In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode()
we have this:
while (leftover) {
...
if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
vfree(mc);
break;
}
...
}
if (mc)
vfree(mc);
This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by
just removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be
freed nicely just after we break out of the loop.
There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of
checks for pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree().
That's completely redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with
being passed a NULL pointer. Removing the redundant checks
yields a nice size decrease for the object file.
Size before the patch:
text data bss dec hex filename
4578 240 1032 5850 16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Size after the patch:
text data bss dec hex filename
4489 240 984 5713 1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf probe: Fix to support libdwfl older than 0.148
perf tools: Fix lazy wildcard matching
perf buildid-list: Fix error return for success
perf buildid-cache: Fix symbolic link handling
perf symbols: Stop using vmlinux files with no symbols
perf probe: Fix use of kernel image path given by 'k' option
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, kexec: Limit the crashkernel address appropriately
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
x86, vt-d: Handle previous faults after enabling fault handling
x86: Enable the intr-remap fault handling after local APIC setup
x86, vt-d: Fix the vt-d fault handling irq migration in the x2apic mode
x86, vt-d: Quirk for masking vtd spec errors to platform error handling logic
x86, xsave: Use alloc_bootmem_align() instead of alloc_bootmem()
bootmem: Add alloc_bootmem_align()
x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso
x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check
x86: io_apic: Avoid unused variable warning when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=n
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix off by one in perf_swevent_init()
perf: Fix duplicate events with multiple-pmu vs software events
ftrace: Have recordmcount honor endianness in fn_ELF_R_INFO
scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events
tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space
x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space
x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space
resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas
Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"
Revert "PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down"
Revert "x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning"
Revert "x86: allocate space within a region top-down"
Revert "PCI: fix pci_bus_alloc_resource() hang, prefer positive decode"
PCI: Update MCP55 quirk to not affect non HyperTransport variants
Keep the crash kernel address below 512 MiB for 32 bits and 896 MiB
for 64 bits. For 32 bits, this retains compatibility with earlier
kernel releases, and makes it work even if the vmalloc= setting is
adjusted.
For 64 bits, we should be able to increase this substantially once a
hard-coded limit in kexec-tools is fixed.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101217195035.GE14502@redhat.com>
This prevents allocation of the last 2MB before 4GB.
The experiment described here shows Windows 7 ignoring the last 1MB:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542#c27
This patch ignores the top 2MB instead of just 1MB because H. Peter Anvin
says "There will be ROM at the top of the 32-bit address space; it's a fact
of the architecture, and on at least older systems it was common to have a
shadow 1 MiB below."
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
When we allocate address space, e.g., to assign it to a PCI device, don't
allocate anything mentioned in the BIOS E820 memory map.
On recent machines (2008 and newer), we assign PCI resources from the
windows described by the ACPI PCI host bridge _CRS. On many Dell
machines, these windows overlap some E820 reserved areas, e.g.,
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe4dc00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xbff00000-0xdfffffff]
If we put devices at 0xbff00000, they don't work, probably because
that's really RAM, not I/O memory. This patch prevents that by removing
the 0xbfe4dc00-0xbfffffff area from the "available" resource.
I'm not very happy with this solution because Windows solves the problem
differently (it seems to ignore E820 reserved areas and it allocates
top-down instead of bottom-up; details at comment 45 of the bugzilla
below). That means we're vulnerable to BIOS defects that Windows would not
trip over. For example, if BIOS described a device in ACPI but didn't
mention it in E820, Windows would work fine but Linux would fail.
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This implements arch_remove_reservations() so allocate_resource() can
avoid any arch-specific reserved areas. This currently just avoids the
BIOS area (the first 1MB), but could be used for E820 reserved areas if
that turns out to be necessary.
We previously avoided this area in pcibios_align_resource(). This patch
moves the test from that PCI-specific path to a generic path, so *all*
resource allocations will avoid this area.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Fix preemption counter leak in kvm_timer_init()
KVM: enlarge number of possible CPUID leaves
KVM: SVM: Do not report xsave in supported cpuid
KVM: Fix OSXSAVE after migration
A relocatable kernel can be anywhere in lowmem -- and in the case of a
kdump kernel, is likely to be fairly high. Since the early page
tables map everything from address zero up we need to make sure we
allocate enough brk that we can map all of lowmem if we need to.
Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D0AD3ED.8070607@kernel.org>
Two x86 patches broke lguest:
1) v2.6.35-492-g72d7c3b, which changed x86 to use the memblock allocator.
In lguest, the host places linear page tables at the top of mem, which
used to be enough to get us up to the swapper_pg_dir page tables. With
the first patch, the direct mapping tables used that memory:
Before: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 7000-1a000
After: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 3fed000-4000000
I initially fixed this by lying about the amount of memory we had, so
the kernel wouldn't blatt the lguest boot pagetables (yuk!), but then...
2) v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827f, which made x86 boot use initial_page_table.
This was initialized in a part of head_32.S which isn't executed by
lguest; it is then copied into swapper_pg_dir. So we have to initialize
it; and anyway we switch to it before we blatt the old tables, so that
fixes the previous damage as well.
For the moment, I cut & pasted the code into lguest's boot code, but
next merge window I will merge them.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: x86@kernel.org
lguest is dumb and drops *all* the pagetables for set_pte (which is
only used for kernel mapping manipulation, so it's OK without highmem).
But it's used a lot in boot, too. As a guest optimization, we
suppressed this flushing until the first page switch. Now we have
initial_page_table, that happens much earlier, so extend the heuristic
to wait until we switch to something other than the swapper_pg_dir or
initial_page_table.
As measured on my laptop under kvm, this dropped the time-to-mount-root
from 48 seconds to 4.3 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
fe25c7fc2e "x86: lguest: Convert to new irq chip functions" converted
enable_lguest_irq() to take a struct irq_data *, but didn't fix the one
internal caller.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: x86@kernel.org
Add missing header file:
arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c:256: error: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR'
arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c:257: error: implicit declaration of function 'PTR_ERR'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Interrupt-remapping gets enabled very early in the boot, as it determines the
apic mode that the processor can use. And the current code enables the vt-d
fault handling before the setup_local_APIC(). And hence the APIC LDR registers
and data structure in the memory may not be initialized. So the vt-d fault
handling in logical xapic/x2apic modes were broken.
Fix this by enabling the vt-d fault handling in the end_local_APIC_setup()
A cleaner fix of enabling fault handling while enabling intr-remapping
will be addressed for v2.6.38. [ Enabling intr-remapping determines the
usage of x2apic mode and the apic mode determines the fault-handling
configuration. ]
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101201062244.541996375@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [v2.6.32+]
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
In x2apic mode, we need to set the upper address register of the fault
handling interrupt register of the vt-d hardware. Without this
irq migration of the vt-d fault handling interrupt is broken.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291225233.2648.39.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [v2.6.32+]
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Tested-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Alignment of alloc_bootmem() depends on the value of
L1_CACHE_SHIFT. What we need here, however, is 64 byte alignment. Use
alloc_bootmem_align() and explicitly specify the alignment instead.
This fixes a kernel boot crash reported by Jody when the cpu in .config
is set to MPENTIUMII but the kernel is booted on a xsave-capable CPU.
Reported-by: Jody Bruchon <jody@nctritech.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101116212442.059967454@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
The vdso Makefile passes linker-style -m options not to the linker but
to gcc. This happens to work with earlier gcc, but fails with gcc
4.6. Pass gcc-style -m options, instead.
Note: all currently supported versions of gcc supports -m32, so there
is no reason to conditionalize it any more.
Reported-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
commit 995bd3bb5 (x86: Hpet: Avoid the comparator readback penalty)
chose 8 HPET cycles as a safe value for the ETIME check, as we had the
confirmation that the posted write to the comparator register is
delayed by two HPET clock cycles on Intel chipsets which showed
readback problems.
After that patch hit mainline we got reports from machines with newer
AMD chipsets which seem to have an even longer delay. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1054283 and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1069458 for further
information.
Boris tried to come up with an ACPI based selection of the minimum
HPET cycles, but this failed on a couple of test machines. And of
course we did not get any useful information from the hardware folks.
For now our only option is to chose a paranoid high and safe value for
the minimum HPET cycles used by the ETIME check. Adjust the minimum ns
value for the HPET clockevent accordingly.
Reported-Bistected-and-Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012131222420.2653@localhost6.localdomain6>
Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Currently the number of CPUID leaves KVM handles is limited to 40.
My desktop machine (AthlonII) already has 35 and future CPUs will
expand this well beyond the limit. Extend the limit to 80 to make
room for future processors.
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To support xsave properly for the guest the SVM module need
software support for it. As long as this is not present do
not report the xsave as supported feature in cpuid.
As a side-effect this patch moves the bit() helper function
into the x86.h file so that it can be used in svm.c too.
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Jesper Juhl
Linus Torvalds
H. Peter Anvin
Bjorn Helgaas
Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell
Randy Dunlap
Kenji Kaneshige
Suresh Siddha
Thomas Gleixner
Andre Przywara
Joerg Roedel