The legacy x86 nmi watchdog code was removed with the implementation
of the perf based nmi watchdog. This broke Oprofile's nmi timer
mode. To run nmi timer mode we relied on a continuous ticking nmi
source which the nmi watchdog provided. The nmi tick was no longer
available and current watchdog can not be used anymore since it runs
with very long periods in the range of seconds. This patch
reimplements the nmi timer mode using a perf counter nmi source.
V2:
* removing pr_info()
* fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3' for 32 bit build
* fix section mismatch of .cpuinit.data:nmi_timer_cpu_nb
* removed nmi timer setup in arch/x86
* implemented function stubs for op_nmi_init/exit()
* made code more readable in oprofile_init()
V3:
* fix architectural initialization in oprofile_init()
* fix CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER dependencies
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
We need this to better test x86 NMI timer mode. Otherwise it is very
hard to setup systems with NMI timer enabled, but we have this e.g. in
virtual machine environments.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Just convert all the files that have an nmi handler to the new routines.
Most of it is straight forward conversion. A couple of places needed some
tweaking like kgdb which separates the debug notifier from the nmi handler
and mce removes a call to notify_die.
[Thanks to Ying for finding out the history behind that mce call
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/27/114
And Boris responding that he would like to remove that call because of it
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/21/163]
The things that get converted are the registeration/unregistration routines
and the nmi handler itself has its args changed along with code removal
to check which list it is on (most are on one NMI list except for kgdb
which has both an NMI routine and an NMI Unknown routine).
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The NMI handlers used to rely on the notifier infrastructure. This worked
great until we wanted to support handling multiple events better.
One of the key ideas to the nmi handling is to process _all_ the handlers for
each NMI. The reason behind this switch is because NMIs are edge triggered.
If enough NMIs are triggered, then they could be lost because the cpu can
only latch at most one NMI (besides the one currently being processed).
In order to deal with this we have decided to process all the NMI handlers
for each NMI. This allows the handlers to determine if they recieved an
event or not (the ones that can not determine this will be left to fend
for themselves on the unknown NMI list).
As a result of this change it is now possible to have an extra NMI that
was destined to be received for an already processed event. Because the
event was processed in the previous NMI, this NMI gets dropped and becomes
an 'unknown' NMI. This of course will cause printks that scare people.
However, we prefer to have extra NMIs as opposed to losing NMIs and as such
are have developed a basic mechanism to catch most of them. That will be
a later patch.
To accomplish this idea, I unhooked the nmi handlers from the notifier
routines and created a new mechanism loosely based on doIRQ. The reason
for this is the notifier routines have a couple of shortcomings. One we
could't guarantee all future NMI handlers used NOTIFY_OK instead of
NOTIFY_STOP. Second, we couldn't keep track of the number of events being
handled in each routine (most only handle one, perf can handle more than one).
Third, I wanted to eventually display which nmi handlers are registered in
the system in /proc/interrupts to help see who is generating NMIs.
The patch below just implements the new infrastructure but doesn't wire it up
yet (that is the next patch). Its design is based on doIRQ structs and the
atomic notifier routines. So the rcu stuff in the patch isn't entirely untested
(as the notifier routines have soaked it) but it should be double checked in
case I copied the code wrong.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The nmi stuff is changing a lot and adding more functionality. Split it
out from the traps.c file so it doesn't continue to pollute that file.
This makes it easier to find and expand all the future nmi related work.
No real functional changes here.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Intel does not have guest/host-only bit in perf counters like AMD
does. To support GO/HO bits KVM needs to switch EVENTSELn values
(or PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL if available) at a guest entry. If a counter is
configured to count only in a guest mode it stays disabled in a host,
but VMX is configured to switch it to enabled value during guest entry.
This patch adds GO/HO tracking to Intel perf code and provides interface
for KVM to get a list of MSRs that need to be switched on a guest entry.
Only cpus with architectural PMU (v1 or later) are supported with this
patch. To my knowledge there is not p6 models with VMX but without
architectural PMU and p4 with VMX are rare and the interface is general
enough to support them if need arise.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-7-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The AMD perf-counters support counting in guest or host-mode
only. Make use of that feature when user-space specified
guest/host-mode only counting.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-3-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add
irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
sched: Fix up wchan borkage
sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] cio: fix cio_tpi ignoring adapter interrupts
[S390] gmap: always up mmap_sem properly
[S390] Do not clobber personality flags on exec
* git://github.com/davem330/sparc:
sparc64: Force the execute bit in OpenFirmware's translation entries.
sparc: Make '-p' boot option meaningful again.
sparc, exec: remove redundant addr_limit assignment
sparc64: Future proof Niagara cpu detection.
