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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-5.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2019-05-15T15:46:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-15T15:46:44+00:00</published>
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These fix a recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM
  unset to crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias
  Hint (EPB), clean up the cpufreq core and some users of transition
  notifiers and introduce a new power domain flag into the generic power
  domains framework (genpd).

  Specifics:

   - Fix recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM unset to
     crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias Hint
     (EPB) by avoiding to compile the EPB-related code depending on
     CONFIG_PM when it is unset (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Clean up the transition notifier invocation code in the cpufreq
     core and change some users of cpufreq transition notifiers
     accordingly (Viresh Kumar).

   - Change MAINTAINERS to cover the schedutil governor as part of
     cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).

   - Simplify cpufreq_init_policy() to avoid redundant computations (Yue
     Hu).

   - Add explanatory comment to the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Introduce a new flag, GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON, to the generic
     power domains (genpd) framework along with the first user of it
     (Leonard Crestez)"

* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  soc: imx: gpc: Use GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON for ERR009619
  PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON flag
  cpufreq: Update MAINTAINERS to include schedutil governor
  cpufreq: Don't find governor for setpolicy drivers in cpufreq_init_policy()
  cpufreq: Explain the kobject_put() in cpufreq_policy_alloc()
  cpufreq: Call transition notifier only once for each policy
  x86: intel_epb: Take CONFIG_PM into account
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These fix a recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM
  unset to crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias
  Hint (EPB), clean up the cpufreq core and some users of transition
  notifiers and introduce a new power domain flag into the generic power
  domains framework (genpd).

  Specifics:

   - Fix recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM unset to
     crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias Hint
     (EPB) by avoiding to compile the EPB-related code depending on
     CONFIG_PM when it is unset (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Clean up the transition notifier invocation code in the cpufreq
     core and change some users of cpufreq transition notifiers
     accordingly (Viresh Kumar).

   - Change MAINTAINERS to cover the schedutil governor as part of
     cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).

   - Simplify cpufreq_init_policy() to avoid redundant computations (Yue
     Hu).

   - Add explanatory comment to the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Introduce a new flag, GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON, to the generic
     power domains (genpd) framework along with the first user of it
     (Leonard Crestez)"

* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  soc: imx: gpc: Use GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON for ERR009619
  PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON flag
  cpufreq: Update MAINTAINERS to include schedutil governor
  cpufreq: Don't find governor for setpolicy drivers in cpufreq_init_policy()
  cpufreq: Explain the kobject_put() in cpufreq_policy_alloc()
  cpufreq: Call transition notifier only once for each policy
  x86: intel_epb: Take CONFIG_PM into account
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<entry>
<title>ARM: prevent tracing IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE</title>
<updated>2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-14T22:41:48+00:00</published>
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Patch series "compiler: allow all arches to enable
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING", v3.

This patch (of 11):

When function tracing for IPIs is enabled, we get a warning for an
overflow of the ipi_types array with the IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE type as
triggered by raise_nmi():

  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c: In function 'raise_nmi':
  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:489:2: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
    trace_ipi_raise(target, ipi_types[ipinr]);

This is a correct warning as we actually overflow the array here.

This patch raise_nmi() to call __smp_cross_call() instead of
smp_cross_call(), to avoid calling into ftrace.  For clarification, I'm
also adding a two new code comments describing how this one is special.

The warning appears to have shown up after commit e7273ff49acf ("ARM:
8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI"), which changed the
number assignment from '15' to '8', but as far as I can tell has existed
since the IPI tracepoints were first introduced.  If we decide to
backport this patch to stable kernels, we probably need to backport
e7273ff49acf as well.

[yamada.masahiro@socionext.com: rebase on v5.1-rc1]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423034959.13525-2-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Fixes: e7273ff49acf ("ARM: 8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI")
Fixes: 365ec7b17327 ("ARM: add IPI tracepoints") # v3.17
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;bbrezillon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "compiler: allow all arches to enable
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING", v3.

This patch (of 11):

When function tracing for IPIs is enabled, we get a warning for an
overflow of the ipi_types array with the IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE type as
triggered by raise_nmi():

  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c: In function 'raise_nmi':
  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:489:2: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
    trace_ipi_raise(target, ipi_types[ipinr]);

This is a correct warning as we actually overflow the array here.

This patch raise_nmi() to call __smp_cross_call() instead of
smp_cross_call(), to avoid calling into ftrace.  For clarification, I'm
also adding a two new code comments describing how this one is special.

The warning appears to have shown up after commit e7273ff49acf ("ARM:
8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI"), which changed the
number assignment from '15' to '8', but as far as I can tell has existed
since the IPI tracepoints were first introduced.  If we decide to
backport this patch to stable kernels, we probably need to backport
e7273ff49acf as well.

[yamada.masahiro@socionext.com: rebase on v5.1-rc1]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423034959.13525-2-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Fixes: e7273ff49acf ("ARM: 8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI")
Fixes: 365ec7b17327 ("ARM: add IPI tracepoints") # v3.17
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;bbrezillon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: Call transition notifier only once for each policy</title>
<updated>2019-05-10T10:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T09:33:58+00:00</published>
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Currently, the notifiers are called once for each CPU of the policy-&gt;cpus
cpumask. It would be more optimal if the notifier can be called only
once and all the relevant information be provided to it. Out of the 23
drivers that register for the transition notifiers today, only 4 of them
do per-cpu updates and the callback for the rest can be called only once
for the policy without any impact.

This would also avoid multiple function calls to the notifier callbacks
and reduce multiple iterations of notifier core's code (which does
locking as well).

This patch adds pointer to the cpufreq policy to the struct
cpufreq_freqs, so the notifier callback has all the information
available to it with a single call. The five drivers which perform
per-cpu updates are updated to use the cpufreq policy. The freqs-&gt;cpu
field is redundant now and is removed.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt; (sparc)
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Currently, the notifiers are called once for each CPU of the policy-&gt;cpus
cpumask. It would be more optimal if the notifier can be called only
once and all the relevant information be provided to it. Out of the 23
drivers that register for the transition notifiers today, only 4 of them
do per-cpu updates and the callback for the rest can be called only once
for the policy without any impact.

This would also avoid multiple function calls to the notifier callbacks
and reduce multiple iterations of notifier core's code (which does
locking as well).

This patch adds pointer to the cpufreq policy to the struct
cpufreq_freqs, so the notifier callback has all the information
available to it with a single call. The five drivers which perform
per-cpu updates are updated to use the cpufreq policy. The freqs-&gt;cpu
field is redundant now and is removed.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt; (sparc)
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'misc' and 'smp-hotplug' into for-next</title>
<updated>2019-03-15T15:12:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-15T15:12:56+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: avoid Cortex-A9 livelock on tight dmb loops</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T22:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T10:35:36+00:00</published>
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machine_crash_nonpanic_core() does this:

	while (1)
		cpu_relax();

because the kernel has crashed, and we have no known safe way to deal
with the CPU.  So, we place the CPU into an infinite loop which we
expect it to never exit - at least not until the system as a whole is
reset by some method.

In the absence of erratum 754327, this code assembles to:

	b	.

In other words, an infinite loop.  When erratum 754327 is enabled,
this becomes:

1:	dmb
	b	1b

It has been observed that on some systems (eg, OMAP4) where, if a
crash is triggered, the system tries to kexec into the panic kernel,
but fails after taking the secondary CPU down - placing it into one
of these loops.  This causes the system to livelock, and the most
noticable effect is the system stops after issuing:

	Loading crashdump kernel...

to the system console.

The tested as working solution I came up with was to add wfe() to
these infinite loops thusly:

	while (1) {
		cpu_relax();
		wfe();
	}

which, without 754327 builds to:

1:	wfe
	b	1b

or with 754327 is enabled:

1:	dmb
	wfe
	b	1b

Adding "wfe" does two things depending on the environment we're running
under:
- where we're running on bare metal, and the processor implements
  "wfe", it stops us spinning endlessly in a loop where we're never
  going to do any useful work.
- if we're running in a VM, it allows the CPU to be given back to the
  hypervisor and rescheduled for other purposes (maybe a different VM)
  rather than wasting CPU cycles inside a crashed VM.

However, in light of erratum 794072, Will Deacon wanted to see 10 nops
as well - which is reasonable to cover the case where we have erratum
754327 enabled _and_ we have a processor that doesn't implement the
wfe hint.

So, we now end up with:

1:      wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is disabled, or:

1:      dmb
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is enabled.  We also get the dmb + 10 nop
sequence elsewhere in the kernel, in terminating loops.

This is reasonable - it means we get the workaround for erratum
794072 when erratum 754327 is enabled, but still relinquish the dead
processor - either by placing it in a lower power mode when wfe is
implemented as such or by returning it to the hypervisior, or in the
case where wfe is a no-op, we use the workaround specified in erratum
794072 to avoid the problem.

These as two entirely orthogonal problems - the 10 nops addresses
erratum 794072, and the wfe is an optimisation that makes the system
more efficient when crashed either in terms of power consumption or
by allowing the host/other VMs to make use of the CPU.

I don't see any reason not to use kexec() inside a VM - it has the
potential to provide automated recovery from a failure of the VMs
kernel with the opportunity for saving a crashdump of the failure.
A panic() with a reboot timeout won't do that, and reading the
libvirt documentation, setting on_reboot to "preserve" won't either
(the documentation states "The preserve action for an on_reboot event
is treated as a destroy".)  Surely it has to be a good thing to
avoiding having CPUs spinning inside a VM that is doing no useful
work.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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machine_crash_nonpanic_core() does this:

	while (1)
		cpu_relax();

because the kernel has crashed, and we have no known safe way to deal
with the CPU.  So, we place the CPU into an infinite loop which we
expect it to never exit - at least not until the system as a whole is
reset by some method.

In the absence of erratum 754327, this code assembles to:

	b	.

In other words, an infinite loop.  When erratum 754327 is enabled,
this becomes:

1:	dmb
	b	1b

It has been observed that on some systems (eg, OMAP4) where, if a
crash is triggered, the system tries to kexec into the panic kernel,
but fails after taking the secondary CPU down - placing it into one
of these loops.  This causes the system to livelock, and the most
noticable effect is the system stops after issuing:

	Loading crashdump kernel...

to the system console.

The tested as working solution I came up with was to add wfe() to
these infinite loops thusly:

	while (1) {
		cpu_relax();
		wfe();
	}

which, without 754327 builds to:

1:	wfe
	b	1b

or with 754327 is enabled:

1:	dmb
	wfe
	b	1b

Adding "wfe" does two things depending on the environment we're running
under:
- where we're running on bare metal, and the processor implements
  "wfe", it stops us spinning endlessly in a loop where we're never
  going to do any useful work.
- if we're running in a VM, it allows the CPU to be given back to the
  hypervisor and rescheduled for other purposes (maybe a different VM)
  rather than wasting CPU cycles inside a crashed VM.

However, in light of erratum 794072, Will Deacon wanted to see 10 nops
as well - which is reasonable to cover the case where we have erratum
754327 enabled _and_ we have a processor that doesn't implement the
wfe hint.

So, we now end up with:

1:      wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is disabled, or:

1:      dmb
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is enabled.  We also get the dmb + 10 nop
sequence elsewhere in the kernel, in terminating loops.

This is reasonable - it means we get the workaround for erratum
794072 when erratum 754327 is enabled, but still relinquish the dead
processor - either by placing it in a lower power mode when wfe is
implemented as such or by returning it to the hypervisior, or in the
case where wfe is a no-op, we use the workaround specified in erratum
794072 to avoid the problem.

These as two entirely orthogonal problems - the 10 nops addresses
erratum 794072, and the wfe is an optimisation that makes the system
more efficient when crashed either in terms of power consumption or
by allowing the host/other VMs to make use of the CPU.

I don't see any reason not to use kexec() inside a VM - it has the
potential to provide automated recovery from a failure of the VMs
kernel with the opportunity for saving a crashdump of the failure.
A panic() with a reboot timeout won't do that, and reading the
libvirt documentation, setting on_reboot to "preserve" won't either
(the documentation states "The preserve action for an on_reboot event
is treated as a destroy".)  Surely it has to be a good thing to
avoiding having CPUs spinning inside a VM that is doing no useful
work.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: smp: remove arch-provided "pen_release"</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T22:05:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T14:02:48+00:00</published>
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Consolidating the "pen_release" stuff amongst the various SoC
implementations gives credence to having a CPU holding pen for
secondary CPUs.  However, this is far from the truth.

Many SoC implementations cargo-cult copied various bits of the pen
release implementation from the initial Realview/Versatile Express
implementation without understanding what it was or why it existed.
The reason it existed is because these are _development_ platforms,
and some board firmware is unable to individually control the
startup of secondary CPUs.  Moreover, they do not have a way to
power down or reset secondary CPUs for hot-unplug.  Hence, the
pen_release implementation was designed for ARM Ltd's development
platforms to provide a working implementation, even though it is
very far from what is required.

It was decided a while back to reduce the duplication by consolidating
the "pen_release" variable, but this only made the situation worse -
we have ended up with several implementations that read this variable
but do not write it - again, showing the cargo-cult mentality at work,
lack of proper review of new code, and in some cases a lack of testing.

While it would be preferable to remove pen_release entirely from the
kernel, this is not possible without help from the SoC maintainers,
which seems to be lacking.  However, I want to remove pen_release from
arch code to remove the credence that having it gives.

This patch removes pen_release from the arch code entirely, adding
private per-SoC definitions for it instead, and explicitly stating
that write_pen_release() is cargo-cult copied and should not be
copied any further.  Rename write_pen_release() in a similar fashion
as well.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Consolidating the "pen_release" stuff amongst the various SoC
implementations gives credence to having a CPU holding pen for
secondary CPUs.  However, this is far from the truth.

Many SoC implementations cargo-cult copied various bits of the pen
release implementation from the initial Realview/Versatile Express
implementation without understanding what it was or why it existed.
The reason it existed is because these are _development_ platforms,
and some board firmware is unable to individually control the
startup of secondary CPUs.  Moreover, they do not have a way to
power down or reset secondary CPUs for hot-unplug.  Hence, the
pen_release implementation was designed for ARM Ltd's development
platforms to provide a working implementation, even though it is
very far from what is required.

It was decided a while back to reduce the duplication by consolidating
the "pen_release" variable, but this only made the situation worse -
we have ended up with several implementations that read this variable
but do not write it - again, showing the cargo-cult mentality at work,
lack of proper review of new code, and in some cases a lack of testing.

While it would be preferable to remove pen_release entirely from the
kernel, this is not possible without help from the SoC maintainers,
which seems to be lacking.  However, I want to remove pen_release from
arch code to remove the credence that having it gives.

This patch removes pen_release from the arch code entirely, adding
private per-SoC definitions for it instead, and explicitly stating
that write_pen_release() is cargo-cult copied and should not be
copied any further.  Rename write_pen_release() in a similar fashion
as well.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8824/1: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T21:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dietmar Eggemann</name>
<email>dietmar.eggemann@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-21T13:42:42+00:00</published>
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Arm TC2 fails cpu hotplug stress test.

This issue was tracked down to a missing copy of the new affinity
cpumask for the vexpress-spc interrupt into struct
irq_common_data.affinity when the interrupt is migrated in
migrate_one_irq().

Fix it by replacing the arm specific hotplug cpu migration with the
generic irq code.

This is the counterpart implementation to commit 217d453d473c ("arm64:
fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu").

Tested with cpu hotplug stress test on Arm TC2 (multi_v7_defconfig plus
CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ=y and CONFIG_ARM_VEXPRESS_SPC_CPUFREQ=y).
The vexpress-spc interrupt (irq=22) on this board is affine to CPU0.
Its affinity cpumask now changes correctly e.g. from 0 to 1-4 when
CPU0 is hotplugged out.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Arm TC2 fails cpu hotplug stress test.

This issue was tracked down to a missing copy of the new affinity
cpumask for the vexpress-spc interrupt into struct
irq_common_data.affinity when the interrupt is migrated in
migrate_one_irq().

Fix it by replacing the arm specific hotplug cpu migration with the
generic irq code.

This is the counterpart implementation to commit 217d453d473c ("arm64:
fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu").

Tested with cpu hotplug stress test on Arm TC2 (multi_v7_defconfig plus
CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ=y and CONFIG_ARM_VEXPRESS_SPC_CPUFREQ=y).
The vexpress-spc interrupt (irq=22) on this board is affine to CPU0.
Its affinity cpumask now changes correctly e.g. from 0 to 1-4 when
CPU0 is hotplugged out.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'misc', 'sa1100-for-next' and 'spectre' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2019-01-02T10:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-02T10:37:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=97b6f89f7269b746b68e7985c16d2354c688d29a'/>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems</title>
<updated>2018-11-12T10:51:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-19T11:21:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=383fb3ee8024d596f488d2dbaf45e572897acbdb'/>
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In big.Little systems, some CPUs require the Spectre workarounds in
paths such as the context switch, but other CPUs do not.  In order
to handle these differences, we need per-CPU vtables.

We are unable to use the kernel's per-CPU variables to support this
as per-CPU is not initialised at times when we need access to the
vtables, so we have to use an array indexed by logical CPU number.

We use an array-of-pointers to avoid having function pointers in
the kernel's read/write .data section.

Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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In big.Little systems, some CPUs require the Spectre workarounds in
paths such as the context switch, but other CPUs do not.  In order
to handle these differences, we need per-CPU vtables.

We are unable to use the kernel's per-CPU variables to support this
as per-CPU is not initialised at times when we need access to the
vtables, so we have to use an array indexed by logical CPU number.

We use an array-of-pointers to avoid having function pointers in
the kernel's read/write .data section.

Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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