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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic, branch linux-3.6.y</title>
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<title>x86, apic: fix broken legacy interrupts in the logical apic mode</title>
<updated>2012-08-14T16:52:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-08T19:16:52+00:00</published>
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Recent commit 332afa656e76458ee9cf0f0d123016a0658539e4 cleaned up
a workaround that updates irq_cfg domain for legacy irq's that
are handled by the IO-APIC. This was assuming that the recent
changes in assign_irq_vector() were sufficient to remove the workaround.

But this broke couple of AMD platforms. One of them seems to be
sending interrupts to the offline cpu's, resulting in spurious
"No irq handler for vector xx (irq -1)" messages when those cpu's come online.
And the other platform seems to always send the interrupt to the last logical
CPU (cpu-7). Recent changes had an unintended side effect of using only logical
cpu-0 in the IO-APIC RTE (during boot for the legacy interrupts) and this
broke the legacy interrupts not getting routed to the cpu-7 on the AMD
platform, resulting in a boot hang.

For now, reintroduce the removed workaround, (essentially not allowing the
vector to change for legacy irq's when io-apic starts to handle the irq. Which
also addressed the uninteded sife effect of just specifying cpu-0 in the
IO-APIC RTE for those irq's during boot).

Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344453412.29170.5.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Recent commit 332afa656e76458ee9cf0f0d123016a0658539e4 cleaned up
a workaround that updates irq_cfg domain for legacy irq's that
are handled by the IO-APIC. This was assuming that the recent
changes in assign_irq_vector() were sufficient to remove the workaround.

But this broke couple of AMD platforms. One of them seems to be
sending interrupts to the offline cpu's, resulting in spurious
"No irq handler for vector xx (irq -1)" messages when those cpu's come online.
And the other platform seems to always send the interrupt to the last logical
CPU (cpu-7). Recent changes had an unintended side effect of using only logical
cpu-0 in the IO-APIC RTE (during boot for the legacy interrupts) and this
broke the legacy interrupts not getting routed to the cpu-7 on the AMD
platform, resulting in a boot hang.

For now, reintroduce the removed workaround, (essentially not allowing the
vector to change for legacy irq's when io-apic starts to handle the irq. Which
also addressed the uninteded sife effect of just specifying cpu-0 in the
IO-APIC RTE for those irq's during boot).

Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344453412.29170.5.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-08-03T17:59:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-03T17:59:36+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various fixes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64, kcmp: The kcmp system call can be common
  arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c: Ensure a consistent return value in error case
  x86/mce: Add quirk for instruction recovery on Sandy Bridge processors
  x86/mce: Move MCACOD defines from mce-severity.c to &lt;asm/mce.h&gt;
  x86/ioapic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on CPU hotplug after disabling irqs
  x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel
  x86: CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y is no longer experimental
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various fixes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64, kcmp: The kcmp system call can be common
  arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c: Ensure a consistent return value in error case
  x86/mce: Add quirk for instruction recovery on Sandy Bridge processors
  x86/mce: Move MCACOD defines from mce-severity.c to &lt;asm/mce.h&gt;
  x86/ioapic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on CPU hotplug after disabling irqs
  x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel
  x86: CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y is no longer experimental
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-07-26T20:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T20:17:17+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "The big change here is the patchset by Alex Shi to use INVLPG to flush
  only the affected pages when we only need to flush a small page range.

  It also removes the special INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR interrupts (32
  vectors!) and replace it with an ordinary IPI function call."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h (added code next
to changed line)

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tlb: Fix build warning and crash when building for !SMP
  x86/tlb: do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg'
  x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR
  x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86
  mm/mmu_gather: enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather
  x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs
  x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU
  x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page
  x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range
  x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU
  x86: Add read_mostly declaration/definition to variables from smp.h
  x86: Define early read-mostly per-cpu macros
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Pull x86/mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "The big change here is the patchset by Alex Shi to use INVLPG to flush
  only the affected pages when we only need to flush a small page range.

  It also removes the special INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR interrupts (32
  vectors!) and replace it with an ordinary IPI function call."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h (added code next
to changed line)

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tlb: Fix build warning and crash when building for !SMP
  x86/tlb: do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg'
  x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR
  x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86
  mm/mmu_gather: enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather
  x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs
  x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU
  x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page
  x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range
  x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU
  x86: Add read_mostly declaration/definition to variables from smp.h
  x86: Define early read-mostly per-cpu macros
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ioapic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on CPU hotplug after disabling irqs</title>
<updated>2012-07-26T13:01:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomoki Sekiyama</name>
<email>tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T10:47:32+00:00</published>
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In the current kernel, percpu variable `vector_irq' is not always
cleared when a CPU is offlined. If the CPU that has the disabled
irqs in vector_irq is hotplugged again, __setup_vector_irq()
hits invalid irq vector and may crash.

This bug can be reproduced as following;

 # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online
 # modprobe -r some_driver_using_interrupts     # vector_irq@cpu7 uncleared
 # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online # kernel may crash

To fix this problem, this patch clears vector_irq in
__fixup_irqs() when the CPU is offlined.

This also reverts commit f6175f5bfb4c, which partially fixes
this bug by clearing vector in __clear_irq_vector(). But in
environments with IOMMU IRQ remapper, it could fail because
cfg-&gt;domain doesn't contain offlined CPUs. With this patch, the
fix in __clear_irq_vector() can be reverted because every
vector_irq is already cleared in __fixup_irqs() on offlined CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama &lt;tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120726104732.2889.19144.stgit@kvmdev
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In the current kernel, percpu variable `vector_irq' is not always
cleared when a CPU is offlined. If the CPU that has the disabled
irqs in vector_irq is hotplugged again, __setup_vector_irq()
hits invalid irq vector and may crash.

This bug can be reproduced as following;

 # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online
 # modprobe -r some_driver_using_interrupts     # vector_irq@cpu7 uncleared
 # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online # kernel may crash

To fix this problem, this patch clears vector_irq in
__fixup_irqs() when the CPU is offlined.

This also reverts commit f6175f5bfb4c, which partially fixes
this bug by clearing vector in __clear_irq_vector(). But in
environments with IOMMU IRQ remapper, it could fail because
cfg-&gt;domain doesn't contain offlined CPUs. With this patch, the
fix in __clear_irq_vector() can be reverted because every
vector_irq is already cleared in __fixup_irqs() on offlined CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama &lt;tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120726104732.2889.19144.stgit@kvmdev
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2012-07-24T19:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-24T19:01:20+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights include
  - full big real mode emulation on pre-Westmere Intel hosts (can be
    disabled with emulate_invalid_guest_state=0)
  - relatively small ppc and s390 updates
  - PCID/INVPCID support in guests
  - EOI avoidance; 3.6 guests should perform better on 3.6 hosts on
    interrupt intensive workloads)
  - Lockless write faults during live migration
  - EPT accessed/dirty bits support for new Intel processors"

Fix up conflicts in:
 - Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt:

   Stupid subchapter numbering, added next to each other.

 - arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S:

   PPC asm changes clashing with the KVM fixes

 - arch/s390/include/asm/sigp.h, arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c:

   Duplicated commits through the kvm tree and the s390 tree, with
   subsequent edits in the KVM tree.

* tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (93 commits)
  KVM: fix race with level interrupts
  x86, hyper: fix build with !CONFIG_KVM_GUEST
  Revert "apic: fix kvm build on UP without IOAPIC"
  KVM guest: switch to apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write
  apic: add apic_set_eoi_write for PV use
  KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT
  KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check
  KVM: PPC: Critical interrupt emulation support
  KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests
  KVM: PPC64: booke: Set interrupt computation mode for 64-bit host
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add ESR flag to Data Storage Interrupt
  KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for std/ld emulation.
  booke: Added crit/mc exception handler for e500v2
  booke/bookehv: Add host crit-watchdog exception support
  KVM: MMU: document mmu-lock and fast page fault
  KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk tracepoint
  KVM: MMU: trace fast page fault
  KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault
  KVM: MMU: introduce SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE bit
  KVM: MMU: fold tlb flush judgement into mmu_spte_update
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights include
  - full big real mode emulation on pre-Westmere Intel hosts (can be
    disabled with emulate_invalid_guest_state=0)
  - relatively small ppc and s390 updates
  - PCID/INVPCID support in guests
  - EOI avoidance; 3.6 guests should perform better on 3.6 hosts on
    interrupt intensive workloads)
  - Lockless write faults during live migration
  - EPT accessed/dirty bits support for new Intel processors"

Fix up conflicts in:
 - Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt:

   Stupid subchapter numbering, added next to each other.

 - arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S:

   PPC asm changes clashing with the KVM fixes

 - arch/s390/include/asm/sigp.h, arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c:

   Duplicated commits through the kvm tree and the s390 tree, with
   subsequent edits in the KVM tree.

* tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (93 commits)
  KVM: fix race with level interrupts
  x86, hyper: fix build with !CONFIG_KVM_GUEST
  Revert "apic: fix kvm build on UP without IOAPIC"
  KVM guest: switch to apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write
  apic: add apic_set_eoi_write for PV use
  KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT
  KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check
  KVM: PPC: Critical interrupt emulation support
  KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests
  KVM: PPC64: booke: Set interrupt computation mode for 64-bit host
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add ESR flag to Data Storage Interrupt
  KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for std/ld emulation.
  booke: Added crit/mc exception handler for e500v2
  booke/bookehv: Add host crit-watchdog exception support
  KVM: MMU: document mmu-lock and fast page fault
  KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk tracepoint
  KVM: MMU: trace fast page fault
  KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault
  KVM: MMU: introduce SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE bit
  KVM: MMU: fold tlb flush judgement into mmu_spte_update
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-07-22T19:19:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-22T19:19:36+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 platform changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree mostly involves various APIC driver cleanups/robustization,
  and vSMP motivated platform callback improvements/cleanups"

Fix up trivial conflict due to printk cleanup right next to return value
change.

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
  Revert "x86/early_printk: Replace obsolete simple_strtoul() usage with kstrtoint()"
  x86/apic/x2apic: Use multiple cluster members for the irq destination only with the explicit affinity
  x86/apic/x2apic: Limit the vector reservation to the user specified mask
  x86/apic: Optimize cpu traversal in __assign_irq_vector() using domain membership
  x86/vsmp: Fix vector_allocation_domain's return value
  irq/apic: Use config_enabled(CONFIG_SMP) checks to clean up irq_set_affinity() for UP
  x86/vsmp: Fix linker error when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set
  x86/apic/es7000: Make apicid of a cluster (not CPU) from a cpumask
  x86/apic/es7000+summit: Always make valid apicid from a cpumask
  x86/apic/es7000+summit: Fix compile warning in cpu_mask_to_apicid()
  x86/apic: Fix ugly casting and branching in cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  x86/apic: Eliminate cpu_mask_to_apicid() operation
  x86/x2apic/cluster: Vector_allocation_domain() should return a value
  x86/apic/irq_remap: Silence a bogus pr_err()
  x86/vsmp: Ignore IOAPIC IRQ affinity if possible
  x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations check cpu_online_mask
  x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations return error code
  x86/apic: Avoid useless scanning thru a cpumask in assign_irq_vector()
  x86/apic: Try to spread IRQ vectors to different priority levels
  x86/apic: Factor out default vector_allocation_domain() operation
  ...
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Pull x86 platform changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree mostly involves various APIC driver cleanups/robustization,
  and vSMP motivated platform callback improvements/cleanups"

Fix up trivial conflict due to printk cleanup right next to return value
change.

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
  Revert "x86/early_printk: Replace obsolete simple_strtoul() usage with kstrtoint()"
  x86/apic/x2apic: Use multiple cluster members for the irq destination only with the explicit affinity
  x86/apic/x2apic: Limit the vector reservation to the user specified mask
  x86/apic: Optimize cpu traversal in __assign_irq_vector() using domain membership
  x86/vsmp: Fix vector_allocation_domain's return value
  irq/apic: Use config_enabled(CONFIG_SMP) checks to clean up irq_set_affinity() for UP
  x86/vsmp: Fix linker error when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set
  x86/apic/es7000: Make apicid of a cluster (not CPU) from a cpumask
  x86/apic/es7000+summit: Always make valid apicid from a cpumask
  x86/apic/es7000+summit: Fix compile warning in cpu_mask_to_apicid()
  x86/apic: Fix ugly casting and branching in cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  x86/apic: Eliminate cpu_mask_to_apicid() operation
  x86/x2apic/cluster: Vector_allocation_domain() should return a value
  x86/apic/irq_remap: Silence a bogus pr_err()
  x86/vsmp: Ignore IOAPIC IRQ affinity if possible
  x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations check cpu_online_mask
  x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations return error code
  x86/apic: Avoid useless scanning thru a cpumask in assign_irq_vector()
  x86/apic: Try to spread IRQ vectors to different priority levels
  x86/apic: Factor out default vector_allocation_domain() operation
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>apic: add apic_set_eoi_write for PV use</title>
<updated>2012-07-16T09:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-15T12:56:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1551df646dd42122e17401013dba7a509d0f1b0d'/>
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KVM PV EOI optimization overrides eoi_write apic op with its own
version. Add an API for this to avoid meddling with core x86 apic driver
data structures directly.

For KVM use, we don't need any guarantees about when the switch to the
new op will take place, so it could in theory use this API after SMP init,
but it currently doesn't, and restricting callers to early init makes it
clear that it's safe as it won't race with actual APIC driver use.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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KVM PV EOI optimization overrides eoi_write apic op with its own
version. Add an API for this to avoid meddling with core x86 apic driver
data structures directly.

