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<title>ARM: 8715/1: add a private asm/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-01T20:51:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-20T20:17:05+00:00</published>
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commit 1cce91dfc8f7990ca3aea896bfb148f240b12860 upstream.

The asm-generic/unaligned.h header provides two different implementations
for accessing unaligned variables: the access_ok.h version used when
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set pretends that all pointers
are in fact aligned, while the le_struct.h version convinces gcc that the
alignment of a pointer is '1', to make it issue the correct load/store
instructions depending on the architecture flags.

On ARMv5 and older, we always use the second version, to let the compiler
use byte accesses. On ARMv6 and newer, we currently use the access_ok.h
version, so the compiler can use any instruction including stm/ldm and
ldrd/strd that will cause an alignment trap. This trap can significantly
impact performance when we have to do a lot of fixups and, worse, has
led to crashes in the LZ4 decompressor code that does not have a trap
handler.

This adds an ARM specific version of asm/unaligned.h that uses the
le_struct.h/be_struct.h implementation unconditionally. This should lead
to essentially the same code on ARMv6+ as before, with the exception of
using regular load/store instructions instead of the trapping instructions
multi-register variants.

The crash in the LZ4 decompressor code was probably introduced by the
patch replacing the LZ4 implementation, commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib: update
LZ4 compressor module"), so linux-4.11 and higher would be affected most.
However, we probably want to have this backported to all older stable
kernels as well, to help with the performance issues.

There are two follow-ups that I think we should also work on, but not
backport to stable kernels, first to change the asm-generic version of
the header to remove the ARM special case, and second to review all
other uses of CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to see if they
might be affected by the same problem on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1cce91dfc8f7990ca3aea896bfb148f240b12860 upstream.

The asm-generic/unaligned.h header provides two different implementations
for accessing unaligned variables: the access_ok.h version used when
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set pretends that all pointers
are in fact aligned, while the le_struct.h version convinces gcc that the
alignment of a pointer is '1', to make it issue the correct load/store
instructions depending on the architecture flags.

On ARMv5 and older, we always use the second version, to let the compiler
use byte accesses. On ARMv6 and newer, we currently use the access_ok.h
version, so the compiler can use any instruction including stm/ldm and
ldrd/strd that will cause an alignment trap. This trap can significantly
impact performance when we have to do a lot of fixups and, worse, has
led to crashes in the LZ4 decompressor code that does not have a trap
handler.

This adds an ARM specific version of asm/unaligned.h that uses the
le_struct.h/be_struct.h implementation unconditionally. This should lead
to essentially the same code on ARMv6+ as before, with the exception of
using regular load/store instructions instead of the trapping instructions
multi-register variants.

The crash in the LZ4 decompressor code was probably introduced by the
patch replacing the LZ4 implementation, commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib: update
LZ4 compressor module"), so linux-4.11 and higher would be affected most.
However, we probably want to have this backported to all older stable
kernels as well, to help with the performance issues.

There are two follow-ups that I think we should also work on, but not
backport to stable kernels, first to change the asm-generic version of
the header to remove the ARM special case, and second to review all
other uses of CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to see if they
might be affected by the same problem on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: kexec: fix failure to boot crash kernel</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:33:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T22:09:58+00:00</published>
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commit 0d70262a2d60886da6fe5b1fc8bbcd76cbbc306d upstream.

When kexec was converted to DTB, the dtb address was passed between
machine_kexec_prepare() and machine_kexec() using a static variable.
This is bad news if you load a crash kernel followed by a normal
kernel or vice versa - the last loaded kernel overwrites the dtb
address.

This can result in kexec failures, as (eg) we try to boot the crash
kernel with the last loaded dtb.  For example, with:

the crash kernel fails to find the dtb.

Avoid this by defining a kimage architecture structure, and store
the address to be passed in r2 there, which will either be the ATAGs
or the dtb blob.

