Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel. https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/atom?h=linux-3.10.y 2012-09-22T00:18:44Z 2012-09-22T00:18:44Z H. Peter Anvin 2012-09-22T00:18:44Z urn:sha1:49b8c695e331c9685e6ffdbf34872509d77c8459 Reason for merge: x86/fpu changed the structure of some of the code that x86/smap changes; mostly fpu-internal.h but also minor changes to the signal code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Resolved Conflicts: arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h arch/x86/kernel/signal.c 2012-09-21T19:45:27Z H. Peter Anvin 2012-09-21T19:43:12Z urn:sha1:63bcff2a307b9bcc712a8251eb27df8b2e117967 When Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is enabled, access to userspace from the kernel is controlled by the AC flag. To make the performance of manipulating that flag acceptable, there are two new instructions, STAC and CLAC, to set and clear it. This patch adds those instructions, via alternative(), when the SMAP feature is enabled. It also adds X86_EFLAGS_AC unconditionally to the SYSCALL entry mask; there is simply no reason to make that one conditional. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-9-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com 2012-09-18T22:52:11Z Suresh Siddha 2012-08-24T21:13:02Z urn:sha1:304bceda6a18ae0b0240b8aac9a6bdf8ce2d2469 Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch. This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for the processors supporting xsave feature. Reasons driving this model change are: i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch. This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics. ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines. With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned pre-load heuristic. iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy state restore is needed for enabling such features. Some data on a two socket SNB system: * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system. * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload. * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts pair. Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Merge 32-bit boot fix from, Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Cc: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 2012-09-18T22:51:48Z Suresh Siddha 2012-07-24T23:05:29Z urn:sha1:72a671ced66db6d1c2bfff1c930a101ac8d08204 Currently for x86 and x86_32 binaries, fpstate in the user sigframe is copied to/from the fpstate in the task struct. And in the case of signal delivery for x86_64 binaries, if the fpstate is live in the CPU registers, then the live state is copied directly to the user sigframe. Otherwise fpstate in the task struct is copied to the user sigframe. During restore, fpstate in the user sigframe is restored directly to the live CPU registers. Historically, different code paths led to different bugs. For example, x86_64 code path was not preemption safe till recently. Also there is lot of code duplication for support of new features like xsave etc. Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels. New strategy is as follows: Signal delivery: Both for 32/64-bit frames, align the core math frame area to 64bytes as needed by xsave (this where the main fpu/extended state gets copied to and excludes the legacy compatibility fsave header for the 32-bit [f]xsave frames). If the state is live, copy the register state directly to the user frame. If not live, copy the state in the thread struct to the user frame. And for 32-bit [f]xsave frames, construct the fsave header separately before the actual [f]xsave area. Signal return: As the 32-bit frames with [f]xstate has an additional 'fsave' header, copy everything back from the user sigframe to the fpstate in the task structure and reconstruct the fxstate from the 'fsave' header (Also user passed pointers may not be correctly aligned for any attempt to directly restore any partial state). At the next fpstate usage, everything will be restored to the live CPU registers. For all the 64-bit frames and the 32-bit fsave frame, restore the state from the user sigframe directly to the live CPU registers. 64-bit signals always restored the math frame directly, so we can expect the math frame pointer to be correctly aligned. For 32-bit fsave frames, there are no alignment requirements, so we can restore the state directly. "lat_sig catch" microbenchmark numbers (for x86, x86_64, x86_32 binaries) are with in the noise range with this change. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com [ Merged in compilation fix ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344544736.8326.17.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 2012-09-18T22:51:26Z Suresh Siddha 2012-07-24T23:05:28Z urn:sha1:0ca5bd0d886578ad0afeceaa83458c0f35cb3c6b Consolidate x86, x86_64 inline asm routines saving/restoring fpu state using config_enabled(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 2012-04-20T20:51:40Z H. Peter Anvin 2012-04-20T20:42:25Z urn:sha1:7a040a4384c7c4973deb4d58a76e1b0ee3c8aa39 Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h, and replace them with _ASM_EXTABLE() macros; this will allow us to change the format and type of the exception table entries. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFyijf43qSu3N9nWHEBwaGbb7T2Oq9A=9EyR=Jtyqfq_cQ@mail.gmail.com 2010-08-06T23:25:13Z Linus Torvalds 2010-08-06T23:25:13Z urn:sha1:4a386c3e177ca2fbc70c9283d0b46537844763a0 * 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, xsave: Make xstate_enable_boot_cpu() __init, protect on CPU 0 x86, xsave: Add __init attribute to setup_xstate_features() x86, xsave: Make init_xstate_buf static x86, xsave: Check cpuid level for XSTATE_CPUID (0x0d) x86, xsave: Introduce xstate enable functions x86, xsave: Separate fpu and xsave initialization x86, xsave: Move boot cpu initialization to xsave_init() x86, xsave: 32/64 bit boot cpu check unification in initialization x86, xsave: Do not include asm/i387.h in asm/xsave.h x86, xsave: Use xsaveopt in context-switch path when supported x86, xsave: Sync xsave memory layout with its header for user handling x86, xsave: Track the offset, size of state in the xsave layout 2010-08-06T23:22:59Z Linus Torvalds 2010-08-06T23:22:59Z urn:sha1:75cb5fdce29c77ec54db45f0c6be7cc5715f8e15 * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Clean up arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c: use ";" not "," to terminate statements * 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, vmware: Preset lpj values when on VMware. * 'x86-mtrr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mtrr: Use stop machine context to rendezvous all the cpu's * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86/apic/es7000_32: Remove unused variable * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Avoid unnecessary __clear_user() and xrstor in signal handling * 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, vdso: Unmap vdso pages 2010-08-01T07:46:37Z Sheng Yang 2010-06-13T09:29:39Z urn:sha1:2d5b5a665508c60577c1088e0405850a965b6795 This patch enable save/restore of xsave state. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> 2010-08-01T07:35:48Z Sheng Yang 2010-05-17T09:22:23Z urn:sha1:5ee481da7b62a992b91f958bf26aaaa92354c170 Also add some constants. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>