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Ingo Molnar
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a7f4463e03 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into tracing/core 2009-02-24 18:22:39 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
9f331119a4 x86: efi_stub_32,64 - add missing ENDPROCs
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:40 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
bc8b2b9258 x86: head_64.S - use GLOBAL macro
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:40 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
b3baaa138c x86: entry_64.S - add missing ENDPROC
native_usergs_sysret64 is described as

	extern void native_usergs_sysret64(void)

so lets add ENDPROC here

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:39 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5e112ae23b x86: head_64.S - use IDT_ENTRIES instead of hardcoded number
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:38 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
2a0b100111 x86: head_64.S - remove useless balign
Impact: cleanup

NEXT_PAGE already has 'balign' so no
need to keep this redundant one.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8ac8375714 x86: add remapping percpu first chunk allocator
Impact: add better first percpu allocation for NUMA

On NUMA, embedding allocator can't be used as different units can't be
made to fall in the correct NUMA nodes.  To use large page mapping,
each unit needs to be remapped.  However, percpu areas are usually
much smaller than large page size and unused space hurts a lot as the
number of cpus grow.  This allocator remaps large pages for each chunk
but gives back unused part to the bootmem allocator making the large
pages mapped twice.

This adds slightly to the TLB pressure but is much better than using
4k mappings while still being NUMA-friendly.

Ingo suggested that this would be the correct approach for NUMA.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 11:57:22 +09:00
Tejun Heo
89c9215165 x86: add embedding percpu first chunk allocator
Impact: add better first percpu allocation for !NUMA

On !NUMA, we can simply allocate contiguous memory and use it for the
first chunk without mapping it into vmalloc area.  As the memory area
is covered by the large page physical memory mapping, it allows the
dynamic perpcu allocator to not add any TLB overhead for the static
percpu area and whatever falls into the first chunk and the
implementation is very simple too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
5f5d8405d1 x86: separate out setup_pcpu_4k() from setup_per_cpu_areas()
Impact: modularize percpu first chunk allocation

x86 is gonna have a few different strategies for the first chunk
allocation.  Modularize it by separating out the current allocation
mechanism into pcpu_alloc_bootmem() and setup_pcpu_4k().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
8d408b4be3 percpu: give more latitude to arch specific first chunk initialization
Impact: more latitude for first percpu chunk allocation

The first percpu chunk serves the kernel static percpu area and may or
may not contain extra room for further dynamic allocation.
Initialization of the first chunk needs to be done before normal
memory allocation service is up, so it has its own init path -
pcpu_setup_static().

It seems archs need more latitude while initializing the first chunk
for example to take advantage of large page mapping.  This patch makes
the following changes to allow this.

* Define PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE to give arch hint about how much space
  to reserve in the first chunk for further dynamic allocation.

* Rename pcpu_setup_static() to pcpu_setup_first_chunk().

* Make pcpu_setup_first_chunk() much more flexible by fetching page
  pointer by callback and adding optional @unit_size, @free_size and
  @base_addr arguments which allow archs to selectively part of chunk
  initialization to their likings.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
458a3e644c x86: update populate_extra_pte() and add populate_extra_pmd()
Impact: minor change to populate_extra_pte() and addition of pmd flavor

Update populate_extra_pte() to return pointer to the pte_t for the
specified address and add populate_extra_pmd() which only populates
till the pmd and returns pointer to the pmd entry for the address.

For 64bit, pud/pmd/pte fill functions are separated out from
set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and used for set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and
populate_extra_{pte|pmd}().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
H. Peter Anvin
dc731ca609 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/mce2 2009-02-23 14:05:56 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
ec5b3d3243 x86, mce: remove invalid __cpuinit/__cpuexit annotations
Impact: Bug fix when CPU hotplug is disabled

Correct the following broken __cpuinit/__cpuexit annotations:

- mce_cpu_features() is called from mce_resume(), and so cannot be
  __cpuinit.
- mce_disable_cpu() and mce_reenable_cpu() are called from
  mce_cpu_callback(), and so cannot be __cpuexit().

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-23 14:01:04 -08:00
Stas Sergeev
bda3a89745 x86: minor cleanup in the espfix code
Impact: Cleanup

Checkin be44d2aabc eliminates the use of
a 16-bit stack for espfix.  However, at least one instruction remained
that only operated on the low 16 bits of %esp.

This is not a bug per se because the kernel stack is always an aligned
4K or 8K block.  Therefore it cannot cross 64K boundaries; this code,
in fact, relies strictly on that fact.

However, it's a lot cleaner (and, for that matter, smaller) to operate
on the entire 32-bit register.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-23 11:34:04 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
ecda06289f x86: check mptable physptr with max_low_pfn on 32bit
Impact: fix early crash on LinuxBIOS systems

Kevin O'Connor reported that Coreboot aka LinuxBIOS tries to put
mptable somewhere very high, well above max_low_pfn (below which
BIOSes generally put the mptable), causing a panic.

The BIOS will probably be changed to be compatible with older
Linus versions, but nevertheless the MP-spec does not forbid
an MP-table in arbitrary system RAM, so make sure it all
works even if the table is in an unexpected place.

Check physptr with max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE.

Reported-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
Cc: coreboot@coreboot.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 07:41:31 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
35f88e6b06 Merge commit 'ftrace/function-graph' into next 2009-02-23 10:47:23 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
8e6dafd6c7 x86: refactor x86_quirks support
Impact: cleanup

Make x86_quirks support more transparent. The highlevel
methods are now named:

  extern void x86_quirk_pre_intr_init(void);
  extern void x86_quirk_intr_init(void);

  extern void x86_quirk_trap_init(void);

  extern void x86_quirk_pre_time_init(void);
  extern void x86_quirk_time_init(void);

This makes it clear that if some platform extension has to
do something here that it is considered ... weird, and is
discouraged.

Also remove arch_hooks.h and move it into setup.h (and other
header files where appropriate).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:08:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d85a881d78 x86: remove various unused subarch hooks
Impact: remove dead code

Remove:

 - pre_setup_arch_hook()
 - mca_nmi_hook()

If needed they can be added back via an x86_quirk handler.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:06:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
770824bdc4 PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up]
Move the sysdev_suspend/resume from the callee to the callers, with
no real change in semantics, so that we can rework the disabling of
interrupts during suspend/hibernation.

This is based on an earlier patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 10:33:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
936577c61d x86: Add IRQF_TIMER to legacy x86 timer interrupt descriptors
Right now nobody cares, but the suspend/resume code will eventually want
to suspend device interrupts without suspending the timer, and will
depend on this flag to know.

The modern x86 timer infrastructure uses the local APIC timers and never
shows up as a device interrupt at all, so it isn't affected and doesn't
need any of this.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 10:27:49 -08:00
Suresh Siddha
ef1f87aa7b x86: select x2apic ops in early apic probe only if x2apic mode is enabled
If BIOS hands over the control to OS in legacy xapic mode, select
legacy xapic related ops in the early apic probe and shift to x2apic
ops later in the boot sequence, only after enabling x2apic mode.

If BIOS hands over the control in x2apic mode, select x2apic related
ops in the early apic probe.

This fixes the early boot panic, where we were selecting x2apic ops,
while the cpu is still in legacy xapic mode.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 18:20:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c478f87869 Merge branch 'tip/x86/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-02-22 18:12:01 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
c23e253e67 x86: hpet: stop HPET_COUNTER when programming periodic mode
Impact: fix system hang on some systems operating with HZ_1000

On a system that stalled with HZ_1000, the first value written to
T0_CMP (when the main counter was not stopped) did not trigger an
interrupt. Instead after the main counter wrapped around (after
several minutes) an interrupt was triggered and afterwards the
periodic interrupt took effect.

This can be fixed by implementing HPET spec recommendation for
programming the periodic mode (i.e. stopping the main counter).

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 18:01:18 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
8d6f0c8214 x86: hpet: provide separate functions to stop and start the counter
By splitting up existing hpet_start_counter function.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 18:01:17 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
b98103a559 x86: hpet: print HPET registers during setup (if hpet=verbose is used)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 18:01:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2702e0a46c Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet 2009-02-22 17:59:49 +01:00
Hannes Eder
fc6fcdfbb8 x86: kexec/i386: fix sparse warnings: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Fix these sparse warnings:

  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c:124:22: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:950:24: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 09:27:11 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
6defa2fe20 x86_64: Fix S3 fail path
As acpi_enter_sleep_state can fail, take this into account in
do_suspend_lowlevel and don't return to the do_suspend_lowlevel's
caller. This would break (currently) fpu status and preempt count.

Technically, this means use `call' instead of `jmp' and `jmp' to
the `resume_point' after the `call' (i.e. if
acpi_enter_sleep_state returns=fails). `resume_point' will handle
the restore of fpu and preempt count gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 21:58:18 -05:00
Jiri Slaby
e6bd6760c9 x86_64: acpi/wakeup_64 cleanup
- remove %ds re-set, it's already set in wakeup_long64
- remove double labels and alignment (ENTRY already adds both)
- use meaningful resume point labelname
- skip alignment while jumping from wakeup_long64 to the resume point
- remove .size, .type and unused labels
[v2]
- added ENDPROCs

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 21:58:18 -05:00
H. Peter Anvin
cc3ca22063 x86, mce: remove incorrect __cpuinit for mce_cpu_features()
Impact: Bug fix on UP

Checkin 6ec68bff3c:
    x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume

introduced a call to mce_cpu_features() in the resume path, in order
for the MCE machinery to get properly reinitialized after a resume.
However, this function (and its successors) was flagged __cpuinit,
which becomes __init on UP configurations (on SMP suspend/resume
requires CPU hotplug and so this would not be seen.)

Remove the offending __cpuinit annotations for mce_cpu_features() and
its successor functions.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-20 23:40:40 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
d951734654 x86, mm: rename TASK_SIZE64 => TASK_SIZE_MAX
Impact: cleanup

Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)

This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:44 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
90c7ac49aa ftrace: immediately stop code modification if failure is detected
Impact: fix to prevent NMI lockup

If the page fault handler produces a WARN_ON in the modifying of
text, and the system is setup to have a high frequency of NMIs,
we can lock up the system on a failure to modify code.

The modifying of code with NMIs allows all NMIs to modify the code
if it is about to run. This prevents a modifier on one CPU from
modifying code running in NMI context on another CPU. The modifying
is done through stop_machine, so only NMIs must be considered.

But if the write causes the page fault handler to produce a warning,
the print can slow it down enough that as soon as it is done
it will take another NMI before going back to the process context.
The new NMI will perform the write again causing another print and
this will hang the box.

This patch turns off the writing as soon as a failure is detected
and does not wait for it to be turned off by the process context.
This will keep NMIs from getting stuck in this back and forth
of print outs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 14:30:18 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
1623963097 ftrace, x86: make kernel text writable only for conversions
Impact: keep kernel text read only

Because dynamic ftrace converts the calls to mcount into and out of
nops at run time, we needed to always keep the kernel text writable.

But this defeats the point of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. This patch converts
the kernel code to writable before ftrace modifies the text, and converts
it back to read only afterward.

The kernel text is converted to read/write, stop_machine is called to
modify the code, then the kernel text is converted back to read only.

The original version used SYSTEM_STATE to determine when it was OK
or not to change the code to rw or ro. Andrew Morton pointed out that
using SYSTEM_STATE is a bad idea since there is no guarantee to what
its state will actually be.

Instead, I moved the check into the set_kernel_text_* functions
themselves, and use a local variable to determine when it is
OK to change the kernel text RW permissions.

[ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested moving the prototypes to cacheflush.h ]

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 14:30:06 -05:00
Alok Kataria
fdb17aeb28 x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource, cleanup
clean up vmi_read_cycles to use max()

Reported-b: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 19:31:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
609162850d Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3b6f7b9beb Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:43 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
ecab22aa6d x86: use symbolic constants for MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits
Impact: Cleanup. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 12:07:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
64b36ca7f4 Merge branches 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-20 11:35:57 +01:00
Tejun Heo
11124411aa x86: convert to the new dynamic percpu allocator
Impact: use new dynamic allocator, unified access to static/dynamic
        percpu memory

Convert to the new dynamic percpu allocator.

* implement populate_extra_pte() for both 32 and 64
* update setup_per_cpu_areas() to use pcpu_setup_static()
* define __addr_to_pcpu_ptr() and __pcpu_ptr_to_addr()
* define config HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:09 +09:00
Rusty Russell
b36128c830 alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptr
Impact: cleanup

There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling.  The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.

tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Lai Jiangshan
42f8faecf7 x86: use percpu data for 4k hardirq and softirq stacks
Impact: economize memory for large NR_CPUS

percpu data is setup earlier than irq, we can use percpu data
to economize memory.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:26:10 +09:00
Alok N Kataria
48ffc70b67 x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource
Impact: fix time warps under vmware

Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource,
we also need this check for VMI clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-02-20 07:53:08 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
f6d1826dfa x86, mce: use %ll instead of %L for 64-bit numbers
Impact: Cleanup

The standard spelling of a printf pattern for long long is "ll", not
"L", which is for long double.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-19 15:44:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
b79109c3bb x86, mce: separate correct machine check poller and fatal exception handler
Impact: cleanup, performance enhancement

The machine check poller is diverging more and more from the fatal
exception handler. Instead of adding more special cases separate the code
paths completely. The corrected poll path is actually quite simple,
and this doesn't result in much code duplication.

This makes both handlers much easier to read and results in
cleaner code flow.  The exception handler now only needs to care
about uncorrected errors, which also simplifies the handling of multiple
errors. The corrected poller also now always runs in standard interrupt
context and does not need to do anything special to handle NMI context.

Minor behaviour changes:
- MCG status is now not cleared on polling.
- Only the banks which had corrected errors get cleared on polling
- The exception handler only clears banks with errors now

v2: Forward port to new patch order. Add "uc" argument.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-19 14:52:20 -08:00
Andi Kleen
b5f2fa4ea0 x86, mce: factor out duplicated struct mce setup into one function
Impact: cleanup

This merely factors out duplicated code to set up
the initial struct mce state into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-19 14:51:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen
0d7482e3d7 x86, mce: implement dynamic machine check banks support
Impact: cleanup; making code future proof; memory saving on small systems

This patch replaces the hardcoded max number of machine check banks with 
dynamic allocation depending on what the CPU reports. The sysfs
data structures and the banks array are dynamically allocated.

There is still a hard bank limit (128) because the mcelog protocol uses
banks >= 128 as pseudo banks to escape other events. But we expect
that 128 banks is beyond any reasonable CPU for now.

This supersedes an earlier patch by Venki, but it solves the problem
more completely by making the limit fully dynamic (up to the 128
boundary).

This saves some memory on machines with less than 6 banks because
they won't need sysdevs for unused ones and also allows to 
use sysfs to control these banks on possible future CPUs with
more than 6 banks.

This is an updated patch addressing Venki's comments.  I also added in
another patch from Thomas which fixed the error allocation path (that
patch was previously separated)

Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-19 14:50:58 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
e9ce0c37c2 Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers 2009-02-19 18:15:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
bcf8951fc2 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, mce: fix ifdef for 64bit thermal apic vector clear on shutdown
  x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check
  x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume
  x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
2009-02-19 09:14:35 -08:00