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Adrian Bunk
9ee4016888 [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header
Nothing in include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h is part of the
userspace<->kernel interface.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Jan Beulich
6d0185ea61 [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder
Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging
when something goes wrong with it.

This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option
Most output is given by N=1

AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug=

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Andi Kleen
3807fd46e9 [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code
- Remove "Disabling IOMMU" message because it confuses people
- Clarify that the GART IOMMU is refered to in other message

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
d331e739f5 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try)
Idle callbacks has some races when enter_idle() sets isidle and subsequent
interrupts that can happen on that CPU, before CPU goes to idle. Due to this,
an IDLE_END can get called before IDLE_START. To avoid these races, disable
interrupts before enter_idle and make sure that all idle routines do not
enable interrupts before entering idle.

Note that poll_idle() still has a this race as it has to enable interrupts
before going to idle. But, all other idle routines have the race fixed.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Andi Kleen
a0429d0d7a [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again
This was added as a workaround for the fallback unwinder not supporting
unaligned stack pointers properly. But now it was fixed to do that,
so it's not needed anymore

Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Jan Beulich
359ad0d401 [PATCH] unwinder: more sanity checks in Dwarf2 unwinder
Tighten the requirements on both input to and output from the Dwarf2
unwinder.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00
Andi Kleen
eef5e0d185 [PATCH] unwinder: Remove lockdep disabling of nested locks for unwinder
Shouldn't be needed anymore since __kernel_text_address
is used unconditionally on x86-64

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Andi Kleen
446f713ba1 [PATCH] unwinder: always use unlocked module list access in unwinder fallback
We're already well protected against module unloads because module
unload uses stop_machine(). The only exception is NMIs, but other
users already risk lockless accesses here.

This avoids some hackery in lockdep and also a potential deadlock

This matches what i386 does.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Andi Kleen
e2124bb8d3 [PATCH] unwinder: Use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user in kernel/unwind.c
This avoids trouble with the page fault handler if the fault
happens inside an interrupt context.

Suggested by Linus

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
f3d73707a1 [PATCH] x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2
On the Core2 cpus, the rdtsc instruction is not serializing (as defined
in the architecture reference since rdtsc exists) and due to the deep
speculation of these cores, it's possible that you can observe time go
backwards between cores due to this speculation. Since the kernel
already deals with this with the SYNC_RDTSC flag, the solution is
simple, only assume that the instruction is serializing on family 15...

The price one pays for this is a slightly slower gettimeofday (by a
dozen or two cycles), but that increase is quite small to pay for a
really-going-forward tsc counter.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Muli Ben-Yehuda
e496a0da7f [PATCH] Calgary: remove unused variables
Spotted by d binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Andi Kleen
6167796569 [PATCH] x86-64: Synchronize RDTSC on single core AMD
There is no guarantee that two RDTSCs in a row are monotonic,
so don't assume it on single core AMD systems.
This will make gettimeofday slower again
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
a1a70c25be [PATCH] i386: always enable regparm
-mregparm=3 has been enabled by default for some time on i386, and AFAIK
there aren't any problems with it left.

This patch removes the REGPARM config option and sets -mregparm=3
unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
73ad8355d7 [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused acpi_found_madt in mparse.
remove unused acpi_found_madt in mparse.c

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Dave Jones
a36df98ab1 [PATCH] i386: touch softlockup during backtracing
Sometimes the soft watchdog fires after we're done oopsing.
See http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-25-11-2006.html for an example.

AK: changed to touch_nmi_watchdog()

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
d4c45718b3 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix kobject_init() WARN_ON on resume from disk
Make mce_remove_device() clean up the kobject in per_cpu(device_mce, cpu)
after it has been unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
026c66bdda [PATCH] x86-64: remove duplicate ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE option
One ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE option is enough.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
8fb6e5f5db [PATCH] x86_64: interrupt array size should be aligned to NR_VECTORS
interrupt array is referred for idt vectors instead of NR_IRQS, so change size
to NR_VECTORS - FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR. Also change to static.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
3df0af0eb0 [PATCH] x86_64: clear_bss before set_intr_gate with early_idt_handler
idt_table is in the .bss section, so clear_bss need to called at first

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:12 +01:00
Chuck Ebbert
0741f4d207 [PATCH] x86: add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_print
Add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_print. This lets users change
the amount of raw stack data printed in dump_stack() without
having to reboot.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Wink Saville
c7a3392e9e [PATCH] x86-64: Fix comments for MSR_FS_BASE and MSR_GS_BASE.
The comments for MSR_FS_BASE & MSR_GS_BASE were transposed.

Signed-off-by: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
David Rientjes
86bd58bf4c [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unused GET_APIC_VERSION call from clear_local_APIC
Remove unused GET_APIC_VERSION call from clear_local_APIC() and
__setup_APIC_LVTT().

