4473 Commits

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Al Viro
68f8b1f8f1 [PATCH] h8300: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
Al Viro
40f1f0deaf [PATCH] parisc: task_stack_page(), task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
Al Viro
513091ba7e [PATCH] m68knommu: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
Al Viro
768595ffba [PATCH] m68k: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
Al Viro
097cb338c7 [PATCH] frv: task_thread_info(), task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
6c3559fc45 [PATCH] m32r: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page(), task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
b7f6961d83 [PATCH] v850: task_stack_page(), task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
04fe6faf10 [PATCH] xtensa: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
30af7120fe [PATCH] s390: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
c7584fb6b4 [PATCH] s390: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro
579b3ea591 [PATCH] uml: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
ca9bc0bb2d [PATCH] uml: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
36483c6b5e [PATCH] sparc: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
d562ef6a23 [PATCH] sparc: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
308a792f7c [PATCH] sh: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
cafcfcaa60 [PATCH] sh: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Al Viro
3cf0f4ece9 [PATCH] sh: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro
26ecbdea4b [PATCH] sparc64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro
ee3eea165e [PATCH] sparc64: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro
f3169641c1 [PATCH] sparc64: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro
65e0fdffc9 [PATCH] i386: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
07b047fc24 [PATCH] i386: fix task_pt_regs()
)

From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

task_pt_regs() needs the same offset-by-8 to match copy_thread()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro
06b425d80f [PATCH] i386: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Al Viro
57eafdc22c [PATCH] amd64: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Al Viro
bb049232fa [PATCH] amd64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
Al Viro
e4f17c436f [PATCH] amd64: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:51 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
e52f4ca2a7 [PATCH] alpha: task_pt_regs()
)

From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

rename alpha_task_regs() to task_pt_regs(), switch open-coded instances
to use of the helper.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
Al Viro
27f451304a [PATCH] alpha: task_stack_page()
use task_stack_page() for accesses to stack page of task in alpha-specific
parts of tree

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
Al Viro
37bfbaf995 [PATCH] alpha: task_thread_info()
use task_thread_info() for accesses to thread_info of task in arch/alpha
and include/asm-alpha

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
198e2f1811 [PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect
)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:

- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
  measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
  that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
  distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
  the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
  whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
  time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
  is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
  distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
  and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.

  [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
    assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
    the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
    the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
    see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]

Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:

- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
  sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
  cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
  cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
  occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
  'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
  the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.

  This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
  CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
  will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
  any caches.

(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)

Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.

Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:

	migration_cost=1000,2000,3000

will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.

Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:

	migration_factor=120

will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.

I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:

Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]
 [00]:     -     1.7(1)
 [01]:   1.7(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
 ---------------------

Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.

Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]
 [00]:     -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)
 [01]:   0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)
 [02]:   0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)
 [03]:   0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
 ---------------------

Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.

8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]    [04]    [05]    [06]    [07]
 [00]:     -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [01]:  19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [02]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [03]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [04]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [05]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [06]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1)
 [07]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
 ---------------------

This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4dc7a0bbeb [PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asm
Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
90303b1023 [ARM] 3256/1: Make the function-returning ldm's use sp as the base register
Patch from Catalin Marinas

If the low interrupt latency mode is enabled for the CPU (from ARMv6
onwards), the ldm/stm instructions are no longer atomic. An ldm instruction
restoring the sp and pc registers can be interrupted immediately after sp
was updated but before the pc. If this happens, the CPU restores the base
register to the value before the ldm instruction but if the base register
is not sp, the interrupt routine will corrupt the stack and the restarted
ldm instruction will load garbage.

