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i386: prepare shared kernel/process.c

2007-10-11T09:13:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: Make Alt-SysRq-p display the debug register contents

2007-07-22T01:37:10+00:00

This patch (as921) adds code to the show_regs() routine in i386 and x86_64 to print the contents of the debug registers along with all the others. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

make seccomp zerocost in schedule

2007-07-16T16:05:50+00:00

This follows a suggestion from Chuck Ebbert on how to make seccomp absolutely zerocost in schedule too. The only remaining footprint of seccomp is in terms of the bzImage size that becomes a few bytes (perhaps even a few kbytes) larger, measure it if you care in the embedded. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SLUB: i386 support

2007-05-12T18:26:22+00:00

SLUB cannot run on i386 at this point because i386 uses the page->private and page->index field of slab pages for the pgd cache. Make SLUB run on i386 by replacing the pgd slab cache with a quicklist. Limit the changes as much as possible. Leave the improvised linked list in place etc etc. This has been working here for a couple of weeks now. Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00

Remove includes of where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: Convert PDA into the percpu section

2007-05-02T17:27:16+00:00

Currently x86 (similar to x84-64) has a special per-cpu structure called "i386_pda" which can be easily and efficiently referenced via the %fs register. An ELF section is more flexible than a structure, allowing any piece of code to use this area. Indeed, such a section already exists: the per-cpu area. So this patch: (1) Removes the PDA and uses per-cpu variables for each current member. (2) Replaces the __KERNEL_PDA segment with __KERNEL_PERCPU. (3) Creates a per-cpu mirror of __per_cpu_offset called this_cpu_off, which can be used to calculate addresses for this CPU's variables. (4) Simplifies startup, because %fs doesn't need to be loaded with a special segment at early boot; it can be deferred until the first percpu area is allocated (or never for UP). The result is less code and one less x86-specific concept. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen

[PATCH] i386: i386 separate hardware-defined TSS from Linux additions

2007-05-02T17:27:13+00:00

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Please clean it up properly with two structs. Not sure about this, now I've done it. Running it here. If you like it, I can do x86-64 as well. == lguest defines its own TSS struct because the "struct tss_struct" contains linux-specific additions. Andi asked me to split the struct in processor.h. Unfortunately it makes usage a little awkward. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

[PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10

2007-05-02T17:27:12+00:00

It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking. I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386 Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

Revert "[PATCH] i386: add idle notifier"

2007-02-26T17:21:46+00:00

This reverts commit 2ff2d3d74705d34ab71b21f54634fcf50d57bdd5. Uwe Bugla reports that he cannot mount a floppy drive any more, and Jiri Slaby bisected it down to this commit. Benjamin LaHaise also points out that this is a big hot-path, and that interrupt delivery while idle is very common and should not go through all these expensive gyrations. Fix up conflicts in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c and arch/i386/kernel/irq.c due to other unrelated irq changes. Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Uwe Bugla Cc: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386 prepare for dyntick

2007-02-16T16:13:59+00:00

Prepare i386 for dyntick: idle handler callbacks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds