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Linus Torvalds 6681ba7ec4 Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac
* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for Edac Sandy Bridge driver
  edac: tag sb_edac as EXPERIMENTAL, as it requires more testing
  EDAC: Fix incorrect edac mode reporting in sb_edac
  edac: sb_edac: Add it to the building system
  edac: Add an experimental new driver to support Sandy Bridge CPU's
  i7300_edac: Fix error cleanup logic
  i7core_edac: Initialize memory name with cpu, channel, bank
  i7core_edac: Fix compilation on 32 bits arch
  i7core_edac: scrubbing fixups
  EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies
  i7core_edac: return -ENODEV if no MC is found
  i7core_edac: use edac's own way to print errors
  MAINTAINERS: remove dropped edac_mce.* from the file
  i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility
  x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding
  EDAC i7core: Use mce socketid for better compatibility
  i7core_edac: Don't enable memory scrubbing for Xeon 35xx
  i7core_edac: Add scrubbing support
  edac: Move edac main structs to include/linux/edac.h
  i7core_edac: Fix oops when trying to inject errors
  ...
2011-11-02 16:55:15 -07:00
Borislav Petkov 4140c54266 i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility
Remove edac_mce pieces and use the normal MCE decoder notifier chain by
retaining the same functionality with considerably less code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-11-01 10:01:24 -02:00
Christopher Yeoh fcf634098c Cross Memory Attach
The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.

The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call.  There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.

- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
  using it:
  - Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
    preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
  written to would need to be contiguous.
  - Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
  ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
  from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
  but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
  (reason  appears to have been lost)
  - Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
  domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
  especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
  of processes  that all need to do this with each other
  - Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
  consider adding in the future (see below)
  - Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
  involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)

As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems.  Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block.  Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive.  In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock.  And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.

There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could.  For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy.  We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source.  I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.

Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI).  This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication.  And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.

There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2

There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:

http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt

This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.

For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:

http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
Borislav Petkov f0cb545243 x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding
Drop the edac_mce custom hook in favor of the generic notifier
mechanism. Also, do not log the error to mcelog if the notified agent
was able to decode it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 15:10:05 -02:00
Linus Torvalds d630ba565f Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: uv2: Workaround for UV2 Hub bug (system global address format)
2011-10-28 05:43:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8e6d539e0f Merge branch 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
  x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
  random: Add support for architectural random hooks

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf7: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
2011-10-28 05:29:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8237eb946a Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format
  coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data
  x86, intel: Use c->microcode for Atom errata check
  x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Don't request microcode from userspace unnecessarily

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c (conflict between
moving AMD BSP code to cpu_dev helper function and adding AMD microcode
revision to /proc/cpuinfo code)
2011-10-28 05:14:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cc21fe518a Merge branch 'x86-hyperv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-hyperv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Hyper-V: Integrate the clocksource with Hyper-V detection code

Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/hv/Makefile manually (some of the hv
code has moved out of staging to drivers/hv/)
2011-10-28 05:08:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e34eb39c1c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, amd: Include linux/elf.h since we use stuff from asm/elf.h
  x86: cache_info: Update calculation of AMD L3 cache indices
  x86: cache_info: Kill the atomic allocation in amd_init_l3_cache()
  x86: cache_info: Kill the moronic shadow struct
  x86: cache_info: Remove bogus free of amd_l3_cache data
  x86, amd: Include elf.h explicitly, prepare the code for the module.h split
  x86-32, amd: Move va_align definition to unbreak 32-bit build
  x86, amd: Move BSP code to cpu_dev helper
  x86: Add a BSP cpu_dev helper
  x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
2011-10-28 05:03:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds dfa4a423cf Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64, unistd: Remove bogus __IGNORE_getcpu
  x86, mm, trivial: Remove unnecessary get_order() in free_thread_info()
  x86, cleanup: Remove unneeded version.h include from arch/x86/
2011-10-26 17:43:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7b86572a7a Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64: Fix CFI data for interrupt frames
  x86-64: Don't apply destructive erratum workaround on unaffected CPUs
2011-10-26 17:42:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0791e98dd1 Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/irq: Standardize on CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
  x86, ioapic: Clean up ioapic/apic_id usage
  x86, ioapic: Factor out print_IO_APIC() to only print one io apic
  x86, ioapic: Print out irte with right ioapic index
  x86, ioapic: Split up setup_ioapic_entry()
  x86, ioapic: Pass struct irq_attr * to setup_ioapic_irq()
  apic, i386/bigsmp: Fix false warnings regarding logical APIC ID mismatches
2011-10-26 17:30:33 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7115e3fcf4 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
  perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
  perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
  perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
  perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
  perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
  perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
  perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
  perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
  perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
  perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
  perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
  perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
  perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
  perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
  perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
  perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
  perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
  perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
  perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
  perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?).  But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..

Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge.  Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
2011-10-26 17:03:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 3cfef95246 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  rtmutex: Add missing rcu_read_unlock() in debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock()
  lockdep: Comment all warnings
  lib: atomic64: Change the type of local lock to raw_spinlock_t
  locking, lib/atomic64: Annotate atomic64_lock::lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate qi->q_lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate irq_2_ir_lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate iommu->register_lock as raw
  locking, dma, ipu: Annotate bank_lock as raw
  locking, ARM: Annotate low level hw locks as raw
  locking, drivers/dca: Annotate dca_lock as raw
  locking, powerpc: Annotate uic->lock as raw
  locking, x86: mce: Annotate cmci_discover_lock as raw
  locking, ACPI: Annotate c3_lock as raw
  locking, oprofile: Annotate oprofilefs lock as raw
  locking, video: Annotate vga console lock as raw
  locking, latencytop: Annotate latency_lock as raw
  locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw
  locking, rwsem: Annotate inner lock as raw
  locking, semaphores: Annotate inner lock as raw
  locking, sched: Annotate thread_group_cputimer as raw
  ...

Fix up conflicts in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c manually: making
cputimer->cputime a raw lock conflicted with the ABBA fix in commit
bcd5cff721 ("cputimer: Cure lock inversion").
2011-10-26 16:17:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 982653009b Merge branch 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, ioapic: Consolidate the explicit EOI code
  x86, ioapic: Restore the mask bit correctly in eoi_ioapic_irq()
  x86, kdump, ioapic: Reset remote-IRR in clear_IO_APIC
  iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options
  x86, ioapic: Define irq_remap_modify_chip_defaults()
  x86, msi, intr-remap: Use the ioapic set affinity routine
  iommu: Cleanup ifdefs in detect_intel_iommu()
  iommu: No need to set dmar_disabled in check_zero_address()
  iommu: Move IOMMU specific code to intel-iommu.c
  intr_remap: Call dmar_dev_scope_init() explicitly
  x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
2011-10-26 16:11:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 59e5253417 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
  linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
  Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
  parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
  Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
  cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
  microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
  h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
  MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
  tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
  ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
  Fix file references in Kconfig files
  aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
  Fix file references in drivers/ide/
  thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
  bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
  btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
  doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
  CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
  treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
  ...
2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
Josh Stone 315eb8a2a1 x86: Fix compilation bug in kprobes' twobyte_is_boostable
When compiling an i386_defconfig kernel with gcc-4.6.1-9.fc15.i686, I
noticed a warning about the asm operand for test_bit in kprobes'
can_boost.  I discovered that this caused only the first long of
twobyte_is_boostable[] to be output.

Jakub filed and fixed gcc PR50571 to correct the warning and this output
issue.  But to solve it for less current gcc, we can make kprobes'
twobyte_is_boostable[] non-const, and it won't be optimized out.

Before:

    CC      arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o
  In file included from include/linux/bitops.h:22:0,
                   from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
                   from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
                   from include/linux/mutex.h:18,
                   from include/linux/notifier.h:13,
                   from include/linux/kprobes.h:34,
                   from arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:43:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘can_boost.part.1’:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:319:2: warning: use of memory input
        without lvalue in asm operand 1 is deprecated [enabled by default]

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 00 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x0
                          554: R_386_32	.rodata.cst4

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
  Contents of section .rodata.cst4:
   0000 4c030000                             L...

Only a single long of twobyte_is_boostable[] is in the object file.

After, without the const on twobyte_is_boostable:

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 20 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x20
                          554: R_386_32	.data

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
   0010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
   0020 4c030000 0f000200 ffff0000 ffcff0c0  L...............
   0030 0000ffff 3bbbfff8 03ff2ebb 26bb2e77  ....;.......&..w

Now all 32 bytes are output into .data instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-25 09:00:14 +02:00
Borislav Petkov bcb80e5387 x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo
Enable microcode revision output for AMD after 506ed6b53e ("x86,
intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo") did it for Intel.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-10-19 16:07:30 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 881e23e567 x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format
506ed6b53e ("x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo")
added microcode revision format to /proc/cpuinfo and the MCE handler in
decimal format but both AMD and Intel patch levels are handled as hex
numbers. Fix it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-10-19 15:47:48 +02:00
Josh Stone db45bd90be x86, perf, kprobes: Make kprobes's twobyte_is_boostable volatile
When compiling an i386_defconfig kernel with
gcc-4.6.1-9.fc15.i686, I noticed a warning about the asm operand
for test_bit in kprobes' can_boost. I discovered that this
caused only the first long of twobyte_is_boostable[] to be
output.

Jakub filed and fixed gcc PR50571 to correct the warning and
this output issue.  But to solve it for less current gcc, we can
make kprobes' twobyte_is_boostable[] volatile, and it won't be
optimized out.

Before:

    CC      arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o
  In file included from include/linux/bitops.h:22:0,
                   from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
                   from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
                   from include/linux/mutex.h:18,
                   from include/linux/notifier.h:13,
                   from include/linux/kprobes.h:34,
                   from arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:43:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘can_boost.part.1’:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:319:2: warning: use of memory input without lvalue in asm operand 1 is deprecated [enabled by default]

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 00 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x0
                          554: R_386_32	.rodata.cst4

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
  Contents of section .rodata.cst4:
   0000 4c030000                             L...

Only a single long of twobyte_is_boostable[] is in the object
file.

After, with volatile:

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 20 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x20
                          554: R_386_32	.data

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
   0010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
   0020 4c030000 0f000200 ffff0000 ffcff0c0  L...............
   0030 0000ffff 3bbbfff8 03ff2ebb 26bb2e77  ....;.......&..w

Now all 32 bytes are output into .data instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318899645-4068-1-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-18 08:43:08 +02:00
Andi Kleen 30963c0ac7 x86, intel: Use c->microcode for Atom errata check
Now that the cpu update level is available the Atom PSE errata
check can use it directly without reading the MSR again.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-14 13:16:38 +02:00
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
Srivatsa S. Bhat 70989449da x86, microcode: Don't request microcode from userspace unnecessarily
Requesting the microcode from userspace *every time* when onlining CPUs
(during a CPU hotplug operation) is unnecessary. Thus, ensure that
once the kernel gets the microcode after booting, it is not freed nor
invalidated when a CPU goes offline, so that it can be reused when that
CPU comes back online, without requesting userspace for it again. As a
result, the CPU hotplug operations become faster as well.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E91F908.5010006@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-10-13 16:20:35 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 141d55e6cc x86/irq: Standardize on CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
Sparseirq got introduced in v2.6.28 and Thomas did a huge cleanup
around v2.6.38 that eliminated basically all disadvantages
of it.

So we can remove non-sparseirq support now and simplify
our IRQ degrees of freedom a bit.

Suggested-and-acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E95E21D.6090200@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-13 12:12:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 910e94dd0c Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://github.com/rostedt/linux into perf/core 2011-10-12 17:14:47 +02:00