linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.12

x86/ftrace: Use Makefile logic instead of #ifdef for compiling ftrace_*.o

2017-03-24T09:14:08+00:00

Currently ftrace_32.S and ftrace_64.S are compiled even when
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is not set. This means there's an unnecessary #ifdef
to protect the code. Instead of using preprocessor directives, only compile
those files when FUNCTION_TRACER is defined.

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316210043.peycxdxktwwn6cid@treble
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323143446.217684991@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/ftrace: Move the ftrace specific code out of entry_32.S

2017-03-24T09:14:07+00:00

The function tracing hook code for ftrace is not an entry point from
userspace and does not belong in the entry_*.S files. It has already been
moved out of entry_64.S.

Move it out of entry_32.S into its own ftrace_32.S file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323143445.645218946@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/ftrace: Rename mcount_64.S to ftrace_64.S

2017-03-24T09:14:06+00:00

With the advent of -mfentry that uses the new "fentry" hook over mcount,
the mcount name is obsolete. Having the code file that ftrace hooks into
called "mcount*.S" is rather misleading. Rename it to ftrace_64.S and
remove the file name reference.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323143445.490601451@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA

2017-02-28T02:43:48+00:00

This patch makes arch-independent testcases for RODATA.  Both x86 and
x86_64 already have testcases for RODATA, But they are arch-specific
because using inline assembly directly.

And cacheflush.h is not a suitable location for rodata-test related
things.  Since they were in cacheflush.h, If someone change the state of
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST, It cause overhead of kernel build.

To solve the above issues, write arch-independent testcases and move it
to shared location.

[jinb.park7@gmail.com: fix config dependency]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170209131625.GA16954@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129105436.GA9303@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410
Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Valentin Rothberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/mm: Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST

2017-01-31T07:31:58+00:00

CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST has been broken since CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX=y
was added in v2.6.37 via:

  84e1c6bb38eb ("x86: Add RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules")

since the exception table was then made read-only.

Additionally, the manually constructed extables were never fixed when
relative extables were introduced in v3.5 via:

  706276543b69 ("x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries")

However, relative extables won't work for test_nx.c, since test instruction
memory areas may be more than INT_MAX away from an executable fixup
(e.g. stack and heap too far away from executable memory with the fixup).

Since clearly no one has been using this code for a while now, and similar
tests exist in LKDTM, this should just be removed entirely.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jinbum Park 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131003711.GA74048@beast
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-12-18T21:59:10+00:00

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the last functional update from the tip tree for 4.10. It got
  delayed due to a newly reported and anlyzed variant of BIOS bug and
  the resulting wreckage:

   - Seperation of TSC being marked realiable and the fact that the
     platform provides the TSC frequency via CPUID/MSRs and making use
     for it for GOLDMONT.

   - TSC adjust MSR validation and sanitizing:

     The TSC adjust MSR contains the offset to the hardware counter. The
     sum of the adjust MSR and the counter is the TSC value which is
     read via RDTSC.

     On at least two machines from different vendors the BIOS sets the
     TSC adjust MSR to negative values. This happens on cold and warm
     boot. While on cold boot the offset is a few milliseconds, on warm
     boot it basically compensates the power on time of the system. The
     BIOSes are not even using the adjust MSR to set all CPUs in the
     package to the same offset. The offsets are different which renders
     the TSC unusable,

     What's worse is that the TSC deadline timer has a HW feature^Wbug.
     It malfunctions when the TSC adjust value is negative or greater
     equal 0x80000000 resulting in silent boot failures, hard lockups or
     non firing timers. This looks like some hardware internal 32/64bit
     issue with a sign extension problem. Intel has been silent so far
     on the issue.

     The update contains sanity checks and keeps the adjust register
     within working limits and in sync on the package.

     As it looks like this disease is spreading via BIOS crapware, we
     need to address this urgently as the boot failures are hard to
     debug for users"

* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tsc: Limit the adjust value further
  x86/tsc: Annotate printouts as firmware bug
  x86/tsc: Force TSC_ADJUST register to value >= zero
  x86/tsc: Validate TSC_ADJUST after resume
  x86/tsc: Validate cpumask pointer before accessing it
  x86/tsc: Fix broken CONFIG_X86_TSC=n build
  x86/tsc: Try to adjust TSC if sync test fails
  x86/tsc: Prepare warp test for TSC adjustment
  x86/tsc: Move sync cleanup to a safe place
  x86/tsc: Sync test only for the first cpu in a package
  x86/tsc: Verify TSC_ADJUST from idle
  x86/tsc: Store and check TSC ADJUST MSR
  x86/tsc: Detect random warps
  x86/tsc: Use X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST in detect_art()
  x86/tsc: Finalize the split of the TSC_RELIABLE flag
  x86/tsc: Set TSC_KNOWN_FREQ and TSC_RELIABLE flags on Intel Atom SoCs
  x86/tsc: Mark Intel ATOM_GOLDMONT TSC reliable
  x86/tsc: Mark TSC frequency determined by CPUID as known
  x86/tsc: Add X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ flag

sched/x86: Change CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO

2016-11-30T07:27:08+00:00

Rename CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT for Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0
to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO.  This makes the configuration extensible
in future to other architectures that wish to similarly establish
CPU core priorities support in the scheduler.

The description in Kconfig is updated to reflect this change with
added details for better clarity.  The configuration is explicitly
default-y, to enable the feature on CPUs that have this feature.

It has no effect on non-TBM3 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: bp@suse.de
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b2ee29d93e3f162922d72d0165a1405864fbb23.1480444902.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/tsc: Store and check TSC ADJUST MSR

2016-11-29T18:23:16+00:00

The TSC_ADJUST MSR shows whether the TSC has been modified. This is helpful
in a two aspects:

1) It allows to detect BIOS wreckage, where SMM code tries to 'hide' the
   cycles spent by storing the TSC value at SMM entry and restoring it at
   SMM exit. On affected machines the TSCs run slowly out of sync up to the
   point where the clocksource watchdog (if available) detects it.

   The TSC_ADJUST MSR allows to detect the TSC modification before that and
   eventually restore it. This is also important for SoCs which have no
   watchdog clocksource and therefore TSC wreckage cannot be detected and
   acted upon.

2) All threads in a package are required to have the same TSC_ADJUST
   value. Broken BIOSes break that and as a result the TSC synchronization
   check fails.

   The TSC_ADJUST MSR allows to detect the deviation when a CPU comes
   online. If detected set it to the value of an already online CPU in the
   same package. This also allows to reduce the number of sync tests
   because with that in place the test is only required for the first CPU
   in a package.

   In principle all CPUs in a system should have the same TSC_ADJUST value
   even across packages, but with physical CPU hotplug this assumption is
   not true because the TSC starts with power on, so physical hotplug has
   to do some trickery to bring the TSC into sync with already running
   packages, which requires to use an TSC_ADJUST value different from CPUs
   which got powered earlier.

   A final enhancement is the opportunity to compensate for unsynced TSCs
   accross nodes at boot time and make the TSC usable that way. It won't
   help for TSCs which run apart due to frequency skew between packages,
   but this gets detected by the clocksource watchdog later.

The first step toward this is to store the TSC_ADJUST value of a starting
CPU and compare it with the value of an already online CPU in the same
package. If they differ, emit a warning and adjust it to the reference
value. The !SMP version just stores the boot value for later verification.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161119134017.655323776@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86: Enable Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0

2016-11-24T19:44:19+00:00

On platforms supporting Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, the maximum
turbo frequencies of some cores in a CPU package may be higher than for
the other cores in the same package.  In that case, better performance
(and possibly lower energy consumption as well) can be achieved by
making the scheduler prefer to run tasks on the CPUs with higher max
turbo frequencies.

To that end, set up a core priority metric to abstract the core
preferences based on the maximum turbo frequency.  In that metric,
the cores with higher maximum turbo frequencies are higher-priority
than the other cores in the same package and that causes the scheduler
to favor them when making load-balancing decisions using the asymmertic
packing approach.  At the same time, the priority of SMT threads with a
higher CPU number is reduced so as to avoid scheduling tasks on all of
the threads that belong to a favored core before all of the other cores
have been given a task to run.

The priority metric will be initialized by the P-state driver with the
help of the sched_set_itmt_core_prio() function.  The P-state driver
will also determine whether or not ITMT is supported by the platform
and will call sched_set_itmt_support() to indicate that.

Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Co-developed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada 
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada 
Cc: bp@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd401ccdff88f88c8349314febdc25d51f7c48f7.1479844244.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...