Pull workqueue [delayed_]work_pending() cleanups from Tejun Heo:
"This is part of on-going cleanups to remove / minimize usages of
workqueue interfaces which are deprecated and/or misleading.
This round drops a number of usages of [delayed_]work_pending(), which
are dangerous as they lack any form of synchronization and thus often
lead to buggy / unnecessary code. There are a couple legitimate use
cases in kernel. Hopefully, they can be converted and
[delayed_]work_pending() can be removed completely. Even if not,
removing most of misuses should make it more difficult to find
examples of misuses and thus slow down growth of them.
These changes are independent from other workqueue changes."
* 'for-3.9-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
wimax/i2400m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling
kprobes: fix wait_for_kprobe_optimizer()
ipw2x00: simplify scan_event handling
video/exynos: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
tty/max3100: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
x86/mce: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
rfkill: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
wl1251: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
thinkpad_acpi: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
mwifiex: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
sja1000: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
Pull x86 UV3 support update from Ingo Molnar:
"Support for the SGI Ultraviolet System 3 (UV3) platform - the upcoming
third major iteration and upscaling of the SGI UV supercomputing
platform."
* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, uv, uv3: Trim MMR register definitions after code changes for SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Check current gru hub support for SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Update Time Support for SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Update x2apic Support for SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Update Hub Info for SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Update ACPI Check to include SGI UV3
x86, uv, uv3: Update MMR register definitions for SGI Ultraviolet System 3 (UV3)
Pull x86 platform changes from Ingo Molnar:
- Support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform, by Vivien
Didelot
- Improved NUMA support on AMD systems:
Add support for federated systems where multiple memory controllers
can exist and see each other over multiple PCI domains. This
basically means that AMD node ids can be more than 8 now and the code
handling this is taught to incorporate PCI domain into those IDs.
- Support for the Goldfish virtual Android emulator, by Jun Nakajima,
Intel, Google, et al.
- Misc fixlets.
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Add TS-5500 platform support
x86/srat: Simplify memory affinity init error handling
x86/apb/timer: Remove unnecessary "if"
goldfish: platform device for x86
amd64_edac: Fix type usage in NB IDs and memory ranges
amd64_edac: Fix PCI function lookup
x86, AMD, NB: Use u16 for northbridge IDs in amd_get_nb_id
x86, AMD, NB: Add multi-domain support
Pull x86/hyperv changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is support for Windows 8's improved hypervisor
interrupt model on the Linux Hyper-V guest subsystem code side.
Smallish fixes otherwise."
* 'x86-hyperv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, hyperv: HYPERV depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as special hypervisor interrupts
X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V
x86: Hyper-V: register clocksource only if its advertised
Pull x86/debug changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two init annotations and a built-in memtest speedup"
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/memtest: Shorten time for tests
x86: Convert a few mistaken __cpuinit annotations to __init
x86/EFI: Properly init-annotate BGRT code
Pull x86 cleanup patches from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc smaller cleanups"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: ptrace.c only needs export.h and not the full module.h
x86, apb_timer: remove unused variable percpu_timer
um: don't compare a pointer to 0
arch/x86/platform/uv: use ARRAY_SIZE where possible
Pull two x86 kernel build changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The first change modifies how 'make oldconfig' works on cross-bitness
situations on x86. It was felt the new behavior of preserving the
bitness of the .config is more logical. This is a leftover of the
merge.
The second change eliminates a Perl warning. (There's another, more
complete fix resulting of this warning fix, which second fix in flight
to you via the kbuild tree, which will remove the timeconst.pl script
altogether.)"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timeconst.pl: Eliminate Perl warning
x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
Pull x86 bootup changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Deal with bootloaders which fail to initialize unknown fields in
boot_params to zero, by sanitizing boot params passed in.
This unbreaks versions of kexec-utils. Other bootloaders do not
appear to show sensitivity to this change, but it's a possibility for
breakage nevertheless."
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, boot: Sanitize boot_params if not zeroed on creation
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change (by line count) is the unification of the XOR code
and then the introduction of an additional SSE based XOR assembly
method.
The other bigger change is the head_32.S rework/cleanup by Borislav
Petkov.
