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  1. Aug 26, 2009
  3. Aug 25, 2009
    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      x86: Fix build with older binutils and consolidate linker script · c62e4320
      Jan Beulich authored 
      

binutils prior to 2.17 can't deal with the currently possible
situation of a new segment following the per-CPU segment, but
that new segment being empty - objcopy misplaces the .bss (and
perhaps also the .brk) sections outside of any segment.

However, the current ordering of sections really just appears
to be the effect of cumulative unrelated changes; re-ordering
things allows to easily guarantee that the segment following
the per-CPU one is non-empty, and at once eliminates the need
for the bogus data.init2 segment.

Once touching this code, also use the various data section
helper macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

-v2: fix !SMP builds.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c62e4320
    • Amerigo Wang's avatar
      x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem() · a6a06f7b
      Amerigo Wang authored 
      

This line looks suspicious, because if this is true, then the
'flags' parameter of function reserve_bootmem_generic() will be
unused when !CONFIG_NUMA. I don't think this is what we want.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a6a06f7b
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    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      i386: Fix section mismatches for init code with !HOTPLUG_CPU · 78b89ecd
      Jan Beulich authored 
      Commit 0e83815b

 changed the
section the initial_code variable gets allocated in, in an
attempt to address a section conflict warning. This, however
created a new section conflict when building without
HOTPLUG_CPU. The apparently only (reasonable) way to address
this is to always use __REFDATA.

Once at it, also fix a second section mismatch when not using
HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      78b89ecd
    • Suresh Siddha's avatar
      x86, pat: Allow ISA memory range uncacheable mapping requests · 1adcaafe
      Suresh Siddha authored 
      

Max Vozeler reported:
>  Bug 13877 -  bogl-term broken with CONFIG_X86_PAT=y, works with =n
>
>  strace of bogl-term:
>  814   mmap2(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0)
>				 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>  814   write(2, "bogl: mmaping /dev/fb0: Resource temporarily unavailable\n",
>	       57) = 57

PAT code maps the ISA memory range as WB in the PAT attribute, so that
fixed range MTRR registers define the actual memory type (UC/WC/WT etc).

But the upper level is_new_memtype_allowed() API checks are failing,
as the request here is for UC and the return tracked type is WB (Tracked type is
WB as MTRR type for this legacy range potentially will be different for each
4k page).

Fix is_new_memtype_allowed() by always succeeding the ISA address range
checks, as the null PAT (WB) and def MTRR fixed range register settings
satisfy the memory type needs of the applications that map the ISA address
range.

Reported-and-Tested-by: default avatarMax Vozeler <xam@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      1adcaafe
  13. Aug 17, 2009
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86, mce: Don't initialize MCEs on unknown CPUs · e412cd25
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      An older test-box started hanging at the following point during
bootup:

 [    0.022996] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
 [    0.024996] Initializing cgroup subsys debug
 [    0.025996] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
 [    0.026995] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
 [    0.027995] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
 [    0.028995] mce: CPU supports 5 MCE banks

I've bisected it down to commit 4efc0670

 ("x86, mce: use 64bit
machine check code on 32bit"), which utilizes the MCE code on
32-bit systems too.

The problem is caused by this detail in my config:

  # CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL is not set

This disables the quirks in mce_cpu_quirks() but still enables
MCE support - which then hangs due to the missing quirk
workaround needed on this CPU:

	if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 0x1A && banks > 0)
		mce_banks[0].init = 0;

The safe solution is to not initialize MCEs if we dont know on
what CPU we are running (or if that CPU's support code got
disabled in the config).

Also be a bit more defensive on 32-bit systems: dont do a
boot-time dump of pending MCEs not just on the specific system
that we found a problem with (Pentium-M), but earlier ones as
well.

Now this problem is probably not common and disabling CPU
support is rare - but still being more defensive in something
we turned on for a wide range of CPUs is prudent.

Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e412cd25
    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      x86, mce: don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs · c7f6fa44
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored 
      

On my legacy Pentium M laptop (Acer Extensa 2900) I get bogus MCE on a cold
boot with CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE enabled, i.e. (after decoding it with mcelog):

MCE 0
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 0 BANK 1 MCG status:
MCi status:
Error overflow
Uncorrected error
Error enabled
Processor context corrupt
MCA: Data CACHE Level-1 UNKNOWN Error
STATUS f200000000000195 MCGSTATUS 0

[ The other STATUS values observed: f2000000000001b5 (... UNKNOWN error)
  and f200000000000115 (... READ Error).

  To verify that this is not a CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE bug I also modified
  the CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE code (which doesn't log any MCEs) to dump
  content of STATUS MSR before it is cleared during initialization. ]

Since the bogus MCE results in a kernel taint (which in turn disables
lockdep support) don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
by default ("mce=bootlog" boot parameter can be be used to get the old
behavior).

Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c7f6fa44
    • Leonardo Potenza's avatar
      x86: Annotate section mismatch warnings in kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c · 52459ab9
      Leonardo Potenza authored 
      

The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() has been marked __init,
the struct apic_x2apic_uv_x has been marked __refdata.

The aim is to address the following section mismatch messages:

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/apic/built-in.o(.data+0x1368): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x68e8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.text+0x7b36f): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() to the function .init.text:early_ioremap()
The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() references
the function __init early_ioremap().
This is often because uv_acpi_madt_oem_check lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of early_ioremap is wrong.

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.text+0x7b38d): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() to the function .init.text:early_iounmap()
The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() references
the function __init early_iounmap().
This is often because uv_acpi_madt_oem_check lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of early_iounmap is wrong.

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.data+0x8668): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

Signed-off-by: default avatarLeonardo Potenza <lpotenza@inwind.it>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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