1. 19 Dec, 2011 1 commit
  2. 13 Dec, 2011 2 commits
    • John Stultz's avatar
      rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality · c3b79770
      John Stultz authored
      The m41t80 driver can read and set the alarm, but it doesn't
      seem to have a functional alarm irq.
      
      This causes failures when the generic core sees alarm functions,
      but then cannot use them properly for things like UIE mode.
      
      Disabling the alarm functions allows proper error reporting,
      and possible fallback to emulated modes. Once someone fixes
      the alarm irq functionality, this can be restored.
      
      CC: stable@kernel.org
      CC: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      CC: Nico Macrionitis <acrux@cruxppc.org>
      CC: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
      Reported-by: default avatarMatt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarNico Macrionitis <acrux@cruxppc.org>
      Tested-by: default avatarNico Macrionitis <acrux@cruxppc.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      c3b79770
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set. · 93b2ec01
      NeilBrown authored
      If the alarm time programming in the rtc is ever in the past, it won't fire,
      and any other alarm will be queued after it so they won't fire either.
      
      So any time that the alarm might be in the past, we need to trigger
      the irq handler to ensure the old alarm is cleared and the timer queue
      is fully in the future.
      
      This can happen:
       - when we first initialise the alarm
       - when we set the time in the rtc.
      
      so follow both of these by scheduling the timer work function.
      
      CC: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      [Also catch set_mmss case -jstultz]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      93b2ec01
  3. 06 Dec, 2011 7 commits
  4. 05 Dec, 2011 28 commits
  5. 04 Dec, 2011 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      x86: Fix boot failures on older AMD CPU's · 8e8da023
      Linus Torvalds authored
      People with old AMD chips are getting hung boots, because commit
      bcb80e53 ("x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to
      /proc/cpuinfo") moved the microcode detection too early into
      "early_init_amd()".
      
      At that point we are *so* early in the booth that the exception tables
      haven't even been set up yet, so the whole
      
      	rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
      
      doesn't actually work: if the rdmsr does a GP fault (due to non-existant
      MSR register on older CPU's), we can't fix it up yet, and the boot fails.
      
      Fix it by simply moving the code to a slightly later point in the boot
      (init_amd() instead of early_init_amd()), since the kernel itself
      doesn't even really care about the microcode patchlevel at this point
      (or really ever: it's made available to user space in /proc/cpuinfo, and
      updated if you do a microcode load).
      Reported-tested-and-bisected-by: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
      Tested-by: default avatarBob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8e8da023
  6. 03 Dec, 2011 1 commit
    • Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar
      xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen. · e5fd47bf
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored
      The idea behind commit d91ee586 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
      pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
      which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code.  It disallows
      cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).
      
      But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
      be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle.  This
      depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.
      
      In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
      (Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:
      
        Brought up 2 CPUs
        invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
      
        Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
        RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81015d1d>]  [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
        ...
        Call Trace:
         [<ffffffff8100e2ed>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
         [<ffffffff8149ee78>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
        RIP  [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
         RSP <ffff8801d28ddf10>
      
      In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
      do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
      follow it up with a yield hypercall.  Meaning we end up going to
      hypervisor twice instead of just once.
      
      The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
      default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.
      
      We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen.  This patch
      does that.
      
      Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
      Reported-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e5fd47bf