<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c, branch linux-3.19.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Avoid math_state_restore() without used_math() in __restore_xstate_sig()</title>
<updated>2015-03-26T12:59:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T08:53:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4e4120654b4196c2f252dcdb5e974f16816c2939'/>
<id>4e4120654b4196c2f252dcdb5e974f16816c2939</id>
<content type='text'>
commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: export get_xsave_addr</title>
<updated>2014-12-05T12:55:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T09:57:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ba7b39203a3a18018173b87e73f27169bd8e5147'/>
<id>ba7b39203a3a18018173b87e73f27169bd8e5147</id>
<content type='text'>
get_xsave_addr is the API to access XSAVE states, and KVM would
like to use it.  Export it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
get_xsave_addr is the API to access XSAVE states, and KVM would
like to use it.  Export it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: __restore_xstate_sig()-&gt;math_state_restore() needs preempt_disable()</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T21:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef'/>
<id>df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef</id>
<content type='text'>
Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.7+
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.7+
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: shift drop_init_fpu() from save_xstate_sig() to handle_signal()</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T21:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c'/>
<id>66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c</id>
<content type='text'>
save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v3.7+
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v3.7+
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area</title>
<updated>2014-05-31T00:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-30T21:59:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8ff925e10f2c72680918b95173ef4f8bb982d59e'/>
<id>8ff925e10f2c72680918b95173ef4f8bb982d59e</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch cleans up some code in xstate offsets computation in xsave
area:

1. It changes xstate_comp_offsets as an array. This avoids possible NULL pointer
   caused by possible kmalloc() failure during boot time.
2. It changes the global variable xstate_comp_sizes to a local variable because
   it is used only in setup_xstate_comp().
3. It adds missing offsets for FP and SSE in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-17-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This patch cleans up some code in xstate offsets computation in xsave
area:

1. It changes xstate_comp_offsets as an array. This avoids possible NULL pointer
   caused by possible kmalloc() failure during boot time.
2. It changes the global variable xstate_comp_sizes to a local variable because
   it is used only in setup_xstate_comp().
3. It adds missing offsets for FP and SSE in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-17-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T21:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T18:12:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7496d6458fe3219d63848ce4a9afbd86245cab22'/>
<id>7496d6458fe3219d63848ce4a9afbd86245cab22</id>
<content type='text'>
In standard form, each state is saved in the xsave area in fixed offset.
But in compacted form, offset of each saved state only can be calculated during
run time because some xstates may not be enabled and saved.

We define kernel API get_xsave_addr() returns address of a given state saved in a xsave area.

It can be called in kernel to get address of each xstate in xsave area in
either standard format or compacted format.

It's useful when kernel wants to directly access each state in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-17-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
In standard form, each state is saved in the xsave area in fixed offset.
But in compacted form, offset of each saved state only can be calculated during
run time because some xstates may not be enabled and saved.

We define kernel API get_xsave_addr() returns address of a given state saved in a xsave area.

It can be called in kernel to get address of each xstate in xsave area in
either standard format or compacted format.

It's useful when kernel wants to directly access each state in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-17-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T21:33:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T18:12:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7e7ce87f6ad4e1730364e5e76628b43c5759b700'/>
<id>7e7ce87f6ad4e1730364e5e76628b43c5759b700</id>
<content type='text'>
If xsaves/xrstors is enabled, compacted format of xsave area will be used
and less memory may be used for context per process. And modified
optimization implemented in xsaves/xrstors improves performance of saving
xstate.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-16-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
If xsaves/xrstors is enabled, compacted format of xsave area will be used
and less memory may be used for context per process. And modified
optimization implemented in xsaves/xrstors improves performance of saving
xstate.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-16-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T21:33:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T18:12:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=47c2f292cc8669f70644a949cadd5fa5ee0e0e07'/>
<id>47c2f292cc8669f70644a949cadd5fa5ee0e0e07</id>
<content type='text'>
setup_init_fpu_buf() calls booting time xsaves and xrstors to save and restore
xstate in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-15-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
setup_init_fpu_buf() calls booting time xsaves and xrstors to save and restore
xstate in xsave area.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-15-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, xsave: Support eager-only xsave features, add MPX support</title>
<updated>2013-12-07T01:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiaowei Ren</name>
<email>qiaowei.ren@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-05T09:15:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e7d820a5e549b3eb6c3f9467507566565646a669'/>
<id>e7d820a5e549b3eb6c3f9467507566565646a669</id>
<content type='text'>
Some features, like Intel MPX, work only if the kernel uses eagerfpu
model.  So we should force eagerfpu on unless the user has explicitly
disabled it.

Add definitions for Intel MPX and add it to the supported list.

[ hpa: renamed XSTATE_FLEXIBLE to XSTATE_LAZY and added comments ]

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9E0BE1322F2F2246BD820DA9FC397ADE014A6115@SHSMSX102.ccr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Some features, like Intel MPX, work only if the kernel uses eagerfpu
model.  So we should force eagerfpu on unless the user has explicitly
disabled it.

Add definitions for Intel MPX and add it to the supported list.

[ hpa: renamed XSTATE_FLEXIBLE to XSTATE_LAZY and added comments ]

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9E0BE1322F2F2246BD820DA9FC397ADE014A6115@SHSMSX102.ccr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T22:23:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=148f9bb87745ed45f7a11b2cbd3bc0f017d5d257'/>
<id>148f9bb87745ed45f7a11b2cbd3bc0f017d5d257</id>
<content type='text'>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
