- 24 12月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
We can use PCID to retain the TLBs across CR3 switches; including those now part of the user/kernel switch. This increases performance of kernel entry/exit at the cost of more expensive/complicated TLB flushing. Now that we have two address spaces, one for kernel and one for user space, we need two PCIDs per mm. We use the top PCID bit to indicate a user PCID (just like we use the PFN LSB for the PGD). Since we do TLB invalidation from kernel space, the existing code will only invalidate the kernel PCID, we augment that by marking the corresponding user PCID invalid, and upon switching back to userspace, use a flushing CR3 write for the switch. In order to access the user_pcid_flush_mask we use PER_CPU storage, which means the previously established SWAPGS vs CR3 ordering is now mandatory and required. Having to do this memory access does require additional registers, most sites have a functioning stack and we can spill one (RAX), sites without functional stack need to otherwise provide the second scratch register. Note: PCID is generally available on Intel Sandybridge and later CPUs. Note: Up until this point TLB flushing was broken in this series. Based-on-code-from: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 23 12月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Dave Hansen 提交于
If the kernel oopses while on the trampoline stack, it will print "<SYSENTER>" even if SYSENTER is not involved. That is rather confusing. The "SYSENTER" stack is used for a lot more than SYSENTER now. Give it a better string to display in stack dumps, and rename the kernel code to match. Also move the 32-bit code over to the new naming even though it still uses the entry stack only for SYSENTER. Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 17 12月, 2017 5 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
The TSS is a fairly juicy target for exploits, and, now that the TSS is in the cpu_entry_area, it's no longer protected by kASLR. Make it read-only on x86_64. On x86_32, it can't be RO because it's written by the CPU during task switches, and we use a task gate for double faults. I'd also be nervous about errata if we tried to make it RO even on configurations without double fault handling. [ tglx: AMD confirmed that there is no problem on 64-bit with TSS RO. So it's probably safe to assume that it's a non issue, though Intel might have been creative in that area. Still waiting for confirmation. ] Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.733700132@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
The existing code was a mess, mainly because C arrays are nasty. Turn SYSENTER_stack into a struct, add a helper to find it, and do all the obvious cleanups this enables. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.653244723@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
Handling SYSCALL is tricky: the SYSCALL handler is entered with every single register (except FLAGS), including RSP, live. It somehow needs to set RSP to point to a valid stack, which means it needs to save the user RSP somewhere and find its own stack pointer. The canonical way to do this is with SWAPGS, which lets us access percpu data using the %gs prefix. With PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION-like pagetable switching, this is problematic. Without a scratch register, switching CR3 is impossible, so %gs-based percpu memory would need to be mapped in the user pagetables. Doing that without information leaks is difficult or impossible. Instead, use a different sneaky trick. Map a copy of the first part of the SYSCALL asm at a different address for each CPU. Now RIP varies depending on the CPU, so we can use RIP-relative memory access to access percpu memory. By putting the relevant information (one scratch slot and the stack address) at a constant offset relative to RIP, we can make SYSCALL work without relying on %gs. A nice thing about this approach is that we can easily switch it on and off if we want pagetable switching to be configurable. The compat variant of SYSCALL doesn't have this problem in the first place -- there are plenty of scratch registers, since we don't care about preserving r8-r15. This patch therefore doesn't touch SYSCALL32 at all. This patch actually seems to be a small speedup. With this patch, SYSCALL touches an extra cache line and an extra virtual page, but the pipeline no longer stalls waiting for SWAPGS. It seems that, at least in a tight loop, the latter outweights the former. Thanks to David Laight for an optimization tip. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.403607157@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
This has a secondary purpose: it puts the entry stack into a region with a well-controlled layout. A subsequent patch will take advantage of this to streamline the SYSCALL entry code to be able to find it more easily. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150605.962042855@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
This will simplify future changes that want scratch variables early in the SYSENTER handler -- they'll be able to spill registers to the stack. It also lets us get rid of a SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK user. This does not depend on CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y because we'll want the stack space even without IA32 emulation. As far as I can tell, the reason that this wasn't done from day 1 is that we use IST for #DB and #BP, which is IMO rather nasty and causes a lot more problems than it solves. But, since #DB uses IST, we don't actually need a real stack for SYSENTER (because SYSENTER with TF set will invoke #DB on the IST stack rather than the SYSENTER stack). I want to remove IST usage from these vectors some day, and this patch is a prerequisite for that as well. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150605.312726423@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 02 11月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: NKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: NPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 07 2月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash it somewhere that the main kernel image can find. The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a) generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode. For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot loader or kexec. This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new kernel. Suggested-by: NLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org [ Small readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 15 9月, 2016 2 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
