I'm not sure of the worthiness of this idea, so please consider it an RFC.
Its key merits are:

* Reuse existing infrastructure
* Greatly tightens up the parsing of nomca
* Greatly simplifies the parsing of machvec

Addition cleanup (moving setup_mvec() to machvec.c) by Ken Chen.
Signed-Off-By: NHorms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-Off-By: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add init declaration to variables/functions used for memory
initialization.  I don't think they would clash with memory
hotplug.  If they do, please yell.
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add init declaration to cpu initialization functions.
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt
give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods
to assist.

- BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables.
- User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter
  additional_cpus=X

The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the
physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining
and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y

Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus.
Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

There were two problems with enabling the PRINTK_TIME config
option:
1) The first calls to printk() occur before per-cpu data virtual
address is pinned into the TLB, so sched_clock() can fault.
2) sched_clock() is based on ar.itc, which may not be synchronized
across cpus.

Ken Chen started this patch, Tony Luck tinkered with it, and Jes
Sorensen perfected it.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:

- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
  measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
  that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
  distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
  the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
  whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
  time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
  is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
  distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
  and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.

  [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
    assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
    the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
    the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
    see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]

Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:

- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
  sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
  cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
  cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
  occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
  'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
  the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.

  This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
  CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
  will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
  any caches.

(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)

Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.

Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:

	migration_cost=1000,2000,3000

will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.

Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:

	migration_factor=120

will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.

I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:

Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]
 [00]:     -     1.7(1)
 [01]:   1.7(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
 ---------------------

Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.

Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]
 [00]:     -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)
 [01]:   0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)
 [02]:   0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)
 [03]:   0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
 ---------------------

Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.

8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]    [04]    [05]    [06]    [07]
 [00]:     -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [01]:  19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [02]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [03]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [04]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [05]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [06]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1)
 [07]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
 ---------------------

This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c: In function `show_cpuinfo':
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 12)
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 13)

Introduced by 95235ca2Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

What is the value shown in "cpu MHz" of /proc/cpuinfo when CPUs are capable of
changing frequency?

Today the answer is: It depends.
On i386:
SMP kernel - It is always the boot frequency
UP kernel - Scales with the frequency change and shows that was last set.

On x86_64:
There is one single variable cpu_khz that gets written by all the CPUs. So,
the frequency set by last CPU will be seen on /proc/cpuinfo of all the
CPUs in the system. What you see also depends on whether you have constant_tsc
capable CPU or not.

On ia64:
It is always boot time frequency of a particular CPU that gets displayed.

The patch below changes this to:
Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If
cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency
will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work
for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported.  Direct
access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements
dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for
x86_64.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Corrects the very inefficent method of finding free context_ids in
get_mmu_context().  Instead of walking the task_list of all processes,
2 bitmaps are used to efficently store and lookup state, inuse and
needs flushing. The entire rid address space is now used before calling
wrap_mmu_context and global tlb flushing.

Special thanks to Ken and Rohit for their review and modifications in
using a bit flushmap.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Fix the "siblings" field value in /proc/cpuinfo so that it now shows the
number of siblings as seen by OS, instead of what is available from
hardware perspective.
Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

/proc/iomem describes a block of memory as "Kernel data",
but the end address is derived from "_edata".  The kernel
actually has many other sections beyond _edata.  Get the
real end address from _end.
Acked-by: NKhalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Update comment about how ar.k0 is used.  Make the initialization the
same as in start_secondary() (no functional change, just make it look
more similar).
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

User mode kexec tools expect to find information about physical
memory in /proc/iomem (as they do on x86) to validate the addresses
that the new kernel will use.
Signed-off-by: NKhalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

New version leaves the original memory map unmodified.
Also saves any granule trimmings for use by the uncached
memory allocator.

Inspired by Khalid Aziz (various traces of his patch still
remain).  Fixes to uncached_build_memmap() and sn2 testing
by Martin Hicks.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Check with PAL to see what the i-cache line size is for
each level of the cache, and so use the correct stride
when flushing the cache.

Acked-by: David Mosberger
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4233Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Resend 2 with changes per Bjorn Helgaas comments.  Changes from original:

+ Change globals to vga_console_iobase/vga_console_membase and make them
  unconditional.
+ Address style-related comments.

Patch to extend the PCDP vga setup code to support PCI io/mem translations
for the legacy vga ioport and ram spaces on architectures (e.g. altix) which
need them.

Summary of the changes:

drivers/firmware/pcdp.c
drivers/firmware/pcdp.h
-----------------------
+ add declaration for the spec-defined PCI interface struct (pcdp_if_pci)
  as well as support macros.

+ extend setup_vga_console() to know about pcdp_if_pci and add a couple of
  globals to hold the io and mem translation offsets if present.

arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
------------------------
+ tweek early_console_setup() to allow multiple early console setup routines
  to be called.

include/asm-ia64/vga.h
----------------------
+ make VGA_MAP_MEM vga_console_membase aware
Signed-off-by: NMark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Christian Hildner pointed out that the comment did not match what the
code does in cpu_init() when we set up the default control register.
Patch based on suggestions from Ken Chen.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Rohit and Suresh changed their mind about the order to print things
in /proc/cpuinfo, but didn't include the change in the version of
the patch they sent to me.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Version 3 - rediffed to apply on top of Ashok's hotplug cpu
patch.  /proc/cpuinfo output in step with x86.

This is an updated MC/MT identification patch based on the 
previous discussions on list. 

Add the Multi-core and Multi-threading detection for IPF.
  - Add new core and threading related fields in /proc/cpuinfo.
		Physical id
		Core id
		Thread id
		Siblings
  - setup the cpu_core_map and cpu_sibling_map appropriately
  - Handles Hot plug CPU
Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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!