The 2.6.25 ptrace_bts_config structure in asm-x86/ptrace-abi.h
is defined with u32 types:
#include <asm/types.h>
/* configuration/status structure used in PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG and
PTRACE_BTS_STATUS commands.
*/
struct ptrace_bts_config {
/* requested or actual size of BTS buffer in bytes */
u32 size;
/* bitmask of below flags */
u32 flags;
/* buffer overflow signal */
u32 signal;
/* actual size of bts_struct in bytes */
u32 bts_size;
};
#endif
But u32 is only accessible in asm-x86/types.h if __KERNEL__,
leading to compile errors when ptrace.h is included from
user-space. The double-underscore versions that are exported
to user-space in asm-x86/types.h should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I recently stumbled upon a problem in the support for huge pages. If a
program using huge pages does not explicitly unmap them, they remain
mapped (and therefore, are lost) after the program exits.
I observed that the free huge page count in /proc/meminfo decreased when
running my program, and it did not increase after the program exited.
After running the program a few times, no more huge pages could be
allocated.
The reason for this seems to be that the x86 pmd_bad and pud_bad
consider pmd/pud entries having the PSE bit set invalid. I think there
is nothing wrong with this bit being set, it just indicates that the
lowest level of translation has been reached. This bit has to be (and
is) checked after the basic validity of the entry has been checked, like
in this fragment from follow_page() in mm/memory.c:
if (pmd_none(*pmd) || unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
goto no_page_table;
if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET);
page = follow_huge_pmd(mm, address, pmd, flags & FOLL_WRITE);
goto out;
}
Note that this code currently doesn't work as intended if the pmd refers
to a huge page, the pmd_huge() check can not be reached if the page is
huge.
Extending pmd_bad() (and, for future 1GB page support, pud_bad()) to
allow for the PSE bit being set fixes this. For similar reasons,
allowing the NX bit being set is necessary, too. I have seen huge pages
having the NX bit set in their pmd entry, which would cause the same
problem.
Signed-Off-By: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Real i386 CPUs do not have cmpxchg instructions. Catch it before
crashing on an invalid opcode.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE constant was mis-named, as we not only map the kernel
text but data, bss and init sections as well.
That name led me on the wrong path with the KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE regression,
because i knew how big of _text_ my images have and i knew about the 40 MB
"text" limit so i wrongly thought to be on the safe side of the 40 MB limit
with my 29 MB of text, while the total image size was slightly above 40 MB.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously
rebooting during early bootup.
after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out
that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel
image:
#define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (40*1024*1024)
which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass:
text data bss dec hex filename
29703744 4222751 8646224 42572719 2899baf vmlinux
40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/
So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is
the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-)
So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped.
(should anyone be that crazy or lazy)
We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these
mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather
pointless and arbitrary.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add comments describing the various NOP sequences.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so
enforce that in the boot code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Noted by various people (Sam, Jeff, Roland..)
Commit 58b7983d15 intended to remove the
xfs "Makefile-linux-2.6" file, but it was mistakenly still left in the
tree as a empty file, and would cause git to correctly complain about a
tracked file being removed after a "make distclean" (which removes empty
files as garbage).
And the asm-x86/desc_64.h file was supposed to be removed by commit
c81c6ca45a, but instead stayed around
containing just a single newline.
Get rid of them both properly.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In order to have it at all levels, add pgd_large() which only
returns 0.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch removes the mca-pentium boot option that was a noop.
besides the source code cleanup factor, this saves some text as well:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
651 77 4 732 2dc bugs.o.before
631 53 4 688 2b0 bugs.o.after
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The early boot code maps KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (currently 40MB) starting
from __START_KERNEL_map. The kernel itself only needs _text to _end
mapped in the high alias. On relocatible kernels the ASM setup code
adjusts the compile time created high mappings to the relocation. This
creates invalid pmd entries for negative offsets:
0xffffffff80000000 -> pmd entry: ffffffffff2001e3
It points outside of the physical address space and is marked present.
This starts at the virtual address __START_KERNEL_map and goes up to
the point where the first valid physical address (0x0) is mapped.
Zap the mappings before _text and after _end right away in early
boot. This removes also the invalid entries.
Furthermore it simplifies the range check for high aliases.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
extern should not appear in C files. Also, the definitions
do not match the prototype currently, not sure what way you
want to go with this, I've switched the prototype to return
int, but I can see going to the void return as well.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jakub Jelinek reported that some user-space code that relies on
kernel headers has built dependency on the sigcontext->eip/rip
register names - which have been unified in commit:
commit 742fa54a62
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:56 2008 +0100
x86: use generic register names in struct sigcontext
so give the old layout to user-space. This is not particularly
pretty, but it's an ABI so there's no danger of the two definitions
getting out of sync.
Reported-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC was not possible on 64-bit due to its early-bootup
hardcoded reliance on PSE pages, and the unrobustness of the runtime
splitup of large pages. The splitup ended in recursive calls to
alloc_pages() when a page for a pte split was requested.
Avoid the recursion with a preallocated page pool, which is used to
split up large mappings and gets refilled in the return path of
kernel_map_pages after the split has been done. The size of the page
pool is adjusted to the available memory.
This part just implements the page pool and the initialization w/o
using it yet.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Specifically the boot time page tables in a CONFIG_X86_PAE=y enabled
kernel are in PAE format.
early_ioremap is updated to use the standard page table accessors.
Clear any mappings beyond max_low_pfn from the boot page tables in
native_pagetable_setup_start because the initial mappings can extend
beyond the range of physical memory and into the vmalloc area.
Derived from patches by Eric Biederman and H. Peter Anvin.
[ jeremy@goop.org: PAE swapper_pg_dir needs to be page-sized fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add function definition and extern variables to asm-x86/acpi.h.
All of these are used in bus.c in ifdef(CONFIG_X86) sections, so are
only added to the x86 include headers. boot.c already includes acpi.h
so no changes are needed there.
Fixes the following:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:83:4: warning: symbol 'acpi_sci_flags' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:84:5: warning: symbol 'acpi_sci_override_gsi' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:421:13: warning: symbol 'acpi_pic_sci_set_trigger' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Adjust the definition of lookup_address to take an unsigned long
level argument. Adjust callers in xen/mmu.c that pass in a
dummy variable.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There isn't much value to always detecting the MFGPT timers on
Geode platforms; detection is only needed when something wants
to use the timers. Move the detection code so that it gets
called the first time a timer is allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We had planned to use the 'owner' field for allowing re-allocation of
MFGPTs; however, doing it by module owner name isn't flexible enough. So,
drop this for now. If it turns out that we need timers in modules, we'll
need to come up with a scheme that matches the write-once fields of the
MFGPTx_SETUP register, and drops ponies from the sky.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit 2f569afd9c ("CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs.
sub-page page tables") caused some build breakage due to pgtable_t only
getting declared in the CONFIG_X86_PAE case.
Move the declaration outside the PAE section.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>