use patchable LOCK prefixes - Don't use lock sections anymore for inline code because they can't be expressed by the unwinder (this adds one taken jump to the lock fast path) Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
Use knowledge about EFLAGS layout (bits 22:63 are always 0) to distingush EFLAGS word and kernel address in the spin lock stack frame. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386. Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels. But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually analyzed. Do this. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Based on patch from Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>, but extended. Signed-off-by: -
Adam Henley authored
A few trivial spelling and grammar mistakes picked up in "arch/x86_64/aperture.c", "arch/x86_64/crash.c" and "arch/x86_64/apic.c". I think all are correct fixes but am ever aware of my fallibility :o) This is my first patch submission so all feedback is appreciated, esp. WRT CCing to Linus, Andi and trivial@kernel.org, is this correct? And which is the most appropriate kernel version to diff against? If any. Should apply cleanly to 2.6.18-rc1 Signed-off-by:
Adam Henley <adamazing@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
virtual addresses don't belong into kernel logs for non debugging Cc: clemens@ladisch.de Signed-off-by: -
Stephane Eranian authored
Hello, Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to(). The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used. This patch covers the x86-64 modifications. A patch for i386 follows. Changelog: - add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active - add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used - modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags <signed-off-by>: eranian@hpl.hp.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
No need to include it from entry.S Drop all the #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space. x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility. I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall. The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time. The norma methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs portable I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow as needed. AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: -
Vojtech Pavlik authored
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node numbers and pass them to the program. AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code: Better prototype for vgetcpu() It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA. Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied argument to speed things more up. Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from GDT limit instead of CPUID Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known. Drop printk Signed-off-by:
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Vojtech Pavlik authored
This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables. AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug. Signed-off-by:
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Vojtech Pavlik authored
This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h [AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils] Signed-off-by:
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Venkatesh Pallipadi authored
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted. Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters ( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors. What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid). And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural events. Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver. Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels. Signed-off-by:
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64. It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses. Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004. This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific, but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways) Signed-off-by: -
Vivek Goyal authored
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or NMI watchdog tick. Signed-off-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Vivek Goyal authored
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or NMI watchdog tick. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: - nmi_int.c: profile_exceptions_notify() - nmi_timer_int.c: profile_timer_exceptions_notify() Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout. Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then. Fix up the panic message to be generic Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled. Noticed by Jan Beulich Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: -
Shaohua Li authored
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path. And: +From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the suspend/resume cases more gracefully. AK: I merged the two patches together Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more sense when they are displayed. This is mainly a cosmetic fix and shouldn't impact any normal code path. Signed-off-by:
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
To quote Alan Cox: The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated. A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in that directory. This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least panic rather than cause problems further down the line. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the nmi watchdog. By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to monitor the online cpus in the system. By entering a zero value here, a user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be short a counter when in use. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi watchdog. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as they are no longer needed. The various subsystems are modified to register with the die_notifier instead. Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Needed TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK first Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
We need TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in order to support ppoll() and pselect() system calls. This patch originally came from Andi, and was based heavily on David Howells' implementation of same on i386. I fixed a typo which was causing do_signal() to use the wrong signal mask. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path. Instead of being gated by if the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog, reseting it if enabled. This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback). Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware. A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read. In addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the watchdog or not. This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs easier. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on x86_64 SMP aware. A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read. In addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the watchdog or not. This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs easier. Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Incorporates the new performance counter reservation system in oprofile. Also cleans up a lot of the initialization code. The code original zero'd out every register associated with performance counters regardless if those registers were used or not. This causes issues with the nmi watchdog. Now oprofile tries to reserve registers and gives up if it can't get them. Cc: levon@movementarian.org Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance counters on the x86 chips. Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to make reviewing easier. The SMP portion makes a lot more changes. Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different counter. In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters). This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the nmi watchdog. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
This makes merging easier. They are readded a few patches later. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
There are some machines around (large xSeries or Unisys ES7000) that need physical IO-APIC destination mode to access all of their IO devices. This currently doesn't work in UP kernels as used in distribution installers. This patch allows to compile even UP kernels as GENERICARCH which allows to use physical or clustered APIC mode. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
This is based on the x86-64 defconfig which works on a wide range of systems. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NetLabel]: update docs with website information [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 2) [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1) [Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested() [NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list [NetLabel]: change the SELinux permissions [NetLabel]: make the CIPSOv4 cache spinlocks bottom half safe [NetLabel]: correct improper handling of non-NetLabel peer contexts [TCP]: make cubic the default [TCP]: default congestion control menu [ATM] he: Fix __init/__devinit conflict [NETFILTER]: Add dscp,DSCP headers to header-y [DCCP]: Introduce dccp_probe [DCCP]: Use constants for CCIDs [DCCP]: Introduce constants for CCID numbers [DCCP]: Allow default/fallback service code.
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