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<title>mips/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump friendly version in panic path</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T08:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hidehiro Kawai</name>
<email>hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:54:26+00:00</published>
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commit 54c721b857fd45f3ad3bda695ee4f472518db02a upstream.

Daniel Walker reported problems which happens when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is enabled
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/44).

In that case, smp_send_stop() is called before entering kdump routines
which assume other CPUs are still online.  As the result, kdump
routines fail to save other CPUs' registers.  Additionally for MIPS
OCTEON, it misses to stop the watchdog timer.

To fix this problem, call a new kdump friendly function,
crash_smp_send_stop(), instead of the smp_send_stop() when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled.  crash_smp_send_stop() is a
weak function, and it just call smp_send_stop().  Architecture
codes should override it so that kdump can work appropriately.
This patch provides MIPS version.

Fixes: f06e5153f4ae (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810080950.11028.28000.stgit@sysi4-13.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Walker &lt;dwalker@fifo99.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Walker &lt;dwalker@fifo99.com&gt;
Cc: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" &lt;steven.hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 54c721b857fd45f3ad3bda695ee4f472518db02a upstream.

Daniel Walker reported problems which happens when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is enabled
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/44).

In that case, smp_send_stop() is called before entering kdump routines
which assume other CPUs are still online.  As the result, kdump
routines fail to save other CPUs' registers.  Additionally for MIPS
OCTEON, it misses to stop the watchdog timer.

To fix this problem, call a new kdump friendly function,
crash_smp_send_stop(), instead of the smp_send_stop() when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled.  crash_smp_send_stop() is a
weak function, and it just call smp_send_stop().  Architecture
codes should override it so that kdump can work appropriately.
This patch provides MIPS version.

Fixes: f06e5153f4ae (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810080950.11028.28000.stgit@sysi4-13.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Walker &lt;dwalker@fifo99.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Walker &lt;dwalker@fifo99.com&gt;
Cc: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" &lt;steven.hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH for ARCH_DLINFO</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T08:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T15:59:50+00:00</published>
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commit 233b2ca181f20674ecad11be90b00814911ce345 upstream.

AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH should be defined with the maximum number of
NEW_AUX_ENT entries that ARCH_DLINFO can contain, but it wasn't defined
for MIPS at all even though ARCH_DLINFO will contain one NEW_AUX_ENT for
the VDSO address.

This shouldn't be a problem as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE includes space for
AT_BASE_PLATFORM which MIPS doesn't use, but lets define it now and add
the comment above ARCH_DLINFO as found in several other architectures to
remind future modifiers of ARCH_DLINFO to keep AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH up to
date.

Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13823/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 233b2ca181f20674ecad11be90b00814911ce345 upstream.

AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH should be defined with the maximum number of
NEW_AUX_ENT entries that ARCH_DLINFO can contain, but it wasn't defined
for MIPS at all even though ARCH_DLINFO will contain one NEW_AUX_ENT for
the VDSO address.

This shouldn't be a problem as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE includes space for
AT_BASE_PLATFORM which MIPS doesn't use, but lets define it now and add
the comment above ARCH_DLINFO as found in several other architectures to
remind future modifiers of ARCH_DLINFO to keep AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH up to
date.

Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13823/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: c-r4k: Fix protected_writeback_scache_line for EVA</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T08:25:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-13T13:12:47+00:00</published>
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commit 0758b116b4080d9a2a2a715bec6eee2cbd828215 upstream.

The protected_writeback_scache_line() function is used by
local_r4k_flush_cache_sigtramp() to flush an FPU delay slot emulation
trampoline on the userland stack from the caches so it is visible to
subsequent instruction fetches.

Commit de8974e3f76c ("MIPS: asm: r4kcache: Add EVA cache flushing
functions") updated some protected_ cache flush functions to use EVA
CACHEE instructions via protected_cachee_op(), and commit 83fd43449baa
("MIPS: r4kcache: Add EVA case for protected_writeback_dcache_line") did
the same thing for protected_writeback_dcache_line(), but
protected_writeback_scache_line() never got updated. Lets fix that now
to flush the right user address from the secondary cache rather than
some arbitrary kernel unmapped address.

This issue was spotted through code inspection, and it seems unlikely to
be possible to hit this in practice. It theoretically affect EVA kernels
on EVA capable cores with an L2 cache, where the icache fetches straight
from RAM (cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store == 0), running a hard float
userland with FPU disabled (nofpu). That both Malta and Boston platforms
override cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store to 1 suggests that all MIPS
cores fetch instructions into icache straight from L2 rather than RAM.

Fixes: de8974e3f76c ("MIPS: asm: r4kcache: Add EVA cache flushing functions")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13800/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0758b116b4080d9a2a2a715bec6eee2cbd828215 upstream.

The protected_writeback_scache_line() function is used by
local_r4k_flush_cache_sigtramp() to flush an FPU delay slot emulation
trampoline on the userland stack from the caches so it is visible to
subsequent instruction fetches.

Commit de8974e3f76c ("MIPS: asm: r4kcache: Add EVA cache flushing
functions") updated some protected_ cache flush functions to use EVA
CACHEE instructions via protected_cachee_op(), and commit 83fd43449baa
("MIPS: r4kcache: Add EVA case for protected_writeback_dcache_line") did
the same thing for protected_writeback_dcache_line(), but
protected_writeback_scache_line() never got updated. Lets fix that now
to flush the right user address from the secondary cache rather than
some arbitrary kernel unmapped address.

This issue was spotted through code inspection, and it seems unlikely to
be possible to hit this in practice. It theoretically affect EVA kernels
on EVA capable cores with an L2 cache, where the icache fetches straight
from RAM (cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store == 0), running a hard float
userland with FPU disabled (nofpu). That both Malta and Boston platforms
override cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store to 1 suggests that all MIPS
cores fetch instructions into icache straight from L2 rather than RAM.

Fixes: de8974e3f76c ("MIPS: asm: r4kcache: Add EVA cache flushing functions")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13800/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: SMP: Update cpu_foreign_map on CPU disable</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T08:25:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-13T13:12:45+00:00</published>
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commit 826e99be6ab5189dbfb096389016ffb8d20a683e upstream.

When a CPU is disabled via CPU hotplug, cpu_foreign_map is not updated.
This could result in cache management SMP calls being sent to offline
CPUs instead of online siblings in the same core.

Add a call to calculate_cpu_foreign_map() in the various MIPS cpu
disable callbacks after set_cpu_online(). All cases are updated for
consistency and to keep cpu_foreign_map strictly up to date, not just
those which may support hardware multithreading.

Fixes: cccf34e9411c ("MIPS: c-r4k: Fix cache flushing for MT cores")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Hongliang Tao &lt;taohl@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Hua Yan &lt;yanh@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13799/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 826e99be6ab5189dbfb096389016ffb8d20a683e upstream.

When a CPU is disabled via CPU hotplug, cpu_foreign_map is not updated.
This could result in cache management SMP calls being sent to offline
CPUs instead of online siblings in the same core.

Add a call to calculate_cpu_foreign_map() in the various MIPS cpu
disable callbacks after set_cpu_online(). All cases are updated for
consistency and to keep cpu_foreign_map strictly up to date, not just
those which may support hardware multithreading.

Fixes: cccf34e9411c ("MIPS: c-r4k: Fix cache flushing for MT cores")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Hongliang Tao &lt;taohl@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Hua Yan &lt;yanh@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13799/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: avoid explicit UB in assignment of mips_io_port_base</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T09:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-29T21:10:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 12051b318bc3ce5b42d6d786191008284b067d83 ]

The code in question is modifying a variable declared const through
pointer manipulation.  Such code is explicitly undefined behavior, and
is the lone issue preventing malta_defconfig from booting when built
with Clang:

If an attempt is made to modify an object defined with a const-qualified
type through use of an lvalue with non-const-qualified type, the
behavior is undefined.

LLVM is removing such assignments. A simple fix is to not declare
variables const that you plan on modifying.  Limiting the scope would be
a better method of preventing unwanted writes to such a variable.

Further, the code in question mentions "compiler bugs" without any links
to bug reports, so it is difficult to know if the issue is resolved in
GCC. The patch was authored in 2006, which would have been GCC 4.0.3 or
4.1.1. The minimal supported version of GCC in the Linux kernel is
currently 4.6.

For what its worth, there was UB before the commit in question, it just
added a barrier and got lucky IRT codegen. I don't think there's any
actual compiler bugs related, just runtime bugs due to UB.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/610
Fixes: 966f4406d903 ("[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for &lt;asm/io.h&gt;.")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Eli Friedman &lt;efriedma@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: jhogan@kernel.org
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Hassan Naveed &lt;hnaveed@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 12051b318bc3ce5b42d6d786191008284b067d83 ]

The code in question is modifying a variable declared const through
pointer manipulation.  Such code is explicitly undefined behavior, and
is the lone issue preventing malta_defconfig from booting when built
with Clang:

If an attempt is made to modify an object defined with a const-qualified
type through use of an lvalue with non-const-qualified type, the
behavior is undefined.

LLVM is removing such assignments. A simple fix is to not declare
variables const that you plan on modifying.  Limiting the scope would be
a better method of preventing unwanted writes to such a variable.

Further, the code in question mentions "compiler bugs" without any links
to bug reports, so it is difficult to know if the issue is resolved in
GCC. The patch was authored in 2006, which would have been GCC 4.0.3 or
4.1.1. The minimal supported version of GCC in the Linux kernel is
currently 4.6.

For what its worth, there was UB before the commit in question, it just
added a barrier and got lucky IRT codegen. I don't think there's any
actual compiler bugs related, just runtime bugs due to UB.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/610
Fixes: 966f4406d903 ("[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for &lt;asm/io.h&gt;.")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Eli Friedman &lt;efriedma@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: jhogan@kernel.org
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Hassan Naveed &lt;hnaveed@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Avoid VDSO ABI breakage due to global register variable</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-02T04:50:38+00:00</published>
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commit bbcc5672b0063b0e9d65dc8787a4f09c3b5bb5cc upstream.

Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bbcc5672b0063b0e9d65dc8787a4f09c3b5bb5cc upstream.

Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_pko_mem_debug8: use oldest forward compatible definition</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:34:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaro Koskinen</name>
<email>aaro.koskinen@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T20:12:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9713d45433c6e0fa15e625e92f1bf88179d471b4'/>
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[ Upstream commit 1c6121c39677175bd372076020948e184bad4b6b ]

cn58xx is compatible with cn50xx, so use the latter.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
[paul.burton@mips.com: s/cn52xx/cn50xx/ in commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1c6121c39677175bd372076020948e184bad4b6b ]

cn58xx is compatible with cn50xx, so use the latter.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
[paul.burton@mips.com: s/cn52xx/cn50xx/ in commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: kexec: Relax memory restriction</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T14:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dengcheng Zhu</name>
<email>dzhu@wavecomp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-11T21:49:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fce9612b5f495cc3051ead904c75157e37004071'/>
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[ Upstream commit a6da4d6fdf8bd512c98d3ac7f1d16bc4bb282919 ]

We can rely on the system kernel and the dump capture kernel themselves in
memory usage.

Being restrictive with 512MB limit may cause kexec tool failure on some
platforms.

Tested-by: Rachel Mozes &lt;rachel.mozes@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Rachel Mozes &lt;rachel.mozes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dengcheng Zhu &lt;dzhu@wavecomp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20568/
Cc: pburton@wavecomp.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a6da4d6fdf8bd512c98d3ac7f1d16bc4bb282919 ]

We can rely on the system kernel and the dump capture kernel themselves in
memory usage.

Being restrictive with 512MB limit may cause kexec tool failure on some
platforms.

Tested-by: Rachel Mozes &lt;rachel.mozes@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Rachel Mozes &lt;rachel.mozes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dengcheng Zhu &lt;dzhu@wavecomp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20568/
Cc: pburton@wavecomp.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: bmips: mark exception vectors as char arrays</title>
<updated>2019-11-10T10:21:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Gorski</name>
<email>jonas.gorski@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-22T19:11:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=771fd6cdb9f84d34a18a432e490cab88d0ba48cd'/>
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[ Upstream commit e4f5cb1a9b27c0f94ef4f5a0178a3fde2d3d0e9e ]

The vectors span more than one byte, so mark them as arrays.

Fixes the following build error when building when using GCC 8.3:

In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:19,
                 from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
                 from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38,
                 from ./include/asm-generic/preempt.h:5,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/generated/asm/preempt.h:1,
                 from ./include/linux/preempt.h:81,
                 from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
                 from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
                 from ./include/linux/bootmem.h:8,
                 from arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:10:
arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c: In function 'prom_init':
./arch/mips/include/asm/string.h:162:11: error: '__builtin_memcpy' forming offset [2, 32] is out of the bounds [0, 1] of object 'bmips_smp_movevec' with type 'char' [-Werror=array-bounds]
   __ret = __builtin_memcpy((dst), (src), __len); \
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:97:3: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
   memcpy((void *)0xa0000200, &amp;bmips_smp_movevec, 0x20);
   ^~~~~~
In file included from arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:14:
./arch/mips/include/asm/bmips.h:80:13: note: 'bmips_smp_movevec' declared here
 extern char bmips_smp_movevec;

Fixes: 18a1eef92dcd ("MIPS: BMIPS: Introduce bmips.h")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jonas.gorski@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e4f5cb1a9b27c0f94ef4f5a0178a3fde2d3d0e9e ]

The vectors span more than one byte, so mark them as arrays.

Fixes the following build error when building when using GCC 8.3:

In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:19,
                 from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
                 from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38,
                 from ./include/asm-generic/preempt.h:5,
                 from ./arch/mips/include/generated/asm/preempt.h:1,
                 from ./include/linux/preempt.h:81,
                 from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
                 from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
                 from ./include/linux/bootmem.h:8,
                 from arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:10:
arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c: In function 'prom_init':
./arch/mips/include/asm/string.h:162:11: error: '__builtin_memcpy' forming offset [2, 32] is out of the bounds [0, 1] of object 'bmips_smp_movevec' with type 'char' [-Werror=array-bounds]
   __ret = __builtin_memcpy((dst), (src), __len); \
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:97:3: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
   memcpy((void *)0xa0000200, &amp;bmips_smp_movevec, 0x20);
   ^~~~~~
In file included from arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c:14:
./arch/mips/include/asm/bmips.h:80:13: note: 'bmips_smp_movevec' declared here
 extern char bmips_smp_movevec;

Fixes: 18a1eef92dcd ("MIPS: BMIPS: Introduce bmips.h")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jonas.gorski@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: netlogic: xlr: Remove erroneous check in nlm_fmn_send()</title>
<updated>2019-09-21T05:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-08T16:30:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9bf96aad172f3c44b42b4fffd0d8c8e7140a37b2'/>
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commit 02eec6c9fc0cb13169cc97a6139771768791f92b upstream.

In nlm_fmn_send() we have a loop which attempts to send a message
multiple times in order to handle the transient failure condition of a
lack of available credit. When examining the status register to detect
the failure we check for a condition that can never be true, which falls
foul of gcc 8's -Wtautological-compare:

  In file included from arch/mips/netlogic/common/irq.c:65:
  ./arch/mips/include/asm/netlogic/xlr/fmn.h: In function 'nlm_fmn_send':
  ./arch/mips/include/asm/netlogic/xlr/fmn.h:304:22: error: bitwise
    comparison always evaluates to false [-Werror=tautological-compare]
     if ((status &amp; 0x2) == 1)
                        ^~

If the path taken if this condition were true all we do is print a
message to the kernel console. Since failures seem somewhat expected
here (making the console message questionable anyway) and the condition
has clearly never evaluated true we simply remove it, rather than
attempting to fix it to check status correctly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20174/
Cc: Ganesan Ramalingam &lt;ganesanr@broadcom.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jayachandran C &lt;jnair@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 02eec6c9fc0cb13169cc97a6139771768791f92b upstream.

In nlm_fmn_send() we have a loop which attempts to send a message
multiple times in order to handle the transient failure condition of a
lack of available credit. When examining the status register to detect
the failure we check for a condition that can never be true, which falls
foul of gcc 8's -Wtautological-compare:

  In file included from arch/mips/netlogic/common/irq.c:65:
  ./arch/mips/include/asm/netlogic/xlr/fmn.h: In function 'nlm_fmn_send':
  ./arch/mips/include/asm/netlogic/xlr/fmn.h:304:22: error: bitwise
    comparison always evaluates to false [-Werror=tautological-compare]
     if ((status &amp; 0x2) == 1)
                        ^~

If the path taken if this condition were true all we do is print a
message to the kernel console. Since failures seem somewhat expected
here (making the console message questionable anyway) and the condition
has clearly never evaluated true we simply remove it, rather than
attempting to fix it to check status correctly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20174/
Cc: Ganesan Ramalingam &lt;ganesanr@broadcom.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jayachandran C &lt;jnair@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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