Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).
This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.
We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.
Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.
This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.
Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
Use the synthetic TSC_RELIABLE bit to workaround virtualization anomalies.
Virtual TSCs can be kept nearly in sync, but because the virtual TSC
offset is set by software, it's not perfect. So, the TSC
synchronization test can fail. Even then the TSC can be used as a
clocksource since the VMware platform exports a reliable TSC to the
guest for timekeeping purposes. Use this bit to check if we need to
skip the TSC sync checks.
Along with this also set the CONSTANT_TSC bit when on VMware, since we
still want to use TSC as clocksource on VM running over hardware which
has unsynchronized TSC's (opteron's), since the hypervisor will take
care of providing consistent TSC to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.
This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
# check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
# if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
under VMware.
The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.
This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix AMDC1E and XTOPOLOGY conflict in cpufeature
x86: build fix
This makes the late e820 resources use 'insert_resource_expand_to_fit()'
instead of doing a 'reserve_region_with_split()', and also avoids
marking them as IORESOURCE_BUSY.
This results in us being perfectly happy to use pre-existing PCI
resources even if they were marked as being in a reserved region, while
still avoiding any _new_ allocations in the reserved regions. It also
makes for a simpler and more accurate resource tree.
Example resource allocation from Jonathan Corbet, who has firmware that
has an e820 reserved entry that covered a big range (e0000000-fed003ff),
and that had various PCI resources in it set up by firmware.
With old kernels, the reserved range would force us to re-allocate all
pre-existing PCI resources, and his reserved range would end up looking
like this:
e0000000-fed003ff : reserved
fec00000-fec00fff : IOAPIC 0
fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
where only the pre-allocated special regions (IOAPIC and HPET) were kept
around.
With 2.6.28-rc2, which uses 'reserve_region_with_split()', Jonathan's
resource tree looked like this:
e0000000-fe7fffff : reserved
fe800000-fe8fffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
fe800000-fe8fffff : reserved
fe900000-fe9d9aff : reserved
fe9d9b00-fe9d9bff : 0000:00:1f.3
fe9d9b00-fe9d9bff : reserved
fe9d9c00-fe9d9fff : 0000:00:1a.7
fe9d9c00-fe9d9fff : reserved
fe9da000-fe9dafff : 0000:00:03.3
fe9da000-fe9dafff : reserved
fe9db000-fe9dbfff : 0000:00:19.0
fe9db000-fe9dbfff : reserved
fe9dc000-fe9dffff : 0000:00:1b.0
fe9dc000-fe9dffff : reserved
fe9e0000-fe9fffff : 0000:00:19.0
fe9e0000-fe9fffff : reserved
fea00000-fea7ffff : 0000:00:02.0
fea00000-fea7ffff : reserved
fea80000-feafffff : 0000:00:02.1
fea80000-feafffff : reserved
feb00000-febfffff : 0000:00:02.0
feb00000-febfffff : reserved
fec00000-fed003ff : reserved
fec00000-fec00fff : IOAPIC 0
fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
and because the reserved entry had been split and moved into the
individual resources, and because it used the IORESOURCE_BUSY flag, the
drivers that actually wanted to _use_ those resources couldn't actually
attach to them:
e1000e 0000:00:19.0: BAR 0: can't reserve mem region [0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff]
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: BAR 0: can't reserve mem region [0xfe9dc000-0xfe9dffff]
with this patch, the resource tree instead becomes
e0000000-fed003ff : reserved
fe800000-fe8fffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
fe9d9b00-fe9d9bff : 0000:00:1f.3
fe9d9c00-fe9d9fff : 0000:00:1a.7
fe9d9c00-fe9d9fff : ehci_hcd
fe9da000-fe9dafff : 0000:00:03.3
fe9db000-fe9dbfff : 0000:00:19.0
fe9db000-fe9dbfff : e1000e
fe9dc000-fe9dffff : 0000:00:1b.0
fe9dc000-fe9dffff : ICH HD audio
fe9e0000-fe9fffff : 0000:00:19.0
fe9e0000-fe9fffff : e1000e
fea00000-fea7ffff : 0000:00:02.0
fea80000-feafffff : 0000:00:02.1
feb00000-febfffff : 0000:00:02.0
fec00000-fec00fff : IOAPIC 0
fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
ie the one reserved region now ends up surrounding all the PCI resources
that were allocated inside of it by firmware, and because it is not
marked BUSY, drivers have no problem attaching to the pre-allocated
resources.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanup
This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested
by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change the kexec bootstrap code implementation from assembly to C
This patch transforms the kexec page tables setup code from assembler
code to C code in machine_kexec_prepare. This improves readability and
reduces code line number.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: save .text size when kexec is built in but not loaded
This patch adds an architecture specific struct kimage_arch into
struct kimage. The pointers to page table pages used by kexec are
added to struct kimage_arch. The page tables pages are dynamically
allocated in machine_kexec_prepare instead of statically from BSS
segment. This will save up to 20k memory when kexec image is not
loaded.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: save kernel .text by loosening kexec page alignment
This patch removes PAGE_SIZE alignment from relocate_kernel(). Before
kexec jump patches are merged, control page is mapped to
relocate_kernel in kexec page tables, so relocate_kernel must be
PAGE_SIZE aligned. Now, control page is mapped to identity mapped
address, so relocate_kernel need not to be PAGE_SIZE aligned any
more. This can reduce a few KB from kernel text segement.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on certain UP configs
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function 'cpu_init':
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1141: error: 'boot_cpu_id' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1141: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1141: error: for each function it appears in.)
Pull in asm/smp.h on UP, so that we get the definition of
boot_cpu_id.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function 'early_identify_cpu':
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:553: error: 'struct cpuinfo_x86' has no member named 'cpu_index'
as cpu_index is only available on SMP.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix /proc/cpuinfo output on x86/Voyager
Ever since
| commit 92cb7612ae
| Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
| Date: Fri Oct 19 20:35:04 2007 +0200
|
| x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array
We've had an extra field in cpuinfo_x86 which is cpu_index.
Unfortunately, voyager has never initialised this, although the only
noticeable impact seems to be that /proc/cpuinfo shows all zeros for
the processor ids.
Anyway, fix this by initialising the boot CPU properly and setting the
index when the secondaries update.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on x86/Voyager
Given commits like this:
| Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
| Date: Tue Jul 29 10:29:19 2008 -0700
|
| x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support
Which deliberately expose boot cpu dependence to pieces of the system,
I think it's time to explicitly have a variable for it to prevent this
continual misassumption that the boot CPU is zero.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix x86/Voyager boot
CONFIG_SMP is used for features which work on *all* x86 boxes.
CONFIG_X86_SMP is used for standard PC like x86 boxes (for things like
multi core and apics)
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix crashes that can occur in NMI handlers, if their code is modified
Modifying code is something that needs special care. On SMP boxes,
if code that is being modified is also being executed on another CPU,
that CPU will have undefined results.
The dynamic ftrace uses kstop_machine to make the system act like a
uniprocessor system. But this does not address NMIs, that can still
run on other CPUs.
One approach to handle this is to make all code that are used by NMIs
not be traced. But NMIs can call notifiers that spread throughout the
kernel and this will be very hard to maintain, and the chance of missing
a function is very high.
The approach that this patch takes is to have the NMIs modify the code
if the modification is taking place. The way this works is that just
writing to code executing on another CPU is not harmful if what is
written is the same as what exists.
Two buffers are used: an IP buffer and a "code" buffer.
The steps that the patcher takes are:
1) Put in the instruction pointer into the IP buffer
and the new code into the "code" buffer.
2) Set a flag that says we are modifying code
3) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
4) Write the code
5) clear the flag.
6) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
If an NMI is executed, it will also write the pending code.
Multiple writes are OK, because what is being written is the same.
Then the patcher must wait for all running NMIs to finish before
going to the next line that must be patched.
This is basically the RCU approach to code modification.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for suggesting the idea, and to Arjan van de Ven
for his guidence on what is safe and what is not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: introduce nmi_watchdog=lapic and nmi_watchdog=ioapic aliases
Add sensible names as "lapic" and "ioapic" to
nmi_watchdog boot parameter. Sometimes it is not
that easy to recall what exactly nmi_watchdog=1
does mean so we allow the using of symbolic names here.
Old numeric values remain valid.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
ftrace: fix current_tracer error return
tracing: fix a build error on alpha
ftrace: use a real variable for ftrace_nop in x86
tracing/ftrace: make boot tracer select the sched_switch tracer
tracepoint: check if the probe has been registered
asm-generic: define DIE_OOPS in asm-generic
trace: fix printk warning for u64
ftrace: warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
ftrace: fix build failure
ftrace, powerpc, sparc64, x86: remove notrace from arch ftrace file
ftrace: remove ftrace hash
ftrace: remove mcount set
ftrace: remove daemon
ftrace: disable dynamic ftrace for all archs that use daemon
ftrace: add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace
ftrace: only have ftrace_kill atomic
ftrace: use probe_kernel
ftrace: comment arch ftrace code
ftrace: return error on failed modified text.
ftrace: dynamic ftrace process only text section
...
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: fix irqs on/off ip tracing
lockdep: minor fix for debug_show_all_locks()
x86: restore the old swiotlb alloc_coherent behavior
x86: use GFP_DMA for 24bit coherent_dma_mask
swiotlb: remove panic for alloc_coherent failure
xen: compilation fix of drivers/xen/events.c on IA64
xen: portability clean up and some minor clean up for xencomm.c
xen: don't reload cr3 on suspend
kernel/resource: fix reserve_region_with_split() section mismatch
printk: remove unused code from kernel/printk.c
Impact: fix AMD Family 11h boot hangs / USB device problems
The AMD Fam11h CPUs have a K8 northbridge. This northbridge is different
from other family's because it lacks GART support (as I just learned).
