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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch v5.9</title>
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<title>Documentation/powerpc: fix malformed table in syscall64-abi</title>
<updated>2020-08-27T07:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-24T00:31:16+00:00</published>
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Fix malformed table warning in powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst by making
two tables and moving the headings.

Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst:53: WARNING: Malformed table.
Text in column margin in table line 2.

  =========== ============= ========================================
  --- For the sc instruction, differences with the ELF ABI ---
  r0          Volatile      (System call number.)
  r3          Volatile      (Parameter 1, and return value.)
  r4-r8       Volatile      (Parameters 2-6.)
  cr0         Volatile      (cr0.SO is the return error condition.)
  cr1, cr5-7  Nonvolatile
  lr          Nonvolatile

  --- For the scv 0 instruction, differences with the ELF ABI ---
  r0          Volatile      (System call number.)
  r3          Volatile      (Parameter 1, and return value.)
  r4-r8       Volatile      (Parameters 2-6.)
  =========== ============= ========================================

Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e06de4d3-a36f-2745-9775-467e125436cc@infradead.org
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Fix malformed table warning in powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst by making
two tables and moving the headings.

Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst:53: WARNING: Malformed table.
Text in column margin in table line 2.

  =========== ============= ========================================
  --- For the sc instruction, differences with the ELF ABI ---
  r0          Volatile      (System call number.)
  r3          Volatile      (Parameter 1, and return value.)
  r4-r8       Volatile      (Parameters 2-6.)
  cr0         Volatile      (cr0.SO is the return error condition.)
  cr1, cr5-7  Nonvolatile
  lr          Nonvolatile

  --- For the scv 0 instruction, differences with the ELF ABI ---
  r0          Volatile      (System call number.)
  r3          Volatile      (Parameter 1, and return value.)
  r4-r8       Volatile      (Parameters 2-6.)
  =========== ============= ========================================

Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e06de4d3-a36f-2745-9775-467e125436cc@infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into kvm-next-5.6</title>
<updated>2020-08-09T17:24:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-09T17:24:02+00:00</published>
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PPC KVM update for 5.9

- Improvements and bug-fixes for secure VM support, giving reduced startup
  time and memory hotplug support.
- Locking fixes in nested KVM code
- Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094
- Preliminary POWER10 support
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PPC KVM update for 5.9

- Improvements and bug-fixes for secure VM support, giving reduced startup
  time and memory hotplug support.
- Locking fixes in nested KVM code
- Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094
- Preliminary POWER10 support
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T17:33:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T17:33:50+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks &amp; rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks &amp; rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for &lt;alobakin@marvell.com&gt;
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for &lt;alobakin@marvell.com&gt;
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: In H_SVM_INIT_DONE, migrate remaining normal-GFNs to secure-GFNs</title>
<updated>2020-07-28T02:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ram Pai</name>
<email>linuxram@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-27T18:07:17+00:00</published>
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The Ultravisor is expected to explicitly call H_SVM_PAGE_IN for all the
pages of the SVM before calling H_SVM_INIT_DONE. This causes a huge
delay in tranistioning the VM to SVM. The Ultravisor is only interested
in the pages that contain the kernel, initrd and other important data
structures. The rest contain throw-away content.

However if not all pages are requested by the Ultravisor, the Hypervisor
continues to consider the GFNs corresponding to the non-requested pages
as normal GFNs. This can lead to data-corruption and undefined behavior.

In H_SVM_INIT_DONE handler, move all the PFNs associated with the SVM's
GFNs to secure-PFNs. Skip the GFNs that are already Paged-in or Shared
or Paged-in followed by a Paged-out.

Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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The Ultravisor is expected to explicitly call H_SVM_PAGE_IN for all the
pages of the SVM before calling H_SVM_INIT_DONE. This causes a huge
delay in tranistioning the VM to SVM. The Ultravisor is only interested
in the pages that contain the kernel, initrd and other important data
structures. The rest contain throw-away content.

However if not all pages are requested by the Ultravisor, the Hypervisor
continues to consider the GFNs corresponding to the non-requested pages
as normal GFNs. This can lead to data-corruption and undefined behavior.

In H_SVM_INIT_DONE handler, move all the PFNs associated with the SVM's
GFNs to secure-PFNs. Skip the GFNs that are already Paged-in or Shared
or Paged-in followed by a Paged-out.

Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable page merging in H_SVM_INIT_START</title>
<updated>2020-07-28T02:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ram Pai</name>
<email>linuxram@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-27T18:07:15+00:00</published>
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Page-merging of pages in memory-slots associated with a Secure VM
is disabled in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.

This operation should have been done the much earlier; the moment the VM
is initiated for secure-transition. Delaying this operation increases
the probability for those pages to acquire new references, making it
impossible to migrate those pages in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.

Disable page-migration in H_SVM_INIT_START handling.

Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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Page-merging of pages in memory-slots associated with a Secure VM
is disabled in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.

This operation should have been done the much earlier; the moment the VM
is initiated for secure-transition. Delaying this operation increases
the probability for those pages to acquire new references, making it
impossible to migrate those pages in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.

Disable page-migration in H_SVM_INIT_START handling.

Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'scv' support into next</title>
<updated>2020-07-23T07:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T07:43:44+00:00</published>
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From Nick's cover letter:

Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

System Call Vectored (scv) ABI
==============================

The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an
rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is
performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and
entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can
reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to
cover the Linux system call space).

Assignment and advertisement
----------------------------
The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise
them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more.

Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction
will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and
deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a
HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it.

This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with
PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system
calls (equivalent to 'sc').

Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be
delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility
unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled).

Calling convention
------------------
The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call
ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]:

- LR is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the
  scv instruction clobbers LR. From previous discussion, this should
  be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI.

- cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow
  the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr
  registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid
  information leaks).

- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to
  move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to
  indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is
  closer to a function call.

Notes
-----
- r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch
  as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for
  deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by
  preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from
  the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow
  the ABI.

Previous discussions:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
[2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html
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From Nick's cover letter:

Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

System Call Vectored (scv) ABI
==============================

The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an
rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is
performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and
entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can
reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to
cover the Linux system call space).

Assignment and advertisement
----------------------------
The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise
them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more.

Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction
will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and
deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a
HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it.

This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with
PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system
calls (equivalent to 'sc').

Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be
delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility
unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled).

Calling convention
------------------
The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call
ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]:

- LR is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the
  scv instruction clobbers LR. From previous discussion, this should
  be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI.

- cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow
  the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr
  registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid
  information leaks).

- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to
  move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to
  indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is
  closer to a function call.

Notes
-----
- r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch
  as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for
  deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by
  preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from
  the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow
  the ABI.

Previous discussions:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
[2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html
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<title>powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T13:00:27+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2020-06-11T08:12:03+00:00</published>
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Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs.

For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to
'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor
are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO],
but by returning a negative errno.

rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not
be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to
preserve LR.

getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318
cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
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Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs.

For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to
'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor
are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO],
but by returning a negative errno.

rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not
be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to
preserve LR.

getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318
cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
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<title>powerpc: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones</title>
<updated>2020-07-21T14:01:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander A. Klimov</name>
<email>grandmaster@al2klimov.de</email>
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<published>2020-07-18T10:39:58+00:00</published>
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
            If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
            return 200 OK and serve the same content:
              Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718103958.5455-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
            If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
            return 200 OK and serve the same content:
              Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718103958.5455-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' into next</title>
<updated>2020-07-18T12:43:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-18T12:43:55+00:00</published>
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Merge our fixes branch, primarily to bring in the ebb selftests build
fix and the pkey fix, which is a dependency for some future work.
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Merge our fixes branch, primarily to bring in the ebb selftests build
fix and the pkey fix, which is a dependency for some future work.
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