kernel/linux.git/arch, branch v3.2.50

powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

2013-08-02T20:15:07+00:00

commit 0e0ed6406e61434d3f38fb58aa8464ec4722b77e upstream. Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to the calculated CRC. Unfortunately the ppc64 relocatable kernel sees these CRCs as symbols that need relocating and relocates them at boot. Commit d4703aef (module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) added a hook to reverse the bogus relocations. Part of this patch created a symbol at 0x0: # head -2 /proc/kallsyms 0000000000000000 T reloc_start c000000000000000 T .__start This reloc_start symbol is causing lots of confusion to perf. It thinks reloc_start is a massive function that stretches from 0x0 to 0xc000000000000000 and we get various cryptic errors out of perf, including: problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event This patch removes the reloc_start linker script label and instead defines it as PHYSICAL_START. We also need to wrap it with CONFIG_PPC64 because the ppc32 kernel can set a non zero PHYSICAL_START at compile time and we wouldn't want to subtract it from the CRCs in that case. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

sparc: tsb must be flushed before tlb

2013-08-02T20:14:51+00:00

commit 23a01138efe216f8084cfaa74b0b90dd4b097441 upstream. This fixes a race where a cpu may re-load a tlb from a stale tsb right after it has been flushed by a remote function call. I still see some instability when stressing the system with parallel kernel builds while creating memory pressure by writing to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, but this patch improves the stability significantly. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp Acked-by: Bob Picco Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

sparc64 address-congruence property

2013-08-02T20:14:51+00:00

commit 771a37ff4d80b80db3b0df3e7696f14b298c67b7 upstream. The Machine Description (MD) property "address-congruence-offset" is optional. According to the MD specification the value is assumed 0UL when not present. This caused early boot failure on T5. Signed-off-by: Bob Picco CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

sparc32: vm_area_struct access for old Sun SPARCs.

2013-08-02T20:14:51+00:00

commit 961246b4ed8da3bcf4ee1eb9147f341013553e3c upstream. Commit e4c6bfd2d79d063017ab19a18915f0bc759f32d9 ("mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses") changed the layout of the vm_area_struct structure, it broke several SPARC32 assembly routines which used numerical constants for accessing the vm_mm field. This patch defines the VMA_VM_MM constant to replace the immediate values. Signed-off-by: Olivier DANET Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/smp: Section mismatch from smp_release_cpus to __initdata spinning_secondaries

2013-07-27T04:34:24+00:00

commit 8246aca7058f3f2c2ae503081777965cd8df7b90 upstream. the smp_release_cpus is a normal funciton and called in normal environments, but it calls the __initdata spinning_secondaries. need modify spinning_secondaries to match smp_release_cpus. the related warning: (the linker report boot_paca.33377, but it should be spinning_secondaries) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x23176): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377 The function .smp_release_cpus() references the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377. This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong. WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x231fe): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377 The function .smp_release_cpus() references the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377. This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Chen Gang Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"

2013-07-27T04:34:23+00:00

commit 0b0c002c340e78173789f8afaa508070d838cf3d upstream. ... because the "clock_event_device framework" already accounts for idle time through the "event_handler" function pointer in xen_timer_interrupt(). The patch is intended as the completion of [1]. It should fix the double idle times seen in PV guests' /proc/stat [2]. It should be orthogonal to stolen time accounting (the removed code seems to be isolated). The approach may be completely misguided. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/10 [2] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg01068.html John took the time to retest this patch on top of v3.10 and reported: "idle time is correctly incremented for pv and hvm for the normal case, nohz=off and nohz=idle." so lets put this patch in. Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek Signed-off-by: John Haxby Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7765/1: perf: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain.

2013-07-27T04:34:16+00:00

commit c5f927a6f62196226915f12194c9d0df4e2210d7 upstream. With this change, we no longer lose the innermost entry in the user-mode part of the call chain. See also the x86 port, which includes the ip. It's possible to partially work around this problem by post-processing the data to use the PERF_SAMPLE_IP value, but this works only if the CPU wasn't in the kernel when the sample was taken. Signed-off-by: Jed Davis Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation

2013-06-29T03:06:32+00:00

commit b8cb62f82103083a6e8fa5470bfe634a2c06514d upstream. 1. Check for allocation failure 2. Clear the buffer contents, as they may actually be written to flash 3. Don't leak the buffer Compile-tested only. [ Tested successfully on my buggy ASUS machine - Matt ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-29T03:06:32+00:00

commit f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f upstream. This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't going to work so well. Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used" until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to install a bootloader, which is unhelpful. Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than 5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it. I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y [ dummy variable cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming [bwh: Backported to 3.2: the reverted changes were never applied here] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: fix build error and kconfig for ia32_emulation and binfmt

2013-06-29T03:06:30+00:00

commit d1603990ea626668c78527376d9ec084d634202d upstream. Fix kconfig warning and build errors on x86_64 by selecting BINFMT_ELF when COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF is being selected. warning: (IA32_EMULATION) selects COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF which has unmet direct dependencies (COMPAT && BINFMT_ELF) fs/built-in.o: In function `elf_core_dump': compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x3e093): undefined reference to `elf_core_extra_phdrs' compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x3ebcd): undefined reference to `elf_core_extra_data_size' compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x3eddd): undefined reference to `elf_core_write_extra_phdrs' compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x3f004): undefined reference to `elf_core_write_extra_data' [ hpa: This was sent to me for -next but it is a low risk build fix ] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C0B614.5000708@infradead.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings