linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c, branch linux-4.2.y

x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4

2015-02-04T11:10:42+00:00

Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: "hillf.zj" 
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/*

2014-05-05T23:07:44+00:00

As requested by Linus add explicit __visible to the asmlinkage users.
This marks all functions visible to assembler.

Tree sweep for arch/x86/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398984278-29319-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

intel_mid: Renamed mrst to intel_mid

2013-10-17T23:40:47+00:00

mrst is used as common name to represent all intel_mid type
soc's. But moorsetwon is just one of the intel_mid soc. So
renamed them to use intel_mid.

This patch mainly renames the variables and related
functions that uses *mrst* prefix with *intel_mid*.

To ensure that there are no functional changes, I have compared
the objdump of related files before and after rename and found
the only difference is symbol and name changes.

Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-6-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: David Cohen 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, asmlinkage: Make _*_start_kernel visible

2013-08-06T21:18:26+00:00

Obviously these functions have to be visible, otherwise
the whole kernel could be optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375740170-7446-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit

2013-01-30T03:32:58+00:00

They are the same, and we could move them out from head32/64.c to setup.c.

We are using memblock, and it could handle overlapping properly, so
we don't need to reserve some at first to hold the location, and just
need to make sure we reserve them before we are using memblock to find
free mem to use.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-32-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: Merge early_reserve_initrd for 32bit and 64bit

2013-01-29T23:20:41+00:00

They are the same, could move them out from head32/64.c to setup.c.

We are using memblock, and it could handle overlapping properly, so
we don't need to reserve some at first to hold the location, and just
need to make sure we reserve them before we are using memblock to find
free mem to use.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-15-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, boot: Sanitize boot_params if not zeroed on creation

2013-01-29T09:22:17+00:00

Use the new sentinel field to detect bootloaders which fail to follow
protocol and don't initialize fields in struct boot_params that they
do not explicitly initialize to zero.

Based on an original patch and research by Yinghai Lu.
Changed by hpa to be invoked both in the decompression path and in the
kernel proper; the latter for the case where a bootloader takes over
decompression.

Originally-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, realmode: Move ACPI wakeup to unified realmode code

2012-05-08T18:46:05+00:00

Migrated ACPI wakeup code to the real-mode blob.
Code existing in .x86_trampoline  can be completely
removed. Static descriptor table in wakeup_asm.S is
courtesy of H. Peter Anvin.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-7-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

memblock: Kill memblock_init()

2011-12-08T18:22:07+00:00

memblock_init() initializes arrays for regions and memblock itself;
however, all these can be done with struct initializers and
memblock_init() can be removed.  This patch kills memblock_init() and
initializes memblock with struct initializer.

The only difference is that the first dummy entries don't have .nid
set to MAX_NUMNODES initially.  This doesn't cause any behavior
difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"

memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free_range() with generic ones

2011-07-14T18:47:53+00:00

Other than sanity check and debug message, the x86 specific version of
memblock reserve/free functions are simple wrappers around the generic
versions - memblock_reserve/free().

This patch adds debug messages with caller identification to the
generic versions and replaces x86 specific ones and kills them.
arch/x86/include/asm/memblock.h and arch/x86/mm/memblock.c are empty
after this change and removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310462166-31469-14-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin