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<title>Merge branch 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T00:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-14T00:20:04+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/xsave changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a patchset to support the XSAVES instruction required to
  support context switch of supervisor-only features in upcoming
  silicon.

  This patchset missed the 3.16 merge window, which is why it is based
  on 3.15-rc7"

* 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, xsave: Add forgotten inline annotation
  x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area
  x86/xsave: Make it clear that the XSAVE macros use (%edi)/(%rdi)
  Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area
  x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors
  x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf
  x86/xsaves: Save xstate to task's xsave area in __save_fpu during booting time
  x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time
  x86/xsaves: Clear reserved bits in xsave header
  x86/xsaves: Use xsave/xrstor for saving and restoring user space context
  x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors for context switch
  x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area
  x86/xsaves: Define a macro for handling xsave/xrstor instruction fault
  x86/xsaves: Define macros for xsave instructions
  x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header
  x86/alternative: Add alternative_input_2 to support alternative with two features and input
  x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors
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Pull x86/xsave changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a patchset to support the XSAVES instruction required to
  support context switch of supervisor-only features in upcoming
  silicon.

  This patchset missed the 3.16 merge window, which is why it is based
  on 3.15-rc7"

* 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, xsave: Add forgotten inline annotation
  x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area
  x86/xsave: Make it clear that the XSAVE macros use (%edi)/(%rdi)
  Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area
  x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors
  x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf
  x86/xsaves: Save xstate to task's xsave area in __save_fpu during booting time
  x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time
  x86/xsaves: Clear reserved bits in xsave header
  x86/xsaves: Use xsave/xrstor for saving and restoring user space context
  x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors for context switch
  x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area
  x86/xsaves: Define a macro for handling xsave/xrstor instruction fault
  x86/xsaves: Define macros for xsave instructions
  x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header
  x86/alternative: Add alternative_input_2 to support alternative with two features and input
  x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:15:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:15:45+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle is the rework of the TLB range flushing
  code, to simplify, fix and consolidate the code.  By Dave Hansen"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Set TLB flush tunable to sane value (33)
  x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush
  x86/mm: Add tracepoints for TLB flushes
  x86/mm: Unify remote INVLPG code
  x86/mm: Fix missed global TLB flush stat
  x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing
  x86/mm: Clean up the TLB flushing code
  x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle is the rework of the TLB range flushing
  code, to simplify, fix and consolidate the code.  By Dave Hansen"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Set TLB flush tunable to sane value (33)
  x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush
  x86/mm: Add tracepoints for TLB flushes
  x86/mm: Unify remote INVLPG code
  x86/mm: Fix missed global TLB flush stat
  x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing
  x86/mm: Clean up the TLB flushing code
  x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault
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<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing</title>
<updated>2014-07-31T15:48:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-31T15:40:55+00:00</published>
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I think the flush_tlb_mm_range() code that tries to tune the
flush sizes based on the CPU needs to get ripped out for
several reasons:

1. It is obviously buggy.  It uses mm-&gt;total_vm to judge the
   task's footprint in the TLB.  It should certainly be using
   some measure of RSS, *NOT* -&gt;total_vm since only resident
   memory can populate the TLB.
2. Haswell, and several other CPUs are missing from the
   intel_tlb_flushall_shift_set() function.  Thus, it has been
   demonstrated to bitrot quickly in practice.
3. It is plain wrong in my vm:
	[    0.037444] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] tlb_flushall_shift: 6
   Which leads to it to never use invlpg.
4. The assumptions about TLB refill costs are wrong:
	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337782555-8088-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
    (more on this in later patches)
5. I can not reproduce the original data: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
   I believe the sample times were too short.  Running the
   benchmark in a loop yields times that vary quite a bit.

Note that this leaves us with a static ceiling of 1 page.  This
is a conservative, dumb setting, and will be revised in a later
patch.

This also removes the code which attempts to predict whether we
are flushing data or instructions.  We expect instruction flushes
to be relatively rare and not worth tuning for explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154055.ABC88E89@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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I think the flush_tlb_mm_range() code that tries to tune the
flush sizes based on the CPU needs to get ripped out for
several reasons:

1. It is obviously buggy.  It uses mm-&gt;total_vm to judge the
   task's footprint in the TLB.  It should certainly be using
   some measure of RSS, *NOT* -&gt;total_vm since only resident
   memory can populate the TLB.
2. Haswell, and several other CPUs are missing from the
   intel_tlb_flushall_shift_set() function.  Thus, it has been
   demonstrated to bitrot quickly in practice.
3. It is plain wrong in my vm:
	[    0.037444] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] tlb_flushall_shift: 6
   Which leads to it to never use invlpg.
4. The assumptions about TLB refill costs are wrong:
	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337782555-8088-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
    (more on this in later patches)
5. I can not reproduce the original data: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
   I believe the sample times were too short.  Running the
   benchmark in a loop yields times that vary quite a bit.

Note that this leaves us with a static ceiling of 1 page.  This
is a conservative, dumb setting, and will be revised in a later
patch.

This also removes the code which attempts to predict whether we
are flushing data or instructions.  We expect instruction flushes
to be relatively rare and not worth tuning for explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154055.ABC88E89@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v3.16-rc1' into x86/cpufeature</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T22:26:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-18T22:26:19+00:00</published>
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Linux 3.16-rc1

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Linux 3.16-rc1

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T02:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T02:18:49+00:00</published>
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe-&gt;def to -&gt;defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift -&gt;readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe-&gt;def to -&gt;defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift -&gt;readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T21:24:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T18:12:31+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors feature.
The kernel will fall back to use xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restor
xstates. By using this parameter, xsave area occupies more memory because
standard form of xsave area in xsaveopt/xrstor occupies more memory than
compacted form of xsave area.

This patch adds a description of the kernel parameter noxsaveopt in doc.
The code to support the parameter noxsaveopt has been in the kernel before.
This patch just adds the description of this parameter in the doc.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors feature.
The kernel will fall back to use xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restor
xstates. By using this parameter, xsave area occupies more memory because
standard form of xsave area in xsaveopt/xrstor occupies more memory than
compacted form of xsave area.

This patch adds a description of the kernel parameter noxsaveopt in doc.
The code to support the parameter noxsaveopt has been in the kernel before.
This patch just adds the description of this parameter in the doc.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T21:24:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T18:12:30+00:00</published>
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Detect the xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv, and xsaves features in processor extended
state enumberation sub-leaf (eax=0x0d, ecx=1):
Bit 00: XSAVEOPT is available
Bit 01: Supports XSAVEC and the compacted form of XRSTOR if set
Bit 02: Supports XGETBV with ECX = 1 if set
Bit 03: Supports XSAVES/XRSTORS and IA32_XSS if set

The above features are defined in the new word 10 in cpu features.

The IA32_XSS MSR (index DA0H) contains a state-component bitmap that specifies
the state components that software has enabled xsaves and xrstors to manage.
If the bit corresponding to a state component is clear in XCR0 | IA32_XSS,
xsaves and xrstors will not operate on that state component, regardless of
the value of the instruction mask.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Detect the xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv, and xsaves features in processor extended
state enumberation sub-leaf (eax=0x0d, ecx=1):
Bit 00: XSAVEOPT is available
Bit 01: Supports XSAVEC and the compacted form of XRSTOR if set
Bit 02: Supports XGETBV with ECX = 1 if set
Bit 03: Supports XSAVES/XRSTORS and IA32_XSS if set

The above features are defined in the new word 10 in cpu features.

The IA32_XSS MSR (index DA0H) contains a state-component bitmap that specifies
the state components that software has enabled xsaves and xrstors to manage.
If the bit corresponding to a state component is clear in XCR0 | IA32_XSS,
xsaves and xrstors will not operate on that state component, regardless of
the value of the instruction mask.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, vdso: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T20:19:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-05T19:19:36+00:00</published>
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This makes the 64-bit and x32 vdsos use the same mechanism as the
32-bit vdso.  Most of the churn is deleting all the old fixmap code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8af87023f57f6bb96ec8d17fce3f88018195b49b.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This makes the 64-bit and x32 vdsos use the same mechanism as the
32-bit vdso.  Most of the churn is deleting all the old fixmap code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8af87023f57f6bb96ec8d17fce3f88018195b49b.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, vdso: Move syscall and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T20:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-05T19:19:33+00:00</published>
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This code is used during CPU setup, and it isn't strictly speaking
related to the 32-bit vdso.  It's easier to understand how this
works when the code is closer to its callers.

This also lets syscall32_cpu_init be static, which might save some
trivial amount of kernel text.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4e466987204e232d7b55a53ff6b9739f12237461.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This code is used during CPU setup, and it isn't strictly speaking
related to the 32-bit vdso.  It's easier to understand how this
works when the code is closer to its callers.

This also lets syscall32_cpu_init be static, which might save some
trivial amount of kernel text.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4e466987204e232d7b55a53ff6b9739f12237461.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>kprobes, x86: Prohibit probing on debug_stack_*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-24T08:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
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<published>2014-04-17T08:17:12+00:00</published>
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Prohibit probing on debug_stack_reset and debug_stack_set_zero.
Since the both functions are called from TRACE_IRQS_ON/OFF_DEBUG
macros which run in int3 ist entry, probing it may cause a soft
lockup.

This happens when the kernel built with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
and CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081712.26341.32994.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Prohibit probing on debug_stack_reset and debug_stack_set_zero.
Since the both functions are called from TRACE_IRQS_ON/OFF_DEBUG
macros which run in int3 ist entry, probing it may cause a soft
lockup.

This happens when the kernel built with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
and CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081712.26341.32994.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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