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<title>powerpc: scan_features() updates incorrect bits for REAL_LE</title>
<updated>2016-05-11T09:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-15T02:06:13+00:00</published>
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commit 6997e57d693b07289694239e52a10d2f02c3a46f upstream.

The REAL_LE feature entry in the ibm_pa_feature struct is missing an MMU
feature value, meaning all the remaining elements initialise the wrong
values.

This means instead of checking for byte 5, bit 0, we check for byte 0,
bit 0, and then we incorrectly set the CPU feature bit as well as MMU
feature bit 1 and CPU user feature bits 0 and 2 (5).

Checking byte 0 bit 0 (IBM numbering), means we're looking at the
"Memory Management Unit (MMU)" feature - ie. does the CPU have an MMU.
In practice that bit is set on all platforms which have the property.

This means we set CPU_FTR_REAL_LE always. In practice that seems not to
matter because all the modern cpus which have this property also
implement REAL_LE, and we've never needed to disable it.

We're also incorrectly setting MMU feature bit 1, which is:

  #define MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx		0x00000002

Luckily the only place that looks for MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx is in Book3E
code, which can't run on the same cpus as scan_features(). So this also
doesn't matter in practice.

Finally in the CPU user feature mask, we're setting bits 0 and 2. Bit 2
is not currently used, and bit 0 is:

  #define PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE		0x00000001

Which says the CPU supports the old style "PPC Little Endian" mode.
Again this should be harmless in practice as no 64-bit CPUs implement
that mode.

Fix the code by adding the missing initialisation of the MMU feature.

Also add a comment marking CPU user feature bit 2 (0x4) as reserved. It
would be unsafe to start using it as old kernels incorrectly set it.

Fixes: 44ae3ab3358e ("powerpc: Free up some CPU feature bits by moving out MMU-related features")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out changelog, add comment reserving 0x4]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 6997e57d693b07289694239e52a10d2f02c3a46f upstream.

The REAL_LE feature entry in the ibm_pa_feature struct is missing an MMU
feature value, meaning all the remaining elements initialise the wrong
values.

This means instead of checking for byte 5, bit 0, we check for byte 0,
bit 0, and then we incorrectly set the CPU feature bit as well as MMU
feature bit 1 and CPU user feature bits 0 and 2 (5).

Checking byte 0 bit 0 (IBM numbering), means we're looking at the
"Memory Management Unit (MMU)" feature - ie. does the CPU have an MMU.
In practice that bit is set on all platforms which have the property.

This means we set CPU_FTR_REAL_LE always. In practice that seems not to
matter because all the modern cpus which have this property also
implement REAL_LE, and we've never needed to disable it.

We're also incorrectly setting MMU feature bit 1, which is:

  #define MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx		0x00000002

Luckily the only place that looks for MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx is in Book3E
code, which can't run on the same cpus as scan_features(). So this also
doesn't matter in practice.

Finally in the CPU user feature mask, we're setting bits 0 and 2. Bit 2
is not currently used, and bit 0 is:

  #define PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE		0x00000001

Which says the CPU supports the old style "PPC Little Endian" mode.
Again this should be harmless in practice as no 64-bit CPUs implement
that mode.

Fix the code by adding the missing initialisation of the MMU feature.

Also add a comment marking CPU user feature bit 2 (0x4) as reserved. It
would be unsafe to start using it as old kernels incorrectly set it.

Fixes: 44ae3ab3358e ("powerpc: Free up some CPU feature bits by moving out MMU-related features")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out changelog, add comment reserving 0x4]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add AT_HWCAP2 to indicate V.CRYPTO category support</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T11:43:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-10T05:04:40+00:00</published>
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commit dd58a092c4202f2bd490adab7285b3ff77f8e467 upstream.

The Vector Crypto category instructions are supported by current POWER8
chips, advertise them to userspace using a specific bit to properly
differentiate with chips of the same architecture level that might not
have them.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit dd58a092c4202f2bd490adab7285b3ff77f8e467 upstream.

The Vector Crypto category instructions are supported by current POWER8
chips, advertise them to userspace using a specific bit to properly
differentiate with chips of the same architecture level that might not
have them.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix little endian coredumps</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T05:33:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-06T16:01:50+00:00</published>
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We need to set ELF_DATA correctly on LE coredumps.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We need to set ELF_DATA correctly on LE coredumps.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Simplify logic in include/uapi/asm/elf.h</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T01:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-06T16:01:22+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Simplify things by putting all the 32bit and 64bit defines
together instead of in two spots.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Simplify things by putting all the 32bit and 64bit defines
together instead of in two spots.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Export PERF_EVENT_CONFIG_EBB_SHIFT to userspace</title>
<updated>2013-08-01T03:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T08:07:45+00:00</published>
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We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rename busy poll socket op and globals</title>
<updated>2013-07-11T00:08:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eliezer Tamir</name>
<email>eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T14:13:36+00:00</published>
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Rename LL_SO to BUSY_POLL_SO
Rename sysctl_net_ll_{read,poll} to sysctl_busy_{read,poll}
Fix up users of these variables.
Fix documentation for sysctl.

a patch for the socket.7  man page will follow separately,
because of limitations of my mail setup.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Rename LL_SO to BUSY_POLL_SO
Rename sysctl_net_ll_{read,poll} to sysctl_busy_{read,poll}
Fix up users of these variables.
Fix documentation for sysctl.

a patch for the socket.7  man page will follow separately,
because of limitations of my mail setup.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add socket option for low latency polling</title>
<updated>2013-06-17T22:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eliezer Tamir</name>
<email>eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-14T13:33:57+00:00</published>
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adds a socket option for low latency polling.
This allows overriding the global sysctl value with a per-socket one.
Unexport sysctl_net_ll_poll since for now it's not needed in modules.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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adds a socket option for low latency polling.
This allows overriding the global sysctl value with a per-socket one.
Unexport sysctl_net_ll_poll since for now it's not needed in modules.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Move TM abort cause codes to uapi</title>
<updated>2013-05-31T22:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-26T18:30:56+00:00</published>
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These cause codes are usable by userspace, so let's export to uapi.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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These cause codes are usable by userspace, so let's export to uapi.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cputable: Reserve bits in HWCAP2 for new features</title>
<updated>2013-05-05T23:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishanth Aravamudan</name>
<email>nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-03T14:47:56+00:00</published>
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Also, make HTM's presence dependent on the .config option.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Also, make HTM's presence dependent on the .config option.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-05-05T21:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-05T21:47:31+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
 "Highlights of the updates are:

  general:
   - new emulated device API
   - legacy device assignment is now optional
   - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches

  x86:
   - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
   - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
   - Optimize mmio spte zapping

  ppc:
    - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
    - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
    - Book3S: HV: migration fixes
    - BookE: more debug support preparation
    - BookE: e6500 support

  ARM:
   - reworking of Hyp idmaps

  s390:
   - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw

  And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
  KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
  kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
  kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
  ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
  KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
  ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
  KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
  ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
  ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
  ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
  ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
  ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
  ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
  ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
 "Highlights of the updates are:

  general:
   - new emulated device API
   - legacy device assignment is now optional
   - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches

  x86:
   - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
   - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
   - Optimize mmio spte zapping

  ppc:
    - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
    - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
    - Book3S: HV: migration fixes
    - BookE: more debug support preparation
    - BookE: e6500 support

  ARM:
   - reworking of Hyp idmaps

  s390:
   - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw

  And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
  KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
  kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
  kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
  ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
  KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
  ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
  KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
  ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
  ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
  ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
  ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
  ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
  ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
  ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
  ...
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