Impact: use new interface instead of previous ad hoc implementation
Rather than having special purpose init_pg_table_start/end variables
to delimit the kernel pagetable built by head_32.S, just use the brk
mechanism to extend the bss for the new pagetable.
This patch removes init_pg_table_start/end and pg0, defines __brk_base
(which is page-aligned and immediately follows _end), initializes
the brk region to start there, and uses it for the 32-bit pagetable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: build fix
The brk initialization functions were incorrectly located inside
an #ifdef CONFIG_VLK_DEV_INITRD block, causing the obvious build failure in
minimal configurations.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Impact: new interface
Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order
to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations. This is better than
using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never
get used.
The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the
space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so
that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or
something into it.
The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area
(__brk_base to __brk_limit). The kernel text, data and bss is reserved
up to __bss_stop.
Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel
pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces
in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory.
Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general
kernel memory pool.
Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger
than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code
to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large
with a big kernel image and no PSE support). So long as the system
has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk,
there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: cleanup
Move the symbols delimiting a section part of the section
(section relative) rather than absolute. This avoids any
unexpected gaps between the section-start symbol and the first
data in the section, which could be caused by implicit
alignment of the section data. It also makes the general
form of vmlinux_64.lds.S consistent with vmlinux_32.lds.S.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
move store_ldt outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section and
also clean up the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: saving power _very_ little
round_jiffies() round up absolute jiffies to full second.
round_jiffies_relative() round up relative jiffies to full second.
The "t->expires" is absolute jiffies. Then, round_jiffies() should be
used instead round_jiffies_relative().
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: New major feature
This patch add kexec jump support for x86_64. More information about
kexec jump can be found in corresponding x86_32 support patch.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Fix corner case that cannot yet occur
image->start may be outside of 0 ~ max_pfn, for example when jumping
back to original kernel from kexeced kenrel. This patch add identity
map for pages at image->start.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Cleanup
Fix some coding style issue for kexec x86.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Introduce:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/*
for Intel and AMD processors to view / debug the state of each CPU.
By using this we can debug whole range of registers and other
cpu information for debugging purpose and monitor how things
are changing.
This can be useful for developers as well as for users.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236701373.3387.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: code reorganization
Separate out embedding first chunk setup helper from x86 embedding
first chunk allocator and put it in mm/percpu.c. This will be used by
the default percpu first chunk allocator and possibly by other archs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: cleanup, more flexibility for first chunk init
Non-negative @dyn_size used to be allowed iff @unit_size wasn't auto.
This restriction stemmed from implementation detail and made things a
bit less intuitive. This patch allows @dyn_size to be specified
regardless of @unit_size and swaps the positions of @dyn_size and
@unit_size so that the parameter order makes more sense (static,
reserved and dyn sizes followed by enclosing unit_size).
While at it, add @unit_size >= PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This reverts commit e088e4c9cd.
Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a
regression in bug 12826.
Course of action:
- Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them
if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically.
If it isn't, we need to fix that.
- mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated
- try again with the removal in six months.
It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because
it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding
a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup and code size reduction on 64-bit
This code is only applied to Intel Pentium and AMD K7 32-bit cpus.
Move those checks to intel_init()/amd_init() for 32-bit
so 64-bit will not build this code.
Also change to use cpu_index check to see if we need to emit warning.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49B377D2.8030108@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In uv_flush_tlb_others() (arch/x86/kernel/tlb_uv.c),
the "WARN_ON(!in_atomic())" fails if CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled.
And CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled by default in the distribution that
most UV owners will use.
We could #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT the warning, but that is not good form.
And there seems to be no suitable fix to in_atomic() when CONFIG_PREMPT
is not on.
As Ingo commented:
> and we have no proper primitive to test for atomicity. (mainly
> because we dont know about atomicity on a non-preempt kernel)
So we drop the WARN_ON.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Molnar
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Thomas Gleixner
KOSAKI Motohiro
Huang Ying
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Stoyan Gaydarov
Tejun Heo
Linus Torvalds
Dave Jones
Yinghai Lu
Cliff Wickman
Markus Metzger