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Message-ID: <20080619151333.GA8952@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:13:33 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: [git pull] x86 fixes
Linus,
please pull the latest x86 fixes git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-fixes-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Bernhard Walle (1):
x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
Jordan Crouse (1):
x86, geode: add a VSA2 ID for General Software
Mikael Pettersson (1):
x86, 32-bit: fix boot failure on TSC-less processors
Suresh Siddha (1):
x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to
arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 10 ++++++++--
arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c | 18 ++++++++----------
include/asm-x86/geode.h | 4 ++--
include/asm-x86/page_32.h | 3 ++-
7 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c
index e8edd63..9b08e85 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ int geode_has_vsa2(void)
static int has_vsa2 = -1;
if (has_vsa2 == -1) {
+ u16 val;
+
/*
* The VSA has virtual registers that we can query for a
* signature.
@@ -173,7 +175,8 @@ int geode_has_vsa2(void)
outw(VSA_VR_UNLOCK, VSA_VRC_INDEX);
outw(VSA_VR_SIGNATURE, VSA_VRC_INDEX);
- has_vsa2 = (inw(VSA_VRC_DATA) == VSA_SIG);
+ val = inw(VSA_VRC_DATA);
+ has_vsa2 = (val == AMD_VSA_SIG || val == GSW_VSA_SIG);
}
return has_vsa2;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 6d54833..e2db9ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
/*
* Forget coprocessor state..
*/
+ tsk->fpu_counter = 0;
clear_fpu(tsk);
clear_used_math();
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index ac54ff5..c6eb5c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
/*
* Forget coprocessor state..
*/
+ tsk->fpu_counter = 0;
clear_fpu(tsk);
clear_used_math();
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
index 2c5f8b2..5a2f8e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -532,10 +532,16 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
(unsigned long)(crash_size >> 20),
(unsigned long)(crash_base >> 20),
(unsigned long)(total_mem >> 20));
+
+ if (reserve_bootmem(crash_base, crash_size,
+ BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE) < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "crashkernel reservation "
+ "failed - memory is in use\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
crashk_res.start = crash_base;
crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
- reserve_bootmem(crash_base, crash_size,
- BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
} else
printk(KERN_INFO "crashkernel reservation failed - "
"you have to specify a base address\n");
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
index 068759d..65b7063 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
#include "mach_timer.h"
-static int tsc_disabled;
+/* native_sched_clock() is called before tsc_init(), so
+ we must start with the TSC soft disabled to prevent
+ erroneous rdtsc usage on !cpu_has_tsc processors */
+static int tsc_disabled = -1;
/*
* On some systems the TSC frequency does not
@@ -402,25 +405,20 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
{
int cpu;
- if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled) {
- /* Disable the TSC in case of !cpu_has_tsc */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
+ if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled > 0)
return;
- }
cpu_khz = calculate_cpu_khz();
tsc_khz = cpu_khz;
if (!cpu_khz) {
mark_tsc_unstable("could not calculate TSC khz");
- /*
- * We need to disable the TSC completely in this case
- * to prevent sched_clock() from using it.
- */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
return;
}
+ /* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
+ tsc_disabled = 0;
+
printk("Detected %lu.%03lu MHz processor.\n",
(unsigned long)cpu_khz / 1000,
(unsigned long)cpu_khz % 1000);
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/geode.h b/include/asm-x86/geode.h
index 6e64588..bb06027 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/geode.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/geode.h
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ extern int geode_get_dev_base(unsigned int dev);
#define VSA_VR_UNLOCK 0xFC53 /* unlock virtual register */
#define VSA_VR_SIGNATURE 0x0003
#define VSA_VR_MEM_SIZE 0x0200
-#define VSA_SIG 0x4132 /* signature is ascii 'VSA2' */
-
+#define AMD_VSA_SIG 0x4132 /* signature is ascii 'VSA2' */
+#define GSW_VSA_SIG 0x534d /* General Software signature */
/* GPIO */
#define GPIO_OUTPUT_VAL 0x00
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
index 424e82f..ccf0ba3 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
#define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, UL)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
-#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 36
+/* 44=32+12, the limit we can fit into an unsigned long pfn */
+#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 44
#define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32
#define PAGETABLE_LEVELS 3
--
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