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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-12-16T17:26:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-16T17:26:42+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for the kexec_file_load() syscall, which is a prereq for
     secure and trusted boot.

   - Prevent kernel execution of userspace on P9 Radix (similar to
     SMEP/PXN).

   - Sort the exception tables at build time, to save time at boot, and
     store them as relative offsets to save space in the kernel image &amp;
     memory.

   - Allow building the kernel with thin archives, which should allow us
     to build an allyesconfig once some other fixes land.

   - Build fixes to allow us to correctly rebuild when changing the
     kernel endian from big to little or vice versa.

   - Plumbing so that we can avoid doing a full mm TLB flush on P9
     Radix.

   - Initial stack protector support (-fstack-protector).

   - Support for dumping the radix (aka. Linux) and hash page tables via
     debugfs.

   - Fix an oops in cxl coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx hugepage
     support, qbman fixes/cleanup, device tree updates, and some misc
     cleanup."

   - Many and varied fixes and minor enhancements as always.

  Thanks to:
    Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman
    Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
    Christophe Jaillet, Christophe Leroy, Denis Kirjanov, Elimar
    Riesebieter, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff
    Levand, Jack Miller, Johan Hovold, Lars-Peter Clausen, Libin,
    Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N.
    Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Pan Xinhui, Peter Senna Tschudin, Rashmica
    Gupta, Rui Teng, Russell Currey, Scott Wood, Simon Guo, Suraj
    Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tobias Klauser, Vaibhav Jain"

[ And thanks to Michael, who took time off from a new baby to get this
  pull request done.   - Linus ]

* tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (174 commits)
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add FMan node for t1042d4rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add sg_2500_aqr105_phy4 alias on t1024rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1024
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1023
  soc/fsl/qman: test: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/fsl-lbc: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/8xx: Implement support of hugepages
  powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic
  powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
  powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper
  soc/fsl/bman: Use resource_size instead of computation
  soc/fsl/qe: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/fsl_pmc: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/83xx/suspend: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding
  powerpc/perf: power9 raw event format encoding
  powerpc/perf: update attribute_group data structure
  powerpc/perf: factor out the event format field
  powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for the kexec_file_load() syscall, which is a prereq for
     secure and trusted boot.

   - Prevent kernel execution of userspace on P9 Radix (similar to
     SMEP/PXN).

   - Sort the exception tables at build time, to save time at boot, and
     store them as relative offsets to save space in the kernel image &amp;
     memory.

   - Allow building the kernel with thin archives, which should allow us
     to build an allyesconfig once some other fixes land.

   - Build fixes to allow us to correctly rebuild when changing the
     kernel endian from big to little or vice versa.

   - Plumbing so that we can avoid doing a full mm TLB flush on P9
     Radix.

   - Initial stack protector support (-fstack-protector).

   - Support for dumping the radix (aka. Linux) and hash page tables via
     debugfs.

   - Fix an oops in cxl coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx hugepage
     support, qbman fixes/cleanup, device tree updates, and some misc
     cleanup."

   - Many and varied fixes and minor enhancements as always.

  Thanks to:
    Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman
    Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
    Christophe Jaillet, Christophe Leroy, Denis Kirjanov, Elimar
    Riesebieter, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff
    Levand, Jack Miller, Johan Hovold, Lars-Peter Clausen, Libin,
    Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N.
    Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Pan Xinhui, Peter Senna Tschudin, Rashmica
    Gupta, Rui Teng, Russell Currey, Scott Wood, Simon Guo, Suraj
    Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tobias Klauser, Vaibhav Jain"

[ And thanks to Michael, who took time off from a new baby to get this
  pull request done.   - Linus ]

* tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (174 commits)
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add FMan node for t1042d4rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add sg_2500_aqr105_phy4 alias on t1024rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1024
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1023
  soc/fsl/qman: test: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/fsl-lbc: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/8xx: Implement support of hugepages
  powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic
  powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
  powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper
  soc/fsl/bman: Use resource_size instead of computation
  soc/fsl/qe: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/fsl_pmc: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/83xx/suspend: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding
  powerpc/perf: power9 raw event format encoding
  powerpc/perf: update attribute_group data structure
  powerpc/perf: factor out the event format field
  powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T07:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-16T12:23:05+00:00</published>
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No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T09:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T09:03:15+00:00</published>
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As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T09:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T09:03:11+00:00</published>
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For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert Load Monitor Register Support</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T09:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-31T02:19:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Load monitored is no longer supported on POWER9 so let's remove the
code.

This reverts commit bd3ea317fddf ("powerpc: Load Monitor Register
Support").

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Load monitored is no longer supported on POWER9 so let's remove the
code.

This reverts commit bd3ea317fddf ("powerpc: Load Monitor Register
Support").

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T08:02:16+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently the MSR TM bit is always set if the hardware is TM capable.
This adds extra overhead as it means the TM SPRS (TFHAR, TEXASR and
TFAIR) must be swapped for each process regardless of if they use TM.

For processes that don't use TM the TM MSR bit can be turned off
allowing the kernel to avoid the expensive swap of the TM registers.

A TM unavailable exception will occur if a thread does use TM and the
kernel will enable MSR_TM and leave it so for some time afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Currently the MSR TM bit is always set if the hardware is TM capable.
This adds extra overhead as it means the TM SPRS (TFHAR, TEXASR and
TFAIR) must be swapped for each process regardless of if they use TM.

For processes that don't use TM the TM MSR bit can be turned off
allowing the kernel to avoid the expensive swap of the TM registers.

A TM unavailable exception will occur if a thread does use TM and the
kernel will enable MSR_TM and leave it so for some time afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T06:18:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T06:18:24+00:00</published>
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There is currently an inconsistency as to how the entire CPU register
state is saved and restored when a thread uses transactional memory
(TM).

Using transactional memory results in the CPU having duplicated
(almost) all of its register state. This duplication results in a set
of registers which can be considered 'live', those being currently
modified by the instructions being executed and another set that is
frozen at a point in time.

On context switch, both sets of state have to be saved and (later)
restored. These two states are often called a variety of different
things. Common terms for the state which only exists after the CPU has
entered a transaction (performed a TBEGIN instruction) in hardware are
'transactional' or 'speculative'.

Between a TBEGIN and a TEND or TABORT (or an event that causes the
hardware to abort), regardless of the use of TSUSPEND the
transactional state can be referred to as the live state.

The second state is often to referred to as the 'checkpointed' state
and is a duplication of the live state when the TBEGIN instruction is
executed. This state is kept in the hardware and will be rolled back
to on transaction failure.

Currently all the registers stored in pt_regs are ALWAYS the live
registers, that is, when a thread has transactional registers their
values are stored in pt_regs and the checkpointed state is in
ckpt_regs. A strange opposite is true for fp_state/vr_state. When a
thread is non transactional fp_state/vr_state holds the live
registers. When a thread has initiated a transaction fp_state/vr_state
holds the checkpointed state and transact_fp/transact_vr become the
structure which holds the live state (at this point it is a
transactional state).

This method creates confusion as to where the live state is, in some
circumstances it requires extra work to determine where to put the
live state and prevents the use of common functions designed (probably
before TM) to save the live state.

With this patch pt_regs, fp_state and vr_state all represent the
same thing and the other structures [pending rename] are for
checkpointed state.

Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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There is currently an inconsistency as to how the entire CPU register
state is saved and restored when a thread uses transactional memory
(TM).

Using transactional memory results in the CPU having duplicated
(almost) all of its register state. This duplication results in a set
of registers which can be considered 'live', those being currently
modified by the instructions being executed and another set that is
frozen at a point in time.

On context switch, both sets of state have to be saved and (later)
restored. These two states are often called a variety of different
things. Common terms for the state which only exists after the CPU has
entered a transaction (performed a TBEGIN instruction) in hardware are
'transactional' or 'speculative'.

Between a TBEGIN and a TEND or TABORT (or an event that causes the
hardware to abort), regardless of the use of TSUSPEND the
transactional state can be referred to as the live state.

The second state is often to referred to as the 'checkpointed' state
and is a duplication of the live state when the TBEGIN instruction is
executed. This state is kept in the hardware and will be rolled back
to on transaction failure.

Currently all the registers stored in pt_regs are ALWAYS the live
registers, that is, when a thread has transactional registers their
values are stored in pt_regs and the checkpointed state is in
ckpt_regs. A strange opposite is true for fp_state/vr_state. When a
thread is non transactional fp_state/vr_state holds the live
registers. When a thread has initiated a transaction fp_state/vr_state
holds the checkpointed state and transact_fp/transact_vr become the
structure which holds the live state (at this point it is a
transactional state).

This method creates confusion as to where the live state is, in some
circumstances it requires extra work to determine where to put the
live state and prevents the use of common functions designed (probably
before TM) to save the live state.

With this patch pt_regs, fp_state and vr_state all represent the
same thing and the other structures [pending rename] are for
checkpointed state.

Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Add platform support for stop instruction</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T10:18:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shreyas B. Prabhu</name>
<email>shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T06:20:49+00:00</published>
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POWER ISA v3 defines a new idle processor core mechanism. In summary,
 a) new instruction named stop is added. This instruction replaces
	instructions like nap, sleep, rvwinkle.
 b) new per thread SPR named Processor Stop Status and Control Register
	(PSSCR) is added which controls the behavior of stop instruction.

PSSCR layout:
----------------------------------------------------------
| PLS | /// | SD | ESL | EC | PSLL | /// | TR | MTL | RL |
----------------------------------------------------------
0      4     41   42    43   44     48    54   56    60

PSSCR key fields:
	Bits 0:3  - Power-Saving Level Status. This field indicates the lowest
	power-saving state the thread entered since stop instruction was last
	executed.

	Bit 42 - Enable State Loss
	0 - No state is lost irrespective of other fields
	1 - Allows state loss

	Bits 44:47 - Power-Saving Level Limit
	This limits the power-saving level that can be entered into.

	Bits 60:63 - Requested Level
	Used to specify which power-saving level must be entered on executing
	stop instruction

This patch adds support for stop instruction and PSSCR handling.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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POWER ISA v3 defines a new idle processor core mechanism. In summary,
 a) new instruction named stop is added. This instruction replaces
	instructions like nap, sleep, rvwinkle.
 b) new per thread SPR named Processor Stop Status and Control Register
	(PSSCR) is added which controls the behavior of stop instruction.

PSSCR layout:
----------------------------------------------------------
| PLS | /// | SD | ESL | EC | PSLL | /// | TR | MTL | RL |
----------------------------------------------------------
0      4     41   42    43   44     48    54   56    60

PSSCR key fields:
	Bits 0:3  - Power-Saving Level Status. This field indicates the lowest
	power-saving state the thread entered since stop instruction was last
	executed.

	Bit 42 - Enable State Loss
	0 - No state is lost irrespective of other fields
	1 - Allows state loss

	Bits 44:47 - Power-Saving Level Limit
	This limits the power-saving level that can be entered into.

	Bits 60:63 - Requested Level
	Used to specify which power-saving level must be entered on executing
	stop instruction

This patch adds support for stop instruction and PSSCR handling.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Load Monitor Register Support</title>
<updated>2016-06-21T05:30:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jack Miller</name>
<email>jack@codezen.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-09T02:31:09+00:00</published>
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This enables new registers, LMRR and LMSER, that can trigger an EBB in
userspace code when a monitored load (via the new ldmx instruction)
loads memory from a monitored space. This facility is controlled by a
new FSCR bit, LM.

This patch disables the FSCR LM control bit on task init and enables
that bit when a load monitor facility unavailable exception is taken
for using it. On context switch, this bit is then used to determine
whether the two relevant registers are saved and restored. This is
done lazily for performance reasons.

Signed-off-by: Jack Miller &lt;jack@codezen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This enables new registers, LMRR and LMSER, that can trigger an EBB in
userspace code when a monitored load (via the new ldmx instruction)
loads memory from a monitored space. This facility is controlled by a
new FSCR bit, LM.

This patch disables the FSCR LM control bit on task init and enables
that bit when a load monitor facility unavailable exception is taken
for using it. On context switch, this bit is then used to determine
whether the two relevant registers are saved and restored. This is
done lazily for performance reasons.

Signed-off-by: Jack Miller &lt;jack@codezen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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