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<title>Merge tag 'pci-v3.17-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2014-08-15T00:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-15T00:10:33+00:00</published>
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Pull DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE removal from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Part two of the PCI changes for v3.17:

    - Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use (Benoit Taine)

  It's a mechanical change that removes uses of the
  DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro.  I waited until later in the merge
  window to reduce conflicts, but it's possible you'll still see a few"

* tag 'pci-v3.17-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
  PCI: Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use
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Pull DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE removal from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Part two of the PCI changes for v3.17:

    - Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use (Benoit Taine)

  It's a mechanical change that removes uses of the
  DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro.  I waited until later in the merge
  window to reduce conflicts, but it's possible you'll still see a few"

* tag 'pci-v3.17-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
  PCI: Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use
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<entry>
<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>PCI: Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use</title>
<updated>2014-08-12T18:15:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benoit Taine</name>
<email>benoit.taine@lip6.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T13:56:03+00:00</published>
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We should prefer `struct pci_device_id` over `DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE` to
meet kernel coding style guidelines.  This issue was reported by checkpatch.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// &lt;smpl&gt;

@@
identifier i;
declarer name DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE;
initializer z;
@@

- DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(i)
+ const struct pci_device_id i[]
= z;

// &lt;/smpl&gt;

[bhelgaas: add semantic patch]
Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine &lt;benoit.taine@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</content>
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We should prefer `struct pci_device_id` over `DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE` to
meet kernel coding style guidelines.  This issue was reported by checkpatch.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// &lt;smpl&gt;

@@
identifier i;
declarer name DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE;
initializer z;
@@

- DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(i)
+ const struct pci_device_id i[]
= z;

// &lt;/smpl&gt;

[bhelgaas: add semantic patch]
Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine &lt;benoit.taine@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/x86: replace strict_strto calls</title>
<updated>2014-08-08T22:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Walter</name>
<email>dwalter@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T21:24:03+00:00</published>
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Replace obsolete strict_strto calls with appropriate kstrto calls

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter &lt;dwalter@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Replace obsolete strict_strto calls with appropriate kstrto calls

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter &lt;dwalter@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: MCE: Add raw_lock conversion again</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T00:34:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T20:57:19+00:00</published>
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Commit ea431643d6c3 ("x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs") breaks RT by
the completely unrelated conversion of the cmci_discover_lock to a
regular (non raw) spinlock.  This lock was annotated in commit
59d958d2c7de ("locking, x86: mce: Annotate cmci_discover_lock as raw")
with a proper explanation why.

The argument for converting the lock back to a regular spinlock was:

 - it does percpu ops without disabling preemption. Preemption is not
   disabled due to the mistaken use of a raw spinlock.

Which is complete nonsense.  The raw_spinlock is disabling preemption in
the same way as a regular spinlock.  In mainline spinlock maps to
raw_spinlock, in RT spinlock becomes a "sleeping" lock.

raw_spinlock has on RT exactly the same semantics as in mainline.  And
because this lock is taken in non preemptible context it must be raw on
RT.

Undo the locking brainfart.

Reported-by: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit ea431643d6c3 ("x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs") breaks RT by
the completely unrelated conversion of the cmci_discover_lock to a
regular (non raw) spinlock.  This lock was annotated in commit
59d958d2c7de ("locking, x86: mce: Annotate cmci_discover_lock as raw")
with a proper explanation why.

The argument for converting the lock back to a regular spinlock was:

 - it does percpu ops without disabling preemption. Preemption is not
   disabled due to the mistaken use of a raw spinlock.

Which is complete nonsense.  The raw_spinlock is disabling preemption in
the same way as a regular spinlock.  In mainline spinlock maps to
raw_spinlock, in RT spinlock becomes a "sleeping" lock.

raw_spinlock has on RT exactly the same semantics as in mainline.  And
because this lock is taken in non preemptible context it must be raw on
RT.

Undo the locking brainfart.

Reported-by: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:21:59+00:00</published>
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Pull RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - RAS tracing/events infrastructure, by Gong Chen.

   - Various generalizations of the APEI code to make it available to
     non-x86 architectures, by Tomasz Nowicki"

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/ras: Fix build warnings in &lt;linux/aer.h&gt;
  acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context.
  acpi, apei, ghes: Make NMI error notification to be GHES architecture extension.
  apei, mce: Factor out APEI architecture specific MCE calls.
  RAS, extlog: Adjust init flow
  trace, eMCA: Add a knob to adjust where to save event log
  trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface
  RAS, debugfs: Add debugfs interface for RAS subsystem
  CPER: Adjust code flow of some functions
  x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device
  trace, AER: Move trace into unified interface
  trace, RAS: Add basic RAS trace event
  x86, MCE: Kill CPU_POST_DEAD
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Pull RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - RAS tracing/events infrastructure, by Gong Chen.

   - Various generalizations of the APEI code to make it available to
     non-x86 architectures, by Tomasz Nowicki"

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/ras: Fix build warnings in &lt;linux/aer.h&gt;
  acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context.
  acpi, apei, ghes: Make NMI error notification to be GHES architecture extension.
  apei, mce: Factor out APEI architecture specific MCE calls.
  RAS, extlog: Adjust init flow
  trace, eMCA: Add a knob to adjust where to save event log
  trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface
  RAS, debugfs: Add debugfs interface for RAS subsystem
  CPER: Adjust code flow of some functions
  x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device
  trace, AER: Move trace into unified interface
  trace, RAS: Add basic RAS trace event
  x86, MCE: Kill CPU_POST_DEAD
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</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ce4747963252a30613ebf1c1df3d83b9526a342e'/>
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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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:12:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e9c9eecabaa898ff3fedd98813ee4ac1a00d006a'/>
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Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Continued cleanups of CPU bugs mis-marked as 'missing features', by
     Borislav Petkov.

   - Detect the xsaves/xrstors feature and releated cleanup, by Fenghua
     Yu"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Kill cpu_has_mp
  x86, amd: Cleanup init_amd
  x86/cpufeature: Add bug flags to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
  x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature
  x86/cpufeature.h: Reformat x86 feature macros
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Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Continued cleanups of CPU bugs mis-marked as 'missing features', by
     Borislav Petkov.

   - Detect the xsaves/xrstors feature and releated cleanup, by Fenghua
     Yu"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Kill cpu_has_mp
  x86, amd: Cleanup init_amd
  x86/cpufeature: Add bug flags to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
  x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature
  x86/cpufeature.h: Reformat x86 feature macros
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</entry>
<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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<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-apei' into x86/ras</title>
<updated>2014-07-30T17:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2014-07-30T17:48:00+00:00</published>
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APEI is currently implemented so that it depends on x86 hardware.
The primary dependency is that GHES uses the x86 NMI for hardware
error notification and MCE for memory error handling. These patches
remove that dependency.

Other APEI features such as error reporting via external IRQ, error
serialization, or error injection, do not require changes to use them
on non-x86 architectures.

The following patch set eliminates the APEI Kconfig x86 dependency
by making these changes:
- treat NMI notification as GHES architecture - HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI
- group and wrap around #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI code which
  is used only for NMI path
- identify architectural boxes and abstract it accordingly (tlb flush and MCE)
- rework ioremap for both IRQ and NMI context

NMI code is kept in ghes.c file since NMI and IRQ context are tightly coupled.

Note, these patches introduce no functional changes for x86. The NMI notification
feature is hard selected for x86. Architectures that want to use this
feature should also provide NMI code infrastructure.
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APEI is currently implemented so that it depends on x86 hardware.
The primary dependency is that GHES uses the x86 NMI for hardware
error notification and MCE for memory error handling. These patches
remove that dependency.

Other APEI features such as error reporting via external IRQ, error
serialization, or error injection, do not require changes to use them
on non-x86 architectures.

The following patch set eliminates the APEI Kconfig x86 dependency
by making these changes:
- treat NMI notification as GHES architecture - HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI
- group and wrap around #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI code which
  is used only for NMI path
- identify architectural boxes and abstract it accordingly (tlb flush and MCE)
- rework ioremap for both IRQ and NMI context

NMI code is kept in ghes.c file since NMI and IRQ context are tightly coupled.

Note, these patches introduce no functional changes for x86. The NMI notification
feature is hard selected for x86. Architectures that want to use this
feature should also provide NMI code infrastructure.
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