1. 20 12月, 2007 11 次提交
  2. 19 12月, 2007 9 次提交
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      [IA64] print kernel release in OOPS to make kerneloops.org happy · ee211b37
      Luck, Tony 提交于
      The ia64 oops message doesn't include the kernel version, which
      makes it hard to automatically categorize oops messages scraped
      from mailing lists and bug databases.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      ee211b37
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      [IA64] Two trivial spelling fixes · 313d8e57
      Joe Perches 提交于
      s/addres/address/
      s/performanc/performance/
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      313d8e57
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      [IA64] Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory · aec103bf
      de Dinechin, Christophe (Integrity VM) 提交于
      Improve performance of memory allocations on ia64 by avoiding a global TLB
      purge to purge a single page from the file cache. This happens whenever we
      evict a page from the buffer cache to make room for some other allocation.
      
      Test case: Run 'find /usr -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null' in the
      background to fill the buffer cache, then run something that uses memory,
      e.g. 'gmake -j50 install'. Instrumentation showed that the number of
      global TLB purges went from a few millions down to about 170 over a 12
      hours run of the above.
      
      The performance impact is particularly noticeable under virtualization,
      because a virtual TLB is generally both larger and slower to purge than
      a physical one.
      Signed-off-by: NChristophe de Dinechin <ddd@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      aec103bf
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      [IA64] ia32 nopage · 3cdc7fc7
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Convert ia64's ia32 support from nopage to fault.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      3cdc7fc7
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      [IA64] signal: remove redundant code in setup_sigcontext() · 2018df76
      Shi Weihua 提交于
      This patch removes some redundant code in the function setup_sigcontext().
      
      The registers ar.ccv,b7,r14,ar.csd,ar.ssd,r2-r3 and r16-r31 are not
      restored in restore_sigcontext() when (flags & IA64_SC_FLAG_IN_SYSCALL) is
      true.  So we don't need to zero those variables in setup_sigcontext().
      Signed-off-by: NShi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      2018df76
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      x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" · 4aae0702
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      this is the tale of a full day spent debugging an ancient but elusive bug.
      
      after booting up thousands of random .config kernels, i finally happened
      to generate a .config that produced the following rare bootup failure
      on 32-bit x86:
      
      | ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
      | ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
      | ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
      | ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
      | ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(.
      | Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with apic=debug
      | and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option
      
      this bug has been reported many times during the years, but it was never
      reproduced nor fixed.
      
      the bug that i hit was extremely sensitive to .config details.
      
      First i did a .config-bisection - suspecting some .config detail.
      That led to CONFIG_X86_MCE: enabling X86_MCE magically made the bug disappear
      and the system would boot up just fine.
      
      Debugging my way through the MCE code ended up identifying two unlikely
      candidates: the thing that made a real difference to the hang was that
      X86_MCE did two printks:
      
       Intel machine check architecture supported.
       Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
      
      Adding the same printks to a !CONFIG_X86_MCE kernel made the bug go away!
      
      this left timing as the main suspect: i experimented with adding various
      udelay()s to the arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:check_timer() function, and
      the race window turned out to be narrower than 30 microseconds (!).
      
      That made debugging especially funny, debugging without having printk
      ability before the bug hits is ... interesting ;-)
      
      eventually i started suspecting IRQ activities - those are pretty much the
      only thing that happen this early during bootup and have the timescale of
      a few dozen microseconds. Also, check_timer() changes the IRQ hardware
      in various creative ways, so the main candidate became IRQ0 interaction.
      
      i've added a counter to track timer irqs (on which core they arrived, at
      what exact time, etc.) and found that no timer IRQ would arrive after the
      bug condition hits - even if we re-enable IRQ0 and re-initialize the i8259A,
      but that we'd get a small number of timer irqs right around the time when we
      call the check_timer() function.
      
      Eventually i got the following backtrace triggered from debug code in the
      timer interrupt:
      
      ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
      ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ...
      Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5 #57)
      EIP: 0060:[<c044d57e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
      EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x1c
      EAX: c0634178 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c4947d63 EDX: 00000246
      ESI: 00000002 EDI: 00010031 EBP: c04e0f2e ESP: f7c41df4
       DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
       CR0: 8005003b CR2: ffe04000 CR3: 00630000 CR4: 000006d0
       DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
       DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
        [<c05f5784>] setup_IO_APIC+0x9c3/0xc5c
      
      the spin_unlock() was called from init_8259A(). Wait ... we have an IRQ0
      entry while we are in the middle of setting up the local APIC, the i8259A
      and the PIT??
      
      That is certainly not how it's supposed to work! check_timer() was supposed
      to be called with irqs turned off - but this eroded away sometime in the
      past. This code would still work most of the time because this code runs
      very quickly, but just the right timing conditions are present and IRQ0
      hits in this small, ~30 usecs window, timer irqs stop and the system does
      not boot up. Also, given how early this is during bootup, the hang is
      very deterministic - but it would only occur on certain machines (and
      certain configs).
      
      The fix was quite simple: disable/restore interrupts properly in this
      function. With that in place the test-system now boots up just fine.
      
      (64-bit x86 io_apic_64.c had the same bug.)
      
      Phew! One down, only 1500 other kernel bugs are left ;-)
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4aae0702
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      x86: kprobes bugfix · 0b0122fa
      Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
      Kprobes for x86-64 may cause a kernel crash if it inserted on "iret"
      instruction. "call absolute" is invalid on x86-64, so we don't need
      treat it.
      
       - Change the processing order as same as x86-32.
       - Add "iret"(0xcf) case.
       - Remove next_rip local variable.
      Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      0b0122fa
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      x86: jprobe bugfix · 29b6cd79
      Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
      jprobe for x86-64 may cause kernel page fault when the jprobe_return()
      is called from incorrect function.
      
      - Use jprobe_saved_regs instead getting it from stack.
        (Especially on x86-64, it may get incorrect data, because
         pt_regs can not be get by using container_of(rsp))
      - Change the type of stack pointer to unsigned long *.
      Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      29b6cd79
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      oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance counters · bd87f1f0
      Barry Kasindorf 提交于
      This patch is for controlling the upper 32bits of the event ctrl msrs.
      This includes the upper 4 bits of the event select and the Guest Only and
      Host Only bits
      
      This patch is necessary to make Event Based Profiling work reliably on a
      Family 10h processor
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch.pl fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NBarry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.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>
      bd87f1f0
  3. 18 12月, 2007 6 次提交
  4. 15 12月, 2007 7 次提交
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  6. 13 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [SPARC64]: Fix two kernel linear mapping setup bugs. · 8f361453
      David S. Miller 提交于
      This was caught and identified by Greg Onufer.
      
      Since we setup the 256M/4M bitmap table after taking over the trap
      table, it's possible for some 4M mapping to get loaded in the TLB
      beforhand which later will be 256M mappings.
      
      This can cause illegal TLB multiple-match conditions.  Fix this by
      setting up the bitmap before we take over the trap table.
      
      Next, __flush_tlb_all() was not doing anything on hypervisor
      platforms.  Fix by adding sun4v_mmu_demap_all() and calling it.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8f361453