Last but not least there's the usual laundry list of small but
dangerous (and hopefully perfectly tested) changes to subtle low level
x86 code, plus cleanups."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, head_32: Give the 6 label a real name
x86, head_32: Remove second CPUID detection from default_entry
x86: Detect CPUID support early at boot
x86, head_32: Remove i386 pieces
x86: Require MOVBE feature in cpuid when we use it
x86: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
x86/xor: Add alternative SSE implementation only prefetching once per 64-byte line
x86/xor: Unify SSE-base xor-block routines
x86: Fix a typo
x86/mm: Fix the argument passed to sync_global_pgds()
x86/mm: Convert update_mmu_cache() and update_mmu_cache_pmd() to functions
ix86: Tighten asmlinkage_protect() constraints
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Multiple MSI support added to the APIC, PCI and AHCI code - acked
by all relevant maintainers, by Alexander Gordeev.
The advantage is that multiple AHCI ports can have multiple MSI
irqs assigned, and can thus spread to multiple CPUs.
[ Drivers can make use of this new facility via the
pci_enable_msi_block_auto() method ]
- x86 IOAPIC code from interrupt remapping cleanups from Joerg
Roedel:
These patches move all interrupt remapping specific checks out of
the x86 core code and replaces the respective call-sites with
function pointers. As a result the interrupt remapping code is
better abstraced from x86 core interrupt handling code.
- Various smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups."
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/intel/irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic opt-out security warning mess
x86, kvm: Fix intialization warnings in kvm.c
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped out of x86 core code
x86, io_apic: Introduce eoi_ioapic_pin call-back
x86, msi: Introduce x86_msi.compose_msi_msg call-back
x86, irq: Introduce setup_remapped_irq()
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped() check into free_remapped_irq
x86, io-apic: Remove !irq_remapped() check from __target_IO_APIC_irq()
x86, io-apic: Move CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP code out of x86 core
x86, irq: Add data structure to keep AMD specific irq remapping information
x86, irq: Move irq_remapping_enabled declaration to iommu code
x86, io_apic: Remove irq_remapping_enabled check in setup_timer_IRQ0_pin
x86, io_apic: Move irq_remapping_enabled checks out of check_timer()
x86, io_apic: Convert setup_ioapic_entry to function pointer
x86, io_apic: Introduce set_affinity function pointer
x86, msi: Use IRQ remapping specific setup_msi_irqs routine
x86, hpet: Introduce x86_msi_ops.setup_hpet_msi
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.print_entries for debugging
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.disable()
x86, apic: Mask IO-APIC and PIC unconditionally on LAPIC resume
...
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
keep the hardware clock updated.
- posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
success. This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.
- platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.
- clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
motivated.)
- various fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.
- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "
- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.
- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...
Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:
Main kernel side changes:
- Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
Oleg Nesterov.
- Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
improvements.
- Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
Tony Luck.
- Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
Shin.
- This tracing commit:
tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events
changes the ABI. All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...
Main tooling side changes:
- Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:
To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And
then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
and prints them together if --group option is provided. You can
use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:
$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]
$ perf evlist --group
{ref-cycles,cycles}
With this example, default perf report will show you each event
separately.
You can use --group option to enable event group view:
$ perf report --group
...
# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
# ========
# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................ ....... ................. ..........................
99.84% 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main
0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
0.03% 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
0.02% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] account_user_time
0.01% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
0.00% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.00% 0.11% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
0.00% 0.06% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __current_kernel_time
As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
group { ref-cycles, cycles }'. The output is sorted by period of
group leader first.
- Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.
- Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.
- Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
Olsa.
- Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
Stephane Eranian.
- Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.
- 'perf test' improvements
- Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
Olsa.
- Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.
- perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
put in place by organizations such as Fedora.
- perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
snapshots, etc.
- perf top now supports DWARF callchains.
- Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.
- 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite
- ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
details."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
perf: Introduce hw_perf_event->tp_target and ->tp_list
uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe->nhit
uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
...
Pull irq core changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes are the IRQ-work and printk changes from Frederic
Weisbecker, which prepare the code for 'full dynticks' (the ability to
stop or slow down the periodic tick arbitrarily, not just in idle time
as today):
- Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This fix is generally
useful and concerns archs that can't raise self IPIs.
- Flush irq works before CPU offlining.
- Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the next tick to be
executed, unless it's stopped.
- Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This removes the ad-hoc
printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu() hooks and make it working even in
dynticks mode.
- Cleanups and fixes."
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Export enable/disable_percpu_irq()
arch Kconfig: Remove references to IRQ_PER_CPU
irq_work: Remove return value from the irq_work_queue() function
genirq: Avoid deadlock in spurious handling
printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work
irq_work: Make self-IPIs optable
irq_work: Warn if there's still work on cpu_down
irq_work: Flush work on CPU_DYING
irq_work: Don't stop the tick with pending works
nohz: Add API to check tick state
irq_work: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_WORK
irq_work: Fix racy check on work pending flag
irq_work: Fix racy IRQ_WORK_BUSY flag setting
By just reversing the order memtest is using the test patterns,
an additional round to zero the memory is not necessary.
