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* mm: fix exit_mmap BUG() on a.out binary exitIvan Kokshaysky2007-12-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem was introduced by commit "mm: variable length argument support" (b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba) as it didn't update fs/binfmt_aout.c like other binfmt's. I noticed that on alpha when accidentally launched old OSF/1 Acrobat Reader binary. Obviously, other architectures are affected as well. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: fix show cpuinfo cpu number always zeroMike Travis2007-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | when called by setup_arch) after smp_store_cpu_info() had set it to the correct value. The error shows up in 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' will all cpus = 0. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86_32: disable_pse must be __cpuinitdataAdrian Bunk2007-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfa52): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:disable_pse (between 'identify_cpu' and 'identify_secondary_cpu') [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: initializer fix. ] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86_32: select_idle_routine() must be __cpuinitAdrian Bunk2007-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1199a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.5:select_idle_routine (between 'init_intel' and 'init_nexgen') Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86 smpboot_32.c section fixesAdrian Bunk2007-12-191-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x22c60): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:cpu_idle_tasks (between 'do_boot_cpu' and 'do_warm_boot_cpu') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x22c99): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:cpu_idle_tasks (between 'do_boot_cpu' and 'do_warm_boot_cpu') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2359b): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:smp_b_stepping (between 'smp_store_cpu_info' and 'cpu_exit_clear') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x235a0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:smp_b_stepping (between 'smp_store_cpu_info' and 'cpu_exit_clear') Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86 apic_32.c section fixAdrian Bunk2007-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2390d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.5:setup_local_APIC (between 'start_secondary' and 'check_tsc_warp') Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-12-1920-48/+171
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Adjust CMCI mask on CPU hotplug [IA64] make flush_tlb_kernel_range() an inline function [IA64] Guard elfcorehdr_addr with #if CONFIG_PROC_FS [IA64] Fix Altix BTE error return status [IA64] Remove assembler warnings on head.S [IA64] Remove compiler warinings about uninitialized variable in irq_ia64.c [IA64] set_thread_area fails in IA32 chroot [IA64] print kernel release in OOPS to make kerneloops.org happy [IA64] Two trivial spelling fixes [IA64] Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory [IA64] ia32 nopage [IA64] signal: remove redundant code in setup_sigcontext() IA64: Slim down __clear_bit_unlock
| * [IA64] Adjust CMCI mask on CPU hotplugHidetoshi Seto2007-12-191-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently CMCI mask of hot-added CPU is always disabled after CPU hotplug. We should adjust this mask depending on CMC polling state. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] make flush_tlb_kernel_range() an inline functionJan Beulich2007-12-192-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes an unused variable warning in mm/vmalloc.c. Tony: also fix resulting fallout in uncached.c with a typo in args to flush_tlb_kernel_range(). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Guard elfcorehdr_addr with #if CONFIG_PROC_FSSimon Horman2007-12-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Access to elfcorehdr_addr needs to be guarded by #if CONFIG_PROC_FS as well as the existing #if guards. Fixes the following build problem: arch/ia64/hp/common/built-in.o: In function `sba_init':arch/ia64/hp/common/sba_iommu.c:2043: undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr' :arch/ia64/hp/common/sba_iommu.c:2043: undefined reference to `elfcorehdr_addr' Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Fix Altix BTE error return statusRuss Anderson2007-12-195-8/+70
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Altix shub2 BTE error detail bits are in a different location than on shub1. The current code does not take this into account resulting in all shub2 BTE failures mapping to "unknown". This patch reads the error detail bits from the proper location, so the correct BTE failure reason is returned for both shub1 and shub2. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Remove assembler warnings on head.SHidetoshi Seto2007-12-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the following assembler warning messages. AS arch/ia64/kernel/head.o arch/ia64/kernel/head.S: Assembler messages: arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1179: Warning: Use of 'ld8' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1179: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1180: Warning: Use of 'ld8' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1180: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage : arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1213: Warning: Use of 'ldf.fill.nta' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1213: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Remove compiler warinings about uninitialized variable in irq_ia64.cKenji Kaneshige2007-12-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the following compiler warning messages. CC arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.o arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c: In function 'create_irq': arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c:343: warning: 'domain.bits[0u]' may be used uninitialized in this function arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c: In function 'assign_irq_vector': arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c:203: warning: 'domain.bits[0u]' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] set_thread_area fails in IA32 chrootIan Wienand2007-12-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I tried to upgrade an IA32 chroot on my IA64 to a new glibc with TLS. It kept dying because set_thread_area was returning -ESRCH (bugs.debian.org/451939). I instrumented arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:get_free_idx() and ended up seeing output like [pid] idx desc->a desc->b ----------------------------- [2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b [2710] 1 -> 0 0 [2710] 2 -> 0 0 [2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b [2710] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b [2710] 2 -> 0 0 [2711] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b [2711] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b [2711] 2 -> 48c0ffff 40dff317 which suggested to me that TLS pointers were surviving exec() calls, leading to GDT pointers filling up and the eventual failure of get_free_idx(). I think the solution is flushing the tls array on exec. Signed-Off-By: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] print kernel release in OOPS to make kerneloops.org happyLuck, Tony2007-12-181-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ia64 oops message doesn't include the kernel version, which makes it hard to automatically categorize oops messages scraped from mailing lists and bug databases. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Two trivial spelling fixesJoe Perches2007-12-182-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | s/addres/address/ s/performanc/performance/ Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memoryde Dinechin, Christophe (Integrity VM)2007-12-181-3/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve performance of memory allocations on ia64 by avoiding a global TLB purge to purge a single page from the file cache. This happens whenever we evict a page from the buffer cache to make room for some other allocation. Test case: Run 'find /usr -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null' in the background to fill the buffer cache, then run something that uses memory, e.g. 'gmake -j50 install'. Instrumentation showed that the number of global TLB purges went from a few millions down to about 170 over a 12 hours run of the above. The performance impact is particularly noticeable under virtualization, because a virtual TLB is generally both larger and slower to purge than a physical one. Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <ddd@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] ia32 nopageNick Piggin2007-12-181-16/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert ia64's ia32 support from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [IA64] signal: remove redundant code in setup_sigcontext()Shi Weihua2007-12-181-9/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes some redundant code in the function setup_sigcontext(). The registers ar.ccv,b7,r14,ar.csd,ar.ssd,r2-r3 and r16-r31 are not restored in restore_sigcontext() when (flags & IA64_SC_FLAG_IN_SYSCALL) is true. So we don't need to zero those variables in setup_sigcontext(). Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * IA64: Slim down __clear_bit_unlockChristoph Lameter2007-12-183-3/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __clear_bit_unlock does not need to perform atomic operations on the variable. Avoid a cmpxchg and simply do a store with release semantics. Add a barrier to be safe that the compiler does not do funky things. Tony: Use intrinsic rather than inline assembler Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | pata_hpt37x: Fix HPT374 detectionAlan Cox2007-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug #9261 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | ps3fb: Fix ps3fb free_irq() dev_idGeoff Levand2007-12-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The dev_id arg passed to free_irq() must match that passed to request_irq(). Fixes this PS3 error message: Trying to free already-free IRQ 44 Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | ps3fb: Update for firmware 2.10Geert Uytterhoeven2007-12-191-6/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ps3fb: Update for firmware 2.10 As of PS3 firmware version 2.10, the GPU command buffer size must be at least 2 MiB large. Since we use only a small part of the GPU command buffer and don't want to waste precious XDR memory, move the GPU command buffer back to the start of the XDR memory reserved for ps3fb and let the unused part overlap with the actual frame buffer. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-12-195-4/+6
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] initio: bugfix for accessors patch [SCSI] st: fix kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:59! [SCSI] initio: fix conflict when loading driver [SCSI] sym53c8xx: fix "irq X: nobody cared" regression [SCSI] dpt_i2o: driver is only 32 bit so don't set 64 bit DMA mask [SCSI] sym53c8xx: fix free_irq() regression
| * | [SCSI] initio: bugfix for accessors patchBoaz Harrosh2007-12-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | patch: [SCSI] initio: convert to use the data buffer accessors had a small but fatal bug in that it didn't increment the pointer into the initio scatterlist descriptors as it looped over the block generated ones. Fixed here. Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * | [SCSI] st: fix kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:59!FUJITA Tomonori2007-12-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is caused by a missing scatterlist initialisation (it only shows up when sg list handling debugging is turned on). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * | [SCSI] initio: fix conflict when loading driverAlan Cox2007-12-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > I have a scanner connected to a Initio INI-950 SCSI card and I recently > upgraded from SuSE 10.2 to 10.3. The new kernel doesn't see any of my > devices. I get the following in /var/log/messages: > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy. > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0a.0 disabled Humm not a collision - thats a bug in the driver updating. Looks like the changes I made and combined with Christoph's lost a line somewhere when I was merging it all. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * | [SCSI] sym53c8xx: fix "irq X: nobody cared" regressionTony Battersby2007-12-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.24-rc1 eventually causes a "irq X: nobody cared" error after a while: commit 99c9e0a1d6cfe1ba1169a7a81435ee85bc00e4a1 Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Date: Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400 [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE After this happens, the kernel disables the IRQ, causing the SCSI card to stop working until the next reboot. The problem is caused by the interrupt handler returning IRQ_NONE instead of IRQ_HANDLED after handling an interrupt-on-the-fly (INTF) condition. The following patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * | [SCSI] dpt_i2o: driver is only 32 bit so don't set 64 bit DMA maskJames Bottomley2007-12-181-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a potential corruption bug where the truncation would cause reading or writing to the wrong memory area on machines with >4GB of main memory. Cc: Stable Kernel Tree <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * | [SCSI] sym53c8xx: fix free_irq() regressionTony Battersby2007-12-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following commit changed the pointer passed to request_irq(), but failed to change the pointer passed to free_irq(): commit 99c9e0a1d6cfe1ba1169a7a81435ee85bc00e4a1 Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Date: Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400 [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE ... The result is that free_irq() doesn't actually take any action. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* | | Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cacheLinus Torvalds2007-12-191-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Krzysztof Oledzki noticed a dirty page accounting leak on some of his machines, causing the machine to eventually lock up when the kernel decided that there was too much dirty data, but nobody could actually write anything out to fix it. The culprit turns out to be filesystems (cough ext3 with data=journal cough) that re-dirty the page when the "->invalidatepage()" callback is called. Fix it up by doing a final dirty page accounting check when we actually remove the page from the page cache. This fixes bugzilla entry 9182: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182 Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds2007-12-1812-90/+102
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs x86: also define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH x86: kprobes bugfix x86: jprobe bugfix timer: kernel/timer.c section fixes genirq: add unlocked version of set_irq_handler() clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance counters
| * | | x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!"Ingo Molnar2007-12-182-8/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this is the tale of a full day spent debugging an ancient but elusive bug. after booting up thousands of random .config kernels, i finally happened to generate a .config that produced the following rare bootup failure on 32-bit x86: | ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 | ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC | ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. | ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. | ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(. | Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug | and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option this bug has been reported many times during the years, but it was never reproduced nor fixed. the bug that i hit was extremely sensitive to .config details. First i did a .config-bisection - suspecting some .config detail. That led to CONFIG_X86_MCE: enabling X86_MCE magically made the bug disappear and the system would boot up just fine. Debugging my way through the MCE code ended up identifying two unlikely candidates: the thing that made a real difference to the hang was that X86_MCE did two printks: Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1. Adding the same printks to a !CONFIG_X86_MCE kernel made the bug go away! this left timing as the main suspect: i experimented with adding various udelay()s to the arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:check_timer() function, and the race window turned out to be narrower than 30 microseconds (!). That made debugging especially funny, debugging without having printk ability before the bug hits is ... interesting ;-) eventually i started suspecting IRQ activities - those are pretty much the only thing that happen this early during bootup and have the timescale of a few dozen microseconds. Also, check_timer() changes the IRQ hardware in various creative ways, so the main candidate became IRQ0 interaction. i've added a counter to track timer irqs (on which core they arrived, at what exact time, etc.) and found that no timer IRQ would arrive after the bug condition hits - even if we re-enable IRQ0 and re-initialize the i8259A, but that we'd get a small number of timer irqs right around the time when we call the check_timer() function. Eventually i got the following backtrace triggered from debug code in the timer interrupt: ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5 #57) EIP: 0060:[<c044d57e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x1c EAX: c0634178 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c4947d63 EDX: 00000246 ESI: 00000002 EDI: 00010031 EBP: c04e0f2e ESP: f7c41df4 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: ffe04000 CR3: 00630000 CR4: 000006d0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [<c05f5784>] setup_IO_APIC+0x9c3/0xc5c the spin_unlock() was called from init_8259A(). Wait ... we have an IRQ0 entry while we are in the middle of setting up the local APIC, the i8259A and the PIT?? That is certainly not how it's supposed to work! check_timer() was supposed to be called with irqs turned off - but this eroded away sometime in the past. This code would still work most of the time because this code runs very quickly, but just the right timing conditions are present and IRQ0 hits in this small, ~30 usecs window, timer irqs stop and the system does not boot up. Also, given how early this is during bootup, the hang is very deterministic - but it would only occur on certain machines (and certain configs). The fix was quite simple: disable/restore interrupts properly in this function. With that in place the test-system now boots up just fine. (64-bit x86 io_apic_64.c had the same bug.) Phew! One down, only 1500 other kernel bugs are left ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqsSteven Rostedt2007-12-181-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 lazy irq disabling was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it. Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture would trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the unmasking was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs to begin with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems Remy was seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by devices, and he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue that was uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask. This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | x86: also define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCHJan Beulich2007-12-181-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch introducing this left out 64-bit x86 despite it also having extra entries. this solves Xen guest troubles. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | x86: kprobes bugfixMasami Hiramatsu2007-12-181-23/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kprobes for x86-64 may cause a kernel crash if it inserted on "iret" instruction. "call absolute" is invalid on x86-64, so we don't need treat it. - Change the processing order as same as x86-32. - Add "iret"(0xcf) case. - Remove next_rip local variable. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | x86: jprobe bugfixMasami Hiramatsu2007-12-184-9/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | jprobe for x86-64 may cause kernel page fault when the jprobe_return() is called from incorrect function. - Use jprobe_saved_regs instead getting it from stack. (Especially on x86-64, it may get incorrect data, because pt_regs can not be get by using container_of(rsp)) - Change the type of stack pointer to unsigned long *. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | timer: kernel/timer.c section fixesAdrian Bunk2007-12-181-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41cd3): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41d67): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | genirq: add unlocked version of set_irq_handler()Kevin Hilman2007-12-181-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add unlocked version for use by irq_chip.set_type handlers which may wish to change handler to level or edge handler when IRQ type is changed. The normal set_irq_handler() call cannot be used because it tries to take irq_desc.lock which is already held when the irq_chip.set_type hook is called. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcastThomas Gleixner2007-12-181-35/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525 A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same. When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event, which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up. The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of those events can be delayed for quite a time. Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs, which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event, and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance ↵Barry Kasindorf2007-12-181-6/+16
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | counters This patch is for controlling the upper 32bits of the event ctrl msrs. This includes the upper 4 bits of the event select and the Guest Only and Host Only bits This patch is necessary to make Event Based Profiling work reliably on a Family 10h processor [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch.pl fixes] Signed-off-by: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds2007-12-185-15/+21
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeup sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values for sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()
| * | | sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeupIngo Molnar2007-12-181-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | measurements by Yanmin Zhang have shown that SCHED_BATCH tasks benefit if they run the same place_entity() logic as SCHED_OTHER tasks - so uniformize behavior in this area. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idlingIngo Molnar2007-12-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | touch softlockup watchdog after idling. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values forEric Dumazet2007-12-181-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | min_sched_granularity_ns, max_sched_granularity_ns, min_wakeup_granularity_ns and max_wakeup_granularity_ns are declared "unsigned long". This is incorrect since proc_dointvec_minmax() expects plain "int" guard values. This bug only triggers on big endian 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profilingLivio Soares2007-12-182-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This following commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdf8cb0909b531f9ae8f9b9d7e4eb35ba3505f07 un-inlined a low-level rwsem function, but did not mark it as __sched. The result is that it now shows up as thread wchan (which also affects /proc/profile stats). The following simple patch fixes this by properly marking rwsem_down_failed_common() as a __sched function. Also in this patch, which is up for discussion, marks down_read() and down_write() proper as __sched. For profiling, it is pretty much useless to know that a semaphore is beig help - it is necessary to know _which_ one. By going up another frame on the stack, the information becomes much more useful. In summary, the below change to lib/rwsem.c should be applied; the changes to kernel/rwsem.c could be applied if other kernel hackers agree with my proposal that down_read()/down_write() in the profile is not enough. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()Dmitry Adamushko2007-12-181-6/+11
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the 'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the following options: #define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW #define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'. The detailed explanation is available here: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2007-12-188-173/+100
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Cleanup umem driver: fix most checkpatch warnings, conform to kernel block: let elv_register() return void as-iosched: fix write batch start point as-iosched: fix incorrect comments block: use jiffies conversion functions in scsi_ioctl.c
| * | | Cleanup umem driver: fix most checkpatch warnings, conform to kernelRandy Dunlap2007-12-181-156/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | coding style. linux-2.6.24-rc5-git3> checkpatch.pl-next patches/block-umem-ckpatch.patch total: 0 errors, 5 warnings, 530 lines checked All of these are line-length warnings. Only change in generated object file is due to not initializing a static global variable to 0. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | | block: let elv_register() return voidAdrian Bunk2007-12-186-12/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that it's handled with a BUG_ON). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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