Fix the following warning:
"WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x72):
Section mismatch in reference from the function powernowk8_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpb_nb
The function __exit powernowk8_exit() references a variable
__cpuinitdata cpb_nb. This is often seen when error handling in the exit
function uses functionality in the init path. The fix is often to remove
the __cpuinitdata annotation of cpb_nb so it may be used outside an init
section."
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100525152858.GA24836@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Patch b7e2ecef92 (perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing
IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction) made the
unfortunate mistake of assuming the world is x86 only, correct
this.
The problem was that perf_fetch_caller_regs() did
local_save_flags() into regs->flags, and I re-used that to
remove another local_save_flags(), forgetting !x86 doesn't have
regs->flags.
Do the reverse, remove the local_save_flags() from
perf_fetch_caller_regs() and let the ftrace site do the
local_save_flags() instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1274778175.5882.623.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the kernel debugger was configured, attached and started with
kgdbwait, the hardware breakpoint registers should get restored by the
kgdb code which is managing the dr registers.
CC: x86@kernel.org
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Traditionally, fatal MCE will cause Linux print error log to console
then reboot. Because MCE registers will preserve their content after
warm reboot, the hardware error can be logged to disk or network after
reboot. But system may fail to warm reboot, then you may lose the
hardware error log. ERST can help here. Through saving the hardware
error log into flash via ERST before go panic, the hardware error log
can be gotten from the flash after system boot successful again.
The fatal MCE processing procedure with ERST involved is as follow:
- Hardware detect error, MCE raised
- MCE read MCE registers, check error severity (fatal), prepare error record
- Write MCE error record into flash via ERST
- Go panic, then trigger system reboot
- System reboot, /sbin/mcelog run, it reads /dev/mcelog to check flash
for error record of previous boot via ERST, and output and clear
them if available
- /sbin/mcelog logs error records into disk or network
ERST only accepts CPER record format, but there is no pre-defined CPER
section can accommodate all information in struct mce, so a customized
section type is defined to hold struct mce inside a CPER record as an
error section.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report platform
hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It works in so called
"Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware errors are reported to
firmware firstly, then reported to Linux by firmware. This way, some
non-standard hardware error registers or non-standard hardware link
can be checked by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.
Now, only SCI notification type and memory errors are supported. More
notification type and hardware error type will be added later. These
memory errors are reported to user space through /dev/mcelog via
faking a corrected Machine Check, so that the error memory page can be
offlined by /sbin/mcelog if the error count for one page is beyond the
threshold.
On some machines, Machine Check can not report physical address for
some corrected memory errors, but GHES can do that. So this simplified
GHES is implemented firstly.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some extra CPU features such as ARAT is needed in early boot so
that x86_init function pointers can be set up properly.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/519
At start_kernel() level, this patch moves init_scattered_cpuid_features()
from check_bugs() to setup_arch() -> early_cpu_init() which is earlier than
platform specific x86_init layer setup. Suggested by HPA.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1274295685-6774-2-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This snippet somehow escaped the commit:
| commit 137351e0fe
| Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
| Date: Sat May 8 15:25:52 2010 +0400
|
| x86, perf: P4 PMU -- protect sensible procedures from preemption
so bring it eventually back. It helps to catch
preemption issue (if there will be, rule of thumb --
don't use raw_ if you can).
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100518212439.167259349@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To prevent from clashes in future code modifications
do a real check for ESCR address being in hash. At
moment the callers are known to pass sane values but
better to be on a safe side.
And comment fix.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100518212439.004503600@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler
Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use .cfi_sections for assembly code
x86-64: Reduce SMP locks table size
x86, asm: Introduce and use percpu_inc()
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
It might happen that an event can overflow without
the proper overflow flag set. Check the sign bit in
the raw counter value to solve this problem.
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1274083984.6540.15.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jaswinder reported this #GP:
|
| Message from syslogd@ht at May 14 09:39:32 ...
| kernel:[ 314.908612] EIP: [<c100ccca>]
| x86_perf_event_set_period+0x19d/0x1b2 SS:ESP 0068:edac3d70
|
Ming has narrowed it down to a comparision issue
between arguments with different sizes and
signs. As result event index reached a wrong
value which in turn led to a GP fault.
At the same time it was found that p4_next_cntr
has broken logic and should return the counter
index only if it was not yet borrowed for
another event.
Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100514190815.GG13509@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Linear search over all p4 MSRs should be fine if only
we would not use it in events scheduling routine which
is pretty time critical. Lets use hashes. It should speed
scheduling up significantly.
v2: Steven proposed to use more gentle approach than issue
BUG on error, so we use WARN_ONCE now
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100512174242.GA5190@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The fpu code currently uses current->thread_info->status & TS_XSAVE as
a way to distinguish between XSAVE capable processors and older processors.
The decision is not really task specific; instead we use the task status to
avoid a global memory reference - the value should be the same across all
threads.
Eliminate this tie-in into the task structure by using an alternative
instruction keyed off the XSAVE cpu feature; this results in shorter and
faster code, without introducing a global memory reference.
[ hpa: in the future, this probably should use an asm jmp ]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
edac_mce module is an interface module that gets mcelog data and
forwards to any registered edac module that expects to receive data via
mce.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
EXPORT_SYMBOL() needs <linux/module.h> to be included; fixes modular
builds of the VMware balloon driver, and any future modular drivers
which depends on the hypervisor.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
Export x86_hyper and the related specific structures, allowing for
hypervisor identification by modules.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
RAW events are special and we should be ready for user passing
in insane event index values.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112717.315897547@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The caller already has done such a check.
And it was wrong anyway, it had to be '>=' rather than '>'
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112717.130386882@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven reported:
|
| I'm getting:
|
| Pid: 3477, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6 #2727
| Call Trace:
| [<ffffffff811c7565>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd5/0xf0
| [<ffffffff81019874>] p4_hw_config+0x2b/0x15c
| [<ffffffff8107acbc>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12b/0x14f
| [<ffffffff81019143>] hw_perf_event_init+0x468/0x7be
| [<ffffffff810782fd>] ? debug_mutex_init+0x31/0x3c
| [<ffffffff810c68b2>] T.850+0x273/0x42e
| [<ffffffff810c6cab>] sys_perf_event_open+0x23e/0x3f1
| [<ffffffff81009e6a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
| [<ffffffff81009e32>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
|
| When running perf record in latest tip/perf/core
|
Due to the fact that p4 counters are shared between HT threads
we synthetically divide the whole set of counters into two
non-intersected subsets. And while we're "borrowing" counters
from these subsets we should not be preempted (well, strictly
speaking in p4_hw_config we just pre-set reference to the
subset which allow to save some cycles in schedule routine
if it happens on the same cpu). So use get_cpu/put_cpu pair.
Also p4_pmu_schedule_events should use smp_processor_id rather
than raw_ version. This allow us to catch up preemption issue
(if there will ever be).
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112716.963478928@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If an event is not RAW we should not exit p4_hw_config
early but call x86_setup_perfctr as well.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up the hypervisor layer and the hypervisor drivers, using an ops
structure instead of an enumeration with if statements.
The identity of the hypervisor, if needed, can be tested by testing
the pointer value in x86_hyper.
The MS-HyperV private state is moved into a normal global variable
(it's per-system state, not per-CPU state). Being a normal bss
variable, it will be left at all zero on non-HyperV platforms, and so
can generally be tested for HyperV-specific features without
additional qualification.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com>
This should have been GPLv2 only, we cut and pasted from the wrong file
originally, sorry.
Also removed some unneeded boilerplate license code, we all know where
to find the GPLv2, and that there's no warranty as that is implicit from
the license.
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100507235541.GA15448@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Check hlt instruction was targeted for some older CPUs. It is an expensive
operation in that it takes 4 ticks to break out the check. We can avoid
such check completely for newer x86 cpus (family >= 5).
[ hpa: corrected family > 5 to family >= 5 ]
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273269585-14346-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Convert to the transactional PMU API and remove the duplication of
group_sched_in().
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1272002172.5707.61.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and
widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of
the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field:
0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid
And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation
now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup.
Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit
should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual
instruction triggering the event.
This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more
than a single event.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Its broken, we really should get PERF_SAMPLE_REGS sorted.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There may exist constraints with a cmask set to zero. In this case
for_each_event_constraint() will not work properly. Now weight is used
instead of the cmask for loop exit detection. Weight is always a value
other than zero since the default contains the HWEIGHT from the
counter mask and in other cases a value of zero does not fit too.
This is in preparation of ibs event constraints that wont have a
cmask.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To reuse this function for events with different enable bit masks,
this mask is part of the function's argument list now.
The function will be used later to control ibs events too.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The perfctr setup calls are in the corresponding .hw_config()
functions now. This makes it possible to introduce config functions
for other pmu events that are not perfctr specific.
Also, all of a sudden the code looks much nicer.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move x86_setup_perfctr(), no other changes made.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Split __hw_perf_event_init() to configure pmu events other than
perfctrs. Perfctr code is moved to a separate function
x86_setup_perfctr(). This and the following patches refactor the code.
Split in multiple patches for better review.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.
Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
APERF/MPERF can be handled via the table like all the other scattered
CPU flags.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
With F10, model 10, all valid frequencies are in the ACPI _PST table.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 33.x 32.x
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-6-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Disable large pages on CPUs with Atom erratum AAE44
x86-64: Clear a 64-bit FS/GS base on fork if selector is nonzero
x86, mrst: Conditionally register cpu hotplug notifier for apbt
This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a
technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory
available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit
scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some
memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and
the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor
may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and
instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon.
We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity)
expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into
virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with
virtio.
There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the
right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are
prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like
to get this driver upstream.
We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not
have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have
"upstream first" requirement.
The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on
VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it
will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional
risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate
if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Atom erratum AAE44/AAF40/AAG38/AAH41:
"If software clears the PS (page size) bit in a present PDE (page
directory entry), that will cause linear addresses mapped through this
PDE to use 4-KByte pages instead of using a large page after old TLB
entries are invalidated. Due to this erratum, if a code fetch uses
this PDE before the TLB entry for the large page is invalidated then
it may fetch from a different physical address than specified by
either the old large page translation or the new 4-KByte page
translation. This erratum may also cause speculative code fetches from
incorrect addresses."
[http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/319536.pdf]
Where as commit 211b3d03c7 seems to
workaround errata AAH41 (mixed 4K TLBs) it reduces the window of
opportunity for the bug to occur and does not totally remove it. This
patch disables mixed 4K/4MB page tables totally avoiding the page
splitting and not tripping this processor issue.
This is based on an original patch by Colin King.
Originally-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269271251-19775-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
When disabling an L3 cache index, make sure we disable that index in
all four subcaches of the L3. Clarify nomenclature while at it, wrt to
disable slots versus disable index and rename accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1271945222-5283-6-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
