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* i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robustLinus Torvalds2012-02-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some code - especially the crypto layer - wants to use the x86 FP/MMX/AVX register set in what may be interrupt (typically softirq) context. That *can* be ok, but the tests for when it was ok were somewhat suspect. We cannot touch the thread-specific status bits either, so we'd better check that we're not going to try to save FP state or anything like that. Now, it may be that the TS bit is always cleared *before* we set the USEDFPU bit (and only set when we had already cleared the USEDFP before), so the TS bit test may actually have been sufficient, but it certainly was not obviously so. So this explicitly verifies that we will not touch the TS_USEDFPU bit, and adds a few related sanity-checks. Because it seems that somehow AES-NI is corrupting user FP state. The cause is not clear, and this patch doesn't fix it, but while debugging it I really wanted the code to be more obviously correct and robust. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* i387: math_state_restore() isn't called from asmLinus Torvalds2012-02-131-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | It was marked asmlinkage for some really old and stale legacy reasons. Fix that and the equally stale comment. Noticed when debugging the irq_fpu_usable() bugs. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* perf: Fix double start/stop in x86_pmu_start()Stephane Eranian2012-02-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch fixes a bug introduced by the following commit: e050e3f0a71b ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling") The patch caused the following warning to pop up depending on the sampling frequency adjustments: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c:995 x86_pmu_start+0x79/0xd4() It was caused by the following call sequence: perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context.part() { stop() if (delta > 0) { perf_adjust_period() { if (period > 8*...) { stop() ... start() } } } start() } Which caused a double start and a double stop, thus triggering the assert in x86_pmu_start(). The patch fixes the problem by avoiding the double calls. We pass a new argument to perf_adjust_period() to indicate whether or not the event is already stopped. We can't just remove the start/stop from that function because it's called from __perf_event_overflow where the event needs to be reloaded via a stop/start back-toback call. The patch reintroduces the assertion in x86_pmu_start() which was removed by commit: 84f2b9b ("perf: Remove deprecated WARN_ON_ONCE()") In this second version, we've added calls to disable/enable PMU during unthrottling or frequency adjustment based on bug report of spurious NMI interrupts from Eric Dumazet. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: markus@trippelsdorf.de Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120207133956.GA4932@quad [ Minor edits to the changelog and to the code ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Remove deprecated WARN_ON_ONCE()Stephane Eranian2012-02-033-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the new throttling/unthrottling code introduced with commit: e050e3f0a71b ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling") we occasionally hit two WARN_ON_ONCE() checks in: - intel_pmu_pebs_enable() - intel_pmu_lbr_enable() - x86_pmu_start() The assertions are no longer problematic. There is a valid path where they can trigger but it is harmless. The assertion can be triggered with: $ perf record -e instructions:pp .... Leading to paths: intel_pmu_pebs_enable intel_pmu_enable_event x86_perf_event_set_period x86_pmu_start perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context perf_event_task_tick scheduler_tick And: intel_pmu_lbr_enable intel_pmu_enable_event x86_perf_event_set_period x86_pmu_start perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context. perf_event_task_tick scheduler_tick cpuc->enabled is always on because when we get to perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context() the PMU is not totally disabled. Furthermore when we need to adjust a period, we only stop the event we need to change and not the entire PMU. Thus, when we re-enable, cpuc->enabled is already set. Note that when we stop the event, both pebs and lbr are stopped if necessary (and possible). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120202110401.GA30911@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*-----. Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds2012-02-023-15/+32
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'sched-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumps * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf top: Fix number of samples displayed perf tools: Fix strlen() bug in perf_event__synthesize_event_type() perf tools: Fix broken build by defining _GNU_SOURCE in Makefile x86/dumpstack: Remove unneeded check in dump_trace() perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/rt: Fix task stack corruption under __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit() sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug sched/s390: Fix compile error in sched/core.c sched: Fix rq->nr_uninterruptible update race * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/reboot: Remove VersaLogic Menlow reboot quirk x86/reboot: Skip DMI checks if reboot set by user x86: Properly parenthesize cmpxchg() macro arguments
| | | | * x86/reboot: Remove VersaLogic Menlow reboot quirkMichael D Labriola2012-01-301-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit removes the reboot quirk originally added by commit e19e074 ("x86: Fix reboot problem on VersaLogic Menlow boards"). Testing with a VersaLogic Ocelot (VL-EPMs-21a rev 1.00 w/ BIOS 6.5.102) revealed the following regarding the reboot hang problem: - v2.6.37 reboot=bios was needed. - v2.6.38-rc1: behavior changed, reboot=acpi is needed, reboot=kbd and reboot=bios results in system hang. - v2.6.38: VersaLogic patch (e19e074 "x86: Fix reboot problem on VersaLogic Menlow boards") was applied prior to v2.6.38-rc7. This patch sets a quirk for VersaLogic Menlow boards that forces the use of reboot=bios, which doesn't work anymore. - v3.2: It seems that commit 660e34c ("x86: Reorder reboot method preferences") changed the default reboot method to acpi prior to v3.0-rc1, which means the default behavior is appropriate for the Ocelot. No VersaLogic quirk is required. The Ocelot board used for testing can successfully reboot w/out having to pass any reboot= arguments for all 3 current versions of the BIOS. Signed-off-by: Michael D Labriola <michael.d.labriola@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@gdeb.com> Cc: Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcnub9hu.fsf@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | | * x86/reboot: Skip DMI checks if reboot set by userMichael D Labriola2012-01-301-2/+26
| |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Skip DMI checks for vendor specific reboot quirks if the user passed in a reboot= arg on the command line - we should never override user choices. Signed-off-by: Michael D Labriola <michael.d.labriola@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@gdeb.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wr8ab9od.fsf@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | x86/dumpstack: Remove unneeded check in dump_trace()Dan Carpenter2012-01-281-1/+1
| |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Smatch complains that we have some inconsistent NULL checking. If "task" were NULL then it would lead to a NULL dereference later. We can remove this test because earlier on in the function we have: if (!task) task = current; Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120128105246.GA25092@elgon.mountain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumpsPrarit Bhargava2012-01-262-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rsyslog will display KERN_EMERG messages on a connected terminal. However, these messages are useless/undecipherable for a general user. For example, after a softlockup we get: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Stack: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Code: ff ff a8 08 75 25 31 d2 48 8d 86 38 e0 ff ff 48 89 d1 0f 01 c8 0f ae f0 48 8b 86 38 e0 ff ff a8 08 75 08 b1 01 4c 89 e0 0f 01 c9 <e8> ea 69 dd ff 4c 29 e8 48 89 c7 e8 0f bc da ff 49 89 c4 49 89 This happens because the printk levels for these messages are incorrect. Only an informational message should be displayed on a terminal. I modified the printk levels for various messages in the kernel and tested the output by using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c kernel modules (ie, softlockups, panics, hard lockups, etc.) and confirmed that the console output was still the same and that the output to the terminals was correct. For example, in the case of a softlockup we now see the much more informative: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 10:18:06 ... BUG: soft lockup - CPU4 stuck for 60s! instead of the above confusing messages. AFAICT, the messages no longer have to be KERN_EMERG. In the most important case of a panic we set console_verbose(). As for the other less severe cases the correct data is output to the console and /var/log/messages. Successfully tested by me using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c module. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327586134-11926-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | x86/microcode_amd: Add support for CPU family specific container filesAndreas Herrmann2012-01-261-2/+22
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've decided to provide CPU family specific container files (starting with CPU family 15h). E.g. for family 15h we have to load microcode_amd_fam15h.bin instead of microcode_amd.bin Rationale is that starting with family 15h patch size is larger than 2KB which was hard coded as maximum patch size in various microcode loaders (not just Linux). Container files which include patches larger than 2KB cause different kinds of trouble with such old patch loaders. Thus we have to ensure that the default container file provides only patches with size less than 2KB. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120120164412.GD24508@alberich.amd.com [ documented the naming convention and tidied the code a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into x86/urgentH. Peter Anvin2012-01-1940-860/+997
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| * \ Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-181-2/+2
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux This includes initial support for the recently published ACPI 5.0 spec. In particular, support for the "hardware-reduced" bit that eliminates the dependency on legacy hardware. APEI has patches resulting from testing on real hardware. Plus other random fixes. * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: (52 commits) acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec intel_idle: Split up and provide per CPU initialization func ACPI processor: Remove unneeded variable passed by acpi_processor_hotadd_init V2 ACPI processor: Remove unneeded cpuidle_unregister_driver call intel idle: Make idle driver more robust intel_idle: Fix a cast to pointer from integer of different size warning in intel_idle ACPI: kernel-parameters.txt : Add intel_idle.max_cstate intel_idle: remove redundant local_irq_disable() call ACPI processor: Fix error path, also remove sysdev link ACPI: processor: fix acpi_get_cpuid for UP processor intel_idle: fix API misuse ACPI APEI: Convert atomicio routines ACPI: Export interfaces for ioremapping/iounmapping ACPI registers ACPI: Fix possible alignment issues with GAS 'address' references ACPI, ia64: Use SRAT table rev to use 8bit or 16/32bit PXM fields (ia64) ACPI, x86: Use SRAT table rev to use 8bit or 32bit PXM fields (x86/x86-64) ACPI: Store SRAT table revision ACPI, APEI, Resolve false conflict between ACPI NVS and APEI ACPI, Record ACPI NVS regions ACPI, APEI, EINJ, Refine the fix of resource conflict ...
