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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Do not use pgd_index to index stage-2 pgd</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-10T19:07:00+00:00</published>
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commit 04b8dc85bf4a64517e3cf20e409eeaa503b15cc1 upstream.

The kernel's pgd_index macro is designed to index a normal, page
sized array. KVM is a bit diffferent, as we can use concatenated
pages to have a bigger address space (for example 40bit IPA with
4kB pages gives us an 8kB PGD.

In the above case, the use of pgd_index will always return an index
inside the first 4kB, which makes a guest that has memory above
0x8000000000 rather unhappy, as it spins forever in a page fault,
whist the host happilly corrupts the lower pgd.

The obvious fix is to get our own kvm_pgd_index that does the right
thing(tm).

Tested on X-Gene with a hacked kvmtool that put memory at a stupidly
high address.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used shannon's backport to 3.14 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 04b8dc85bf4a64517e3cf20e409eeaa503b15cc1 upstream.

The kernel's pgd_index macro is designed to index a normal, page
sized array. KVM is a bit diffferent, as we can use concatenated
pages to have a bigger address space (for example 40bit IPA with
4kB pages gives us an 8kB PGD.

In the above case, the use of pgd_index will always return an index
inside the first 4kB, which makes a guest that has memory above
0x8000000000 rather unhappy, as it spins forever in a page fault,
whist the host happilly corrupts the lower pgd.

The obvious fix is to get our own kvm_pgd_index that does the right
thing(tm).

Tested on X-Gene with a hacked kvmtool that put memory at a stupidly
high address.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used shannon's backport to 3.14 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Introduce stage2_unmap_vm</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-27T09:35:03+00:00</published>
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commit 957db105c99792ae8ef61ffc9ae77d910f6471da upstream.

Introduce a new function to unmap user RAM regions in the stage2 page
tables.  This is needed on reboot (or when the guest turns off the MMU)
to ensure we fault in pages again and make the dcache, RAM, and icache
coherent.

Using unmap_stage2_range for the whole guest physical range does not
work, because that unmaps IO regions (such as the GIC) which will not be
recreated or in the best case faulted in on a page-by-page basis.

Call this function on secondary and subsequent calls to the
KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl so that a reset VCPU will detect the guest
Stage-1 MMU is off when faulting in pages and make the caches coherent.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 957db105c99792ae8ef61ffc9ae77d910f6471da upstream.

Introduce a new function to unmap user RAM regions in the stage2 page
tables.  This is needed on reboot (or when the guest turns off the MMU)
to ensure we fault in pages again and make the dcache, RAM, and icache
coherent.

Using unmap_stage2_range for the whole guest physical range does not
work, because that unmaps IO regions (such as the GIC) which will not be
recreated or in the best case faulted in on a page-by-page basis.

Call this function on secondary and subsequent calls to the
KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl so that a reset VCPU will detect the guest
Stage-1 MMU is off when faulting in pages and make the caches coherent.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Reset the HCR on each vcpu when resetting the vcpu</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-16T15:21:16+00:00</published>
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commit b856a59141b1066d3c896a0d0231f84dabd040af upstream.

When userspace resets the vcpu using KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, we should also
reset the HCR, because we now modify the HCR dynamically to
enable/disable trapping of guest accesses to the VM registers.

This is crucial for reboot of VMs working since otherwise we will not be
doing the necessary cache maintenance operations when faulting in pages
with the guest MMU off.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit b856a59141b1066d3c896a0d0231f84dabd040af upstream.

When userspace resets the vcpu using KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, we should also
reset the HCR, because we now modify the HCR dynamically to
enable/disable trapping of guest accesses to the VM registers.

This is crucial for reboot of VMs working since otherwise we will not be
doing the necessary cache maintenance operations when faulting in pages
with the guest MMU off.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM/arm64: KVM: fix use of WnR bit in kvm_is_write_fault()</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-09T10:27:09+00:00</published>
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commit a7d079cea2dffb112e26da2566dd84c0ef1fce97 upstream.

The ISS encoding for an exception from a Data Abort has a WnR
bit[6] that indicates whether the Data Abort was caused by a
read or a write instruction. While there are several fields
in the encoding that are only valid if the ISV bit[24] is set,
WnR is not one of them, so we can read it unconditionally.

Instead of fixing both implementations of kvm_is_write_fault()
in place, reimplement it just once using kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(),
which already does the right thing with respect to the WnR bit.
Also fix up the callers to pass 'vcpu'

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used shannon's backport to 3.14 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit a7d079cea2dffb112e26da2566dd84c0ef1fce97 upstream.

The ISS encoding for an exception from a Data Abort has a WnR
bit[6] that indicates whether the Data Abort was caused by a
read or a write instruction. While there are several fields
in the encoding that are only valid if the ISV bit[24] is set,
WnR is not one of them, so we can read it unconditionally.

Instead of fixing both implementations of kvm_is_write_fault()
in place, reimplement it just once using kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(),
which already does the right thing with respect to the WnR bit.
Also fix up the callers to pass 'vcpu'

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used shannon's backport to 3.14 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: ARM/arm64: fix non-const declaration of function returning const</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-26T14:13:20+00:00</published>
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commit 6951e48bff0b55d2a8e825a953fc1f8e3a34bf1c upstream.

Sparse kicks up about a type mismatch for kvm_target_cpu:

arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:271:25: error: symbol 'kvm_target_cpu' redeclared with different type (originally declared at ./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:45) - different modifiers

so fix this by adding the missing const attribute to the function
declaration.

Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 6951e48bff0b55d2a8e825a953fc1f8e3a34bf1c upstream.

Sparse kicks up about a type mismatch for kvm_target_cpu:

arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:271:25: error: symbol 'kvm_target_cpu' redeclared with different type (originally declared at ./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:45) - different modifiers

so fix this by adding the missing const attribute to the function
declaration.

Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Fix and refactor unmap_range</title>
<updated>2015-05-20T12:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-09T21:31:31+00:00</published>
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commit 4f853a714bf16338ff5261128e6c7ae2569e9505 upstream.

unmap_range() was utterly broken, to quote Marc, and broke in all sorts
of situations.  It was also quite complicated to follow and didn't
follow the usual scheme of having a separate iterating function for each
level of page tables.

Address this by refactoring the code and introduce a pgd_clear()
function.

Reviewed-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jays.lee@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Smarduch &lt;m.smarduch@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 4f853a714bf16338ff5261128e6c7ae2569e9505 upstream.

unmap_range() was utterly broken, to quote Marc, and broke in all sorts
of situations.  It was also quite complicated to follow and didn't
follow the usual scheme of having a separate iterating function for each
level of page tables.

Address this by refactoring the code and introduce a pgd_clear()
function.

Reviewed-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jays.lee@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Smarduch &lt;m.smarduch@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8320/1: fix integer overflow in ELF_ET_DYN_BASE</title>
<updated>2015-05-05T10:09:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>a.ryabinin@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-20T14:42:27+00:00</published>
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commit 8defb3367fcd19d1af64c07792aade0747b54e0f upstream.

Usually ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is 2/3 of TASK_SIZE. With 3G/1G user/kernel
split this is not so, because 2*TASK_SIZE overflows 32 bits,
so the actual value of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is:
	(2 * TASK_SIZE / 3) = 0x2a000000

When ASLR is disabled PIE binaries will load at ELF_ET_DYN_BASE address.
On 32bit platforms AddressSanitzer uses addresses [0x20000000 - 0x40000000]
for shadow memory [1]. So ASan doesn't work for PIE binaries when ASLR disabled
as it fails to map shadow memory.
Also after Kees's 'split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR' patchset PIE binaries
has a high chance of loading somewhere in between [0x2a000000 - 0x40000000]
even if ASLR enabled. This makes ASan with PIE absolutely incompatible.

Fix overflow by dividing TASK_SIZE prior to multiplying.
After this patch ELF_ET_DYN_BASE equals to (for CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y):
	(TASK_SIZE / 3 * 2) = 0x7f555554

[1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm#Mapping

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Maria Guseva &lt;m.guseva@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 8defb3367fcd19d1af64c07792aade0747b54e0f upstream.

Usually ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is 2/3 of TASK_SIZE. With 3G/1G user/kernel
split this is not so, because 2*TASK_SIZE overflows 32 bits,
so the actual value of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is:
	(2 * TASK_SIZE / 3) = 0x2a000000

When ASLR is disabled PIE binaries will load at ELF_ET_DYN_BASE address.
On 32bit platforms AddressSanitzer uses addresses [0x20000000 - 0x40000000]
for shadow memory [1]. So ASan doesn't work for PIE binaries when ASLR disabled
as it fails to map shadow memory.
Also after Kees's 'split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR' patchset PIE binaries
has a high chance of loading somewhere in between [0x2a000000 - 0x40000000]
even if ASLR enabled. This makes ASan with PIE absolutely incompatible.

Fix overflow by dividing TASK_SIZE prior to multiplying.
After this patch ELF_ET_DYN_BASE equals to (for CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y):
	(TASK_SIZE / 3 * 2) = 0x7f555554

[1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm#Mapping

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Maria Guseva &lt;m.guseva@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/arm/arm64: introduce xen_arch_need_swiotlb</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T14:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Stabellini</name>
<email>stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-21T11:07:39+00:00</published>
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commit a4dba130891271084344c12537731542ec77cb85 upstream.

Introduce an arch specific function to find out whether a particular dma
mapping operation needs to bounce on the swiotlb buffer.

On ARM and ARM64, if the page involved is a foreign page and the device
is not coherent, we need to bounce because at unmap time we cannot
execute any required cache maintenance operations (we don't know how to
find the pfn from the mfn).

No change of behaviour for x86.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[ stefano: The commit needs to be slightly modified because
  is_device_dma_coherent is not available on kernels &lt; 3.19, so I just
  removed the call, thus assuming that the device is not coherent on arm
  (slower but safe) ]
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used backport by stefano ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit a4dba130891271084344c12537731542ec77cb85 upstream.

Introduce an arch specific function to find out whether a particular dma
mapping operation needs to bounce on the swiotlb buffer.

On ARM and ARM64, if the page involved is a foreign page and the device
is not coherent, we need to bounce because at unmap time we cannot
execute any required cache maintenance operations (we don't know how to
find the pfn from the mfn).

No change of behaviour for x86.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[ stefano: The commit needs to be slightly modified because
  is_device_dma_coherent is not available on kernels &lt; 3.19, so I just
  removed the call, thus assuming that the device is not coherent on arm
  (slower but safe) ]
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used backport by stefano ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested</title>
<updated>2015-01-15T10:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sonny Rao</name>
<email>sonnyrao@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T07:02:44+00:00</published>
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commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream.

This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in

0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"

We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:

* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
  we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.

* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.

* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
  virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
  offset.

* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.

* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
  CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)

One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
to some other random value.

Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream.

This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in

0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"

We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:

* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
  we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.

* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.

* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
  virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
  offset.

* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.

* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
  CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)

One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
to some other random value.

Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T17:15:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Murzin</name>
<email>vladimir.murzin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-27T10:39:04+00:00</published>
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commit 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 upstream.

We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Reported-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 upstream.

We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Reported-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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