lwn.git/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h, branch docs-6.8

i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86

2007-10-11T09:20:03+00:00

Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the header install make rules Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: Fix alternatives and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text

2007-07-22T18:03:37+00:00

Reenable kprobes and alternative patching when the kernel text is write protected by DEBUG_RODATA Add a general utility function to change write protected text. The new function remaps the code using vmap to write it and takes care of CPU synchronization. It also does CLFLUSH to make icache recovery faster. There are some limitations on when the function can be used, see the comment. This is a newer version that also changes the paravirt_ops code. text_poke also supports multi byte patching now. Contains bug fixes from Zach Amsden and suggestions from Mathieu Desnoyers. Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Zach Amsden Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Unify the CPU features vectors between i386 and x86-64

2007-07-12T17:55:54+00:00

Unify the handling of the CPU features vectors between i386 and x86-64. This also adopts the collapsing of features which are required at compile-time into constant tests from x86-64 to i386. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

i386: work around miscompilation of alternatives code

2007-05-11T15:29:32+00:00

A recent change makes my Dell 1501 hang on boot. It's an AMD MK-36. I use an x86_64 kernel. It is 100% reproducible. I debugged this problem a bit and my compiler[1]interprets the =A constraint as %rax instead of %edx:%eax on x86_64 which causes the problem. The appended patch provides a workaround for this and fixed the hang on my machine. [1] gcc version 4.1.3 20070429 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-5) Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Benny Halevy Cc: Pete Zaitcev Cc: "Joerg Roedel" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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

The other symbols used to delineate the alt-instructions sections have the form __foo/__foo_end. Rename parainstructions to match. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

[PATCH] x86-64: Clean up asm-x86_64/bugs.h

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

Most of asm-x86_64/bugs.h is code which should be in a C file, so put it there. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts

2006-12-07T01:14:08+00:00

It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude, are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it. The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded). Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check. And: Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT. And: AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build And: AK: Fix compilation with defconfig And: ^From: Andrew Morton Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and __start_parainstructions. And: AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

[PATCH] x86_64: Remove alternative_smp

2006-08-30T23:05:15+00:00

The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version. Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the majority of the cost and should be good enough. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: fix x86 cpuid keys used in alternative_smp()

2006-08-30T23:05:15+00:00

By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] SMP alternatives: skip with UP kernels

2006-07-01T16:56:02+00:00

Hide the magic in alternative.h and provide some dummy inline functions for the UP case (gcc should manage to optimize away these calls). No changes in module.c. Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds