1. 16 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 09 5月, 2006 5 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86_64: Avoid EBDA area in early boot allocator · ac71d12c
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Based on analysis&patch from Robert Hentosch
      
      Observed on a Dell PE6850 with 16GB
      
      The problem occurs very early on, when the kernel allocates space for the
      temporary memory map called bootmap. The bootmap overlaps the EBDA region.
      EBDA region is not historically reserved in the e820 mapping. When the
      bootmap is freed it marks the EBDA region as usable.
      
      If you notice in setup.c there is already code to work around the EBDA
      in reserve_ebda_region(), this check however occurs after the bootmap
      is allocated and doesn't prevent the bootmap from using this range.
      
      AK: I redid the original patch. Thanks also to Jan Beulich for
      spotting some mistakes.
      
      Cc: Robert_Hentosch@dell.com
      Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ac71d12c
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      [PATCH] x86_64: add nmi_exit to die_nmi · 8b1ffe95
      Corey Minyard 提交于
      Playing with NMI watchdog on x86_64, I discovered that it didn't
      do what I expected.  It always panic-ed, even when it didn't
      happen from interrupt context.  This patch solves that
      problem for me.  Also, in this case, do_exit() will be called
      with interrupts disabled, I believe.  Would it be wise to also
      call local_irq_enable() after nmi_exit()?
      [Yes I added it -AK]
      
      Currently, on x86_64, any NMI watchdog timeout will cause a panic
      because the irq count will always be set to be in an interrupt
      when do_exit() is called from die_nmi().  If we add nmi_exit() to
      the die_nmi() call (since the nmi will never exit "normally")
      it seems to solve this problem.  The following small program
      can be used to trigger the NMI watchdog to reproduce this:
        main ()
        {
              iopl(3);
              for (;;) asm("cli");
        }
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8b1ffe95
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      [PATCH] x86_64: fix die_lock nesting · cdc60a4c
      Corey Minyard 提交于
      I noticed this when poking around in this area.
      
      The oops_begin() function in x86_64 would only conditionally claim
      the die_lock if the call is nested, but oops_end() would always
      release the spinlock. This patch adds a nest count for the die lock
      so that the release of the lock is only done on the final oops_end().
      Signed-off-by: NCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cdc60a4c
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      [PATCH] x86_64: Check for too many northbridges in IOMMU code · 5192d84e
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      The IOMMU code can only deal with 8 northbridges. Error out when
      more are found.
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5192d84e
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      [PATCH] x86_64: avoid IRQ0 ioapic pin collision · e0c1e9bf
      Kimball Murray 提交于
      The patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI interrupt entry, which gets
      re-used, and the IRQ is assigned to another unrelated device.  The patch
      corrects the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is
      avoided.  Second issue came up with VIA chipset, the problem was caused by
      original patch assigning IRQs starting 16 and up.  The VIA chipset uses
      4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and therefore cannot
      handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices.  The patch corrects this
      problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16.
      
      Cc: len.brown@intel.com
      
      Signed-off by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e0c1e9bf
  3. 02 5月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86_64: make PC Speaker driver work · 160bd18e
      Mikael Pettersson 提交于
      The PC Speaker driver's ->probe() routine doesn't even get called in the
      64-bit kernels.  The reason for that is that the arch code apparently has
      to explictly add a "pcspkr" platform device in order for the driver core to
      call the ->probe() routine.  arch/i386/kernel/setup.c unconditionally adds
      a "pcspkr" device, but the x86_64 kernel has no code at all related to the
      PC Speaker.
      
      The patch below copies the relevant code from i386 to x86_64, which makes
      the PC Speaker work for me on x86_64.
      
      Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      160bd18e
  4. 01 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 26 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 23 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 20 4月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information leak between processes · 18bd057b
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      AMD K7/K8 CPUs only save/restore the FOP/FIP/FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE
      when an exception is pending.  This means the value leak through
      context switches and allow processes to observe some x87 instruction
      state of other processes.
      
      This was actually documented by AMD, but nobody recognized it as
      being different from Intel before.
      
      The fix first adds an optimization: instead of unconditionally
      calling FNCLEX after each FXSAVE test if ES is pending and skip
      it when not needed. Then do a x87 load from a kernel variable to
      clear FOP/FIP/FDP.
      
      This means other processes always will only see a constant value
      defined by the kernel in their FP state.
      
      I took some pain to make sure to chose a variable that's already
      in L1 during context switch to make the overhead of this low.
      
      Also alternative() is used to patch away the new code on CPUs
      who don't need it.
      
      Patch for both i386/x86-64.
      
      The problem was discovered originally by Jan Beulich. Richard
      Brunner provided the basic code for the workarounds, with contribution
      from Jan.
      
      This is CVE-2006-1056
      
      Cc: richard.brunner@amd.com
      Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      18bd057b
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      [PATCH] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes for x86_64 · 3b60211c
      Prasanna S Panchamukhi 提交于
      Andrew Morton pointed out that compiler might not inline the functions
      marked for inline in kprobes.  There-by allowing the insertion of probes
      on these kprobes routines, which might cause recursion.
      
      This patch removes all such inline and adds them to kprobes section
      there by disallowing probes on all such routines.  Some of the routines
      can even still be inlined, since these routines gets executed after the
      kprobes had done necessay setup for reentrancy.
      Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3b60211c
  8. 19 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 15 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  10. 11 4月, 2006 2 次提交
  11. 10 4月, 2006 13 次提交
  12. 01 4月, 2006 2 次提交
  13. 29 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 28 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
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      [PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core · 1e9f28fa
      Siddha, Suresh B 提交于
      Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches
      between cores.  Consider a dual package system, each package containing two
      cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package.  If
      there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two
      processes will be scheduled on different packages.
      
      On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with
      specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2
      users).
      
      This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared
      caches.  On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain
      degeneration code.  This new domain can be also used for implementing power
      savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..
      I will post another patch for power savings policy soon)
      
      Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation.
      Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1e9f28fa
  15. 27 3月, 2006 3 次提交
  16. 26 3月, 2006 3 次提交