Reported by D Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Dave Jones
6df0532eef [PATCH] i386: remove duplicate printk
We do the exact same printk about a dozen lines above
with no intermediate printk's.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Artiom Myaskouvskey
bf7e6a1963 [PATCH] i386: Preserve EFI run time regions with memmap parameter
When using memmap kernel parameter in EFI boot we should also add to memory map
memory regions of runtime services to enable their mapping later.

AK: merged and cleaned up the patch

Signed-off-by: Artiom Myaskouvskey <artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Karsten Wiese
f990fff427 [PATCH] x86: Regard MSRs in lapic_suspend()/lapic_resume()
Read/Write APIC_LVTPC and APIC_LVTTHMR only,
if get_maxlvt() returns certain values.
This is done like everywhere else in i386/kernel/apic.c,
so I guess its correct.
Suspends/Resumes to disk fine and eleminates an smp_error_interrupt()
here on a K8.

AK: ported to x86-64 too

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Andi Kleen
9a8cb626a0 [PATCH] i386: Avoid boot warning with apic=debug
There are two consumers of apic=: the apic debug level and the low
level generic architecture code. early_param would warn when the
low level code rejected "debug". Avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
538f188e03 [PATCH] i386: i386 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)
Here is a small patch for i386 which adds a cpufeature flag and
detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This
feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others.
It can also be used by perfmon.

changelog:
	- add CPU_FEATURE_BTS
	- add Branch Trace Store detection

signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
ee58fad51a [PATCH] x86-64: x86-64 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)
Here is a small patch for x86-64 which adds a cpufeature flag and
detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This
feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others.
It can also be used by perfmon.

changelog:
	- add CPU_FEATURE_BTS
	- add Branch Trace Store detection

signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
7e95b593a1 [PATCH] i386: Make irq_vector static
irq_vector[] can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
956fb53197 [PATCH] i386: handle a negative return value
The Coverity checker noted that bad things might happen if
find_isa_irq_apic() returned -1.

[akpm@osdl.org: add debugging checks]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Artiom Myaskouvskey
e1cccf48b1 [PATCH] i386: call efi_get_time during suspend
Function efi_get_time called not only during init kernel phase but also
during suspend (from get_cmos_time).

When it is called from get_cmos_time the corresponding runtime service
should be called in virtual and not in physical mode.

Signed-off-by: Artiom Myaskouvskey <artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Narayanan, Chandramouli" <chandramouli.narayanan@intel.com>
Cc: "Jiossy, Rami" <rami.jiossy@intel.com>
Cc: "Satt, Shai" <shai.satt@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:11 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
b0d0a4ba45 [PATCH] x86: fix the irqbalance quirk for E7320/E7520/E7525
Move the irqbalance quirks for E7320/E7520/E7525(Errata 23 in
http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30304203.pdf) to early
quirks.

And add a PCI quirk for these platforms to check(which happens very late
during the boot) if the APIC routing is indeed set to default flat mode.

This fixes the breakage(in x86_64) of this quirk due to cpu hotplug which
selects physical mode instead of the logical flat(as needed for this errata
workaround).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
9899f826fc [PATCH] x86-64: add genapic_force
Add genapic_force. Used by the next Intel quirks patch.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
72486f1f8f [PATCH] i386: change the 'no_control' field to 'hotpluggable' in the struct cpu
Change the 'no_control' field in the cpu struct to a more positive
and better term 'hotpluggable'. And change(/cleanup) the logic accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
fd6d7d2689 [PATCH] i386: introduce the mechanism of disabling cpu hotplug control
Add 'enable_cpu_hotplug' flag and when cleared, the hotplug control file
("online") will not be added under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/

Next patch doing PCI quirks will use this.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
274e1bbdee [PATCH] x86: add write_pci_config_byte() to direct PCI access routines
Mechanism of selecting physical mode in genapic when cpu hotplug is enabled on
x86_64, broke the quirk(quirk_intel_irqbalance()) introduced for working
around the transposing interrupt message errata in E7520/E7320/E7525 (revision
ID 0x9 and below.  errata #23 in
http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30304203.pdf).

This errata requires the mode to be in logical flat, so that interrupts can be
directed to more than one cpu(and thus use hardware IRQ balancing enabled by
BIOS on these platforms).

Following four patches fixes this by moving the quirk to early quirk and
forcing the x86_64 genapic selection to logical flat on these platforms.

Thanks to Shaohua for pointing out the breakage.

This patch:

Add write_pci_config_byte() to direct PCI access  routines

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
79929fd1c1 [PATCH] i386: Convert more absolute symbols to section relative
o Convert more absolute symbols to section relative to keep the theme in
  vmlinux.lds.S file and to avoid problem if kernel is relocated.

o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and
  avoid introducing absolute symbols.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
2c22d8baa9 [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Fix kallsyms on avr32 after relocatable kernel changes
o On some platforms like avr32, section init comes before .text and
  not necessarily a symbol's relative position w.r.t _text is positive.
  In such cases assembler detects the overflow and emits warning. This
  patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
ba10650a88 [PATCH] i386: alloc_gdt() static
Make the needlessly global alloc_gdt() static.

(against) pda-percpu-init

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:10 +01:00
Jan Beulich
365bff806e [PATCH] i386: fix MTRR code
Until not so long ago, there were system log messages pointing to
inconsistent MTRR setup of the video frame buffer caused by the way vesafb
and X worked. While vesafb was fixed meanwhile, I believe fixing it there
only hides a shortcoming in the MTRR code itself, in that that code is not
symmetric with respect to the ordering of attempts to set up two (or more)
regions where one contains the other. In the current shape, it permits
only setting up sub-regions of pre-exisiting ones. The patch below makes
this symmetric.

While working on that I noticed a few more inconsistencies in that code,
namely
- use of 'unsigned int' for sizes in many, but not all places (the patch
  is converting this to use 'unsigned long' everywhere, which specifically
  might be necessary for x86-64 once a processor supporting more than 44
  physical address bits would become available)
- the code to correct inconsistent settings during secondary processor
  startup tried (if necessary) to correct, among other things, the value
  in IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE, however the newly computed value would never get
  used (i.e. stored in the respective MSR)
- the generic range validation code checked that the end of the
  to-be-added range would be above 1MB; the value checked should have been
  the start of the range
- when contained regions are detected, previously this was allowed only
  when the old region was uncacheable; this can be symmetric (i.e. the new
  region can also be uncacheable) and even further as per Intel's
  documentation write-trough and write-back for either region is also
  compatible with the respective opposite in the other

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Jan Beulich
eab724e5df [PATCH] x86-64: adjust pmd_bad()
Make pmd_bad() symmetrical to pgd_bad() and pud_bad(). At once,
simplify them all.

TBD: tighten down the checks again as suggested by Hugh D.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Jan Beulich
475850c86b [PATCH] i386: conditionalize inclusion of some MTRR flavors
Avoid inclusion of code that's dead for x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Jan Beulich
4a1c422750 [PATCH] x86-64: remove prototype of free_bootmem_generic()
The function doesn't exist (anymore).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Jan Beulich
c6ea396de6 [PATCH] i386: Don't touch per cpu memory of offline CPUs in touch_nmi_watchdog
Just like on x86-64, don't touch foreign CPUs' memory if the watchdog
isn't enabled at all.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Jan Beulich
b0bfece40b [PATCH] i386: clear_fixmap() should not use set_pte()
While not strictly required with the current code (as the upper half of
page table entries generated by __set_fixmap() cannot be non-zero due
to the second parameter of this function being 'unsigned long'), the
use of set_pte() in __set_fixmap() in the context of clear_fixmap() is
still improper with CONFIG_X86_PAE (see the respective comment in
include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h) and would turn into a bug if that
second parameter ever gets changed to a 64-bit type.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen
9a45732422 [PATCH] x86-64: Rate limit no irq handler messages
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Ernie Petrides
103efcd9aa [PATCH] x86-64: fix perms/range of vsyscall vma in /proc/*/maps
The final line of /proc/<pid>/maps on x86_64 for native 64-bit
tasks shows an incorrect ending address and incorrect permissions.  There
is only a single page mapped in this vsyscall region, and it is accessible
for both read and execute.

The patch below fixes this.  (Since 32-bit-compat tasks have a real vma
with correct perms/range, no change is necessary for that scenario.)

Before the patch, a "cat /proc/self/maps | tail -1" shows this:

        ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffe00000 ---p 00000000 [...]

After the patch, this is the output:

        ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 [...]

Signed-off-by: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen
c55d92d141 [PATCH] i386: Add support for compilation for Core2
gcc doesn't support -mtune=core2 yet, but will be soon. Use -mtune=generic or -mtune=i686
as fallback

TBD need benchmarking for INTEL_USERCOPY etc. So far I used the same defaults as MPENTIUMM

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen
713819989a [PATCH] x86-64: Add option to compile for Core2
Add an option to compile for Intel's Core 2

The Kconfig help is a mouthful due to the inventiveness of Intel's
product naming department.

Mainly for the 64bit cache line sizes because gcc doesn't support
optimizing for core2 yet. However it will and then the kernel
should be ready by passing the right option

Also fix the old MPSC help text to confirm better to reality.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
Zachary Amsden
8542b200cb [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer check
Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option.  The
VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which
probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings.  It fires
100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using
a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs
have not yet been delivered.

In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug
could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter
SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs.

While here, make check_timer be __init.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00