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31669 Commits (e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Pekka Enberg e087edd8c0 x86: make sure initmem is writable on 64-bit
Impact: unification

This patch ports commit 3c1df68b84 ("x86: make
sure initmem is writable") to the 64-bit version to unify implementations of
free_init_pages().

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236078904.2675.17.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 12:21:18 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 05f209e7b9 x86: add sanity checks to init_32.c
Impact: unification

This patch adds sanity checks that are already in init_64.c to init_32.c.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1236078902.2675.16.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 12:21:17 +01:00
Pekka Enberg fd578f9c0a x86: use roundup() instead of PAGE_ALIGN() in find_early_table_space()
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes find_early_table_space() to use roundup() for rounding up
tables to page size to unify the common parts of the 32-bit and 64-bit
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1236077705.2675.6.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 12:07:00 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 2b688dfd0a x86: move __VMALLOC_RESERVE to pgtable_32.c
Impact: cleanup

The __VMALLOC_RESERVE global variable is not used in init_32.c. Move that to
pgtable_32.c to reduce the diff between init_32.c and init_64.c.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1236077704.2675.4.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 12:06:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f180053694 x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accesses
Impact: standardize IO on cached ops

On modern CPUs it is almost always a bad idea to use non-temporal stores,
as the regression in this commit has shown it:

  30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

The kernel simply has no good information about whether using non-temporal
stores is a good idea or not - and trying to add heuristics only increases
complexity and inserts fragility.

The regression on cached write()s took very long to be found - over two
years. So dont take any chances and let the hardware decide how it makes
use of its caches.

The only exception is drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: there were we are
absolutely sure that another entity (the GPU) will pick up the dirty
data immediately and that the CPU will not touch that data before the
GPU will.

Also, keep the _nocache() primitives to make it easier for people to
experiment with these details. There may be more clear-cut cases where
non-cached copies can be used, outside of filemap.c.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 11:06:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 34754b69a6 x86: make vmap yell louder when it is used under irqs_disabled()
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 16:38:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 95108fa34a x86: usercopy: check for total size when deciding non-temporal cutoff
Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal

This change makes the following simple fix:

  30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes
written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal
way.

This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk
of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized
chunks.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3255aa2eb6 x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
Impact: cleanup, enable future change

Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(),
and update all the callsites.

The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to
more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or
non-temporal.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 95f66b3770 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/mm 2009-02-25 08:27:46 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 46cb27f516 x86: check range in reserve_early()
Impact: cleanup

one 32-bit system reports:

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001c000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.0 present.
last_pfn = 0x1c000 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
kernel direct mapping tables up to 1c000000 @ 7000-c000
..
RAMDISK: 1bc69000 - 1bfef4fa
..
0MB HIGHMEM available.
448MB LOWMEM available.
  mapped low ram: 0 - 1c000000
  low ram: 00000000 - 1c000000
  bootmap 00002000 - 00005800
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 001c000000]
  #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
  #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000]    EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
  #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000]       TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
  #3 [0000400000 - 00009ed14c]    TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000400000 - 00009ed14c]
  #4 [001bc69000 - 001bfef4fa]          RAMDISK ==> [001bc69000 - 001bfef4fa]
  #5 [00009ee000 - 00009f2000]    INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [00009ee000 - 00009f2000]
  #6 [000009f400 - 0000100000]    BIOS reserved ==> [000009f400 - 0000100000]
  #7 [0000007000 - 0000007000]          PGTABLE
  #8 [0000002000 - 0000006000]          BOOTMAP ==> [0000002000 - 0000006000]

Notice the strange blank PGTABLE entry.

The reason is init_pg_table is big enough, and zero range is called
with init_memory_mapping/reserve_early().

