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Pekka Paalanen
5359b585fb x86 mmiotrace: fix save/restore page table state
From baa99e2b32449ec7bf147c234adfa444caecac8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:02:43 +0200

Blindly setting _PAGE_PRESENT in disarm_kmmio_fault_page() overlooks the
possibility, that the page was not present when it was armed.

Make arm_kmmio_fault_page() store the previous page presence in struct
kmmio_fault_page and use it on disarm.

This patch was originally written by Stuart Bennett, but Pekka Paalanen
rewrote it a little different.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 10:20:36 +01:00
Stuart Bennett
e9d54cae8f x86 mmiotrace: WARN_ONCE if dis/arming a page fails
Print a full warning once, if arming or disarming a page fails.

Also, if initial arming fails, do not handle the page further. This
avoids the possibility of a page failing to arm and then later claiming
to have handled any fault on that page.

WARN_ONCE added by Pekka Paalanen.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 10:20:35 +01:00
Pekka Paalanen
5ff93697fc x86: add far read test to testmmiotrace
Apparently pages far into an ioremapped region might not actually be
mapped during ioremap(). Add an optional read test to try to trigger a
multiply faulting MMIO access. Also add more messages to the kernel log
to help debugging.

This patch is based on a patch suggested by
Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
who discovered bugs in mmiotrace related to normal kernel space faults.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 10:20:35 +01:00
Pekka Paalanen
fab852aaf7 x86: count errors in testmmiotrace.ko
Check the read values against the written values in the MMIO read/write
test. This test shows if the given MMIO test area really works as
memory, which is a prerequisite for a successful mmiotrace test.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 10:20:34 +01:00
David S. Miller
aa4abc9bcc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
	net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
55f2b78995 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat 2009-03-01 12:47:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f5c1aa1537 Revert "gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*"
This reverts commit 17581ad812.

Sitsofe Wheeler reported that /dev/dri/card0 is MIA on his EeePC 900
and bisected it to this commit.

Graphics card is an i915 in an EeePC 900:

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]:
   Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
     Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)

( Most likely the ioremap() of the driver failed and hence the card
  did not initialize. )

Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Bisected-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-01 12:47:49 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d0c4f57027 bootmem, x86: further fixes for arch-specific bootmem wrapping
Impact: fix new breakages introduced by previous fix

Commit c132937556 tried to clean up
bootmem arch wrapper but it wasn't quite correct.  Before the commit,
the followings were broken.

* Low level interface functions prefixed with __ ignored arch
  preference.

* reserve_bootmem(...) can't be mapped into
  reserve_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0)->bdata, ...) because the node is
  not preference here.  The region specified MUST fall into the
  specified region; otherwise, it will panic.

After the commit,

* If allocation fails for the arch preferred node, it should fallback
  to whatever is available.  Instead, it simply failed allocation.

There are too many internal details to allow generic wrapping and
still keep things simple for archs.  Plus, all that arch wants is a
way to prefer certain node over another.

This patch drops the generic wrapping around alloc_bootmem_core() and
add alloc_bootmem_core() instead.  If necessary, arch can define
bootmem_arch_referred_node() macro or function which takes all
allocation information and returns the preferred node.  bootmem
generic code will always try the preferred node first and then
fallback to other nodes as usual.

Breakages noted and changes reviewed by Johannes Weiner.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2009-03-01 16:06:56 +09:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
327f4387e3 x86: remove double copy of show_cpuinfo_core for 32 and 64 bit
Impact: unification

show_cpuinfo_core is identical for 32 and 64 bit and can be unified,
and CONFIG_X86_HT inherently depends on CONFIG_X86_SMP.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-28 19:26:33 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
92b9af9e4f x86: i915 needs pgprot_writecombine() and is_io_mapping_possible()
Impact: build fix

Theodore Ts reported that the i915 driver needs these symbols:

 ERROR: "pgprot_writecombine" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!
 ERROR: "is_io_mapping_possible" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!

Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 14:22:44 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
1fae0279ce x86: signal: introduce helper align_sigframe()
Impact: cleanup

Introduce helper align_sigframe() to align stack pointer for signal frame.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:31 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
75779f0526 x86: signal: unify get_sigframe()
Impact: cleanup

Unify get_sigframe().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:30 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
36a4526583 x86: signal: use 16 bytes boundary for rt_sigframe
Impact: cleanup

Supporting xsave/xrestore introduces 64 bytes boundary for save_i387_xstate().
16 bytes boundary is OK for rt_sigframe.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:30 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
97286a2b64 x86: signal: intrroduce get_sigframe() and replace get_sigstack()
Impact: cleanup

Introduce get_sigframe() like 32-bit to replace get_sigstack().
Move the i387 stuff into get_sigframe().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:29 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
144b0712dd x86: signal: add __user annotation
Impact: cleanup

Add missing __user annotation to the parameter of get_sigframe().
Also change cast type to void __user * of *fpstate.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:29 +01:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
c577b098f9 x86, fixmap: unify fixmap.h
Impact: unification

This patch unify fixmap_32.h and fixmap_64.h into fixmap.h.
Things that we can't merge now are using CONFIG_X86_{32,64}
(e.g.:vsyscall and EFI)

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
c78f322ce8 x86, fixmap: prepare fixmap_32.h for unification
Impact: cleanup

Just prepare fixmap for later mechanic unification.
No real modification on code.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3831152  353188  372736 4557076  458914 vmlinux-32.after
3831152  353188  372736 4557076  458914 vmlinux-32.before

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
e365bcd921 x86, fixmap: prepare fixmap_64.h for unification
Impact: cleanup

Just prepare fixmap for later mechanic unification.
No real modification on code.

  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4312362  527192  421924 5261478  5048a6 vmlinux-64.after
4312362  527192  421924 5261478  5048a6 vmlinux-64.before

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:48 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
5f403fa9de x86, fixmap: add CONFIG_EFI
Impact: new fixmap allocation

FIX_EFI_IO_MAP_FIRST_PAGE is used only when EFI is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
2ae38daf25 x86, fixmap: add CONFIG_X86_{LOCAL,IO}_APIC
Impact: New fixmap allocations

Add CONFIG_X86_{LOCAL,IO}_APIC to enum fixed_address.
FIX_APIC_BASE is used only when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is
enabled and FIX_IO_APIC_BASE_* are used only when
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
fd862dde18 x86, fixmap: define reserve_top_address for x86_64
Impact: new interface (not yet use)

Define reserve_top_address for x86_64; only for later x86 integration.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
ab93e3c45d x86, fixmap: define FIXADDR_BOOT_* and redefine FIX_ADDR_SIZE
Impact: new interface, not yet used

Now, with these macros, x86_64 code can know where start the
permanent and non-permanent fixed mapped address.
This patch make these macros equal fixmap_32.h for future
x86 integration.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
d09375a9ec x86, fixmap: rename __FIXADDR_SIZE and __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE
Impact: rename

Rename __FIXADDR_SIZE to FIXADDR_SIZE
and __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE to FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
83ce400928 x86: set X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable.

(We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems)

The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running
32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant:

   sched_clock_stable=0		sched_clock_stable=1
   ....................         ....................
   22.456925 million/sec        24.306972 million/sec   [+8.2%]

lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to
0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching
performance.

Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks:

 Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m':

       [before]           [after]
   ............      ............
   37621.421089      36436.848378    task clock ticks     (msecs)

              0                 0    CPU migrations       (events)
        2000274           2000189    context switches     (events)
            194               193    pagefaults           (events)
     8433799643        8171016416    CPU cycles           (events) -3.21%
     8370133368        8180999694    instructions         (events) -2.31%
        4158565           3895941    cache references     (events) -6.74%
          44312             46264    cache misses         (events)

    2349.287976       2279.362465    wall-time            (msecs)  -3.06%

The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction
count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus
executes faster.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 21:20:25 +01:00
Kyle McMartin
f6be37fdc6 x86: enable DMAR by default
Now that the obvious bugs have been worked out, specifically
the iwlagn issue, and the write buffer errata, DMAR should be safe
to turn back on by default. (We've had it on since those patches were
first written a few weeks ago, without any noticeable bug reports
(most have been due to the dma-api debug patchset.))

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 20:59:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3b900d4419 x86: fix !ACPI build for es7000_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c:702: error: 'es7000_acpi_madt_oem_check_cluster' undeclared here (not in a function)

Provide a es7000_acpi_madt_oem_check_cluster() definition in the !ACPI
case too.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 14:35:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0b1da1c8fc x86: apic: simplify secondary CPU wakeup methods, fix
Impact: build fix

init_deasserted is only available on SMP. Make the secondary-wakeup
function conditional on SMP.

Also clean up the file some.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 14:11:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1f5bcabf1b x86: apic: simplify secondary CPU wakeup methods
Impact: cleanup

- rename apic->wakeup_cpu  to apic->wakeup_secondary_cpu, to
  make it apparent that this is an SMP-only method

- handle NULL ->wakeup_secondary_cpus to mean the default INIT
  wakeup sequence - this allows simplification of the APIC
  driver templates.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:58:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0917c01f8e x86: remove update_apic from x86_quirks, fix
Impact: build fix

wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_init(), the default platform method for
booting a secondary CPU, is always used on UP due to probe_32.c,
if CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is enabled but SMP is off.

So provide a UP wrapper inline as well.

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 12:49:34 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
129d8bc828 x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit
Impact: cleanup

that is only needed when CONFIG_X86_VSMP is defined with 64bit
also remove dead code about PCI, because CONFIG_X86_VSMP depends on PCI

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 06:40:06 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
2b6163bf57 x86: remove update_apic from x86_quirks
Impact: cleanup

x86_quirks->update_apic() calling looks crazy. so try to remove it:

 1. every apic take wakeup_cpu member directly
 2. separate es7000_apic to es7000_apic_cluster
 3. use uv_wakeup_cpu directly

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 06:32:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ecc25fbd6b Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm' and 'linus' into x86/core 2009-02-26 06:31:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
801c0be814 Merge branches 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/pat' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
2009-02-26 06:31:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
13b2eda64d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-26 06:30:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
13093cb0e5 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*, export symbols for modules
Impact: build fix

 ERROR: "reserve_io_memtype_wc" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!
 ERROR: "free_io_memtype" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 03:43:53 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
55d8085671 xen: disable interrupts early, as start_kernel expects
This avoids a lockdep warning from:
	if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(unlikely(!early_boot_irqs_enabled)))
		return;
in trace_hardirqs_on_caller();

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:51:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2e31add2a7 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat 2009-02-25 16:40:10 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
34754b69a6 x86: make vmap yell louder when it is used under irqs_disabled()
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 16:38:34 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
17581ad812 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*
Make io_mapping_create_wc and io_mapping_free go through PAT to make sure
that there are no memory type aliases.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:52 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4ab0d47d0a gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t
io_mapping_create_wc should take a resource_size_t parameter in place of
unsigned long. With unsigned long, there will be no way to map greater than 4GB
address in i386/32 bit.

On x86, greater than 4GB addresses cannot be mapped on i386 without PAE. Return
error for such a case.

Patch also adds a structure for io_mapping, that saves the base, size and
type on HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP archs, that can be used to verify the offset on
io_mapping_map calls.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:51 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7880f74645 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: routine to keep identity map in sync
Add a function to check and keep identity maps in sync, when changing
any memory type. One of the follow on patches will also use this
routine.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:51 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
63823126c2 x86: memtest: add additional (regular) test patterns
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:47 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
bfb4dc0da4 x86: memtest: wipe out test pattern from memory
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:46 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
570c9e69aa x86: memtest: adapt log messages
- print test pattern instead of pattern number,
- show pattern as stored in memory,
- use proper priority flags,
- consistent use of u64 throughout the code

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:46 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
7dad169e57 x86: memtest: cleanup memtest function
Impact: code cleanup

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:45 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
6d74171bf7 x86: memtest: introduce array to select memtest patterns
Impact: code cleanup

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:45 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
40823f737e x86: memtest: reuse test patterns when memtest parameter exceeds number of available patterns
Impact: fix unexpected behaviour when pattern number is out of range

Current implementation provides 4 patterns for memtest. The code doesn't
check whether the memtest parameter value exceeds the maximum pattern number.

Instead the memtest code pretends to test with non-existing patterns, e.g.
when booting with memtest=10 I've observed the following

  ...
  early_memtest: pattern num 10
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 0
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 1
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 2
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 3
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 4
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 5
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 6
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 7
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 8
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 9
  ...

But in fact Linux didn't test anything for patterns > 4 as the default
case in memtest() is to leave the function.

I suggest to use the memtest parameter as the number of tests to be
performed and to re-iterate over all existing patterns.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95108fa34a x86: usercopy: check for total size when deciding non-temporal cutoff
Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal

This change makes the following simple fix:

  30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes
written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal
way.

This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk
of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized
chunks.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3255aa2eb6 x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
Impact: cleanup, enable future change

Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(),
and update all the callsites.

The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to
more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or
non-temporal.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95f66b3770 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/mm 2009-02-25 08:27:46 +01:00