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Liu Pingfan noticed that switch_to() clobbers more registers than its
asm constraints specify.

We get away with this due to luck mostly - schedule()
by its nature only has 'local' state which gets reloaded
automatically. Fix it nevertheless, we could hit this anytime.

it turns out that with the extra constraints gcc manages to make
schedule() even more compact:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  28626	    684	   2640	  31950	   7cce	sched.o.before
  28613	    684	   2640	  31937	   7cc1	sched.o.after
Reported-by: Liu Pingfan <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Make the code more readable and more hackable:

 - use symbolic asm parameters
 - use readable indentation
 - add comments that explains the details

No code changed:

kernel/sched.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  28626	    684	   2640	  31950	   7cce	sched.o.before
  28626	    684	   2640	  31950	   7cce	sched.o.after

md5:
   2823d406c18b781975cdb2e7cfea0059  sched.o.before.asm
   2823d406c18b781975cdb2e7cfea0059  sched.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Comment says wmb is a nop, but it is implemented as lock addl
below... Should it be compiled to nop if we know we are running on
"good" Intel cpu?

At least remove confusing comment for now.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

A few snuck back in to x86.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The volatile keyword was removed from the clflush() prototype
in commit e34907ae

; the comment there
states:

    x86: remove volatile keyword from clflush.

    the p parameter is an explicit memory reference, and is
    enough to prevent gcc to being nasty here. The volatile
    seems completely not needed.

This reflects incorrect understanding of the function of the volatile
keyword there.  The purpose of the volatile keyword is informing gcc
that it is safe to pass a volatile pointer to this function.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Use the _ASM_EXTABLE macro from <asm/asm.h>, instead of open-coding
__ex_table entires in include/asm-x86/system.h.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Since the cr8 manipulation functions ended up staying in the tree,
they can't be defined just when PARAVIRT is off: In this patch,
those functions are defined for the PARAVIRT case too.

[ mingo@elte.hu: fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

rdtsc_barrier() is a new barrier primitive that stops RDTSC speculation
to avoid races with timer interrupts on other CPUs.

It expands either to LFENCE (for Intel CPUs) or MFENCE (for
AMD CPUs) which stops RDTSC on all currently known microarchitectures
that implement SSE. On CPUs without SSE there is generally no RDTSC
speculation.

[ mingo@elte.hu: renamed it to rdtsc_barrier() and made it x86-only ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The patch introducing this left out x86-64, despite it also having
extra entries.

[ mingo@elte.hu: re-merged this to after the unification patches. ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch finishes the unification of system.h file.
i386 needs a constant to be defined, and it is defined inside an ifdef.

Other than that, pretty much nothing but includes are left in the arch
specific headers, and they are deleted.

[ mingo@elte.hu: 64-bit needs the cr8 access inlines. ]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch moves the switch_to() macro to system.h

As those macros are fundamentally different between i386 and x86_64,
they are enclosed around an ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The memory barrier parts of system.h are not very different between
i386 and x86_64, the main difference being the availability of
instructions, which we handle with the use of ifdefs.

They are consolidated in system.h file, and then removed from
the arch-specific headers.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch moves the i386 control registers manipulation functions,
wbinvd, and clts functions to system.h. They are essentially the same
as in x86_64.

With this, system.h paravirt comes for free in x86_64.

[ mingo@elte.hu: reintroduced the cr8 bits - needed for resume images ]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch unifies the load_segment() macro, making them equal in both
x86_64 and i386 architectures. The common version goes to system.h,
and the old are deleted.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch puts together pieces of system_{32,64}.h that
looks like the same. It's the first step towards integration
of this file.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the
header install make rules
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>