From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Subject: [patch 8/9] F00F bug fixup for i386 - use conditional calls
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:00:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070530140229.491376274@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070530140025.917261793@polymtl.ca
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Use the faster conditional calls for F00F bug handling in do_page_fault.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
---
arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu | 1 +
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 2 ++
arch/i386/mm/fault.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2007-05-29 11:05:30.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2007-05-29 11:07:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/condcall.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_EISA
#include <linux/ioport.h>
@@ -1084,6 +1085,7 @@
*/
idt_descr.address = fix_to_virt(FIX_F00F_IDT);
load_idt(&idt_descr);
+ BUG_ON(cond_call_arm("fix_f00f"));
}
#endif
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/mm/fault.c 2007-05-29 11:05:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/fault.c 2007-05-29 11:13:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/kdebug.h>
+#include <linux/condcall.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
@@ -221,6 +222,25 @@
fastcall void do_invalid_op(struct pt_regs *, unsigned long);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG
+/*
+ * Pentium F0 0F C7 C8 bug workaround.
+ */
+static inline int do_f00f_workaround(struct pt_regs *regs,
+ unsigned long address)
+{
+ unsigned long nr;
+
+ nr = (address - idt_descr.address) >> 3;
+
+ if (nr == 6) {
+ do_invalid_op(regs, 0);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
static inline pmd_t *vmalloc_sync_one(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
{
unsigned index = pgd_index(address);
@@ -474,19 +494,8 @@
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG
- /*
- * Pentium F0 0F C7 C8 bug workaround.
- */
- if (boot_cpu_data.f00f_bug) {
- unsigned long nr;
-
- nr = (address - idt_descr.address) >> 3;
-
- if (nr == 6) {
- do_invalid_op(regs, 0);
- return;
- }
- }
+ if (cond_call(fix_f00f, do_f00f_workaround(regs, address)))
+ return;
#endif
no_context:
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu 2007-05-29 11:51:46.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu 2007-05-29 11:52:08.000000000 -0400
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@
config X86_F00F_BUG
bool
depends on M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386
+ select COND_CALL
default y
config X86_WP_WORKS_OK
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-30 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-30 14:00 [patch 0/9] Conditional Calls - for 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 1/9] Conditional Calls - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 16:34 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-31 13:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 18:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-04 19:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-13 15:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-13 21:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-14 16:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-14 21:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-20 21:59 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-21 13:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-21 13:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 2/9] Conditional Calls - Hash Table Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 13:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 16:08 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-01 16:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-01 17:07 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-01 17:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 18:06 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-01 18:49 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-01 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-01 20:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 22:26 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-01 18:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 3/9] Conditional Calls - Non Optimized Architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 4/9] Conditional Calls - Add kconfig menus Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 5/9] Conditional Calls - i386 Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 13:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 19:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 6/9] Conditional Calls - PowerPC Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 7/9] Conditional Calls - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-05-30 20:33 ` [patch 8/9] F00F bug fixup for i386 - use conditional calls Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 21:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-31 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 21:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 14:00 ` [patch 9/9] Scheduler profiling - Use " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 15:54 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-01 16:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 16:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 20:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-31 21:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-31 23:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-04 22:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-30 21:44 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-31 21:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-31 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-31 22:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-31 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 22:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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2007-06-01 0:14 [patch 8/9] F00F bug fixup for i386 - use " Mikael Pettersson
2007-06-01 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 1:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-29 18:33 [patch 0/9] Conditional Calls Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-29 18:34 ` [patch 8/9] F00F bug fixup for i386 - use conditional calls Mathieu Desnoyers
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