Requesting the microcode from userspace *every time* when onlining CPUs
(during a CPU hotplug operation) is unnecessary. Thus, ensure that
once the kernel gets the microcode after booting, it is not freed nor
invalidated when a CPU goes offline, so that it can be reused when that
CPU comes back online, without requesting userspace for it again. As a
result, the CPU hotplug operations become faster as well.
Signed-off-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E91F908.5010006@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

A deadlock was introduced on x86 in commit ef68c8f8 ("x86:
Serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock") because efi_get_time()
and friends can be called with rtc_lock already held by
read_persistent_time(), e.g.:

 timekeeping_init()
    read_persistent_clock()     <-- acquire rtc_lock
        efi_get_time()
            phys_efi_get_time() <-- acquire rtc_lock <DEADLOCK>

To fix this let's push the locking down into the get_wallclock()
and set_wallclock() implementations.  Only the clock
implementations that access the x86 RTC directly need to acquire
rtc_lock, so it makes sense to push the locking down into the
rtc, vrtc and efi code.

The virtualization implementations don't require rtc_lock to be
held because they provide their own serialization.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> [for the virtualization aspect]
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

An event may occur when an mm is already released.

I added an event in dequeue_entity() and caught a panic with
the following backtrace:

[  434.421110] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
[  434.421258] IP: [<ffffffff810464ac>] __get_user_pages_fast+0x9c/0x120
...
[  434.421258] Call Trace:
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8101ae81>] copy_from_user_nmi+0x51/0xf0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8109a0d5>] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0x90
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8101b048>] perf_callchain_user+0x128/0x170
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff811154cd>] ? __perf_event_header__init_id+0xed/0x100
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81116690>] perf_prepare_sample+0x200/0x280
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81118da8>] __perf_event_overflow+0x1b8/0x290
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81065240>] ? tg_shares_up+0x0/0x670
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8104fe1a>] ? walk_tg_tree+0x6a/0xb0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81118f44>] perf_swevent_overflow+0xc4/0xf0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81119150>] do_perf_sw_event+0x1e0/0x250
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81119204>] perf_tp_event+0x44/0x70
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8105701f>] ftrace_profile_sched_block+0xdf/0x110
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8106121d>] dequeue_entity+0x2ad/0x2d0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff810614ec>] dequeue_task_fair+0x1c/0x60
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8105818a>] dequeue_task+0x9a/0xb0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff810581e2>] deactivate_task+0x42/0xe0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff814bc019>] thread_return+0x191/0x808
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff81098a44>] ? switch_task_namespaces+0x24/0x60
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8106f4c4>] do_exit+0x464/0x910
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8106f9c8>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8106fa57>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[  434.421258]  [<ffffffff8100b202>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314693156-24131-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

entry_32.S contained a hardcoded alternative instruction entry, and the
format changed in commit 59e97e4d ("x86: Make alternative
instruction pointers relative").

Replace the hardcoded entry with the altinstruction_entry macro.  This
fixes the 32-bit boot with CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG=y.
Reported-and-tested-by: NArnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

While removing custom rendezvous code and switching to stop_machine,
commit 192d8857 ("x86, mtrr: use stop_machine APIs for doing MTRR
rendezvous") completely dropped mtrr setting code on !CONFIG_SMP
breaking MTRR settting on UP.

Fix it by removing the incorrect CONFIG_SMP.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NAnders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Tested-and-acked-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

As of commit 98d0ac38
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu Jul 14 06:47:22 2011 -0400

    x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO

user code no longer directly calls into code in arch/x86/kernel/, so
we don't need compile flag hacks to make it safe.  All vdso code is
in the vdso directory now.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/835cd05a4c7740544d09723d6ba48f4406f9826c.1312988155.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Add support to Romely-EP SandyBridge.
Signed-off-by: NYouquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnhua Xu <anhua.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312264895-2010-1-git-send-email-youquan.song@intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Delete the 10 msec delay between the INIT and SIPI when starting
slave cpus. I can find no requirement for this delay. BIOS also
has similar code sequences without the delay.

Removing the delay reduces boot time by 40 sec. Every bit helps.
Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805140900.GA6774@sgi.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Vsyscall emulation is slow, so make it easy to track down.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cdaad7da946a80b200df16647c1700db3e1171e9.1312378163.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3
selector is __USER_CS.  This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq
changes cs to the magic value 0xe033.

Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve
vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling"
(c9712944), vsyscalls will segfault
if called with Xen's extra CS selector.  This causes a panic when
older init builds die.

It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without
taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the
tests instead with a new paravirt op.  It's a little ugly because
ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.eduReported-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Gold has trouble assigning numbers to the location counter inside of
an output section description.  The bug was triggered by
9fd67b4e, which consolidated all of
the vsyscall sections into a single section.  The workaround is IMO
still nicer than the old way of doing it.

This produces an apparently valid kernel image and passes my vdso
tests on both GNU ld version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118 and GNU
gold (version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118) 1.10 as distributed by
Fedora 15.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b260cb806f1f9a25c00ce8377a5f035d57f557a.1312378163.git.luto@mit.eduReported-by: NArkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The kernel's loader doesn't seem to care, but gold complains.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f0716870c297242a841b949953d80c0d87bf3d3f.1312378163.git.luto@mit.eduReported-by: NArkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

cpuidle users should call cpuidle_call_idle() directly
rather than via (pm_idle)() function pointer.

Architecture may choose to continue using (pm_idle)(),
but cpuidle need not depend on it:

  my_arch_cpu_idle()
	...
	if(cpuidle_call_idle())
		pm_idle();

cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

...and make it static

no functional change

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: NArun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.
Signed-off-by: NJonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: NMichal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

This patch implements the kvm bits of the steal time infrastructure.
The most important part of it, is the steal time clock. It is an
continuous clock that shows the accumulated amount of steal time
since vcpu creation. It is supposed to survive cpu offlining/onlining.

[marcelo: fix build with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n]
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

This code uses PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID, so
it wasn't converted by commit 44c10138 ("PCI: Change all
drivers to use pci_device->revision") before being moved to arch/x86/...
Signed-off-by: NSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201107111901.39281.sshtylyov@ru.mvista.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

The Host used to create some page tables for the Guest to use at the
top of Guest memory; it would then tell the Guest where this was.  In
particular, it created linear mappings for 0 and 0xC0000000 addresses
because lguest used to switch to its real page tables quite late in
boot.

However, since d50d8fe1 Linux initialized boot page tables in
head_32.S even before the "are we lguest?" boot jump.  So, now we can
simplify things: the Host pagetable code assumes 1:1 linear mapping
until it first calls the LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE hypercall, which we now do
before we reach C code.

This also means that the Host doesn't need to know anything about the
Guest's PAGE_OFFSET.  (Non-Linux guests might not even have such a
thing).
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Yet another variant of the Dell Latitude series which requires
reboot=pci.

From the E5420 bug report by Daniel J Blueman:

> The E6420 is affected also (same platform, different casing and
> features), which provides an external confirmation of the issue; I can
> submit a patch for that later or include it if you prefer:
> http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/04/howto-fix-linux-hangfreeze-during-reboots-and-restarts/Reported-by: NDaniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

Rebooting on the Dell E5420 often hangs with the keyboard or ACPI
methods, but is reliable via the PCI method.

[ hpa: this was deferred because we believed for a long time that the
  recent reshuffling of the boot priorities in commit
  660e34ce fixed this platform.
  Unfortunately that turned out to be incorrect. ]
Signed-off-by: NDaniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305248699-2347-1-git-send-email-daniel.blueman@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other
library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32
and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch:

 - fixes typos in comments and clarifies the text
 - renames obscure p4_event_alias::original and ::alter members to
   ::original and ::alternative as appropriate
 - drops parenthesis from the return of p4_get_alias_event()

No functional changes.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721160625.GX7492@sunSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

All these are instances of
  #define NAME value;
or
  #define NAME(params_opt) value;

These of course fail to build when used in contexts like
  if(foo $OP NAME)
  while(bar $OP NAME)
and may silently generate the wrong code in contexts such as
  foo = NAME + 1;    /* foo = value; + 1; */
  bar = NAME - 1;    /* bar = value; - 1; */
  baz = NAME & quux; /* baz = value; & quux; */

Reported on comp.lang.c,
Message-ID: <ab0d55fe-25e5-482b-811e-c475aa6065c3@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Initial analysis of the dangers provided by Keith Thompson in that thread.

There are many more instances of more complicated macros having unnecessary
trailing semicolons, but this pile seems to be all of the cases of simple
values suffering from the problem. (Thus things that are likely to be found
in one of the contexts above, more complicated ones aren't.)
Signed-off-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

In kexec jump support, jump back address passed to the kexeced
kernel via function calling ABI, that is, the function call
return address is the jump back entry.

Furthermore, jump back entry == 0 should be used to signal that
the jump back or preserve context is not enabled in the original
kernel.

But in the current implementation the stack position used for
function call return address is not cleared context
preservation is disabled. The patch fixes this bug.
Reported-and-tested-by: NYin Kangkai <kangkai.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310607277-25029-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This code uses PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID, so
it wasn't converted by commit 44c10138 ("PCI: Change all
drivers to use pci_device->revision") before being moved to arch/x86/...
Signed-off-by: NSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201107111901.39281.sshtylyov@ru.mvista.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This array is read-only. Make it explicit by marking as const.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309482653-23648-1-git-send-email-Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.eduSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix the printk_once() so that it actually prints (didn't print before
due to a stray comma.)

