1. 03 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: tighten kernel image page access rights · 6fb14755
      Jan Beulich 提交于
      On x86-64, kernel memory freed after init can be entirely unmapped instead
      of just getting 'poisoned' by overwriting with a debug pattern.
      
      On i386 and x86-64 (under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA), kernel text and bug table
      can also be write-protected.
      
      Compared to the first version, this one prevents re-creating deleted
      mappings in the kernel image range on x86-64, if those got removed
      previously. This, together with the original changes, prevents temporarily
      having inconsistent mappings when cacheability attributes are being
      changed on such pages (e.g. from AGP code). While on i386 such duplicate
      mappings don't exist, the same change is done there, too, both for
      consistency and because checking pte_present() before using various other
      pte_XXX functions is a requirement anyway. At once, i386 code gets
      adjusted to use pte_huge() instead of open coding this.
      
      AK: split out cpa() changes
      Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      6fb14755
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      [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation · 0dbf7028
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      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>
      0dbf7028
  2. 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] MM: page allocation hooks for VMI backend · c119ecce
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      The VMI backend uses explicit page type notification to track shadow page
      tables.  The allocation of page table roots is especially tricky.  We need to
      clone the root for non-PAE mode while it is protected under the pgd lock to
      correctly copy the shadow.
      
      We don't need to allocate pgds in PAE mode, (PDPs in Intel terminology) as
      they only have 4 entries, and are cached entirely by the processor, which
      makes shadowing them rather simple.
      
      For base page table level allocation, pmd_populate provides the exact hook
      point we need.  Also, we need to allocate pages when splitting a large page,
      and we must release pages before returning the page to any free pool.
      
      Despite being required with these slightly odd semantics for VMI, Xen also
      uses these hooks to determine the exact moment when page tables are created or
      released.
      
      AK: All nops for other architectures
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      c119ecce
  3. 11 1月, 2007 1 次提交
  4. 23 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] paravirt: update pte hook · 789e6ac0
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Add a pte_update_hook which notifies about pte changes that have been made
      without using the set_pte / clear_pte interfaces.  This allows shadow mode
      hypervisors which do not trap on page table access to maintain synchronized
      shadows.
      
      It also turns out, there was one pte update in PAE mode that wasn't using any
      accessor interface at all for setting NX protection.  Considering it is PAE
      specific, and the accessor is i386 specific, I didn't want to add a generic
      encapsulation of this behavior yet.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      789e6ac0
  9. 26 9月, 2006 4 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: make __FIXADDR_TOP variable to allow it to make space for a hypervisor · 052e7994
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Make __FIXADDR_TOP a variable, so that it can be set to not get in the way of
      address space a hypervisor may want to reserve.
      
      Original patch by Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      052e7994
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      [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove two strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES · 776ed98b
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      I keep seeing zones on various platforms that are never used and wonder why we
      compile support for them into the kernel.  Counters show up for HIGHMEM and
      DMA32 that are alway zero.
      
      This patch allows the removal of ZONE_DMA32 for non x86_64 architectures and
      it will get rid of ZONE_HIGHMEM for arches not using highmem (like 64 bit
      architectures).  If an arch does not define CONFIG_HIGHMEM then ZONE_HIGHMEM
      will not be defined.  Similarly if an arch does not define CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
      then ZONE_DMA32 will not be defined.
      
      No current architecture uses all the 4 zones (DMA,DMA32,NORMAL,HIGH) that we
      have now.  The patchset will reduce the number of zones for all platforms.
      
      On many platforms that do not have DMA32 or HIGHMEM this will reduce the
      number of zones by 50%.  F.e.  ia64 only uses DMA and NORMAL.
      
      Large amounts of memory can be saved for larger systemss that may have a few
      hundred NUMA nodes.
      
      With ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM support optional MAX_NR_ZONES will be 2 for
      many non i386 platforms and even for i386 without CONFIG_HIGHMEM set.
      