But the kernel implicitly expects a GART if it finds an AMD northbridge.
Fix this by removing the Fam11h northbridge id from the scan list of K8
northbridges. This patch also changes the message in the GART driver
about missing K8 northbridges to tell that the GART is missing which is
the correct information in this case.
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmalinen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix kdump crash on 32-bit sparsemem kernels
Since linux-2.6.27, kdump has failed on i386 sparsemem kernel.
1st-kernel gets a panic just before switching to 2nd-kernel.
The cause is that a kernel accesses invalid mem_section by
page_to_pfn(image->swap_page) at machine_kexec().
image->swap_page is allocated if kexec for hibernation, but
it is not allocated if kdump. So if kdump, a kernel should
not access the mem_section corresponding to image->swap_page.
The attached patch fixes this invalid access.
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: kexec-ml <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo said mtrr_cleanup() is big and ugly.
so break it up into more functions and make it more readable.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Change UV heartbeat function to use idle_cpu to determine cpu's
"idleness". Realign uv_hub definitions.
Signed-of-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
As promised, now that dumpstack_32 and dumpstack_64 have so many bits
in common, we should merge the in-sync bits into a common file, to
prevent them from diverging again.
This patch removes bits which are common between dumpstack_32.c and
dumpstack_64.c and places them in a common dumpstack.c which is built
for both 32 and 64 bit arches.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h | 39 +++++
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c | 294 -------------------------------------
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 285 ------------------------------------
5 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 576 deletions(-)
Impact: change NMI watchdog detection and disabling sequence
Currently, if the NMI watchdog fails using IOAPIC method, it'll only disable
interrupts on 8259 if the timer is passing thru it. This patch disables
NMI delivery on LINT0 if the NMI watchdog initial test fails, just for safety.
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change/improve the way /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog works
This patch adds support to enable/disable IOAPIC NMI watchdog in runtime via
procfs.
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
now that the code is moved and converted to a work queue,
there's some minor cleanups that can be done.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change the implementation of the debug feature
the periodic corruption checks are better off run from a work queue; there's
nothing time critical about them and this way the amount of
interrupt-context work is reduced.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The corruption check code is rather sizable and it's likely to grow over
time when we add checks for more types of corruptions (there's a few
candidates in kerneloops.org that I want to add checks for)... so lets move
it to its own file
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Before moving the code to it's own file, fix some style issues
in the corruption check code.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: avoid section mismatch warning, clean up
The dynamic ftrace determines which nop is safe to use at start up.
When it finds a safe nop for patching, it sets a pointer called ftrace_nop
to point to the code. All call sites are then patched to this nop.
Later, when tracing is turned on, this ftrace_nop variable is again used
to compare the location to make sure it is a nop before we update it to
an mcount call. If this fails just once, a warning is printed and ftrace
is disabled.
Rakib Mullick noted that the code that sets up the nop is a .init section
where as the nop itself is in the .text section. This is needed because
the nop is used later on after boot up. The problem is that the test of the
nop jumps back to the setup code and causes a "section mismatch" warning.
Rakib first recommended to convert the nop to .init.text, but as stated
above, this would fail since that text is used later.
The real solution is to extend Rabik's patch, and to make the ftrace_nop
into an array, and just save the code from the assembly to this array.
Now the section can stay as an init section, and we have a nop to use
later on.
Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: on SGI UV platforms, fix boot crash
UV initialization is currently called too late to call alloc_bootmem_pages().
The current sequence is:
start_kernel()
mem_init()
free_all_bootmem() <--- discard of bootmem
rest_init()
kernel_init()
smp_prepare_cpus()
native_smp_prepare_cpus()
uv_system_init() <--- uses alloc_bootmem_pages()
It should be calling kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: start per CPU heartbeat LED timers on SGI UV systems
The SGI UV system has no LEDS but uses one of the system controller
regs to indicate the online internal state of the cpu. There is a
heartbeat bit indicating that the cpu is responding to interrupts,
and an idle bit indicating whether the cpu is idle when the heartbeat
interrupt occurs. The current period is one second.
When a cpu panics, an error code is written by BIOS to this same reg.
This patchset provides the following:
* x86_64: Add base functionality for writing to the specific SCIR's
for each cpu.
* heartbeat: Invert "heartbeat" bit to indicate the cpu is
"interruptible". If the current thread is the idle thread,
then indicate system is "idle".
* if hotplug enabled, all bits are set (0xff) when the cpu is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:09:52PM -0700, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `iommu_setup':
> pci-dma.c:(.init.text+0x36ad): undefined reference to `forbid_dac'
> pci-dma.c:(.init.text+0x36cc): undefined reference to `forbid_dac'
> pci-dma.c:(.init.text+0x3711): undefined reference to `forbid_dac
This patch partially reverts a patch to add IOMMU support to ia64. The
forbid_dac variable was incorrectly moved to quirks.c, which isn't built
when PCI is disabled.
Tested-by: "Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