Now that most of the thread_info users have been cleaned up, this is straightforward. Most of this code was written by Linus. Originally-from: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a50eab40abeaec9cb9a9e3cbdeafd32190206654.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
Because sched.h and thread_info.h are a tangled mess, I turned in_compat_syscall() into a macro. If we had current_thread_struct() or similar and we could use it from thread_info.h, then this would be a bit cleaner. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ccc8a1b2f41f9c264a41f771bb4a6539a642ad72.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 24 8月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Move the low-level context switch code to an out-of-line asm stub instead of using complex inline asm. This allows constructing a new stack frame for the child process to make it seamlessly flow to ret_from_fork without an extra test and branch in __switch_to(). It also improves code generation for __schedule() by using the C calling convention instead of clobbering all registers. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 15 7月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
struct thread_info is a legacy mess. To prepare for its partial removal, move thread_info::addr_limit out. As an added benefit, this way is simpler. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/15bee834d09402b47ac86f2feccdf6529f9bc5b0.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 29 4月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
This change makes later calculations about where the kernel is located easier to reason about. To better understand this change, we must first clarify what 'VO' and 'ZO' are. These values were introduced in commits by hpa: 77d1a499 ("x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available") 37ba7ab5 ("x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields") Specifically: All names prefixed with 'VO_': - relate to the uncompressed kernel image - the size of the VO image is: VO__end-VO__text ("VO_INIT_SIZE" define) All names prefixed with 'ZO_': - relate to the bootable compressed kernel image (boot/compressed/vmlinux), which is composed of the following memory areas: - head text - compressed kernel (VO image and relocs table) - decompressor code - the size of the ZO image is: ZO__end - ZO_startup_32 ("ZO_INIT_SIZE" define, though see below) The 'INIT_SIZE' value is used to find the larger of the two image sizes: #define ZO_INIT_SIZE (ZO__end - ZO_startup_32 + ZO_z_extract_offset) #define VO_INIT_SIZE (VO__end - VO__text) #if ZO_INIT_SIZE > VO_INIT_SIZE # define INIT_SIZE ZO_INIT_SIZE #else # define INIT_SIZE VO_INIT_SIZE #endif The current code uses extract_offset to decide where to position the copied ZO (i.e. ZO starts at extract_offset). (This is why ZO_INIT_SIZE currently includes the extract_offset.) Why does z_extract_offset exist? It's needed because we are trying to minimize the amount of RAM used for the whole act of creating an uncompressed, executable, properly relocation-linked kernel image in system memory. We do this so that kernels can be booted on even very small systems. To achieve the goal of minimal memory consumption we have implemented an in-place decompression strategy: instead of cleanly separating the VO and ZO images and also allocating some memory for the decompression code's runtime needs, we instead create this elaborate layout of memory buffers where the output (decompressed) stream, as it progresses, overlaps with and destroys the input (compressed) stream. This can only be done safely if the ZO image is placed to the end of the VO range, plus a certain amount of safety distance to make sure that when the last bytes of the VO range are decompressed, the compressed stream pointer is safely beyond the end of the VO range. z_extract_offset is calculated in arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c during the build process, at a point when we know the exact compressed and uncompressed size of the kernel images and can calculate this safe minimum offset value. (Note that the mkpiggy.c calculation is not perfect, because we don't know the decompressor used at that stage, so the z_extract_offset calculation is necessarily imprecise and is mostly based on gzip internals - we'll improve that in the next patch.) When INIT_SIZE is bigger than VO_INIT_SIZE (uncommon but possible), the copied ZO occupies the memory from extract_offset to the end of decompression buffer. It overlaps with the soon-to-be-uncompressed kernel like this: |-----compressed kernel image------| V V 0 extract_offset +INIT_SIZE |-----------|---------------|-------------------------|--------| | | | | VO__text startup_32 of ZO VO__end ZO__end ^ ^ |-------uncompressed kernel image---------| When INIT_SIZE is equal to VO_INIT_SIZE (likely) there's still space left from end of ZO to the end of decompressing buffer, like below. |-compressed kernel image-| V V 0 extract_offset +INIT_SIZE |-----------|---------------|-------------------------|--------| | | | | VO__text startup_32 of ZO ZO__end VO__end ^ ^ |------------uncompressed kernel image-------------| To simplify calculations and avoid special cases, it is cleaner to always place the compressed kernel image in memory so that ZO__end is at the end of the decompression buffer, instead of placing t at the start of extract_offset as is currently done. This patch adds BP_init_size (which is the INIT_SIZE as passed in from the boot_params) into asm-offsets.c to make it visible to the assembly code. Then when moving the ZO, it calculates the starting position of the copied ZO (via BP_init_size and the ZO run size) so that the VO__end will be at the end of the decompression buffer. To make the position calculation safe, the end of ZO is page aligned (and a comment is added to the existing VO alignment for good measure). Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> [ Rewrote changelog and comments. ] Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org [ Rewrote the changelog some more. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 08 3月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