      Tested on ia64, x86_64 and on i386 with and without highmem.
      
      The patchset consists of 11 patches that are following this message.
      
      One could go even further than this patchset and also make ZONE_DMA optional
      because some platforms do not need a separate DMA zone and can do DMA to all
      of memory.  This could reduce MAX_NR_ZONES to 1.  Such a patchset will
      hopefully follow soon.
      
      This patch:
      
      Fix strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES
      
      Sometimes we use MAX_NR_ZONES - x to refer to a zone.  Make that explicit.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      776ed98b
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      [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with · 1a3f239d
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This patch replaces the open-coded early commandline parsing
      throughout the i386 boot code with the generic mechanism (already used
      by ppc, powerpc, ia64 and s390).  The code was inconsistent with
      whether it deletes the option from the cmdline or not, meaning some of
      these will get passed through the environment into init.
      
      This transformation is mainly mechanical, but there are some notable
      parts:
      
      1) Grammar: s/linux never set's it up/linux never sets it up/
      
      2) Remove hacked-in earlyprintk= option scanning.  When someone
         actually implements CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK, then they can use
         early_param().
      [AK: actually it is implemented, but I'm adding the early_param it in the next
      x86-64 patch]
      
      3) Move declaration of generic_apic_probe() from setup.c into asm/apic.h
      
      4) Various parameters now moved into their appropriate files (thanks Andi).
      
      5) All parse functions which examine arg need to check for NULL,
         except one where it has subtle humor value.
      
      AK: readded acpi_sci handling which was completely dropped
      AK: moved some more variables into acpi/boot.c
      
      Cc: len.brown@intel.com
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      1a3f239d
    • J
      [PATCH] i386: initialize end-of-memory variables as early as possible · ba9c231f
      Jan Beulich 提交于
      Move initialization of all memory end variables to as early as
      possible, so that dependent code doesn't need to check whether these
      variables have already been set.
      
      Change the range check in kunmap_atomic to actually make use of this
      so that the no-mapping-estabished path (under CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM)
      gets used only when the address is inside the lowmem area (and BUG()
      otherwise).
      Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      ba9c231f
  10. 02 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 28 6月, 2006 2 次提交
  13. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 22 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 10 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 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
  17. 22 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 17 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 07 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 14 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  21. 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  22. 08 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  23. 05 9月, 2005 2 次提交
    • Z
      [PATCH] i386: use set_pte macros in a couple places where they were missing · c9b02a24
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Also, setting PDPEs in PAE mode does not require atomic operations, since the
      PDPEs are cached by the processor, and only reloaded on an explicit or
      implicit reload of CR3.
      
      Since the four PDPEs must always be present in an active root, and the kernel
      PDPE is never updated, we are safe even from SMIs and interrupts / NMIs using
      task gates (which reload CR3).  Actually, much of this is moot, since the user
      PDPEs are never updated either, and the only usage of task gates is by the
      doublefault handler.  It appears the only place PGDs get updated in PAE mode
      is in init_low_mappings() / zap_low_mapping() for initial page table creation
      and recovery from ACPI sleep state, and these sites are safe by inspection.
      Getting rid of the cmpxchg8b saves code space and 720 cycles in pgd_alloc on
      P4.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c9b02a24
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      [PATCH] x86: fix EFI memory map parsing · 7ae65fd3
      Matt Tolentino 提交于
      The memory descriptors that comprise the EFI memory map are not fixed in
      stone such that the size could change in the future.  This uses the memory
      descriptor size obtained from EFI to iterate over the memory map entries
      during boot.  This enables the removal of an x86 specific pad (and ifdef)
      in the EFI header.  I also couldn't stomach the broken up nature of the
      function to put EFI runtime calls into virtual mode any longer so I fixed
      that up a bit as well.
      
      For reference, this patch only impacts x86.
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7ae65fd3
  24. 26 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  25. 24 6月, 2005 3 次提交
  26. 22 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  27. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
    • L
      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