kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c, branch linux-2.6.30.y

x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned

2009-09-24T15:27:21Z

commit 1ea0d14e480c245683927eecc03a70faf06e80c8 upstream. The Intel Optimization Reference Guide says: In Intel Atom microarchitecture, the address generation unit assumes that the segment base will be 0 by default. Non-zero segment base will cause load and store operations to experience a delay. - If the segment base isn't aligned to a cache line boundary, the max throughput of memory operations is reduced to one [e]very 9 cycles. [...] Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15. (H impact, ML generality) For Intel Atom processors, use segments with base set to 0 whenever possible; avoid non-zero segment base address that is not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost. We can't avoid having a non-zero base for the stack-protector segment, but we can make it cache-aligned. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge LKML-Reference: <4AA01893.6000507@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: introduce noxsave boot parameter

2009-05-22T20:10:54Z

Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues. [ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: initialize io_bitmap_base on 32bit

2009-05-01T19:09:53Z

commit db949bba3c7cf2e664ac12e237c6d4c914f0c69d (x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switching) broke ioperm for 32bit because it removed the lazy initialization of io_bitmap_base and did not set it to the real bitmap offset. [ Impact: fix non-working sys_ioperm() on 32-bit kernels ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'linus' into cpumask-for-linus

2009-03-30T21:53:32Z

Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash

2009-03-18T08:40:35Z

Impact: Fix cpu offline when CONFIG_MAXSMP=y Changeset bc9b83dd1f66402b870301c3c7117b9c1484abb4 "cpumask: convert c1e_mask in arch/x86/kernel/process.c to cpumask_var_t" contained a bug: c1e_mask is manipulated even if C1E isn't detected (and hence not allocated). This is simply fixed by checking for NULL (which gcc optimizes out anyway of CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n, since it knows ce1_mask can never be NULL). In addition, fix a leak where select_idle_routine re-allocates (and re-clears) c1e_mask on every cpu init. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Mike Travis LKML-Reference: <200903171450.34549.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/debug', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/mm', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/setup' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into x86/core

2009-03-14T15:25:40Z

x86: cpu/common.c more cleanups

2009-03-14T09:37:34Z

Complete/fix the cleanups of cpu/common.c: - fix ugly warning due to asm/topology.h -> linux/topology.h change - standardize the style across the file - simplify/refactor the code flow where possible Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput LKML-Reference: <1237009789.4387.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: cpu/common.c cleanups

2009-03-14T07:59:50Z

- fix various style problems - declare varibles before they get used - introduced clear_all_debug_regs - fix header files issues LKML-Reference: <1237009789.4387.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask

2009-03-13T04:19:54Z

Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

x86, 32-bit: also use cpuinfo_x86's x86_{phys,virt}_bits members

2009-03-13T01:37:17Z

Impact: 32/64-bit consolidation In a first step, this allows fixing phys_addr_valid() for PAE (which until now reported all addresses to be valid). Subsequently, this will also allow simplifying some MTRR handling code. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich LKML-Reference: <49B9101E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar