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Message-ID: <20080917095800.GA9359@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:58:00 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [git pull] x86 fixes
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-fixes-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Alex Nixon (1):
x86/paravirt: Remove duplicate paravirt_pagetable_setup_{start, done}()
H. Peter Anvin (1):
x86: completely disable NOPL on 32 bits
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (2):
x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression
xen: fix for xen guest with mem > 3.7G
Julia Lawall (1):
arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c: introduce missing kfree
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 24 ++++--------------------
arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 4 ----
arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 8aab851..4e456bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -344,31 +344,15 @@ static void __init early_cpu_detect(void)
/*
* The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with
- * family >= 6, unfortunately, that's not true in practice because
+ * family >= 6; unfortunately, that's not true in practice because
* of early VIA chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that
- * are not easy to detect. Hence, probe for it based on first
- * principles.
+ * are not easy to detect. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail*
+ * reliably, so probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely
+ * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases.
*/
static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
- const u32 nopl_signature = 0x888c53b1; /* Random number */
- u32 has_nopl = nopl_signature;
-
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
- if (c->x86 >= 6) {
- asm volatile("\n"
- "1: .byte 0x0f,0x1f,0xc0\n" /* nopl %eax */
- "2:\n"
- " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
- "3: xor %0,%0\n"
- " jmp 2b\n"
- " .previous\n"
- _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,3b)
- : "+a" (has_nopl));
-
- if (has_nopl == nopl_signature)
- set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
- }
}
static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
index f2d43bc..ff7d3b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int __init create_setup_data_nodes(struct dentry *parent)
if (PageHighMem(pg)) {
data = ioremap_cache(pa_data, sizeof(*data));
if (!data) {
+ kfree(node);
error = -ENXIO;
goto err_dir;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 362d4e7..9838f25 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -670,6 +670,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
parse_early_param();
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ check_efer();
+#endif
+
#if defined(CONFIG_VMI) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
/*
* Must be before kernel pagetables are setup
@@ -738,7 +742,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#else
num_physpages = max_pfn;
- check_efer();
/* How many end-of-memory variables you have, grandma! */
/* need this before calling reserve_initrd */
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index d37f293..60ec1d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -458,11 +458,7 @@ static void __init pagetable_init(void)
{
pgd_t *pgd_base = swapper_pg_dir;
- paravirt_pagetable_setup_start(pgd_base);
-
permanent_kmaps_init(pgd_base);
-
- paravirt_pagetable_setup_done(pgd_base);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index b6acc3a..d679010 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
e820.nr_map = 0;
- e820_add_region(0, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn), E820_RAM);
+ e820_add_region(0, PFN_PHYS((u64)max_pfn), E820_RAM);
/*
* Even though this is normal, usable memory under Xen, reserve
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