1. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 11 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 13 2月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: Profile pc badness · 7b355202
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Profile_pc was broken when using paravirtualization because the
      assumption the kernel was running at CPL 0 was violated, causing
      bad logic to read a random value off the stack.
      
      The only way to be in kernel lock functions is to be in kernel
      code, so validate that assumption explicitly by checking the CS
      value.  We don't want to be fooled by BIOS / APM segments and
      try to read those stacks, so only match KERNEL_CS.
      
      I moved some stuff in segment.h to make it prettier.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      7b355202
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      [PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs · 464d1a78
      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>
      464d1a78
  4. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: Use %gs as the PDA base-segment in the kernel · f95d47ca
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      This patch is the meat of the PDA change.  This patch makes several related
      changes:
      
      1: Most significantly, %gs is now used in the kernel.  This means that on
         entry, the old value of %gs is saved away, and it is reloaded with
         __KERNEL_PDA.
      
      2: entry.S constructs the stack in the shape of struct pt_regs, and this
         is passed around the kernel so that the process's saved register
         state can be accessed.
      
         Unfortunately struct pt_regs doesn't currently have space for %gs
         (or %fs). This patch extends pt_regs to add space for gs (no space
         is allocated for %fs, since it won't be used, and it would just
         complicate the code in entry.S to work around the space).
      
      3: Because %gs is now saved on the stack like %ds, %es and the integer
         registers, there are a number of places where it no longer needs to
         be handled specially; namely context switch, and saving/restoring the
         register state in a signal context.
      
      4: And since kernel threads run in kernel space and call normal kernel
         code, they need to be created with their %gs == __KERNEL_PDA.
      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>
      f95d47ca
  5. 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 26 9月, 2006 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] Split i386 and x86_64 ptrace.h · 70e0eb8e
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      The use of SEGMENT_RPL_MASK in the i386 ptrace.h introduced by
      x86-allow-a-kernel-to-not-be-in-ring-0.patch broke the UML build, as UML
      includes the underlying architecture's ptrace.h, but has no easy access to the
      x86 segment definitions.
      
      Rather than kludging around this, as in the past, this patch splits the
      userspace-usable parts, which are the bits that UML needs, of ptrace.h into
      ptrace-abi.h, which is included back into ptrace.h.  Thus, there is no net
      effect on i386.
      
      As a side-effect, this creates a ptrace header which is close to being usable
      in /usr/include.
      
      x86_64 is also treated in this way for consistency.  There was some trailing
      whitespace there, which is cleaned up.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      70e0eb8e
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      [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0 · 78be3706
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0.  This
      requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or checking
      privilege level (user vs kernel).
      
      This is Chris' [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch, except rather
      than using #define USER_MODE_MASK which depends on a config option, we use
      Zach's more flexible approach of assuming ring 3 == userspace.  I also used
      "get_kernel_rpl()" over "get_kernel_cs()" because I think it reads better in
      the code...
      
      1) Remove the hardcoded 3 and introduce #define SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 3 2) Add a
      get_kernel_rpl() macro, and don't assume it's zero.
      
      And:
      
      Clean up of patch for letting kernel run other than ring 0:
      
      a. Add some comments about the SEGMENT_IS_*_CODE() macros.
      b. Add a USER_RPL macro.  (Code was comparing a value to a mask
         in some places and to the magic number 3 in other places.)
      c. Add macros for table indicator field and use them.
      d. Change the entry.S tests for LDT stack segment to use the macros
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      78be3706
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      [PATCH] i386: Account spinlocks to the caller during profiling for !FP kernels · 0cb91a22
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386.
      Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels.
      But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually
      analyzed. Do this.
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      0cb91a22
  7. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: privilege cleanup · 0998e422
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Privilege checking cleanup.  Originally, these diffs were much greater, but
      recent cleanups in Linux have already done much of the cleanup.  I added
      some explanatory comments in places where the reasoning behind certain
      tests is rather subtle.
      
      Also, in traps.c, we can skip the user_mode check in handle_BUG().  The
      reason is, there are only two call chains - one via die_if_kernel() and one
      via do_page_fault(), both entering from die().  Both of these paths already
      ensure that a kernel mode failure has happened.  Also, the original check
      here, if (user_mode(regs)) was insufficient anyways, since it would not
      rule out BUG faults from V8086 mode execution.
      
      Saving the %ss segment in show_regs() rather than assuming a fixed value
      also gives better information about the current kernel state in the
      register dump.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0998e422
  9. 28 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  10. 27 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  11. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 17 4月, 2005 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