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<title>Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag</title>
<updated>2013-02-10T08:32:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T07:28:46+00:00</published>
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Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt",
and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets.

If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll"
is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT
in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so.

Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places.

First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes"
would be printed if and only if the user booted
the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code
to set that flag.

Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt"
were on the cmdline.

Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked
by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() --
all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset.
The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked
play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend.

Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations
indicating that it would be removed in 2012.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt",
and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets.

If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll"
is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT
in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so.

Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places.

First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes"
would be printed if and only if the user booted
the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code
to set that flag.

Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt"
were on the cmdline.

Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked
by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() --
all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset.
The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked
play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend.

Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations
indicating that it would be removed in 2012.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param</title>
<updated>2013-02-10T08:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T06:38:39+00:00</published>
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mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors.

But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(),
and no longer use mwait_idle().

Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(),
and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it.

Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait"
was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012.  This removal
was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt.

After this change, kernels configured with
(CONFIG_ACPI=n &amp;&amp; CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors.

But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(),
and no longer use mwait_idle().

Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(),
and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it.

Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait"
was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012.  This removal
was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt.

After this change, kernels configured with
(CONFIG_ACPI=n &amp;&amp; CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen idle: make xen-specific macro xen-specific</title>
<updated>2013-02-10T06:06:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T04:08:07+00:00</published>
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This macro is only invoked by Xen,
so make its definition specific to Xen.

&gt; set_pm_idle_to_default()
&lt; xen_set_default_idle()

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
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This macro is only invoked by Xen,
so make its definition specific to Xen.

&gt; set_pm_idle_to_default()
&lt; xen_set_default_idle()

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:18:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T07:44:23+00:00</published>
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Remove static declaration in have_cpuid_p() to make it a global function. The
function will be called in early loading microcode.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Remove static declaration in have_cpuid_p() to make it a global function. The
function will be called in early loading microcode.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, 64bit: Use a #PF handler to materialize early mappings on demand</title>
<updated>2013-01-29T23:20:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-24T20:19:52+00:00</published>
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Linear mode (CR0.PG = 0) is mutually exclusive with 64-bit mode; all
64-bit code has to use page tables.  This makes it awkward before we
have first set up properly all-covering page tables to access objects
that are outside the static kernel range.

So far we have dealt with that simply by mapping a fixed amount of
low memory, but that fails in at least two upcoming use cases:

1. We will support load and run kernel, struct boot_params, ramdisk,
   command line, etc. above the 4 GiB mark.
2. need to access ramdisk early to get microcode to update that as
   early possible.

We could use early_iomap to access them too, but it will make code to
messy and hard to be unified with 32 bit.

Hence, set up a #PF table and use a fixed number of buffers to set up
page tables on demand.  If the buffers fill up then we simply flush
them and start over.  These buffers are all in __initdata, so it does
not increase RAM usage at runtime.

Thus, with the help of the #PF handler, we can set the final kernel
mapping from blank, and switch to init_level4_pgt later.

During the switchover in head_64.S, before #PF handler is available,
we use three pages to handle kernel crossing 1G, 512G boundaries with
sharing page by playing games with page aliasing: the same page is
mapped twice in the higher-level tables with appropriate wraparound.
The kernel region itself will be properly mapped; other mappings may
be spurious.

early_make_pgtable is using kernel high mapping address to access pages
to set page table.

-v4: Add phys_base offset to make kexec happy, and add
	init_mapping_kernel()   - Yinghai
-v5: fix compiling with xen, and add back ident level3 and level2 for xen
     also move back init_level4_pgt from BSS to DATA again.
     because we have to clear it anyway.  - Yinghai
-v6: switch to init_level4_pgt in init_mem_mapping. - Yinghai
-v7: remove not needed clear_page for init_level4_page
     it is with fill 512,8,0 already in head_64.S  - Yinghai
-v8: we need to keep that handler alive until init_mem_mapping and don't
     let early_trap_init to trash that early #PF handler.
     So split early_trap_pf_init out and move it down. - Yinghai
-v9: switchover only cover kernel space instead of 1G so could avoid
     touch possible mem holes. - Yinghai
-v11: change far jmp back to far return to initial_code, that is needed
     to fix failure that is reported by Konrad on AMD systems.  - Yinghai

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-12-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Linear mode (CR0.PG = 0) is mutually exclusive with 64-bit mode; all
64-bit code has to use page tables.  This makes it awkward before we
have first set up properly all-covering page tables to access objects
that are outside the static kernel range.

So far we have dealt with that simply by mapping a fixed amount of
low memory, but that fails in at least two upcoming use cases:

1. We will support load and run kernel, struct boot_params, ramdisk,
   command line, etc. above the 4 GiB mark.
2. need to access ramdisk early to get microcode to update that as
   early possible.

We could use early_iomap to access them too, but it will make code to
messy and hard to be unified with 32 bit.

Hence, set up a #PF table and use a fixed number of buffers to set up
page tables on demand.  If the buffers fill up then we simply flush
them and start over.  These buffers are all in __initdata, so it does
not increase RAM usage at runtime.

Thus, with the help of the #PF handler, we can set the final kernel
mapping from blank, and switch to init_level4_pgt later.

During the switchover in head_64.S, before #PF handler is available,
we use three pages to handle kernel crossing 1G, 512G boundaries with
sharing page by playing games with page aliasing: the same page is
mapped twice in the higher-level tables with appropriate wraparound.
The kernel region itself will be properly mapped; other mappings may
be spurious.

early_make_pgtable is using kernel high mapping address to access pages
to set page table.

-v4: Add phys_base offset to make kexec happy, and add
	init_mapping_kernel()   - Yinghai
-v5: fix compiling with xen, and add back ident level3 and level2 for xen
     also move back init_level4_pgt from BSS to DATA again.
     because we have to clear it anyway.  - Yinghai
-v6: switch to init_level4_pgt in init_mem_mapping. - Yinghai
-v7: remove not needed clear_page for init_level4_page
     it is with fill 512,8,0 already in head_64.S  - Yinghai
-v8: we need to keep that handler alive until init_mem_mapping and don't
     let early_trap_init to trash that early #PF handler.
     So split early_trap_pf_init out and move it down. - Yinghai
-v9: switchover only cover kernel space instead of 1G so could avoid
     touch possible mem holes. - Yinghai
-v11: change far jmp back to far return to initial_code, that is needed
     to fix failure that is reported by Konrad on AMD systems.  - Yinghai

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-12-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, AMD, NB: Use u16 for northbridge IDs in amd_get_nb_id</title>
<updated>2013-01-10T15:17:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel J Blueman</name>
<email>daniel@numascale-asia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-27T06:32:10+00:00</published>
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Change amd_get_nb_id to return u16 to support &gt;255 memory controllers,
and related consistency fixes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale-asia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353997932-8475-2-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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Change amd_get_nb_id to return u16 to support &gt;255 memory controllers,
and related consistency fixes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale-asia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353997932-8475-2-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</published>
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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