kernel.git/arch/s390/kernel/entry64.S, branch linux-2.6.37.y

[S390] fix kprobes single stepping

2010-10-29T14:50:50Z

Fix kprobes after git commit 1e54622e0403891b10f2105663e0f9dd595a1f17 broke it. The kprobe_handler is now called with interrupts in the state at the time of the breakpoint. The single step of the replaced instruction is done with interrupts off which makes it necessary to enable and disable the interupts in the kprobes code. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] cleanup system call parameter setup

2010-10-25T14:10:19Z

Do the setup of the stack overflow argument for the sixth system call parameter right before the branch to the system call function. That simplifies the system call parameter access code. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] cleanup lowcore access from external interrupts

2010-10-25T14:10:19Z

Read external interrupts parameters from the lowcore in the first level interrupt handler in entry[64].S. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] cleanup lowcore access from program checks

2010-10-25T14:10:19Z

Read all required fields for program checks from the lowcore in the first level interrupt handler in entry[64].S. If the context that caused the fault was enabled for interrupts we can now re-enable the irqs in entry[64].S. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Fix IRQ tracing in case of PER

2010-07-27T17:29:42Z

In case user space is single stepped (PER) the program check handler claims too early that IRQs are enabled on the return path. Subsequent checks will notice that the IRQ mask in the PSW and what lockdep thinks the IRQ mask should be do not correlate and therefore will print a warning to the console and disable lockdep. Fix this by doing all the work within the correct context. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] spp: remove KVM_AWARE_CMF config option

2010-05-26T21:26:30Z

This config option enables or disables three single instructions which aren't expensive. This is too fine grained. Besided that everybody who uses kvm would enable it anyway in order to debug performance problems. Just remove it. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] add breaking event address for user space

2010-05-17T08:00:15Z

Copy the last breaking event address from the lowcore to a new field in the thread_struct on each system entry. Add a new ptrace request PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK and a new utrace regset REGSET_LAST_BREAK to query the last breaking event. This is useful for debugging wild branches in user space code. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] virtualization aware cpu measurement

2010-05-17T08:00:15Z

Use the SPP instruction to set a tag on entry to / exit of the virtual machine context. This allows the cpu measurement facility to distinguish the samples from the host and the different guests. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte

[S390] idle time accounting vs. machine checks

2010-05-17T08:00:15Z

A machine check can interrupt the i/o and external interrupt handler anytime. If the machine check occurs while the interrupt handler is waking up from idle vtime_start_cpu can get executed a second time and the int_clock / async_enter_timer values in the lowcore get clobbered. This can confuse the cpu time accounting. To fix this problem two changes are needed. First the machine check handler has to use its own copies of int_clock and async_enter_timer, named mcck_clock and mcck_enter_timer. Second the nested execution of vtime_start_cpu has to be prevented. This is done in s390_idle_check by checking the wait bit in the program status word. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] improve irq tracing code in entry[64].S

2010-05-17T08:00:15Z

The system call path in entry[64].S is run with interrupts enabled. Remove the irq tracing check from the system call exit code. If a program check interrupted a context enabled for interrupts do a call to trace_irq_off_caller in the program check handler before branching to the system call exit code. Restructure the system call and io interrupt return code to avoid avoid the lpsw[e] to disable machine checks. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky