Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in
alternatives.  Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

text_poke is sleepable.
The original fix by Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead
of a jmp over the mcount call.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Clean up the codepath, remove alignment restrictions and do sanity
checking of the end result, to make sure we patched the right site.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

kernel_text_address returns true even for modules which is not wanted
in text_poke. Use core_kernel_text instead.

This is a regression introduced in e587cadd
which caused occasionaly crashes after suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
>
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> > The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses
> > virt_to_page to get the pages from the pointer address.
> >
> > However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is
> > used for modules.
> >
> > Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use
> > kernel_text_address() to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel
> > text, not modules.
>
> actually, i think we should mark module text readonly too.
>

Yes, but in the meantime, the x86 tree would need this patch to make
kprobes work correctly on modules.

I suspect that without this fix, with the enhanced hotplug and kprobes
patch, kprobes will use text_poke to insert breakpoints in modules
(vmalloced pages used), which will map the wrong pages and corrupt
random kernel locations instead of updating the correct page.

Work that would write protect the module pages should clearly be done,
but it can come in a later time. We have to make sure we interact
correctly with the page allocation debugging, as an example.

Here is the patch against x86.git 2.6.25-rc5 :

The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses virt_to_page to
get the pages from the pointer address.

However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is used for
modules.

Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use kernel_text_address()
to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel text, not modules.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix a memcpy that should be a text_poke (in apply_alternatives).

Use kernel_wp_save/kernel_wp_restore in text_poke to support DEBUG_RODATA
correctly and so the CPU HOTPLUG special case can be removed.

Add text_poke_early, for alternatives and paravirt boot-time and module load
time patching.

Changelog:

- Fix text_set and text_poke alignment check (mixed up bitwise and and or)
- Remove text_set
- Export add_nops, so it can be used by others.
- Document text_poke_early.
- Remove clflush, since it breaks some VIA architectures and is not strictly
  necessary.
- Add kerneldoc to text_poke and text_poke_early.
- Create a second vmap instead of using the WP bit to support Xen and VMI.
- Move local_irq disable within text_poke and text_poke_early to be able to
  be sleepable in these functions.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type.
The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs
in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when
the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when
executing this code.

This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the
original section.

Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a
bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel.  ;-)
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

An older binutils bug caused us to not fix up alternatives.
This problem involved mutex.c but we dont do lockdep section tricks
there anymore, so this workaround is moot. Keep the printk nevertheless,
just in case ... We can remove that later on.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock
prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and
retranslate a lot of code.

Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which
is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in
 the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel
on UP.

This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp
switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.

v1->v2: Rename max_cpus
v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner)
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The patch to suppress bitops-related warnings added a pile of ugly
casts.  Many of these were related to the management of x86 CPU
capabilities.  Clean these up by adding specific set/clear_cpu_cap
macros, and use them consistently.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS.  This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.

These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code.  An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index.  This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index.  It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().

cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Add support for and use the multi-byte NOPs recently documented to be
available on all PentiumPro and later processors.

This patch only applies cleanly on top of the "x86: misc.
constifications" patch sent earlier.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c  |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/asm-x86/processor_32.h |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/asm-x86/processor_64.h |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Miscellaneous x86 stuff that can live in .rodata.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

In alternative_instructions(), call free_init_pages() with irqs enabled.

It fixes the warning message in smp_call_function*(), which should not be
called with irqs disabled.

[    0.310000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[    0.310000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[    0.310000] CPU 0/0 -> Node 0
[    0.310000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[    0.310000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 25k freed
[    0.310000] WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:397 smp_call_function_mask()
[    0.310000]
[    0.310000] Call Trace:
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8100dbde>] dump_trace+0x3ee/0x4a0
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8100dcd3>] show_trace+0x43/0x70
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8100dd15>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8101cd44>] smp_call_function_mask+0x94/0xa0
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8101d0b2>] smp_call_function+0x32/0x40
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8104277f>] on_each_cpu+0x1f/0x50
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff81026eac>] global_flush_tlb+0x8c/0x110
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff81025c85>] free_init_pages+0xe5/0xf0
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff81549b5e>] alternative_instructions+0x7e/0x150
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff8154a2ea>] check_bugs+0x1a/0x20
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff81540c4a>] start_kernel+0x2da/0x380
[    0.310000]  [<ffffffff81540132>] _sinittext+0x132/0x140
[    0.310000]
[    0.320000] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[    0.560000] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
[    0.590000] Detected 62.496 MHz APIC timer.
[    0.590000] Brought up 1 CPUs