Note that future ARM cores might always run in the low interrupt latency
mode.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-12 16:53:51 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
6b090a25fe [ARM] 3234/1: Update cpu_architecture() to deal with the new ID format
Patch from Catalin Marinas

Since ARM1176, the CPU ID format has changed and it will also be used for
future ARM architectures.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-12 16:28:16 +00:00
Kevin Hilman
37134cd55d [ARM] 3209/1: Configurable DMA-consistent memory region
Patch from Kevin Hilman

This patch increase available DMA-consistent memory allocated by dma_coherent_alloc(). The default remains at 2M (defined in asm/memory.h) and each platform has the ability to override in asm/arch-foo/memory.h.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <kevin@hilman.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-12 16:12:21 +00:00
Paul Mackerras
624cee31bc powerpc: make ARCH=ppc use arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
Commit 5388fb1025443ec223ba556b10efc4c5f83f8682 made signal_32.c
use discard_lazy_cpu_state, which broke ARCH=ppc because that
uses the common signal_32.c but has its own process.c.  Make ARCH=ppc
use the common process.c to fix this and to reduce the amount
of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 21:22:34 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
8fce10a3c9 [PATCH] powerpc: cell namespace cleanup
These symbols are only used in the file that they are defined in,
so they should not be in the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:39:14 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
b0da985644 [PATCH] powerpc: xmon namespace cleanups
These symbols are only used in the file that they are defined in,
so they should not be in the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:39:14 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
ff38e7c80a [PATCH] powerpc: pmac namespace cleanup
pmac_setup_arch is only used in the file that it is defined in,
so it should not be in the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:39:13 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
8446196ade [PATCH] powerpc: pseries namespace cleanup
These symbols are only used in the file that they are defined in,
so they should not be in the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:39:13 +11:00
Olof Johansson
b07dfab3e3 [PATCH] powerpc: minor dart driver cleanup
Rpn is assigned every time in the loop, no need to increase it too.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:39:13 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
9623b5d3d3 [PATCH] powerpc: small pci cleanups
pcibios_claim_one_bus is not needed on iSeries and phbs_remap_io can be
mode static.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:30 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
9bd7ea60b1 [PATCH] powerpc: clean up iommu.h a bit
There was a function declared for CONFIG_PSERIES which no longer exists
and the two function declarations for CONFIG_ISERIES have been moved
into an include file in platforms/iseries since they are defined and
used only there.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:30 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
ee2cdecec4 [PATCH] powerpc: iSeries fixes for build with no PCI
This reverts part of "ppc64 iSeries: allow build with no PCI"
(145d01e4287b8cbf50f87c3283e33bf5c84e8468) which affected generic code
and applies a fix in the arch specific code.

Commit "partly merge iseries do_IRQ"
(5fee9b3b39eb55c7e3619a3b36ceeabffeb8f144) introduced iSeries_get_irq
which was only available if CONFIG_PCI is set.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:30 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
f9cb83ac1f [PATCH] powerpc: eliminate bitfields from ItLpNaca
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:30 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
677f8c0d04 [PATCH] powerpc: remove bitfields from HvLpEvent
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
Kumar Gala
cbbcf34011 [PATCH] powerpc: Fixed memory reserve map layout
powerpc: Fixed memory reserve map layout

The memory reserve map is suppose to be a pair of 64-bit integers
to represent each region.  On ppc32 the code was treating the
pair as two 32-bit integers.  Additional the prom_init code was
producing the wrong layout on ppc32.

Added a simple check to try to provide backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
Olof Johansson
ea183a957a [PATCH] powerpc: remove warning in EEH code
Remove warning in eeh code about mixed variables and code.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
5388fb1025 [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP
Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
Vivek Goyal
983d5dbdb2 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix SMP bootup with CONFIG_KDUMP enabled
o This fix was posted for i386 long back. Posting it for x86_64.

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110380103229830&w=2

o This patch fixes the problem of secondary cpus boot up. This situation
  is faced when kernel is built for default locations like 16MB and
  onwards. In this configuration, only primary cpu (BP) comes and
  secondary cpus don't boot.

o Problem occurs because in trampoline code, lgdt is not able to load the
  GDT as it happens to be situated beyond 16MB. This is due to the fact
  that cpu is still in real mode and default operand size is 16bit.

o This patch uses lgdtl instead of lgdt to force operand size to 32
  instead of 16.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:09:58 -08:00
Andi Kleen
0d9cb75f2f [PATCH] x86_64: Don't confuse noapic with noapictimer
Handling common prefixes is tricky.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:04 -08:00