So try to check the range in reserve_early()

v2: fix the reversed compare

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 22:43:15 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 9f331119a4 x86: efi_stub_32,64 - add missing ENDPROCs
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:40 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov bc8b2b9258 x86: head_64.S - use GLOBAL macro
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:40 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov b3baaa138c x86: entry_64.S - add missing ENDPROC
native_usergs_sysret64 is described as

	extern void native_usergs_sysret64(void)

so lets add ENDPROC here

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:39 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 57e372932c x86: invalid_vm86_irq -- use predefined macros
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:39 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 5e112ae23b x86: head_64.S - use IDT_ENTRIES instead of hardcoded number
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:38 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 2a0b100111 x86: head_64.S - remove useless balign
Impact: cleanup

NEXT_PAGE already has 'balign' so no
need to keep this redundant one.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:38 +01:00
Salman Qazi 30d697fa3a x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall
While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit:
0812a579c9) may have been an improvement
for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is
deterimental for small writes.  Unixbench's fstime test gives the
following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000:

    2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ):
    283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300

    2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec):
    313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900

    2.6.18
    395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850

    See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0.  Basically, the above test
    consists of counting how much we can write in this manner:

    alarm(10);
    while (!sigalarm) {
            for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) {
                   write(f, buf, 256);
            }
            lseek(f, 0L, 0);
    }

Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression
that are not addressed here.

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 17:16:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b319eed0aa x86, mm: fault.c, simplify kmmio_fault(), cleanup
Clarify the kmmio_fault() comment.

Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 10:24:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f8eeb2e6be x86, mm: fault.c, update copyrights
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 23:13:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar cd1b68f08f x86, mm: fault.c, give another attempt at prefetch handing before SIGBUS
Impact: extend prefetch handling on 64-bit

Currently there's an extra is_prefetch() check done in do_sigbus(),
which we only do on 32 bits.

This is a last-ditch check before we terminate a task, so it's worth
giving prefetch instructions another chance - should none of our
existing quirks have caught a prefetch instruction related spurious
fault.

The only risk is if a prefetch causes a real sigbus, in that case
we'll not OOM but try another fault. But this code has been on
32-bit for a long time, so it should be fine in practice.

So do this on 64-bit too - and thus remove one more #ifdef.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7c178a26d3 x86, mm: fault.c, remove #ifdef from fault_in_kernel_space()
Impact: cleanup

Removal of an #ifdef in fault_in_kernel_space(), by making
use of the new TASK_SIZE_MAX symbol which is now available
on 32-bit too.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d951734654 x86, mm: rename TASK_SIZE64 => TASK_SIZE_MAX
Impact: cleanup

Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)

This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c3731c6866 x86, mm: fault.c, remove #ifdef from do_page_fault()
Impact: cleanup

do_page_fault() has this ugly #ifdef in its prototype:

  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
  asmlinkage
  #endif
  void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)

Replace it with 'dotraplinkage' which maps to exactly the above
construct: nothing on 32-bit and asmlinkage on 64-bit.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 1cc99544dd x86, mm: fault.c, unify oops handling
Impact: add oops-recursion check to 32-bit

Unify the oops state-machine, to the 64-bit version. It is
slightly more careful in that it does a recursion check
in oops_begin(), and is thus more likely to show the relevant
oops.

It also means that 32-bit will print one more line at the
end of pagefault triggered oopses:

 	printk(KERN_EMERG "CR2: %016lx\n", address);

Which is generally good information to be seen in partial-dump
digital-camera jpegs ;-)

The downside is the somewhat more complex critical path. Both
variants have been tested well meanwhile by kernel developers
crashing their boxes so i dont think this is a practical worry.

This removes 3 ugly #ifdefs from no_context() and makes the
function a lot nicer read.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8f7661496c x86, mm: fault.c, unify oops printing
Impact: refine/extend page fault related oops printing on 64-bit

 - honor the pause_on_oops logic on 64-bit too
 - print out NX fault warnings on 64-bit as well
 - factor out the NX fault message to make it git-greppable and readable

Note that this means that we do the PF_INSTR check on 32-bit non-PAE
as well where it should not occur ... normally. Cannot hurt.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f2f13a8535 x86, mm: fault.c, reorder functions
Impact: cleanup

Avoid a couple more #ifdefs by moving fundamentally non-unifiable
functions into a single #ifdef 32-bit / #else / #endif block in
fault.c: vmalloc*(), dump_pagetable(), check_vm8086_mode().

No code changed:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.before
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.after

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b18018126f x86, mm, kprobes: fault.c, simplify notify_page_fault()
Impact: cleanup

Remove an #ifdef from notify_page_fault(). The function still
compiles to nothing in the !CONFIG_KPROBES case.

