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<title>MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:16:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
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<published>2018-09-25T22:51:26+00:00</published>
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commit ea7e0480a4b695d0aa6b3fa99bd658a003122113 upstream.

When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s
unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting
from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate
large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being
located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space
available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to
the introduction of the VDSO.

For example:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  ...

Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO &amp;
providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this
space even when using the legacy mmap layout.

We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit &amp; 64
bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base
address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap
base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB &amp; 256MB
sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some
randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address
space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems.

With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of
space for statically linked programs to make use of brk:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  ...
  7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ea7e0480a4b695d0aa6b3fa99bd658a003122113 upstream.

When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s
unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting
from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate
large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being
located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space
available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to
the introduction of the VDSO.

For example:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  ...

Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO &amp;
providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this
space even when using the legacy mmap layout.

We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit &amp; 64
bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base
address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap
base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB &amp; 256MB
sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some
randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address
space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems.

With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of
space for statically linked programs to make use of brk:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  ...
  7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: VDSO: Match data page cache colouring when D$ aliases</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T20:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-30T18:01:21+00:00</published>
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commit 0f02cfbc3d9e413d450d8d0fd660077c23f67eff upstream.

When a system suffers from dcache aliasing a user program may observe
stale VDSO data from an aliased cache line. Notably this can break the
expectation that clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...) is, as its name
suggests, monotonic.

In order to ensure that users observe updates to the VDSO data page as
intended, align the user mappings of the VDSO data page such that their
cache colouring matches that of the virtual address range which the
kernel will use to update the data page - typically its unmapped address
within kseg0.

This ensures that we don't introduce aliasing cache lines for the VDSO
data page, and therefore that userland will observe updates without
requiring cache invalidation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Reported-by: Rene Nielsen &lt;rene.nielsen@microsemi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20344/
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0f02cfbc3d9e413d450d8d0fd660077c23f67eff upstream.

When a system suffers from dcache aliasing a user program may observe
stale VDSO data from an aliased cache line. Notably this can break the
expectation that clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...) is, as its name
suggests, monotonic.

In order to ensure that users observe updates to the VDSO data page as
intended, align the user mappings of the VDSO data page such that their
cache colouring matches that of the virtual address range which the
kernel will use to update the data page - typically its unmapped address
within kseg0.

This ensures that we don't introduce aliasing cache lines for the VDSO
data page, and therefore that userland will observe updates without
requiring cache invalidation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Reported-by: Rene Nielsen &lt;rene.nielsen@microsemi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20344/
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Correct the 64-bit DSP accumulator register size</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:26:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T22:33:26+00:00</published>
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commit f5958b4cf4fc38ed4583ab83fb7c4cd1ab05f47b upstream.

Use the `unsigned long' rather than `__u32' type for DSP accumulator
registers, like with the regular MIPS multiply/divide accumulator and
general-purpose registers, as all are 64-bit in 64-bit implementations
and using a 32-bit data type leads to contents truncation on context
saving.

Update `arch_ptrace' and `compat_arch_ptrace' accordingly, removing
casts that are similarly not used with multiply/divide accumulator or
general-purpose register accesses.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: e50c0a8fa60d ("Support the MIPS32 / MIPS64 DSP ASE.")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19329/
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f5958b4cf4fc38ed4583ab83fb7c4cd1ab05f47b upstream.

Use the `unsigned long' rather than `__u32' type for DSP accumulator
registers, like with the regular MIPS multiply/divide accumulator and
general-purpose registers, as all are 64-bit in 64-bit implementations
and using a 32-bit data type leads to contents truncation on context
saving.

Update `arch_ptrace' and `compat_arch_ptrace' accordingly, removing
casts that are similarly not used with multiply/divide accumulator or
general-purpose register accesses.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: e50c0a8fa60d ("Support the MIPS32 / MIPS64 DSP ASE.")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19329/
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Use async IPIs for arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T17:55:46+00:00</published>
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commit b63e132b6433a41cf311e8bc382d33fd2b73b505 upstream.

The current MIPS implementation of arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is
broken because it attempts to use synchronous IPIs despite the fact that
it may be run with interrupts disabled.

This means that when arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is invoked, for
example by the RCU CPU stall watchdog, we may:

  - Deadlock due to use of synchronous IPIs with interrupts disabled,
    causing the CPU that's attempting to generate the backtrace output
    to hang itself.

  - Not succeed in generating the desired output from remote CPUs.

  - Produce warnings about this from smp_call_function_many(), for
    example:

    [42760.526910] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
    [42760.535755]  0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=ade/140000000000000/0 softirq=526944/526945 fqs=0
    [42760.547874]  1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=e4a/140000000000000/0 softirq=547885/547885 fqs=0
    [42760.559869]  (detected by 2, t=2162 jiffies, g=266689, c=266688, q=33)
    [42760.568927] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.576146] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:416 smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.587839] Modules linked in:
    [42760.593152] CPU: 2 PID: 1216 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.15.4-00373-gee058bb4d0c2 #2
    [42760.603767] Stack : 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 fffffff0 00000007 00000006 00000000 8e09bca8
    [42760.616937]         95b2b379 95b2b379 807a0080 00000007 81944518 0000018a 00000032 00000000
    [42760.630095]         00000000 00000030 80000000 00000000 806eca74 00000009 8017e2b8 000001a0
    [42760.643169]         00000000 00000002 00000000 8e09baa4 00000008 808b8008 86d69080 8e09bca0
    [42760.656282]         8e09ad50 805e20aa 00000000 00000000 00000000 8017e2b8 00000009 801070ca
    [42760.669424]         ...
    [42760.673919] Call Trace:
    [42760.678672] [&lt;27fde568&gt;] show_stack+0x70/0xf0
    [42760.685417] [&lt;84751641&gt;] dump_stack+0xaa/0xd0
    [42760.692188] [&lt;699d671c&gt;] __warn+0x80/0x92
    [42760.698549] [&lt;68915d41&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x28/0x36
    [42760.705912] [&lt;f7c76c1c&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.713696] [&lt;6bbdfc2a&gt;] arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x30/0x4a
    [42760.722216] [&lt;f845bd33&gt;] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x6a/0x98
    [42760.729580] [&lt;796e7629&gt;] rcu_check_callbacks+0x672/0x6ac
    [42760.737476] [&lt;059b3b43&gt;] update_process_times+0x18/0x34
    [42760.744981] [&lt;6eb94941&gt;] tick_sched_handle.isra.5+0x26/0x38
    [42760.752793] [&lt;478d3d70&gt;] tick_sched_timer+0x1c/0x50
    [42760.759882] [&lt;e56ea39f&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc6/0x226
    [42760.767418] [&lt;e88bbcae&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0x88/0x19a
    [42760.775031] [&lt;6765a19e&gt;] gic_compare_interrupt+0x2e/0x3a
    [42760.782761] [&lt;0558bf5f&gt;] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x78/0x168
    [42760.790795] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.798117] [&lt;1b6d462c&gt;] gic_handle_local_int+0x38/0x86
    [42760.805545] [&lt;b2ada1c7&gt;] gic_irq_dispatch+0xa/0x14
    [42760.812534] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.820086] [&lt;c7521934&gt;] do_IRQ+0x16/0x20
    [42760.826274] [&lt;9aef3ce6&gt;] plat_irq_dispatch+0x62/0x94
    [42760.833458] [&lt;6a94b53c&gt;] except_vec_vi_end+0x70/0x78
    [42760.840655] [&lt;22284043&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1ba/0x20c
    [42760.848501] [&lt;54022b58&gt;] smp_call_function+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.855693] [&lt;ab9fc705&gt;] flush_tlb_mm+0x2a/0x98
    [42760.862730] [&lt;0844cdd0&gt;] tlb_flush_mmu+0x1c/0x44
    [42760.869628] [&lt;cb259b74&gt;] arch_tlb_finish_mmu+0x26/0x3e
    [42760.877021] [&lt;1aeaaf74&gt;] tlb_finish_mmu+0x18/0x66
    [42760.883907] [&lt;b3fce717&gt;] exit_mmap+0x76/0xea
    [42760.890428] [&lt;c4c8a2f6&gt;] mmput+0x80/0x11a
    [42760.896632] [&lt;a41a08f4&gt;] do_exit+0x1f4/0x80c
    [42760.903158] [&lt;ee01cef6&gt;] do_group_exit+0x20/0x7e
    [42760.909990] [&lt;13fa8d54&gt;] __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x1e
    [42760.917045] [&lt;46cf89d0&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1a2/0x20c
    [42760.924893] [&lt;8c21a93b&gt;] syscall_common+0x14/0x1c
    [42760.931765] ---[ end trace 02aa09da9dc52a60 ]---
    [42760.938342] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.945311] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:291 smp_call_function_single+0xee/0xf8
    ...

This patch switches MIPS' arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() to use async
IPIs &amp; smp_call_function_single_async() in order to resolve this
problem. We ensure use of the pre-allocated call_single_data_t
structures is serialized by maintaining a cpumask indicating that
they're busy, and refusing to attempt to send an IPI when a CPU's bit is
set in this mask. This should only happen if a CPU hasn't responded to a
previous backtrace IPI - ie. if it's hung - and we print a warning to
the console in this case.

I've marked this for stable branches as far back as v4.9, to which it
applies cleanly. Strictly speaking the faulty MIPS implementation can be
traced further back to commit 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add
arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function") in v3.19, but kernel
versions v3.19 through v4.8 will require further work to backport due to
the rework performed in commit 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more
trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19597/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Fixes: 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function")
Fixes: 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b63e132b6433a41cf311e8bc382d33fd2b73b505 upstream.

The current MIPS implementation of arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is
broken because it attempts to use synchronous IPIs despite the fact that
it may be run with interrupts disabled.

This means that when arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is invoked, for
example by the RCU CPU stall watchdog, we may:

  - Deadlock due to use of synchronous IPIs with interrupts disabled,
    causing the CPU that's attempting to generate the backtrace output
    to hang itself.

  - Not succeed in generating the desired output from remote CPUs.

  - Produce warnings about this from smp_call_function_many(), for
    example:

    [42760.526910] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
    [42760.535755]  0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=ade/140000000000000/0 softirq=526944/526945 fqs=0
    [42760.547874]  1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=e4a/140000000000000/0 softirq=547885/547885 fqs=0
    [42760.559869]  (detected by 2, t=2162 jiffies, g=266689, c=266688, q=33)
    [42760.568927] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.576146] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:416 smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.587839] Modules linked in:
    [42760.593152] CPU: 2 PID: 1216 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.15.4-00373-gee058bb4d0c2 #2
    [42760.603767] Stack : 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 fffffff0 00000007 00000006 00000000 8e09bca8
    [42760.616937]         95b2b379 95b2b379 807a0080 00000007 81944518 0000018a 00000032 00000000
    [42760.630095]         00000000 00000030 80000000 00000000 806eca74 00000009 8017e2b8 000001a0
    [42760.643169]         00000000 00000002 00000000 8e09baa4 00000008 808b8008 86d69080 8e09bca0
    [42760.656282]         8e09ad50 805e20aa 00000000 00000000 00000000 8017e2b8 00000009 801070ca
    [42760.669424]         ...
    [42760.673919] Call Trace:
    [42760.678672] [&lt;27fde568&gt;] show_stack+0x70/0xf0
    [42760.685417] [&lt;84751641&gt;] dump_stack+0xaa/0xd0
    [42760.692188] [&lt;699d671c&gt;] __warn+0x80/0x92
    [42760.698549] [&lt;68915d41&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x28/0x36
    [42760.705912] [&lt;f7c76c1c&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.713696] [&lt;6bbdfc2a&gt;] arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x30/0x4a
    [42760.722216] [&lt;f845bd33&gt;] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x6a/0x98
    [42760.729580] [&lt;796e7629&gt;] rcu_check_callbacks+0x672/0x6ac
    [42760.737476] [&lt;059b3b43&gt;] update_process_times+0x18/0x34
    [42760.744981] [&lt;6eb94941&gt;] tick_sched_handle.isra.5+0x26/0x38
    [42760.752793] [&lt;478d3d70&gt;] tick_sched_timer+0x1c/0x50
    [42760.759882] [&lt;e56ea39f&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc6/0x226
    [42760.767418] [&lt;e88bbcae&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0x88/0x19a
    [42760.775031] [&lt;6765a19e&gt;] gic_compare_interrupt+0x2e/0x3a
    [42760.782761] [&lt;0558bf5f&gt;] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x78/0x168
    [42760.790795] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.798117] [&lt;1b6d462c&gt;] gic_handle_local_int+0x38/0x86
    [42760.805545] [&lt;b2ada1c7&gt;] gic_irq_dispatch+0xa/0x14
    [42760.812534] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.820086] [&lt;c7521934&gt;] do_IRQ+0x16/0x20
    [42760.826274] [&lt;9aef3ce6&gt;] plat_irq_dispatch+0x62/0x94
    [42760.833458] [&lt;6a94b53c&gt;] except_vec_vi_end+0x70/0x78
    [42760.840655] [&lt;22284043&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1ba/0x20c
    [42760.848501] [&lt;54022b58&gt;] smp_call_function+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.855693] [&lt;ab9fc705&gt;] flush_tlb_mm+0x2a/0x98
    [42760.862730] [&lt;0844cdd0&gt;] tlb_flush_mmu+0x1c/0x44
    [42760.869628] [&lt;cb259b74&gt;] arch_tlb_finish_mmu+0x26/0x3e
    [42760.877021] [&lt;1aeaaf74&gt;] tlb_finish_mmu+0x18/0x66
    [42760.883907] [&lt;b3fce717&gt;] exit_mmap+0x76/0xea
    [42760.890428] [&lt;c4c8a2f6&gt;] mmput+0x80/0x11a
    [42760.896632] [&lt;a41a08f4&gt;] do_exit+0x1f4/0x80c
    [42760.903158] [&lt;ee01cef6&gt;] do_group_exit+0x20/0x7e
    [42760.909990] [&lt;13fa8d54&gt;] __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x1e
    [42760.917045] [&lt;46cf89d0&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1a2/0x20c
    [42760.924893] [&lt;8c21a93b&gt;] syscall_common+0x14/0x1c
    [42760.931765] ---[ end trace 02aa09da9dc52a60 ]---
    [42760.938342] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.945311] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:291 smp_call_function_single+0xee/0xf8
    ...

This patch switches MIPS' arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() to use async
IPIs &amp; smp_call_function_single_async() in order to resolve this
problem. We ensure use of the pre-allocated call_single_data_t
structures is serialized by maintaining a cpumask indicating that
they're busy, and refusing to attempt to send an IPI when a CPU's bit is
set in this mask. This should only happen if a CPU hasn't responded to a
previous backtrace IPI - ie. if it's hung - and we print a warning to
the console in this case.

I've marked this for stable branches as far back as v4.9, to which it
applies cleanly. Strictly speaking the faulty MIPS implementation can be
traced further back to commit 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add
arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function") in v3.19, but kernel
versions v3.19 through v4.8 will require further work to backport due to
the rework performed in commit 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more
trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19597/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Fixes: 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function")
Fixes: 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T17:55:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=14ab9902422c96cf2ab4db289edaf10ee605059c'/>
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commit 5a267832c2ec47b2dad0fdb291a96bb5b8869315 upstream.

The generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() function calls show_regs() when a struct
pt_regs is available, and dump_stack() otherwise. If we were to make use
of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() with MIPS' current implementation of
show_regs() this would mean that we see only register data with no
accompanying stack information, in contrast with our current
implementation which calls dump_stack() regardless of whether register
state is available.

In preparation for making use of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() to
implement arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(), have our implementation of
show_regs() call dump_stack() and drop the explicit dump_stack() call in
arch_dump_stack() which is invoked by arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace().

This will allow the output we produce to remain the same after a later
patch switches to using nmi_cpu_backtrace(). It may mean that we produce
extra stack output in other uses of show_regs(), but this:

  1) Seems harmless.
  2) Is good for consistency between arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()
     and other users of show_regs().
  3) Matches the behaviour of the ARM &amp; PowerPC architectures.

Marked for stable back to v4.9 as a prerequisite of the following patch
"MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()".

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19596/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a267832c2ec47b2dad0fdb291a96bb5b8869315 upstream.

The generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() function calls show_regs() when a struct
pt_regs is available, and dump_stack() otherwise. If we were to make use
of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() with MIPS' current implementation of
show_regs() this would mean that we see only register data with no
accompanying stack information, in contrast with our current
implementation which calls dump_stack() regardless of whether register
state is available.

In preparation for making use of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() to
implement arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(), have our implementation of
show_regs() call dump_stack() and drop the explicit dump_stack() call in
arch_dump_stack() which is invoked by arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace().

This will allow the output we produce to remain the same after a later
patch switches to using nmi_cpu_backtrace(). It may mean that we produce
extra stack output in other uses of show_regs(), but this:

  1) Seems harmless.
  2) Is good for consistency between arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()
     and other users of show_regs().
  3) Matches the behaviour of the ARM &amp; PowerPC architectures.

Marked for stable back to v4.9 as a prerequisite of the following patch
"MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()".

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19596/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: ftrace: fix static function graph tracing</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:24:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-24T16:57:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5eff5dbf3108017efe46ad3803b2122dfd1128b5'/>
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commit 6fb8656646f996d1eef42e6d56203c4915cb9e08 upstream.

ftrace_graph_caller was never run after calling ftrace_trace_function,
breaking the function graph tracer. Fix this, bringing it in line with the
x86 implementation.

While we're at it, also streamline the control flow of _mcount a bit to
reduce the number of branches.

This issue was reported before:
https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2014-11/msg00295.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18929/
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6fb8656646f996d1eef42e6d56203c4915cb9e08 upstream.

ftrace_graph_caller was never run after calling ftrace_trace_function,
breaking the function graph tracer. Fix this, bringing it in line with the
x86 implementation.

While we're at it, also streamline the control flow of _mcount a bit to
reduce the number of branches.

This issue was reported before:
https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2014-11/msg00295.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18929/
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: prctl: Disallow FRE without FR with PR_SET_FP_MODE requests</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T09:41:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T22:04:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8a6576219da8df6c72e6123f1313ad77d8c92288'/>
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commit 28e4213dd331e944e7fca1954a946829162ed9d4 upstream.

Having PR_FP_MODE_FRE (i.e. Config5.FRE) set without PR_FP_MODE_FR (i.e.
Status.FR) is not supported as the lone purpose of Config5.FRE is to
emulate Status.FR=0 handling on FPU hardware that has Status.FR=1
hardwired[1][2].  Also we do not handle this case elsewhere, and assume
throughout our code that TIF_HYBRID_FPREGS and TIF_32BIT_FPREGS cannot
be set both at once for a task, leading to inconsistent behaviour if
this does happen.

Return unsuccessfully then from prctl(2) PR_SET_FP_MODE calls requesting
PR_FP_MODE_FRE to be set with PR_FP_MODE_FR clear.  This corresponds to
modes allowed by `mips_set_personality_fp'.

References:

[1] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Vol. III: MIPS32 / microMIPS32
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00090, Revision 6.02, July 10, 2015, Table 9.69
    "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 262

[2] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Volume III: MIPS64 / microMIPS64
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00091, Revision 6.03, December 22, 2015, Table
    9.72 "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 288

Fixes: 9791554b45a2 ("MIPS,prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_FP_MODE prctl options for MIPS")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.0+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19327/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 28e4213dd331e944e7fca1954a946829162ed9d4 upstream.

Having PR_FP_MODE_FRE (i.e. Config5.FRE) set without PR_FP_MODE_FR (i.e.
Status.FR) is not supported as the lone purpose of Config5.FRE is to
emulate Status.FR=0 handling on FPU hardware that has Status.FR=1
hardwired[1][2].  Also we do not handle this case elsewhere, and assume
throughout our code that TIF_HYBRID_FPREGS and TIF_32BIT_FPREGS cannot
be set both at once for a task, leading to inconsistent behaviour if
this does happen.

Return unsuccessfully then from prctl(2) PR_SET_FP_MODE calls requesting
PR_FP_MODE_FRE to be set with PR_FP_MODE_FR clear.  This corresponds to
modes allowed by `mips_set_personality_fp'.

