Because 256 causes overflows in some code that stores them in 8 bit
fields and the x86 APIC architecture cannot handle more than 255
anyways.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When x86_64 timer init messages were changed to use apic verbosity
levels, two messages were missed and one got the wrong level. This
causes the last word of a suppressed message to print on a line by
itself. Fix that so either the entire message prints or none of it
does.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Only log data in microcode driver when something is changed Otherwise it
was far too noisy on large systems.
Also remove the printk when it is unloaded.
Cc: tigran@veritas.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
functions based inside the vmlinux. The general idea is that it is possible
to put all "common" functions into the first 2Mb of the code, so that they
are covered by one TLB entry. This as opposed to the current situation where
a typical vmlinux covers about 3.5Mb (on x86-64) and thus 2 TLB entries.
This is done by enabling the -ffunction-sections flag in gcc, which puts
each function in its own ELF section, so that the linker can then order them
in a way defined by the linker script.
As per previous discussions, Linus said he wanted a "static" list for this,
eg a list provided by the kernel tarbal, so that most people have the same
ordering at least. A script is provided to create this list based on
readprofile(1) output. The included list is provisional, and entirely biased
on my own testbox and me running a few kernel compiles and some other
things.
I think that to get to a better list we need to invite people to submit
their own profiles, and somehow add those all up and base the final list on
that. I'm willing to do that effort if this is ends up being the prefered
approach. Such an effort probably needs to be repeated like once a year or
so to adopt to the changing nature of the kernel.
Made it a CONFIG with default n because it increases link times
dramatically.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I tested it on a couple of chipsets and it worked everywhere so it
should be ok as default for now.
So far I haven't done the great purge of the useless old check_timer
code yet though.
Can be overwritten with enable_8254_timer in the worst case
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There is a fallback logic, so it's better to not use the OOM killer
in the allocations.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Floppy can fall back to smaller buffers, so don't do OOM killing.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ACPIv2 has an official but optional way to get a date >2100. Use it.
But all the platforms I tested didn't seem to support it. But anyways
the x86-64 kernel should be ready for the 22nd century now. Actually i
shouldn't care about this because I will be dead by then @)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch puts the code from head.S in a special .bootstrap.text
section.
I'm working on a patch to reorder the functions in the kernel (I'll post
that later), but for x86-64 at least the kernel bootstrap requires that
the head.S functions are on the very first page/pages of the kernel
text. This is understandable since the bootstrap is complex enough
already and not a problem at all, it just means they aren't allowed to
be reordered. This patch puts these special functions into a separate
section to document this, and to guarantee this in the light of possibly
reordering the rest later.
(So this patch doesn't fix a bug per se, but makes things more robust by
making the order of these functions explicit)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are more and more cases where we need to know DMI information
early to work around bugs. i386 already had early DMI scanning, but
x86-64 didn't. Implement this now.
This required some cleanup in the i386 code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Move the core parser into dmi_scan.c. It can be useful for other
subsystems too.
- Differentiate between field doesn't exist and field is 0 or
unparseable. The first case is likely an old BIOS with broken ACPI,
the later is likely a slightly buggy BIOS where someone forget to
edit the date. Don't blacklist in the later case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As suggested by Andi (and Alan), move the default kernel location
from 1Mb to 2Mb, to align to the start of a TLB entry.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In a micro-benchmark that stresses the pagefault path, the down_read_trylock
on the mmap_sem showed up quite high on the profile. Turns out this lock is
bouncing between cpus quite a bit and thus is cache-cold a lot. This patch
prefetches the lock (for write) as early as possible (and before some other
somewhat expensive operations). With this patch, the down_read_trylock
basically fell out of the top of profile.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
phys_proc_id[] on AMD boxes is right now populated with the initial
apic id, obtained by the cpuid instruction. But, the initial apic id
need not be the local apic id on clustered APIC systems (see comment at
x86_64/kernel/genapic_cluster.c, line 110). On vSMPowered with AMD
CPUs the cpu_to_node will turn out to be incorrect (as apicid_to_node[] is
indexed by the initial apic id rather than the local apic id).
On vSMPowered boxes with Intel CPUs this is working correctly as
phys_proc_id[] is initialized correctly in detect_ht().
This fixes AMD boot path according to specification, to use the correct
routines for local apic id and socket ids. We use
hard_smp_processor_id() to read the local apic id, and phys_pkg_id() to
determine socket id for phys_proc_id[]
Patch tested on Tyan multicore boxes as well as vSMPowered boxes.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- adjust limits of GDT/IDT pseudo-descriptors (some were off by one)
- move empty_zero_page into .bss.page_aligned
- move cpu_gdt_table into .data.page_aligned
- move idt_table into .bss
- align inital_code and init_rsp
- eliminate pointless (re-)declaration of idt_table in traps.c
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It needs num_physpages, so initialize it early. It's later overwritten
again.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Attached is a small code style cleanup patch that resulted from my
skimming through the arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c code to figure out what
went haywire.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[description by AK]
Made a cut'n'paste error when adding the entry for the ALI M1695
AGP bridge and added a second entry for the 1689
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
gcc should handle this anyways, and it causes problems when
sprintf is turned into strcpy by gcc behind our backs and
the C fallback version of strcpy is actually defining __builtin_strcpy
Then drop -ffreestanding from the main Makefile because it isn't
needed anymore and implies -fno-builtin, which is wrong now.
(it was only added for x86-64, so dropping it should be safe)
Noticed by Roman Zippel
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We've always had the problem that arguments only did a prefix match,
which resulted e.g. in noapic and noapictimer getting confused.
Fix the early argument parsing code to always check that arguments are
whole words (except for those that take additional arguments of course)
I factored out the checking code for that while also makes the code
easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andi Kleen
Chuck Ebbert
Arjan van de Ven
Arjan van de Ven
Dave Jones
Arjan van de Ven
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Jan Beulich
Roberto Nibali
Henrik Kretzschmar