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<title>x86: use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function</title>
<updated>2008-04-19T17:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Travis</name>
<email>travis@sgi.com</email>
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<published>2008-04-05T01:11:05+00:00</published>
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  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr() function added by previous patch,
    which instead of passing the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask_t arg
    by value,  pass it by pointer:

    -int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask)
    +int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

  * Cleanup uses of CPU_MASK_ALL.

  * Collapse other NR_CPUS changes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
    Use pointers to cpumask_t arguments whenever possible.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr() function added by previous patch,
    which instead of passing the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask_t arg
    by value,  pass it by pointer:

    -int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask)
    +int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

  * Cleanup uses of CPU_MASK_ALL.

  * Collapse other NR_CPUS changes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
    Use pointers to cpumask_t arguments whenever possible.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: microcode: show results on success too</title>
<updated>2008-04-17T15:41:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Castricum</name>
<email>lk08@bencastricum.nl</email>
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<published>2008-03-27T19:52:35+00:00</published>
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Report when microcode was successfully updated. It used to be there but
now with DEBUG unset it becomes very silent. Also some cosmetic fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Castricum &lt;lk08@bencastricum.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Report when microcode was successfully updated. It used to be there but
now with DEBUG unset it becomes very silent. Also some cosmetic fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Castricum &lt;lk08@bencastricum.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: fix section mismatch warnings when referencing notifiers</title>
<updated>2008-02-01T16:49:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
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<published>2008-02-01T16:49:42+00:00</published>
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Fix the following warnings:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0xf8): Section mismatch in reference from the function msr_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:msr_class_cpu_notifier
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x158): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpuid_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpuid_class_cpu_notifier
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x171): Section mismatch in reference from the function microcode_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:mc_cpu_notifier

In all three cases there were a function annotated __exit
that referenced a variable annotated __cpuinitdata.

The fix was to replace the annotation of the notifier
with __refdata to tell modpost that the reference to
a _cpuinit function in the notifier are OK.
The unregister call that references the notifier
variable will simple delete the function pointer
so there is no problem ignoring the reference.

Note: This looks like another case where __cpuinit
has been used as replacement for proper use
of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU to decide what code are used for
HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Fix the following warnings:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0xf8): Section mismatch in reference from the function msr_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:msr_class_cpu_notifier
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x158): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpuid_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpuid_class_cpu_notifier
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x171): Section mismatch in reference from the function microcode_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:mc_cpu_notifier

In all three cases there were a function annotated __exit
that referenced a variable annotated __cpuinitdata.

The fix was to replace the annotation of the notifier
with __refdata to tell modpost that the reference to
a _cpuinit function in the notifier are OK.
The unregister call that references the notifier
variable will simple delete the function pointer
so there is no problem ignoring the reference.

Note: This looks like another case where __cpuinit
has been used as replacement for proper use
of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU to decide what code are used for
HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: remove unneded casts</title>
<updated>2008-01-30T12:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Engelhardt</name>
<email>jengelh@computergmbh.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-30T12:33:23+00:00</published>
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x86: remove unneeded casts

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@computergmbh.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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x86: remove unneeded casts

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@computergmbh.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()</title>
<updated>2008-01-25T20:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@in.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-25T20:08:02+00:00</published>
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Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:35:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Travis</name>
<email>travis@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T18:35:04+00:00</published>
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cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS.  This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.

These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code.  An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index.  This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index.  It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().

cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman &lt;mhoffman@lightlink.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS.  This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.

These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code.  An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index.  This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index.  It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().

cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman &lt;mhoffman@lightlink.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i386: move kernel</title>
<updated>2007-10-11T09:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-11T09:17:01+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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