References:

[1] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Vol. III: MIPS32 / microMIPS32
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00090, Revision 6.02, July 10, 2015, Table 9.69
    "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 262

[2] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Volume III: MIPS64 / microMIPS64
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00091, Revision 6.03, December 22, 2015, Table
    9.72 "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 288

Fixes: 9791554b45a2 ("MIPS,prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_FP_MODE prctl options for MIPS")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.0+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19327/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: ptrace: Fix PTRACE_PEEKUSR requests for 64-bit FGRs</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T09:41:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-16T15:39:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f7a36d7ac838321b949bcb66ecbe9ebcba6f5c64'/>
<id>f7a36d7ac838321b949bcb66ecbe9ebcba6f5c64</id>
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commit c7e814628df65f424fe197dde73bfc67e4a244d7 upstream.

Use 64-bit accesses for 64-bit floating-point general registers with
PTRACE_PEEKUSR, removing the truncation of their upper halves in the
FR=1 mode, caused by commit bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context
access"), which inadvertently switched them to using 32-bit accesses.

The PTRACE_POKEUSR side is fine as it's never been broken and continues
using 64-bit accesses.

Fixes: bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context access")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.15+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19334/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c7e814628df65f424fe197dde73bfc67e4a244d7 upstream.

Use 64-bit accesses for 64-bit floating-point general registers with
PTRACE_PEEKUSR, removing the truncation of their upper halves in the
FR=1 mode, caused by commit bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context
access"), which inadvertently switched them to using 32-bit accesses.

The PTRACE_POKEUSR side is fine as it's never been broken and continues
using 64-bit accesses.

Fixes: bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context access")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.15+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19334/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix ptrace(2) PTRACE_PEEKUSR and PTRACE_POKEUSR accesses to o32 FGRs</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:51:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-14T15:49:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bba75a0ccdb58317dda14464ae1c8dabfa55b230'/>
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commit 9a3a92ccfe3620743d4ae57c987dc8e9c5f88996 upstream.

Check the TIF_32BIT_FPREGS task setting of the tracee rather than the
tracer in determining the layout of floating-point general registers in
the floating-point context, correcting access to odd-numbered registers
for o32 tracees where the setting disagrees between the two processes.

Fixes: 597ce1723e0f ("MIPS: Support for 64-bit FP with O32 binaries")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9a3a92ccfe3620743d4ae57c987dc8e9c5f88996 upstream.

Check the TIF_32BIT_FPREGS task setting of the tracee rather than the
tracer in determining the layout of floating-point general registers in
the floating-point context, correcting access to odd-numbered registers
for o32 tracees where the setting disagrees between the two processes.

Fixes: 597ce1723e0f ("MIPS: Support for 64-bit FP with O32 binaries")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: ptrace: Expose FIR register through FP regset</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:51:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-30T14:56:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=769fc447cced0178dacdeb414a82ba70a7bd1188'/>
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commit 71e909c0cdad28a1df1fa14442929e68615dee45 upstream.

Correct commit 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
and expose the FIR register using the unused 4 bytes at the end of the
NT_PRFPREG regset.  Without that register included clients cannot use
the PTRACE_GETREGSET request to retrieve the complete FPU register set
and have to resort to one of the older interfaces, either PTRACE_PEEKUSR
or PTRACE_GETFPREGS, to retrieve the missing piece of data.  Also the
register is irreversibly missing from core dumps.

This register is architecturally hardwired and read-only so the write
path does not matter.  Ignore data supplied on writes then.

Fixes: 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19273/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 71e909c0cdad28a1df1fa14442929e68615dee45 upstream.

Correct commit 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
and expose the FIR register using the unused 4 bytes at the end of the
NT_PRFPREG regset.  Without that register included clients cannot use
the PTRACE_GETREGSET request to retrieve the complete FPU register set
and have to resort to one of the older interfaces, either PTRACE_PEEKUSR
or PTRACE_GETFPREGS, to retrieve the missing piece of data.  Also the
register is irreversibly missing from core dumps.

This register is architecturally hardwired and read-only so the write
path does not matter.  Ignore data supplied on writes then.

Fixes: 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19273/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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