The 'latency timer' of PCI devices, both Type 0 and Type 1,
is setup in architecture-specific code [see: 'pcibios_set_master()'].
There are two approaches being taken by all the architectures - check
if the 'latency timer' is currently set between 16 and 255 and if not
bring it within bounds, or, do nothing (and then there is the
gratuitously different PA-RISC implementation).
There is nothing architecture-specific about PCI's 'latency timer' so
this patch pulls its setup functionality up into the PCI core by
creating a generic 'pcibios_set_master()' function using the '__weak'
attribute which can be used by all architectures as a default which,
if necessary, can then be over-ridden by architecture-specific code.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file,
and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
file, that the merge did not catch.
The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell
<sfr@canb.auug.org.au> who was invaluable in the merge issues involved
with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses
sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period()
sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage
[S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat
sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field
sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting
sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup
...
Fix up conflicts in
- arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h
usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups
- kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c
scheduler changes in multiple branches
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits)
perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description
perf script: Kill script_spec__delete
perf top: Fix a memory leak
perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
perf session: Remove impossible condition check
perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable
perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags
perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section
perf report: Accept fifos as input file
perf tools: Moving code in some files
perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session
perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features
perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops
perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.
perf tools: Fix truncated annotation
perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid
perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
...
Just like the per-CPU ones they had several
problems/shortcomings:
Only the first memory operand was mentioned in the asm()
operands, and the 2x64-bit version didn't have a memory clobber
while the 2x32-bit one did. The former allowed the compiler to
not recognize the need to re-load the data in case it had it
cached in some register, while the latter was overly
destructive.
The types of the local copies of the old and new values were
incorrect (the types of the pointed-to variables should be used
here, to make sure the respective old/new variable types are
compatible).
The __dummy/__junk variables were pointless, given that local
copies of the inputs already existed (and can hence be used for
discarded outputs).
The 32-bit variant of cmpxchg_double_local() referenced
cmpxchg16b_local().
At once also:
- change the return value type to what it really is: 'bool'
- unify 32- and 64-bit variants
- abstract out the common part of the 'normal' and 'local' variants
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F01F12A020000780006A19B@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a helper function that emulates the RDPMC instruction operation.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use perf_events to emulate an architectural PMU, version 2.
Based on PMU version 1 emulation by Avi Kivity.
[avi: adjust for cpuid.c]
[jan: fix anonymous field initialization for older gcc]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Intel latest cpu add 6 new features, refer http://software.intel.com/file/36945
The new feature cpuid listed as below:
1. FMA CPUID.EAX=01H:ECX.FMA[bit 12]
2. MOVBE CPUID.EAX=01H:ECX.MOVBE[bit 22]
3. BMI1 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.BMI1[bit 3]
4. AVX2 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.AVX2[bit 5]
5. BMI2 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.BMI2[bit 8]
6. LZCNT CPUID.EAX=80000001H:ECX.LZCNT[bit 5]
This patch expose these features to guest.
Among them, FMA/MOVBE/LZCNT has already been defined, MOVBE/LZCNT has
already been exposed.
This patch defines BMI1/AVX2/BMI2, and exposes FMA/BMI1/AVX2/BMI2 to guest.
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, write protecting a slot needs to walk all the shadow pages
and checks ones which have a pte mapping a page in it.
The walk is overly heavy when dirty pages in that slot are not so many
and checking the shadow pages would result in unwanted cache pollution.
To mitigate this problem, we use rmap_write_protect() and check only
the sptes which can be reached from gfns marked in the dirty bitmap
when the number of dirty pages are less than that of shadow pages.
This criterion is reasonable in its meaning and worked well in our test:
write protection became some times faster than before when the ratio of
dirty pages are low and was not worse even when the ratio was near the
criterion.
Note that the locking for this write protection becomes fine grained.
The reason why this is safe is descripted in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The host side pv mmu support has been marked for feature removal in
January 2011. It's not in use, is slower than shadow or hardware
assisted paging, and a maintenance burden. It's November 2011, time to
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Detecting write-flooding does not work well, when we handle page written, if
the last speculative spte is not accessed, we treat the page is
write-flooding, however, we can speculative spte on many path, such as pte
prefetch, page synced, that means the last speculative spte may be not point
to the written page and the written page can be accessed via other sptes, so
depends on the Accessed bit of the last speculative spte is not enough
Instead of detected page accessed, we can detect whether the spte is accessed
after it is written, if the spte is not accessed but it is written frequently,
we treat is not a page table or it not used for a long time
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In current code, the accessed bit is always set when page fault occurred,
do not need to set it on pte write path
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the emulation is caused by #PF and it is non-page_table writing instruction,
it means the VM-EXIT is caused by shadow page protected, we can zap the shadow
page and retry this instruction directly
The idea is from Avi
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently "nox2apic" boot parameter was not enabling x2apic mode if the cpu,
kernel are all capable of enabling x2apic mode and the OS handover
happened in xapic mode.
However If the bios enabled x2apic prior to OS handover, using "nox2apic"
boot parameter had no effect.
If the boot cpu's apicid is < 255, enable "nox2apic" boot parameter to
disable the x2apic mode setup by the bios. This will enable the kernel to
fallback to xapic mode and bringup only the cpu's which has apic-id < 255.
-v2: fix patch error and two compiling warning
make disable_x2apic to be __init
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE9FiQUeB-3uxJAMiHsz=uPWoFv5Hg1pVepz7aU6YtqOxMC-=Q@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
On some of the recent Intel SNB platforms, by default bios is pre-enabling
x2apic mode in the cpu with out setting up interrupt-remapping.
This case was resulting in the kernel to panic as the cpu is already in
x2apic mode but the OS was not able to enable interrupt-remapping (which
is a pre-req for using x2apic capability).
On these platforms all the apic-ids are < 255 and the kernel can fallback to
xapic mode if the bios has not enabled interrupt-remapping (which is
mostly the case if the bios has not exported interrupt-remapping tables to the
OS).
Reported-by: Berck E. Nash <flyboy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111222014632.600418637@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We simply say that regular this_cpu use must be safe regardless of
preemption and interrupt state. That has no material change for x86
and s390 implementations of this_cpu operations. However, arches that
do not provide their own implementation for this_cpu operations will
now get code generated that disables interrupts instead of preemption.
-tj: This is part of on-going percpu API cleanup. For detailed
discussion of the subject, please refer to the following thread.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1222078
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112221154380.11787@router.home>
* master: (848 commits)
SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()
binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node
ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset
oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness
memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments()
nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl
cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask
evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
evm: key must be set once during initialization
mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter
Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default"
mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host
x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT
IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement
RDMA/cma: Verify private data length
cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"
...
Conflicts:
kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with
NMIs running on the debug stack:
int3 -> interrupt -> NMI -> int3
Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that
it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case,
interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in
an a location in the exception table (fixup).
userspace -> int3 -> interurpt -> NMI -> int3
All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed
without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will
panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location
within the kernel.
Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while
using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case.
If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug
stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to
change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will
corrupt the stack if it does).
Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h
and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to
inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires
smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We want to allow NMI handlers to have breakpoints to be able to
remove stop_machine from ftrace, kprobes and jump_labels. But if
an NMI interrupts a current breakpoint, and then it triggers a
breakpoint itself, it will switch to the breakpoint stack and
corrupt the data on it for the breakpoint processing that it
interrupted.
Instead, have the NMI check if it interrupted breakpoint processing
by checking if the stack that is currently used is a breakpoint
stack. If it is, then load a special IDT that changes the IST
for the debug exception to keep the same stack in kernel context.
When the NMI is done, it puts it back.
This way, if the NMI does trigger a breakpoint, it will keep
using the same stack and not stomp on the breakpoint data for
the breakpoint it interrupted.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space. However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files. The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:
text data bss dec hex filename
4737168 506459 972040 6215667 5ed7f3 vmlinux.o.before
4737444 506459 972040 6215943 5ed907 vmlinux.o.after
for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.
If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LAPIC related statistics are grouped inside the per-cpu
structure irq_stat, so there is no need for icr_read_retry_count
to be a standalone per-cpu variable.
This patch moves icr_read_retry_count to where it belongs.
Suggested-y: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
gcc noticed (when using -Wempty-body) that our use of
lock_cmos() and unlock_cmos() in
arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h is potentially problematic :
arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h:32:15: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ¡else¢ statement [-Wempty-body]
arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h:40:16: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ¡else¢ statement [-Wempty-body]
Let's just use the standard 'do {} while (0)' solution. That
shuts up gcc and also prevents future problems if the macros
should end up being used in a similar situation elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1112180103130.21784@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
mce-inject provides a mechanism to simulate errors so that test
scripts can check for correct operation of the kernel without
requiring any specialized hardware to create rare events.
The existing code can simulate events in normal process context
and also in NMI context - but not in IRQ context. This patch
fills that gap.
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/7/537
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
fls(N), ffs(N) and fls64(N) can be optimised on x86_64. Currently they use a
CMOV instruction after the BSR/BSF to set the destination register to -1 if the
value to be scanned was 0 (in which case BSR/BSF set the Z flag).
Instead, according to the AMD64 specification, we can make use of the fact that
BSR/BSF doesn't modify its output register if its input is 0. By preloading
the output with -1 and incrementing the result, we achieve the desired result
without the need for a conditional check.
The Intel x86_64 specification, however, says that the result of BSR/BSF in
such a case is undefined. That said, when queried, one of the Intel CPU
architects said that the behaviour on all Intel CPUs is that:
(1) with BSRQ/BSFQ, the 64-bit destination register is written with its
original value if the source is 0, thus, in essence, giving the effect we
want. And,
(2) with BSRL/BSFL, the lower half of the 64-bit destination register is
written with its original value if the source is 0, and the upper half is
cleared, thus giving us the effect we want (we return a 4-byte int).
Further, it was indicated that they (Intel) are unlikely to get away with
changing the behaviour.
It might be possible to optimise the 32-bit versions of these functions, but
there's a lot more variation, and so the effective non-destructive property of
BSRL/BSRF cannot be relied on.
[ hpa: specifically, some 486 chips are known to NOT have this property. ]
I have benchmarked these functions on my Core2 Duo test machine using the
following program:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#ifndef __x86_64__
#error
#endif
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
typedef unsigned long long __u64, u64;
typedef unsigned int __u32, u32;
#define noinline __attribute__((noinline))
static __always_inline int fls64(__u64 x)
{
long bitpos = -1;
asm("bsrq %1,%0"
: "+r" (bitpos)
: "rm" (x));
return bitpos + 1;
}
static inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word)
{
asm("bsr %1,%0"
: "=r" (word)
: "rm" (word));
return word;
}
static __always_inline int old_fls64(__u64 x)
{
if (x == 0)
return 0;
return __fls(x) + 1;
}
static noinline // __attribute__((const))
int old_get_order(unsigned long size)
{
int order;
size = (size - 1) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 1);
order = -1;
do {
size >>= 1;
order++;
} while (size);
return order;
}
static inline __attribute__((const))
int get_order_old_fls64(unsigned long size)
{
int order;
size--;
size >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
order = old_fls64(size);
return order;
}
static inline __attribute__((const))
int get_order(unsigned long size)
{
int order;
size--;
size >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
order = fls64(size);
return order;
}
unsigned long prevent_optimise_out;
static noinline unsigned long test_old_get_order(void)
{
unsigned long n, total = 0;
long rep, loop;
for (rep = 1000000; rep > 0; rep--) {
for (loop = 0; loop <= 16384; loop += 4) {
n = 1UL << loop;
total += old_get_order(n);
}
}
return total;
}
static noinline unsigned long test_get_order_old_fls64(void)
{
unsigned long n, total = 0;
long rep, loop;
for (rep = 1000000; rep > 0; rep--) {
for (loop = 0; loop <= 16384; loop += 4) {
n = 1UL << loop;
total += get_order_old_fls64(n);
}
}
return total;
}
static noinline unsigned long test_get_order(void)
{
unsigned long n, total = 0;
long rep, loop;
for (rep = 1000000; rep > 0; rep--) {
for (loop = 0; loop <= 16384; loop += 4) {
n = 1UL << loop;
total += get_order(n);
}
}
return total;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned long total;
switch (argc) {
case 1: total = test_old_get_order(); break;
case 2: total = test_get_order_old_fls64(); break;
default: total = test_get_order(); break;
}
prevent_optimise_out = total;
return 0;
}
This allows me to test the use of the old fls64() implementation and the new
fls64() implementation and also to contrast these to the out-of-line loop-based
implementation of get_order(). The results were:
warthog>time ./get_order
real 1m37.191s
user 1m36.313s
sys 0m0.861s
warthog>time ./get_order x
real 0m16.892s
user 0m16.586s
sys 0m0.287s
warthog>time ./get_order x x
real 0m7.731s
user 0m7.727s
sys 0m0.002s
Using the current upstream fls64() as a basis for an inlined get_order() [the
second result above] is much faster than using the current out-of-line
loop-based get_order() [the first result above].
Using my optimised inline fls64()-based get_order() [the third result above]
is even faster still.
[ hpa: changed the selection of 32 vs 64 bits to use CONFIG_X86_64
instead of comparing BITS_PER_LONG, updated comments, rebased manually
on top of 83d99df7c4 x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__ ]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213145654.14362.39868.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We would include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h> even without __KERNEL__,
but that doesn't make sense, as:
1. That file provides fls64(), but the corresponding function fls() is
not exported to user space.
2. The implementation of fls64.h uses kernel-only symbols.
3. fls64.h is not exported to user space.
This appears to have been a bug introduced in checkin:
d57594c203 bitops: use __fls for fls64 on 64-bit archs
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EEA77E1.6050009@zytor.com
They had several problems/shortcomings:
Only the first memory operand was mentioned in the 2x32bit asm()
operands, and 2x64-bit version had a memory clobber. The first
allowed the compiler to not recognize the need to re-load the
data in case it had it cached in some register, and the second
was overly destructive.
The memory operand in the 2x32-bit asm() was declared to only be
an output.
The types of the local copies of the old and new values were
incorrect (as in other per-CPU ops, the types of the per-CPU
variables accessed should be used here, to make sure the
respective types are compatible).
The __dummy variable was pointless (and needlessly initialized
in the 2x32-bit case), given that local copies of the inputs
already exist.
The 2x64-bit variant forced the address of the first object into
%rsi, even though this is needed only for the call to the
emulation function. The real cmpxchg16b can operate on an
memory.
At once also change the return value type to what it really is -
'bool'.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EE86D6502000078000679FE@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
No functionality change, this is done so that in a follow-on patch all
queued-up MCEs can be decoded after registering on the chain.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
In the IPI delivery slow path (NMI delivery) we retry the ICR
read to check for delivery completion a limited number of times.
[ The reason for the limited retries is that some of the places
where it is used (cpu boot, kdump, etc) IPI delivery might not
succeed (due to a firmware bug or system crash, for example)
and in such a case it is better to give up and resume
execution of other code. ]
This patch adds a new entry to /proc/interrupts, RTR, which
tells user space the number of times we retried the ICR read in
the IPI delivery slow path.
This should give some insight into how well the APIC
message delivery hardware is working - if the counts are way
too large then we are hitting a (very-) slow path way too
often.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vzsp20lo2xdzh5f70g0eis2s@git.kernel.org
[ extended the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
