* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
oprofile/x86: fix msr access to reserved counters
oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()
oprofile/x86: fix perfctr nmi reservation for mulitplexing
oprofile/x86: add comment to counter-in-use warning
oprofile/x86: warn user if a counter is already active
oprofile/x86: implement randomization for IBS periodic op counter
oprofile/x86: implement lsfr pseudo-random number generator for IBS
oprofile/x86: implement IBS cpuid feature detection
oprofile/x86: remove node check in AMD IBS initialization
oprofile/x86: remove OPROFILE_IBS config option
oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description
oprofile: remove tracing build dependency
* '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
* 'kmemcheck-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
kmemcheck: Test the full object in kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized()
During switching virtual counters there is access to perfctr msrs. If
the counter is not available this fails due to an invalid
address. This patch fixes this.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Multiple virtual counters share one physical counter. The reservation
of virtual counters fails due to duplicate allocation of the same
counter. The counters are already reserved. Thus, virtual counter
reservation may removed at all. This also makes the code easier.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Currently, oprofile fails silently on platforms where a non-OS entity
such as the system firmware "enables" and uses a performance
counter. There is a warning in the code for this case.
The warning indicates an already running counter. If oprofile doesn't
collect data, then try using a different performance counter on your
platform to monitor the desired event. Delete the counter from the
desired event by editing the
/usr/share/oprofile/<cpu_type>/<cpu>/events
file. If the event cannot be monitored by any other counter, contact
your hardware or BIOS vendor.
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch generates a warning if a counter is already active.
Implemented for AMD and P6 models. P4 is not supported.
Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
IBS selects an op (execution operation) for sampling by counting
either cycles or dispatched ops. Better statistical samples can be
produced by adding a software generated random offset to the periodic
op counter value with each sample.
This patch adds software randomization to the IBS periodic op
counter. The lower 12 bits of the 20 bit counter are
randomized. IbsOpCurCnt is initialized with a 12 bit random value.
There is a work around if the hw can not write to IbsOpCurCnt. Then
the lower 8 bits of the 16 bit IbsOpMaxCnt [15:0] value are randomized
in the range of -128 to +127 by adding/subtracting an offset to the
maximum count (IbsOpMaxCnt).
The linear feedback shift register (LFSR) algorithm is used for
pseudo-random number generation to have low impact to the memory
system.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch implements a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) for
pseudo-random number generation for IBS.
For IBS measurements it would be good to minimize memory traffic in
the interrupt handler since every access pollutes the data
caches. Computing a maximal period LFSR just needs shifts and ORs.
The LFSR method is good enough to randomize the ops at low
overhead. 16 pseudo-random bits are enough for the implementation and
it doesn't matter that the pattern repeats with a fairly short
cycle. It only needs to break up (hard) periodic sampling behavior.
The logic was designed by Paul Drongowski.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch adds IBS feature detection using cpuid flags. An IBS
capability mask is introduced to test for certain IBS features. The
bit mask is the same as for IBS cpuid feature flags (Fn8000_001B_EAX),
but bit 0 is used to indicate the existence of IBS.
The patch also changes the handling of the IbsOpCntCtl bit (periodic
op counter count control). The oprofilefs file for this feature
(ibs_op/dispatched_ops) will be only exposed if the feature is
available, also the default for the bit is set to count clock cycles.
In general, the userland can detect the availability of a feature by
checking for the corresponding file in oprofilefs. If it exists, the
feature also exists. This may lead to a dynamic file layout depending
on the cpu type with that the userland has to deal with. Current
opcontrol is compatible.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Standard AMD systems have the same number of nodes as there are
northbridge devices. However, there may kernel configurations
(especially for 32 bit) or system setups exist, where the node number
is different or it can not be detected properly. Thus the check is not
reliable and may fail though IBS setup was fine. For this reason it is
better to remove the check.
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the
kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated
permanently.
As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
commit ff097ddd4 (x86/PCI: MMCONFIG: manage pci_mmcfg_region as a
list, not a table) introduced a nasty memory corruption when
pci_mmcfg_list is empty.
pci_mmcfg_check_end_bus_number() dereferences pci_mmcfg_list.prev even
when the list is empty. The following write hits some variable near to
pci_mmcfg_list.
Further down a similar problem exists, where cfg->list.next is
dereferenced unconditionally and a comparison with some variable near
to pci_mmcfg_list happens.
Add a check for the last element into the for_each_entry() loop and
remove all the other crappy logic which is just a leftover of the old
array based code which was replaced by the list conversion.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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>
Previously we used a table of size PCI_BUS_NUM_RESOURCES (16) for resources
forwarded to a bus by its upstream bridge. We've increased this size
several times when the table overflowed.
But there's no good limit on the number of resources because host bridges
and subtractive decode bridges can forward any number of ranges to their
secondary buses.
This patch reduces the table to only PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCE_NUM (4) entries,
which corresponds to the number of windows a PCI-to-PCI (3) or CardBus (4)
bridge can positively decode. Any additional resources, e.g., PCI host
bridge windows or subtractively-decoded regions, are kept in a list.
I'd prefer a single list rather than this split table/list approach, but
that requires simultaneous changes to every architecture. This approach
only requires immediate changes where we set up (a) host bridges with more
than four windows and (b) subtractive-decode P2P bridges, and we can
incrementally change other architectures to use the list.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Now that we return the new resource start position, there is no
need to update "struct resource" inside the align function.
Therefore, mark the struct resource as const.
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
As suggested by Linus, align functions should return the start
of a resource, not void. An update of "res->start" is no longer
necessary.
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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>
Before we had a generic breakpoint API, ptrace was accepting
breakpoints on NULL address in x86. The new API refuse them,
without given strong reasons. We need to follow the previous
behaviour as some userspace apps like Wine need such NULL
breakpoints to ensure old emulated software protections
are still working.
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>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.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>
This is a fix for bug #14845 (bugzilla.kernel.org). The update_checksum()
function in mm/kmemleak.c calls kmemcheck_is_obj_initialised() before scanning
an object. When KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK is enabled, this function returns true.
However, the crc32_le() reads smaller intervals (32-bit) for which
kmemleak_is_obj_initialised() may be false leading to a kmemcheck warning.
Note that kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized() is currently only used by
kmemleak before scanning a memory location.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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>
We realized when we broke acpi=ht
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14886
that acpi=ht is not needed on this box
and folks have been using acpi=force on it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, apic: Don't use logical-flat mode when CPU hotplug may exceed 8 CPUs
x86-32: Make AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH=2
x86/agp: Fix amd64-agp module initialization regression
x86, doc: Fix minor spelling error in arch/x86/mm/gup.c
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: PIT: control word is write-only
kvmclock: count total_sleep_time when updating guest clock
Export the symbol of getboottime and mmonotonic_to_bootbased
We need to fall back from logical-flat APIC mode to physical-flat mode
when we have more than 8 CPUs. However, in the presence of CPU
hotplug(with bios listing not enabled but possible cpus as disabled cpus in
MADT), we have to consider the number of possible CPUs rather than
the number of current CPUs; otherwise we may cross the 8-CPU boundary
when CPUs are added later.
32bit apic code can use more cleanups (like the removal of vendor checks in
32bit default_setup_apic_routing()) and more unifications with 64bit code.
Yinghai has some patches in works already. This patch addresses the boot issue
that is reported in the virtualization guest context.
[ hpa: incorporated function annotation feedback from Yinghai Lu ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265767304.2833.19.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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>
Current kvm wallclock does not consider the total_sleep_time which could cause
wrong wallclock in guest after host suspend/resume. This patch solve
this issue by counting total_sleep_time to get the correct host boot time.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits
[CPUFREQ] Fix use after free of struct powernow_k8_data
[CPUFREQ] fix default value for ondemand governor
Print modules list during kernel BUG.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Newly added memory can not be accessed via /dev/mem, because we do not
update the variables high_memory, max_pfn and max_low_pfn.
Add a function update_end_of_memory_vars() to update these variables for
64-bit kernels.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify comment]
Signed-off-by: Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Haicheng <haicheng.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix minor spelling error in comment. No code change.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
LKML-Reference: <201002022238.o12McDiF018720@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API
hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
perf: Ignore perf.data.old
perf report: Fix segmentation fault when running with '-g none'
* '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
This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the
kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw
breakpoint reservations.
The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it
can start the kernel running from an invalid context.
A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get
created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint
reservations.
The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently
processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is
improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is
warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the
hardware breakpoint reservations.
Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it
will be a system wide reservation.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In the 2.6.33 kernel, the hw_breakpoint API is now used for the
performance event counters. The hw_breakpoint_handler() now
consumes the hw breakpoints that were previously set by kgdb
arch specific code. In order for kgdb to work in conjunction
with this core API change, kgdb must use some of the low level
functions of the hw_breakpoint API to install, uninstall, and
deal with hw breakpoint reservations.
The kgdb core required a change to call kgdb_disable_hw_debug
anytime a slave cpu enters kgdb_wait() in order to keep all the
hw breakpoints in sync as well as to prevent hitting a hw
breakpoint while kgdb is active.
During the architecture specific initialization of kgdb, it will
pre-allocate 4 disabled (struct perf event **) structures. Kgdb
will use these to manage the capabilities for the 4 hw
breakpoint registers, per cpu. Right now the hw_breakpoint API
does not have a way to ask how many breakpoints are available,
on each CPU so it is possible that the install of a breakpoint
might fail when kgdb restores the system to the run state. The
intent of this patch is to first get the basic functionality of
hw breakpoints working and leave it to the person debugging the
kernel to understand what hw breakpoints are in use and what
restrictions have been imposed as a result. Breakpoint
constraints will be dealt with in a future patch.
While atomic, the x86 specific kgdb code will call
arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint() and arch_install_hw_breakpoint()
to manage the cpu specific hw breakpoints.
The net result of these changes allow kgdb to use the same pool
of hw_breakpoints that are used by the perf event API, but
neither knows about future reservations for the available hw
breakpoint slots.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit 6aa542a694 added a quirk for the
Intel DG45ID board due to low memory corruption. The Intel DG45FC
shares the same BIOS (and the same bug) as noted in:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13736
Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
LKML-Reference: <20100128200254.GA9134@hardeman.nu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: ykzhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Bones <aabonesml@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
it is pretty badly misnamed. It doesn't just flush the old executable
environment, it also starts up the new one.
Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.
As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
(TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
the actual personality magic.
This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
(still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()). All callers are changed
to trivially comply with the new world order.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86/PCI: remove IOH range fetching
PCI: fix nested spinlock hang in aer_inject
Turned out to cause trouble on single IOH machines, and is superceded by
_CRS on multi-IOH machines with production BIOSes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garrett <jeff@jgarrett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Dell OptiPlex 760 hangs on reboot unless reboot=bios is used. Add quirk
to reboot through the BIOS.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488319
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264634958.27335.1091.camel@emiko>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. Fetching them
twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are
implemented.
We can either use rlimit helpers added in
3e10e716ab or ACCESS_ONCE if not
applicable; this patch uses the helpers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1264609942-24621-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
