Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.
This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information. Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.
For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem. The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.
It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.
This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame
[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Previously exit_idle would be called more often than enter_idle
Now instead of using complicated tests just keep track of it
using the per CPU variable as a flip flop. I moved the idle state into the
PDA to make the access more efficient.
Original bug report and an initial patch from Stephane Eranian,
but redone by AK.
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Reindent the macros in x86-64 pda.h, making them much more readable.
Follows Jeremy's i386 version of this.
No functional changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
- Don't zero for __copy_from_user_inatomic following i386.
This will prevent spurious zeros for parallel file system writers when
one does a exception
- The string instruction version didn't zero the output on
exception. Oops.
Also I cleaned up the code a bit while I was at it and added a minor
optimization to the string instruction path.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code.
Here's the x86-64 equivalent. (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest
x86-64 PDA change.)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Change the comments in the pda structure to make the first fields to have
their offset documented and to have the comments aligned.
The stack protector series needs a field at offset 40 (gcc ABI); annotate
upto 40 for that reason.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.
The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack. This is a
follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds
orig_ist.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with
telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't
actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for
read/write accesses.
Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to
make sure no PDA access is moved before it.
Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better
code for accessing "current"):
text data bss dec hex filename
4845647 1223688 615864 6685199 66020f vmlinux
4837780 1223688 615864 6677332 65e354 vmlinux-pda
1.2% smaller code
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Based on patch from David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, but
changed by AK.
Optimizes the 64-bit hamming weight for x86_64 processors assuming they
have fast multiplication. Uses five fewer bitops than the generic
hweight64. Benchmark on one EMT64 showed ~25% speedup with 2^24
consecutive calls.
Define a new ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER that can be set by other
architectures that can also multiply fast.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Drop support for non e820 BIOS calls to get the memory map.
The boot assembler code still has some support, but not the C code now.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
- Remove a define that was used only once
- Remove the too large APIC ID check because we always support
the full 8bit range of APICs.
- Restructure code a bit to be simpler.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Fix the pte_exec/mkexec page table accessor functions to really
use the NX bit. Previously they only checked the USER bit, but
weren't actually used for anything.
Then use them in change_page_attr() to manipulate the NX bit
properly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
And replace all users with ordinary smp_processor_id. The function
was originally added to get some basic oops information out even
if the GS register was corrupted. However that didn't
work for some anymore because printk is needed to print the oops
and it uses smp_processor_id() already. Also GS register corruptions
are not particularly common anymore.
This also helps the Xen port which would otherwise need to
do this in a special way because it can't access the local APIC.
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every*
context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU
context lazily. This is of course great for applications that have very
sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive
save/restore all the time). However for very frequent FPU users... you
take an extra trap every context switch.
The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive
context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context
gets restored every context switch. If the app indeed uses the FPU, the
trap is avoided. (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the
previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously).
After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until
there are 5 consecutive ones again). The reason for this is to give apps
that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some
time.
[akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Now for a completely different but trivial approach.
I just boot tested it with 255 CPUS and everything worked.
Currently everything (except module data) we place in
the per cpu area we know about at compile time. So
instead of allocating a fixed size for the per_cpu area
allocate the number of bytes we need plus a fixed constant
for to be used for modules.
It isn't perfect but it is much less of a pain to
work with than what we are doing now.
AK: fixed warning
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This unifies the standard backtracer and the new stacktrace
in memory backtracer. The standard one is converted to use callbacks
and then reimplement stacktrace using new callbacks.
The main advantage is that stacktrace can now use the new dwarf2 unwinder
and avoid false positives in many cases.
I kept it simple to make sure the standard backtracer stays reliable.
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Lockdep can call the dwarf2 unwinder early, and the dwarf2 code
uses safe_smp_processor_id which tries to access the local APIC page.
But that doesn't work before the APIC code has set up its fixmap.
Check for this case and always return boot cpu then.
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Instead of hackish manual parsing
Requires earlier i386 patchkit, but also fixes i386 early_printk again.
I removed some obsolete really early parameters which didn't do anything useful.
Also made a few parameters that needed it early (mostly oops printing setup)
Also removed one panic check that wasn't visible without
early console anyways (the early console is now initialized after that
panic)
This cleans up a lot of code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Move the tce_table_kva array, disabled bitmap and bus_to_phb array
into a new per bus 'struct calgary_bus_info'. Also slightly reorganize
build_tce_table and tce_table_setparms to avoid exporting bus_info to
tce.c.
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Rearrange struct members loosely based on size for improved alignment
and to save a few bytes.
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
The genapic field and the accessor macro weren't used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls
if the resulting executable actually has unwind information.
This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use
CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications.
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
They did not really belong into io_apic.c. Move them into a new file
and clean it up a bit.
Also remove outdated ATI quirk that was obsolete,
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
PIC mode is an outdated way to drive the APICs that was used on
some early MP boards. It is not supported in the ACPI model.
It is unlikely to be ever configured by any x86-64 system
Remove it thus.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
- Convert CR* accesses to dedicated inline functions and rewrite
the rest as C inlines
- Don't do a double flush for global flushes (pointed out by Zach Amsden)
This was a bug workaround for old CPUs that don't do 64bit and is obsolete.
- Add a proper memory clobber to invlpg
- Remove an unused extern
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
IO-APIC or local APIC can only be disabled at runtime anyways and
Kconfig has forced these options on for a long time now.
The Kconfigs are kept only now for the benefit of the shared acpi
boot.c code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Previously it didn't align. Use the same one as the C compiler
in blended mode, which is good for K8 and Core2 and doesn't hurt
on P4.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
- Move the slow path fallbacks to their own assembly files
This makes them much easier to read and is needed for the next change.
- Add CFI annotations for unwinding (XXX need review)
- Remove constant case which can never happen with out of line spinlocks
- Use patchable LOCK prefixes
- Don't use lock sections anymore for inline code because they can't
be expressed by the unwinder (this adds one taken jump to the lock
fast path)
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Hello,
Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces
two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to().
The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common
case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used.
This patch covers the x86-64 modifications. A patch for i386 follows.
Changelog:
- add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active
- add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used
- modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags
<signed-off-by>: eranian@hpl.hp.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.
AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers
to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective
values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables.
AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well
as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h
[AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils]
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted.
Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters
( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This
feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.
What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance
monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid).
And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural
events.
Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver.
Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout.
Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then.
Fix up the panic message to be generic
Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled.
Noticed by Jan Beulich
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
