* 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (76 commits)
x86, apic: Fix dummy apic read operation together with broken MP handling
x86, apic: Restore irqs on fail paths
x86: Print real IOAPIC version for x86-64
x86: enable_update_mptable should be a macro
sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocation
x86, io-apic: Don't mark pin_programmed early
x86, irq: don't call mp_config_acpi_gsi() if update_mptable is not enabled
x86, irq: update_mptable needs pci_routeirq
x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic
x86, apic: introduce io_apic_irq_attr
x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector(), fix
x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case
x86: apic: Fixmap apic address even if apic disabled
x86: display extended apic registers with print_local_APIC and cpu_debug code
x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case
x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling
x86: apic: Check rev 3 fadt correctly for physical_apic bit
x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing
x86/acpi: move setup io apic routing out of CONFIG_ACPI scope
x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector()
...
The e_powersaver driver for VIA's C7 CPU's needs to be marked as
DANGEROUS as it configures the CPU to power states that are out
of specification.
According to Centaur, all systems with C7 and Nano CPU's support
the ACPI p-state method. Thus, the acpi-cpufreq driver should
be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The VIA/Centaur C7, C7-M and Nano CPU's all support ACPI based cpu p-states
using a MSR interface. The Linux driver just never made use of it, since in
addition to the check for the EST flag it also checked if the vendor is Intel.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
[ Removed the vendor checks entirely - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used,
they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Ingo Molnar reported that read_apic is buggy novadays:
[ 0.000000] Using APIC driver default
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[ 0.000000] APIC: disable apic facility
[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:254 native_apic_read_dummy+0x2d/0x3b()
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: HP OmniBook PC
Indeed we still rely on apic->read operation for SMP compiled
kernel. And instead of disfigure the SMP code with #ifdef we
allow to call apic->read. To capture any unexpected results
we check for apic->read being called for sane reason via
WARN_ON_ONCE but(!) instead of OR we should use AND logical
operation (thanks Yinghai for spotting the root of the problem).
Along with that we could be have bad MP table and we are
to fix it that way no SMP started and no complains about
BIOS bug if apic was just disabled via command line.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090607124840.GD4547@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86/pci: fix mmconfig detection with 32bit near 4g
PCI: use fixed-up device class when configuring device
The powernow-k8 driver checks to see that the Performance Control/Status
Registers are declared as FFH (functional fixed hardware) by the BIOS.
However, this check got broken in the commit:
0e64a0c982
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
Fix based on an original patch from Naga Chumbalkar.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
We don't set up the canary; let's disable stack protector on boot.c so
we can get into lguest_init, then set it up. As a side effect,
switch_to_new_gdt() sets up %fs for us properly too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pascal reported and bisected a commit:
| x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case
which broke one system system.
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255
PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space
it didn't have
PCI: updated MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 63
anymore, and try to use 0xf000000 - 0xffffffff for mmconfig
For 32bit, mcfg_res->end could be 32bit only (if 64 resources aren't used)
So use end - 1 to pass the value in mcfg->end to avoid overflow.
We don't need to worry about the e820 path, they are always 64 bit.
Reported-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Bisected-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Fix the fact that the IOAPIC version number in the x86_64 code path always
gets assigned to 0, instead of the correct value.
Before the patch: (from "dmesg" output):
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 <---
After the patch:
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 <---
History:
io_apic_get_version() was compiled out of the x86_64 code path in the commit
f2c2cca3ac:
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Tue Sep 26 10:52:37 2006 +0200
[PATCH] Remove APIC version/cpu capability mpparse checking/printing
ACPI went to great trouble to get the APIC version and CPU capabilities
of different CPUs before passing them to the mpparser. But all
that data was used was to print it out. Actually it even faked some data
based on the boot cpu, not on the actual CPU being booted.
Remove all this code because it's not needed.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
At the time, the IOAPIC version number was deliberately not printed
in the x86_64 code path. However, after the x86 and x86_64 files were
merged, the net result is that the IOAPIC version is printed incorrectly
in the x86_64 code path.
The patch below provides a fix. I have tested it with acpi, and with
acpi=off, and did not see any problems.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090416014230.4885.94926.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*************************
Merge reason: irq/numa didnt build because this commit:
2759c32: x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic
Had a dependency on x86/cpufeature changes. Pull in that
(small) branch to fix the dependency.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c
Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302
On x86 and x86-64, it is possible that page tables are shared beween
shared mappings backed by hugetlbfs. As part of this,
page_table_shareable() checks a pair of vma->vm_flags and they must match
if they are to be shared. All VMA flags are taken into account, including
VM_LOCKED.
The problem is that VM_LOCKED is cleared on fork(). When a process with a
shared memory segment forks() to exec() a helper, there will be shared
VMAs with different flags. The impact is that the shared segment is
sometimes considered shareable and other times not, depending on what
process is checking.
What happens is that the segment page tables are being shared but the
count is inaccurate depending on the ordering of events. As the page
tables are freed with put_page(), bad pmd's are found when some of the
children exit. The hugepage counters also get corrupted and the Total and
Free count will no longer match even when all the hugepage-backed regions
are freed. This requires a reboot of the machine to "fix".
This patch addresses the problem by comparing all flags except VM_LOCKED
when deciding if pagetables should be shared or not for hugetlbfs-backed
mapping.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
instead of declaring one variant as an inline function...
because other case is a variable
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A13B344.7030307@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: avoid back to back on_each_cpu in cpa_flush_array
x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
Cleanup cpa_flush_array() to avoid back to back on_each_cpu() calls.
[ Impact: optimizes fix 0af48f42df ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Slightly modified by trenn@suse.de -> only do this on fam 10h and fam 11h.
Currently powernow-k8 determines CPU frequency from ACPI PSS objects, but
according to AMD family 11h BKDG this frequency is just a rounded value:
"CoreFreq (MHz) = The CPU COF specified by MSRC001_00[6B:64][CpuFid]
rounded to the nearest 100 Mhz."
As a consequnce powernow-k8 reports wrong CPU frequency on some systems,
e.g. on Turion X2 Ultra:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82
processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : pstate 0 (2200 MHz)
powernow-k8: 1 : pstate 1 (1100 MHz)
powernow-k8: 2 : pstate 2 (600 MHz)
But this is wrong as frequency for Pstate2 is 550 MHz. x86info reports it
correctly:
#x86info -a |grep Pstate
...
Pstate-0: fid=e, did=0, vid=24 (2200MHz)
Pstate-1: fid=e, did=1, vid=30 (1100MHz)
Pstate-2: fid=e, did=2, vid=3c (550MHz) (current)
Solution is to determine the frequency directly from Pstate MSRs instead
of using rounded values from ACPI table.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Make the message shorter and easier to grep for
- Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE (functionality of these was mixed)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Langsdorf, Mark <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c:172: warning: 'invalidate_entry' defined but not used
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Some atom procs don't do freq scaling (such as the atom 330 on my own
littlefalls2 board). By adding the atom family here, we at least get
the benefit of passive cooling in a thermal emergency. Not sure how
to see that its actually helping any, but the driver does bind and
claim its functioning on my atom 330.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.
When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.
The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.
The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.
[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Fix PDPTR reloading on CR4 writes
KVM: Make paravirt tlb flush also reload the PAE PDPTRs
The processor is documented to reload the PDPTRs while in PAE mode if any
of the CR4 bits PSE, PGE, or PAE change. Linux relies on this
behaviour when zapping the low mappings of PAE kernels during boot.
The code already handled changes to CR4.PAE; augment it to also notice changes
to PSE and PGE.
This triggered while booting an F11 PAE kernel; the futex initialization code
runs before any CR3 reloads and writes to a NULL pointer; the futex subsystem
ended up uninitialized, killing PI futexes and pulseaudio which uses them.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also
to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used
as a replacement for reloading CR3. Change the code to do the entire
CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Remap percpu allocator has subtle bug when combined with page
attribute changing. Remap percpu allocator aliases PMD pages for the
first chunk and as pageattr doesn't know about the alias it ends up
updating page attributes of the original mapping thus leaving the
alises in inconsistent state which might lead to subtle data
corruption. Please read the following threads for more information:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/835783
The following is the proposed fix which teaches pageattr about percpu
aliases.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/837157
However, the above changes are deemed too pervasive for upstream
inclusion for 2.6.30 release, so this patch essentially disables
the remap allocator for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A1A0A27.4050301@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold.
clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition.
wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs.
[ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But,
pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like
an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset
d7c8f21a8c and got copied over to second
place in the same file later.
[ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.
[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one
vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at
24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes.
The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably
completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on
their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to
revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually
needing the flags.
This reverts all or part of the following checkins:
cd670599b7c549e71d07
However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into
a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a
comment to explain that part.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some
additional information.
[ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ]
Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
x86: DMI match for the Sony VGN-Z540N as it needs BIOS reboot,
see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901
[ Impact: fix hung reboot on certain systems ]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1242963350.32574.53.camel@rzhang-dt>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter bisected that:
| commit b9c61b7007
| Date: Wed May 6 10:10:06 2009 -0700
|
| x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing
|
| So we can set io apic routing only when enabling the device irq.
wrecked his opteron box, ata1 interrupts fail to get through.
ata1 is using irq 11:
[ 1.451839] sata_svw 0000:01:0e.0: version 2.3
[ 1.456333] sata_svw 0000:01:0e.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[ 1.463639] scsi0 : sata_svw
[ 1.466949] scsi1 : sata_svw
[ 1.470022] scsi2 : sata_svw
[ 1.473090] scsi3 : sata_svw
[ 1.476112] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe000 irq 11
[ 1.483490] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe100 irq 11
[ 1.490870] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe200 irq 11
[ 1.498247] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m8192@0xff3fe000 port 0xff3fe300 irq 11
that pin is overlapped with pin with legacy ones.
We should not set bits in pin_programmed here, so that those bit could
be set later via io_apic_set_pci_routing().
[ Impact: fix boot hang on certain systems ]
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A119990.9020606@kernel.org>
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:
tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
Len expressed concern that the update_mptable feature has
side-effects on the ACPI code.
Make it sure explicitly that the code only ever gets called if
the (default disabled) update_mptable boot quirk option is
disabled.
[ Impact: isolate the update_mptable feature from ACPI code more ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0DC832.5090200@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To get all device irq routing and to save them.
This is basically an implicit pci=routeirq enablement if (and on if)
the update_mptable boot option (which is off by default) has been
specified.
[ Impact: extend the update_mptable boot opion's scope ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0DB7B4.4060702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
should not call that if apic is disabled.
[ Impact: fix crash on certain UP configs ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A09CCBB.2000306@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
according to Ingo, io_apic irq-setup related functions have too many
parameters with a repetitive signature.
So reduce related funcs to get less params by passing a pointer
to a newly defined io_apic_irq_attr structure.
v2: io_apic_irq ==> irq_attr
triggering ==> trigger
v3: add set_io_apic_irq_attr
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A08ACD3.2070401@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.
It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:
| commit 8efcbab674
| Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
|
| paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation
The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).
If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).
Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:
nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin
CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18%
instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15%
CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03%
cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28%
cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56%
cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31%
branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04%
branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72%
branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67%
wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20%
The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.
(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)
So, what's the fix?
Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.
The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.
[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]
Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386.
This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from
2.6.27 to now. The regression was a result of the original merge
consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86.
The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from
working correctly in gdb.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
After upgrading from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function graph tracer broke.
Investigating, I found that in the asm that replaces the return value,
gcc was using the same register for the old value as it was for the
new value.
mov (addr), old
mov new, (addr)
But if old and new are the same register, we clobber new with old!
I first thought this was a bug in gcc 4.4.0 and reported it:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40132
Andrew Pinski responded (quickly), saying that it was correct gcc behavior
and the code needed to denote old as an "early clobber".
Instead of "=r"(old), we need "=&r"(old).
[Impact: keep function graph tracer from breaking with gcc 4.4.0 ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings:
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ed found that on 32-bit, boot_cpu_physical_apicid is not read right,
when the mptable is broken.
Interestingly, actually three paths use/set it:
1. acpi: at that time that is already read from reg
2. mptable: only read from mptable
3. no madt, and no mptable, that use default apic id 0 for 64-bit, -1 for 32-bit
so we could read the apic id for the 2/3 path. We trust the hardware
register more than we trust a BIOS data structure (the mptable).
We can also avoid the double set_fixmap() when acpi_lapic
is used, and also need to move cpu_has_apic earlier and
call apic_disable().
Also when need to update the apic id, we'd better read and
set the apic version as well - so that quirks are applied precisely.
v2: make path 3 with 64bit, use -1 as apic id, so could read it later.
v3: fix whitespace problem pointed out by Ed Swierk
v5: fix boot crash
[ Impact: get correct apic id for bsp other than acpi path ]
Reported-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <49FC85A9.2070702@kernel.org>
[ v4: sanity-check in the ACPI case too ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in
parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so
merge them to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- the byte operand constraints were wrong for 32-bit
- the to-op's input operands weren't properly parenthesized
[ Impact: fix possible miscompilation or build failure ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
In case if apic were disabled by boot option
we still need read_apic operation. So fixmap
a fake apic area if needed.
[ Impact: fix boot crash ]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: eswierk@aristanetworks.com
LKML-Reference: <20090511134140.GH4624@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Both print_local_APIC (used when apic=debug kernel param is set) and
cpu_debug code missed support for some extended APIC registers that
I'd like to see.
This adds support to show:
- extended APIC feature register
- extended APIC control register
- extended LVT registers
[ Impact: print more debug info ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090508162350.GO29045@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
KVM optimizes guest port 80 accesses by passthing them through to the host.
Some AMD machines die on port 80 writes, allowing the guest to hard-lock the
host.
Remove the port passthrough to avoid the problem.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