[ hpa: changed to an incremental patch and adjusted the description
  accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107151732480.18606@x980
Cc: <table@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

handle_signal()->set_fs() has a nice comment which explains what
set_fs() is, but it doesn't explain why it is needed and why it
depends on CONFIG_X86_64.

Afaics, the history of this confusion is:

	1. I guess today nobody can explain why it was needed
	   in arch/i386/kernel/signal.c, perhaps it was always
	   wrong. This predates 2.4.0 kernel.

	2. then it was copy-and-past'ed to the new x86_64 arch.

	3. then it was removed from i386 (but not from x86_64)
	   by b93b6ca3 "i386: remove unnecessary code".

	4. then it was reintroduced under CONFIG_X86_64 when x86
	   unified i386 and x86_64, because the patch above didn't
	   touch x86_64.

Remove it. ->addr_limit should be correct. Even if it was possible
that it is wrong, it is too late to fix it after setup_rt_frame().

Linus commented in:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.0.999.0707170902570.19166@woody.linux-foundation.org

... about the equivalent bit from i386:

Heh. I think it's entirely historical.

Please realize that the whole reason that function is called "set_fs()" is 
that it literally used to set the %fs segment register, not 
"->addr_limit".

So I think the "set_fs(USER_DS)" is there _only_ to match the other

        regs->xds = __USER_DS;
        regs->xes = __USER_DS;
        regs->xss = __USER_DS;
        regs->xcs = __USER_CS;

things, and never mattered. And now it matters even less, and has been 
copied to all other architectures where it is just totally insane.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110710164424.GA20261@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1. do_signal() looks at TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK and calculates the
   mask which should be stored in the signal frame, then it
   passes "oldset" to the callees, down to setup_rt_frame().

   This is ugly, setup_rt_frame() can do this itself and nobody
   else needs this sigset_t. Move this code into setup_rt_frame.

2. do_signal() also clears TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK if handle_signal()
   succeeds.

   We can move this to setup_rt_frame() as well, this avoids the
   unnecessary checks and makes the logic more clear.

3. use set_current_blocked() instead of sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK),
   sigprocmask() should be avoided.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110710182203.GA27979@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

sys_sigsuspend() and sys_sigreturn() change ->blocked directly.
This is not correct, see the changelog in e6fa16ab
"signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending()"

Change them to use set_current_blocked().
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110710192727.GA31759@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The vsyscall page now consists entirely of trap instructions.

Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/637648f303f2ef93af93bae25186e9a1bea093f5.1310639973.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Instead of hw_nmi_watchdog_set_attr() weak function
and appropriate x86_pmu::hw_watchdog_set_attr() call
we introduce even alias mechanism which allow us
to drop this routines completely and isolate quirks
of Netburst architecture inside P4 PMU code only.

The main idea remains the same though -- to allow
nmi-watchdog and perf top run simultaneously.

Note the aliasing mechanism applies to generic
PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES event only because arbitrary
event (say passed as RAW initially) might have some
additional bits set inside ESCR register changing
the behaviour of event and we can't guarantee anymore
that alias event will give the same result.

P.S. Thanks a huge to Don and Steven for for testing
     and early review.
Acked-by: NDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110708201712.GS23657@sunSigned-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Since 2.6.36 (23016bf0), Linux prints the existence of "epb" in /proc/cpuinfo,
Since 2.6.38 (d5532ee7), the x86_energy_perf_policy(8) utility has
been available in-tree to update MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS.

However, the typical BIOS fails to initialize the MSR, presumably
because this is handled by high-volume shrink-wrap operating systems...

Linux distros, on the other hand, do not yet invoke x86_energy_perf_policy(8).
As a result, WSM-EP, SNB, and later hardware from Intel will run in its
default hardware power-on state (performance), which assumes that users
care for performance at all costs and not for energy efficiency.
While that is fine for performance benchmarks, the hardware's intended default
operating point is "normal" mode...

Initialize the MSR to the "normal" by default during kernel boot.

x86_energy_perf_policy(8) is available to change the default after boot,
should the user have a different preference.
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107140051020.18606@x980Acked-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

This patch adds a function pointer in one of the many paravirt_ops
structs, to allow guests to register a steal time function. Besides
a steal time function, we also declare two jump_labels. They will be
used to allow the steal time code to be easily bypassed when not
in use.
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

The vread field was bloating struct clocksource everywhere except
x86_64, and I want to change the way this works on x86_64, so let's
split it out into per-arch data.

Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ae5ec76a168eaaae63f08a2a1060b91aa0b7759.1310563276.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can
apply alternatives to unrelocated code.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Three fixes here:
 - Send SIGSEGV if called from compat code or with a funny CS.
 - Don't BUG on impossible addresses.
 - Add a missing local_irq_disable.

This patch also removes an unused variable.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6fb2b13ab39b743d1e4f466eef13425854912f7f.1310563276.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>