Introduce kprobes_built_in() and kprobe_fault_handler() helpers
to allow this - they returns 0 if !CONFIG_KPROBES.

No code changed:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.before
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.after

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b814d41f09 x86, mm: fault.c, simplify kmmio_fault()
Impact: cleanup

Remove an #ifdef from kmmio_fault() - we can do this by
providing default implementations for is_kmmio_active()
and kmmio_handler(). The compiler optimizes it all away
in the !CONFIG_MMIOTRACE case.

Also, while at it, clean up mmiotrace.h a bit:

 - standard header guards
 - standard vertical spaces for structure definitions

No code changed (both with mmiotrace on and off in the config):

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2947	     12	     12	   2971	    b9b	fault.o.before
   2947	     12	     12	   2971	    b9b	fault.o.after

Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 121d5d0a7e x86, mm: fault.c, enable PF_RSVD checks on 32-bit too
Impact: improve page fault handling robustness

The 'PF_RSVD' flag (bit 3) of the page-fault error_code is a
relatively recent addition to x86 CPUs, so the 32-bit do_fault()
implementation never had it. This flag gets set when the CPU
detects nonzero values in any reserved bits of the page directory
entries.

Extend the existing 64-bit check for PF_RSVD in do_page_fault()
to 32-bit too. If we detect such a fault then we print a more
informative oops and the pagetables.

This unifies the code some more, removes an ugly #ifdef and improves
the 32-bit page fault code robustness a bit. It slightly increases
the 32-bit kernel text size.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8c938f9fae x86, mm: fault.c, factor out the vm86 fault check
Impact: cleanup

Instead of an ugly, open-coded, #ifdef-ed vm86 related legacy check
in do_page_fault(), put it into the check_v8086_mode() helper
function and merge it with an existing #ifdef.

Also, simplify the code flow a tiny bit in the helper.

No code changed:

arch/x86/mm/fault.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2711	     12	     12	   2735	    aaf	fault.o.before
   2711	     12	     12	   2735	    aaf	fault.o.after

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 107a03678c x86, mm: fault.c, refactor/simplify the is_prefetch() code
Impact: no functionality changed

Factor out the opcode checker into a helper inline.

The code got a tiny bit smaller:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4632	     32	     24	   4688	   1250	fault.o.before
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.after

And it got cleaner / easier to review as well.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 2d4a71676f x86, mm: fault.c cleanup
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Clean up various small details, which can be correctness checked
automatically:

 - tidy up the include file section
 - eliminate unnecessary includes
 - introduce show_signal_msg() to clean up code flow
 - standardize the code flow
 - standardize comments and other style details
 - more cleanups, pointed out by checkpatch

No code changed on either 32-bit nor 64-bit:

arch/x86/mm/fault.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4632	     32	     24	   4688	   1250	fault.o.before
   4632	     32	     24	   4688	   1250	fault.o.after

the md5 changed due to a change in a single instruction:

   2e8a8241e7f0d69706776a5a26c90bc0  fault.o.before.asm
   c5c3d36e725586eb74f0e10692f0193e  fault.o.after.asm

Because a __LINE__ reference in a WARN_ONCE() has changed.

On 32-bit a few stack offsets changed - no code size difference
nor any functionality difference.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c9e1585b1b Merge branch 'tip/x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into x86/mm 2009-02-20 18:51:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7a5714e018 x86, pat: add large-PAT check to split_large_page()
Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function

Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the
PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level
(_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page
table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT).

Currently it is not a problem because we never set
_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but
should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would
silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start
corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun.

So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets
the PAT bit then this function gets updated too.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 17:48:49 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 3c3e5694ad x86: check PMD in spurious_fault handler
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions

If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access,
but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault
as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of:

 fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault

This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions
but the PMD does not.

[ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 11:44:47 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 609162850d Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3b6f7b9beb Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:43 +01:00
Vegard Nossum ecab22aa6d x86: use symbolic constants for MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits
Impact: Cleanup. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 12:07:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 07a66d7c53 x86: use the right protections for split-up pagetables
Steven Rostedt found a bug in where in his modified kernel
ftrace was unable to modify the kernel text, due to the PMD
itself having been marked read-only as well in
split_large_page().

