We don't support these instructions, but guest can execute them even if the
feature('monitor') haven't been exposed in CPUID. So we would trap and inject
a #UD if guest try this way.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, uv: Remove recursion in uv_heartbeat_enable()
x86, uv: uv_global_gru_mmr_address() macro fix
x86, uv: Add serial number parameter to uv_bios_get_sn_info()
* 'x86-pci-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Enable NMI on all cpus on UV
vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system
vgaarb: Fix VGA arbiter to accept PCI domains other than 0
x86, uv: Update UV arch to target Legacy VGA I/O correctly.
pci: Update pci_set_vga_state() to call arch functions
* 'x86-rwsem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, rwsem: Avoid store forwarding hazard in __downgrade_write
x86-64, rwsem: 64-bit xadd rwsem implementation
x86: Fix breakage of UML from the changes in the rwsem system
x86-64: support native xadd rwsem implementation
x86: clean up rwsem type system
* 'x86-numa-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation
x86, numa: Add fixed node size option for numa emulation
x86, numa: Fix numa emulation calculation of big nodes
x86, acpi: Map hotadded cpu to correct node.
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mm: Unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() API
x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
x86: Do not reserve brk for DMI if it's not going to be used
x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Use the generic page_is_ram()
x86: Remove BIOS data range from e820
Move page_is_ram() declaration to mm.h
Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
resources: introduce generic page_is_ram()
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cacheinfo: Enable L3 CID only on AMD
x86, cacheinfo: Remove NUMA dependency, fix for AMD Fam10h rev D1
x86, cpu: Print AMD virtualization features in /proc/cpuinfo
x86, cacheinfo: Calculate L3 indices
x86, cacheinfo: Add cache index disable sysfs attrs only to L3 caches
x86, cacheinfo: Fix disabling of L3 cache indices
intel-agp: Switch to wbinvd_on_all_cpus
x86, lib: Add wbinvd smp helpers
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
ftrace: Add function names to dangling } in function graph tracer
tracing: Simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field
tracing: Remove unnecessary variable in print_graph_return
tracing: Fix typo of info text in trace_kprobe.c
tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()
tracing: Remove CONFIG_TRACE_POWER from kernel config
tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
ftrace: Remove memory barriers from NMI code when not needed
tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
s390: Add pt_regs register and stack access API
tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic
tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations
tracing: Add notrace to TRACE_EVENT implementation functions
ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter
tracing: Add correct/incorrect to sort keys for branch annotation output
tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path
tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
tracing: Use appropriate perl constructs in recordmcount.pl
tracing: optimize recordmcount.pl for offsets-handling
...
* 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86_64: Print modules like i386 does
* 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters
* 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code
* 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use helpers for rlimits
Enable NMI on all cpus in UV system and add an NMI handler
to dump_stack on each cpu.
By default on x86 all the cpus except the boot cpu have NMI
masked off. This patch enables NMI on all cpus in UV system
and adds an NMI handler to dump_stack on each cpu. This
way if a system hangs we can NMI the machine and get a
backtrace from all the cpus.
Version 2: Use x86_platform driver mechanism for nmi init, per
Ingo's suggestion.
Version 3: Clean up Ingo's nits.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100226164912.GA24439@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
price of the additional mapping operations.
Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.
With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)
With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)
This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
status-quo as the default.
It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
at 16G of total RAM.
Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
lowmem PTEs.
Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
practice 64G is still supported).
It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that
we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges,
e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183
Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge,
e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681
Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on
"pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
When the user enables breakpoints through dr7, he can choose
between "local" or "global" enable bits but given how linux is
implemented, both have the same effect.
That said we don't keep track how the user enabled the breakpoints
so when the user requests the dr7 value, we only translate the
"enabled" status using the global enabled bits. It means that if
the user enabled a breakpoint using the local enabled bit, reading
back dr7 will set the global bit and clear the local one.
Apps like Wine expect a full dr7 POKEUSER/PEEKUSER match for emulated
softwares that implement old reverse engineering protection schemes.
We fix that by keeping track of the whole dr7 value given by the user
in the thread structure to drop this bug. We'll think about
something more proper later.
This fixes a 2.6.32 - 2.6.33-x ptrace regression.
Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
x86/mm is on 32-rc4 and missing the spinlock namespace changes which
are needed for further commits into this topic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a
default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the
syscall table) to asm/syscall.h. New arch ports don't have to waste
time copying & pasting this simple function.
The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
For some reason the 64-bit tree was doing this differently and
I can't see why it would need to.
This correct behaviour when you have two GPUs plugged in and
32-bit put the console in one place and 64-bit in another.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262847894-27498-1-git-send-email-airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The 64-bit version of ELF_PLAT_INIT() clears TIF_IA32, but at this point
it has already been cleared by SET_PERSONALITY == set_personality_64bit.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The atomic ops emulation for 32bit legacy CPUs floods the tracer with
irq off/on entries. The irq disabled regions are short and therefor
not interesting when chasing long irq disabled latencies. Mark them
raw and keep them out of the trace.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.
This patch introduces numa=fake=<size>[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate. When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.
FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch adds code to cpu initialization path to detect
the extended virtualization features of AMD cpus to show
them in /proc/cpuinfo.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260792521-15212-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The Intel Architecture Optimization Reference Manual states that a short
load that follows a long store to the same object will suffer a store
forwading penalty, particularly if the two accesses use different addresses.
Trivially, a long load that follows a short store will also suffer a penalty.
__downgrade_write() in rwsem incurs both penalties: the increment operation
will not be able to reuse a recently-loaded rwsem value, and its result will
not be reused by any recently-following rwsem operation.
A comment in the code states that this is because 64-bit immediates are
special and expensive; but while they are slightly special (only a single
instruction allows them), they aren't expensive: a test shows that two loops,
one loading a 32-bit immediate and one loading a 64-bit immediate, both take
1.5 cycles per iteration.
Fix this by changing __downgrade_write to use the same add instruction on
i386 and on x86_64, so that it uses the same operand size as all the other
rwsem functions.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266049992-17419-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.
This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.
Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.
And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.
First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).
The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Both x86-32 and x86-64 with 32-bit compat use ARCH_DLINFO_IA32,
which defines two saved_auxv entries. But system.h only defines
AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH as 2 for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION, not for
CONFIG_X86_32. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100209023502.GA15408@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add function to direct Legacy VGA I/O traffic to correct I/O Hub.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <201002022238.o12McEbi018727@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
io_32.h and io_64.h are now identical. Merge them into io.h.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-8-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Always make it an inline instead of using a macro for the no-op case.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-7-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Iomem has no special significance on x86. Use the standard mem*
functions instead of trying to call other versions. Some fixups
are needed to match the function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Copied from io_32.h.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make it more similar to io_32.h. No real code changes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
These were leftover from the numaq support that was removed in commit
1fba38703d.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-3-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The XQUAD stuff is part of the NUMAQ architecture, so move it there.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.
This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The generic resource based page_is_ram() works better with memory
hotplug/hotremove. So switch the x86 e820map based code to it.
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122033004.470767217@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/agp: Fix agp_amd64_init regression
x86: Add quirk for Intel DG45FC board to avoid low memory corruption
x86: Add Dell OptiPlex 760 reboot quirk
x86, UV: Fix RTC latency bug by reading replicated cachelines
oprofile/x86: add Xeon 7500 series support
oprofile/x86: fix crash when profiling more than 28 events
lib/dma-debug.c: mark file-local struct symbol static.
x86/amd-iommu: Fix deassignment of a device from the pt_domain
x86/amd-iommu: Fix IOMMU-API initialization for iommu=pt
x86/amd-iommu: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __detach_device()
x86/amd-iommu: Fix possible integer overflow
Now that the previous commit made it possible to do the personality
setting at the point of no return, we do just that for ELF binaries.
And suddenly all the reasons for that insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit go
away, and we can just make SET_PERSONALITY() just do the obvious thing
for a 32-bit compat process.
Everything becomes much more straightforward this way.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since constraints are specified on the event number, not number
and unit mask shorten the constraint masks so that we'll
actually match something.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221121.967610372@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch improves event scheduling by maximizing the use of PMU
registers regardless of the order in which events are created in a group.
The algorithm takes into account the list of counter constraints for each
event. It assigns events to counters from the most constrained, i.e.,
works on only one counter, to the least constrained, i.e., works on any
counter.
Intel Fixed counter events and the BTS special event are also handled via
this algorithm which is designed to be fairly generic.
The patch also updates the validation of an event to use the scheduling
algorithm. This will cause early failure in perf_event_open().
The 2nd version of this patch follows the model used by PPC, by running
the scheduling algorithm and the actual assignment separately. Actual
assignment takes place in hw_perf_enable() whereas scheduling is
implemented in hw_perf_group_sched_in() and x86_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ fixup whitespace and style nits as well as adding is_x86_event() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status
register (DR6).
This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing
of a debug event origin.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG, which provides some parsed versions of the x86
CPU configuration via debugfs, has caused boot failures on real
hardware. The value of this feature has been marginal at best, as all
this information is already available to userspace via generic
interfaces.
Causes crashes that have not been fixed + minimal utility -> remove.
See the referenced LKML thread for more information.
Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001221755320.13231@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Commit d1c84f79a6
leads to a regression when microcode_amd.c is compiled into the kernel.
It causes a big boot delay because the firmware is not available.
See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126267290920060
It also renders the reload sysfs attribute useless.
Fixing this is too intrusive for an -rc5 kernel.
Thus I'd like to restore the microcode loading behaviour of kernel
2.6.32.
CC: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122203456.GB13792@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
HPET MSI on platforms with ATI SB700/SB800 as they seem to have some
side-effects on floppy DMA. Do not use HPET MSI on such platforms.
Original problem report from Mark Hounschell
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0912.2/01118.html
[ This patch needs to go to stable as well. But, there are some
conflicts that prevents the patch from going as is. I can
rebase/resubmit to stable once the patch goes upstream.
hpa: still Cc:'ing stable@ as an FYI. ]
Tested-by: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100121190952.GA32523@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
