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<title>work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T08:51:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-02-09T20:39:31+00:00</published>
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commit 4356e9f841f7fbb945521cef3577ba394c65f3fc upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4356e9f841f7fbb945521cef3577ba394c65f3fc upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: Introduce flush_cache_vmap_early()</title>
<updated>2024-02-16T18:14:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alexghiti@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-12T21:34:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ]

The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc
mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the
flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet
initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush
other cpus TLB).

But on some architectures, we must call flush_cache_vmap(): for example,
in riscv, some uarchs can cache invalid TLB entries so we need to flush
the new established mapping to avoid taking an exception.

So fix this by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which
is called right after setting the new page table entry and before
accessing this new mapping. This new function implements a local flush
tlb on riscv and is no-op for other architectures (same as today).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d9807d60c145 ("riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ]

The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc
mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the
flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet
initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush
other cpus TLB).

But on some architectures, we must call flush_cache_vmap(): for example,
in riscv, some uarchs can cache invalid TLB entries so we need to flush
the new established mapping to avoid taking an exception.

So fix this by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which
is called right after setting the new page table entry and before
accessing this new mapping. This new function implements a local flush
tlb on riscv and is no-op for other architectures (same as today).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d9807d60c145 ("riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: add hugetlb definitions</title>
<updated>2023-12-14T03:33:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Kozlov</name>
<email>pavel.kozlov@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-13T15:07:10+00:00</published>
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Add hugetlb definitions if THP enabled. ARC doesn't support
HugeTLB FS but it supports THP. Some kernel code such as pagemap
uses hugetlb definitions with THP.

This patch fixes ARC build issue (HPAGE_SIZE undeclared error) with
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Kozlov &lt;pavel.kozlov@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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Add hugetlb definitions if THP enabled. ARC doesn't support
HugeTLB FS but it supports THP. Some kernel code such as pagemap
uses hugetlb definitions with THP.

This patch fixes ARC build issue (HPAGE_SIZE undeclared error) with
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Kozlov &lt;pavel.kozlov@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: fix smatch warning</title>
<updated>2023-12-09T00:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-09T00:25:23+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311280906.VAIwEAfT-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311280906.VAIwEAfT-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: fix spare error</title>
<updated>2023-12-09T00:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-08T23:57:07+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312082320.VDN5A9hb-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312082320.VDN5A9hb-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: mm: retire support for aliasing VIPT D$</title>
<updated>2023-12-09T00:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-16T05:06:33+00:00</published>
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Legacy ARC700 processors (first generation of MMU enabled ARC cores) had
VIPT cached which could be configured such that they could alias.
Corresponding support in kernel (with all the obnoxious cache flush overhead)
was added in ARC port 10 years ago to support 1 silicon. That is long bygone
and we can let it RIP.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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Legacy ARC700 processors (first generation of MMU enabled ARC cores) had
VIPT cached which could be configured such that they could alias.
Corresponding support in kernel (with all the obnoxious cache flush overhead)
was added in ARC port 10 years ago to support 1 silicon. That is long bygone
and we can let it RIP.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: entry: move ARCompact specific bits out of entry.h</title>
<updated>2023-12-09T00:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-20T18:23:21+00:00</published>
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 - PUSHAUX/POPAUX helpers to ARCompact entry
 - use gas provided "push"/pop pseudo instructions

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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 - PUSHAUX/POPAUX helpers to ARCompact entry
 - use gas provided "push"/pop pseudo instructions

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: entry: SAVE_ABI_CALLEE_REG: ISA/ABI specific helper</title>
<updated>2023-12-09T00:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T20:33:24+00:00</published>
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And for ARcompact variant replace the PUSH/POP macros with gas provided
push/pop pseudo-instructions

This allows ISA specific implementation

e.g. Current ARCv2 PUSH/POP could be replaced with STD/LDL to save 2
registers at a time (w/o bothering with SP update each time) or
perhaps use ENTER_S/LEAVE_S to reduce code size

For ARCv3 ABI changed so callee regs are now r14-r26 (vs. r13-r25)
thus would need a different implementation.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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And for ARcompact variant replace the PUSH/POP macros with gas provided
push/pop pseudo-instructions

This allows ISA specific implementation

e.g. Current ARCv2 PUSH/POP could be replaced with STD/LDL to save 2
registers at a time (w/o bothering with SP update each time) or
perhaps use ENTER_S/LEAVE_S to reduce code size

For ARCv3 ABI changed so callee regs are now r14-r26 (vs. r13-r25)
thus would need a different implementation.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: unify kprobes_exceptions_nofify() prototypes</title>
<updated>2023-11-10T10:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-10T10:59:05+00:00</published>
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Most architectures that support kprobes declare this function in their
own asm/kprobes.h header and provide an override, but some are missing
the prototype, which causes a warning for the __weak stub implementation:

kernel/kprobes.c:1865:12: error: no previous prototype for 'kprobe_exceptions_notify' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
 1865 | int __weak kprobe_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *self,

Move the prototype into linux/kprobes.h so it is visible to all
the definitions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231108125843.3806765-4-arnd@kernel.org/

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Most architectures that support kprobes declare this function in their
own asm/kprobes.h header and provide an override, but some are missing
the prototype, which causes a warning for the __weak stub implementation:

kernel/kprobes.c:1865:12: error: no previous prototype for 'kprobe_exceptions_notify' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
 1865 | int __weak kprobe_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *self,

Move the prototype into linux/kprobes.h so it is visible to all
the definitions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231108125843.3806765-4-arnd@kernel.org/

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T09:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-09T15:37:11+00:00</published>
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Overlayfs uses backing files with "fake" overlayfs f_path and "real"
underlying f_inode, in order to use underlying inode aops for mapped
files and to display the overlayfs path in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps.

In preparation for storing the overlayfs "fake" path instead of the
underlying "real" path in struct backing_file, define a noop helper
file_user_path() that returns f_path for now.

Use the new helper in procfs and kernel logs whenever a path of a
mapped file is displayed to users.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009153712.1566422-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Overlayfs uses backing files with "fake" overlayfs f_path and "real"
underlying f_inode, in order to use underlying inode aops for mapped
files and to display the overlayfs path in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps.

In preparation for storing the overlayfs "fake" path instead of the
underlying "real" path in struct backing_file, define a noop helper
file_user_path() that returns f_path for now.

Use the new helper in procfs and kernel logs whenever a path of a
mapped file is displayed to users.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009153712.1566422-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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