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<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T12:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-04T17:00:49+00:00</published>
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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T12:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T23:46:09+00:00</published>
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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: sysfb: move EFI quirks from efifb to sysfb</title>
<updated>2013-08-02T23:17:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-02T12:05:23+00:00</published>
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The EFI FB quirks from efifb.c are useful for simple-framebuffer devices
as well. Apply them by default so we can convert efifb.c to use
efi-framebuffer platform devices.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-5-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The EFI FB quirks from efifb.c are useful for simple-framebuffer devices
as well. Apply them by default so we can convert efifb.c to use
efi-framebuffer platform devices.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-5-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers</title>
<updated>2013-08-02T23:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-02T12:05:22+00:00</published>
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The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on
x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global
"struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which
drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but
unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards.

Avoid this by creating a platform framebuffer devices with a pointer
to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create
platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being
active simultaneously.

We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers
can be converted in follow-up patches.

Different devices are created for VGA/VESA/EFI FBs to allow multiple
drivers to be loaded on distro kernels. We create:
 - "vesa-framebuffer" for VBE/VESA graphics FBs
 - "efi-framebuffer" for EFI FBs
 - "platform-framebuffer" for everything else
This allows to load vesafb, efifb and others simultaneously and each
picks up only the supported FB types.

Apart from platform-framebuffer devices, this also introduces a
compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got
introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we
try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported
format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead
of a platform-framebuffer.
This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also
to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c,
efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks
in their setup-routines.

Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and
provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if
strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded
simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-4-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on
x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global
"struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which
drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but
unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards.

Avoid this by creating a platform framebuffer devices with a pointer
to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create
platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being
active simultaneously.

We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers
can be converted in follow-up patches.

Different devices are created for VGA/VESA/EFI FBs to allow multiple
drivers to be loaded on distro kernels. We create:
 - "vesa-framebuffer" for VBE/VESA graphics FBs
 - "efi-framebuffer" for EFI FBs
 - "platform-framebuffer" for everything else
This allows to load vesafb, efifb and others simultaneously and each
picks up only the supported FB types.

Apart from platform-framebuffer devices, this also introduces a
compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got
introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we
try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported
format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead
of a platform-framebuffer.
This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also
to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c,
efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks
in their setup-routines.

Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and
provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if
strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded
simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-4-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:31:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:31:49+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 tracing updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds IRQ vector tracepoints that are named after the handler
  and which output the vector #, based on a zero-overhead approach that
  relies on changing the IDT entries, by Seiji Aguchi.

  The new tracepoints look like this:

   # perf list | grep -i irq_vector
    irq_vectors:local_timer_entry                      [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:local_timer_exit                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_entry                    [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_exit                     [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
   [...]"

* 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tracing: Add config option checking to the definitions of mce handlers
  trace,x86: Do not call local_irq_save() in load_current_idt()
  trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c
  x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints
  x86: Rename variables for debugging
  x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq()
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro
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Pull x86 tracing updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds IRQ vector tracepoints that are named after the handler
  and which output the vector #, based on a zero-overhead approach that
  relies on changing the IDT entries, by Seiji Aguchi.

  The new tracepoints look like this:

   # perf list | grep -i irq_vector
    irq_vectors:local_timer_entry                      [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:local_timer_exit                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_entry                    [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_exit                     [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
   [...]"

* 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tracing: Add config option checking to the definitions of mce handlers
  trace,x86: Do not call local_irq_save() in load_current_idt()
  trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c
  x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints
  x86: Rename variables for debugging
  x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq()
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:28:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fdd78889aad2ec85b2f5a8ed232215dca7a22a3b'/>
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two main changes that improve microcode loading on AMD CPUs:

   - Add support for all-in-one binary microcode files that concatenate
     the microcode images of multiple processor families, by Jacob Shin

   - Add early microcode loading (embedded in the initrd) support, also
     by Jacob Shin"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, amd: Another early loading fixup
  x86, microcode, amd: Allow multiple families' bin files appended together
  x86, microcode, amd: Make find_ucode_in_initrd() __init
  x86, microcode, amd: Fix warnings and errors on with CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
  x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD
  x86, microcode, amd: Refactor functions to prepare for early loading
  x86, microcode: Vendor abstract out save_microcode_in_initrd()
  x86, microcode, intel: Correct typo in printk
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two main changes that improve microcode loading on AMD CPUs:

   - Add support for all-in-one binary microcode files that concatenate
     the microcode images of multiple processor families, by Jacob Shin

   - Add early microcode loading (embedded in the initrd) support, also
     by Jacob Shin"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, amd: Another early loading fixup
  x86, microcode, amd: Allow multiple families' bin files appended together
  x86, microcode, amd: Make find_ucode_in_initrd() __init
  x86, microcode, amd: Fix warnings and errors on with CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
  x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD
  x86, microcode, amd: Refactor functions to prepare for early loading
  x86, microcode: Vendor abstract out save_microcode_in_initrd()
  x86, microcode, intel: Correct typo in printk
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c</title>
<updated>2013-06-21T14:33:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T14:29:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=83ab85140bc1492f92de263a1c30ea04a0f465f7'/>
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Compiling without CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC set, apic.c will not be
compiled, and the irq tracepoints will not be created via the
CREATE_TRACE_POINTS macro. When CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is not set,
we get the following build error:

  LD      init/built-in.o
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x8): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x14): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x20): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x2c): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

As irq.c is always compiled for x86, it is a more appropriate location
to create the irq tracepoints.

Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Compiling without CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC set, apic.c will not be
compiled, and the irq tracepoints will not be created via the
CREATE_TRACE_POINTS macro. When CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is not set,
we get the following build error:

  LD      init/built-in.o
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_x86_platform_ipi_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:66: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_entry':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `trace_irq_work_exit':
linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:72: undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x8): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x14): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_x86_platform_ipi_exit'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x20): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_entry'
arch/x86/built-in.o:(__jump_table+0x2c): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_irq_work_exit'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

As irq.c is always compiled for x86, it is a more appropriate location
to create the irq tracepoints.

Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints</title>
<updated>2013-06-21T05:25:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seiji Aguchi</name>
<email>seiji.aguchi@hds.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-20T15:46:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cf910e83ae23692fdeefc7e506e504c4c468d38a'/>
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[Purpose of this patch]

As Vaibhav explained in the thread below, tracepoints for irq vectors
are useful.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg85707.html

&lt;snip&gt;
The current interrupt traces from irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit
provide when an interrupt is handled.  They provide good data about when
the system has switched to kernel space and how it affects the currently
running processes.

There are some IRQ vectors which trigger the system into kernel space,
which are not handled in generic IRQ handlers.  Tracing such events gives
us the information about IRQ interaction with other system events.

The trace also tells where the system is spending its time.  We want to
know which cores are handling interrupts and how they are affecting other
processes in the system.  Also, the trace provides information about when
the cores are idle and which interrupts are changing that state.
&lt;snip&gt;

On the other hand, my usecase is tracing just local timer event and
getting a value of instruction pointer.

I suggested to add an argument local timer event to get instruction pointer before.
But there is another way to get it with external module like systemtap.
So, I don't need to add any argument to irq vector tracepoints now.

[Patch Description]

Vaibhav's patch shared a trace point ,irq_vector_entry/irq_vector_exit, in all events.
But there is an above use case to trace specific irq_vector rather than tracing all events.
In this case, we are concerned about overhead due to unwanted events.

So, add following tracepoints instead of introducing irq_vector_entry/exit.
so that we can enable them independently.
   - local_timer_vector
   - reschedule_vector
   - call_function_vector
   - call_function_single_vector
   - irq_work_entry_vector
   - error_apic_vector
   - thermal_apic_vector
   - threshold_apic_vector
   - spurious_apic_vector
   - x86_platform_ipi_vector

Also, introduce a logic switching IDT at enabling/disabling time so that a time penalty
makes a zero when tracepoints are disabled. Detailed explanations are as follows.
 - Create trace irq handlers with entering_irq()/exiting_irq().
 - Create a new IDT, trace_idt_table, at boot time by adding a logic to
   _set_gate(). It is just a copy of original idt table.
 - Register the new handlers for tracpoints to the new IDT by introducing
   macros to alloc_intr_gate() called at registering time of irq_vector handlers.
 - Add checking, whether irq vector tracing is on/off, into load_current_idt().
   This has to be done below debug checking for these reasons.
   - Switching to debug IDT may be kicked while tracing is enabled.
   - On the other hands, switching to trace IDT is kicked only when debugging
     is disabled.

In addition, the new IDT is created only when CONFIG_TRACING is enabled to avoid being
used for other purposes.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C323ED.5050708@hds.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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[Purpose of this patch]

As Vaibhav explained in the thread below, tracepoints for irq vectors
are useful.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg85707.html

&lt;snip&gt;
The current interrupt traces from irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit
provide when an interrupt is handled.  They provide good data about when
the system has switched to kernel space and how it affects the currently
running processes.

There are some IRQ vectors which trigger the system into kernel space,
which are not handled in generic IRQ handlers.  Tracing such events gives
us the information about IRQ interaction with other system events.

The trace also tells where the system is spending its time.  We want to
know which cores are handling interrupts and how they are affecting other
processes in the system.  Also, the trace provides information about when
the cores are idle and which interrupts are changing that state.
&lt;snip&gt;

On the other hand, my usecase is tracing just local timer event and
getting a value of instruction pointer.

I suggested to add an argument local timer event to get instruction pointer before.
But there is another way to get it with external module like systemtap.
So, I don't need to add any argument to irq vector tracepoints now.

[Patch Description]

Vaibhav's patch shared a trace point ,irq_vector_entry/irq_vector_exit, in all events.
But there is an above use case to trace specific irq_vector rather than tracing all events.
In this case, we are concerned about overhead due to unwanted events.

So, add following tracepoints instead of introducing irq_vector_entry/exit.
so that we can enable them independently.
   - local_timer_vector
   - reschedule_vector
   - call_function_vector
   - call_function_single_vector
   - irq_work_entry_vector
   - error_apic_vector
   - thermal_apic_vector
   - threshold_apic_vector
   - spurious_apic_vector
   - x86_platform_ipi_vector

Also, introduce a logic switching IDT at enabling/disabling time so that a time penalty
makes a zero when tracepoints are disabled. Detailed explanations are as follows.
 - Create trace irq handlers with entering_irq()/exiting_irq().
 - Create a new IDT, trace_idt_table, at boot time by adding a logic to
   _set_gate(). It is just a copy of original idt table.
 - Register the new handlers for tracpoints to the new IDT by introducing
   macros to alloc_intr_gate() called at registering time of irq_vector handlers.
 - Add checking, whether irq vector tracing is on/off, into load_current_idt().
   This has to be done below debug checking for these reasons.
   - Switching to debug IDT may be kicked while tracing is enabled.
   - On the other hands, switching to trace IDT is kicked only when debugging
     is disabled.

In addition, the new IDT is created only when CONFIG_TRACING is enabled to avoid being
used for other purposes.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C323ED.5050708@hds.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD</title>
<updated>2013-05-31T03:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jacob Shin</name>
<email>jacob.shin@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-30T19:09:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=757885e94a22bcc82beb9b1445c95218cb20ceab'/>
<id>757885e94a22bcc82beb9b1445c95218cb20ceab</id>
<content type='text'>
Add early microcode patch loading support for AMD.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369940959-2077-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
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Add early microcode patch loading support for AMD.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369940959-2077-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Extend #DF debugging aid to 64-bit</title>
<updated>2013-05-13T20:42:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T10:02:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4d067d8e056d76a3327f0517c7722db55e7888fc'/>
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It is sometimes very helpful to be able to pinpoint the location which
causes a double fault before it turns into a triple fault and the
machine reboots. We have this for 32-bit already so extend it to 64-bit.
On 64-bit we get the register snapshot at #DF time and not from the
first exception which actually causes the #DF. It should be close
enough, though.

[ hpa: and definitely better than nothing, which is what we have now. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368093749-31296-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
It is sometimes very helpful to be able to pinpoint the location which
causes a double fault before it turns into a triple fault and the
machine reboots. We have this for 32-bit already so extend it to 64-bit.
On 64-bit we get the register snapshot at #DF time and not from the
first exception which actually causes the #DF. It should be close
enough, though.

[ hpa: and definitely better than nothing, which is what we have now. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368093749-31296-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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