1. 11 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 03 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: Save the MTRRs of the BSP before booting an AP · 2b1f6278
      Bernhard Kaindl 提交于
      Applied fix by Andew Morton:
      http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/8/88 - Fix `make headers_check'.
      
      AMD and Intel x86 CPU manuals state that it is the responsibility of
      system software to initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across
      all processors in Multi-Processing Environments.
      
      Quote from page 188 of the AMD64 System Programming manual (Volume 2):
      
      7.6.5 MTRRs in Multi-Processing Environments
      
      "In multi-processing environments, the MTRRs located in all processors must
      characterize memory in the same way. Generally, this means that identical
      values are written to the MTRRs used by the processors." (short omission here)
      "Failure to do so may result in coherency violations or loss of atomicity.
      Processor implementations do not check the MTRR settings in other processors
      to ensure consistency. It is the responsibility of system software to
      initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across all processors."
      
      Current Linux MTRR code already implements the above in the case that the
      BIOS does not properly initialize MTRRs on the secondary processors,
      but the case where the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot processor are changed
      after Linux started to boot, before the initialsation of a secondary
      processor, is not handled yet.
      
      In this case, secondary processors are currently initialized by Linux
      with MTRRs which the boot processor had very early, when mtrr_bp_init()
      did run, but not with the MTRRs which the boot processor uses at the
      time when that secondary processors is actually booted,
      causing differing MTRR contents on the secondary processors.
      
      Such situation happens on Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks where the
      BIOS enables and sets AMD-specific IORR bits in the fixed-range MTRRs
      of the boot processor when it transitions the system into ACPI mode.
      The SMI handler of the BIOS does this in SMM, entered while Linux ACPI
      code runs acpi_enable().
      
      Other occasions where the SMI handler of the BIOS may change bits in
      the MTRRs could occur as well. To initialize newly booted secodary
      processors with the fixed-range MTRRs which the boot processor uses
      at that time, this patch saves the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot
      processor before new secondary processors are started. When the
      secondary processors run their Linux initialisation code, their
      fixed-range MTRRs will be updated with the saved fixed-range MTRRs.
      
      If CONFIG_MTRR is not set, we define mtrr_save_state
      as an empty statement because there is nothing to do.
      
      Possible TODOs:
      
      *) CPU-hotplugging outside of SMP suspend/resume is not yet tested
         with this patch.
      
      *) If, even in this case, an AP never runs i386/do_boot_cpu or x86_64/cpu_up,
         then the calls to mtrr_save_state() could be replaced by calls to
         mtrr_save_fixed_ranges(NULL) and  mtrr_save_state() would not be
         needed.
      
         That would need either verification of the CPU-hotplug code or
         at least a test on a >2 CPU machine.
      
      *) The MTRRs of other running processors are not yet checked at this
         time but it might be interesting to syncronize the MTTRs of all
         processors before booting. That would be an incremental patch,
         but of rather low priority since there is no machine known so
         far which would require this.
      
      AK: moved prototypes on x86-64 around to fix warnings
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      2b1f6278
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      [PATCH] x86: Adds mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() for use in two later patches. · 2b3b4835
      Bernhard Kaindl 提交于
      In this current implementation which is used in other patches,
      mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() accepts a dummy void pointer because
      in the current implementation of one of these patches, this
      function may be called from smp_call_function_single() which
      requires that this function takes a void pointer argument.
      
      This function calls get_fixed_ranges(), passing mtrr_state.fixed_ranges
      which is the element of the static struct which stores our current
      backup of the fixed-range MTRR values which all CPUs shall be
      using.
      
      Because  mtrr_save_fixed_ranges calls get_fixed_ranges after
      kernel initialisation time, __init needs to be removed from
      the declaration of get_fixed_ranges().
      
      If CONFIG_MTRR is not set, we define mtrr_save_fixed_ranges
      as an empty statement because there is nothing to do.
      
      AK: Moved prototypes for x86-64 around to fix warnings
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      2b3b4835
  3. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4