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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>MIPS: bmips: mark exception vectors as char arrays</title>
<updated>2019-10-24T04:07:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Gorski</name>
<email>jonas.gorski@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-22T19:11:00+00:00</published>
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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;
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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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: elf_hwcap: Export userspace ASEs</title>
<updated>2019-10-10T18:57:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-10T15:01:57+00:00</published>
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A Golang developer reported MIPS hwcap isn't reflecting instructions
that the processor actually supported so programs can't apply optimized
code at runtime.

Thus we export the ASEs that can be used in userspace programs.

Reported-by: Meng Zhuo &lt;mengzhuo1203@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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A Golang developer reported MIPS hwcap isn't reflecting instructions
that the processor actually supported so programs can't apply optimized
code at runtime.

Thus we export the ASEs that can be used in userspace programs.

Reported-by: Meng Zhuo &lt;mengzhuo1203@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: init: Prevent adding memory before PHYS_OFFSET</title>
<updated>2019-10-02T21:11:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Bogendoerfer</name>
<email>tbogendoerfer@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-24T15:20:51+00:00</published>
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On some SGI machines (IP28 and IP30) a small region of memory is mirrored
to pyhsical address 0 for exception vectors while rest of the memory
is reachable at a higher physical address. ARC PROM marks this
region as reserved, but with commit a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop
boot_mem_map") this chunk is used, when searching for start of ram,
which breaks at least IP28 and IP30 machines. To fix this
add_region_memory() checks for start address &lt; PHYS_OFFSET and ignores
these chunks.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tbogendoerfer@suse.de&gt;
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
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On some SGI machines (IP28 and IP30) a small region of memory is mirrored
to pyhsical address 0 for exception vectors while rest of the memory
is reachable at a higher physical address. ARC PROM marks this
region as reserved, but with commit a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop
boot_mem_map") this chunk is used, when searching for start of ram,
which breaks at least IP28 and IP30 machines. To fix this
add_region_memory() checks for start address &lt; PHYS_OFFSET and ignores
these chunks.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tbogendoerfer@suse.de&gt;
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
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: init: Fix reservation of memory between PHYS_OFFSET and mem start</title>
<updated>2019-10-02T21:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Bogendoerfer</name>
<email>tbogendoerfer@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-24T15:19:56+00:00</published>
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Fix calculation of the size for reserving memory between PHYS_OFFSET
and real memory start.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tbogendoerfer@suse.de&gt;
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
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Fix calculation of the size for reserving memory between PHYS_OFFSET
and real memory start.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tbogendoerfer@suse.de&gt;
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
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Wire up clone3 syscall</title>
<updated>2019-10-02T21:06:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-02T18:59:49+00:00</published>
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Wire up the new clone3 syscall for MIPS, using save_static_function() to
generate a wrapper that saves registers $s0-$s7 prior to invoking the
generic sys_clone3 function just like we do for plain old clone.

Tested atop 64r6el_defconfig using o32, n32 &amp; n64 builds of the simple
test program from:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190716130631.tohj4ub54md25dys@brauner.io/

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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Wire up the new clone3 syscall for MIPS, using save_static_function() to
generate a wrapper that saves registers $s0-$s7 prior to invoking the
generic sys_clone3 function just like we do for plain old clone.

Tested atop 64r6el_defconfig using o32, n32 &amp; n64 builds of the simple
test program from:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190716130631.tohj4ub54md25dys@brauner.io/

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: cpu-bugs64: Mark inline functions as __always_inline</title>
<updated>2019-10-01T19:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-27T05:33:39+00:00</published>
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Commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
forcibly") allows compiler to uninline functions marked as 'inline'.
Leading to section mismatch in this case.

Since we're using const variables to pass assembly flags, 'inline's
can't be dropped. So we simply mark them as __always_inline.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Annotate these functions with __init, even if it only serves to
    inform human readers when the code can be used.
  - Drop the __always_inline from check_daddi() &amp; check_daddiu() which
    don't use arguments as immediates in inline asm.
  - Rewrap the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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Commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
forcibly") allows compiler to uninline functions marked as 'inline'.
Leading to section mismatch in this case.

Since we're using const variables to pass assembly flags, 'inline's
can't be dropped. So we simply mark them as __always_inline.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Annotate these functions with __init, even if it only serves to
    inform human readers when the code can be used.
  - Drop the __always_inline from check_daddi() &amp; check_daddiu() which
    don't use arguments as immediates in inline asm.
  - Rewrap the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mips_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux</title>
<updated>2019-09-22T16:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-22T16:30:30+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
 "Main MIPS changes:

   - boot_mem_map is removed, providing a nice cleanup made possible by
     the recent removal of bootmem.

   - Some fixes to atomics, in general providing compiler barriers for
     smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic plus fixes specific to Loongson CPUs
     or MIPS32 systems using cmpxchg64().

   - Conversion to the new generic VDSO infrastructure courtesy of
     Vincenzo Frascino.

   - Removal of undefined behavior in set_io_port_base(), fixing the
     behavior of some MIPS kernel configurations when built with recent
     clang versions.

   - Initial MIPS32 huge page support, functional on at least Ingenic
     SoCs.

   - pte_special() is now supported for some configurations, allowing
     among other things generic fast GUP to be used.

   - Miscellaneous fixes &amp; cleanups.

  And platform specific changes:

   - Major improvements to Ingenic SoC support from Paul Cercueil,
     mostly enabled by the inclusion of the new TCU (timer-counter unit)
     drivers he's spent a very patient year or so working on. Plus some
     fixes for X1000 SoCs from Zhou Yanjie.

   - Netgear R6200 v1 systems are now supported by the bcm47xx platform.

   - DT updates for BMIPS, Lantiq &amp; Microsemi Ocelot systems"

* tag 'mips_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (89 commits)
  MIPS: Detect bad _PFN_SHIFT values
  MIPS: Disable pte_special() for MIPS32 with RiXi
  MIPS: ralink: deactivate PCI support for SOC_MT7621
  mips: compat: vdso: Use legacy syscalls as fallback
  MIPS: Drop Loongson _CACHE_* definitions
  MIPS: tlbex: Remove cpu_has_local_ebase
  MIPS: tlbex: Simplify r3k check
  MIPS: Select R3k-style TLB in Kconfig
  MIPS: PCI: refactor ioc3 special handling
  mips: remove ioremap_cachable
  mips/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
  mips/atomic: Fix loongson_llsc_mb() wreckage
  mips/atomic: Fix cmpxchg64 barriers
  MIPS: Octeon: remove duplicated include from dma-octeon.c
  firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Allow COMPILE_TEST
  firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Correct size_t printf format
  MIPS: Treat Loongson Extensions as ASEs
  MIPS: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq()
  MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP ready interrupt
  MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP register range
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
 "Main MIPS changes:

   - boot_mem_map is removed, providing a nice cleanup made possible by
     the recent removal of bootmem.

   - Some fixes to atomics, in general providing compiler barriers for
     smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic plus fixes specific to Loongson CPUs
     or MIPS32 systems using cmpxchg64().

   - Conversion to the new generic VDSO infrastructure courtesy of
     Vincenzo Frascino.

   - Removal of undefined behavior in set_io_port_base(), fixing the
     behavior of some MIPS kernel configurations when built with recent
     clang versions.

   - Initial MIPS32 huge page support, functional on at least Ingenic
     SoCs.

   - pte_special() is now supported for some configurations, allowing
     among other things generic fast GUP to be used.

   - Miscellaneous fixes &amp; cleanups.

  And platform specific changes:

   - Major improvements to Ingenic SoC support from Paul Cercueil,
     mostly enabled by the inclusion of the new TCU (timer-counter unit)
     drivers he's spent a very patient year or so working on. Plus some
     fixes for X1000 SoCs from Zhou Yanjie.

   - Netgear R6200 v1 systems are now supported by the bcm47xx platform.

   - DT updates for BMIPS, Lantiq &amp; Microsemi Ocelot systems"

* tag 'mips_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (89 commits)
  MIPS: Detect bad _PFN_SHIFT values
  MIPS: Disable pte_special() for MIPS32 with RiXi
  MIPS: ralink: deactivate PCI support for SOC_MT7621
  mips: compat: vdso: Use legacy syscalls as fallback
  MIPS: Drop Loongson _CACHE_* definitions
  MIPS: tlbex: Remove cpu_has_local_ebase
  MIPS: tlbex: Simplify r3k check
  MIPS: Select R3k-style TLB in Kconfig
  MIPS: PCI: refactor ioc3 special handling
  mips: remove ioremap_cachable
  mips/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
  mips/atomic: Fix loongson_llsc_mb() wreckage
  mips/atomic: Fix cmpxchg64 barriers
  MIPS: Octeon: remove duplicated include from dma-octeon.c
  firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Allow COMPILE_TEST
  firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Correct size_t printf format
  MIPS: Treat Loongson Extensions as ASEs
  MIPS: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq()
  MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP ready interrupt
  MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP register range
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mips/atomic: Fix loongson_llsc_mb() wreckage</title>
<updated>2019-08-31T10:05:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T13:43:19+00:00</published>
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The comment describing the loongson_llsc_mb() reorder case doesn't
make any sense what so ever. Instruction re-ordering is not an SMP
artifact, but rather a CPU local phenomenon. Clarify the comment by
explaining that these issue cause a coherence fail.

For the branch speculation case; if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
needs one at the bne branch target, then surely the normal
__cmpxch_asm() implementation does too. We cannot rely on the
barriers from cmpxchg() because cmpxchg_local() is implemented with
the same macro, and branch prediction and speculation are, too, CPU
local.

Fixes: e02e07e3127d ("MIPS: Loongson: Introduce and use loongson_llsc_mb()")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Pei &lt;huangpei@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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The comment describing the loongson_llsc_mb() reorder case doesn't
make any sense what so ever. Instruction re-ordering is not an SMP
artifact, but rather a CPU local phenomenon. Clarify the comment by
explaining that these issue cause a coherence fail.

For the branch speculation case; if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
needs one at the bne branch target, then surely the normal
__cmpxch_asm() implementation does too. We cannot rely on the
barriers from cmpxchg() because cmpxchg_local() is implemented with
the same macro, and branch prediction and speculation are, too, CPU
local.

Fixes: e02e07e3127d ("MIPS: Loongson: Introduce and use loongson_llsc_mb()")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Pei &lt;huangpei@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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<title>MIPS: Treat Loongson Extensions as ASEs</title>
<updated>2019-08-26T10:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-29T08:42:59+00:00</published>
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Recently, binutils had split Loongson-3 Extensions into four ASEs:
MMI, CAM, EXT, EXT2. This patch do the samething in kernel and expose
them in cpuinfo so applications can probe supported ASEs at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Yunqiang Su &lt;ysu@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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Recently, binutils had split Loongson-3 Extensions into four ASEs:
MMI, CAM, EXT, EXT2. This patch do the samething in kernel and expose
them in cpuinfo so applications can probe supported ASEs at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Yunqiang Su &lt;ysu@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>mips: avoid explicit UB in assignment of mips_io_port_base</title>
<updated>2019-08-24T14:10:58+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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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
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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
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