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<entry>
<title>MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:12:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T16:15:47+00:00</published>
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commit 8f46cca1e6c06a058374816887059bcc017b382f upstream.

This patch fixes the possibility of a deadlock when bringing up
secondary CPUs.
The deadlock occurs because the set_cpu_online() is called before
synchronise_count_slave(). This can cause a deadlock if the boot CPU,
having scheduled another thread, attempts to send an IPI to the
secondary CPU, which it sees has been marked online. The secondary is
blocked in synchronise_count_slave() waiting for the boot CPU to enter
synchronise_count_master(), but the boot cpu is blocked in
smp_call_function_many() waiting for the secondary to respond to it's
IPI request.

Fix this by marking the CPU online in cpu_callin_map and synchronising
counters before declaring the CPU online and calculating the maps for
IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Justin Chen &lt;justinpopo6@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin Chen &lt;justinpopo6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14302/
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 8f46cca1e6c06a058374816887059bcc017b382f upstream.

This patch fixes the possibility of a deadlock when bringing up
secondary CPUs.
The deadlock occurs because the set_cpu_online() is called before
synchronise_count_slave(). This can cause a deadlock if the boot CPU,
having scheduled another thread, attempts to send an IPI to the
secondary CPU, which it sees has been marked online. The secondary is
blocked in synchronise_count_slave() waiting for the boot CPU to enter
synchronise_count_master(), but the boot cpu is blocked in
smp_call_function_many() waiting for the secondary to respond to it's
IPI request.

Fix this by marking the CPU online in cpu_callin_map and synchronising
counters before declaring the CPU online and calculating the maps for
IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Justin Chen &lt;justinpopo6@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin Chen &lt;justinpopo6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14302/
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>
<title>MIPS: Don't BUG_ON when no IPI domain is found</title>
<updated>2016-05-09T10:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-04T09:04:52+00:00</published>
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Commit fbde2d7d8290 ("MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support") introduced
code that BUG_ON's in the case of a kernel that supports IPI domains but
does not have one at runtime. This case is possible on Malta where for
IPIs we may use either the GIC (which has an IPI IRQ domain
implementation) or core-local software interrupts between VPEs (which do
not currently have an IPI IRQ domain implementation). We can not know
which will be used until runtime when we know whether a GIC is actually
present, and if we run on a system with multiple VPEs and no GIC then
the BUG_ON is hit.

Commit 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu") worked around this
for the single-core single-VPE case typically seen using QEMU, but does
not catch the multi-VPE case. This patch removes the insufficient CPU
presence check that was added and works around the bug differently,
effectively reverting that commit.

A simple way to reproduce this bug is by using QEMU, which partially
implements the MT ASE but does not implement the GIC as of version 2.5.
Using "-cpu 34Kf -smp 2" will present a system with 2 VPEs in one core &amp;
no GIC, hitting the BUG_ON.

Given that we're post-merge-window on the way to v4.6, avoid this by
just returning from mips_smp_ipi_init when no IPI IRQ domain is found.
Ideally at some point all IPI implementations would be converted to the
same IPI IRQ domain interface &amp; we'd be able to restore the check.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: fbde2d7d8290 ("MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support")
Fixes: 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu")
Reverts: 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu")
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13007/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Commit fbde2d7d8290 ("MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support") introduced
code that BUG_ON's in the case of a kernel that supports IPI domains but
does not have one at runtime. This case is possible on Malta where for
IPIs we may use either the GIC (which has an IPI IRQ domain
implementation) or core-local software interrupts between VPEs (which do
not currently have an IPI IRQ domain implementation). We can not know
which will be used until runtime when we know whether a GIC is actually
present, and if we run on a system with multiple VPEs and no GIC then
the BUG_ON is hit.

Commit 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu") worked around this
for the single-core single-VPE case typically seen using QEMU, but does
not catch the multi-VPE case. This patch removes the insufficient CPU
presence check that was added and works around the bug differently,
effectively reverting that commit.

A simple way to reproduce this bug is by using QEMU, which partially
implements the MT ASE but does not implement the GIC as of version 2.5.
Using "-cpu 34Kf -smp 2" will present a system with 2 VPEs in one core &amp;
no GIC, hitting the BUG_ON.

Given that we're post-merge-window on the way to v4.6, avoid this by
just returning from mips_smp_ipi_init when no IPI IRQ domain is found.
Ideally at some point all IPI implementations would be converted to the
same IPI IRQ domain interface &amp; we'd be able to restore the check.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: fbde2d7d8290 ("MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support")
Fixes: 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu")
Reverts: 19fb5818ed60 ("IPS: Fix broken malta qemu")
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13007/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix broken malta qemu</title>
<updated>2016-03-29T12:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qsyousef@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T21:08:09+00:00</published>
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Malta defconfig compiles with GIC on. Hence when compiling for SMP it causes
the new IPI code to be activated. But on qemu malta there's no GIC causing a
BUG_ON(!ipidomain) to be hit in mips_smp_ipi_init().

Since in that configuration one can only run a single core SMP (!), skip IPI
initialisation if we detect that this is the case. It is a sensible
behaviour to introduce and should keep such possible configuration to run
rather than die hard unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12892/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Malta defconfig compiles with GIC on. Hence when compiling for SMP it causes
the new IPI code to be activated. But on qemu malta there's no GIC causing a
BUG_ON(!ipidomain) to be hit in mips_smp_ipi_init().

Since in that configuration one can only run a single core SMP (!), skip IPI
initialisation if we detect that this is the case. It is a sensible
behaviour to introduce and should keep such possible configuration to run
rather than die hard unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12892/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T20:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T20:50:29+00:00</published>
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Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:

   - Initial implementation of the state machine

   - Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
     not on some random processor

   - Replaces busy loop waiting with completions

   - Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"

More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
 "What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?

   - Asymmetry

     The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
     teardown.  This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.

   - Largely undocumented dependencies

     While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
     we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
     express dependencies without any documentation why.

   - Control processor driven

     Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
     processor.  While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
     like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
     of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
     there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
     processor.  Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

       bring the rest up

   - All or nothing approach

     There is no way to do partial bringups.  That's something which is
     really desired because we waste e.g.  at boot substantial amount of
     time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life.  That's stupid
     as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
     other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
     synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.

   - Minimal debuggability

     Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
     two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
     the correctness.  So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
     mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.

   - Notifier [un]registering is tedious

     To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
     every callsite.  There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
     callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
     do it itself.  That also includes error rollback.

  What's the new design?

     The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
     the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
     defined set of states.  Each state is symmetric in the end, except
     for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
     stopped and reversed at almost all states.

     So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

                                       bring itself up

     The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
     That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
     other mechanism.

     The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
     up and brings itself down.  Cleanups which need to be done after
     the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.

  There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
  cpu is available.  Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
  out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.

  The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
  threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
  cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
  general workloads can be scheduled on it.  The reverse happens on
  teardown.  First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
  workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
  off completely.

  This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
  core level.  This includes the following:

   - Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
     ordering and prioritization can be expressed.

   - Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks

     This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
     the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
     the state machine array.

     For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
     a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
     explicit hotplug state.

     If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
     previous state.

   - Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.

     This is only partially functional today.  Full functionality and
     therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
     existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.

   - Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
     processor:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu
       wait for boot
                                       bring itself up

                                       Signal completion to control cpu

     In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
     conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme.  The balance
     is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.

     This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
     different approach.  Instead of mechanically converting everything
     over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
     they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.

     I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
     converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
     completely buggered anyway.  So there is no point to do a
     mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
     sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
     testable behaviour"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Document states better
  cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
  cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
  cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
  rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
  cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
  cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
  arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
  cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
  cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
  cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
  cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
  cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
  cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
  cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
  cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
  cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
  cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
  ...
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Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:

   - Initial implementation of the state machine

   - Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
     not on some random processor

   - Replaces busy loop waiting with completions

   - Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"

More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
 "What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?

   - Asymmetry

     The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
     teardown.  This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.

   - Largely undocumented dependencies

     While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
     we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
     express dependencies without any documentation why.

   - Control processor driven

     Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
     processor.  While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
     like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
     of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
     there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
     processor.  Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

       bring the rest up

   - All or nothing approach

     There is no way to do partial bringups.  That's something which is
     really desired because we waste e.g.  at boot substantial amount of
     time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life.  That's stupid
     as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
     other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
     synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.

   - Minimal debuggability

     Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
     two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
     the correctness.  So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
     mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.

   - Notifier [un]registering is tedious

     To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
     every callsite.  There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
     callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
     do it itself.  That also includes error rollback.

  What's the new design?

     The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
     the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
     defined set of states.  Each state is symmetric in the end, except
     for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
     stopped and reversed at almost all states.

     So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

                                       bring itself up

     The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
     That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
     other mechanism.

     The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
     up and brings itself down.  Cleanups which need to be done after
     the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.

  There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
  cpu is available.  Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
  out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.

  The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
  threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
  cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
  general workloads can be scheduled on it.  The reverse happens on
  teardown.  First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
  workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
  off completely.

  This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
  core level.  This includes the following:

   - Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
     ordering and prioritization can be expressed.

   - Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks

     This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
     the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
     the state machine array.

     For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
     a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
     explicit hotplug state.

     If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
     previous state.

   - Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.

     This is only partially functional today.  Full functionality and
     therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
     existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.

   - Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
     processor:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu
       wait for boot
                                       bring itself up

                                       Signal completion to control cpu

     In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
     conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme.  The balance
     is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.

     This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
     different approach.  Instead of mechanically converting everything
     over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
     they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.

     I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
     converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
     completely buggered anyway.  So there is no point to do a
     mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
     sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
     testable behaviour"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Document states better
  cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
  cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
  cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
  rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
  cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
  cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
  arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
  cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
  cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
  cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
  cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
  cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
  cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
  cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
  cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
  cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
  cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T19:48:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T19:48:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=df2e37c814d51692803245fcbecca360d4882e96'/>
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The 4.6 pile of irq updates contains:

   - Support for IPI irqdomains to support proper integration of IPIs to
     and from coprocessors.  The first user of this new facility is
     MIPS.  The relevant MIPS patches come with the core to avoid merge
     ordering issues and have been acked by Ralf.

   - A new command line option to set the default interrupt affinity
     mask at boot time.

   - Support for some more new ARM and MIPS interrupt controllers:
     tango, alpine-msix and bcm6345-l1

   - Two small cleanups for x86/apic which we merged into irq/core to
     avoid yet another branch in x86 with two tiny commits.

   - The usual set of updates, cleanups in drivers/irqchip.  Mostly in
     the area of ARM-GIC, arada-37-xp and atmel chips.  Nothing
     outstanding here"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  irqchip/irq-alpine-msi: Release the correct domain on error
  irqchip/mxs: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  irqchip/sunxi-nmi: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  genirq: Export IRQ functions for module use
  irqchip/gic/realview: Support more RealView DCC variants
  Documentation/bindings: Document the Alpine MSIX driver
  irqchip: Add the Alpine MSIX interrupt controller
  irqchip/gic-v3: Always return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE in gic_set_affinity
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Mark its_init() and its children as __init
  irqchip/gic-v3: Remove gic_root_node variable from the ITS code
  irqchip/gic-v3: ACPI: Add redistributor support via GICC structures
  irqchip/gic-v3: Add ACPI support for GICv3/4 initialization
  irqchip/gic-v3: Refactor gic_of_init() for GICv3 driver
  x86/apic: Deinline _flat_send_IPI_mask, save ~150 bytes
  x86/apic: Deinline __default_send_IPI_*, save ~200 bytes
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add SoC-specific compatible string to Marvell ODMI
  irqchip/mips-gic: Add new DT property to reserve IPIs
  MIPS: Delete smp-gic.c
  MIPS: Make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions
  MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support
  ...
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The 4.6 pile of irq updates contains:

   - Support for IPI irqdomains to support proper integration of IPIs to
     and from coprocessors.  The first user of this new facility is
     MIPS.  The relevant MIPS patches come with the core to avoid merge
     ordering issues and have been acked by Ralf.

