kernel.git/arch/x86/include/asm, branch linux-3.11.y

x86: avoid remapping data in parse_setup_data()

2013-10-18T17:55:02Z

commit 30e46b574a1db7d14404e52dca8e1aa5f5155fd2 upstream. Type SETUP_PCI, added by setup_efi_pci(), may advertise a ROM size larger than early_memremap() is able to handle, which is currently limited to 256kB. If this occurs it leads to a NULL dereference in parse_setup_data(). To avoid this, remap the setup_data header and allow parsing functions for individual types to handle their own data remapping. Signed-off-by: Linn Crosetto Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376430401-67445-1-git-send-email-linn@hp.com Acked-by: Yinghai Lu Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug

2013-10-18T17:54:57Z

commit 3f0116c3238a96bc18ad4b4acefe4e7be32fa861 upstream. Fengguang Wu, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra tracked down a kernel crash to a GCC bug: GCC miscompiles certain 'asm goto' constructs, as outlined here: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670 Implement a workaround suggested by Jakub Jelinek. Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015062351.GA4666@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/x86: Optimize switch_mm() for multi-threaded workloads

2013-09-27T00:21:43Z

commit 8f898fbbe5ee5e20a77c4074472a1fd088dc47d1 upstream. Dick Fowles, Don Zickus and Joe Mario have been working on improvements to perf, and noticed heavy cache line contention on the mm_cpumask, running linpack on a 60 core / 120 thread system. The cause turned out to be unnecessary atomic accesses to the mm_cpumask. When in lazy TLB mode, the CPU is only removed from the mm_cpumask if there is a TLB flush event. Most of the time, no such TLB flush happens, and the kernel skips the TLB reload. It can also skip the atomic memory set & test. Here is a summary of Joe's test results: * The __schedule function dropped from 24% of all program cycles down to 5.5%. * The cacheline contention/hotness for accesses to that bitmask went from being the 1st/2nd hottest - down to the 84th hottest (0.3% of all shared misses which is now quite cold) * The average load latency for the bit-test-n-set instruction in __schedule dropped from 10k-15k cycles down to an average of 600 cycles. * The linpack program results improved from 133 GFlops to 144 GFlops. Peak GFlops rose from 133 to 153. Reported-by: Don Zickus Reported-by: Joe Mario Tested-by: Joe Mario Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Paul Turner Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731221421.616d3d20@annuminas.surriel.com [ Made the comments consistent around the modified code. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mce: Pay no attention to 'F' bit in MCACOD when parsing 'UC' errors

2013-09-27T00:21:43Z

commit 0ca06c0857aee11911f91621db14498496f2c2cd upstream. The 0x1000 bit of the MCACOD field of machine check MCi_STATUS registers is only defined for corrected errors (where it means that hardware may be filtering errors see SDM section 15.9.2.1). For uncorrected errors it may, or may not be set - so we should mask it out when checking for the architecturaly defined recoverable error signatures (see SDM 15.9.3.1 and 15.9.3.2) Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, smap: Handle csum_partial_copy_*_user()

2013-09-27T00:21:43Z

commit 7263dda41b5a28ae6566fd126d9b06ada73dd721 upstream. Add SMAP annotations to csum_partial_copy_to/from_user(). These functions legitimately access user space and thus need to set the AC flag. TODO: add explicit checks that the side with the kernel space pointer really points into kernel space. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2aps0u00eer658fd5xyanan7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

crypto: xor - Check for osxsave as well as avx in crypto/xor

2013-09-14T14:06:46Z

commit edb6f29464afc65fc73767540b854abf63ae7144 upstream. This affects xen pv guests with sufficiently old versions of xen and sufficiently new hardware. On such a system, a guest with a btrfs root won't even boot. Signed-off-by: John Haxby Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Reported-by: Michael Marineau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-08-19T16:18:29Z

Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two AMD microcode loader fixes and an OLPC firmware support fix" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early microcode loading x86, microcode, AMD: Make cpu_has_amd_erratum() use the correct struct cpuinfo_x86 x86: Don't clear olpc_ofw_header when sentinel is detected

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

2013-08-14T17:04:43Z

Merge a bunch of fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map() arch: *: Kconfig: add "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" to "arch/*/Kconfig" ocfs2: fix null pointer dereference in ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id() x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page ocfs2: Revert 40bd62e to avoid regression in extended allocation drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c: provide timeout for potentially endless loop polling a HW bit hugetlb: fix lockdep splat caused by pmd sharing aoe: adjust ref of head for compound page tails microblaze: fix clone syscall mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for root caches

Merge tag 'amd_ucode_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp into x86/urgent

2013-08-14T10:16:28Z

Pull AMD microcode fixes from Borislav Petkov: " Those are basically two fixes which correct the AMD early ucode loader from accessing cpu_data too early, i.e. before smp_store_cpu_info() has copied the boot_cpu_data ontop and overwritten an already empty structure (which we shouldn't access that early in the first place anyway). The second patch is kinda largish for that late in the game but it shouldn't be problematic because we're simply switching from using cpu_data to use the CPU family number directly and thus again, not use uninitialized cpu_data structure. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages

2013-08-14T00:57:48Z

Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the soft-dirty bit if it was there, so save _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY bit when page address get encoded into pte entry. Thus when #pf happens on such non-present pte we can restore it back. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds