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  1. Mar 05, 2009
    • Daniel Glöckner's avatar
      x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != current · ab9e1858
      Daniel Glöckner authored 
      

Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace

init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always
works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another
process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get
a null pointer exception in finit.

This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct
parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with
current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which
would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction.

An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in
case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined.

The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining
code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ab9e1858
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      x86: EFI: Back efi_ioremap with init_memory_mapping instead of FIX_MAP · dd39ecf5
      Huang Ying authored 
      

Impact: Fix boot failure on EFI system with large runtime memory range

Brian Maly reported that some EFI system with large runtime memory
range can not boot. Because the FIX_MAP used to map runtime memory
range is smaller than run time memory range.

This patch fixes this issue by re-implement efi_ioremap() with
init_memory_mapping().

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBrian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236135513.6204.306.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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    • Brian Maly's avatar
      x86: fix DMI on EFI · ff0c0874
      Brian Maly authored 
      

Impact: reactivate DMI quirks on EFI hardware

DMI tables are loaded by EFI, so the dmi calls must happen after
efi_init() and not before.

Currently Apple hardware uses DMI to determine the framebuffer mappings
for efifb. Without DMI working you also have no video on MacBook Pro.

This patch resolves the DMI issue for EFI hardware (DMI is now properly
detected at boot), and additionally efifb now loads on Apple hardware
(i.e. video works).

Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Maly <bmaly@redhat>
Acked-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: ying.huang@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <49ADEDA3.1030406@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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  3. Mar 04, 2009
  5. Mar 03, 2009
  7. Mar 02, 2009
    • Pekka Paalanen's avatar
      x86 mmiotrace: fix race with release_kmmio_fault_page() · 340430c5
      Pekka Paalanen authored 
      

There was a theoretical possibility to a race between arming a page in
post_kmmio_handler() and disarming the page in
release_kmmio_fault_page():

cpu0                             cpu1
------------------------------------------------------------------
mmiotrace shutdown
enter release_kmmio_fault_page
                                 fault on the page
                                 disarm the page
disarm the page
                                 handle the MMIO access
                                 re-arm the page
put the page on release list
remove_kmmio_fault_pages()
                                 fault on the page
                                 page not known to mmiotrace
                                 fall back to do_page_fault()
                                 *KABOOM*

(This scenario also shows the double disarm case which is allowed.)

Fixed by acquiring kmmio_lock in post_kmmio_handler() and checking
if the page is being released from mmiotrace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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