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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:12:29 +0100
From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: unification of cpu/bugs.c
On 26.03.09 19:12:35, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:12 +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 26.03.09 17:32:09, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > This patch is based on -tip x86/core:
> > >
> > > From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:14:38 +0530
> > > Subject: [PATCH] x86: unification of cpu/bugs.c
> > >
> > > Impact: Unification, cleanup
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 5 +--
> > > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c | 33 ------------------
> > > 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> > > delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c
> >
> > Jaswinder,
> >
> > please send separate patches for separate changes (e.g. make separate
> > whitespace changes).
> >
>
> Ok I removed cleanup:
>
> From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:14:38 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: unification of cpu/bugs.c
>
> Impact: unification
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 5 +--
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c | 33 --------------------------
> 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
> index 4e242f9..90a96ee 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
> @@ -9,10 +9,9 @@ endif
>
> obj-y := intel_cacheinfo.o addon_cpuid_features.o
> obj-y += proc.o capflags.o powerflags.o common.o
> -obj-y += vmware.o hypervisor.o
> +obj-y += vmware.o hypervisor.o bugs.o
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += bugs.o cmpxchg.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += bugs_64.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += cmpxchg.o
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG) += cpu_debug.o
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> index c8e315f..9be7218 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> @@ -6,17 +6,23 @@
> * <rreilova@...cs.uc.edu>
> * - Channing Corn (tests & fixes),
> * - Andrew D. Balsa (code cleanup).
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2000 SuSE
> */
> -#include <linux/init.h>
> +
> #include <linux/utsname.h>
> -#include <asm/bugs.h>
> -#include <asm/processor.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> +
> #include <asm/processor-flags.h>
> +#include <asm/alternative.h>
> +#include <asm/processor.h>
> +#include <asm/paravirt.h>
> #include <asm/i387.h>
> +#include <asm/bugs.h>
> #include <asm/msr.h>
> -#include <asm/paravirt.h>
> -#include <asm/alternative.h>
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> static int __init no_halt(char *s)
> {
> boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok = 0;
> @@ -151,6 +157,22 @@ static void __init check_config(void)
> #endif
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Check various bugs
> + */
> +static void __init check_various_bugs(void)
> +{
> + check_config();
> + check_fpu();
> + check_hlt();
> + check_popad();
> +
> + init_utsname()->machine[1] =
> + '0' + (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 6 ? 6 : boot_cpu_data.x86);
Did you evaluate why these functions are 32 bit only? Same applies to
64 bit below. It seems this is not a unification and instead only some
move-around of code.
-Robert
> +}
> +#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
> +static inline void __init check_various_bugs(void) {}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
>
> void __init check_bugs(void)
> {
> @@ -159,11 +181,19 @@ void __init check_bugs(void)
> printk("CPU: ");
> print_cpu_info(&boot_cpu_data);
> #endif
> - check_config();
> - check_fpu();
> - check_hlt();
> - check_popad();
> - init_utsname()->machine[1] =
> - '0' + (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 6 ? 6 : boot_cpu_data.x86);
> + check_various_bugs();
> alternative_instructions();
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> + /*
> + * Make sure the first 2MB area is not mapped by huge pages
> + * There are typically fixed size MTRRs in there and overlapping
> + * MTRRs into large pages causes slow downs.
> + *
> + * Right now we don't do that with gbpages because there seems
> + * very little benefit for that case.
> + */
> + if (!direct_gbpages)
> + set_memory_4k((unsigned long)__va(0), 1);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 9a3ed06..0000000
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
> -/*
> - * Copyright (C) 1994 Linus Torvalds
> - * Copyright (C) 2000 SuSE
> - */
> -
> -#include <linux/kernel.h>
> -#include <linux/init.h>
> -#include <asm/alternative.h>
> -#include <asm/bugs.h>
> -#include <asm/processor.h>
> -#include <asm/mtrr.h>
> -#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> -
> -void __init check_bugs(void)
> -{
> - identify_boot_cpu();
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> - printk("CPU: ");
> - print_cpu_info(&boot_cpu_data);
> -#endif
> - alternative_instructions();
> -
> - /*
> - * Make sure the first 2MB area is not mapped by huge pages
> - * There are typically fixed size MTRRs in there and overlapping
> - * MTRRs into large pages causes slow downs.
> - *
> - * Right now we don't do that with gbpages because there seems
> - * very little benefit for that case.
> - */
> - if (!direct_gbpages)
> - set_memory_4k((unsigned long)__va(0), 1);
> -}
> --
> 1.6.0.6
>
>
>
>
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Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@....com
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