1. 10 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 02 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [IA64] Move include/asm-ia64 to arch/ia64/include/asm · 7f30491c
      Tony Luck 提交于
      After moving the the include files there were a few clean-ups:
      
      1) Some files used #include <asm-ia64/xyz.h>, changed to <asm/xyz.h>
      
      2) Some comments alerted maintainers to look at various header files to
      make matching updates if certain code were to be changed. Updated these
      comments to use the new include paths.
      
      3) Some header files mentioned their own names in initial comments. Just
      deleted these self references.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      7f30491c
  3. 28 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [IA64] Workaround for RSE issue · 4dcc29e1
      Tony Luck 提交于
      Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
      operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
      state at the time of the violation, may result in an illegal operation
      fault and invalid RSE state.  Such faults may initiate a cascade of
      repeated illegal operation faults within OS interruption handlers.
      The specific behavior is OS dependent.
      
      Implication: An application causing an illegal operation fault with
      specific RSE state may result in a series of illegal operation faults
      and an eventual OS stack overflow condition.
      
      Workaround: OS interruption handlers that switch to kernel backing
      store implement a check for invalid RSE state to avoid the series
      of illegal operation faults.
      
      The core of the workaround is the RSE_WORKAROUND code sequence
      inserted into each invocation of the SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER and
      SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER_R19 macros.  This sequence includes hard-coded
      constants that depend on the number of stacked physical registers
      being 96.  The rest of this patch consists of code to disable this
      workaround should this not be the case (with the presumption that
      if a future Itanium processor increases the number of registers, it
      would also remove the need for this patch).
      
      Move the start of the RBS up to a mod32 boundary to avoid some
      corner cases.
      
      The dispatch_illegal_op_fault code outgrew the spot it was
      squatting in when built with this patch and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y
      Move it out to the end of the ivt.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      4dcc29e1
  4. 07 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 · a0776ec8
      Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
      It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
      how many physical stack register a cpu has.  Ever since the
      incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
      variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
      that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
      syscall and kernel exit path.  Such "static" value is better
      served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
      Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.
      
      This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
      per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
      for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)
      
      There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
      tion encoded in the kernel image.  It shouldn't be concerned.
      The reasons are:
      
      (1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization.  In there, we
          find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
          two instructions in kernel exit code.  The code in question
          can not be executed before the patching is done.
      
      (2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
          and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
          With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
          in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
          Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.
      
      All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
      exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
      avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.
      Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      a0776ec8
  5. 28 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  6. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      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