It no longer has any users. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 23 11月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Boris Ostrovsky 提交于
As result of commit "x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests", the irq_enable_sysexit pv op is not called by Xen PV guests anymore and since they were the only ones who used it we can safely remove it. Signed-off-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447970147-1733-3-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 09 10月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
It's no longer needed. We could reinstate something like it as an optimization, which would remove two cachelines from the fast syscall entry working set. I benchmarked it, and it makes no difference whatsoever to the performance of cache-hot compat syscalls on Sandy Bridge. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f08cc0cff30201afe9bb565c47134c0a6c1a96a2.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 08 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Use the new name in kernel code, and move the old name to the user-space-only legacy section of the UAPI header. Acked-by: NMikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-14-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 06 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Merge common values for 32-bit native and compat. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428844486-6638-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 22 4月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
We don't use irq_enable_sysexit on 64-bit kernels any more. Remove all the paravirt and Xen machinery to support it on 64-bit kernels. Tested-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a03355698fe5b94194e9e7360f19f91c1b2cf1f.1428100853.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 15 4月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Merge common values for 32-bit native and compat. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Acked-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428844486-6638-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 25 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing thread_info variables. We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as current_task. NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore task_struct::state. Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is 'accidentally' still poking at it. Suggested-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 01 10月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from there afterwards. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 13 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Matt Fleming 提交于
There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As H. Peter Anvin put it, "The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as well." This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot environment. The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI shell, e.g. Shell> bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img v7: - Fix checkpatch warnings. v6: - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max. v5: - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert to the corresponding ASCII size. v4: - Don't read more than image->load_options_size v3: - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’: arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’ arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’ - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol. - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline - Don't trust image->load_options_size Maarten Lankhorst noted: - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names v2: - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by Maarten Lankhorst on LKML. - Added UGA support for graphics - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number. - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which triggers this error in decompress_kernel(), if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff)) error("Destination address too large"); Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Tested-by: NHenrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- 26 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Stratos Psomadakis 提交于
PAGE_SIZE_asm, PAGE_SHIFT_asm, THREAD_SIZE_asm can be safely removed from asm-offsets.c, and be replaced by their non-'_asm' counterparts in the code that uses them, since the _AC macro defined in include/linux/const.h makes PAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SHIFT/THREAD_SIZE work with as. Signed-off-by: NStratos Psomadakis <psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> LKML-Reference: <1298666774-17646-2-git-send-email-psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 10 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Just consolidating the common parts. Full unification would seem straight forward, but it's not clear the necessary #ifdef-s would be acceptable. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4D525D520200007800030EE9@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
This is the structure offsets required by lg.ko's switcher.S. Unfortunately we don't have infrastructure for private asm-offsets creation. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Most of the time we can simply use the iret instruction to exit the kernel, rather than having to use the iret hypercall - the only exception is if we're returning into vm86 mode, or from delivering an NMI (which we don't support yet). When running native, iret has the behaviour of testing for a pending interrupt atomically with re-enabling interrupts. Unfortunately there's no way to do this with Xen, so there's a window in which we could get a recursive exception after enabling events but before actually returning to userspace. This causes a problem: if the nested interrupt causes one of the task's TIF_WORK_MASK flags to be set, they will not be checked again before returning to userspace. This means that pending work may be left pending indefinitely, until the process enters and leaves the kernel again. The net effect is that a pending signal or reschedule event could be delayed for an unbounded amount of time. To deal with this, the xen event upcall handler checks to see if the EIP is within the critical section of the iret code, after events are (potentially) enabled up to the iret itself. If its within this range, it calls the iret critical section fixup, which adjusts the stack to deal with any unrestored registers, and then shifts the stack frame up to replace the previous invocation. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
This patchs adds the mechanism to allow us to patch inline versions of common operations. The implementations of the direct-access versions save_fl, restore_fl, irq_enable and irq_disable are now in assembler, and the same code is used for both out of line and inline uses. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
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- 03 5月, 2007 5 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
head.S creates the very initial pagetable for the kernel. This just maps enough space for the kernel itself, and an allocation bitmap. The amount of mapped memory is rounded up to 4Mbytes, and so this typically ends up mapping 8Mbytes of memory. When booting, pagetable_init() needs to create mappings for all lowmem, and the pagetables for these mappings are allocated from the free pages around the kernel in low memory. If the number of pagetable pages + kernel size exceeds head.S's initial mapping, it will end up faulting on an unmapped page. This will only happen with specific combinations of kernel size and memory size. This patch makes sure that head.S also maps enough space to fit the kernel pagetables as well as the kernel itself. It ends up using an additional two pages of unreclaimable memory. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Currently x86 (similar to x84-64) has a special per-cpu structure called "i386_pda" which can be easily and efficiently referenced via the %fs register. An ELF section is more flexible than a structure, allowing any piece of code to use this area. Indeed, such a section already exists: the per-cpu area. So this patch: (1) Removes the PDA and uses per-cpu variables for each current member. (2) Replaces the __KERNEL_PDA segment with __KERNEL_PERCPU. (3) Creates a per-cpu mirror of __per_cpu_offset called this_cpu_off, which can be used to calculate addresses for this CPU's variables. (4) Simplifies startup, because %fs doesn't need to be loaded with a special segment at early boot; it can be deferred until the first percpu area is allocated (or never for UP). The result is less code and one less x86-specific concept. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Please clean it up properly with two structs. Not sure about this, now I've done it. Running it here. If you like it, I can do x86-64 as well. == lguest defines its own TSS struct because the "struct tss_struct" contains linux-specific additions. Andi asked me to split the struct in processor.h. Unfortunately it makes usage a little awkward. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
The lguest patches somehow managed to trigger this: In file included from arch/i386/lguest/lguest.c:38: include/asm/asm-offsets.h:67:1: warning: "VDSO_PRELINK" redefined In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7, from include/linux/module.h:15, from include/linux/device.h:21, from include/linux/interrupt.h:15, from arch/i386/lguest/lguest.c:27: include/asm/elf.h:140:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition I assume that using the same identifier twice was a bad idea.. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Work around a warning with -Wmissing-prototypes in arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c The warning isn't gcc's fault - asm-offsets.c is simply a special file. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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- 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Convert the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs as the segment for per-processor data. This is because some processors show a small but measurable performance gain for reloading a NULL segment selector (as %fs generally is in user-space) versus a non-NULL one (as %gs generally is). On modern processors the difference is very small, perhaps undetectable. Some old AMD "K6 3D+" processors are noticably slower when %fs is used rather than %gs; I have no idea why this might be, but I think they're sufficiently rare that it doesn't matter much. This patch also fixes the math emulator, which had not been adjusted to match the changed struct pt_regs. [frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com: fixit with gdb] [mingo@elte.hu: Fix KVM too] Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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- 07 12月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops structure with their own variants. All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier. And: +From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup(). Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior Move memory_setup() to avoid this. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Use the pcurrent field in the PDA to implement the "current" macro. This ends up compiling down to a single instruction to get the current task. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Use the cpu_number in the PDA to implement raw_smp_processor_id. This is a little simpler than using thread_info, though the cpu field in thread_info cannot be removed since it is used for things other than getting the current CPU in common code. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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