This might save up to a second or even more for setups which are
doing tests on every boot.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361029097-8308-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On AMD family 15h processors, there are 4 new performance
counters (in addition to 6 core performance counters) that can
be used for counting northbridge events (i.e. DRAM accesses).
Their bit fields are almost identical to the core performance
counters. However, unlike the core performance counters, these
MSRs are shared between multiple cores (that share the same
northbridge).
We will reuse the same code path as existing family 10h
northbridge event constraints handler logic to enforce
this sharing.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-7-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
with older hypervisor stacks, such as Xen 4.1.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc7-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
Pull xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Two fixes:
- A simple bug-fix for redundant NULL check.
- CVE-2013-0228/XSA-42: x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in
xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS
and two reverts:
- Revert the PVonHVM kexec. The patch introduces a regression with
older hypervisor stacks, such as Xen 4.1."
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc7-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
Revert "xen PVonHVM: use E820_Reserved area for shared_info"
Revert "xen/PVonHVM: fix compile warning in init_hvm_pv_info"
xen: remove redundant NULL check before unregister_and_remove_pcpu().
x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS.
vread_hpet() uses "0xf0" as the offset of the hpet counter. To
clarify the meaning of this code, it should use symbolic name,
HPET_COUNTER, instead.
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 9d02b43dee.
We are doing this b/c on 32-bit PVonHVM with older hypervisors
(Xen 4.1) it ends up bothing up the start_info. This is bad b/c
we use it for the time keeping, and the timekeeping code loops
forever - as the version field never changes. Olaf says to
revert it, so lets do that.
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Commit cb57a2b4cf ("x86-32: Export
kernel_stack_pointer() for modules") added an include of the
module.h header in conjunction with adding an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
of kernel_stack_pointer.
But module.h should be avoided for simple exports, since it in turn
includes the world. Swap the module.h for export.h instead.
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360872842-28417-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
There was a serious problem in samsung-laptop that its platform driver is
designed to run under BIOS and running under EFI can cause the machine to
become bricked or can cause Machine Check Exceptions.
Discussion about this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
The patches to fix this problem:
efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
83e6818974
samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
e0094244e4
Unfortunately this problem comes back again if users specify "noefi" option.
This parameter clears EFI_BOOT and that driver continues to run even if running
under EFI. Refer to the document, this parameter should clear
EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES instead.
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
===============================================================================
...
noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
...
===============================================================================
Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt:
===============================================================================
...
- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
services.
noefi turn off all EFI runtime services
...
===============================================================================
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/511C2C04.2070108@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This fixes CVE-2013-0228 / XSA-42
Drew Jones while working on CVE-2013-0190 found that that unprivileged guest user
in 32bit PV guest can use to crash the > guest with the panic like this:
-------------
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/vbd-51712/block/xvda/dev
Modules linked in: sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6
xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 xen_netfront ext4
mbcache jbd2 xen_blkfront dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last
unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 1250, comm: r Not tainted 2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
EIP: 0061:[<c0407462>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at xen_iret+0x12/0x2b
EAX: eb8d0000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 08049860 EDX: 00000010
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 003d0f00 EBP: b77f8388 ESP: eb8d1fe0
DS: 0000 ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0069
Process r (pid: 1250, ti=eb8d0000 task=c2953550 task.ti=eb8d0000)
Stack:
00000000 0027f416 00000073 00000206 b77f8364 0000007b 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
Code: c3 8b 44 24 18 81 4c 24 38 00 02 00 00 8d 64 24 30 e9 03 00 00 00
8d 76 00 f7 44 24 08 00 00 02 80 75 33 50 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 <8b> 40
10 8b 04 85 a0 f6 ab c0 8b 80 0c b0 b3 c0 f6 44 24 0d 02
EIP: [<c0407462>] xen_iret+0x12/0x2b SS:ESP 0069:eb8d1fe0
general protection fault: 0000 [#2]
---[ end trace ab0d29a492dcd330 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Pid: 1250, comm: r Tainted: G D ---------------
2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
Call Trace:
[<c08476df>] ? panic+0x6e/0x122
[<c084b63c>] ? oops_end+0xbc/0xd0
[<c084b260>] ? do_general_protection+0x0/0x210
[<c084a9b7>] ? error_code+0x73/
-------------
Petr says: "
I've analysed the bug and I think that xen_iret() cannot cope with
mangled DS, in this case zeroed out (null selector/descriptor) by either
xen_failsafe_callback() or RESTORE_REGS because the corresponding LDT
entry was invalidated by the reproducer. "
Jan took a look at the preliminary patch and came up a fix that solves
this problem:
"This code gets called after all registers other than those handled by
IRET got already restored, hence a null selector in %ds or a non-null
one that got loaded from a code or read-only data descriptor would
cause a kernel mode fault (with the potential of crashing the kernel
as a whole, if panic_on_oops is set)."
The way to fix this is to realize that the we can only relay on the
registers that IRET restores. The two that are guaranteed are the
%cs and %ss as they are always fixed GDT selectors. Also they are
inaccessible from user mode - so they cannot be altered. This is
the approach taken in this patch.
Another alternative option suggested by Jan would be to relay on
the subtle realization that using the %ebp or %esp relative references uses
the %ss segment. In which case we could switch from using %eax to %ebp and
would not need the %ss over-rides. That would also require one extra
instruction to compensate for the one place where the register is used
as scaled index. However Andrew pointed out that is too subtle and if
further work was to be done in this code-path it could escape folks attention
and lead to accidents.
Reviewed-by: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads
/proc/kcore:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
[<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
[<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
[<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
[<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading
system RAM at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first
address using 1G pages for the virt->phys direct mapping so the
PUD is pointing to a physical address, not a PMD page.
The problem is that the page table walker in kern_addr_valid() is
not checking pud_large() and treats the physical address as if
it was a PMD. If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll
silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If
the data happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be
walked resulting in the oops above.
This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check.
Unfortunately the problem was not readily reproducible and now
they are running the backup program without accessing
/proc/kcore so the patch has not been validated but I think it
makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.coM>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Starting with win8, vmbus interrupts can be delivered on any VCPU in the guest
and furthermore can be concurrently active on multiple VCPUs. Support this
interrupt delivery model by setting up a separate IDT entry for Hyper-V vmbus.
interrupts. I would like to thank Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> and
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, for their help.
In this version of the patch, based on the feedback, I have merged the IDT
vector for Xen and Hyper-V and made the necessary adjustments. Furhermore,
based on Jan's feedback I have added the necessary compilation switches.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359940959-32168-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Xen emulates Hyper-V to host enlightened Windows. Looks like this
emulation may be turned on by default even for Linux guests. Check and
fail Hyper-V detection if we are on Xen.
[ hpa: the problem here is that Xen doesn't emulate Hyper-V well
enough, and if the Xen support isn't compiled in, we end up stubling
over the Hyper-V emulation and try to activate it -- and it fails. ]
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359940959-32168-2-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Enable hyperv_clocksource only if its advertised as a feature.
XenServer 6 returns the signature which is checked in
ms_hyperv_platform(), but it does not offer all features. Currently the
clocksource is enabled unconditionally in ms_hyperv_init_platform(), and
the result is a hanging guest.
Hyper-V spec Bit 1 indicates the availability of Partition Reference
Counter. Register the clocksource only if this bit is set.
The guest in question prints this in dmesg:
[ 0.000000] Hypervisor detected: Microsoft HyperV
[ 0.000000] HyperV: features 0x70, hints 0x0
This bug can be reproduced easily be setting 'viridian=1' in a HVM domU
.cfg file. A workaround without this patch is to boot the HVM guest with
'clocksource=jiffies'.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359940959-32168-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We do that once earlier now and cache it into new_cpu_data.cpuid_level
so no need for the EFLAGS.ID toggling dance anymore.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We detect CPUID function support on each CPU and save it for later use,
obviating the need to play the toggle EFLAGS.ID game every time. C code
is looking at ->cpuid_level anyway.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Remove code fragments detecting a 386 CPU since we don't support those
anymore. Also, do not do alignment checks because they're done only at
CPL3. Also, no need to preserve EFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Merge tag 'v3.8-rc7' into x86/asm
Merge in the updates to head_32.S from the previous urgent branch, as
upcoming patches will make further changes.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch trims the MMR register definitions after the updates for the
SGI UV3 system have been applied. Note that because these definitions
are automatically generated from the RTL we cannot control the length
of the names. Therefore there are lines that exceed 80 characters.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194509.173026880@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch updates time support for the SGI UV3 hub. Since the UV2
and UV3 time support is identical, "is_uvx_hub" is used instead of
having both "is_uv2_hub" and "is_uv3_hub".
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194508.893907185@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds support for the SGI UV3 hub to the common x2apic
functions. The primary changes are to account for the similarities
between UV2 and UV3 which are encompassed within the "UVX" nomenclature.
One significant difference within UV3 is the handling of the MMIOH
regions which are redirected to the target blade (with the device) in
a different manner. It also now has two MMIOH regions for both small and
large BARs. This aids in limiting the amount of physical address space
removed from real memory that's used for I/O in the max config of 64TB.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194508.752924185@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch updates the UV HUB info for UV3. The "is_uv3_hub" and
"is_uvx_hub" (UV2 or UV3) functions are added as well as the addresses
and sizes of the MMR regions for UV3.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194508.610723192@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Add UV3 to exclusion list. Instead of adding every new series of
SGI UV systems, just check oem_id to have a prefix of "SGI".
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194508.457937455@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch updates the MMR register definitions for the SGI UV3 system.
Note that because these definitions are automatically generated from
the RTL we cannot control the length of the names. Therefore there are
lines that exceed 80 characters.
All the new MMR definitions are added in this patch. The patches that
follow then update the references. The last patch is a "trim" patch
which reduces the size of the MMR definitions file by about a third.
This keeps "bi-sectability" in place as the intermediate patches would
not compile correctly if the trimmed MMR defines were done first.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211194508.326204556@gulag1.americas.sgi.com
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
When a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server boots a regular kernel,
there will be intermittent lost interrupts which could
result in a hang or (in extreme cases) data loss.
The reason is that this system only supports x2apic physical
mode, while the kernel boots with a logical-cluster default
setting.
This bug can be worked around by specifying the "x2apic_phys" or
"nox2apic" boot option, but we want to handle this system
without requiring manual workarounds.
The BIOS sets ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL in FADT table.
As all apicids are smaller than 255, BIOS need to pass the
control to the OS with xapic mode, according to x2apic-spec,
chapter 2.9.
Current code handle x2apic when BIOS pass with xapic mode
enabled:
When user specifies x2apic_phys, or FADT indicates PHYSICAL:
1. During madt oem check, apic driver is set with xapic logical
or xapic phys driver at first.
2. enable_IR_x2apic() will enable x2apic_mode.
3. if user specifies x2apic_phys on the boot line, x2apic_phys_probe()
will install the correct x2apic phys driver and use x2apic phys mode.
Otherwise it will skip the driver will let x2apic_cluster_probe to
take over to install x2apic cluster driver (wrong one) even though FADT
indicates PHYSICAL, because x2apic_phys_probe does not check
FADT PHYSICAL.
Add checking x2apic_fadt_phys in x2apic_phys_probe() to fix the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Stoney Wang <song-bo.wang@hp.com>
[ updated the changelog and simplified the code ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360263182-16226-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Change handle_swbp() to set regs->ip = bp_vaddr in advance, this is
what consumer->handler() needs but uprobe_get_swbp_addr() is not
exported.
This also simplifies the code and makes it more consistent across
the supported architectures. handle_swbp() becomes the only caller
of uprobe_get_swbp_addr().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
__skip_sstep() doesn't update regs->ip. Currently this is correct
but only "by accident" and it doesn't skip the whole insn. Change
it to advance ->ip by the length of the detected 0x66*0x90 sequence.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Without this patch, it is trivial to determine kernel page
mappings by examining the error code reported to dmesg[1].
Instead, declare the entire kernel memory space as a violation
of a present page.
Additionally, since show_unhandled_signals is enabled by
default, switch branch hinting to the more realistic
expectation, and unobfuscate the setting of the PF_PROT bit to
improve readability.
[1] http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2013/02/06/a-linux-memory-trick/
Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207174413.GA12485@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Similar to config_base and event_base, allow architecture
specific RDPMC ECX values.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-6-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Move counter index to MSR address offset calculation to
architecture specific files. This prepares the way for
perf_event_amd to enable counter addresses that are not
contiguous -- for example AMD Family 15h processors have 6 core
performance counters starting at 0xc0010200 and 4 northbridge
performance counters starting at 0xc0010240.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Update these AMD bit field names to be consistent with naming
convention followed by the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-4-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Generalize northbridge constraints code for family 10h so that
later we can reuse the same code path with other AMD processor
families that have the same northbridge event constraints.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-3-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...
Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.
To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Merge tag 'full-dynticks-cputime-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core
Pull full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and
receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready,
from Frederic Weisbecker:
"This implements the cputime accounting on full dynticks CPUs.
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...
Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.
To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user."
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Three small fixlets"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel/cacheinfo: Shut up annoying warning
x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8
x86-64: Replace left over sti/cli in ia32 audit exit code
