Check whether the address of new probe is already reserved by
ftrace or alternatives (on x86) when registering new probe.
If reserved, it returns an error and not register the probe.
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: <20100202214918.4694.94179.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time,
because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on
kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using
freeze_processes().
The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if
synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At enable time the counter might still have a ->idx pointing to
a previously occupied location that might now be taken by
another event. Resetting the counter at that location with data
from this event will destroy the other counter's count.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.261477183@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The new Intel documentation includes Westmere arch specific
event maps that are significantly different from the Nehalem
ones. Add support for this generation.
Found the CPUID model numbers on wikipedia.
Also ammend some Nehalem constraints, spotted those when looking
for the differences between Nehalem and Westmere.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.151865645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Put the recursion avoidance code in the generic hook instead of
replicating it in each implementation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.057507285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Share the meat of the x86_pmu_disable() code with hw_perf_enable().
Also remove the barrier() from that code, since I could not convince
myself we actually need it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86_pmu_disable() removes the event from the cpuc->event_list[], however
since an event can only be on that list once, stop looking after we found
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove num from the fast path and save a few ops.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155536.056430539@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a weight member to the constraint structure and avoid recomputing the
weight at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.963944926@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT and FIXED_EVENT_CONSTRAINT to reduce
some line length and typing work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.688730371@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need this to be u64 for direct assigment, but the bitmask functions
all work on unsigned long, leading to cast heaven, solve this by using a
union.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.595961269@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Constraints gets defined an u64 but in long quantities and then cast to
long.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.504916780@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
GCC was complaining the stack usage was too large, so allocate the
structure.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.411197266@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>
Processing of debug exceptions in do_debug() can stop if it
originated from a hw-breakpoint exception by returning NOTIFY_STOP
in most cases.
But for certain cases such as:
a) user-space breakpoints with pending SIGTRAP signal delivery (as
in the case of ptrace induced breakpoints).
b) exceptions due to other causes than breakpoints
We will continue to process the exception by returning NOTIFY_DONE.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111415.GC13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
When running perf across all cpus with backtracing (-a -g), sometimes we
get samples without associated backtraces:
23.44% init [kernel] [k] restore
11.46% init eeba0c [k] 0x00000000eeba0c
6.77% swapper [kernel] [k] .perf_ctx_adjust_freq
5.73% init [kernel] [k] .__trace_hcall_entry
4.69% perf libc-2.9.so [.] 0x0000000006bb8c
|
|--11.11%-- 0xfffa941bbbc
It turns out the backtrace code has a check for the idle task and the IP
sampling does not. This creates problems when profiling an interrupt
heavy workload (in my case 10Gbit ethernet) since we get no backtraces
for interrupts received while idle (ie most of the workload).
Right now x86 and sh check that current is not NULL, which should never
happen so remove that too.
Idle task's exclusion must be performed from the core code, on top
of perf_event_attr:exclude_idle.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100118054707.GT12666@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
In function kvm_arch_vcpu_init(), if the memory malloc for
vcpu->arch.mce_banks is fail, it does not free the memory
of lapic date. This patch fixed it.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
vcpu->arch.mce_banks is malloc in kvm_arch_vcpu_init(), but
never free in any place, this may cause memory leak. So this
patch fixed to free it in kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit().
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Exit the guest pagetable walk loop if reading gpte failed. Otherwise its
possible to enter an endless loop processing the previous present pte.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When found a error hva, should not return PAGE_SIZE but the level...
Also clean up the coding style of the following loop.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When we queue an interrupt to the local apic, we set the IRR before the TMR.
The vcpu can pick up the IRR and inject the interrupt before setting the TMR,
and perhaps even EOI it, causing incorrect behaviour.
The race is really insignificant since it can only occur on the first
interrupt (usually following interrupts will not change TMR), but it's better
closed than open.
Fixed by reordering setting the TMR vs IRR.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: x86: Add support for the ANY bit
perf: Change the is_software_event() definition
perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
perf kmem: Print usage help for unknown commands
perf kmem: Increase "Hit" column length
hw-breakpoints, perf: Fix broken mmiotrace due to dr6 by reference change
perf timechart: Use tid not pid for COMM change
Propagate the ANY bit into the fixed counter config for v3 and higher.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: split from larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We can use logical flat mode if there are <= 8 logical cpu's
(irrespective of physical apic id values). This will enable simplified
and efficient IPI and device interrupt routing on such platforms.
This has been tested to work on both Intel and AMD platforms.
Exceptions like IBM summit platform which can't use logical flat mode
are addressed by using OEM platform checks.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Chris McDermott from IBM confirmed that hurricane chipset in IBM summit
platforms doesn't support logical flat mode. Irrespective of the other
things like apic_id's, total number of logical cpu's, Linux kernel
should default to physical mode for this system.
The 32-bit kernel does so using the OEM checks for the IBM summit
platform. Add a similar OEM platform check for the 64bit kernel too.
Otherwise the linux kernel boot can hang on this platform under certain
bios/platform settings.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 62edab9056 (from June 2009
but merged in 2.6.33) changes notify_die to pass dr6 by
reference.
However, it forgets to fix the check for DR_STEP in kmmio.c,
breaking mmiotrace. It also passes a wrong value to the post
handler.
This simple fix makes mmiotrace work again.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263634770-14578-1-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, uv: Ensure hub revision set for all ACPI modes.
x86, uv: Add function retrieving node controller revision number
x86: xen: 64-bit kernel RPL should be 0
x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state
x86/agp: Fix agp_amd64_init and agp_amd64_cleanup
x86: SGI UV: Fix mapping of MMIO registers
x86: mce.h: Fix warning in header checks
Ensure that UV hub revision is set for all ACPI modes.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100115180908.GB7757@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add function for determining the revision id of the SGI UV
node controller chip (HUB). This function is needed in a
subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100112210904.GA24546@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Under Xen 64 bit guests actually run their kernel in ring 3,
however the hypervisor takes care of squashing descriptor the
RPLs transparently (in order to allow them to continue to
differentiate between user and kernel space CS using the RPL).
Therefore the Xen paravirt backend should use RPL==0 instead of
1 (or 3). Using RPL==1 causes generic arch code to take
incorrect code paths because it uses "testl $3, <CS>, je foo"
type tests for a userspace CS and this considers 1==userspace.
This issue was previously masked because get_kernel_rpl() was
omitted when setting CS in kernel_thread(). This was fixed when
kernel_thread() was unified with 32 bit in
f443ff4201.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263377768-19600-2-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before the kernel_thread was converted into "C" we had
pt_regs::ss set to __KERNEL_DS (by SAVE_ALL asm macro).
Though I must admit I didn't find any *explicit* load of
%ss from this structure the better to be on a safe side
and set it to a known value.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263377768-19600-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes the regression introduced by the commit
f405d2c023.
The above commit fixes the following issue:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126192729110083&w=2
However, it doesn't work properly when you remove and insert the
agp_amd64 module again.
agp_amd64_init() and agp_amd64_cleanup should be called only
when gart_iommu is not called earlier (that is, the GART IOMMU
is not enabled). We need to use 'gart_iommu_aperture' to see if
GART IOMMU is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: mitov@issp.bas.bg
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100104161603L.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes the problem of the initialization code not correctly
mapping the entire MMIO space on a UV system. A side effect is
the map_high() interface needed to be changed to accommodate
different address and size shifts.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B479202.7080705@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Someone isn't reading their build output: Move the definition
out of the exported header.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernelorg
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Because of dropping function argument syntax from kprobe-tracer,
we don't need this API anymore.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224656.19431.92588.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The check that ignores the debug and nmi stack frames is useless
now that we have a frame pointer that makes us start at the
right place. We don't anymore have to deal with these.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262235183-5320-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While processing kernel perf callchains, an bad entry can be
considered as a valid stack pointer but not as a kernel address.
In this case, we hang in an endless loop. This can happen in an
x86-32 kernel after processing the last entry in a kernel
stacktrace.
Just stop the stack frame walking after we encounter an invalid
kernel address.
This fixes a hard lockup in x86-32.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262227945-27014-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Revert commit 2fbd07a5f5, as this commit
breaks an IBM platform with quad-core Xeon cpu's.
According to Suresh, this might be an IBM platform issue, as on other
Intel platforms with <= 8 logical cpu's, logical flat mode works fine
irespective of physical apic id values (inline with the xapic
architecture).
Revert this for now because of the IBM platform breakage.
Another version will be re-submitted after the complete analysis.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The list macros use LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2 as undereferencable
pointers in order to trap erronous use of freed list_heads. Unfortunately
userspace can arrange for those pointers to actually be dereferencable,
potentially turning an oops to an expolit.
To avoid this allow architectures (currently x86_64 only) to override
the default values for these pointers with truly-undereferencable values.
This is easy on x86_64 as the virtual address space is large and contains
areas that cannot be mapped.
Other 64-bit architectures will likely find similar unmapped ranges.
[ingo: switch to 0xdead000000000000 as the unmapped area]
[ingo: add comments, cleanup]
[jaswinder: eliminate sparse warnings]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
