linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild, branch linux-rolling-lts

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

2026-06-01T15:50:44+00:00

commit a494d3c8d5392bcdff83c2a593df0c160ff9f322 upstream.

On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache
to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a
coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer
and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the
counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the
persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded.

To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and
flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory.

Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only

2025-09-30T17:40:02+00:00

Rework the vast majority of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM
submodules, i.e. to x86's kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko.
With few exceptions, KVM's exported APIs are intended (and safe) for KVM-
internal usage only.

Keep kvm_get_kvm(), kvm_get_kvm_safe(), and kvm_put_kvm() as normal
exports, as they are needed by VFIO, and are generally safe for external
usage (though ideally even the get/put APIs would be KVM-internal, and
VFIO would pin a VM by grabbing a reference to its associated file).

Implement a framework in kvm_types.h in anticipation of providing a macro
to restrict KVM-specific kernel exports, i.e. to provide symbol exports
for KVM if and only if KVM is built as one or more modules.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919003303.1355064-3-seanjc@google.com
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

sched/vtime: Do not include header

2024-04-17T11:37:23+00:00

There is no architecture-specific code or data left
that generic  needs to know about.
Thus, avoid the inclusion of  header.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f7cd245668b9ae61a55184871aec494ec9199c4a.1712760275.git.agordeev@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: remove

2023-08-16T13:54:48+00:00

All *.S files under arch/powerpc/ have been converted to include
 instead of .

Remove .

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20230806150954.394189-3-masahiroy@kernel.org

char/agp: introduce asm-generic/agp.h

2023-02-13T21:13:29+00:00

There are several architectures that duplicate definitions of
map_page_into_agp(), unmap_page_from_agp() and flush_agp_cache().

Define those in asm-generic/agp.h and use it instead of duplicated
per-architecture headers.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

powerpc/syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh

2021-04-14T13:04:16+00:00

Many architectures duplicate similar shell scripts.

This commit converts powerpc to use scripts/syscalltbl.sh. This also
unifies syscall_table_32.h and syscall_table_c32.h.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210301153019.362742-1-masahiroy@kernel.org

local64.h: make mandatory

2020-12-29T23:36:49+00:00

Make  mandatory in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
remove all arch/*/include/asm/local64.h arch-specific files since they
only #include .

This fixes build errors on arch/c6x/ and arch/nios2/ for
block/blk-iocost.c.

Build-tested on 21 of 25 arch-es.  (tools problems on the others)

Yes, we could even rename  to
 and change all #includes to use
 instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201227024446.17018-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2020-08-07T17:33:50+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...

powerpc/64s: Implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks

2020-07-26T14:01:23+00:00

These have shown significantly improved performance and fairness when
spinlock contention is moderate to high on very large systems.

With this series including subsequent patches, on a 16 socket 1536
thread POWER9, a stress test such as same-file open/close from all
CPUs gets big speedups, 11620op/s aggregate with simple spinlocks vs
384158op/s (33x faster), where the difference in throughput between
the fastest and slowest thread goes from 7x to 1.4x.

Thanks to the fast path being identical in terms of atomics and
barriers (after a subsequent optimisation patch), single threaded
performance is not changed (no measurable difference).

On smaller systems, performance and fairness seems to be generally
improved. Using dbench on tmpfs as a test (that starts to run into
kernel spinlock contention), a 2-socket OpenPOWER POWER9 system was
tested with bare metal and KVM guest configurations. Results can be
found here:

https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/305#issuecomment-663487453

Observations are:

- Queued spinlocks are equal when contention is insignificant, as
  expected and as measured with microbenchmarks.

- When there is contention, on bare metal queued spinlocks have better
  throughput and max latency at all points.

- When virtualised, queued spinlocks are slightly worse approaching
  peak throughput, but significantly better throughput and max latency
  at all points beyond peak, until queued spinlock maximum latency
  rises when clients are 2x vCPUs.

The regressions haven't been analysed very well yet, there are a lot
of things that can be tuned, particularly the paravirtualised locking,
but the numbers already look like a good net win even on relatively
small systems.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Waiman Long 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724131423.1362108-4-npiggin@gmail.com

KVM: Move x86's version of struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache to common code

2020-07-09T17:29:42+00:00

Move x86's 'struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache' to common code in anticipation
of moving the entire x86 implementation code to common KVM and reusing
it for arm64 and MIPS.  Add a new architecture specific asm/kvm_types.h
to control the existence and parameters of the struct.  The new header
is needed to avoid a chicken-and-egg problem with asm/kvm_host.h as all
architectures define instances of the struct in their vCPU structs.

Add an asm-generic version of kvm_types.h to avoid having empty files on
PPC and s390 in the long term, and for arm64 and mips in the short term.

Suggested-by: Christoffer Dall 
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon 
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson 
Message-Id: <20200703023545.8771-15-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini