This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.
This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.
This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.
It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.
This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3
selector is __USER_CS. This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq
changes cs to the magic value 0xe033.
Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve
vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling"
(c9712944b2), vsyscalls will segfault
if called with Xen's extra CS selector. This causes a panic when
older init builds die.
It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without
taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the
tests instead with a new paravirt op. It's a little ugly because
ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Gold has trouble assigning numbers to the location counter inside of
an output section description. The bug was triggered by
9fd67b4ed0, which consolidated all of
the vsyscall sections into a single section. The workaround is IMO
still nicer than the old way of doing it.
This produces an apparently valid kernel image and passes my vdso
tests on both GNU ld version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118 and GNU
gold (version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118) 1.10 as distributed by
Fedora 15.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b260cb806f1f9a25c00ce8377a5f035d57f557a.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
cpuidle users should call cpuidle_call_idle() directly
rather than via (pm_idle)() function pointer.
Architecture may choose to continue using (pm_idle)(),
but cpuidle need not depend on it:
my_arch_cpu_idle()
...
if(cpuidle_call_idle())
pm_idle();
cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
If the CPU declares that RDRAND is available, go through a guranteed
reseed sequence, and make sure that it is actually working (producing
data.) If it does not, disable the CPU feature flag.
Allow RDRAND to be disabled on the command line (as opposed to at
compile time) for a user who has special requirements with regards to
random numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
fs: Merge split strings
treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
Update my e-mail address
PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
gma500: push through device driver tree
...
Fix up trivial conflicts:
- arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
- drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
- drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch implements the kvm bits of the steal time infrastructure.
The most important part of it, is the steal time clock. It is an
continuous clock that shows the accumulated amount of steal time
since vcpu creation. It is supposed to survive cpu offlining/onlining.
[marcelo: fix build with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'x86-detect-hyper-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hyper: Change hypervisor detection order
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32, fpu: Fix DNA exception during check_fpu()
* 'x86-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kexec, x86: Fix incorrect jump back address if not preserving context
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, config: Introduce an INTEL_MID configuration
* 'x86-quirks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, quirks: Use pci_dev->revision
* 'x86-tsc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: tsc: Remove unneeded DMI-based blacklisting
* 'x86-smpboot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, boot: Wait for boot cpu to show up if nr_cpus limit is about to hit
* 'timers-clocksource-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: apb: Share APB timer code with other platforms
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
* 'x86-signal-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Kill handle_signal()->set_fs()
x86, do_signal: Simplify the TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK logic
x86, signals: Convert the X86_32 code to use set_current_blocked()
x86, signals: Convert the IA32_EMULATION code to use set_current_blocked()
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mce: Use mce_sysdev_ prefix to group functions
x86, mce: Use mce_chrdev_ prefix to group functions
x86, mce: Cleanup mce_read()
x86, mce: Cleanup mce_create()/remove_device()
x86, mce: Check the result of ancient_init()
x86, mce: Introduce mce_gather_info()
x86, mce: Replace MCM_ with MCI_MISC_
x86, mce: Replace MCE_SELF_VECTOR by irq_work
x86, mce, severity: Clean up trivial coding style problems
x86, mce, severity: Cleanup severity table
x86, mce, severity: Make formatting a bit more readable
x86, mce, severity: Fix two severities table signatures
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, smpboot: Mark the names[] array in __inquire_remote_apic() as const
x86: Convert vmalloc()+memset() to vzalloc()
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, ioapic: Print IR_IO_APIC_route_entry when IR is enabled
x86, ioapic: Print IRTE when IR is enabled
x86, x2apic: Preserve high 32-bits of IA32_APIC_BASE MSR
x86, ioapic: Also print Dest field
x86, ioapic: Format clean up for IOAPIC output
x86: print APIC data a little later during boot
* 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
mips: Fix i8253 clockevent fallout
i8253: Cleanup outb/inb magic
arm: Footbridge: Use common i8253 clockevent
mips: Use common i8253 clockevent
x86: Use common i8253 clockevent
i8253: Create common clockevent implementation
i8253: Export i8253_lock unconditionally
pcpskr: MIPS: Make config dependencies finer grained
pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies
i8253: Move remaining content and delete asm/i8253.h
i8253: Consolidate definitions of PIT_LATCH
x86: i8253: Consolidate definitions of global_clock_event
i8253: Alpha, PowerPC: Remove unused asm/8253pit.h
alpha: i8253: Cleanup remaining users of i8253pit.h
i8253: Remove I8253_LOCK config
i8253: Make pcsp sound driver use the shared i8253_lock
i8253: Make pcspkr input driver use the shared i8253_lock
i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock
i8253: Unify all kernel declarations of i8253_lock
i8253: Create linux/i8253.h and use it in all 8253 related files
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (123 commits)
perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the oprofile_perf backend
x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function
perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check
x86, perf: P4 PMU - Fix typos in comments and style cleanup
perf tools: Make test use the preset debugfs path
perf tools: Add automated tests for events parsing
perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function
perf script: Fix display of IP address for non-callchain path
perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file header
perf tools: Add missing 'node' alias to the hw_cache[] array
perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules
perf probe: Add probed module in front of function
perf probe: Introduce debuginfo to encapsulate dwarf information
perf-probe: Move dwarf library routines to dwarf-aux.{c, h}
perf probe: Remove redundant dwarf functions
perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c
perf probe: Rename DIE_FIND_CB_FOUND to DIE_FIND_CB_END
tracing/kprobe: Update symbol reference when loading module
tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing
kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist
...
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
iommu/core: Fix build with INTR_REMAP=y && CONFIG_DMAR=n
iommu/amd: Don't use MSI address range for DMA addresses
iommu/amd: Move missing parts to drivers/iommu
iommu: Move iommu Kconfig entries to submenu
x86/ia64: intel-iommu: move to drivers/iommu/
x86: amd_iommu: move to drivers/iommu/
msm: iommu: move to drivers/iommu/
drivers: iommu: move to a dedicated folder
x86/amd-iommu: Store device alias as dev_data pointer
x86/amd-iommu: Search for existind dev_data before allocting a new one
x86/amd-iommu: Allow dev_data->alias to be NULL
x86/amd-iommu: Use only dev_data in low-level domain attach/detach functions
x86/amd-iommu: Use only dev_data for dte and iotlb flushing routines
x86/amd-iommu: Store ATS state in dev_data
x86/amd-iommu: Store devid in dev_data
x86/amd-iommu: Introduce global dev_data_list
x86/amd-iommu: Remove redundant device_flush_dte() calls
iommu-api: Add missing header file
Fix up trivial conflicts (independent additions close to each other) in
drivers/Makefile and include/linux/pci.h
* 'of-pci' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
pci/of: Consolidate pci_bus_to_OF_node()
pci/of: Consolidate pci_device_to_OF_node()
x86/devicetree: Use generic PCI <-> OF matching
microblaze/pci: Move the remains of pci_32.c to pci-common.c
microblaze/pci: Remove powermac originated cruft
pci/of: Match PCI devices to OF nodes dynamically
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1287 commits)
icmp: Fix regression in nexthop resolution during replies.
net: Fix ppc64 BPF JIT dependencies.
acenic: include NET_SKB_PAD headroom to incoming skbs
ixgbe: convert to ndo_fix_features
ixgbe: only enable WoL for magic packet by default
ixgbe: remove ifdef check for non-existent define
ixgbe: Pass staterr instead of re-reading status and error bits from descriptor
ixgbe: Move interrupt related values out of ring and into q_vector
ixgbe: add structure for containing RX/TX rings to q_vector
ixgbe: inline the ixgbe_maybe_stop_tx function
ixgbe: Update ATR to use recorded TX queues instead of CPU for routing
igb: Fix for DH89xxCC near end loopback test
e1000: always call e1000_check_for_link() on e1000_ce4100 MACs.
netxen: add fw version compatibility check
be2net: request native mode each time the card is reset
ipv4: Constrain UFO fragment sizes to multiples of 8 bytes
virtio_net: Fix panic in virtnet_remove
ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable
ipv6: unshare inetpeers
can: make function can_get_bittiming static
...
The Host used to create some page tables for the Guest to use at the
top of Guest memory; it would then tell the Guest where this was. In
particular, it created linear mappings for 0 and 0xC0000000 addresses
because lguest used to switch to its real page tables quite late in
boot.
However, since d50d8fe19 Linux initialized boot page tables in
head_32.S even before the "are we lguest?" boot jump. So, now we can
simplify things: the Host pagetable code assumes 1:1 linear mapping
until it first calls the LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE hypercall, which we now do
before we reach C code.
This also means that the Host doesn't need to know anything about the
Guest's PAGE_OFFSET. (Non-Linux guests might not even have such a
thing).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch:
- fixes typos in comments and clarifies the text
- renames obscure p4_event_alias::original and ::alter members to
::original and ::alternative as appropriate
- drops parenthesis from the return of p4_get_alias_event()
No functional changes.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721160625.GX7492@sun
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All these are instances of
#define NAME value;
or
#define NAME(params_opt) value;
These of course fail to build when used in contexts like
if(foo $OP NAME)
while(bar $OP NAME)
and may silently generate the wrong code in contexts such as
foo = NAME + 1; /* foo = value; + 1; */
bar = NAME - 1; /* bar = value; - 1; */
baz = NAME & quux; /* baz = value; & quux; */
Reported on comp.lang.c,
Message-ID: <ab0d55fe-25e5-482b-811e-c475aa6065c3@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Initial analysis of the dangers provided by Keith Thompson in that thread.
There are many more instances of more complicated macros having unnecessary
trailing semicolons, but this pile seems to be all of the cases of simple
values suffering from the problem. (Thus things that are likely to be found
in one of the contexts above, more complicated ones aren't.)
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
In kexec jump support, jump back address passed to the kexeced
kernel via function calling ABI, that is, the function call
return address is the jump back entry.
Furthermore, jump back entry == 0 should be used to signal that
the jump back or preserve context is not enabled in the original
kernel.
But in the current implementation the stack position used for
function call return address is not cleared context
preservation is disabled. The patch fixes this bug.
Reported-and-tested-by: Yin Kangkai <kangkai.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310607277-25029-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
handle_signal()->set_fs() has a nice comment which explains what
set_fs() is, but it doesn't explain why it is needed and why it
depends on CONFIG_X86_64.
Afaics, the history of this confusion is:
1. I guess today nobody can explain why it was needed
in arch/i386/kernel/signal.c, perhaps it was always
wrong. This predates 2.4.0 kernel.
2. then it was copy-and-past'ed to the new x86_64 arch.
3. then it was removed from i386 (but not from x86_64)
by b93b6ca3 "i386: remove unnecessary code".
4. then it was reintroduced under CONFIG_X86_64 when x86
unified i386 and x86_64, because the patch above didn't
touch x86_64.
Remove it. ->addr_limit should be correct. Even if it was possible
that it is wrong, it is too late to fix it after setup_rt_frame().
Linus commented in:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.0.999.0707170902570.19166@woody.linux-foundation.org
... about the equivalent bit from i386:
Heh. I think it's entirely historical.
Please realize that the whole reason that function is called "set_fs()" is
that it literally used to set the %fs segment register, not
"->addr_limit".
So I think the "set_fs(USER_DS)" is there _only_ to match the other
regs->xds = __USER_DS;
regs->xes = __USER_DS;
regs->xss = __USER_DS;
regs->xcs = __USER_CS;
things, and never mattered. And now it matters even less, and has been
copied to all other architectures where it is just totally insane.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110710164424.GA20261@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
1. do_signal() looks at TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK and calculates the
mask which should be stored in the signal frame, then it
passes "oldset" to the callees, down to setup_rt_frame().
This is ugly, setup_rt_frame() can do this itself and nobody
else needs this sigset_t. Move this code into setup_rt_frame.
2. do_signal() also clears TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK if handle_signal()
succeeds.
We can move this to setup_rt_frame() as well, this avoids the
unnecessary checks and makes the logic more clear.
3. use set_current_blocked() instead of sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK),
sigprocmask() should be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110710182203.GA27979@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Instead of hw_nmi_watchdog_set_attr() weak function
and appropriate x86_pmu::hw_watchdog_set_attr() call
we introduce even alias mechanism which allow us
to drop this routines completely and isolate quirks
of Netburst architecture inside P4 PMU code only.
The main idea remains the same though -- to allow
nmi-watchdog and perf top run simultaneously.
Note the aliasing mechanism applies to generic
PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES event only because arbitrary
event (say passed as RAW initially) might have some
additional bits set inside ESCR register changing
the behaviour of event and we can't guarantee anymore
that alias event will give the same result.
P.S. Thanks a huge to Don and Steven for for testing
and early review.
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110708201712.GS23657@sun
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