The fix, suggested by Linus, is to not try to 'clone' the
reference protection of a huge-page, but to use the standard
(and permissive) page protection bits of KERNPG_TABLE.

The 'cloning' makes sense for the ptes but it's a confused and
incorrect concept at the page table level - because the
pagetable entry is a set of all ptes and hence cannot
'clone' any single protection attribute - the ptes can be any
mixture of protections.

With the permissive KERNPG_TABLE, even if the pte protections
get changed after this point (due to ftrace doing code-patching
or other similar activities like kprobes), the resulting combined
protections will still be correct and the pte's restrictive
(or permissive) protections will control it.

Also update the comment.

This bug was there for a long time but has not caused visible
problems before as it needs a rather large read-only area to
trigger. Steve possibly hacked his kernel with some really
large arrays or so. Anyway, the bug is definitely worth fixing.

[ Huang Ying also experienced problems in this area when writing
  the EFI code, but the real bug in split_large_page() was not
  realized back then. ]

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 08:35:03 +01:00
Alok N Kataria 48ffc70b67 x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource
Impact: fix time warps under vmware

Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource,
we also need this check for VMI clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-02-20 07:53:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 402a917aca Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 5405/1: ep93xx: remove unused gesbc9312.h header
  [ARM] 5404/1: Fix condition in arm_elf_read_implies_exec() to set READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
  [ARM] omap: fix clock reparenting in omap2_clk_set_parent()
  [ARM] 5403/1: pxa25x_ep_fifo_flush() *ep->reg_udccs always set to 0
  [ARM] 5402/1: fix a case of wrap-around in sanity_check_meminfo()
  [ARM] 5401/1: Orion: fix edge triggered GPIO interrupt support
  [ARM] 5400/1: Add support for inverted rdy_busy pin for Atmel nand device controller
  [ARM] 5391/1: AT91: Enable GPIO clocks earlier
  [ARM] 5390/1: AT91: Watchdog fixes
  [ARM] 5398/1: Add Wan ZongShun to MAINTAINERS for W90P910
  [ARM] omap: fix _omap2_clksel_get_src_field()
  [ARM] omap: fix omap2_divisor_to_clksel() error return value
2009-02-19 09:52:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar e9ce0c37c2 Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers 2009-02-19 18:15:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds bcf8951fc2 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, mce: fix ifdef for 64bit thermal apic vector clear on shutdown
  x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check
  x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume
  x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
2009-02-19 09:14:35 -08:00
Hartley Sweeten 9dd446f657 [ARM] 5405/1: ep93xx: remove unused gesbc9312.h header
Remove the gesbc9312.h header since it is unused.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-19 16:13:02 +00:00
Cyrill Gorcunov cb425afd21 x86: compressed head_32 - use ENTRY,ENDPROC macros
Impact: clenaup

Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined
address so using startup_32 will not bloat the
code size.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:13:01 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 2d4eeecb98 x86: compressed head_64 - use ENTRY,ENDPROC macros
Impact: clenaup

Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined
address so using ENTRY will not bloat the code
size.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:13:01 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 324bda9e47 x86: pmjump - use GLOBAL,ENDPROC macros
Impact: cleanup

We are in setup stage so we use GLOBAL
instead of ENTRY and do not increase code
size.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:13:00 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 2f79555097 x86: copy.S - use GLOBAL,ENDPROC macros
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:13:00 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 1b25f3b4e1 x86: linkage - get rid of _X86 macros
Impact: cleanup

There was an attempt to bring build-time checking for
missed ENTRY_X86/END_X86 and KPROBE... pairs. Using
them will add messy in code. Get just rid of them.
This commit could be easily restored if the need appear
in future.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:12:59 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 95695547a7 x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro
If the code is time critical and this entry is called
from other places we use ENTRY to have it globally defined
and especially aligned.

Contrary we have some snippets which are size
critical. So we use plane ".globl name; name:"
directive. Introduce GLOBAL macro for this.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:12:59 +01:00