kernel.git/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

[IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP

2008-11-07T17:51:55Z

IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2. A bug was introduced in this patch commit: d9a9855d0b06ca6d6cc92596fedcc03f8512e062 always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does not exist. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan Acked-by: Simon Hormon Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs

2008-11-06T17:28:27Z

This fixes a regression introduced by 2c6e6db41f01b6b4eb98809350827c9678996698 "Minimize per_cpu reservations." That patch incorrectly used information about what CPUs are possible that was not yet initialized by ACPI. The end result was that per_cpu structures for offline CPUs were not initialized causing a NULL pointer reference. Since we cannot do the full acpi_boot_init() call any earlier, the simplest fix is to just parse the MADT for SAPIC entries early to find the CPU info. This should also allow for some cleanup of the code added by the "Minimize per_cpu reservations". This patch just fixes the regressions, the cleanup will come in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang CC: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

2008-10-23T15:07:35Z

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (41 commits) [IA64] Fix annoying IA64_TR_ALLOC_MAX message. [IA64] kill sys32_pipe [IA64] remove sys32_pause [IA64] Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualized instruction checker. ia64/xen: a recipe for using xen/ia64 with pv_ops. ia64/pv_ops: update Kconfig for paravirtualized guest and xen. ia64/xen: preliminary support for save/restore. ia64/xen: define xen machine vector for domU. ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_time_ops. ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_irq_ops. ia64/pv_ops/xen: define the nubmer of irqs which xen needs. ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_iosapic_ops. ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize entry.S for ia64/xen. ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize ivt.S for xen. ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize DO_SAVE_MIN for xen. ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen paravirtualized instructions for hand written assembly code ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen pv_cpu_ops. ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen pv_init_ops for various xen initialization. ia64/pv_ops/xen: elf note based xen startup. ...

always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel

2008-10-20T15:52:40Z

elfcore header memory needs to be reserved in a crash kernel. This means that the relevant code should be protected by CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kdump: add is_vmcore_usable() and vmcore_unusable()

2008-10-20T15:52:40Z

The usage of elfcorehdr_addr has changed recently such that being set to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX is used by is_kdump_kernel() to indicate if the code is executing in a kernel executed as a crash kernel. However, arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:reserve_elfcorehdr will rest elfcorehdr_addr to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX on error, which means any subsequent calls to is_kdump_kernel() will return 0, even though they should return 1. Ok, at this point in time there are no subsequent calls, but I think its fair to say that there is ample scope for error or at the very least confusion. This patch add an extra state, ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR, which indicates that elfcorehdr_addr was passed on the command line, and thus execution is taking place in a crashdump kernel, but vmcore can't be used for some reason. This is tested for using is_vmcore_usable() and set using vmcore_unusable(). A subsequent patch makes use of this new code. To summarise, the states that elfcorehdr_addr can now be in are as follows: ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX: not a crashdump kernel ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR: crashdump kernel but vmcore is unusable any other value: crash dump kernel and vmcore is usable Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kdump: make elfcorehdr_addr independent of CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE

2008-10-20T15:52:39Z

o elfcorehdr_addr is used by not only the code under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE but also by the code which is not inside CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. For example, is_kdump_kernel() is used by powerpc code to determine if kernel is booting after a panic then use previous kernel's TCE table. So even if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not set in second kernel, one should be able to correctly determine that we are booting after a panic and setup calgary iommu accordingly. o So remove the assumption that elfcorehdr_addr is under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. o Move definition of elfcorehdr_addr to arch dependent crash files. (Unfortunately crash dump does not have an arch independent file otherwise that would have been the best place). o kexec.c is not the right place as one can Have CRASH_DUMP enabled in second kernel without KEXEC being enabled. o I don't see sh setup code parsing the command line for elfcorehdr_addr. I am wondering how does vmcore interface work on sh. Anyway, I am atleast defining elfcoredhr_addr so that compilation is not broken on sh. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Paul Mundt Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[IA64] Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU

2008-10-17T19:14:13Z

The patch contains Intel IOMMU IA64 specific code. It defines new machvec dig_vtd, hooks for IOMMU, DMAR table detection, cache line flush function, etc. For a generic kernel with CONFIG_DMAR=y, if Intel IOMMU is detected, dig_vtd is used for machinve vector. Otherwise, kernel falls back to dig machine vector. Kernel parameter "machvec=dig" or "intel_iommu=off" can be used to force kernel to boot dig machine vector. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Ski simulator doesn't need check_sal_cache_flush

2008-09-22T21:13:32Z

Peter Chubb reported that commit 3463a93def55c309f3c0d0a8aaf216be3be42d64 (Update check_sal_cache_flush to use platform_send_ipi()) broke Ski because it does not implement IPIs. Tony Luck suggested we just #ifndef out the call (since the simulator does not have the SAL bug that this code is attempting to detect and workaround) Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code

2008-08-12T17:34:20Z

ia64 handles per-cpu variables a litle differently from other architectures in that it maps the physical memory allocated for each cpu at a constant virtual address (0xffffffffffff0000). This mapping is not enabled until the architecture specific cpu_init() function is run, which causes problems since some generic code is run before this point. In particular when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is enabled, the boot cpu will trap on the access to per-cpu memory at the first printk() call so the boot will fail without the kernel printing anything to the console. Fix this by allocating percpu memory for cpu0 in the kernel data section and doing all initialization to enable percpu access in head.S before calling any generic code. Other cpus must take care not to access per-cpu variables too early, but their code path from start_secondary() to cpu_init() is all in arch/ia64 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Move include/asm-ia64 to arch/ia64/include/asm

2008-08-01T17:21:21Z

After moving the the include files there were a few clean-ups: 1) Some files used #include , changed to 2) Some comments alerted maintainers to look at various header files to make matching updates if certain code were to be changed. Updated these comments to use the new include paths. 3) Some header files mentioned their own names in initial comments. Just deleted these self references. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck