linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c, branch v3.7

Merge tag 'efi-for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/urgent

2012-10-26T08:17:38+00:00

Pull EFI fixes from Matt Fleming:

 "Fix oops with EFI variables on mixed 32/64-bit firmware/kernels and
  document EFI git repository location on kernel.org."

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel

2012-10-25T18:09:40+00:00

When 32-bit EFI is used with 64-bit kernel (or vice versa), turn off
efi_enabled once setup is done. Beyond setup, it is normally used to
determine if runtime services are available and we will have none.

This will resolve issues stemming from efivars modprobe panicking on a
32/64-bit setup, as well as some reboot issues on similar setups.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45991

Reported-by: Marko Kohtala 
Reported-by: Maxim Kammerer 
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.4 - 3.6
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

x86, mm: Use memblock memory loop instead of e820_RAM

2012-10-24T18:52:36+00:00

We need to handle E820_RAM and E820_RESERVED_KERNEL at the same time.

Also memblock has page aligned range for ram, so we could avoid mapping
partial pages.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE9FiQVZirvaBMFYRfXMmWEcHbKSicQEHz4VAwUv0xFCk51ZNw@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Jacob Shin 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc:

Merge commit '5bc66170dc486556a1e36fd384463536573f4b82' into x86/urgent

2012-10-19T14:55:09+00:00

From Borislav Petkov :

Below is a RAS fix which reverts the addition of a sysfs attribute
which we agreed is not needed, post-factum. And this should go in now
because that sysfs attribute is going to end up in 3.7 otherwise and
thus exposed to userspace; removing it then would be a lot harder.

This is done as a merge rather than a simple patch/cherry-pick since
the baseline for this patch was not in the previous x86/urgent.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping.

2012-10-17T17:59:39+00:00

On systems with very large memory (1 TB in our case), BIOS may report a
reserved region or a hole in the E820 map, even above the 4 GB range. Exclude
these from the direct mapping.

[ hpa: this should be done not just for > 4 GB but for everything above the legacy
  region (1 MB), at the very least.  That, however, turns out to require significant
  restructuring.  That work is well underway, but is not suitable for rc/stable. ]

Cc: stable@kernel.org   # > 2.6.32
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319145326-13902-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

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

2012-10-12T13:17:48+00:00

Pull timer core update from Thomas Gleixner:
 - Bug fixes (one for a longstanding dead loop issue)
 - Rework of time related vsyscalls
 - Alarm timer updates
 - Jiffies updates to remove compile time dependencies

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow
  timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()
  time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition
  time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall
  time: Only do nanosecond rounding on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD systems
  time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
  time: Convert CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
  time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h
  time: Move timekeeper structure to timekeeper_internal.h for vsyscall changes
  jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE
  jiffies: Kill unused TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC
  alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue
  alarmtimer: Remove unused helpers & defines
  alarmtimer: Use hrtimer per-alarm instead of per-base
  alarmtimer: Implement minimum alarm interval for allowing suspend

Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2012-10-04T16:30:33+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
  level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
  Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
  PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."

* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
  KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
  KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
  KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
  KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
  KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
  KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
  KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
  KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
  KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
  KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
  KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
  KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
  KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
  KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
  KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
	arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c

jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2012-09-24T16:38:05+00:00

CLOCK_TICK_RATE is used to accurately caclulate exactly how
a tick will be at a given HZ.

This is useful, because while we'd expect NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ,
the underlying hardware will have some granularity limit,
so we won't be able to have exactly HZ ticks per second.

This slight error can cause timekeeping quality problems
when using the jiffies or other jiffies driven clocksources.
Thus we currently use compile time CLOCK_TICK_RATE value to
generate SHIFTED_HZ and NSEC_PER_JIFFIES, which we then use
to adjust the jiffies clocksource to correct this error.

Unfortunately though, since CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a compile
time value, and the jiffies clocksource is registered very
early during boot, there are a number of cases where there
are different possible hardware timers that have different
tick rates. This causes problems in cases like ARM where
there are numerous different types of hardware, each having
their own compile-time CLOCK_TICK_RATE, making it hard to
accurately support different hardware with a single kernel.

For the most part, this doesn't matter all that much, as not
too many systems actually utilize the jiffies or jiffies driven
clocksource. Usually there are other highres clocksources
who's granularity error is negligable.

Even so, we have some complicated calcualtions that we do
everywhere to handle these edge cases.

This patch removes the compile time SHIFTED_HZ value, and
introduces a register_refined_jiffies() function. This results
in the default jiffies clock as being assumed a perfect HZ
freq, and allows archtectures that care about jiffies accuracy
to call register_refined_jiffies() with the tick rate, specified
dynamically at boot.

This allows us, where necessary, to not have a compile time
CLOCK_TICK_RATE constant, simplifies the jiffies code, and
still provides a way to have an accurate jiffies clock.

NOTE: Since this patch does not add register_refinied_jiffies()
calls for every arch, it may cause time quality regressions
in some cases. Its likely these will not be noticable, but
if they are an issue, adding the following to the end of
setup_arch() should resolve the regression:
	register_refinied_jiffies(CLOCK_TICK_RATE)

Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz

x86: xen: Cleanup and remove x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done()

2012-09-12T13:33:06+00:00

At this stage x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done is only used in the
XEN case. Move its content in the x86_init.paging.pagetable_init setup
function and remove the now unused x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done
remaining infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao 
Acked-by: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345580561-8506-5-git-send-email-attilio.rao@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86: Move paging_init() call to x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()

2012-09-12T13:33:06+00:00

Move the paging_init() call to the platform specific pagetable_init()
function, so we can get rid of the extra pagetable_setup_done()
function pointer.

Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao 
Acked-by: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345580561-8506-4-git-send-email-attilio.rao@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner