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Linus Torvalds f94edacf99 i387: move TS_USEDFPU flag from thread_info to task_struct
This moves the bit that indicates whether a thread has ownership of the
FPU from the TS_USEDFPU bit in thread_info->status to a word of its own
(called 'has_fpu') in task_struct->thread.has_fpu.

This fixes two independent bugs at the same time:

 - changing 'thread_info->status' from the scheduler causes nasty
   problems for the other users of that variable, since it is defined to
   be thread-synchronous (that's what the "TS_" part of the naming was
   supposed to indicate).

   So perfectly valid code could (and did) do

	ti->status |= TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK;

   and the compiler was free to do that as separate load, or and store
   instructions.  Which can cause problems with preemption, since a task
   switch could happen in between, and change the TS_USEDFPU bit. The
   change to TS_USEDFPU would be overwritten by the final store.

   In practice, this seldom happened, though, because the 'status' field
   was seldom used more than once, so gcc would generally tend to
   generate code that used a read-modify-write instruction and thus
   happened to avoid this problem - RMW instructions are naturally low
   fat and preemption-safe.

 - On x86-32, the current_thread_info() pointer would, during interrupts
   and softirqs, point to a *copy* of the real thread_info, because
   x86-32 uses %esp to calculate the thread_info address, and thus the
   separate irq (and softirq) stacks would cause these kinds of odd
   thread_info copy aliases.

   This is normally not a problem, since interrupts aren't supposed to
   look at thread information anyway (what thread is running at
   interrupt time really isn't very well-defined), but it confused the
   heck out of irq_fpu_usable() and the code that tried to squirrel
   away the FPU state.

   (It also caused untold confusion for us poor kernel developers).

It also turns out that using 'task_struct' is actually much more natural
for most of the call sites that care about the FPU state, since they
tend to work with the task struct for other reasons anyway (ie
scheduling).  And the FPU data that we are going to save/restore is
found there too.

Thanks to Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> for pointing us to
the %esp issue.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia>
Acked-and-tested-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-18 10:19:41 -08:00
Kevin Winchester 141168c36c x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'
Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space.  However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files.  The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	4737168	 506459	 972040	6215667	 5ed7f3	vmlinux.o.before
	4737444	 506459	 972040	6215943	 5ed907	vmlinux.o.after

for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.

If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 09:25:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen 506ed6b53e x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode
update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode"
field to /proc/cpuinfo.

The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks
together with the other CPUID model information.

I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver,
it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode
is updated it fills in the new values too.

I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it
being optimized away when the result is not used.

This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
information manually. This is done in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-14 13:16:35 +02:00
Len Brown 4bfc8288bc x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
...and make it static

no functional change

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 19:06:36 -04:00
Linus Torvalds f310642123 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
2011-05-29 11:18:09 -07:00
Len Brown 02c68a0201 x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
The workaround for AMD erratum 400 uses the term "c1e" falsely suggesting:
1. Intel C1E is somehow involved
2. All AMD processors with C1E are involved

Use the string "amd_c1e" instead of simply "c1e" to clarify that
this workaround is specific to AMD's version of C1E.
Use the string "e400" to clarify that the workaround is specific
to AMD processors with Erratum 400.

This patch is text-substitution only, with no functional change.

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:38:57 -04:00
Yinghai Lu b3d7336db5 x86: Move llc_shared_map out of cpu_info
cpu_info is already with per_cpu, We can take llc_shared_map out
of cpu_info, and declare it as per_cpu variable directly.

So later referencing could be simple and directly instead of
diving to find cpu_info at first.

Also could make smp_store_cpu_info() much simple to avoid to do
save and restore trick.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D3A16E8.5020608@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 08:44:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds dc8e7e3ec6 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle/x86/perf: fix power:cpu_idle double end events and throw cpu_idle events from the cpuidle layer
  intel_idle: open broadcast clock event
  cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_CHECK_BM is omap3_idle specific
  cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED is specific to intel_idle
  cpuidle: delete unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_SHALLOW, BALANCED, DEEP definitions
  SH, cpuidle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGS_SHALLOW
  cpuidle: delete NOP CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL
  ACPI: processor_idle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGs
  cpuidle: Rename X86 specific idle poll state[0] from C0 to POLL
  ACPI, intel_idle: Cleanup idle= internal variables
  cpuidle: Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()
  intel_idle: update Sandy Bridge core C-state residency targets
2011-01-13 20:15:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Len Brown 56dbed129d Merge branch 'linus' into idle-test 2011-01-12 18:06:06 -05:00
Thomas Renninger d18960494f ACPI, intel_idle: Cleanup idle= internal variables
Having four variables for the same thing:
  idle_halt, idle_nomwait, force_mwait and boot_option_idle_overrides
is rather confusing and unnecessary complex.

if idle= boot param is passed, only set up one variable:
boot_option_idle_overrides

Introduces following functional changes/fixes:
  - intel_idle driver does not register if any idle=xy
    boot param is passed.
  - processor_idle.c will also not register a cpuidle driver
    and get active if idle=halt is passed.
    Before a cpuidle driver with one (C1, halt) state got registered
    Now the default_idle function will be used which finally uses
    the same idle call to enter sleep state (safe_halt()), but
    without registering a whole cpuidle driver.

That means idle= param will always avoid cpuidle drivers to register
with one exception (same behavior as before):
idle=nomwait
may still register acpi_idle cpuidle driver, but C1 will not use
mwait, but hlt. This can be a workaround for IO based deeper sleep
states where C1 mwait causes problems.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-01-12 12:47:30 -05:00
Tejun Heo 7b543a5334 x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
Replace all uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu operations on the
per cpu structure cpu_info.  The scala accesses are replaced with the
matching this_cpu ops which results in smaller and more efficient
code.

In the long run, it might be a good idea to remove cpu_data() macro
too and use per_cpu macro directly.

tj: updated description

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-30 12:22:03 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König b595076a18 tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 2a8b67fb72 Merge branch 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hotplug: In the MWAIT case of play_dead, CLFLUSH the cache line
  x86, hotplug: Move WBINVD back outside the play_dead loop
  x86, hotplug: Use mwait to offline a processor, fix the legacy case
  x86, mwait: Move mwait constants to a common header file
2010-10-21 13:45:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b6f7e38dbb Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, fpu: Merge fpu_save_init()
  x86-32, fpu: Rewrite fpu_save_init()
  x86, fpu: Remove PSHUFB_XMM5_* macros
  x86, fpu: Remove unnecessary ifdefs from i387 code.
  x86-32, fpu: Remove math_emulate stub
  x86-64, fpu: Simplify constraints for fxsave/fxtstor
  x86-64, fpu: Fix %cs value in convert_from_fxsr()
  x86-64, fpu: Disable preemption when using TS_USEDFPU
  x86, fpu: Merge __save_init_fpu()
  x86, fpu: Merge tolerant_fwait()
  x86, fpu: Merge fpu_init()
  x86: Use correct type for %cr4
  x86, xsave: Disable xsave in i387 emulation mode

Fixed up fxsaveq-induced conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
2010-10-21 13:34:32 -07:00
Andreas Herrmann 6057b4d331 x86, amd: Extract compute unit information for AMD CPUs
Get compute unit information from CPUID Fn8000_001E_EBX.
(See AMD CPUID Specification - publication # 25481, revision 2.34,
September 2010.)

Note that each core on a compute unit still has a core_id of its own.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100930123857.GE20545@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-10-01 16:18:32 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin ea53069231 x86, hotplug: Use mwait to offline a processor, fix the legacy case
The code in native_play_dead() has a number of problems:

1. We should use MWAIT when available, to put ourselves into a deeper
   sleep state.
2. We use the existence of CLFLUSH to determine if WBINVD is safe, but
   that is totally bogus -- WBINVD is 486+, whereas CLFLUSH is a much
   later addition.
3. We should do WBINVD inside the loop, just in case of something like
   setting an A bit on page tables.  Pointed out by Arjan van de Ven.

This code is based in part of a previous patch by Venki Pallipadi, but
unlike that patch this one keeps all the detection code local instead
of pre-caching a bunch of information.  We're shutting down the CPU;
there is absolutely no hurry.

This patch moves all the code to C and deletes the global
wbinvd_halt() which is broken anyway.

Originally-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.hl>
LKML-Reference: <20090522232230.162239000@intel.com>
2010-09-17 15:39:11 -07:00
Brian Gerst 2df7a6e9e8 x86: Use correct type for %cr4
%cr4 is 64-bit in 64-bit mode (although the upper 32-bits are currently reserved).
Use unsigned long for the temporary variable to get the right size.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1283563039-3466-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-09 14:16:13 -07:00
Michal Schmidt e8c534ec06 x86: Fix keeping track of AMD C1E
Accomodate the original C1E-aware idle routine to the different times
during boot when the BIOS enables C1E. While at it, remove the synthetic
CPUID flag in favor of a single global setting which denotes C1E status
on the system.

[ hpa: changed c1e_enabled to be a bool; clarified cpu bit 3:21 comment ]

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100727165335.GA11630@aftab>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-08-02 08:45:56 -07:00
Hans Rosenfeld 1be85a6d93 x86, cpu: Use AMD errata checking framework for erratum 383
Use the AMD errata checking framework instead of open-coding the test.

Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280336972-865982-3-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-28 13:12:31 -07:00
Hans Rosenfeld 9d8888c2a2 x86, cpu: Clean up AMD erratum 400 workaround
Remove check_c1e_idle() and use the new AMD errata checking framework
instead.

Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280336972-865982-2-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-28 13:12:11 -07:00
Hans Rosenfeld d78d671db4 x86, cpu: AMD errata checking framework
Errata are defined using the AMD_LEGACY_ERRATUM() or AMD_OSVW_ERRATUM()
macros. The latter is intended for newer errata that have an OSVW id
assigned, which it takes as first argument. Both take a variable number
of family-specific model-stepping ranges created by AMD_MODEL_RANGE().

Iff an erratum has an OSVW id, OSVW is available on the CPU, and the
OSVW id is known to the hardware, it is used to determine whether an
erratum is present. Otherwise, the model-stepping ranges are matched
against the current CPU to find out whether the erratum applies.

For certain special errata, the code using this framework might have to
conduct further checks to make sure an erratum is really (not) present.

Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280336972-865982-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-28 13:12:04 -07:00
Jan Kiszka 29c843912a x86, kgdb: early trap init for early debug
Allow the x86 arch to have early exception processing for the purpose
of debugging via the kgdb.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 41d59102e1 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
  x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
  x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
  x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
  x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
  x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
  x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
  x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
  x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
  x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler

Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
2010-05-18 08:58:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 07d77759c9 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
  Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
  x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
  x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
  x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
  x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
  x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
  x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
  x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
  x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
  x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
  x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
  x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
  cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
  powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
  x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
  x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
  powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
  x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
2010-05-18 08:49:13 -07:00
Avi Kivity 8660328332 x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
Currently all fpu state access is through tsk->thread.xstate.  Since we wish
to generalize fpu access to non-task contexts, wrap the state in a new
'struct fpu' and convert existing access to use an fpu API.

Signal frame handlers are not converted to the API since they will remain
task context only things.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-05-10 10:48:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin e08cae4181 x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
Clean up the hypervisor layer and the hypervisor drivers, using an ops
structure instead of an enumeration with if statements.

The identity of the hypervisor, if needed, can be tested by testing
the pointer value in x86_hyper.

The MS-HyperV private state is moved into a normal global variable
(it's per-system state, not per-CPU state).  Being a normal bss
variable, it will be left at all zero on non-HyperV platforms, and so
can generally be tested for HyperV-specific features without
additional qualification.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
2010-05-07 17:13:04 -07:00
Ky Srinivasan a2a47c6c3d x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.

Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-05-06 18:24:15 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra ea8e61b7bb x86, ptrace: Fix block-step
Implement ptrace-block-step using TIF_BLOCKSTEP which will set
DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when set for a task while preserving any other
DEBUGCTLMSR bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135414.017536066@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:57 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra faa4602e47 x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 326264a024 hw-breakpoint: Keep track of dr7 local enable bits
When the user enables breakpoints through dr7, he can choose
between "local" or "global" enable bits but given how linux is
implemented, both have the same effect.

That said we don't keep track how the user enabled the breakpoints
so when the user requests the dr7 value, we only translate the
"enabled" status using the global enabled bits. It means that if
the user enabled a breakpoint using the local enabled bit, reading
back dr7 will set the global bit and clear the local one.

Apps like Wine expect a full dr7 POKEUSER/PEEKUSER match for emulated
softwares that implement old reverse engineering protection schemes.

We fix that by keeping track of the whole dr7 value given by the user
in the thread structure to drop this bug. We'll think about
something more proper later.

This fixes a 2.6.32 - 2.6.33-x ptrace regression.

Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
2010-02-19 19:06:48 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 45a94d7cd4 x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
xsave_cntxt_init() does something like:

	cpuid(0xd, ..);	// find out what features FP/SSE/.. etc are supported

	xsetbv();	// enable the features known to OS

	cpuid(0xd, ..);	// find out the size of the context for features enabled

Depending on what features get enabled in xsetbv(), value of the
cpuid.eax=0xd.ecx=0.ebx changes correspondingly (representing the
size of the context that is enabled).

As we don't have volatile keyword for native_cpuid(), gcc 4.1.2
optimizes away the second cpuid and the kernel continues to use
the cpuid information obtained before xsetbv(), ultimately leading to kernel
crash on processors supporting more state than the legacy FP/SSE.

Add "volatile" for native_cpuid().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261009542.2745.55.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-16 16:30:57 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 96200591a3 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
	kernel/trace/Makefile

Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
              good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
              are mounting up - so merge & resolve.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
Stefani Seibold 89240ba059 x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit
This patch fixes two issues in the procfs stack information on
x86-64 linux.

The 32 bit loader compat_do_execve did not store stack
start. (this was figured out by Alexey Dobriyan).

The stack information on a x64_64 kernel always shows 0 kbyte
stack usage, because of a missing implementation of the KSTK_ESP
macro which always returned -1.

The new implementation now returns the right value.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257240160.4889.24.camel@wall-e>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:25:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Linus Torvalds dcbf77b9e8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
  sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE
  sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system
  sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING
  sched: Fix TASK_WAKING & loadaverage breakage
  sched: Disable wakeup balancing
  sched: Rename flags to wake_flags
  sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair
  sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit
  sched: x86: Name old_perf in a unique way
  sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL
  sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
  sched: Fix sync wakeups again
  sched: Add WF_FORK
  sched: Rename sync arguments
  sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument
  sched: Feature to disable APERF/MPERF cpu_power
  x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf
  x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code
  x86: Move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h due to
nearby addition of amd_get_nb_id() declaration from the EDAC merge.
2009-09-17 21:00:02 -07:00
Andreas Herrmann 6a8126911a x86, EDAC: Provide function to return NodeId of a CPU
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-16 11:33:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5cbc19a983 x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code
Move some of the aperf/mperf code out from the cpufreq driver
thingy so that other people can enjoy it too.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds c7208de304 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
  x86, msr: change msr-reg.o to obj-y, and export its symbols
  x86: Use hard_smp_processor_id() to get apic id for AMD K8 cpus
  x86, sched: Workaround broken sched domain creation for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, mcheck: Use correct cpumask for shared bank4
  x86, cacheinfo: Fixup L3 cache information for AMD multi-node processors
  x86: Fix CPU llc_shared_map information for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, msr: Fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1, on 32-bit too
  x86: Move kernel_fpu_using to irq_fpu_usable in asm/i387.h
  x86, msr: fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1
  x86, msr: Export the register-setting MSR functions via /dev/*/msr
  x86, msr: Create _on_cpu helpers for {rw,wr}msr_safe_regs()
  x86, msr: Have the _safe MSR functions return -EIO, not -EFAULT
  x86, msr: CFI annotations, cleanups for msr-reg.S
  x86, asm: Make _ASM_EXTABLE() usable from assembly code
  x86, asm: Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros
  x86, AMD: Disable wrongly set X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM CPUID bit
  x86, msr: Rewrite AMD rd/wrmsr variants
  x86, msr: Add rd/wrmsr interfaces with preset registers
  x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture
  ...
2009-09-14 07:57:32 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 5367b6887e x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
As reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/511703> and
<http://bugs.debian.org/515982>, kernels with paravirt-alternatives
enabled crash in text_poke_early() on at least some 486-class
processors.

The problem is that text_poke_early() itself uses inline functions
affected by paravirt-alternatives and so will modify instructions that
have already been prefetched.  Pentium and later processors will
invalidate the prefetched instructions in this case, but 486-class
processors do not.

Change sync_core() to limit prefetching on 486-class (and 386-class)
processors, and move the call to sync_core() above the call to the
modifiable local_irq_restore().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1252547631.3423.134.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-10 16:50:19 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 53f824520b x86/i386: Put aligned stack-canary in percpu shared_aligned section
Pack aligned things together into a special section to minimize
padding holes.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AA035C0.9070202@goop.org>
[ queued up in tip:x86/asm because it depends on this commit:
  x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 07:10:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1ea0d14e48 x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned
The Intel Optimization Reference Guide says:

	In Intel Atom microarchitecture, the address generation unit
	assumes that the segment base will be 0 by default. Non-zero
	segment base will cause load and store operations to experience
	a delay.
		- If the segment base isn't aligned to a cache line
		  boundary, the max throughput of memory operations is
		  reduced to one [e]very 9 cycles.
	[...]
	Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15. (H impact, ML generality)
	For Intel Atom processors, use segments with base set to 0
	whenever possible; avoid non-zero segment base address that is
	not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost.

We can't avoid having a non-zero base for the stack-protector
segment, but we can make it cache-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AA01893.6000507@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-03 21:30:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar eadb8a091b Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
	kernel/Makefile

Semantic conflict:
	arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to
              put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 12:56:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7dc3ca39cb Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, nmi: Use predefined numbers instead of hardcoded one
  x86: asm/processor.h: remove double declaration
  x86, mtrr: replace MTRRdefType_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRdefType
  x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix4K_C0000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix4K_C0000
  x86, mtrr: remove mtrr MSRs double declaration
  x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix16K_80000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix16K_80000
  x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix64K_00000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix64K_00000
  x86, mtrr: replace MTRRcap_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRcap
  x86: mce: remove duplicated #include
  x86: msr-index.h remove duplicate MSR C001_0015 declaration
  x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c a bit
  x86: use symbolic name for VM86_SIGNAL when used as vm86 default return
  x86: added 'ifndef _ASM_X86_IOMAP_H' to iomap.h
  x86: avoid multiple declaration of kstack_depth_to_print
  x86: vdso/vma.c declare vdso_enabled and arch_setup_additional_pages before they get used
  x86: clean up declarations and variables
  x86: apic/x2apic_cluster.c x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid should be static
  x86 early quirks: eliminate unused function
2009-06-10 15:49:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds aa98936e4f Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, 64-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::ip
  x86, 32-bit: ifdef out struct thread_struct::fs
  x86: clean up alternative.h
2009-06-10 15:49:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
K.Prasad b332828c39 hw-breakpoints: prepare the code for Hardware Breakpoint interfaces
The generic hardware breakpoint interface provides an abstraction of
hardware breakpoints in front of specific arch implementations for both kernel
and user side breakpoints.
This includes execution breakpoints and read/write breakpoints, also known as
"watchpoints".

This patch introduces header files containing constants, structure definitions
and declaration of functions used by the hardware breakpoint core and x86
specific code.
It also introduces an array based storage for the debug-register values in
'struct thread_struct', while modifying all users of debugreg<n> member in the
structure.

[ Impact: add headers for new hardware breakpoint interface ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:57 +02:00