Currently the storage of the machine flags is a globally exported unsigned
long long variable. By moving the storage location into the lowcore struct we
allow assembler code to check machine_flags directly even without needing a
register. Addtionally the lowcore and therefore the machine flags too will be
in cache most of the time.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The lowcore.h header has quite a lot of whitespace damage and a rather
wild collection of entries. Remove all that whitespace and tidy up the
order of the lowcore fields.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch fixes two addresses in the comments for the
lowcore structure. Looks like an copy-paste bug.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Provide new shutdown action "dump_reipl" for automatic ipl after dump.
Signed-off-by: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
The vdso_per_cpu_data entry in the lowcore structure uses __u32
instead of __u64. If the data page is above 4GB the pointer is
truncated and the kernel crashes.
Reported-by: Mijo Safradin <mijo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The unit of the cputime accouting values that are stored per process is
currently a microsecond. The CPU timer has a maximum granularity of
2**-12 microseconds. There is no benefit in storing the per process values
in the lesser precision and there is the disadvantage that the backend
has to do the rounding to microseconds. The better solution is to use
the maximum granularity of the CPU timer as cputime unit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