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of
functionally related ops:

pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints
pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too)
pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else
pv_time_ops - time-related functions
pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops
pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state
pv_apic_ops - APIC operations
pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables

There are several motivations for this:

1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be
   i386/x86-64 specific.  This makes it easier to share common stuff
   while allowing separate implementations where needed.

2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only
   need selected parts of it.  This allows us to export on a case by case
   basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply).

3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable.

Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate
patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting
into jmp/calls when patching.  It is only instantiated when needed.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>

 > Maybe I just picked a bad time to try, but...
 > 
 > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c: In function 'apply_alternatives':
 > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_START' undeclared (first use in this function)
 > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: for each function it appears in.)
 > arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_END' undeclared (first use in this function)
 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/alternative.o] Error 1
 > make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2

Try this.

Include missing header for vsyscall.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The CLFLUSH for the modified code line in text_poke was supposed
to speed up CPU recovery. Unfortunately it seems to cause hangs
on some VIA C3s (at least on VIA Esther Model 10 Stepping 9)
Remove it.

Thanks to Stefan Becker for reporting/testing.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

With commit ab144f5e the patching code
now collects the complete new instruction stream into a temp buffer
before finally patching in the new insns.  In some cases the paravirt
patchers will choose to leave the patch site unpatched (length mismatch,
clobbers mismatch, etc).

This causes the new patching code to copy an uninitialized temp buffer,
i.e.  garbage, to the callsite.  Simply make sure to always initialize
the buffer with the original instruction stream.  A better fix is to
audit all the patchers and return proper length so that apply_paravirt()
can skip copies when we leave the patch site untouched.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It's CONFIG_X86_MCE, not CONFIG_MCE.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 19d36ccd "x86: Fix alternatives
and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text" uses code which is
being patched for patching.

In particular, paravirt_ops does patching in two stages: first it
calls paravirt_ops.patch, then it fills any remaining instructions
with nop_out().  nop_out calls text_poke() which calls
lookup_address() which calls pgd_val() (aka paravirt_ops.pgd_val):
that call site is one of the places we patch.

If we always do patching as one single call to text_poke(), we only
need make sure we're not patching the memcpy in text_poke itself.
This means the prototype to paravirt_ops.patch needs to change, to
marshal the new code into a buffer rather than patching in place as it
does now.  It also means all patching goes through text_poke(), which
is known to be safe (apply_alternatives is also changed to make a
single patch).

AK: fix compilation on x86-64 (bad rusty!)
AK: fix boot on x86-64 (sigh)
AK: merged with other patches
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts most of commit 19d36ccd.

The way to DEBUG_RODATA interactions with KPROBES and CPU hotplug is to
just not mark the text as being write-protected in the first place.
Both of those facilities depend on rewriting instructions.

Having "helpful" debug facilities that just cause more problem is not
being helpful.  It just adds complexity and bugs. Not worth it.
Reported-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When a machine check or NMI occurs while multiple byte code is patched
the CPU could theoretically see an inconsistent instruction and crash.
Prevent this by temporarily disabling MCEs and returning early in the
NMI handler.

Based on discussion with Mathieu Desnoyers.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Reenable kprobes and alternative patching when the kernel text is write
protected by DEBUG_RODATA

Add a general utility function to change write protected text.  The new
function remaps the code using vmap to write it and takes care of CPU
synchronization.  It also does CLFLUSH to make icache recovery faster.

There are some limitations on when the function can be used, see the
comment.

This is a newer version that also changes the paravirt_ops code.
text_poke also supports multi byte patching now.

Contains bug fixes from Zach Amsden and suggestions from Mathieu
Desnoyers.

Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Hence remove its handling in the opposite case.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This was broken.  It adds complexity, for no good reason.  Rather than
separate __pa() and __pa_symbol(), we should deprecate __pa_symbol(),
and preferably __pa() too - and just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which
is more readable and has nicer semantics.

However, right now, just undo the separation, and make __pa_symbol() be
the exact same as __pa().  That fixes the bugs this patch introduced,
and we can do the fairly obvious cleanups later.

Do the new __phys_addr() function (which is now the actual workhorse for
the unified __pa()/__pa_symbol()) as a real external function, that way
all the potential issues with compile/link-time optimizations of
constant symbol addresses go away, and we can also, if we choose to, add
more sanity-checking of the argument.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The other symbols used to delineate the alt-instructions sections have the
form __foo/__foo_end.  Rename parainstructions to match.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Implement the actual patching machinery.  paravirt_patch_default()
contains the logic to automatically patch a callsite based on a few
simple rules:

 - if the paravirt_op function is paravirt_nop, then patch nops
 - if the paravirt_op function is a jmp target, then jmp to it
 - if the paravirt_op function is callable and doesn't clobber too much
    for the callsite, call it directly

paravirt_patch_default is suitable as a default implementation of
paravirt_ops.patch, will remove most of the expensive indirect calls
in favour of either a direct call or a pile of nops.

Backends may implement their own patcher, however.  There are several
helper functions to help with this:

paravirt_patch_nop	nop out a callsite
paravirt_patch_ignore	leave the callsite as-is
paravirt_patch_call	patch a call if the caller and callee
			have compatible clobbers
paravirt_patch_jmp	patch in a jmp
paravirt_patch_insns	patch some literal instructions over
			the callsite, if they fit

This patch also implements more direct patches for the native case, so
that when running on native hardware many common operations are
implemented inline.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Rename struct paravirt_patch to paravirt_patch_site, so that it
clearly refers to a callsite, and not the patch which may be applied
to that callsite.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.  When inlining code, this option
attempts to trash registers in the patch-site's "clobber" field, on
the grounds that this should find bugs with incorrect clobbers.
Unfortunately, the clobber field really means "registers modified by
this patch site", which includes return values.

Because of this, this option has outlived its usefulness, so remove
it.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

The .smp_altinstructions section and its corresponding symbols are
completely unused, so remove them.

Also, remove stray #ifdef __KENREL__ in asm-i386/alternative.h
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.

__pa which is much more common can be implemented much more cheaply
if it is it doesn't have to worry about any other kernel address
spaces.  This is especially true with a relocatable kernel as
__pa_symbol needs to peform an extra variable read to resolve
the address.

There is a third macro that is added for the vsyscall data
__pa_vsymbol for finding the physical addesses of vsyscall pages.

Most of this patch is simply sorting through the references to
__pa or __pa_symbol and using the proper one.  A little of
it is continuing to use a physical address when we have it
instead of recalculating it several times.

swapper_pgd is now NULL.  leave_mm now uses init_mm.pgd
and init_mm.pgd is initialized at boot (instead of compile time)
to the physmem virtual mapping of init_level4_pgd.  The
physical address changed.

Except for the for EMPTY_ZERO page all of the remaining references
to __pa_symbol appear to be during kernel initialization.  So this
should reduce the cost of __pa in the common case, even on a relocated
kernel.

As this is technically a semantic change we need to be on the lookout
for anything I missed.  But it works for me (tm).
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

noreplacement is dangerous on modern systems because it will not replace the
context switch FNSAVE with SSE aware FXSAVE. But other places in the kernel still assume
SSE and do FXSAVE and the CPU will then access FXSAVE information with
FNSAVE and cause corruption.

Easiest way to avoid this is to remove the option. It was mostly for paranoia
reasons anyways and alternative()s have been stable for some time.

Thanks to Jeremy F. for reporting and helping debug it.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,
are the interrupt manipulation ops.  These are obvious candidates for
patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.

The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which
is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a
number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).

Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to
use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make
the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the
allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.

And:

Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.

And:

AK:  Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build

And:

AK: Fix compilation with defconfig

And:

^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and
__start_parainstructions.

And:

AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>