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commit 6d59d7a9f5b723a7ac1925c136e93ec83c0c3043 upstream.
This creates three helper functions that do the TS_USEDFPU accesses, and
makes everybody that used to do it by hand use those helpers instead.
In addition, there's a couple of helper functions for the "change both
CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU at the same time" case, and the places that do
that together have been changed to use those. That means that we have
fewer random places that open-code this situation.
The intent is partly to clarify the code without actually changing any
semantics yet (since we clearly still have some hard to reproduce bug in
this area), but also to make it much easier to use another approach
entirely to caching the CR0.TS bit for software accesses.
Right now we use a bit in the thread-info 'status' variable (this patch
does not change that), but we might want to make it a full field of its
own or even make it a per-cpu variable.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit b6c66418dcad0fcf83cd1d0a39482db37bf4fc41 upstream.
Touching TS_USEDFPU without touching CR0.TS is confusing, so don't do
it. By moving it into the callers, we always do the TS_USEDFPU next to
the CR0.TS accesses in the source code, and it's much easier to see how
the two go hand in hand.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 15d8791cae75dca27bfda8ecfe87dca9379d6bb0 upstream.
Commit 5b1cbac37798 ("i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust")
added a sanity check to the #NM handler to verify that we never cause
the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode.
However, that check actually pinpointed a (fundamental) race where we do
cause that exception as part of the signal stack FPU state save/restore
code.
Because we use the floating point instructions themselves to save and
restore state directly from user mode, we cannot do that atomically with
testing the TS_USEDFPU bit: the user mode access itself may cause a page
fault, which causes a task switch, which saves and restores the FP/MMX
state from the kernel buffers.
This kind of "recursive" FP state save is fine per se, but it means that
when the signal stack save/restore gets restarted, it will now take the
'#NM' exception we originally tried to avoid. With preemption this can
happen even without the page fault - but because of the user access, we
cannot just disable preemption around the save/restore instruction.
There are various ways to solve this, including using the
"enable/disable_page_fault()" helpers to not allow page faults at all
during the sequence, and fall back to copying things by hand without the
use of the native FP state save/restore instructions.
However, the simplest thing to do is to just allow the #NM from kernel
space, but fix the race in setting and clearing CR0.TS that this all
exposed: the TS bit changes and the TS_USEDFPU bit absolutely have to be
atomic wrt scheduling, so while the actual state save/restore can be
interrupted and restarted, the act of actually clearing/setting CR0.TS
and the TS_USEDFPU bit together must not.
Instead of just adding random "preempt_disable/enable()" calls to what
is already excessively ugly code, this introduces some helper functions
that mostly mirror the "kernel_fpu_begin/end()" functionality, just for
the user state instead.
Those helper functions should probably eventually replace the other
ad-hoc CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU tests too, but I'll need to think about it
some more: the task switching functionality in particular needs to
expose the difference between the 'prev' and 'next' threads, while the
new helper functions intentionally were written to only work with
'current'.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c38e23456278e967f094b08247ffc3711b1029b2 upstream.
The check for save_init_fpu() (introduced in commit 5b1cbac37798: "i387:
make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust") was the wrong way around, but
I hadn't noticed, because my "tests" were bogus: the FPU exceptions are
disabled by default, so even doing a divide by zero never actually
triggers this code at all unless you do extra work to enable them.
So if anybody did enable them, they'd get one spurious warning.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5b1cbac37798805c1fee18c8cebe5c0a13975b17 upstream.
Some code - especially the crypto layer - wants to use the x86
FP/MMX/AVX register set in what may be interrupt (typically softirq)
context.
That *can* be ok, but the tests for when it was ok were somewhat
suspect. We cannot touch the thread-specific status bits either, so
we'd better check that we're not going to try to save FP state or
anything like that.
Now, it may be that the TS bit is always cleared *before* we set the
USEDFPU bit (and only set when we had already cleared the USEDFP
before), so the TS bit test may actually have been sufficient, but it
certainly was not obviously so.