| | * | ACPI, Record ACPI NVS regionsHuang Ying2012-01-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some firmware will access memory in ACPI NVS region via APEI. That is, instructions in APEI ERST/EINJ table will read/write ACPI NVS region. The original resource conflict checking in APEI code will check memory/ioport accessed by APEI via general resource management mechanism. But ACPI NVS region is marked as busy already, so that the false resource conflict will prevent APEI ERST/EINJ to work. To fix this, this patch record ACPI NVS regions, so that we can avoid request resources for memory region inside it. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | x86-32: Fix build failure with AUDIT=y, AUDITSYSCALL=nAl Viro2012-01-171-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | JONGMAN HEO reports: With current linus git (commit a25a2b84), I got following build error, arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c: In function 'do_sys_vm86': arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c:340: error: implicit declaration of function '__audit_syscall_exit' make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.o] Error 1 OK, I can reproduce it (32bit allmodconfig with AUDIT=y, AUDITSYSCALL=n) It's due to commit d7e7528bcd45: "Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h". Reported-by: JONGMAN HEO <jongman.heo@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-174-28/+25
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits) audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info() audit: comparison on interprocess fields audit: implement all object interfield comparisons audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid audit: complex interfield comparison helper audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform audit: do not call audit_getname on error audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1 audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid audit: allow audit matching on inode gid audit: allow matching on obj_uid audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called audit: reject entry,always rules audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations ... Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file. Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
| | * | | audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce burden on archsEric Paris2012-01-173-15/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every arch calls: if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) audit_syscall_entry() which requires knowledge about audit (the existance of audit_context) in the arch code. Just do it all in static inline in audit.h so that arch's can remain blissfully ignorant. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
| | * | | Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.hEric Paris2012-01-174-13/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was. Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating success or failure. This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall. The fix is to fix the layering foolishness. We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to determine if the syscall was a success or failure. We also define a generic is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the value is < -MAX_ERRNO. This works for arches like x86 which do not use a separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure. We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines instead of macros. The reason is because the audit function must take a void* for the regs. (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs). Since the audit function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the arch correct structure to dereference it. The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure. THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs. In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old audit code as the return value. But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro regs_return_value() as regs[3]. I have no idea which one is correct, but this patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3]. For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3]. regs->gprs[3] is always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative before calling the audit code when appropriate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion] Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [for ia64] Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for uml] Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [for sparc] Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [for mips] Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [for ppc]
| * | | | Merge branch 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-167-393/+69
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h x86, um: Fix typo in 32-bit system call modifications um: Use $(srctree) not $(KBUILD_SRC) x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly x86, um: Use the same style generated syscall tables as native um: Generate headers before generating user-offsets.s um: Run host archheaders, allow use of host generated headers kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in comment x86: Simplify syscallhdr.sh x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables checksyscalls: Use arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl as source x86: Machine-readable syscall tables and scripts to process them trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c x86-64, ia32: Move compat_ni_syscall into C and its own file x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target kbuild: Add support for installing generated asm headers
| | * | | | x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in commentH. Peter Anvin2011-11-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the same typo as was fixed in: b7641d2c x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo ... for the new versions of this file (32-bit and IA32 compat). Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321569446-20433-4-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
| | * | | | x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tablesH. Peter Anvin2011-11-177-390/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h automatically from the tables in arch/x86/syscalls. All other information, like NR_syscalls, is auto-generated, some of which is in asm-offsets_*.c. This allows us to keep all the system call information in one place, and allows for kernel space and user space to see different information; this is currently used for the ia32 system call numbers when building the 64-bit kernel, but will be used by the x32 ABI in the near future. This also removes some gratuitious differences between i386, x86-64 and ia32; in particular, now all system call tables are generated with the same mechanism. Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| | * | | | x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typoH. Peter Anvin2011-11-171-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjust spacing for comment so that it matches the multiline comment style used in the rest of the kernel, and remove word duplication. It is not really clear what version of gcc this refers to, but the extra & doesn't cause any harm, so there is no reason to remove it. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| * | | | | mce: fix warning messages about static struct mce_deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman2012-01-162-11/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When suspending, there was a large list of warnings going something like: Device 'machinecheck1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed This patch turns the static mce_devices into dynamically allocated, and properly frees them when they are removed from the system. It solves the warning messages on my laptop here. Reported-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-155-33/+335
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) perf tools: Fix compile error on x86_64 Ubuntu perf report: Fix --stdio output alignment when --showcpuutilization used perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check perf annotate: Fix usage string perf kmem: Fix a memory leak perf kmem: Add missing closedir() calls perf top: Add error message for EMFILE perf test: Change type of '-v' option to INCR perf script: Add missing closedir() calls tracing: Fix compile error when static ftrace is enabled recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects. perf tools: Add const.h to MANIFEST to make perf-tar-src-pkg work again perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default perf top: Don't update total_period on process_sample perf hists: Stop using 'self' for struct hist_entry perf hists: Rename total_session to total_period x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled x86: Allow NMIs to hit breakpoints in i386 x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpoints ...
| | * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar2012-01-083-9/+9
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| | * | | | | Merge branch 'tip/x86/core-3' of ↵Ingo Molnar2012-01-075-33/+335
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| | | * | | | | x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabledSteven Rostedt2011-12-212-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with NMIs running on the debug stack: int3 -> interrupt -> NMI -> int3 Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case, interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in an a location in the exception table (fixup). userspace -> int3 -> interurpt -> NMI -> int3 All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location within the kernel. Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case. If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will corrupt the stack if it does). Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | | * | | | | x86: Allow NMIs to hit breakpoints in i386Steven Rostedt2011-12-211-7/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With i386, NMIs and breakpoints use the current stack and they do not reset the stack pointer to a fix point that might corrupt a previous NMI or breakpoint (as it does in x86_64). But NMIs are still not made to be re-entrant, and need to prevent the case that an NMI hitting a breakpoint (which does an iret), doesn't allow another NMI to run. The fix is to let the NMI be in 3 different states: 1) not running 2) executing 3) latched When no NMI is executing on a given CPU, the state is "not running". When the first NMI comes in, the state is switched to "executing". On exit of that NMI, a cmpxchg is performed to switch the state back to "not running" and if that fails, the NMI is restarted. If a breakpoint is hit and does an iret, which re-enables NMIs, and another NMI comes in before the first NMI finished, it will detect that the state is not in the "not running" state and the current NMI is nested. In this case, the state is switched to "latched" to let the interrupted NMI know to restart the NMI handler, and the nested NMI exits without doing anything. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | | * | | | | x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpointsSteven Rostedt2011-12-214-0/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want to allow NMI handlers to have breakpoints to be able to remove stop_machine from ftrace, kprobes and jump_labels. But if an NMI interrupts a current breakpoint, and then it triggers a breakpoint itself, it will switch to the breakpoint stack and corrupt the data on it for the breakpoint processing that it interrupted. Instead, have the NMI check if it interrupted breakpoint processing by checking if the stack that is currently used is a breakpoint stack. If it is, then load a special IDT that changes the IST for the debug exception to keep the same stack in kernel context. When the NMI is done, it puts it back. This way, if the NMI does trigger a breakpoint, it will keep using the same stack and not stomp on the breakpoint data for the breakpoint it interrupted. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | | * | | | | x86: Add workaround to NMI iret woesSteven Rostedt2011-12-211-0/+177
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In x86, when an NMI goes off, the CPU goes into an NMI context that prevents other NMIs to trigger on that CPU. If an NMI is suppose to trigger, it has to wait till the previous NMI leaves NMI context. At that time, the next NMI can trigger (note, only one more NMI will trigger, as only one can be latched at a time). The way x86 gets out of NMI context is by calling iret. The problem with this is that this causes problems if the NMI handle either triggers an exception, or a breakpoint. Both the exception and the breakpoint handlers will finish with an iret. If this happens while in NMI context, the CPU will leave NMI context and a new NMI may come in. As NMI handlers are not made to be re-entrant, this can cause havoc with the system, not to mention, the nested NMI will write all over the previous NMI's stack. Linus Torvalds proposed the following workaround to this problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/14/264 "In fact, I wonder if we couldn't just do a software NMI disable instead? Hav ea per-cpu variable (in the _core_ percpu areas that get allocated statically) that points to the NMI stack frame, and just make the NMI code itself do something like NMI entry: - load percpu NMI stack frame pointer - if non-zero we know we're nested, and should ignore this NMI: - we're returning to kernel mode, so return immediately by using "popf/ret", which also keeps NMI's disabled in the hardware until the "real" NMI iret happens. - before the popf/iret, use the NMI stack pointer to make the NMI return stack be invalid and cause a fault - set the NMI stack pointer to the current stack pointer NMI exit (not the above "immediate exit because we nested"): clear the percpu NMI stack pointer Just do the iret. Now, the thing is, now the "iret" is atomic. If we had a nested NMI, we'll take a fault, and that re-does our "delayed" NMI - and NMI's will stay masked. And if we didn't have a nested NMI, that iret will now unmask NMI's, and everything is happy." I first tried to follow this advice but as I started implementing this code, a few gotchas showed up. One, is accessing per-cpu variables in the NMI handler. The problem is that per-cpu variables use the %gs register to get the variable for the given CPU. But as the NMI may happen in userspace, we must first perform a SWAPGS to get to it. The NMI handler already does this later in the code, but its too late as we have saved off all the registers and we don't want to do that for a disabled NMI. Peter Zijlstra suggested to keep all variables on the stack. This simplifies things greatly and it has the added benefit of cache locality. Two, faulting on the iret. I really wanted to make this work, but it was becoming very hacky, and I never got it to be stable. The iret already had a fault handler for userspace faulting with bad segment registers, and getting NMI to trigger a fault and detect it was very tricky. But for strange reasons, the system would usually take a double fault and crash. I never figured out why and decided to go with a simple "jmp" approach. The new approach I took also simplified things. Finally, the last problem with Linus's approach was to have the nested NMI handler do a ret instead of an iret to give the first NMI NMI-context again. The problem is that ret is much more limited than an iret. I couldn't figure out how to get the stack back where it belonged. I could have copied the current stack, pushed the return onto it, but my fear here is that there may be some place that writes data below the stack pointer. I know that is not something code should depend on, but I don't want to chance it. I may add this feature later, but for now, an NMI handler that loses NMI context will not get it back. Here's what is done: When an NMI comes in, the HW pushes the interrupt stack frame onto the per cpu NMI stack that is selected by the IST. A special location on the NMI stack holds a variable that is set when the first NMI handler runs. If this variable is set then we know that this is a nested NMI and we process the nested NMI code. There is still a race when this variable is cleared and an NMI comes in just before the first NMI does the return. For this case, if the variable is cleared, we also check if the interrupted stack is the NMI stack. If it is, then we process the nested NMI code. Why the two tests and not just test the interrupted stack? If the first NMI hits a breakpoint and loses NMI context, and then it hits another breakpoint and while processing that breakpoint we get a nested NMI. When processing a breakpoint, the stack changes to the breakpoint stack. If another NMI comes in here we can't rely on the interrupted stack to be the NMI stack. If the variable is not set and the interrupted task's stack is not the NMI stack, then we know this is the first NMI and we can process things normally. But in order to do so, we need to do a few things first. 1) Set the stack variable that tells us that we are in an NMI handler 2) Make two copies of the interrupt stack frame. One copy is used to return on iret The other is used to restore the first one if we have a nested NMI. This is what the stack will look like: +-------------------------+ | original SS | | original Return RSP | | original RFLAGS | | original CS | | original RIP | +-------------------------+ | temp storage for rdx | +-------------------------+ | NMI executing variable | +-------------------------+ | Saved SS | | Saved Return RSP | | Saved RFLAGS | | Saved CS | | Saved RIP | +-------------------------+ | copied SS | | copied Return RSP | | copied RFLAGS | | copied CS | | copied RIP | +-------------------------+ | pt_regs | +-------------------------+ The original stack frame contains what the HW put in when we entered the NMI. We store %rdx as a temp variable to use. Both the original HW stack frame and this %rdx storage will be clobbered by nested NMIs so we can not rely on them later in the first NMI handler. The next item is the special stack variable that is set when we execute the rest of the NMI handler. Then we have two copies of the interrupt stack. The second copy is modified by any nested NMIs to let the first NMI know that we triggered a second NMI (latched) and that we should repeat the NMI handler. If the first NMI hits an exception or breakpoint that takes it out of NMI context, if a second NMI comes in before the first one finishes, it will update the copied interrupt stack to point to a fix up location to trigger another NMI. When the first NMI calls iret, it will instead jump to the fix up location. This fix up location will copy the saved interrupt stack back to the copy and execute the nmi handler again. Note, the nested NMI knows enough to check if it preempted a previous NMI handler while it is in the fixup location. If it has, it will not modify the copied interrupt stack and will just leave as if nothing happened. As the NMI handle is about to execute again, there's no reason to latch now. To test all this, I forced the NMI handler to call iret and take itself out of NMI context. I also added assemble code to write to the serial to make sure that it hits the nested path as well as the fix up path. Everything seems to be working fine. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | | * | | | | x86: Document the NMI handler about not using paranoid_exitSteven Rostedt2011-12-211-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus cleaned up the NMI handler but it still needs some comments to explain why it uses save_paranoid but not paranoid_exit. Just to keep others from adding that in the future, document why it's not used. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | | * | | | | x86: Do not schedule while still in NMI contextLinus Torvalds2011-12-211-32/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NMI handler uses the paranoid_exit routine that checks the NEED_RESCHED flag, and if it is set and the return is for userspace, then interrupts are enabled, the stack is swapped to the thread's stack, and schedule is called. The problem with this is that we are still in an NMI context until an iret is executed. This means that any new NMIs are now starved until an interrupt or exception occurs and does the iret. As NMIs can not be masked and can interrupt any location, they are treated as a special case. NEED_RESCHED should not be set in an NMI handler. The interruption by the NMI should not disturb the work flow for scheduling. Any IPI sent to a processor after sending the NEED_RESCHED would have to wait for the NMI anyway, and after the IPI finishes the schedule would be called as required. There is no reason to do anything special leaving an NMI. Remove the call to paranoid_exit and do a simple return. This not only fixes the bug of starved NMIs, but it also cleans up the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzgM55hXTs4griX5e9=v_O+=ue+7Rj0PTD=M7hFYpyULQ@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-151-1/+6
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, atomic: atomic64_read() take a const pointer x86, UV: Update Boot messages for SGI UV2 platform
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linuxLinus Torvalds2012-01-141-8/+8
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Autogenerated GPG tag for Rusty D1ADB8F1: 15EE 8D6C AB0E 7F0C F999 BFCB D920 0E6C D1AD B8F1 * tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux: module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool. intelfbdrv.c: bailearly is an int module_param paride/pcd: fix bool verbose module parameter. module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc) module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch) module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code) kernel/async: remove redundant declaration. printk: fix unnecessary module_param_name. lirc_parallel: fix module parameter description. module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases. module_param: check type correctness for module_param_array modpost: use linker section to generate table. modpost: use a table rather than a giant if/else statement. modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug module: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug module: struct module_ref should contains long fields module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables module: Add comments describing how the "strmap" logic works Fix up conflicts in scripts/mod/file2alias.c due to the new linker- generated table approach to adding __mod_*_device_table entries. The ARM sa11x0 mcp bus needed to be converted to that too.
