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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.3-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2015-10-23T09:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-23T09:49:51+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on
   POWER8" from Paul
 - Handle irq_happened flag correctly in off-line loop from Paul
 - Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas() from Vasant

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()
  powerpc/powernv: Handle irq_happened flag correctly in off-line loop
  powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on
   POWER8" from Paul
 - Handle irq_happened flag correctly in off-line loop from Paul
 - Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas() from Vasant

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()
  powerpc/powernv: Handle irq_happened flag correctly in off-line loop
  powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T09:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-21T05:03:14+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition
Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had
multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional
memory corruption.

In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the
source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what
was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to
by r0.

The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could
be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly
defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the
buffer.

The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the
write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the
case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical
core from the one where the write-out was initiated.

These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the
function (since the measured performance improvement from using the
feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is
the best option.

Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition
Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had
multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional
memory corruption.

In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the
source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what
was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to
by r0.

The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could
be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly
defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the
buffer.

The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the
write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the
case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical
core from the one where the write-out was initiated.

These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the
function (since the measured performance improvement from using the
feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is
the best option.

Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.3-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2015-10-16T19:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-16T19:07:43+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 - Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH in our defconfigs
 - Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
 - cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs() from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;mapping when releasing kernel API contexts from Andrew
 - cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards from Philippe
 - cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA from Christophe Lombard
 - Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep from Cyril
 - Panic on unhandled Machine Check on powernv from Daniel
 - selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test
  powerpc/powernv: Panic on unhandled Machine Check
  powerpc: Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep
  cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA
  cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards
  cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;mapping when releasing kernel API contexts
  cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API
  cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs()
  powerpc/ps3: Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
  powerpc/configs: Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 - Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH in our defconfigs
 - Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
 - cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs() from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;mapping when releasing kernel API contexts from Andrew
 - cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards from Philippe
 - cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA from Christophe Lombard
 - Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep from Cyril
 - Panic on unhandled Machine Check on powernv from Daniel
 - selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test
  powerpc/powernv: Panic on unhandled Machine Check
  powerpc: Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep
  cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA
  cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards
  cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;mapping when releasing kernel API contexts
  cxl: fix leak of ctx-&gt;irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API
  cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs()
  powerpc/ps3: Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
  powerpc/configs: Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep</title>
<updated>2015-10-08T21:01:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T00:04:26+00:00</published>
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native_hpte_clear() is called in real mode from two places:
- Early in boot during htab initialisation if firmware assisted dump is
  active.
- Late in the kexec path.

In both contexts there is no need to disable interrupts are they are
already disabled. Furthermore, locking around the tlbie() is only required
for pre POWER5 hardware.

On POWER5 or newer hardware concurrent tlbie()s work as expected and on pre
POWER5 hardware concurrent tlbie()s could result in deadlock. This code
would only be executed at crashdump time, during which all bets are off,
concurrent tlbie()s are unlikely and taking locks is unsafe therefore the
best course of action is to simply do nothing. Concurrent tlbie()s are not
possible in the first case as secondary CPUs have not come up yet.

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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native_hpte_clear() is called in real mode from two places:
- Early in boot during htab initialisation if firmware assisted dump is
  active.
- Late in the kexec path.

In both contexts there is no need to disable interrupts are they are
already disabled. Furthermore, locking around the tlbie() is only required
for pre POWER5 hardware.

On POWER5 or newer hardware concurrent tlbie()s work as expected and on pre
POWER5 hardware concurrent tlbie()s could result in deadlock. This code
would only be executed at crashdump time, during which all bets are off,
concurrent tlbie()s are unlikely and taking locks is unsafe therefore the
best course of action is to simply do nothing. Concurrent tlbie()s are not
possible in the first case as secondary CPUs have not come up yet.

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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian</title>
<updated>2015-10-08T15:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-07T13:29:11+00:00</published>
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For some reason, only the little-endian flavor of
powerpc provided the zero_bytemask() implementation.

Reported-by: Michal Sojka &lt;sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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For some reason, only the little-endian flavor of
powerpc provided the zero_bytemask() implementation.

Reported-by: Michal Sojka &lt;sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>word-at-a-time.h: fix some Kbuild files</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T17:35:10+00:00</published>
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arch/tile added word-at-a-time.h after the patch that added generic-y
entries; the generic-y entry is now stale.

arch/h8300 is newer than the generic-y patch for word-at-a-time.h,
and needs a generic-y entry.

arch/powerpc seems to have gotten a generic-y entry by mistake in
the first patch; this change removes it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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arch/tile added word-at-a-time.h after the patch that added generic-y
entries; the generic-y entry is now stale.

arch/h8300 is newer than the generic-y patch for word-at-a-time.h,
and needs a generic-y entry.

arch/powerpc seems to have gotten a generic-y entry by mistake in
the first patch; this change removes it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</published>
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-09-25T17:51:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-25T17:51:40+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "AMD fixes for bugs introduced in the 4.2 merge window, and a few PPC
  bug fixes too"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x
  KVM: x86: fix off-by-one in reserved bits check
  KVM: x86: use correct page table format to check nested page table reserved bits
  KVM: svm: do not call kvm_set_cr0 from init_vmcb
  KVM: x86: trap AMD MSRs for the TSeg base and mask
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Take the kvm-&gt;srcu lock in kvmppc_h_logical_ci_load/store()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pass the correct trap argument to kvmhv_commence_exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of interrupted VCPUs
  kvm: svm: reset mmu on VCPU reset
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "AMD fixes for bugs introduced in the 4.2 merge window, and a few PPC
  bug fixes too"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x
  KVM: x86: fix off-by-one in reserved bits check
  KVM: x86: use correct page table format to check nested page table reserved bits
  KVM: svm: do not call kvm_set_cr0 from init_vmcb
  KVM: x86: trap AMD MSRs for the TSeg base and mask
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Take the kvm-&gt;srcu lock in kvmppc_h_logical_ci_load/store()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pass the correct trap argument to kvmhv_commence_exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of interrupted VCPUs
  kvm: svm: reset mmu on VCPU reset
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x</title>
<updated>2015-09-25T08:31:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-18T10:34:53+00:00</published>
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We observed some performance degradation on s390x with dynamic
halt polling. Until we can provide a proper fix, let's enable
halt_poll_ns as default only for supported architectures.

Architectures are now free to set their own halt_poll_ns
default value.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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We observed some performance degradation on s390x with dynamic
halt polling. Until we can provide a proper fix, let's enable
halt_poll_ns as default only for supported architectures.

Architectures are now free to set their own halt_poll_ns
default value.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Wire up sys_membarrier()</title>
<updated>2015-09-21T07:27:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-16T11:21:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=793b8bf9ca17aee3b995c095058e6c4e7bd72e02'/>
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The selftest passes on 64-bit LE &amp; BE, and 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The selftest passes on 64-bit LE &amp; BE, and 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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