1. 27 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree() · 5cdd2de0
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode()
      we have  this:
      
      	while (leftover) {
      		...
      		if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
      		    microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
      			vfree(mc);
      			break;
      		}
      		...
      	}
      
      	if (mc)
      		vfree(mc);
      
      This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by
      just  removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be
      freed nicely just  after we break out of the loop.
      
      There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of
      checks for  pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree().
      That's completely  redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with
      being passed a NULL pointer.  Removing the redundant checks
      yields a nice size decrease for the object  file.
      
      Size before the patch:
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         4578     240    1032    5850    16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
      Size after the patch:
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         4489     240     984    5713    1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
      Acked-by: NTigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5cdd2de0
  2. 18 12月, 2010 5 次提交
  3. 17 12月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 16 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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      lguest: populate initial_page_table · da32dac1
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Two x86 patches broke lguest:
      1) v2.6.35-492-g72d7c3b3, which changed x86 to use the memblock allocator.
      
      In lguest, the host places linear page tables at the top of mem, which
      used to be enough to get us up to the swapper_pg_dir page tables.  With
      the first patch, the direct mapping tables used that memory:
      
      Before: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 7000-1a000
      After: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 3fed000-4000000
      
      I initially fixed this by lying about the amount of memory we had, so
      the kernel wouldn't blatt the lguest boot pagetables (yuk!), but then...
      
      2) v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827fa, which made x86 boot use initial_page_table.
      
      This was initialized in a part of head_32.S which isn't executed by
      lguest; it is then copied into swapper_pg_dir.  So we have to initialize
      it; and anyway we switch to it before we blatt the old tables, so that
      fixes the previous damage as well.
      
      For the moment, I cut & pasted the code into lguest's boot code, but
      next merge window I will merge them.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      To: x86@kernel.org
      da32dac1
  5. 14 12月, 2010 3 次提交
  6. 13 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check · f1c18071
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      commit 995bd3bb (x86: Hpet: Avoid the comparator readback penalty)
      chose 8 HPET cycles as a safe value for the ETIME check, as we had the
      confirmation that the posted write to the comparator register is
      delayed by two HPET clock cycles on Intel chipsets which showed
      readback problems.
      
      After that patch hit mainline we got reports from machines with newer
      AMD chipsets which seem to have an even longer delay. See
      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1054283 and
      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1069458 for further
      information.
      
      Boris tried to come up with an ACPI based selection of the minimum
      HPET cycles, but this failed on a couple of test machines. And of
      course we did not get any useful information from the hardware folks.
      
      For now our only option is to chose a paranoid high and safe value for
      the minimum HPET cycles used by the ETIME check. Adjust the minimum ns
      value for the HPET clockevent accordingly.
      Reported-Bistected-and-Tested-by: NMarkus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012131222420.2653@localhost6.localdomain6>
      Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Andreas Herrmann <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com>
      Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      f1c18071
  7. 10 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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  11. 12 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions · 6c0aca28
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      When a single step exception fires, the trap bits, used to
      signal hardware breakpoints, are in a random state.
      
      These trap bits might be set if another exception will follow,
      like a breakpoint in the next instruction, or a watchpoint in the
      previous one. Or there can be any junk there.
      
      So if we handle these trap bits during the single step exception,
      we are going to handle an exception twice, or we are going to
      handle junk.
      
      Just ignore them in this case.
      
      This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21332Reported-by: NMichael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
      Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
      Cc: All since 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
      6c0aca28
  12. 11 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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