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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-04 09:52:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-04 09:52:57 -0700
commitb0c79f49c343cda8954b3322984c32f258ca4ccb (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip (diff)
parentobjtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug (diff)
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Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar: - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding. Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain. The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively: there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even with early versions. (knock on wood!) But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel measurably: With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads. The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems. Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make it the default unwinder on x86. See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details. - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to its removal. (Juergen Gross) - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski) - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko) - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby) * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits) objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone() x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64() x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32() x86/lguest: Remove lguest support x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch() objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp() x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3 x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads ...
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-/* Architecture specific portion of the lguest hypercalls */
-#ifndef _ASM_X86_LGUEST_HCALL_H
-#define _ASM_X86_LGUEST_HCALL_H
-
-#define LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC 0
-#define LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT 1
-#define LHCALL_SHUTDOWN 2
-#define LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE 4
-#define LHCALL_FLUSH_TLB 5
-#define LHCALL_LOAD_IDT_ENTRY 6
-#define LHCALL_SET_STACK 7
-#define LHCALL_SET_CLOCKEVENT 9
-#define LHCALL_HALT 10
-#define LHCALL_SET_PMD 13
-#define LHCALL_SET_PTE 14
-#define LHCALL_SET_PGD 15
-#define LHCALL_LOAD_TLS 16
-#define LHCALL_LOAD_GDT_ENTRY 18
-#define LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS 19
-
-#define LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY 0x1F
-
-/* Argument number 3 to LHCALL_LGUEST_SHUTDOWN */
-#define LGUEST_SHUTDOWN_POWEROFF 1
-#define LGUEST_SHUTDOWN_RESTART 2
-
-#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-#include <asm/hw_irq.h>
-
-/*G:030
- * But first, how does our Guest contact the Host to ask for privileged
- * operations? There are two ways: the direct way is to make a "hypercall",
- * to make requests of the Host Itself.
- *
- * Our hypercall mechanism uses the highest unused trap code (traps 32 and
- * above are used by real hardware interrupts). Seventeen hypercalls are
- * available: the hypercall number is put in the %eax register, and the
- * arguments (when required) are placed in %ebx, %ecx, %edx and %esi.
- * If a return value makes sense, it's returned in %eax.
- *
- * Grossly invalid calls result in Sudden Death at the hands of the vengeful
- * Host, rather than returning failure. This reflects Winston Churchill's
- * definition of a gentleman: "someone who is only rude intentionally".
- */
-static inline unsigned long
-hcall(unsigned long call,
- unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
- unsigned long arg4)
-{
- /* "int" is the Intel instruction to trigger a trap. */
- asm volatile("int $" __stringify(LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY)
- /* The call in %eax (aka "a") might be overwritten */
- : "=a"(call)
- /* The arguments are in %eax, %ebx, %ecx, %edx & %esi */
- : "a"(call), "b"(arg1), "c"(arg2), "d"(arg3), "S"(arg4)
- /* "memory" means this might write somewhere in memory.
- * This isn't true for all calls, but it's safe to tell
- * gcc that it might happen so it doesn't get clever. */
- : "memory");
- return call;
-}
-/*:*/
-
-/* Can't use our min() macro here: needs to be a constant */
-#define LGUEST_IRQS (NR_IRQS < 32 ? NR_IRQS: 32)
-
-#define LHCALL_RING_SIZE 64
-struct hcall_args {
- /* These map directly onto eax/ebx/ecx/edx/esi in struct lguest_regs */
- unsigned long arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4;
-};
-
-#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
-#endif /* _ASM_X86_LGUEST_HCALL_H */