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Eric W. Biederman
26374c7b7d [PATCH] Reload CS when startup_64 is used.
In long mode the %cs is largely a relic.  However there are a few cases
like iret where it matters that we have a valid value.  Without this
patch it is possible to enter the kernel in startup_64 without setting
%cs to a valid value.  With this patch we don't care what %cs value
we enter the kernel with, so long as the cs shadow register indicates
it is a privileged code segment.

Thanks to Magnus Damm for finding this problem and posting the
first workable patch.  I have moved the jump to set %cs down a
few instructions so we don't need to take an extra jump.  Which
keeps the code simpler.

Signed-of-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen
44cc45267b [PATCH] Remove obsolete CVS $Id$ from assembler files in arch/x86_64/kernel/*
CVS hasn't been used for a long time for them.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
c08c820508 [PATCH] Add the vgetcpu vsyscall
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.

AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
c05991ed12 [PATCH] x86_64: Add kernel thread stack frame termination for properly stopping stack unwinds.
One open question: Should these added pushes perhaps be made
conditional upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND or CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO?
[AK: Not needed -- these are all very slow paths]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:15 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
eaeae0cc98 [PATCH] x86_64: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit
This patch puts the code from head.S in a special .bootstrap.text
section.

I'm working on a patch to reorder the functions in the kernel (I'll post
that later), but for x86-64 at least the kernel bootstrap requires that
the head.S functions are on the very first page/pages of the kernel
text.  This is understandable since the bootstrap is complex enough
already and not a problem at all, it just means they aren't allowed to
be reordered.  This patch puts these special functions into a separate
section to document this, and to guarantee this in the light of possibly
reordering the rest later.

(So this patch doesn't fix a bug per se, but makes things more robust by
making the order of these functions explicit)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
Jan Beulich
e57113bc1f [PATCH] x86_64: miscellaneous cleanup
- adjust limits of GDT/IDT pseudo-descriptors (some were off by one)
- move empty_zero_page into .bss.page_aligned
- move cpu_gdt_table into .data.page_aligned
- move idt_table into .bss
- align inital_code and init_rsp
- eliminate pointless (re-)declaration of idt_table in traps.c

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:54 -08:00
Andi Kleen
6574ffd74b [PATCH] x86_64: Resolve the RIP of an early exception using kallsyms
But do it after everything else to risk less from recursive
crashes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 08:00:40 -08:00
Jan Beulich
f0cf5d1a34 [PATCH] x86_64: eliminate empty_bad_{page,{pte,pmd}_table}
... as they are no longer needed. Since there were hard-coded numbers in the
file, the patch also adds a mechanism to avoid these (otherwise potential
future changes would again and again require adjusting these numbers).

Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:18:35 -08:00
Andi Kleen
cdc4b9c019 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused segments
They used to be used by the reboot code, but not anymore.

Noticed by Jan Beulich

Cc: JBeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
c11efdf94d [PATCH] x86_64: Align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary
This patch is on the same lines as Zachary Amsden's i386 GDT page alignemnt
patch in -mm, but for x86_64.

Patch to align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundries.

[AK: some minor cleanups and fixed incorrect TLS initialization
in CPU init.]

Signed-off-by: Nippun Goel <nippung@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:53 -08:00
Siddha, Suresh B
f6c2e3330d [PATCH] x86_64: Unmap NULL during early bootup
We should zap the low mappings, as soon as possible, so that we can catch
kernel bugs more effectively. Previously early boot had NULL mapped
and didn't trap on NULL references.

This patch introduces boot_level4_pgt, which will always have low identity
addresses mapped.  Druing boot, all the processors will use this as their
level4 pgt.  On BP, we will switch to init_level4_pgt as soon as we enter C
code and zap the low mappings as soon as we are done with the usage of
identity low mapped addresses.  On AP's we will zap the low mappings as
soon as we jump to C code.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
Andi Kleen
944d2647dd [PATCH] x86_64: Drop global bit from early low mappings
Drop global bit from early low mappings

Suggested by Linus, originally also proposed by Suresh.

This fixes a race condition with early start of udev, originally
tracked down by Suresh B. Siddha. The problem was that switching
to the user space VM would not clear the global low mappings
for the beginning of memory, which lead to memory corruption.

Drop the global bits.

The kernel mapping stays global because it should stay constant.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-04 15:56:52 -07:00
Andi Kleen
48496e3495 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix (harmless) typo in head.S early level2 page table
The global bit  was not set in the first 2MB page, instead
it had a bit in the free AVL section which is useless.
Fixed thus.

Noticed by Eric Biederman

Cc:  Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:50:55 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3829ee6b1b [PATCH] x86_64: Small assembly improvements
Save a byte here and there.  Ultimatively useless, but these things always
catch my eyes when reading the code so just fix them for now.

Also I got at least one patch fixing of them already, which gives a good
excuse.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
d0537508a9 [PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory.  To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.

This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86_64 kernel
so we can do just that.  You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED

bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB.  If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:48 -07:00
Andi Kleen
b957591fee [PATCH] x86_64: Dump stack and prevent recursion on early fault
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00