Fixes: 4cabd1d9625c ("ARM: 7539/1: kexec: scan for dtb magic in segments")
Fixes: 42d720d1731a ("ARM: kexec: Make .text R/W in machine_kexec")
Reported-by: Keerthy &lt;j-keerthy@ti.com&gt;
Tested-by: Keerthy &lt;j-keerthy@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 0d70262a2d60886da6fe5b1fc8bbcd76cbbc306d upstream.

When kexec was converted to DTB, the dtb address was passed between
machine_kexec_prepare() and machine_kexec() using a static variable.
This is bad news if you load a crash kernel followed by a normal
kernel or vice versa - the last loaded kernel overwrites the dtb
address.

This can result in kexec failures, as (eg) we try to boot the crash
kernel with the last loaded dtb.  For example, with:

the crash kernel fails to find the dtb.

Avoid this by defining a kimage architecture structure, and store
the address to be passed in r2 there, which will either be the ATAGs
or the dtb blob.

Fixes: 4cabd1d9625c ("ARM: 7539/1: kexec: scan for dtb magic in segments")
Fixes: 42d720d1731a ("ARM: kexec: Make .text R/W in machine_kexec")
Reported-by: Keerthy &lt;j-keerthy@ti.com&gt;
Tested-by: Keerthy &lt;j-keerthy@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong</title>
<updated>2017-10-12T14:27:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T08:53:10+00:00</published>
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commit 9cc91f212111cdcbefa02dcdb7dd443f224bf52c upstream.

The improved type-checking version of container_of() triggers a warning for
xchg_xen_ulong, pointing out that 'xen_ulong_t' is unsigned, but atomic64_t
contains a signed value:

drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c: In function 'evtchn_2l_handle_events':
drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:187:1020: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_187' declared with attribute error: pointer type mismatch in container_of()

This adds a cast to work around the warning.

Cc: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Fixes: 85323a991d40 ("xen: arm: mandate EABI and use generic atomic operations.")
Fixes: daa2ac80834d ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9cc91f212111cdcbefa02dcdb7dd443f224bf52c upstream.

The improved type-checking version of container_of() triggers a warning for
xchg_xen_ulong, pointing out that 'xen_ulong_t' is unsigned, but atomic64_t
contains a signed value:

drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c: In function 'evtchn_2l_handle_events':
drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:187:1020: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_187' declared with attribute error: pointer type mismatch in container_of()

This adds a cast to work around the warning.

Cc: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Fixes: 85323a991d40 ("xen: arm: mandate EABI and use generic atomic operations.")
Fixes: daa2ac80834d ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Enforce unconditional flush to PoC when mapping to stage-2</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-25T12:29:59+00:00</published>
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commit 8f36ebaf21fdae99c091c67e8b6fab33969f2667 upstream.

When we fault in a page, we flush it to the PoC (Point of Coherency)
if the faulting vcpu has its own caches off, so that it can observe
the page we just brought it.

But if the vcpu has its caches on, we skip that step. Bad things
happen when *another* vcpu tries to access that page with its own
caches disabled. At that point, there is no garantee that the
data has made it to the PoC, and we access stale data.

The obvious fix is to always flush to PoC when a page is faulted
in, no matter what the state of the vcpu is.

Fixes: 2d58b733c876 ("arm64: KVM: force cache clean on page fault when caches are off")
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: conditions for flushing were simpler here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8f36ebaf21fdae99c091c67e8b6fab33969f2667 upstream.

When we fault in a page, we flush it to the PoC (Point of Coherency)
if the faulting vcpu has its own caches off, so that it can observe
the page we just brought it.

But if the vcpu has its caches on, we skip that step. Bad things
happen when *another* vcpu tries to access that page with its own
caches disabled. At that point, there is no garantee that the
data has made it to the PoC, and we access stale data.

The obvious fix is to always flush to PoC when a page is faulted
in, no matter what the state of the vcpu is.

Fixes: 2d58b733c876 ("arm64: KVM: force cache clean on page fault when caches are off")
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: conditions for flushing were simpler here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8634/1: hw_breakpoint: blacklist Scorpion CPUs</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T02:26:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-06T12:12:47+00:00</published>
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commit ddc37832a1349f474c4532de381498020ed71d31 upstream.

On APQ8060, the kernel crashes in arch_hw_breakpoint_init, taking an
undefined instruction trap within write_wb_reg. This is because Scorpion
CPUs erroneously appear to set DBGPRSR.SPD when WFI is issued, even if
the core is not powered down. When DBGPRSR.SPD is set, breakpoint and
watchpoint registers are treated as undefined.

It's possible to trigger similar crashes later on from userspace, by
requesting the kernel to install a breakpoint or watchpoint, as we can
go idle at any point between the reset of the debug registers and their
later use. This has always been the case.

Given that this has always been broken, no-one has complained until now,
and there is no clear workaround, disable hardware breakpoints and
watchpoints on Scorpion to avoid these issues.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: open-code read_cpuid_part()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ddc37832a1349f474c4532de381498020ed71d31 upstream.

On APQ8060, the kernel crashes in arch_hw_breakpoint_init, taking an
undefined instruction trap within write_wb_reg. This is because Scorpion
CPUs erroneously appear to set DBGPRSR.SPD when WFI is issued, even if
the core is not powered down. When DBGPRSR.SPD is set, breakpoint and
watchpoint registers are treated as undefined.

It's possible to trigger similar crashes later on from userspace, by
requesting the kernel to install a breakpoint or watchpoint, as we can
go idle at any point between the reset of the debug registers and their
later use. This has always been the case.

Given that this has always been broken, no-one has complained until now,
and there is no clear workaround, disable hardware breakpoints and
watchpoints on Scorpion to avoid these issues.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: open-code read_cpuid_part()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8617/1: dma: fix dma_max_pfn()</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Quadros</name>
<email>rogerq@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T07:32:55+00:00</published>
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commit d248220f0465b818887baa9829e691fe662b2c5e upstream.

Since commit 6ce0d2001692 ("ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation"),
dma_to_pfn() already returns the PFN with the physical memory start offset
so we don't need to add it again.

This fixes USB mass storage lock-up problem on systems that can't do DMA
over the entire physical memory range (e.g.) Keystone 2 systems with 4GB RAM
can only do DMA over the first 2GB. [K2E-EVM].

What happens there is that without this patch SCSI layer sets a wrong
bounce buffer limit in scsi_calculate_bounce_limit() for the USB mass
storage device. dma_max_pfn() evaluates to 0x8fffff and bounce_limit
is set to 0x8fffff000 whereas maximum DMA'ble physical memory on Keystone 2
is 0x87fffffff. This results in non DMA'ble pages being given to the
USB controller and hence the lock-up.

NOTE: in the above case, USB-SCSI-device's dma_pfn_offset was showing as 0.
This should have really been 0x780000 as on K2e, LOWMEM_START is 0x80000000
and HIGHMEM_START is 0x800000000. DMA zone is 2GB so dma_max_pfn should be
0x87ffff. The incorrect dma_pfn_offset for the USB storage device is because
USB devices are not correctly inheriting the dma_pfn_offset from the
USB host controller. This will be fixed by a separate patch.

Fixes: 6ce0d2001692 ("ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation")
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Grygorii Strashko &lt;grygorii.strashko@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d248220f0465b818887baa9829e691fe662b2c5e upstream.

Since commit 6ce0d2001692 ("ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation"),
dma_to_pfn() already returns the PFN with the physical memory start offset
so we don't need to add it again.

This fixes USB mass storage lock-up problem on systems that can't do DMA
over the entire physical memory range (e.g.) Keystone 2 systems with 4GB RAM
can only do DMA over the first 2GB. [K2E-EVM].

What happens there is that without this patch SCSI layer sets a wrong
bounce buffer limit in scsi_calculate_bounce_limit() for the USB mass
storage device. dma_max_pfn() evaluates to 0x8fffff and bounce_limit
is set to 0x8fffff000 whereas maximum DMA'ble physical memory on Keystone 2
is 0x87fffffff. This results in non DMA'ble pages being given to the
USB controller and hence the lock-up.

NOTE: in the above case, USB-SCSI-device's dma_pfn_offset was showing as 0.
This should have really been 0x780000 as on K2e, LOWMEM_START is 0x80000000
and HIGHMEM_START is 0x800000000. DMA zone is 2GB so dma_max_pfn should be
0x87ffff. The incorrect dma_pfn_offset for the USB storage device is because
USB devices are not correctly inheriting the dma_pfn_offset from the
USB host controller. This will be fixed by a separate patch.

Fixes: 6ce0d2001692 ("ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation")
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Grygorii Strashko &lt;grygorii.strashko@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8579/1: mm: Fix definition of pmd_mknotpresent</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-07T16:58:06+00:00</published>
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commit 56530f5d2ddc9b9fade7ef8db9cb886e9dc689b5 upstream.

Currently pmd_mknotpresent will use a zero entry to respresent an
invalidated pmd.

Unfortunately this definition clashes with pmd_none, thus it is
possible for a race condition to occur if zap_pmd_range sees pmd_none
whilst __split_huge_pmd_locked is running too with pmdp_invalidate
just called.

This patch fixes the race condition by modifying pmd_mknotpresent to
create non-zero faulting entries (as is done in other architectures),
removing the ambiguity with pmd_none.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: using L_PMD_SECT_VALID instead of PMD_TYPE_SECT]

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: also convert from a macro to a function, as done
 earlier upstream]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 56530f5d2ddc9b9fade7ef8db9cb886e9dc689b5 upstream.

Currently pmd_mknotpresent will use a zero entry to respresent an
invalidated pmd.

Unfortunately this definition clashes with pmd_none, thus it is
possible for a race condition to occur if zap_pmd_range sees pmd_none
whilst __split_huge_pmd_locked is running too with pmdp_invalidate
just called.

This patch fixes the race condition by modifying pmd_mknotpresent to
create non-zero faulting entries (as is done in other architectures),
removing the ambiguity with pmd_none.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: using L_PMD_SECT_VALID instead of PMD_TYPE_SECT]

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: also convert from a macro to a function, as done
 earlier upstream]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8578/1: mm: ensure pmd_present only checks the valid bit</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-07T16:57:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9ad40548364a11604a1a82ac22a903e3127d56cd'/>
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commit 624531886987f0f1b5d01fb598034d039198e090 upstream.

In a subsequent patch, pmd_mknotpresent will clear the valid bit of the
pmd entry, resulting in a not-present entry from the hardware's
perspective. Unfortunately, pmd_present simply checks for a non-zero pmd
value and will therefore continue to return true even after a
pmd_mknotpresent operation. Since pmd_mknotpresent is only used for
managing huge entries, this is only an issue for the 3-level case.

This patch fixes the 3-level pmd_present implementation to take into
account the valid bit. For bisectability, the change is made before the
fix to pmd_mknotpresent.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: comment update regarding pmd_mknotpresent patch]

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;Steve.Capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 624531886987f0f1b5d01fb598034d039198e090 upstream.

In a subsequent patch, pmd_mknotpresent will clear the valid bit of the
pmd entry, resulting in a not-present entry from the hardware's
perspective. Unfortunately, pmd_present simply checks for a non-zero pmd
value and will therefore continue to return true even after a
pmd_mknotpresent operation. Since pmd_mknotpresent is only used for
managing huge entries, this is only an issue for the 3-level case.

This patch fixes the 3-level pmd_present implementation to take into
account the valid bit. For bisectability, the change is made before the
fix to pmd_mknotpresent.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: comment update regarding pmd_mknotpresent patch]

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;Steve.Capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=db69415c3fd33de24197d42c5ccbb1fd08a0087c'/>
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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>
</div>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d901bcf08791f3b86d4611523456fe6654bc343a'/>
<id>d901bcf08791f3b86d4611523456fe6654bc343a</id>
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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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