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<title>sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T09:46:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm_pmu: Fix write counter incorrect in ARMv7 big-endian mode</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Jihong</name>
<email>yangjihong1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T01:26:59+00:00</published>
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commit fdbef8c4e68ad423416aa6cc93d1616d6f8ac5b3 upstream.

Commit 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
changes the input "value" type from 32-bit to 64-bit, which introduces the
following problem: ARMv7 PMU counters is 32-bit width, in big-endian mode,
write counter uses high 32-bit, which writes an incorrect value.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.22 msec task-clock                #    0.675 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                49      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
        2150476593      cycles                    #  966.663 GHz
        2148588788      instructions              #    1.00  insn per cycle
        2147745484      branches                  # 965435.074 M/sec
        2147508540      branch-misses             #   99.99% of all branches

None of the above hw event counters are correct.

Solution:

"value" forcibly converted to 32-bit type before being written to PMU register.

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.09 msec task-clock                #    0.681 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                46      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
           2807301      cycles                    #    1.344 GHz
           1060159      instructions              #    0.38  insn per cycle
            250496      branches                  #  119.914 M/sec
             23192      branch-misses             #    9.26% of all branches

Fixes: 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430012659.232110-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fdbef8c4e68ad423416aa6cc93d1616d6f8ac5b3 upstream.

Commit 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
changes the input "value" type from 32-bit to 64-bit, which introduces the
following problem: ARMv7 PMU counters is 32-bit width, in big-endian mode,
write counter uses high 32-bit, which writes an incorrect value.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.22 msec task-clock                #    0.675 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                49      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
        2150476593      cycles                    #  966.663 GHz
        2148588788      instructions              #    1.00  insn per cycle
        2147745484      branches                  # 965435.074 M/sec
        2147508540      branch-misses             #   99.99% of all branches

None of the above hw event counters are correct.

Solution:

"value" forcibly converted to 32-bit type before being written to PMU register.

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.09 msec task-clock                #    0.681 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                46      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
           2807301      cycles                    #    1.344 GHz
           1060159      instructions              #    0.38  insn per cycle
            250496      branches                  #  119.914 M/sec
             23192      branch-misses             #    9.26% of all branches

Fixes: 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430012659.232110-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9081/1: fix gcc-10 thumb2-kernel regression</title>
<updated>2021-06-03T10:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-14T10:26:37+00:00</published>
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When building the kernel wtih gcc-10 or higher using the
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE=y flag, the compiler picks a slightly
different set of registers for the inline assembly in cpu_init() that
subsequently results in a corrupt kernel stack as well as remaining in
FIQ mode. If a banked register is used for the last argument, the wrong
version of that register gets loaded into CPSR_c.  When building in Arm
mode, the arguments are passed as immediate values and the bug cannot
happen.

This got introduced when Daniel reworked the FIQ handling and was
technically always broken, but happened to work with both clang and gcc
before gcc-10 as long as they picked one of the lower registers.
This is probably an indication that still very few people build the
kernel in Thumb2 mode.

Marek pointed out the problem on IRC, Arnd narrowed it down to this
inline assembly and Russell pinpointed the exact bug.

Change the constraints to force the final mode switch to use a non-banked
register for the argument to ensure that the correct constant gets loaded.
Another alternative would be to always use registers for the constant
arguments to avoid the #ifdef that has now become more complex.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.18+
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: c0e7f7ee717e ("ARM: 8150/3: fiq: Replace default FIQ handler")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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When building the kernel wtih gcc-10 or higher using the
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE=y flag, the compiler picks a slightly
different set of registers for the inline assembly in cpu_init() that
subsequently results in a corrupt kernel stack as well as remaining in
FIQ mode. If a banked register is used for the last argument, the wrong
version of that register gets loaded into CPSR_c.  When building in Arm
mode, the arguments are passed as immediate values and the bug cannot
happen.

This got introduced when Daniel reworked the FIQ handling and was
technically always broken, but happened to work with both clang and gcc
before gcc-10 as long as they picked one of the lower registers.
This is probably an indication that still very few people build the
kernel in Thumb2 mode.

Marek pointed out the problem on IRC, Arnd narrowed it down to this
inline assembly and Russell pinpointed the exact bug.

Change the constraints to force the final mode switch to use a non-banked
register for the argument to ensure that the correct constant gets loaded.
Another alternative would be to always use registers for the constant
arguments to avoid the #ifdef that has now become more complex.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.18+
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: c0e7f7ee717e ("ARM: 8150/3: fiq: Replace default FIQ handler")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:34:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T07:34:51+00:00</published>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

  90 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
  alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
  checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
  panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
  drivers/char, and spelling"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (90 commits)
  mm: fix typos in comments
  mm: fix typos in comments
  treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
  ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
  fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
  kernel/sys.c: fix typo
  kernel/up.c: fix typo
  kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
  kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
  include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
  mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -&gt; "desired"
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
  scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
  arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
  mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
  mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
  drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
  mm: fix some typos and code style problems
  ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
  ...
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

  90 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
  alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
  checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
  panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
  drivers/char, and spelling"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (90 commits)
  mm: fix typos in comments
  mm: fix typos in comments
  treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
  ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
  fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
  kernel/sys.c: fix typo
  kernel/up.c: fix typo
  kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
  kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
  include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
  mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -&gt; "desired"
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
  scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
  arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
  mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
  mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
  drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
  mm: fix some typos and code style problems
  ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maninder Singh</name>
<email>maninder1.s@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T01:06:09+00:00</published>
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In case of a use after free kernel oops, the freeing path of the object
is required to debug futher.  In most of cases the object address is
present in one of the registers.

Thus check the register's address and if it belongs to slab, print its
alloc and free path.

e.g. in the below issue register r6 belongs to slab, and a use after
free issue occurred on one of its dereferenced values:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f
  ....
  pc : [&lt;c0538afc&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0465674&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : c8927d40  ip : ffffefff  fp : c8aa8020
  r10: c8927e10  r9 : 00000001  r8 : 00400cc0
  r7 : 00000000  r6 : c8ab0180  r5 : c1804a80  r4 : c8aa8008
  r3 : c1a5661c  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 6b6b6b6b  r0 : c139bf48
  .....
  Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 64 allocated at meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4
   Free path:
      meminfo_proc_show+0x5c/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615891032-29160-3-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Co-developed-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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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In case of a use after free kernel oops, the freeing path of the object
is required to debug futher.  In most of cases the object address is
present in one of the registers.

Thus check the register's address and if it belongs to slab, print its
alloc and free path.

e.g. in the below issue register r6 belongs to slab, and a use after
free issue occurred on one of its dereferenced values:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f
  ....
  pc : [&lt;c0538afc&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0465674&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : c8927d40  ip : ffffefff  fp : c8aa8020
  r10: c8927e10  r9 : 00000001  r8 : 00400cc0
  r7 : 00000000  r6 : c8ab0180  r5 : c1804a80  r4 : c8aa8008
  r3 : c1a5661c  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 6b6b6b6b  r0 : c139bf48
  .....
  Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 64 allocated at meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4
   Free path:
      meminfo_proc_show+0x5c/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615891032-29160-3-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Co-developed-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2021-05-06T16:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-06T16:28:07+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Fix BSS size calculation for LLVM

 - Improve robustness of kernel entry around v7_invalidate_l1

 - Fix and update kprobes assembly

 - Correct breakpoint overflow handler check

 - Pause function graph tracer when suspending a CPU

 - Switch to generic syscallhdr.sh and syscalltbl.sh

 - Remove now unused set_kernel_text_r[wo] functions

 - Updates for ptdump (__init marking and using DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE)

 - Fix for interrupted SMC (secure) calls

 - Remove Compaq Personal Server platform

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: footbridge: remove personal server platform
  ARM: 9075/1: kernel: Fix interrupted SMC calls
  ARM: 9074/1: ptdump: convert to DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE
  ARM: 9073/1: ptdump: add __init section marker to three functions
  ARM: 9072/1: mm: remove set_kernel_text_r[ow]()
  ARM: 9067/1: syscalls: switch to generic syscallhdr.sh
  ARM: 9068/1: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh
  ARM: 9066/1: ftrace: pause/unpause function graph tracer in cpu_suspend()
  ARM: 9064/1: hw_breakpoint: Do not directly check the event's overflow_handler hook
  ARM: 9062/1: kprobes: rewrite test-arm.c in UAL
  ARM: 9061/1: kprobes: fix UNPREDICTABLE warnings
  ARM: 9060/1: kexec: Remove unused kexec_reinit callback
  ARM: 9059/1: cache-v7: get rid of mini-stack
  ARM: 9058/1: cache-v7: refactor v7_invalidate_l1 to avoid clobbering r5/r6
  ARM: 9057/1: cache-v7: add missing ISB after cache level selection
  ARM: 9056/1: decompressor: fix BSS size calculation for LLVM ld.lld
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Fix BSS size calculation for LLVM

 - Improve robustness of kernel entry around v7_invalidate_l1

 - Fix and update kprobes assembly

 - Correct breakpoint overflow handler check

 - Pause function graph tracer when suspending a CPU

 - Switch to generic syscallhdr.sh and syscalltbl.sh

 - Remove now unused set_kernel_text_r[wo] functions

 - Updates for ptdump (__init marking and using DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE)

 - Fix for interrupted SMC (secure) calls

 - Remove Compaq Personal Server platform

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: footbridge: remove personal server platform
  ARM: 9075/1: kernel: Fix interrupted SMC calls
  ARM: 9074/1: ptdump: convert to DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE
  ARM: 9073/1: ptdump: add __init section marker to three functions
  ARM: 9072/1: mm: remove set_kernel_text_r[ow]()
  ARM: 9067/1: syscalls: switch to generic syscallhdr.sh
  ARM: 9068/1: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh
  ARM: 9066/1: ftrace: pause/unpause function graph tracer in cpu_suspend()
  ARM: 9064/1: hw_breakpoint: Do not directly check the event's overflow_handler hook
  ARM: 9062/1: kprobes: rewrite test-arm.c in UAL
  ARM: 9061/1: kprobes: fix UNPREDICTABLE warnings
  ARM: 9060/1: kexec: Remove unused kexec_reinit callback
  ARM: 9059/1: cache-v7: get rid of mini-stack
  ARM: 9058/1: cache-v7: refactor v7_invalidate_l1 to avoid clobbering r5/r6
  ARM: 9057/1: cache-v7: add missing ISB after cache level selection
  ARM: 9056/1: decompressor: fix BSS size calculation for LLVM ld.lld
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<title>ARM: 9075/1: kernel: Fix interrupted SMC calls</title>
<updated>2021-04-18T18:15:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manivannan Sadhasivam</name>
<email>manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-14T03:41:16+00:00</published>
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On Qualcomm ARM32 platforms, the SMC call can return before it has
completed. If this occurs, the call can be restarted, but it requires
using the returned session ID value from the interrupted SMC call.

The ARM32 SMCC code already has the provision to add platform specific
quirks for things like this. So let's make use of it and add the
Qualcomm specific quirk (ARM_SMCCC_QUIRK_QCOM_A6) used by the QCOM_SCM
driver.

This change is similar to the below one added for ARM64 a while ago:
commit 82bcd087029f ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix interrupted SCM calls")

Without this change, the Qualcomm ARM32 platforms like SDX55 will return
-EINVAL for SMC calls used for modem firmware loading and validation.

Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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On Qualcomm ARM32 platforms, the SMC call can return before it has
completed. If this occurs, the call can be restarted, but it requires
using the returned session ID value from the interrupted SMC call.

The ARM32 SMCC code already has the provision to add platform specific
quirks for things like this. So let's make use of it and add the
Qualcomm specific quirk (ARM_SMCCC_QUIRK_QCOM_A6) used by the QCOM_SCM
driver.

This change is similar to the below one added for ARM64 a while ago:
commit 82bcd087029f ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix interrupted SCM calls")

Without this change, the Qualcomm ARM32 platforms like SDX55 will return
-EINVAL for SMC calls used for modem firmware loading and validation.

Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9068/1: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh</title>
<updated>2021-03-25T14:13:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-01T14:28:34+00:00</published>
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Many architectures duplicate similar shell scripts.

This commit converts ARM to use scripts/syscalltbl.sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-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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Many architectures duplicate similar shell scripts.

This commit converts ARM to use scripts/syscalltbl.sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-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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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9066/1: ftrace: pause/unpause function graph tracer in cpu_suspend()</title>
<updated>2021-03-25T10:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>louis.wang</name>
<email>liang26812@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-24T12:25:53+00:00</published>
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Enabling function_graph tracer on ARM causes kernel panic, because the
function graph tracer updates the "return address" of a function in order
to insert a trace callback on function exit, it saves the function's
original return address in a return trace stack, but cpu_suspend() may not
return through the normal return path.

cpu_suspend() will resume directly via the cpu_resume path, but the return
trace stack has been set-up by the subfunctions of cpu_suspend(), which
makes the "return address" inconsistent with cpu_suspend().

This patch refers to Commit de818bd4522c40ea02a81b387d2fa86f989c9623
("arm64: kernel: pause/unpause function graph tracer in cpu_suspend()"),

fixes the issue by pausing/resuming the function graph tracer on the thread
executing cpu_suspend(), so that the function graph tracer state is kept
consistent across functions that enter power down states and never return
by effectively disabling graph tracer while they are executing.

Signed-off-by: louis.wang &lt;liang26812@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Enabling function_graph tracer on ARM causes kernel panic, because the
function graph tracer updates the "return address" of a function in order
to insert a trace callback on function exit, it saves the function's
original return address in a return trace stack, but cpu_suspend() may not
return through the normal return path.

cpu_suspend() will resume directly via the cpu_resume path, but the return
trace stack has been set-up by the subfunctions of cpu_suspend(), which
makes the "return address" inconsistent with cpu_suspend().

This patch refers to Commit de818bd4522c40ea02a81b387d2fa86f989c9623
("arm64: kernel: pause/unpause function graph tracer in cpu_suspend()"),

fixes the issue by pausing/resuming the function graph tracer on the thread
executing cpu_suspend(), so that the function graph tracer state is kept
consistent across functions that enter power down states and never return
by effectively disabling graph tracer while they are executing.

Signed-off-by: louis.wang &lt;liang26812@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9064/1: hw_breakpoint: Do not directly check the event's overflow_handler hook</title>
<updated>2021-03-25T10:27:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhen Lei</name>
<email>thunder.leizhen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-18T02:00:05+00:00</published>
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The commit 1879445dfa7b ("perf/core: Set event's default
::overflow_handler()") set a default event-&gt;overflow_handler in
perf_event_alloc(), and replace the check event-&gt;overflow_handler with
is_default_overflow_handler(), but one is missing.

Currently, the bp-&gt;overflow_handler can not be NULL. As a result,
enable_single_step() is always not invoked.

Comments from Zhen Lei:

 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20210207105934.2001-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com/

Fixes: 1879445dfa7b ("perf/core: Set event's default ::overflow_handler()")
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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The commit 1879445dfa7b ("perf/core: Set event's default
::overflow_handler()") set a default event-&gt;overflow_handler in
perf_event_alloc(), and replace the check event-&gt;overflow_handler with
is_default_overflow_handler(), but one is missing.

Currently, the bp-&gt;overflow_handler can not be NULL. As a result,
enable_single_step() is always not invoked.

Comments from Zhen Lei:

 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20210207105934.2001-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com/

Fixes: 1879445dfa7b ("perf/core: Set event's default ::overflow_handler()")
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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