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<title>alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering #2</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sinan Kaya</name>
<email>okaya@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T22:16:56+00:00</published>
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memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement.

"When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
region."

Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not
satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write.

Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW
observes memory changes before performing register operations.

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya &lt;okaya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement.

"When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
region."

Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not
satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write.

Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW
observes memory changes before performing register operations.

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya &lt;okaya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: simplify get_arch_dma_ops</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T14:04:52+00:00</published>
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Remove the dma_ops indirection.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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Remove the dma_ops indirection.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: use dma_direct_ops for jensen</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T14:04:51+00:00</published>
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The generic dma_direct implementation does the same thing as the alpha
pci-noop implementation, just with more bells and whistles.  And unlike
the current code it at least has a theoretical chance to actually compile.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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The generic dma_direct implementation does the same thing as the alpha
pci-noop implementation, just with more bells and whistles.  And unlike
the current code it at least has a theoretical chance to actually compile.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: Implement CPU vulnerabilities sysfs functions.</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T22:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Cree</name>
<email>mcree@orcon.net.nz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-26T09:02:12+00:00</published>
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Implement the CPU vulnerabilty show functions for meltdown, spectre_v1
and spectre_v2 on Alpha.

Tests on XP1000 (EV67/667MHz) and ES45 (EV68CB/1.25GHz) show them
to be vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre V1.  In the case of
Meltdown I saw a 1 to 2% success rate in reading bytes on the
XP1000 and 50 to 60% success rate on the ES45. (This compares to
99.97% success reported for Intel CPUs.)  Report EV6 and later
CPUs as vulnerable.

Tests on PWS600au (EV56/600MHz) for Spectre V1 attack were
unsuccessful (though I did not try particularly hard) so mark EV4
through to EV56 as not vulnerable.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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Implement the CPU vulnerabilty show functions for meltdown, spectre_v1
and spectre_v2 on Alpha.

Tests on XP1000 (EV67/667MHz) and ES45 (EV68CB/1.25GHz) show them
to be vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre V1.  In the case of
Meltdown I saw a 1 to 2% success rate in reading bytes on the
XP1000 and 50 to 60% success rate on the ES45. (This compares to
99.97% success reported for Intel CPUs.)  Report EV6 and later
CPUs as vulnerable.

Tests on PWS600au (EV56/600MHz) for Spectre V1 attack were
unsuccessful (though I did not try particularly hard) so mark EV4
through to EV56 as not vulnerable.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: rtc: stop validating rtc_time in .read_time</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T22:03:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Belloni</name>
<email>alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T21:36:16+00:00</published>
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The RTC core is always calling rtc_valid_tm after the read_time callback.
It is not necessary to call it just before returning from the callback.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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The RTC core is always calling rtc_valid_tm after the read_time callback.
It is not necessary to call it just before returning from the callback.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: rtc: remove unused set_mmss ops</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T22:03:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Belloni</name>
<email>alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-16T23:34:46+00:00</published>
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The .set_mmss and .setmmss64 ops are only called when the RTC is not
providing an implementation for the .set_time callback.

On alpha, .set_time is provided so .set_mmss64 is never called. Remove the
unused code.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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The .set_mmss and .setmmss64 ops are only called when the RTC is not
providing an implementation for the .set_time callback.

On alpha, .set_time is provided so .set_mmss64 is never called. Remove the
unused code.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T21:38:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T21:38:01+00:00</published>
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Pull alpha syscall cleanups from Al Viro:
 "A couple of SYSCALL_DEFINE conversions and removal of pointless (and
  bitrotted) piece stuck in ret_from_kernel_thread since the
  kernel_exceve/kernel_thread conversions six years ago"

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  alpha: get rid of pointless insn in ret_from_kernel_thread
  alpha: switch pci syscalls to SYSCALL_DEFINE
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Pull alpha syscall cleanups from Al Viro:
 "A couple of SYSCALL_DEFINE conversions and removal of pointless (and
  bitrotted) piece stuck in ret_from_kernel_thread since the
  kernel_exceve/kernel_thread conversions six years ago"

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  alpha: get rid of pointless insn in ret_from_kernel_thread
  alpha: switch pci syscalls to SYSCALL_DEFINE
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T04:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T04:22:12+00:00</published>
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Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls from Dominik Brodowski:
 "System calls are interaction points between userspace and the kernel.
  Therefore, system call functions such as sys_xyzzy() or
  compat_sys_xyzzy() should only be called from userspace via the
  syscall table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel.

  At least on 64-bit x86, it will likely be a hard requirement from
  v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel: It is
  better to use use a different calling convention for system calls
  there, where struct pt_regs is decoded on-the-fly in a syscall wrapper
  which then hands processing over to the actual syscall function. This
  means that only those parameters which are actually needed for a
  specific syscall are passed on during syscall entry, instead of
  filling in six CPU registers with random user space content all the
  time (which may cause serious trouble down the call chain). Those
  x86-specific patches will be pushed through the x86 tree in the near
  future.

  Moreover, rules on how data may be accessed may differ between kernel
  data and user data. This is another reason why calling sys_xyzzy() is
  generally a bad idea, and -- at most -- acceptable in arch-specific
  code.

  This patchset removes all in-kernel calls to syscall functions in the
  kernel with the exception of arch/. On top of this, it cleans up the
  three places where many syscalls are referenced or prototyped, namely
  kernel/sys_ni.c, include/linux/syscalls.h and include/linux/compat.h"

* 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux: (109 commits)
  bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection
  kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
  kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries
  syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h
  net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h
  kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h
  x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long
  x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
  mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead()
  mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()
  mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64()
  fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()
  fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
  fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()
  fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall
  kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid()
  kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()
  ...
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Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls from Dominik Brodowski:
 "System calls are interaction points between userspace and the kernel.
  Therefore, system call functions such as sys_xyzzy() or
  compat_sys_xyzzy() should only be called from userspace via the
  syscall table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel.

  At least on 64-bit x86, it will likely be a hard requirement from
  v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel: It is
  better to use use a different calling convention for system calls
  there, where struct pt_regs is decoded on-the-fly in a syscall wrapper
  which then hands processing over to the actual syscall function. This
  means that only those parameters which are actually needed for a
  specific syscall are passed on during syscall entry, instead of
  filling in six CPU registers with random user space content all the
  time (which may cause serious trouble down the call chain). Those
  x86-specific patches will be pushed through the x86 tree in the near
  future.

  Moreover, rules on how data may be accessed may differ between kernel
  data and user data. This is another reason why calling sys_xyzzy() is
  generally a bad idea, and -- at most -- acceptable in arch-specific
  code.

  This patchset removes all in-kernel calls to syscall functions in the
  kernel with the exception of arch/. On top of this, it cleans up the
  three places where many syscalls are referenced or prototyped, namely
  kernel/sys_ni.c, include/linux/syscalls.h and include/linux/compat.h"

* 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux: (109 commits)
  bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection
  kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
  kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries
  syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h
  net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h
  kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h
  x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long
  x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
  mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead()
  mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()
  mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64()
  fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()
  fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
  fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()
  fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall
  kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid()
  kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T18:16:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-11T10:34:46+00:00</published>
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_mmap_pgoff() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_mmap_pgoff().

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_mmap_pgoff() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_mmap_pgoff().

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: get rid of pointless insn in ret_from_kernel_thread</title>
<updated>2018-03-28T12:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-19T18:29:17+00:00</published>
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	It used to clear a3, so that signal handling on
return to userland would've passed zero r0 to do_work_pending(),
preventing the syscall restart logics from triggering.

	It had been pointless all along, since we only go there
after successful do_execve().  Which does clear regs-&gt;r0 on alpha,
preventing the syscall restart logics just fine, no extra help
needed.  Good thing, that, since back in 2012 do_work_pending()
has lost the second argument, shifting the registers used to pass
that thing from a3 to a2.  Commit that had done that adjusted the
entry.S code accordingly, but missed that one.

	As the result, we were left with useless insn in
ret_from_kernel_thread and confusing comment to go with it.
Get rid of both...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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	It used to clear a3, so that signal handling on
return to userland would've passed zero r0 to do_work_pending(),
preventing the syscall restart logics from triggering.

	It had been pointless all along, since we only go there
after successful do_execve().  Which does clear regs-&gt;r0 on alpha,
preventing the syscall restart logics just fine, no extra help
needed.  Good thing, that, since back in 2012 do_work_pending()
has lost the second argument, shifting the registers used to pass
that thing from a3 to a2.  Commit that had done that adjusted the
entry.S code accordingly, but missed that one.

	As the result, we were left with useless insn in
ret_from_kernel_thread and confusing comment to go with it.
Get rid of both...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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