| | * | | | | | | | module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch)Rusty Russell2012-01-131-8/+8
| | | |_|_|_|_|/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * / | | | | | | x86/mce: Fix CPU hotplug and suspend regression related to MCESrivatsa S. Bhat2012-01-131-1/+1
| |/ / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 8a25a2fd126c ("cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem") changed how things are dealt with in the MCE subsystem. Some of the things that got broken due to this are CPU hotplug and suspend/hibernate. MCE uses per_cpu allocations of struct device. So, when a CPU goes offline and comes back online, in order to ensure that we start from a clean slate with respect to the MCE subsystem, zero out the entire per_cpu device structure to 0 before using it. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-113-6/+32
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/intel config: Fix the APB_TIMER selection x86/mrst: Add additional debug prints for pb_keys x86/intel config: Revamp configuration to allow for Moorestown and Medfield x86/intel/scu/ipc: Match the changes in the x86 configuration x86/apb: Fix configuration constraints x86: Fix INTEL_MID silly x86/Kconfig: Cyclone-timer depends on x86-summit x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devices x86/sfi: Kill the IRQ as id hack
| | * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into x86/platformIngo Molnar2011-12-1814-42/+116
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| | * | | | | | | | x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startupJack Steiner2011-12-052-5/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reduce the startup time for slave cpus. Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration. These hooks are used on x86. If a newly started cpu has the same phys_proc_id as a core already active, uses the TSC for the delay loop and has a CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated value of loops_per_jiffy. This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a 4096 cpu system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes. Nice... Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> [fix CONFIG_SMP=n build] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devicesAlan Cox2011-12-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This follows on from the patch applied in 3.2rc1 which creates an INTEL_MID configuration. We can now add the entry for Medfield specific code. After this is merged the final patch will be submitted which moves the rest of the device Kconfig dependancies to MRST/MEDFIELD/INTEL_MID as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-116-8/+286
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, reboot: Fix typo in nmi reboot path x86, NMI: Add to_cpumask() to silence compile warning x86, NMI: NMI selftest depends on the local apic x86: Add stack top margin for stack overflow checking x86, NMI: NMI-selftest should handle the UP case properly x86: Fix the 32-bit stackoverflow-debug build x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftest x86, reboot: Use NMI instead of REBOOT_VECTOR to stop cpus x86: Clean up the range of stack overflow checking x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow x86: Check stack overflow in detail
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, reboot: Fix typo in nmi reboot pathDon Zickus2012-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was brought to my attention that my x86 change to use NMI in the reboot path broke Intel Nehalem and Westmere boxes when using kexec. I realized I had mistyped the if statement in commit 3603a2512f9e69dc87914ba922eb4a0812b21cd6 and stuck the ')' in the wrong spot. Putting it in the right spot fixes kexec again. Doh. Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325866671-9797-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, NMI: Add to_cpumask() to silence compile warningDan Carpenter2011-12-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Gcc complains if we don't cast this to a struct cpumask pointer. arch/x86/kernel/nmi_selftest.c:93:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cpumask_empty’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111207110612.GA3437@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86: Add stack top margin for stack overflow checkingMitsuo Hayasaka2011-12-071-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that a margin for stack overflow checking is added to top of a kernel stack but is not added to IRQ and exception stacks in stack_overflow_check(). Therefore, the overflows of IRQ and exception stacks are always detected only after they actually occurred and data corruption might occur due to them. This patch adds the margin to top of IRQ and exception stacks as well as a kernel stack to enhance reliability. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111207082910.9847.3359.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp [ removed the #undef - we typically don't do that for uncommon names ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, NMI: NMI-selftest should handle the UP case properlyDon Zickus2011-12-061-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If no remote cpus are online, then just quietly skip the remote IPI test for now. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111206180859.GR1669@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86: Fix the 32-bit stackoverflow-debug buildIngo Molnar2011-12-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The panic_on_stackoverflow variable needs to be avilable on the 32-bit side as well ... Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpusDon Zickus2011-12-051-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some machines may exhibit problems using the NMI to stop other cpus. This knob just allows one to revert back to the original behaviour to help diagnose the problem. V2: make function static Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: mjg@redhat.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: gong.chen@intel.com Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftestDon Zickus2011-12-053-0/+181
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous patch modified the stop cpus path to use NMI instead of IRQ as the way to communicate to the other cpus to shutdown. There were some concerns that various machines may have problems with using an NMI IPI. This patch creates a selftest to check if NMI is working at boot. The idea is to help catch any issues before the machine panics and we learn the hard way. Loosely based on the locking-selftest.c file, this separate file runs a couple of simple tests and reports the results. The output looks like: ... Brought up 4 CPUs ---------------- | NMI testsuite: -------------------- remote IPI: ok | local IPI: ok | -------------------- Good, all 2 testcases passed! | --------------------------------- Total of 4 processors activated (21330.61 BogoMIPS). ... Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: mjg@redhat.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: gong.chen@intel.com Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86, reboot: Use NMI instead of REBOOT_VECTOR to stop cpusDon Zickus2011-12-051-2/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent discussion started talking about the locking on the pstore fs and how it relates to the kmsg infrastructure. We noticed it was possible for userspace to r/w to the pstore fs (grabbing the locks in the process) and block the panic path from r/w to the same fs. The reason was the cpu with the lock could be doing work while the crashing cpu is panic'ing. Busting those spinlocks might cause those cpus to step on each other's data. Fine, fair enough. It was suggested it would be nice to serialize the panic path (ie stop the other cpus) and have only one cpu running. This would allow us to bust the spinlocks and not worry about another cpu stepping on the data. Of course, smp_send_stop() does this in the panic case. kmsg_dump() would have to be moved to be called after it. Easy enough. The only problem is on x86 the smp_send_stop() function calls the REBOOT_VECTOR. Any cpu with irqs disabled (which pstore and its backend ERST would do), block this IPI and thus do not stop. This makes it difficult to reliably log data to the pstore fs. The patch below switches from the REBOOT_VECTOR to NMI (and mimics what kdump does). Switching to NMI allows us to deliver the IPI when irqs are disabled, increasing the reliability of this function. However, Andi carefully noted that on some machines this approach does not work because of broken BIOSes or whatever. To help accomodate this, the next couple of patches will run a selftest and provide a knob to disable. V2: uses atomic ops to serialize the cpu that shuts everyone down V3: comment cleanup Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: mjg@redhat.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: gong.chen@intel.com Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86: Clean up the range of stack overflow checkingMitsuo Hayasaka2011-12-051-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The overflow checking of kernel stack checks if the stack pointer points to the available kernel stack range, which is derived from the original overflow checking. It is clear that curbase address is always less than low boundary of available kernel stack. So, this patch removes the first condition that checks if the pointer is higher than curbase. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060845.11076.40916.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
| | * | | | | | | | | x86: Panic on detection of stack overflowMitsuo Hayasaka2011-12-052-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to reading them unless systems stop. This patch adds the sysctl parameter kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>