8361 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Lameter
27bf71c2a7 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zones
eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
arch

Do not define or display counters for the DMA32 and the HIGHMEM zone if such
zones were not configured.

[akpm@osdl.org: s390 fix]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
e53ef38d05 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_HIGHMEM optional
Make ZONE_HIGHMEM optional

- ifdef out code and definitions related to CONFIG_HIGHMEM

- __GFP_HIGHMEM falls back to normal allocations if there is no
  ZONE_HIGHMEM

- GFP_ZONEMASK becomes 0x01 if there is no DMA32 and no HIGHMEM
  zone.

[jdike@addtoit.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
fb0e7942bd [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_DMA32 optional
Make ZONE_DMA32 optional

- Add #ifdefs around ZONE_DMA32 specific code and definitions.

- Add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 config option and use that for x86_64
  that alone needs this zone.

- Remove the use of CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 and CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL
  for ia64 and fix up the way per node ZVCs are calculated.

- Fall back to prior GFP_ZONEMASK of 0x03 if there is no
  DMA32 zone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c1f60a5a41 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: move HIGHMEM counters into highmem.c/.h
Move totalhigh_pages and nr_free_highpages() into highmem.c/.h

Move the totalhigh_pages definition into highmem.c/.h.  Move the
nr_free_highpages function into highmem.c

[yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f06a96844a [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: fix MAX_NR_ZONES array initializations
Fix array initialization in lots of arches

The number of zones may now be reduced from 4 to 2 for many arches.  Fix the
array initialization for the zones array for all architectures so that it is
not initializing a fixed number of elements.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
776ed98b84 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove two strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES
I keep seeing zones on various platforms that are never used and wonder why we
compile support for them into the kernel.  Counters show up for HIGHMEM and
DMA32 that are alway zero.

This patch allows the removal of ZONE_DMA32 for non x86_64 architectures and
it will get rid of ZONE_HIGHMEM for arches not using highmem (like 64 bit
architectures).  If an arch does not define CONFIG_HIGHMEM then ZONE_HIGHMEM
will not be defined.  Similarly if an arch does not define CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
then ZONE_DMA32 will not be defined.

No current architecture uses all the 4 zones (DMA,DMA32,NORMAL,HIGH) that we
have now.  The patchset will reduce the number of zones for all platforms.

On many platforms that do not have DMA32 or HIGHMEM this will reduce the
number of zones by 50%.  F.e.  ia64 only uses DMA and NORMAL.

Large amounts of memory can be saved for larger systemss that may have a few
hundred NUMA nodes.

With ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM support optional MAX_NR_ZONES will be 2 for
many non i386 platforms and even for i386 without CONFIG_HIGHMEM set.

Tested on ia64, x86_64 and on i386 with and without highmem.

The patchset consists of 11 patches that are following this message.

One could go even further than this patchset and also make ZONE_DMA optional
because some platforms do not need a separate DMA zone and can do DMA to all
of memory.  This could reduce MAX_NR_ZONES to 1.  Such a patchset will
hopefully follow soon.

This patch:

Fix strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES

Sometimes we use MAX_NR_ZONES - x to refer to a zone.  Make that explicit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
keith mannthey
9102330005 [PATCH] convert i386 NUMA KVA space to bootmem
Address a long standing issue of booting with an initrd on an i386 numa
system.  Currently (and always) the numa kva area is mapped into low memory
by finding the end of low memory and moving that mark down (thus creating
space for the kva).  The issue with this is that Grub loads initrds into
this similar space so when the kernel check the initrd it finds it outside
max_low_pfn and disables it (it thinks the initrd is not mapped into usable
memory) thus initrd enabled kernels can't boot i386 numa :(

My solution to the problem just converts the numa kva area to use the
bootmem allocator to save it's area (instead of moving the end of low
memory).  Using bootmem allows the kva area to be mapped into more diverse
addresses (not just the end of low memory) and enables the kva area to be
mapped below the initrd if present.

I have tested this patch on numaq(no initrd) and summit(initrd) i386 numa
based systems.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3f75f42d77 [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
Most systems don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dave Jones
dcf10307c3 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
Add supplemental SSE3 instructions flag, and Direct Cache Access flag.
As described in "Intel Processor idenfication and the CPUID instruction
AP485 Sept 2006"

AK: also added for x86-64

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dmitriy Zavin
3222b36f46 [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
The counter is exported to /sys that keeps track of the
number of thermal events, such that the user knows how bad the
thermal problem might be (since the logging to syslog and mcelog
is rate limited).

AK: Fixed cpu hotplug locking

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dmitriy Zavin
66aea9913c [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dmitriy Zavin
15d5f83983 [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
Refactor the event processing (syslog messaging and rate limiting)
into separate file therm_throt.c. This allows consistent reporting
of CPU thermal throttle events.

After ACK'ing the interrupt, if the event is current, the user
(p4.c/mce_intel.c) calls therm_throt_process to log (and rate limit)
the event. If that function returns 1, the user has the option to log
things further (such as to mce_log in x86_64).

AK: minor cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Andi Kleen
0637a70a5d [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices.  i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.

This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
8f60774a11 [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
Saves about 200 bytes of code space.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
f157cbb1eb [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
This is useful on systems with broken PCI bus. Affects various
scans in x86-64 and i386's early ACPI quirk scan.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
658fdbef66 [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
SYSENTER can cause a NT to be set which might cause crashes on the IRET
in the next task.

Following similar i386 patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Jan Beulich
adf1423698 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
ab2e0b46cb [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
No functional changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
536e3ee4fe [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
In case the user space was compiled with -mregparm=3
Following i386. Pointed out by Albert Cahalan

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
dd54a11004 [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
This was old code that was needed for iBCS and x86-64 never supported that.

Pointed out by Albert Cahalan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
2049336f60 [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
We do some additional CPU synchronization in gettimeofday et.al. to make
sure the time stamps are always monotonic over multiple CPUs. But on
single core systems that is not needed. So don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9ddab42d1e [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
27fbe5b28a [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
It is faster than using a unrolled loop for the use cases the kernel
cares about (cached, sizes typically < 4K)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Matthew Garrett
35d534a3ff [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
Got it. i8259A_resume calls init_8259A(0) unconditionally, even if
auto_eoi has been set. Keep track of the current status and restore that
on resume. This fixes it for AMD64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Dave Jones
f354b3a92a [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
Sometimes, bug reports come in where we've had an oops, and the
only record we have is what the reporter saw on screen shortly
before the system locked up completely.  Unfortunatly, syslog
only prints lines beginning with KERN_EMERG to the console, so
some lines get lost.
An example of this can be seen at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203723

Some of this information isn't vital to diagnosis, but some parts
are useful, such as the tainted flag.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen
de09bddb9d [PATCH] i386: Add MMCFG resources to i386 too
Following earlier x86-64 patch

Cc: gregkh@suse.de

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Aaron Durbin
4c6e052adf [PATCH] MMCONFIG and new Intel motherboards
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 04:14:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [patch] Looks reasonable, but probably not for 2.6.18 because this stuff
> is already too fragile and it is probably too risky to do any big changes now
> since not enough testing time is left. Can you please resubmit
> it with proper description and signed-off-by line? I can queue it for .19 then
>
> -Andi

Patch inserts PCI memory mapped config region(s) into the resource map.  This
will allow for the MMCCONFIG regions to be marked as busy in the iomem
address space as well as the regions(s) showing up in /proc/iomem.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Aaron Durbin
56dd669a13 [PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map
Patch inserts the GART region into the iomem resource map. The GART will then
be visible within /proc/iomem. It will also allow for other users
utilizing the GART to subreserve the region (agp or IOMMU).

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9abd79280b [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Only do MCFG e820 check when type 1 works
Needs earlier patch to split type 1 probing from use.

This patch should fix the x86 macs where type 1 PCI config space access
doesn't work, but MCFG does. They also don't have a usable e820 table
so the e820 sanity check failed.

Instead assume now that if type 1 doesn't work then MCFG must work
and don't do the e820 check.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5e544d618f [PATCH] i386/x86-64: PCI: split probing and initialization of type 1 config space access
First probe if type1/2 accesses work, but then only initialize them at the end.

