1. 04 Jun, 2008 4 commits
    • Suresh Siddha's avatar
      x86: fix broken math-emu with lazy allocation of fpu area · e8a496ac
      Suresh Siddha authored
      Fix the math emulation that got broken with the recent lazy allocation of FPU
      area. init_fpu() need to be added for the math-emulation path aswell
      for the FPU area allocation.
      
      math emulation enabled kernel booted fine with this, in the presence
      of "no387 nofxsr" boot param.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: hpa@zytor.com
      Cc: mingo@elte.hu
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e8a496ac
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      x86: enable preemption in delay · 5c1ea082
      Steven Rostedt authored
      The RT team has been searching for a nasty latency. This latency shows
      up out of the blue and has been seen to be as big as 5ms!
      
      Using ftrace I found the cause of the latency.
      
         pcscd-2995  3dNh1 52360300us : irq_exit (smp_apic_timer_interrupt)
         pcscd-2995  3dN.2 52360301us : idle_cpu (irq_exit)
         pcscd-2995  3dN.2 52360301us : rcu_irq_exit (irq_exit)
         pcscd-2995  3dN.1 52360771us : smp_apic_timer_interrupt (apic_timer_interrupt
      )
         pcscd-2995  3dN.1 52360771us : exit_idle (smp_apic_timer_interrupt)
      
      Here's an example of a 400 us latency. pcscd took a timer interrupt and
      returned with "need resched" enabled, but did not reschedule until after
      the next interrupt came in at 52360771us 400us later!
      
      At first I thought we somehow missed a preemption check in entry.S. But
      I also noticed that this always seemed to happen during a __delay call.
      
         pcscd-2995  3dN.2 52360836us : rcu_irq_exit (irq_exit)
         pcscd-2995  3.N.. 52361265us : preempt_schedule (__delay)
      
      Looking at the x86 delay, I found my problem.
      
      In git commit 35d5d08a, Andrew Morton
      placed preempt_disable around the entire delay due to TSC's not working
      nicely on SMP.  Unfortunately for those that care about latencies this
      is devastating! Especially when we have callers to mdelay(8).
      
      Here I enable preemption during the loop and account for anytime the task
      migrates to a new CPU. The delay asked for may be extended a bit by
      the migration, but delay only guarantees that it will delay for that minimum
      time. Delaying longer should not be an issue.
      
      [
        Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for spotting that cpu wasn't updated,
          and to place the rep_nop between preempt_enabled/disable.
      ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Cc: akpm@osdl.org
      Cc: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
      Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      5c1ea082
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: disable preemption in native_smp_prepare_cpus · deef3250
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Priit Laes reported the following warning:
      
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff8022f1e1>] warn_on_slowpath+0x51/0x63
       [<ffffffff80282e48>] sys_ioctl+0x2d/0x5d
       [<ffffffff805185ff>] _spin_lock+0xe/0x24
       [<ffffffff80227459>] task_rq_lock+0x3d/0x73
       [<ffffffff805133c3>] set_cpu_sibling_map+0x336/0x350
       [<ffffffff8021c1b8>] read_apic_id+0x30/0x62
       [<ffffffff806d921d>] verify_local_APIC+0x90/0x138
       [<ffffffff806d84b5>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x1f9/0x305
       [<ffffffff806ce7b1>] kernel_init+0x59/0x2d9
       [<ffffffff80518a26>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x11/0x2b
       [<ffffffff8020bf48>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
       [<ffffffff806ce758>] kernel_init+0x0/0x2d9
       [<ffffffff8020bf3e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
      
      fix this by generally disabling preemption in native_smp_prepare_cpus().
      Reported-and-bisected-by: default avatarPriit Laes <plaes@plaes.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      deef3250
    • Yinghai Lu's avatar
      x86: fix APIC warning on 32bit v2 · fb3bbd6a
      Yinghai Lu authored
      for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10613
      
      BIOS bug, APIC version is 0 for CPU#0! fixing up to 0x10. (tell your hw vendor)
      
      v2: fix 64 bit compilation
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      fb3bbd6a
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