For KVM use, we don't need any guarantees about when the switch to the
new op will take place, so it could in theory use this API after SMP init,
but it currently doesn't, and restricting callers to early init makes it
clear that it's safe as it won't race with actual APIC driver use.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/apic/x2apic: Use multiple cluster members for the irq destination only with the explicit affinity</title>
<updated>2012-07-06T09:00:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T20:38:29+00:00</published>
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During boot or driver load etc, interrupt destination is setup
using default target cpu's. Later the user (irqbalance etc) or
the driver (irq_set_affinity/ irq_set_affinity_hint) can request
the interrupt to be migrated to some specific set of cpu's.

In the x2apic cluster routing, for the default scenario use
single cpu as the interrupt destination and when there is an
explicit interrupt affinity request, route the interrupt to
multiple members of a x2apic cluster specified in the cpumask of
the migration request.

This will minmize the vector pressure when there are lot of
interrupt sources and relatively few x2apic clusters (for
example a single socket server). This will allow the performance
critical interrupts to be routed to multiple cpu's in the x2apic
cluster (irqbalance for example uses the cache siblings etc
while specifying the interrupt destination) and allow
non-critical interrupts to be serviced by a single logical cpu.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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During boot or driver load etc, interrupt destination is setup
using default target cpu's. Later the user (irqbalance etc) or
the driver (irq_set_affinity/ irq_set_affinity_hint) can request
the interrupt to be migrated to some specific set of cpu's.

In the x2apic cluster routing, for the default scenario use
single cpu as the interrupt destination and when there is an
explicit interrupt affinity request, route the interrupt to
multiple members of a x2apic cluster specified in the cpumask of
the migration request.

This will minmize the vector pressure when there are lot of
interrupt sources and relatively few x2apic clusters (for
example a single socket server). This will allow the performance
critical interrupts to be routed to multiple cpu's in the x2apic
cluster (irqbalance for example uses the cache siblings etc
while specifying the interrupt destination) and allow
non-critical interrupts to be serviced by a single logical cpu.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/apic/x2apic: Limit the vector reservation to the user specified mask</title>
<updated>2012-07-06T09:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T20:38:28+00:00</published>
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For the x2apic cluster mode, vector for an interrupt is
currently reserved on all the cpu's that are part of the x2apic
cluster. But the interrupts will be routed only to the cluster
(derived from the first cpu in the mask) members specified in
the mask. So there is no need to reserve the vector in the
unused cluster members.

Modify __assign_irq_vector() to reserve the vectors based on the
user specified irq destination mask. If the new mask is a proper
subset of the currently used mask, cleanup the vector allocation
on the unused cpu members.

Also, allow the apic driver to tune the vector domain based on
the affinity mask (which in most cases is the user-specified
mask).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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For the x2apic cluster mode, vector for an interrupt is
currently reserved on all the cpu's that are part of the x2apic
cluster. But the interrupts will be routed only to the cluster
(derived from the first cpu in the mask) members specified in
the mask. So there is no need to reserve the vector in the
unused cluster members.

Modify __assign_irq_vector() to reserve the vectors based on the
user specified irq destination mask. If the new mask is a proper
subset of the currently used mask, cleanup the vector allocation
on the unused cpu members.

Also, allow the apic driver to tune the vector domain based on
the affinity mask (which in most cases is the user-specified
mask).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/apic: Optimize cpu traversal in __assign_irq_vector() using domain membership</title>
<updated>2012-07-06T09:00:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T20:38:27+00:00</published>
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Currently __assign_irq_vector() goes through each cpu in the
specified mask until it finds a free vector in all the cpu's
that are part of the same interrupt domain. We visit all the
interrupt domain sibling cpus to reserve the free vector. So,
when we fail to find a free vector in an interrupt domain, it is
safe to continue our search with a cpu belonging to a new
interrupt domain. No need to go through each cpu, if the domain
containing that cpu is already visited.

Use the irq_cfg's old_domain to track the visited domains and
optimize the cpu traversal while finding a free vector in the
given cpumask.

NOTE: We can also optimize the search by using for_each_cpu() and
skip the current cpu, if it is not the first cpu in the mask
returned by the vector_allocation_domain(). But re-using the
cfg-&gt;old_domain to track the visited domains will be slightly
faster.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently __assign_irq_vector() goes through each cpu in the
specified mask until it finds a free vector in all the cpu's
that are part of the same interrupt domain. We visit all the
interrupt domain sibling cpus to reserve the free vector. So,
when we fail to find a free vector in an interrupt domain, it is
safe to continue our search with a cpu belonging to a new
interrupt domain. No need to go through each cpu, if the domain
containing that cpu is already visited.

Use the irq_cfg's old_domain to track the visited domains and
optimize the cpu traversal while finding a free vector in the
given cpumask.

NOTE: We can also optimize the search by using for_each_cpu() and
skip the current cpu, if it is not the first cpu in the mask
returned by the vector_allocation_domain(). But re-using the
cfg-&gt;old_domain to track the visited domains will be slightly
faster.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340656709-11423-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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