sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated
to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to
avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel
data.
This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written
data into this section.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Change the NR_CPUS default for ia64/sn up to 1024.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
I see why the problem exists only on SN. SN uses a different hardware
mechanism to purge TLB entries across nodes.
It looks like there is a bug in the SN TLB flushing code. During context switch,
kernel threads inherit the mm of the task that was previously running on the
cpu. This confuses the code in sn2_global_tlb_purge().
The result is a missed TLB purge for the task that owns the "borrowed" mm.
(I hit the problem running heavy stress where kswapd was purging code pages of
a user task that woke kswapd. The user task took a SIGILL fault trying to
execute code in the page that had been ripped out from underneath it).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead of get_cpu() as we don't need the
extra features of get_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The udelay() inline for ia64 uses the ITC. If CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled
and the platform has unsynchronized ITCs and the calling task migrates
to another CPU while doing the udelay loop, then the effective delay may
be too short or very, very long.
This patch disables preemption around 100 usec chunks of the overall
desired udelay time. This minimizes preemption-holdoffs.
udelay() is now too big to be inline, move it out of line and export it.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch from Daniel Jacobowitz
Handle new EABI relocations when loading kernel modules. This is
necessary for CONFIG_AEABI kernels, and also for some broken
(since fixed) old ABI toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
As reported by Keith Mannthey, there are problems in populate_memnodemap()
The bug was that the compute_hash_shift() was returning 31, with incorrect
initialization of memnodemap[]
To correct the bug, we must use (1UL << shift) instead of (1 << shift) to
avoid an integer overflow, and we must check that shift < 64 to avoid an
infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On systems that do not support the HPET legacy functions (basically the IBM
x460, but there could be others), in time_init() we accidentally fall into a
PM timer conditional and set the vxtime_hz value to the PM timer's frequency.
We then use this value with the HPET for timekeeping.
This patch (which mimics the behavior in time_init_gtod) corrects the
collision.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When a register set is passed in don't try to fix up the pointer.
Noticed by Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
They report all busses as MMCONFIG capable, but it never works for the
internal devices in the CPU's builtin northbridge.
It just probes all func 0 devices on bus 0 (the internal northbridge is
currently always on bus 0) and if they are not accessible using MCFG they are
put into a special fallback bitmap.
On systems where it isn't we assume the BIOS vendor supplied correct MCFG.
Requires the earlier patch for mmconfig type1 fallback
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When there is no entry for a bus in MCFG fall back to type1. This is
especially important on K8 systems where always some devices can't be accessed
using mmconfig (in particular the builtin northbridge doesn't support it for
its own devices)
Cc: <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It's illegal because it can sleep.
Use a two step lookup scheme instead. First look up the vm_struct, then
change the direct mapping, then finally unmap it. That's ok because nobody
can change the particular virtual address range as long as the vm_struct is
still in the global list.
Also added some LinuxDoc documentation to iounmap.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Disabling LAPIC timer isn't sufficient. In some situations, such as we
enabled NMI watchdog, there is still unexpected interrupt (such as NMI)
invoked in offline CPU. This also avoids offline CPU receives spurious
interrupt and anything similar.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter
hawkes@sgi.com
Jack Steiner
Jes Sorensen
Al Viro
Al Viro
Linus Torvalds
Daniel Jacobowitz
Robin Holt
Eric Dumazet
john stultz
Andi Kleen
Shaohua Li