So this explicitly verifies that we will not touch the TS_USEDFPU bit,
and adds a few related sanity-checks. Because it seems that somehow
AES-NI is corrupting user FP state. The cause is not clear, and this
patch doesn't fix it, but while debugging it I really wanted the code to
be more obviously correct and robust.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit be98c2cdb15ba26148cd2bd58a857d4f7759ed38 upstream.
It was marked asmlinkage for some really old and stale legacy reasons.
Fix that and the equally stale comment.
Noticed when debugging the irq_fpu_usable() bugs.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5a51467b146ab7948d2f6812892eac120a30529c upstream.
uv_gpa_to_soc_phys_ram() was inadvertently ignoring the
shift values. This fix takes the shift into account.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120119020753.GA7228@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c5d35d399e685acccc85a675e8765c26b2a9813a upstream.
This patch implements a workaround for a UV2 hardware bug.
The bug is a non-atomic update of a memory-mapped register. When
hardware message delivery and software message acknowledge occur
simultaneously the pending message acknowledge for the arriving
message may be lost. This causes the sender's message status to
stay busy.
Part of the workaround is to not acknowledge a completed message
until it is verified that no other message is actually using the
resource that is mistakenly recorded in the completed message.
Part of the workaround is to test for long elapsed time in such
a busy condition, then handle it by using a spare sending
descriptor. The stay-busy condition is eventually timed out by
hardware, and then the original sending descriptor can be
re-used. Most of that logic change is in keeping track of the
current descriptor and the state of the spares.
The occurrences of the workaround are added to the BAU
statistics.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120116211947.GC5767@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit da87c937e5a2374686edd58df06cfd5050b125fa upstream.
Update the use of the Broadcast Assist Unit on SGI Altix UV2 to
the use of native UV2 mode on new hardware (not the legacy mode).
UV2 native mode has a different format for a broadcast message.
We also need quick differentiaton between UV1 and UV2.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120116211750.GA5767@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 24d25dbfa63c376323096660bfa9ad45a08870ce upstream.
This factors out the AMD native MMCONFIG discovery so we can use it
outside amd_bus.c.
amd_bus.c reads AMD MSRs so it can remove the MMCONFIG area from the
PCI resources. We may also need the MMCONFIG information to work
around BIOS defects in the ACPI MCFG table.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This hangs my MacBook Air at boot time; I get no console
messages at all. I reverted this on top of -rc5 and my machine
boots again.
This reverts commit e8c7106280a305e1ff2a3a8a4dfce141469fb039.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321621751-3650-1-git-send-email-matt@console
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If we encounter an efi_memory_desc_t without EFI_MEMORY_WB set
in ->attribute we currently call set_memory_uc(), which in turn
calls __pa() on a potentially ioremap'd address.
On CONFIG_X86_32 this is invalid, resulting in the following
oops on some machines:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f7f22280
IP: [<c10257b9>] reserve_ram_pages_type+0x89/0x210
[...]
Call Trace:
[<c104f8ca>] ? page_is_ram+0x1a/0x40
[<c1025aff>] reserve_memtype+0xdf/0x2f0
[<c1024dc9>] set_memory_uc+0x49/0xa0
[<c19334d0>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1c2/0x3aa
[<c19216d4>] start_kernel+0x291/0x2f2
[<c19211c7>] ? loglevel+0x1b/0x1b
[<c19210bf>] i386_start_kernel+0xbf/0xc8
A better approach to this problem is to map the memory region
with the correct attributes from the start, instead of modifying
it after the fact. The uncached case can be handled by
ioremap_nocache() and the cached by ioremap_cache().
Despite first impressions, it's not possible to use
ioremap_cache() to map all cached memory regions on
CONFIG_X86_64 because EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA regions really
don't like being mapped into the vmalloc space, as detailed in
the following bug report,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748516
Therefore, we need to ensure that any EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA
regions are covered by the direct kernel mapping table on
CONFIG_X86_64. To accomplish this we now map E820_RESERVED_EFI
regions via the direct kernel mapping with the initial call to
init_memory_mapping() in setup_arch(), whereas previously these
regions wouldn't be mapped if they were after the last E820_RAM
region until efi_ioremap() was called. Doing it this way allows
us to delete efi_ioremap() completely.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321621751-3650-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
intr_remapping: Fix section mismatch in ir_dev_scope_init()
intel-iommu: Fix section mismatch in dmar_parse_rmrr_atsr_dev()
x86, amd: Fix up numa_node information for AMD CPU family 15h model 0-0fh northbridge functions
x86, AMD: Correct align_va_addr documentation
x86/rtc, mrst: Don't register a platform RTC device for for Intel MID platforms
x86/mrst: Battery fixes
x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to be synchronous, regardless of lazy_mmu mode
x86: Fix "Acer Aspire 1" reboot hang
x86/mtrr: Resolve inconsistency with Intel processor manual
x86: Document rdmsr_safe restrictions
x86, microcode: Fix the failure path of microcode update driver init code
Add TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND on MTRR fixup
x86/mpparse: Account for bus types other than ISA and PCI
x86, mrst: Change the pmic_gpio device type to IPC
mrst: Added some platform data for the SFI translations
x86,mrst: Power control commands update
x86/reboot: Blacklist Dell OptiPlex 990 known to require PCI reboot
x86, UV: Fix UV2 hub part number
x86: Add user_mode_vm check in stack_overflow_check
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock
sched: Fix buglet in return_cfs_rq_runtime()
sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible
sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernels
sched, rt: Provide means of disabling cross-cpu bandwidth sharing
sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values
sched_fair: Fix a typo in the comment describing update_sd_lb_stats
sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a pain
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Intel MID x86 platforms have a memory mapped virtual RTC
instead. No MID platform have the default ports (and
accessing them may do weird stuff).
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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into x86/urgent
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Recently, I got bitten by using rdmsr_safe too early in the boot
process. Document its shortcomings for future reference.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ED5B70F.606@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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On the Intel MID devices SCU commands are issued to manage power
off and the like. We need to issue different ones for
non-Lincroft based devices.
Signed-off-by: Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There was a mixup when the SGI UV2 hub chip was sent to be
fabricated, and it ended up with the wrong part number in the
HRP_NODE_ID mmr. Future versions of the chip will (may) have the
correct part number. Change the UV infrastructure to recognize
both part numbers as valid IDs of a UV2 hub chip.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129210058.GA20452@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code. It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).
But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle. This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.
In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:
Brought up 2 CPUs
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81015d1d>] [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8100e2ed>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
[<ffffffff8149ee78>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
RIP [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
RSP <ffff8801d28ddf10>
In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall. Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.
The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.
We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen. This patch
does that.
Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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(Added the missing signed-off-by line)
In hundreds of days, the __cycles_2_ns calculation in sched_clock
has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing
the final value to become zero. We can solve this without losing
any precision.
We can decompose TSC into quotient and remainder of division by the
scale factor, and then use this to convert TSC into nanoseconds.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111115221121.7262.88871.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Moorestown/Medfield platform does not have port 0x61 to report
NMI status, nor does it have external NMI sources. The only NMI
sources are from lapic, as results of perf counter overflow or
IPI, e.g. NMI watchdog or spin lock debug.
Reading port 0x61 on Moorestown will return 0xff which misled
NMI handlers to false critical errors such memory parity error.
The subsequent ioport access for NMI handling can also cause
undefined behavior on Moorestown.
This patch allows kernel process NMI due to watchdog or backrace
dump without unnecessary hangs.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[hand applied]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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lapic timer calibration can be combined with tsc in platform
specific calibration functions. if such calibration result is
obtained early, we can skip the redundant calibration loops.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some wall clock devices use MMIO based HW register, this new
function will give them a chance to do some initialization work
before their get/set_time service get called.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but
mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its
write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own
character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts
that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to
a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub
function in the mce code, with a registration helper that
mce-inject can call when it is loaded.
Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow
mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function,
and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for
potential future patches.
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
xen/dom0: set wallclock time in Xen
xen: add dom0_op hypercall
xen/acpi: Domain0 acpi parser related platform hypercall
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
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* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/sameo/mfd-2.6: (80 commits)
mfd: Fix missing abx500 header file updates
mfd: Add missing <linux/io.h> include to intel_msic
x86, mrst: add platform support for MSIC MFD driver
mfd: Expose TurnOnStatus in ab8500 sysfs
mfd: Remove support for early drop ab8500 chip
mfd: Add support for ab8500 v3.3
mfd: Add ab8500 interrupt disable hook
mfd: Convert db8500-prcmu panic() into pr_crit()
mfd: Refactor db8500-prcmu request_clock() function
mfd: Rename db8500-prcmu init function
mfd: Fix db5500-prcmu defines
mfd: db8500-prcmu voltage domain consumers additions
mfd: db8500-prcmu reset code retrieval
mfd: db8500-prcmu tweak for modem wakeup
mfd: Add db8500-pcmu watchdog accessor functions for watchdog
mfd: hwacc power state db8500-prcmu accessor
mfd: Add db8500-prcmu accessors for PLL and SGA clock
mfd: Move to the new db500 PRCMU API
mfd: Create a common interface for dbx500 PRCMU drivers
mfd: Initialize DB8500 PRCMU regs
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx31moboard.c
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3beagle.c
arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/irqs.h
drivers/mfd/wm831x-spi.c
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* git://github.com/herbertx/crypto: (48 commits)
crypto: user - Depend on NET instead of selecting it
crypto: user - Add dependency on NET
crypto: talitos - handle descriptor not found in error path
crypto: user - Initialise match in crypto_alg_match
crypto: testmgr - add twofish tests
crypto: testmgr - add blowfish test-vectors
crypto: Make hifn_795x build depend on !ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - fix ctr blocksize to 1
crypto: blowfish-x86_64 - fix ctr blocksize to 1
crypto: whirlpool - count rounds from 0
crypto: Add userspace report for compress type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for cipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for rng type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for pcompress type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for nivaead type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for aead type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for givcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for ablkcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for blkcipher type algorithms
crypto: Add userspace report for ahash type algorithms
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The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.
The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.
- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)
As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.
There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.
Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.
There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.
For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (75 commits)
KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled
KVM: s390: implement sigp external call
KVM: s390: fix register setting
KVM: s390: fix return value of kvm_arch_init_vm
KVM: s390: check cpu_id prior to using it
KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for guest
x86: TSC deadline definitions
KVM: Fix simultaneous NMIs
KVM: x86 emulator: convert push %sreg/pop %sreg to direct decode
KVM: x86 emulator: switch lds/les/lss/lfs/lgs to direct decode
KVM: x86 emulator: streamline decode of segment registers
KVM: x86 emulator: simplify OpMem64 decode
KVM: x86 emulator: switch src decode to decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: qualify OpReg inhibit_byte_regs hack
KVM: x86 emulator: switch OpImmUByte decode to decode_imm()
KVM: x86 emulator: free up some flag bits near src, dst
KVM: x86 emulator: switch src2 to generic decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: expand decode flags to 64 bits
KVM: x86 emulator: split dst decode to a generic decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: move memop, memopp into emulation context
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci
* 'next-rebase' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci:
PCI: Clean-up MPS debug output
pci: Clamp pcie_set_readrq() when using "performance" settings
PCI: enable MPS "performance" setting to properly handle bridge MPS
PCI: Workaround for Intel MPS errata
PCI: Add support for PASID capability
PCI: Add implementation for PRI capability
PCI: Export ATS functions to modules
PCI: Move ATS implementation into own file
PCI / PM: Remove unnecessary error variable from acpi_dev_run_wake()
PCI hotplug: acpiphp: Prevent deadlock on PCI-to-PCI bridge remove
PCI / PM: Extend PME polling to all PCI devices
PCI quirk: mmc: Always check for lower base frequency quirk for Ricoh 1180:e823
PCI: Make pci_setup_bridge() non-static for use by arch code
x86: constify PCI raw ops structures
PCI: Add quirk for known incorrect MPSS
PCI: Add Solarflare vendor ID and SFC4000 device IDs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/vfs-queue
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/vfs-queue: (21 commits)
leases: fix write-open/read-lease race
nfs: drop unnecessary locking in llseek
ext4: replace cut'n'pasted llseek code with generic_file_llseek_size
vfs: add generic_file_llseek_size
vfs: do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek
direct-io: merge direct_io_walker into __blockdev_direct_IO
direct-io: inline the complete submission path
direct-io: separate map_bh from dio
direct-io: use a slab cache for struct dio
direct-io: rearrange fields in dio/dio_submit to avoid holes
direct-io: fix a wrong comment
direct-io: separate fields only used in the submission path from struct dio
vfs: fix spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb
vfs: add a comment to inode_permission()
vfs: pass all mask flags check_acl and posix_acl_permission
vfs: add hex format for MAY_* flag values
vfs: indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags
compat: sync compat_stats with statfs.
vfs: add "device" tag to /proc/self/mountstats
cleanup: vfs: small comment fix for block_invalidatepage
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Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/file.c (llseek changes)
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This was found by inspection while tracking a similar
bug in compat_statfs64, that has been fixed in mainline
since decemeber.
- This fixes a bug where not all of the f_spare fields
were cleared on mips and s390.
- Add the f_flags field to struct compat_statfs
- Copy f_flags to userspace in case someone cares.
- Use __clear_user to copy the f_spare field to userspace
to ensure that all of the elements of f_spare are cleared.
On some architectures f_spare is has 5 ints and on some
architectures f_spare only has 4 ints. Which makes
the previous technique of clearing each int individually
broken.
I don't expect anyone actually uses the old statfs system
call anymore but if they do let them benefit from having
the compat and the native version working the same.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: uv2: Workaround for UV2 Hub bug (system global address format)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, ticketlock: remove obsolete comment
x86, cmpxchg: Use __compiletime_error() to make usage messages a bit nicer
x86, ticketlock: Make __ticket_spin_trylock common
x86, ticketlock: Convert __ticket_spin_lock to use xadd()
x86, ticketlock: Convert spin loop to C
x86, ticketlock: Clean up types and accessors
x86: Use xadd helper more widely
x86: Add xadd helper macro
x86, cmpxchg: Unify cmpxchg into cmpxchg.h
x86, cmpxchg: Move 64-bit set64_bit() to match 32-bit
x86, cmpxchg: Move 32-bit __cmpxchg_wrong_size to match 64 bit.
x86, cmpxchg: <linux/alternative.h> has LOCK_PREFIX
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
random: Add support for architectural random hooks
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf77d: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo
x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format
coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data
x86, intel: Use c->microcode for Atom errata check
x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
x86, microcode: Don't request microcode from userspace unnecessarily
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c (conflict between
moving AMD BSP code to cpu_dev helper function and adding AMD microcode
revision to /proc/cpuinfo code)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpu: Add cpufeature flag for PCIDs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, amd: Include linux/elf.h since we use stuff from asm/elf.h
x86: cache_info: Update calculation of AMD L3 cache indices
x86: cache_info: Kill the atomic allocation in amd_init_l3_cache()
x86: cache_info: Kill the moronic shadow struct
x86: cache_info: Remove bogus free of amd_l3_cache data
x86, amd: Include elf.h explicitly, prepare the code for the module.h split
x86-32, amd: Move va_align definition to unbreak 32-bit build
x86, amd: Move BSP code to cpu_dev helper
x86: Add a BSP cpu_dev helper
x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86-64, unistd: Remove bogus __IGNORE_getcpu
x86, mm, trivial: Remove unnecessary get_order() in free_thread_info()
x86, cleanup: Remove unneeded version.h include from arch/x86/
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86-64: Fix CFI data for interrupt frames
x86-64: Don't apply destructive erratum workaround on unaffected CPUs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/irq: Standardize on CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
x86, ioapic: Clean up ioapic/apic_id usage
x86, ioapic: Factor out print_IO_APIC() to only print one io apic
x86, ioapic: Print out irte with right ioapic index
x86, ioapic: Split up setup_ioapic_entry()
x86, ioapic: Pass struct irq_attr * to setup_ioapic_irq()
apic, i386/bigsmp: Fix false warnings regarding logical APIC ID mismatches
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
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Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.
Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..
Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, ioapic: Consolidate the explicit EOI code
x86, ioapic: Restore the mask bit correctly in eoi_ioapic_irq()
x86, kdump, ioapic: Reset remote-IRR in clear_IO_APIC
iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options
x86, ioapic: Define irq_remap_modify_chip_defaults()
x86, msi, intr-remap: Use the ioapic set affinity routine
iommu: Cleanup ifdefs in detect_intel_iommu()
iommu: No need to set dmar_disabled in check_zero_address()
iommu: Move IOMMU specific code to intel-iommu.c
intr_remap: Call dmar_dev_scope_init() explicitly
x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
* 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1519 commits)
staging: et131x: Remove redundant check and return statement
staging: et131x: Mainly whitespace changes to appease checkpatch
staging: et131x: Remove last of the forward declarations
staging: et131x: Remove even more forward declarations
staging: et131x: Remove yet more forward declarations
staging: et131x: Remove more forward declarations
staging: et131x: Remove forward declaration of et131x_adapter_setup
staging: et131x: Remove some forward declarations
staging: et131x: Remove unused rx_ring.recv_packet_pool
staging: et131x: Remove call to find pci pm capability
staging: et131x: Remove redundant et131x_reset_recv() call
staging: et131x: Remove unused rx_ring.recv_buffer_pool
Staging: bcm: Fix three initialization errors in InterfaceDld.c
Staging: bcm: Fix coding style issues in InterfaceDld.c
staging:iio:dac: Add AD5360 driver
staging:iio:trigger:bfin-timer: Fix compile error
Staging: vt6655: add some range checks before memcpy()
Staging: vt6655: whitespace fixes to iotcl.c
Staging: vt6656: add some range checks before memcpy()
Staging: vt6656: whitespace cleanups in ioctl.c
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Fix up conflicts in:
- drivers/{Kconfig,Makefile}, drivers/staging/{Kconfig,Makefile}:
vg driver movement
- drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/{dhd_linux.c,mac80211_if.c}:
driver removal vs now stale changes
- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8192E_core.c:
driver removal vs now stale changes
- drivers/staging/et131x/et131*:
driver consolidation into one file, tried to do fixups
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
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Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
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tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
Fix file references in Kconfig files
aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
Fix file references in drivers/ide/
thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
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This was done to resolve a conflict in the
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c file that resolved a build
bugfix in Linus's tree with a "better" bugfix that was in the
staging-next tree that resolved the issue in a more complete manner.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/p2m/debugfs: Make type_name more obvious.
xen/p2m/debugfs: Fix potential pointer exception.
xen/enlighten: Fix compile warnings and set cx to known value.
xen/xenbus: Remove the unnecessary check.
xen/irq: If we fail during msi_capability_init return proper error code.
xen/events: Don't check the info for NULL as it is already done.
xen/events: BUG() when we can't allocate our event->irq array.
* 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
xen/gntdev: Fix sleep-inside-spinlock
xen: modify kernel mappings corresponding to granted pages
xen: add an "highmem" parameter to alloc_xenballooned_pages
xen/p2m: Use SetPagePrivate and its friends for M2P overrides.
xen/p2m: Make debug/xen/mmu/p2m visible again.
Revert "xen/debug: WARN_ON when identity PFN has no _PAGE_IOMAP flag set."
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