linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c, branch v2.6.32

mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages

2009-09-22T14:17:38+00:00

Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38+00:00

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.

2009-06-16T04:30:25+00:00

This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace.  It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: microcode: use smp_call_function_single instead of set_cpus_allowed, cleanup of synchronization logic

2009-05-12T08:36:44+00:00

* Solve issues described in 6f66cbc63081fd70e3191b4dbb796746780e5ae1
  in a way that doesn't resort to set_cpus_allowed();

* in fact, only collect_cpu_info and apply_microcode callbacks
  must run on a target cpu, others will do just fine on any other.
  smp_call_function_single() (as suggested by Ingo) is used to run
  these callbacks on a target cpu.

* cleanup of synchronization logic of the 'microcode_core' part

  The generic 'microcode_core' part guarantees that only a single cpu
  (be it a full-fledged cpu, one of the cores or HT)
  is being updated at any particular moment of time.

  In general, there is no need for any additional sync. mechanism in
  arch-specific parts (the patch removes existing spinlocks).

  See also the "Synchronization" section in microcode_core.c.

* return -EINVAL instead of -1 (which is translated into -EPERM) in
  microcode_write(), reload_cpu() and mc_sysdev_add(). Other suggestions
  for an error code?

* use 'enum ucode_state' as return value of request_microcode_{fw, user}
  to gain more flexibility by distinguishing between real error cases
  and situations when an appropriate ucode was not found (which is not an
  error per-se).

* some minor cleanups

Thanks a lot to Hugh Dickins for review/suggestions/testing!

   Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124025889012541&w=2

[ Impact: refactor and clean up microcode driver locking code ]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Andreas Herrmann 
Cc: Peter Oruba 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
LKML-Reference: <1242078507.5560.9.camel@earth>
[ did some more cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h  |   25 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c   |   58 ++----
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c  |  326 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c |   92 +++-------
 4 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)

(~20 new comment lines)

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-17T16:56:11+00:00

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix microcode driver newly spewing warnings
  x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking for vm_insert_pfn maps
  x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for now
  x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86
  x86: pci-swiotlb.c swiotlb_dma_ops should be static
  x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap
  x86, PAT: Consolidate code in pat_x_mtrr_type() and reserve_memtype()
  x86, PAT: Changing memtype to WC ensuring no WB alias
  x86, PAT: Handle faults cleanly in set_memory_ APIs
  x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb
  x86, CPA: Change idmap attribute before ioremap attribute setup

x86: fix microcode driver newly spewing warnings

2009-04-16T23:11:20+00:00

Jeff Garzik reported this WARN_ON() noise:

> Kernel: 2.6.30-rc1-00306-g8371f87
> Hardware: ICH10 x86-64
>
> This is a regression from 2.6.29.  Microcode spews the following WARNING
> multiple times during boot:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at fs/sysfs/group.c:138 sysfs_remove_group+0xeb/0xf0()
> Hardware name:         sysfs group ffffffffa0209700 not found for
>  kobject 'cpu0'

Keep sysfs files around for cpus even when we failed to locate
microcode for them at the moment of module loading. The appropriate
microcode firmware can become available later on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86 microcode: revert some work_on_cpu

2009-04-14T18:45:59+00:00

Revert part of af5c820a3169e81af869c113e18ec7588836cd50 ("x86: cpumask:
use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c")

That change is causing only one Intel CPU's microcode to be updated e.g.
microcode: CPU3 updated from revision 0x9 to 0x17, date = 2005-04-22
where before it announced that also for CPU0 and CPU1 and CPU2.

We cannot use work_on_cpu() in the CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE code,
because Intel's request_microcode_user() involves a copy_from_user() from
/sbin/microcode_ctl, which therefore needs to be on that CPU at the time.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: microcode: cleanup

2009-03-18T12:51:17+00:00

Impact: cleanup

Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko 
Cc: Peter Oruba 
LKML-Reference: <200903111632.37279.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c

2009-03-18T12:50:47+00:00

Impact: don't play with current's cpumask

Straightforward indirection through work_on_cpu().  One change is
that the error code from microcode_update_cpu() is now actually
plumbed back to microcode_init_cpu(), so now we printk if it fails
on cpu hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko 
Cc: Peter Oruba 
LKML-Reference: <200903111632.37279.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core

2008-12-23T15:27:23+00:00