- 11 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Harald Welte 提交于
The e_powersaver driver for VIA's C7 CPU's needs to be marked as DANGEROUS as it configures the CPU to power states that are out of specification. According to Centaur, all systems with C7 and Nano CPU's support the ACPI p-state method. Thus, the acpi-cpufreq driver should be used instead. Signed-off-by: NHarald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Harald Welte 提交于
The VIA/Centaur C7, C7-M and Nano CPU's all support ACPI based cpu p-states using a MSR interface. The Linux driver just never made use of it, since in addition to the check for the EST flag it also checked if the vendor is Intel. Signed-off-by: NHarald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com> [ Removed the vendor checks entirely - Linus ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used, they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 07 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Cyrill Gorcunov 提交于
Ingo Molnar reported that read_apic is buggy novadays: [ 0.000000] Using APIC driver default [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs [ 0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" [ 0.000000] APIC: disable apic facility [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:254 native_apic_read_dummy+0x2d/0x3b() [ 0.000000] Hardware name: HP OmniBook PC Indeed we still rely on apic->read operation for SMP compiled kernel. And instead of disfigure the SMP code with #ifdef we allow to call apic->read. To capture any unexpected results we check for apic->read being called for sane reason via WARN_ON_ONCE but(!) instead of OR we should use AND logical operation (thanks Yinghai for spotting the root of the problem). Along with that we could be have bad MP table and we are to fix it that way no SMP started and no complains about BIOS bug if apic was just disabled via command line. Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20090607124840.GD4547@lenovo> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
The powernow-k8 driver checks to see that the Performance Control/Status Registers are declared as FFH (functional fixed hardware) by the BIOS. However, this check got broken in the commit: 0e64a0c9 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8 Fix based on an original patch from Naga Chumbalkar. Signed-off-by: NNaga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com> Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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- 05 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
We don't set up the canary; let's disable stack protector on boot.c so we can get into lguest_init, then set it up. As a side effect, switch_to_new_gdt() sets up %fs for us properly too. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Pascal reported and bisected a commit: | x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case which broke one system system. ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255 PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in ACPI motherboard resources PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space it didn't have PCI: updated MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 63 anymore, and try to use 0xf000000 - 0xffffffff for mmconfig For 32bit, mcfg_res->end could be 32bit only (if 64 resources aren't used) So use end - 1 to pass the value in mcfg->end to avoid overflow. We don't need to worry about the e820 path, they are always 64 bit. Reported-by: NPascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Bisected-by: NPascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Tested-by: NPascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
git status complains of untracked (generated) files in arch/x86/boot.. # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds # ../../arch/x86/boot/voffset.h # ../../arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h ..so adjust .gitignore files accordingly. Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 02 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Jiri Slaby 提交于
lapic_resume forgets to restore interrupts on fail paths. Fix that. Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> LKML-Reference: <1243497289-18591-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Naga Chumbalkar 提交于
Fix the fact that the IOAPIC version number in the x86_64 code path always gets assigned to 0, instead of the correct value. Before the patch: (from "dmesg" output): ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 <--- After the patch: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 <--- History: io_apic_get_version() was compiled out of the x86_64 code path in the commit f2c2cca3: Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Tue Sep 26 10:52:37 2006 +0200 [PATCH] Remove APIC version/cpu capability mpparse checking/printing ACPI went to great trouble to get the APIC version and CPU capabilities of different CPUs before passing them to the mpparser. But all that data was used was to print it out. Actually it even faked some data based on the boot cpu, not on the actual CPU being booted. Remove all this code because it's not needed. Cc: len.brown@intel.com At the time, the IOAPIC version number was deliberately not printed in the x86_64 code path. However, after the x86 and x86_64 files were merged, the net result is that the IOAPIC version is printed incorrectly in the x86_64 code path. The patch below provides a fix. I have tested it with acpi, and with acpi=off, and did not see any problems. Signed-off-by: NNaga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com> Acked-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090416014230.4885.94926.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> *************************
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- 30 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- 29 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Mel Gorman 提交于
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302 On x86 and x86-64, it is possible that page tables are shared beween shared mappings backed by hugetlbfs. As part of this, page_table_shareable() checks a pair of vma->vm_flags and they must match if they are to be shared. All VMA flags are taken into account, including VM_LOCKED. The problem is that VM_LOCKED is cleared on fork(). When a process with a shared memory segment forks() to exec() a helper, there will be shared VMAs with different flags. The impact is that the shared segment is sometimes considered shareable and other times not, depending on what process is checking. What happens is that the segment page tables are being shared but the count is inaccurate depending on the ordering of events. As the page tables are freed with put_page(), bad pmd's are found when some of the children exit. The hugepage counters also get corrupted and the Total and Free count will no longer match even when all the hugepage-backed regions are freed. This requires a reboot of the machine to "fix". This patch addresses the problem by comparing all flags except VM_LOCKED when deciding if pagetables should be shared or not for hugetlbfs-backed mapping. Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
instead of declaring one variant as an inline function... because other case is a variable Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4A13B344.7030307@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 5月, 2009 5 次提交
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由 Pallipadi, Venkatesh 提交于
Cleanup cpa_flush_array() to avoid back to back on_each_cpu() calls. [ Impact: optimizes fix 0af48f42 ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Andreas Herrmann 提交于
Slightly modified by trenn@suse.de -> only do this on fam 10h and fam 11h. Currently powernow-k8 determines CPU frequency from ACPI PSS objects, but according to AMD family 11h BKDG this frequency is just a rounded value: "CoreFreq (MHz) = The CPU COF specified by MSRC001_00[6B:64][CpuFid] rounded to the nearest 100 Mhz." As a consequnce powernow-k8 reports wrong CPU frequency on some systems, e.g. on Turion X2 Ultra: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82 processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) powernow-k8: 0 : pstate 0 (2200 MHz) powernow-k8: 1 : pstate 1 (1100 MHz) powernow-k8: 2 : pstate 2 (600 MHz) But this is wrong as frequency for Pstate2 is 550 MHz. x86info reports it correctly: #x86info -a |grep Pstate ... Pstate-0: fid=e, did=0, vid=24 (2200MHz) Pstate-1: fid=e, did=1, vid=30 (1100MHz) Pstate-2: fid=e, did=2, vid=3c (550MHz) (current) Solution is to determine the frequency directly from Pstate MSRs instead of using rounded values from ACPI table. Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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由 Thomas Renninger 提交于
- Make the message shorter and easier to grep for - Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE (functionality of these was mixed) Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Langsdorf, Mark <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c:172: warning: 'invalidate_entry' defined but not used Reported-by: NToralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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由 Jarod Wilson 提交于
Some atom procs don't do freq scaling (such as the atom 330 on my own littlefalls2 board). By adding the atom family here, we at least get the benefit of passive cooling in a thermal emergency. Not sure how to see that its actually helping any, but the driver does bind and claim its functioning on my atom 330. Signed-off-by: NJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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- 26 5月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel. The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs. R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered error. When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section, binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail. The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right thing to do. The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich. [ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ] Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
The processor is documented to reload the PDPTRs while in PAE mode if any of the CR4 bits PSE, PGE, or PAE change. Linux relies on this behaviour when zapping the low mappings of PAE kernels during boot. The code already handled changes to CR4.PAE; augment it to also notice changes to PSE and PGE. This triggered while booting an F11 PAE kernel; the futex initialization code runs before any CR3 reloads and writes to a NULL pointer; the futex subsystem ended up uninitialized, killing PI futexes and pulseaudio which uses them. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used as a replacement for reloading CR3. Change the code to do the entire CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 25 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Remap percpu allocator has subtle bug when combined with page attribute changing. Remap percpu allocator aliases PMD pages for the first chunk and as pageattr doesn't know about the alias it ends up updating page attributes of the original mapping thus leaving the alises in inconsistent state which might lead to subtle data corruption. Please read the following threads for more information: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/835783 The following is the proposed fix which teaches pageattr about percpu aliases. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/837157 However, the above changes are deemed too pervasive for upstream inclusion for 2.6.30 release, so this patch essentially disables the remap allocator for the time being. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4A1A0A27.4050301@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 5月, 2009 4 次提交
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cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold. clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition. wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs. [ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But, pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset d7c8f21a and got copied over to second place in the same file later. [ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues. [ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ] Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at 24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes. The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually needing the flags. This reverts all or part of the following checkins: cd670599 c549e71d However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a comment to explain that part. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some additional information. [ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ] Reported-by: NThomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
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- 22 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Zhang Rui 提交于
x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot, see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901 [ Impact: fix hung reboot on certain systems ] Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1242963350.32574.53.camel@rzhang-dt> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need during decompression). One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled. [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Peter bisected that: | commit b9c61b70 | Date: Wed May 6 10:10:06 2009 -0700 | | x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing | | So we can set io apic routing only when enabling the device irq. wrecked his opteron box, ata1 interrupts fail to get through. ata1 is using irq 11: [ 1.451839] sata_svw 0000:01:0e.0: version 2.3 [ 1.456333] sata_svw 0000:01:0e.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [ 1.463639] scsi0 : sata_svw [ 1.466949] scsi1 : sata_svw [ 1.470022] scsi2 : sata_svw [ 1.473090] scsi3 : sata_svw [ 1.476112] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe000 irq 11 [ 1.483490] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe100 irq 11 [ 1.490870] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe200 irq 11 [ 1.498247] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe300 irq 11 that pin is overlapped with pin with legacy ones. We should not set bits in pin_programmed here, so that those bit could be set later via io_apic_set_pci_routing(). [ Impact: fix boot hang on certain systems ] Reported-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Tested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <4A119990.9020606@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 18 5月, 2009 4 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Len expressed concern that the update_mptable feature has side-effects on the ACPI code. Make it sure explicitly that the code only ever gets called if the (default disabled) update_mptable boot quirk option is disabled. [ Impact: isolate the update_mptable feature from ACPI code more ] Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4A0DC832.5090200@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
To get all device irq routing and to save them. This is basically an implicit pci=routeirq enablement if (and on if) the update_mptable boot option (which is off by default) has been specified. [ Impact: extend the update_mptable boot opion's scope ] Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> LKML-Reference: <4A0DB7B4.4060702@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
should not call that if apic is disabled. [ Impact: fix crash on certain UP configs ] Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A09CCBB.2000306@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
according to Ingo, io_apic irq-setup related functions have too many parameters with a repetitive signature. So reduce related funcs to get less params by passing a pointer to a newly defined io_apic_irq_attr structure. v2: io_apic_irq ==> irq_attr triggering ==> trigger v3: add set_io_apic_irq_attr [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4A08ACD3.2070401@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native. It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized spinlocks introduced by: | commit 8efcbab6 | Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700 | | paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7% (seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions executed). If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown). Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a no-pvops build as baseline: nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18% instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15% CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03% cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28% cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56% cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31% branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04% branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72% branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67% wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20% The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is directly reflected in the final wallclock time. (The other interesting effect is that the more ops are out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside, the branch misses go up correspondingly...) So, what's the fix? Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so _spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is: <_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax <_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax) <_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30 <_spin_lock+22>: retq The indirect call will get patched to: <_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax <_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax) <_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock> <_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */ <_spin_lock+22>: retq One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial. The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user). But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a reasonable short-term workaround. [ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ] Analysed-by: N"Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com> Analysed-by: N"Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com> Analysed-by: N"Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org> [ fixed the help text ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jason Wessel 提交于
The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386. This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from 2.6.27 to now. The regression was a result of the original merge consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86. The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from working correctly in gdb. Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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- 14 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
After upgrading from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke. Investigating, I found that in the asm that replaces the return value, gcc was using the same register for the old value as it was for the new value. mov (addr), old mov new, (addr) But if old and new are the same register, we clobber new with old! I first thought this was a bug in gcc 4.4.0 and reported it: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40132 Andrew Pinski responded (quickly), saying that it was correct gcc behavior and the code needed to denote old as an "early clobber". Instead of "=r"(old), we need "=&r"(old). [Impact: keep function graph tracer from breaking with gcc 4.4.0 ] Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 13 5月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings: arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL' arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Handle the misconfiguration where CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is incompatible with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. This is a configuration error, but one which arises easily since Kconfig doesn't have the smarts to express the true relationship between these two variables. Hence, align __PHYSICAL_START the same way we align LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR in <asm/boot.h>. For non-relocatable kernels, this would cause the boot to fail. [ Impact: fix boot failures for non-relocatable kernels ] Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the output address. Correct constraints that are no longer correct: - the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64 bits. - the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of one specific x86-64 implementation. Change the test to 2^46, the current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than the beginning. - for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both 32 and 64 bits. [ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 12 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Ed found that on 32-bit, boot_cpu_physical_apicid is not read right, when the mptable is broken. Interestingly, actually three paths use/set it: 1. acpi: at that time that is already read from reg 2. mptable: only read from mptable 3. no madt, and no mptable, that use default apic id 0 for 64-bit, -1 for 32-bit so we could read the apic id for the 2/3 path. We trust the hardware register more than we trust a BIOS data structure (the mptable). We can also avoid the double set_fixmap() when acpi_lapic is used, and also need to move cpu_has_apic earlier and call apic_disable(). Also when need to update the apic id, we'd better read and set the apic version as well - so that quirks are applied precisely. v2: make path 3 with 64bit, use -1 as apic id, so could read it later. v3: fix whitespace problem pointed out by Ed Swierk v5: fix boot crash [ Impact: get correct apic id for bsp other than acpi path ] Reported-by: NEd Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> LKML-Reference: <49FC85A9.2070702@kernel.org> [ v4: sanity-check in the ACPI case too ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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