linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

x86/CPU: Fix warm boot hang regression on AMD SC1100 SoC systems

2025-03-07T17:27:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit bebe35bb738b573c32a5033499cd59f20293f2a3 ]

I still have some Soekris net4826 in a Community Wireless Network I
volunteer with. These devices use an AMD SC1100 SoC. I am running
OpenWrt on them, which uses a patched kernel, that naturally has
evolved over time.  I haven't updated the ones in the field in a
number of years (circa 2017), but have one in a test bed, where I have
intermittently tried out test builds.

A few years ago, I noticed some trouble, particularly when "warm
booting", that is, doing a reboot without removing power, and noticed
the device was hanging after the kernel message:

  [    0.081615] Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.

If I removed power and then restarted, it would boot fine, continuing
through the message above, thusly:

  [    0.081615] Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.
  [    0.090076] Enable Memory-Write-back mode on Cyrix/NSC processor.
  [    0.100000] Enable Memory access reorder on Cyrix/NSC processor.
  [    0.100070] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
  [    0.110058] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0
  [    0.120037] CPU: NSC Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi (family: 0x5, model: 0x9, stepping: 0x1)
  [...]

In order to continue using modern tools, like ssh, to interact with
the software on these old devices, I need modern builds of the OpenWrt
firmware on the devices. I confirmed that the warm boot hang was still
an issue in modern OpenWrt builds (currently using a patched linux
v6.6.65).

Last night, I decided it was time to get to the bottom of the warm
boot hang, and began bisecting. From preserved builds, I narrowed down
the bisection window from late February to late May 2019. During this
period, the OpenWrt builds were using 4.14.x. I was able to build
using period-correct Ubuntu 18.04.6. After a number of bisection
iterations, I identified a kernel bump from 4.14.112 to 4.14.113 as
the commit that introduced the warm boot hang.

  https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/07aaa7e3d62ad32767d7067107db64b6ade81537

Looking at the upstream changes in the stable kernel between 4.14.112
and 4.14.113 (tig v4.14.112..v4.14.113), I spotted a likely suspect:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=20afb90f730982882e65b01fb8bdfe83914339c5

So, I tried reverting just that kernel change on top of the breaking
OpenWrt commit, and my warm boot hang went away.

Presumably, the warm boot hang is due to some register not getting
cleared in the same way that a loss of power does. That is
approximately as much as I understand about the problem.

More poking/prodding and coaching from Jonas Gorski, it looks
like this test patch fixes the problem on my board: Tested against
v6.6.67 and v4.14.113.

Fixes: 18fb053f9b82 ("x86/cpu/cyrix: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls on Geode processors")
Debugged-by: Jonas Gorski 
Signed-off-by: Russell Senior 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHP3WfOgs3Ms4Z+L9i0-iBOE21sdMk5erAiJurPjnrL9LSsgRA@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Matthew Whitehead 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/cyrix: include header linux/isa-dma.h

2022-07-26T19:03:12+00:00

x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c now needs to include  since the
'isa_dma_bridge_buggy' variable was moved to it.

Fixes this build error:

  ../arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c: In function ‘init_cyrix’:
  ../arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c:277:17: error: ‘isa_dma_bridge_buggy’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    277 |                 isa_dma_bridge_buggy = 2;

Fixes: abb4970ac335 ("PCI: Move isa_dma_bridge_buggy out of asm/dma.h")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220725202224.29269-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Acked-by: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: x86@kernel.org

x86: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-18T14:31:53+00:00

Fix ~144 single-word typos in arch/x86/ code comments.

Doing this in a single commit should reduce the churn.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

x86/cpu/cyrix: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls on Geode processors

2019-03-21T11:28:50+00:00

There are comments in processor-cyrix.h advising you to _not_ make calls
using the deprecated macros in this style:

  setCx86_old(CX86_CCR4, getCx86_old(CX86_CCR4) | 0x80);

This is because it expands the macro into a non-functioning calling
sequence. The calling order must be:

  outb(CX86_CCR2, 0x22);
  inb(0x23);

From the comments:

 * When using the old macros a line like
 *   setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88);
 * gets expanded to:
 *  do {
 *    outb((CX86_CCR2), 0x22);
 *    outb((({
 *        outb((CX86_CCR2), 0x22);
 *        inb(0x23);
 *    }) | 0x88), 0x23);
 *  } while (0);

The new macros fix this problem, so use them instead. Tested on an
actual Geode processor.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1552596361-8967-2-git-send-email-tedheadster@gmail.com

x86/CPU: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls

2018-09-22T09:46:56+00:00

There are comments in processor-cyrix.h advising you to _not_ make calls
using the deprecated macros in this style:

  setCx86_old(CX86_CCR4, getCx86_old(CX86_CCR4) | 0x80);

This is because it expands the macro into a non-functioning calling
sequence. The calling order must be:

  outb(CX86_CCR2, 0x22);
  inb(0x23);

From the comments:

 * When using the old macros a line like
 *   setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88);
 * gets expanded to:
 *  do {
 *    outb((CX86_CCR2), 0x22);
 *    outb((({
 *        outb((CX86_CCR2), 0x22);
 *        inb(0x23);
 *    }) | 0x88), 0x23);
 *  } while (0);

The new macros fix this problem, so use them instead.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jia Zhang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180921212041.13096-2-tedheadster@gmail.com

x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping

2018-02-15T00:15:52+00:00

x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang 
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/cpu/cyrix: Add alternative Device ID of Geode GX1 SoC

2017-06-05T06:34:20+00:00

A SoC variant of Geode GX1, notably NSC branded SC1100, seems to
report an inverted Device ID in its DIR0 configuration register,
specifically 0xb instead of the expected 0x4.

Catch this presumably quirky version so it's properly recognized
as GX1 and has its cache switched to write-back mode, which provides
a significant performance boost in most workloads.

SC1100's datasheet "Geode™ SC1100 Information Appliance On a Chip",
states in section 1.1.7.1 "Device ID" that device identification
values are specified in SC1100's device errata. These, however,
seem to not have been publicly released.

Wading through a number of boot logs and /proc/cpuinfo dumps found on
pastebin and blogs, this patch should mostly be relevant for a number
of now admittedly aging Soekris NET4801 and PC Engines WRAP devices,
the latter being the platform this issue was discovered on.
Performance impact was verified using "openssl speed", with
write-back caching scaling throughput between -3% and +41%.

Signed-off-by: Christian Sünkenberg 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496596719.26725.14.camel@student.kit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-03-07T22:42:34+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A fix for KVM's scheduler clock which (erroneously) was always marked
  unstable, a fix for RT/DL load balancing, plus latency fixes"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/clock, x86/tsc: Rework the x86 'unstable' sched_clock() interface
  sched/core: Fix pick_next_task() for RT,DL
  sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more aggressive

sched/clock, x86/tsc: Rework the x86 'unstable' sched_clock() interface

2017-03-02T07:50:49+00:00

Wanpeng Li reported that since the following commit:

  acb04058de49 ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash")

... KVM always runs with unstable sched-clock even though KVM's
kvm_clock _is_ stable.

The problem is that we've tied clear_sched_clock_stable() to the TSC
state, and overlooked that sched_clock() is a paravirt function.

Solve this by doing two things:

 - tie the sched_clock() stable state more clearly to the TSC stable
   state for the normal (!paravirt) case.

 - only call clear_sched_clock_stable() when we mark TSC unstable
   when we use native_sched_clock().

The first means we can actually run with stable sched_clock in more
situations then before, which is good. And since commit:

  12907fbb1a69 ("sched/clock, clocksource: Add optional cs::mark_unstable() method")

... this should be reliable. Since any detection of TSC fail now results
in marking the TSC unstable.

Reported-by: Wanpeng Li 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: acb04058de49 ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar