Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Workaround for RSE issue

[IA64] Workaround for RSE issue

Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
state at the time of the vi

[IA64] Workaround for RSE issue

Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
state at the time of the violation, may result in an illegal operation
fault and invalid RSE state. Such faults may initiate a cascade of
repeated illegal operation faults within OS interruption handlers.
The specific behavior is OS dependent.

Implication: An application causing an illegal operation fault with
specific RSE state may result in a series of illegal operation faults
and an eventual OS stack overflow condition.

Workaround: OS interruption handlers that switch to kernel backing
store implement a check for invalid RSE state to avoid the series
of illegal operation faults.

The core of the workaround is the RSE_WORKAROUND code sequence
inserted into each invocation of the SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER and
SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER_R19 macros. This sequence includes hard-coded
constants that depend on the number of stacked physical registers
being 96. The rest of this patch consists of code to disable this
workaround should this not be the case (with the presumption that
if a future Itanium processor increases the number of registers, it
would also remove the need for this patch).

Move the start of the RBS up to a mod32 boundary to avoid some
corner cases.

The dispatch_illegal_op_fault code outgrew the spot it was
squatting in when built with this patch and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y
Move it out to the end of the ivt.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release

Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'merge-fixes' into devel

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (27 commits)
[IA64] kdump: Add c

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (27 commits)
[IA64] kdump: Add crash_save_vmcoreinfo for INIT
[IA64] Fix NUMA configuration issue
[IA64] Itanium Spec updates
[IA64] Untangle sync_icache_dcache() page size determination
[IA64] arch/ia64/kernel/: use time_* macros
[IA64] remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()
[IA64] make IOMMU respect the segment boundary limits
[IA64] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64
[IA64] fix getpid and set_tid_address fast system calls for pid namespaces
[IA64] Replace explicit jiffies tests with time_* macros.
[IA64] use goto to jump out do/while_each_thread
[IA64] Fix unlock ordering in smp_callin
[IA64] pgd_offset() constfication.
[IA64] kdump: crash.c coding style fix
[IA64] kdump: add kdump_on_fatal_mca
[IA64] Minimize per_cpu reservations.
[IA64] Correct pernodesize calculation.
[IA64] Kernel parameter for max number of concurrent global TLB purges
[IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support
[IA64] Implement smp_call_function_mask for ia64
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Pull fsys_gettimeofday into release branch

[IA64] cleanup and improve fsys_gettimeofday

This patch does:

- Remove outdated comments (which someday I marked with "?").
- Reassemble instructions to fit them in fewer bundles.
- If McKinley

[IA64] cleanup and improve fsys_gettimeofday

This patch does:

- Remove outdated comments (which someday I marked with "?").
- Reassemble instructions to fit them in fewer bundles.
- If McKinley Errata 9 workaround is not needed, the workaround
bundles will be patched out with NOPs. However it also not
needed to have a totally NOP bundle (nop * 3) before branch.

As a result, this makes the code path 3 (or 2) bundles shorter
(and remove 1 unnecessary stop bit). It seems to be 1% faster.

(10sec loop test, with nojitter @ Madison 1.5GHz x 4)
Before:
CPU 0: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 69598875 iterations)
CPU 1: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 69630721 iterations)
CPU 2: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 69607850 iterations)
CPU 3: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 69619832 iterations)

After:
CPU 0: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 70257728 iterations)
CPU 1: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 70309498 iterations)
CPU 2: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 70280639 iterations)
CPU 3: 0.14 (usecs) (0 errors / 70260682 iterations)

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] IOSAPIC bogus error clean

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] IOSAPIC bogus error cleanup
[IA64] Update printing of feature set bits
[IA64] Fix IOSAPIC delivery mode setting
[IA64] XPC heartbeat timer function must run on CPU 0
[IA64] Clean up /proc/interrupts output
[IA64] Disable/re-enable CPE interrupts on Altix
[IA64] Clean-up McKinley Errata message
[IA64] Add gate.lds to list of files ignored by Git
[IA64] Fix section mismatch in contig.c version of per_cpu_init()
[IA64] Wrong args to memset in efi_gettimeofday()
[IA64] Remove duplicate includes from ia32priv.h
[IA64] fix number of bytes zeroed by sys_fw_init() in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
[IA64] Fix perfmon sysctl directory modes

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[IA64] Clean-up McKinley Errata message

No need to print "McKinley Errata 9 workaround not needed; disabling it"
on every non-McKinley Itanium, which at this point is almost all of them.

Signed-off

[IA64] Clean-up McKinley Errata message

No need to print "McKinley Errata 9 workaround not needed; disabling it"
on every non-McKinley Itanium, which at this point is almost all of them.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'linux-2.6'

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test case

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases
[IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes
[IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps
[IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes
[IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386
[IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC
[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
[IA64] Fix example error injection program
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration

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Pull percpu-dtc into release branch

[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8

It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upc

[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8

It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better
served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.

This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)

There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned.
The reasons are:

(1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we
find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question
can not be executed before the patching is done.

(2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.

All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Manual merge with Linus.

Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c

Merge branch 'master'

Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

Merge branch 'upstream'

Merge branch 'upstream'

Merge branch 'master'

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] New IA64 core/thread dete

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] New IA64 core/thread detection patch
[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
[IA64] Tollhouse HP: IA64 arch changes
[IA64] cleanup dig_irq_init
[IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery table
IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca
[IA64] move patchlist and machvec into init section
[IA64] add init declaration - nolwsys
[IA64] add init declaration - gate page functions
[IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functions
[IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functions
[IA64] add __init declaration to mca functions
[IA64] Ignore disabled Local SAPIC Affinity Structure in SRAT
[IA64] sn_check_intr: use ia64_get_irr()
[IA64] fix ia64 is_hugepage_only_range

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