1. 03 5月, 2007 8 次提交
  2. 24 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: Remove noreplacement option · 9ce883be
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      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>
      9ce883be
  3. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts · 139ec7c4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      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>
      139ec7c4
  4. 04 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 21 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 04 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 02 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 version of the smp alternative patch. · d167a518
      Gerd Hoffmann 提交于
      Changes are largely identical to the i386 version:
      
       * alternative #define are moved to the new alternative.h file.
       * one new elf section with pointers to the lock prefixes which can be
         nop'ed out for non-smp.
       * two new elf sections simliar to the "classic" alternatives to
         replace SMP code with simpler UP code.
       * fixup headers to use alternative.h instead of defining their own
         LOCK / LOCK_PREFIX macros.
      
      The patch reuses the i386 version of the alternatives code to avoid code
      duplication.  The code in alternatives.c was shuffled around a bit to
      reduce the number of #ifdefs needed.  It also got some tweaks needed for
      x86_64 (vsyscall page handling) and new features (noreplacement option
      which was x86_64 only up to now).  Debug printk's are changed from
      compile-time to runtime.
      
      Loosely based on a early version from Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d167a518
  9. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives · 9a0b5817
      Gerd Hoffmann 提交于
      Implement SMP alternatives, i.e.  switching at runtime between different
      code versions for UP and SMP.  The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
      The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.
      
      With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
      when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
      of CPUs goes up to 2.
      
      Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
      patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
      afterwards.
      
      The changes in detail:
      
        * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
          the SMP alternatives code is added there.
      
        * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
          .smp_altinstructions
      	like .altinstructions, also contains a list
      	of alt_instr structs.
          .smp_altinstr_replacement
      	like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
      	save original instruction before replaving it.
          .smp_locks
      	list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
      	out on UP.
          The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
          sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores.  It would be possible
          to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
          them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.
      
       * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
         can be free if they are not needed.
      
       * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
         use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.
      Signed-off-by: NGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a0b5817