   - A new command line option to set the default interrupt affinity
     mask at boot time.

   - Support for some more new ARM and MIPS interrupt controllers:
     tango, alpine-msix and bcm6345-l1

   - Two small cleanups for x86/apic which we merged into irq/core to
     avoid yet another branch in x86 with two tiny commits.

   - The usual set of updates, cleanups in drivers/irqchip.  Mostly in
     the area of ARM-GIC, arada-37-xp and atmel chips.  Nothing
     outstanding here"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  irqchip/irq-alpine-msi: Release the correct domain on error
  irqchip/mxs: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  irqchip/sunxi-nmi: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  genirq: Export IRQ functions for module use
  irqchip/gic/realview: Support more RealView DCC variants
  Documentation/bindings: Document the Alpine MSIX driver
  irqchip: Add the Alpine MSIX interrupt controller
  irqchip/gic-v3: Always return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE in gic_set_affinity
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Mark its_init() and its children as __init
  irqchip/gic-v3: Remove gic_root_node variable from the ITS code
  irqchip/gic-v3: ACPI: Add redistributor support via GICC structures
  irqchip/gic-v3: Add ACPI support for GICv3/4 initialization
  irqchip/gic-v3: Refactor gic_of_init() for GICv3 driver
  x86/apic: Deinline _flat_send_IPI_mask, save ~150 bytes
  x86/apic: Deinline __default_send_IPI_*, save ~200 bytes
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add SoC-specific compatible string to Marvell ODMI
  irqchip/mips-gic: Add new DT property to reserve IPIs
  MIPS: Delete smp-gic.c
  MIPS: Make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions
  MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support
  ...
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: smp.c: Fix uninitialised temp_foreign_map</title>
<updated>2016-03-13T09:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T10:10:51+00:00</published>
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When calculate_cpu_foreign_map() recalculates the cpu_foreign_map
cpumask it uses the local variable temp_foreign_map without initialising
it to zero. Since the calculation only ever sets bits in this cpumask
any existing bits at that memory location will remain set and find their
way into cpu_foreign_map too. This could potentially lead to cache
operations suboptimally doing smp calls to multiple VPEs in the same
core, even though the VPEs share primary caches.

Therefore initialise temp_foreign_map using cpumask_clear() before use.

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: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12759/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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When calculate_cpu_foreign_map() recalculates the cpu_foreign_map
cpumask it uses the local variable temp_foreign_map without initialising
it to zero. Since the calculation only ever sets bits in this cpumask
any existing bits at that memory location will remain set and find their
way into cpu_foreign_map too. This could potentially lead to cache
operations suboptimally doing smp calls to multiple VPEs in the same
core, even though the VPEs share primary caches.

Therefore initialise temp_foreign_map using cpumask_clear() before use.

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: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12759/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state</title>
<updated>2016-03-01T19:36:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T18:43:40+00:00</published>
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Let the non boot cpus call into idle with the corresponding hotplug state, so
the hotplug core can handle the further bringup. That's a first step to
convert the boot side of the hotplugged cpus to do all the synchronization
with the other side through the state machine. For now it'll only start the
hotplug thread and kick the full bringup of the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.614102639@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Let the non boot cpus call into idle with the corresponding hotplug state, so
the hotplug core can handle the further bringup. That's a first step to
convert the boot side of the hotplugged cpus to do all the synchronization
with the other side through the state machine. For now it'll only start the
hotplug thread and kick the full bringup of the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.614102639@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T09:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qais.yousef@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-08T13:20:27+00:00</published>
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Use the new generic IPI layer to provide generic SMP IPI support if the irqchip
supports it.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;lisa.parratt@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449580830-23652-17-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Use the new generic IPI layer to provide generic SMP IPI support if the irqchip
supports it.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;lisa.parratt@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qsyousef@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449580830-23652-17-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Initialise MAARs on secondary CPUs</title>
<updated>2015-09-27T12:15:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-25T15:59:38+00:00</published>
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MAARs should be initialised on each CPU (or rather, core) in the system
in order to achieve consistent behaviour &amp; performance. Previously they
have only been initialised on the boot CPU which leads to performance
problems if tasks are later scheduled on a secondary CPU, particularly
if those tasks make use of unaligned vector accesses where some CPUs
don't handle any cases in hardware for non-speculative memory regions.
Fix this by recording the MAAR configuration from the boot CPU and
applying it to secondary CPUs as part of their bringup.

Reported-by: Doug Gilmore &lt;doug.gilmore@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Hemmo Nieminen &lt;hemmo.nieminen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11239/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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MAARs should be initialised on each CPU (or rather, core) in the system
in order to achieve consistent behaviour &amp; performance. Previously they
have only been initialised on the boot CPU which leads to performance
problems if tasks are later scheduled on a secondary CPU, particularly
if those tasks make use of unaligned vector accesses where some CPUs
don't handle any cases in hardware for non-speculative memory regions.
Fix this by recording the MAAR configuration from the boot CPU and
applying it to secondary CPUs as part of their bringup.

Reported-by: Doug Gilmore &lt;doug.gilmore@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Hemmo Nieminen &lt;hemmo.nieminen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11239/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: SMP: Don't increment irq_count multiple times for call function IPIs</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T07:25:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Smith</name>
<email>alex.smith@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-24T15:57:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4ace6139bf23ab4f152ba4207fc10b76cc01d2a5'/>
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The majority of SMP platforms handle their IPIs through do_IRQ()
which calls irq_{enter/exit}(). When a call function IPI is received,
smp_call_function_interrupt() is called which also calls
irq_{enter,exit}(), meaning irq_count is raised twice.

When tick broadcasting is used (which is implemented via a call
function IPI), this incorrectly causes all CPU idle time on the core
receiving broadcast ticks to be accounted as time spent servicing
IRQs, as account_process_tick() will account as such if irq_count is
greater than 1. This results in 100% CPU usage being reported on a
core which receives its ticks via broadcast.

This patch removes the SMP smp_call_function_interrupt() wrapper which
calls irq_{enter,exit}(). Platforms which handle their IPIs through
do_IRQ() now call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() directly to
avoid incrementing irq_count a second time. Platforms which don't
(loongson, sgi-ip27, sibyte) call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()
wrapped in irq_{enter,exit}().

Signed-off-by: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10770/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The majority of SMP platforms handle their IPIs through do_IRQ()
which calls irq_{enter/exit}(). When a call function IPI is received,
smp_call_function_interrupt() is called which also calls
irq_{enter,exit}(), meaning irq_count is raised twice.

When tick broadcasting is used (which is implemented via a call
function IPI), this incorrectly causes all CPU idle time on the core
receiving broadcast ticks to be accounted as time spent servicing
IRQs, as account_process_tick() will account as such if irq_count is
greater than 1. This results in 100% CPU usage being reported on a
core which receives its ticks via broadcast.

This patch removes the SMP smp_call_function_interrupt() wrapper which
calls irq_{enter,exit}(). Platforms which handle their IPIs through
do_IRQ() now call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() directly to
avoid incrementing irq_count a second time. Platforms which don't
(loongson, sgi-ip27, sibyte) call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()
wrapped in irq_{enter,exit}().

Signed-off-by: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10770/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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