Apple Quad G5 has some oddity in it's device-tree which causes the new
generic matching code to fail to relate nodes for PCI-E devices below U4
with their respective struct pci_dev. This breaks graphics on those
machines among others.
This fixes it using a quirk which copies the node pointer from the host
bridge for the root complex, which makes the generic code work for the
children afterward.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the OF 'translations' property, the template TTEs in the mappings
never specify the executable bit. This is the case even though some
of these mappings are for OF's code segment.
Therefore, we need to force the execute bit on in every mapping.
This problem can only really trigger on Niagara/sun4v machines and the
history behind this is a little complicated.
Previous to sun4v, the sun4u TTE entries lacked a hardware execute
permission bit. So OF didn't have to ever worry about setting
anything to handle executable pages. Any valid TTE loaded into the
I-TLB would be respected by the chip.
But sun4v Niagara chips have a real hardware enforced executable bit
in their TTEs. So it has to be set or else the I-TLB throws an
instruction access exception with type code 6 (protection violation).
We've been extremely fortunate to not get bitten by this in the past.
The best I can tell is that the OF's mappings for it's executable code
were mapped using permanent locked mappings on sun4v in the past.
Therefore, the fact that we didn't have the exec bit set in the OF
translations we would use did not matter in practice.
Thanks to Greg Onufer for helping me track this down.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix (rare) build error by adding <asm/apicdef.h> header file:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c:350:2: error: 'BAD_APICID' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E820138.90301@xenotime.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The sclk_cam clocks are now controlled by the top level FIMC media
device driver bound to "s5p-fimc-md" platform device.
Rename sclk_cam clocks so they accessible by the corresponding
driver.
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
The sclk_cam clocks are now controlled by the top level FIMC media
device driver bound to "s5p-fimc-md" platform device.
Rename sclk_cam clocks so they accessible by the corresponding
driver.
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
* 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 7099/1: futex: preserve oldval in SMP __futex_atomic_op
ARM: dma-mapping: free allocated page if unable to map
ARM: fix vmlinux.lds.S discarding sections
ARM: nommu: fix warning with checksyscalls.sh
ARM: 7091/1: errata: D-cache line maintenance operation by MVA may not succeed
If gmap_unmap_segment figures that the segment was not mapped in the
first place, it need to up mmap_sem on exit.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Analog to git commit 59e4c3a2fe
do not clear the additional personality flags on exec. We
need to inherit the personality bits in PER_MASK across exec.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The SMP implementation of __futex_atomic_op clobbers oldval with the
status flag from the exclusive store. This causes it to always read as
zero when performing the FUTEX_OP_CMP_* operation.
This patch updates the ARM __futex_atomic_op implementations to take a
tmp argument, allowing us to store the strex status flag without
overwriting the register containing oldval.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Minho Ban <mhban@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The CPU support for perf events on x86 was implemented via included C files
with #ifdefs. Clean this up by creating a new header file and compiling
the vendor-specific files as needed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314747665-2090-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the attempt to map a page for DMA fails (eg, because we're out of
mapping space) then we must not hold on to the page we allocated for
DMA - doing so will result in a memory leak.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Bryan Phillippe <bp@darkforest.org>
Tested-by: Bryan Phillippe <bp@darkforest.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Loop iterator value after terminating list_for_each_entry()
is not NULL. This patch fixes incorrect iterator usage in
GPIO interrupt code for SAMSUNG S5P platforms.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
The changed statement should set the old armdiv bits to 0
and not everything else, before setting the new value.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Src2CL decode (used for double width shifts) erronously decodes only bit 3
of %rcx, instead of bits 7:0.
Fix by decoding %cl in its entirety.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
__update_clear_spte_slow should return original spte while the
current code returns low half of original spte combined with high
half of new spte.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] kvm: extension capability for new address space layout
[S390] kvm: fix address mode switching
If "-p" is given on the command line, clear the CON_BOOT
flag for the initial early boot PROM console.
This is necessary to try and see crash messages that occur
between the registry of the VT console and the probing of
the first framebuffer or serial console. During this time
no console messages are emitted because the VT console
registry (even if no backend is registered to it) removes
the early console if CON_BOOT is set.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A deadlock was introduced on x86 in commit ef68c8f87e ("x86:
Serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock") because efi_get_time()
and friends can be called with rtc_lock already held by
read_persistent_time(), e.g.:
timekeeping_init()
read_persistent_clock() <-- acquire rtc_lock
efi_get_time()
phys_efi_get_time() <-- acquire rtc_lock <DEADLOCK>
To fix this let's push the locking down into the get_wallclock()
and set_wallclock() implementations. Only the clock
implementations that access the x86 RTC directly need to acquire
rtc_lock, so it makes sense to push the locking down into the
rtc, vrtc and efi code.
The virtualization implementations don't require rtc_lock to be
held because they provide their own serialization.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> [for the virtualization aspect]
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this assignment of
USER_DS is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We are seeing linker errors caused by sections being discarded, despite
the linker script trying to keep them. The result is (eg):
`.exit.text' referenced in section `.alt.smp.init' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`.exit.text' referenced in section `.alt.smp.init' of net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
This is the relevent part of the linker script (reformatted to make it
clearer):
| SECTIONS
| {
| /*
| * unwind exit sections must be discarded before the rest of the
| * unwind sections get included.
| */
| /DISCARD/ : {
| *(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
| *(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
| }
| ...
| .exit.text : {
| *(.exit.text)
| *(.memexit.text)
| }
| ...
| /DISCARD/ : {
| *(.exit.text)
| *(.memexit.text)
| *(.exit.data)
| *(.memexit.data)
| *(.memexit.rodata)
| *(.exitcall.exit)
| *(.discard)
| *(.discard.*)
| }
| }
Now, this is what the linker manual says about discarded output sections:
| The special output section name `/DISCARD/' may be used to discard
| input sections. Any input sections which are assigned to an output
| section named `/DISCARD/' are not included in the output file.
No questions, no exceptions. It doesn't say "unless they are listed
before the /DISCARD/ section." Now, this is what asn-generic/vmlinux.lds.S
says:
| /*
| * Default discarded sections.
| *
| * Some archs want to discard exit text/data at runtime rather than
| * link time due to cross-section references such as alt instructions,
| * bug table, eh_frame, etc. DISCARDS must be the last of output
| * section definitions so that such archs put those in earlier section
| * definitions.
| */
And guess what - the list _always_ includes .exit.text etc.
Now, what's actually happening is that the linker is reading the script,
and it finds the first /DISCARD/ output section at the beginning of the
script. It continues reading the script, and finds the 'DISCARD' macro
at the end, which having been postprocessed results in another
/DISCARD/ output section. As the linker already contains the earlier
/DISCARD/ output section, it adds it to that existing section, so it
effectively is placed at the start. This can be seen by using the -M
option to ld:
| Linker script and memory map
|
| 0xc037c080 jiffies = jiffies_64
|
| /DISCARD/
| *(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
| *(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
| *(.exit.text)
| *(.memexit.text)
| *(.exit.data)
| *(.memexit.data)
| *(.memexit.rodata)
| *(.exitcall.exit)
| *(.discard)
| *(.discard.*)
|
| 0xc0008000 . = 0xc0008000
|
| .head.text 0xc0008000 0x1d0
| 0xc0008000 _text = .
| *(.head.text)
| .head.text 0xc0008000 0x1d0 arch/arm/kernel/head.o
| 0xc0008000 stext
|
| .text 0xc0008200 0x2d78d0
| 0xc0008200 _stext = .
| 0xc0008200 __exception_text_start = .
| *(.exception.text)
| .exception.text
| ...
As you can see, all the discarded sections are grouped together - and
as a result of it being the first output section, they all appear before
any other section.
The result is that not only is the unwind information discarded (as
intended), but also the .exit.text, despite us wanting to have the
.exit.text preserved.
We can't move the unwind information elsewhere, because it'll then be
included even when we do actually discard the .exit.text (and similar)
sections.
So, work around this by avoiding the generic DISCARDS macro, and instead
conditionalize the sections to be discarded ourselves. This avoids the
ambiguity in how the linker assigns input sections to output sections,
making our script less dependent on undocumented linker behaviour.
Reported-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/arnd/arm-soc:
mach-integrator: fix VGA base regression
arm/dt: Tegra: Update SDHCI nodes to match bindings
ARM: EXYNOS4: fix incorrect pad configuration for keypad row lines
ARM: SAMSUNG: fix to prevent declaring duplicated
ARM: SAMSUNG: fix watchdog reset issue with clk_get()
ARM: S3C64XX: Remove un-used code backlight code on SMDK6410
ARM: EXYNOS4: restart clocksource while system resumes
ARM: EXYNOS4: Fix routing timer interrupt to offline CPU
ARM: EXYNOS4: Fix return type of local_timer_setup()
ARM: EXYNOS4: Fix wrong pll type for vpll
ARM: Dove: fix second SPI initialization call
The changes introduced in commit
cc22b4c185
"ARM: set vga memory base at run-time"
Makes the Integrator/AP freeze completely. I appears that
this is due to the VGA base address being assigned at PCI
init time, while this base is needed earlier than that.
Moving the initialization of the base address to the
.map_io function solves this problem.
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The bindings were recently updated to have separate properties for each
type of GPIO. Update the Device Tree source to match that.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
598841ca99 ([S390] use gmap address
spaces for kvm guest images) changed kvm on s390 to use a separate
address space for kvm guests. We can now put KVM guests anywhere
in the user address mode with a size up to 8PB - as long as the
memory is 1MB-aligned. This change was done without KVM extension
capability bit.
The change was added after 3.0, but we still have a chance to add
a feature bit before 3.1 (keeping the releases in a sane state).
We use number 71 to avoid collisions with other pending kvm patches
as requested by Alexander Graf.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
598841ca99 ([S390] use gmap address
spaces for kvm guest images) changed kvm to use a separate address
space for kvm guests. This address space was switched in __vcpu_run
In some cases (preemption, page fault) there is the possibility that
this address space switch is lost.
The typical symptom was a huge amount of validity intercepts or
random guest addressing exceptions.
Fix this by doing the switch in sie_loop and sie_exit and saving the
address space in the gmap structure itself. Also use the preempt
notifier.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
<stdin>:46:1: warning: "__IGNORE_migrate_pages" redefined
In file included from <stdin>:2:
arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h:482:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
This is caused because we define __IGNORE_migrate_pages to be 1, but
in the case of nommu, it's defined to be empty. Fix this by just
defining the __IGNORE_ symbols to be empty.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch implements a workaround for erratum 764369 affecting
Cortex-A9 MPCore with two or more processors (all current revisions).
Under certain timing circumstances, a data cache line maintenance
operation by MVA targeting an Inner Shareable memory region may fail to
proceed up to either the Point of Coherency or to the Point of
Unification of the system. This workaround adds a DSB instruction before
the relevant cache maintenance functions and sets a specific bit in the
diagnostic control register of the SCU.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Recognize T4 and T5 chips. Treating them both as "T2 plus other
stuff" should be extremely safe and make sure distributions will work
when those chips actually ship to customers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen:
xen/i386: follow-up to "replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one"
xen/irq: Alter the locking to use a mutex instead of a spinlock.
xen/e820: if there is no dom0_mem=, don't tweak extra_pages.
xen: disable PV spinlocks on HVM
On x86-64, they were just wasteful: with the explicitly added (now
unnecessary) padding, the size of the alternatives structure was 16
bytes, and an alignment of 8 bytes didn't hurt much.
However, it was still silly, since the natural size and alignment for
the structure is actually just 12 bytes, 4-byte aligned since commit
59e97e4d6f ("x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative").
So removing the padding, and removing the extra alignment is just a good
idea.
On x86-32, the alignment of 4 bytes was correct, but was incorrectly
hardcoded as 8 bytes in <asm/alternative-asm.h>. That header file had
used to be an x86-64 only header file, but various unification efforts
have made it be used for x86-32 too (ie the unification of rwlock and
rwsem).
That in turn caused x86-32 boot failures, because the extra alignment
would result in random zero-filled words in the altinstructions section,
causing oopses early at boot when doing alternative instruction
replacement.
So just remove all the alignment noise entirely. It's wrong, and it's
unnecessary. The section itself is already properly aligned by the
linker scripts, and all additions to the section had better be of the
proper 12-byte format, keeping it aligned. So if the align directive
were to ever make a difference, that would be an indication of a serious
bug to begin with.
Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.r>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert Richter