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...Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa(). ---------------------------------------------------------------- The following changes since commit 5dcd14ecd41ea2b3ae3295a9b30d98769d52165f: x86, boot: Sanitize boot_params if not zeroed on creation (2013-01-29 01:22:17 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-mm-for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 0da3e7f526fde7a6522a3038b7ce609fc50f6707: Merge branch 'x86...

...Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa(). ---------------------------------------------------------------- The following changes since commit 5dcd14ecd41ea2b3ae3295a9b30d98769d52165f: x86, boot: Sanitize boot_params if not zeroed on creation (2013-01-29 01:22:17 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-mm-for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 0da3e7f526fde7a6522a3038b7ce609fc50f6707: Merge branch 'x86...

...Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa(). ---------------------------------------------------------------- The following changes since commit 5dcd14ecd41ea2b3ae3295a9b30d98769d52165f: x86, boot: Sanitize boot_params if not zeroed on creation (2013-01-29 01:22:17 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-mm-for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 0da3e7f526fde7a6522a3038b7ce609fc50f6707: Merge branch 'x86...

Since we move Documentation/x86 docs to Documentation/arch/x86 dir, redirect the doc pointer to them. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi at linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> Cc: x86 at kernel.o...

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:25:42 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, xen has lots of build errors and warnings (all on x86_64). CC arch/x86/xen/setup.o In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h:42, from arch/x86/xen/setup.c:19: include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: its scop...

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:25:42 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, xen has lots of build errors and warnings (all on x86_64). CC arch/x86/xen/setup.o In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h:42, from arch/x86/xen/setup.c:19: include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: its scop...

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:25:42 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, xen has lots of build errors and warnings (all on x86_64). CC arch/x86/xen/setup.o In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h:42, from arch/x86/xen/setup.c:19: include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: its scop...

...on gold. - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope). - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will make it easier to handle performance regression reports :) [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests Changes from v1: - Improve changelog message for "x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping" - Fix 32-bit build. - Add patch 6. Andy Lutomirski (6): x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment. x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping x86-64: A...

...on gold. - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope). - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will make it easier to handle performance regression reports :) [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests Changes from v1: - Improve changelog message for "x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping" - Fix 32-bit build. - Add patch 6. Andy Lutomirski (6): x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment. x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping x86-64: A...

...on gold. - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope). - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will make it easier to handle performance regression reports :) [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests Changes from v1: - Improve changelog message for "x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping" - Fix 32-bit build. - Add patch 6. Andy Lutomirski (6): x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment. x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping x86-64: A...

...arnings when building > kernel with W=1, it's better to fix them as global function > signature can be changed and caller who use the old unchanged > prototypes will be hosed. > > This patch fixes most of -Wmissing-prototypes warnings which > are in the root directory of arch/x86/kernel, not including > the subdirectories. > > These are the warnings fixed in this patch: > arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:865:17: warning: no previous prototype for ?sys32_x32_rt_sigreturn? [-Wmissing-prototypes] > arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c:164:6: warning: no previous prototype f...

Just a heads up that the llvm build appears to be broken on cygwin. I haven't investigated, but here's the failures: llvm[3]: Compiling X86ISelDAGToDAG.cpp for Release+Asserts build /home/Eric/boost/consulting/svn/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86ISelDAGToDAG.cpp:1487: error: ‘LOCK_OR8mi’ is not a member of ‘llvm::X86’ /home/Eric/boost/consulting/svn/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86ISelDAGToDAG.cpp:1488: error: ‘LOCK_OR8mr’ is not a member of ‘llvm::X86’...

...gt; > 1. PV-ops management (patches 1-10, 20): mostly infrastructure and > refactoring pieces to make paravirt patching usable at runtime. For the > most part scoped under CONFIG_PARAVIRT_RUNTIME. > > Patches 1-7, to persist part of parainstructions in memory: > "x86/paravirt: Specify subsection in PVOP macros" > "x86/paravirt: Allow paravirt patching post-init" > "x86/paravirt: PVRTOP macros for PARAVIRT_RUNTIME" > "x86/alternatives: Refactor alternatives_smp_module* > "x86/alternatives: Rename alterna...

...ops, as suggested by Andy. (I ended up patching TEST with XOR to avoid extra NOPs, even though I said yesterday it would be wrong. It's not wrong) As result of this patch irq_enable_sysexit and usergs_sysret32 pv ops are not used anymore by anyone and so can be removed. Boris Ostrovsky (3): x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests x86: irq_enable_sysexit pv op is no longer needed x86: usergs_sysret32 pv op is no longer needed arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 ++++------- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 16 ++++++---------- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature....

...ops, as suggested by Andy. (I ended up patching TEST with XOR to avoid extra NOPs, even though I said yesterday it would be wrong. It's not wrong) As result of this patch irq_enable_sysexit and usergs_sysret32 pv ops are not used anymore by anyone and so can be removed. Boris Ostrovsky (3): x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests x86: irq_enable_sysexit pv op is no longer needed x86: usergs_sysret32 pv op is no longer needed arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 ++++------- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 16 ++++++---------- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature....

...default to fs without >> mcmodel=kernel >> - Change patch 7 to correctly jump out of the identity mapping on kexec load >> preserve. >> >> These patches make the changes necessary to build the kernel as Position >> Independent Executable (PIE) on x86_64. A PIE kernel can be relocated below >> the top 2G of the virtual address space. It allows to optionally extend the >> KASLR randomization range from 1G to 3G. > > Hi Thomas, > > I've applied your patches so that I can verify that SME works with PIE. > Unfortunatel...

...default to fs without >> mcmodel=kernel >> - Change patch 7 to correctly jump out of the identity mapping on kexec load >> preserve. >> >> These patches make the changes necessary to build the kernel as Position >> Independent Executable (PIE) on x86_64. A PIE kernel can be relocated below >> the top 2G of the virtual address space. It allows to optionally extend the >> KASLR randomization range from 1G to 3G. > > Hi Thomas, > > I've applied your patches so that I can verify that SME works with PIE. > Unfortunatel...

...alloon.pdb", Some win2k3_64; "Balloon/2k3/amd64/balloon.sys", Some win2k3_64; - "Balloon/2k3/amd64/blnsvr.exe", None; + "Balloon/2k3/amd64/blnsvr.exe", Some win2k3_64; "Balloon/2k3/amd64/blnsvr.pdb", Some win2k3_64; - "Balloon/2k3/x86/WdfCoInstaller01009.dll", None; + "Balloon/2k3/x86/WdfCoInstaller01009.dll", Some win2k3_32; "Balloon/2k3/x86/balloon.cat", Some win2k3_32; "Balloon/2k3/x86/balloon.inf", Some win2k3_32; "Balloon/2k3/x86/balloon.pdb", Some win2k3_32;...

...pilation: '/Zc:wchar_t-' 1>clang-cl.exe : warning : argument unused during compilation: '/FdRelease\vc120.pdb' 1>clang-cl.exe : warning : argument unused during compilation: '/Gd' 1> In file included from Source.cpp:2: 1> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include\iostream:6: 1> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include\istream:6: 1> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include\ostream:6: 1> In file included from C:\Program...

v2 -> v3 - Don't make a special case for WdfCoInstaller* files. There is a difference of opinion about whether copying these is necessary, but it seems like it is not harmful. Rich.