This is useful for a later patch that needs this information inbetween.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
a15da49deb [PATCH] Fix idle notifiers
Previously exit_idle would be called more often than enter_idle

Now instead of using complicated tests just keep track of it
using the per CPU variable as a flip flop.  I moved the idle state into the
PDA to make the access more efficient.

Original bug report and an initial patch from Stephane Eranian,
but redone by AK.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
1c9c0a6ca3 [PATCH] Remove experimental mark of kexec
kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all
of the serious problems have been worked through.  So it
is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
371c2f2783 [PATCH] i386: Remove experimental mark of kexec
kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all
of the serious problems have been worked through.  So it
is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b38337a624 [PATCH] Mark per cpu data initialization __initdata again
Before 2.6.16 this was changed to work around code that accessed
CPUs not in the possible map. But that code should be all fixed now,
so mark it __initdata again.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
26c13f2b5b [PATCH] Check return values of __copy_to_user in uname emulation
Quietens some new warnings
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen
95912008ba [PATCH] Add __must_check to copy_*_user
Following i386.

And also fix the two occurrences that caused warnings in arch/x86_64/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3022d734a5 [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user
- Don't zero for __copy_from_user_inatomic following i386.
This will prevent spurious zeros for parallel file system writers when
one does a exception
- The string instruction version didn't zero the output on
exception. Oops.

Also I cleaned up the code a bit while I was at it and added a minor
optimization to the string instruction path.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
adurbin@google.com
f0f4c3432e [PATCH] i386: add HPET(s) into resource map
Add HPET(s) into resource map. This will allow for the HPET(s) to be
visibile within /proc/iomem.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
adurbin@google.com
54dbc0c9eb [PATCH] insert IOAPIC(s) and Local APIC into resource map
This patch places the IOAPIC(s) and the Local APIC specified by ACPI
tables into the resource map. The APICs will then be visible within
/proc/iomem

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Chuck Ebbert
ec5c09269b [PATCH] i386: Do better early exception handlers
Add early i386 fault handlers with debug information for common faults.
Handles:

        divide error
        invalid opcode
        protection fault
        page fault

Also adds code to detect early recursive/multiple faults and halt the
system when they happen (taken from x86_64.)

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Rusty Russell
78be3706b2 [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0
We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0.  This
requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or checking
privilege level (user vs kernel).

This is Chris' [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch, except rather
than using #define USER_MODE_MASK which depends on a config option, we use
Zach's more flexible approach of assuming ring 3 == userspace.  I also used
"get_kernel_rpl()" over "get_kernel_cs()" because I think it reads better in
the code...

1) Remove the hardcoded 3 and introduce #define SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 3 2) Add a
get_kernel_rpl() macro, and don't assume it's zero.

And:

Clean up of patch for letting kernel run other than ring 0:

a. Add some comments about the SEGMENT_IS_*_CODE() macros.
b. Add a USER_RPL macro.  (Code was comparing a value to a mask
   in some places and to the magic number 3 in other places.)
c. Add macros for table indicator field and use them.
d. Change the entry.S tests for LDT stack segment to use the macros

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Rusty Russell
0da5db3133 [PATCH] i386: Abstract sensitive instructions
Abstract sensitive instructions in assembler code, replacing them with macros
(which currently are #defined to the native versions).  We use long names:
assembler is case-insensitive, so if something goes wrong and macros do not
expand, it would assemble anyway.

Resulting object files are exactly the same as before.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7b0bda74f7 [PATCH] Fix a PDA warning uncovered by the new type checking
Fix
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c: In function __switch_to:
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c:626: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen
96e540492a [PATCH] Fix a irqcount comment in entry.S
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
4f7fd4d7a7 [PATCH] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS
Add a feature check that checks that the gcc compiler has stack-protector
support and has the bugfix for PR28281 to make this work in kernel mode.
The easiest solution I could find was to have a shell script in scripts/
to do the detection; if needed we can make this fancier in the future
without making the makefile too complex.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
0a42540580 [PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
b62a5c740d [PATCH] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature
This patch adds the config options for -fstack-protector.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
e8c7391de4 [PATCH] Don't use kernel_text_address in oops context
Because it can take spinlocks.

Suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm
3566561bfa [PATCH] i386: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, i386)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, i386)

This patch upgrades the i386-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm
4bfaaef01a [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)

This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00