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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.4.232</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/64: Add CONFIG_PPC_BARRIER_NOSPEC</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:44:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-21T14:20:20+00:00</published>
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commit 179ab1cbf883575c3a585bcfc0f2160f1d22a149 upstream.

Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 179ab1cbf883575c3a585bcfc0f2160f1d22a149 upstream.

Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:44:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-21T14:19:56+00:00</published>
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commit 9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f upstream.

This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f upstream.

This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source</title>
<updated>2015-08-06T06:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T08:54:44+00:00</published>
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Add a new powerpc-specific trace clock using the timebase register,
similar to x86-tsc. This gives us
- a fast, monotonic, hardware clock source for trace entries, and
- a clock that can be used to correlate events across cpus as well as across
  hypervisor and guests.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add a new powerpc-specific trace clock using the timebase register,
similar to x86-tsc. This gives us
- a fast, monotonic, hardware clock source for trace entries, and
- a clock that can be used to correlate events across cpus as well as across
  hypervisor and guests.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-02T02:40:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-02T02:40:18+00:00</published>
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Pull devicetree updates from Grant Likely:
 "A whole lot of bug fixes.

  Nothing stands out here except the ability to enable CONFIG_OF on
  every architecture, and an import of a newer version of dtc"

* tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux: (22 commits)
  of/irq: Rename "intc_desc" to "of_intc_desc" to fix OF on sh
  of/irq: Fix pSeries boot failure
  Documentation: DT: Fix a typo in the filename "lantiq,&lt;chip&gt;-pinumx.txt"
  of: define of_find_node_by_phandle for !CONFIG_OF
  of/address: use atomic allocation in pci_register_io_range()
  of: Add vendor prefix for Zodiac Inflight Innovations
  dt/fdt: add empty versions of early_init_dt_*_memory_arch
  of: clean-up unnecessary libfdt include paths
  of: make unittest select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE instead of depend on it
  of: make CONFIG_OF user selectable
  MIPS: prepare for user enabling of CONFIG_OF
  of/fdt: fix argument name and add comments of unflatten_dt_node()
  of: return NUMA_NO_NODE from fallback of_node_to_nid()
  tps6507x.txt: Remove executable permission
  of/overlay: Grammar s/an negative/a negative/
  of/fdt: Make fdt blob input parameters of unflatten functions const
  of: add helper function to retrive match data
  of: Grammar s/property exist/property exists/
  of: Move OF flags to be visible even when !CONFIG_OF
  scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version 9d3649bd3be245c9
  ...
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Pull devicetree updates from Grant Likely:
 "A whole lot of bug fixes.

  Nothing stands out here except the ability to enable CONFIG_OF on
  every architecture, and an import of a newer version of dtc"

* tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux: (22 commits)
  of/irq: Rename "intc_desc" to "of_intc_desc" to fix OF on sh
  of/irq: Fix pSeries boot failure
  Documentation: DT: Fix a typo in the filename "lantiq,&lt;chip&gt;-pinumx.txt"
  of: define of_find_node_by_phandle for !CONFIG_OF
  of/address: use atomic allocation in pci_register_io_range()
  of: Add vendor prefix for Zodiac Inflight Innovations
  dt/fdt: add empty versions of early_init_dt_*_memory_arch
  of: clean-up unnecessary libfdt include paths
  of: make unittest select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE instead of depend on it
  of: make CONFIG_OF user selectable
  MIPS: prepare for user enabling of CONFIG_OF
  of/fdt: fix argument name and add comments of unflatten_dt_node()
  of: return NUMA_NO_NODE from fallback of_node_to_nid()
  tps6507x.txt: Remove executable permission
  of/overlay: Grammar s/an negative/a negative/
  of/fdt: Make fdt blob input parameters of unflatten functions const
  of: add helper function to retrive match data
  of: Grammar s/property exist/property exists/
  of: Move OF flags to be visible even when !CONFIG_OF
  scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version 9d3649bd3be245c9
  ...
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<entry>
<title>of: clean-up unnecessary libfdt include paths</title>
<updated>2015-06-05T01:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-01T13:42:48+00:00</published>
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With the libfdt include fixups to use "" instead of &lt;&gt; in the
latest dtc import in commit 4760597 (scripts/dtc: Update to upstream
version 9d3649bd3be245c9), it is no longer necessary to add explicit
include paths to use libfdt. Remove these across the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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With the libfdt include fixups to use "" instead of &lt;&gt; in the
latest dtc import in commit 4760597 (scripts/dtc: Update to upstream
version 9d3649bd3be245c9), it is no longer necessary to add explicit
include paths to use libfdt. Remove these across the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vdso: Disable building the 32-bit VDSO on little endian</title>
<updated>2015-05-11T10:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-11T10:01:02+00:00</published>
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The only little endian configuration we support is ppc64le. As such if
we're building little endian we don't need a 32-bit VDSO, because there
is no 32-bit userspace.

This patch is a fairly ugly mess of #ifdefs, but is the minimal logic
required to disable the 32-bit VDSO. We can hopefully clean up the
result in future with some further refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The only little endian configuration we support is ppc64le. As such if
we're building little endian we don't need a 32-bit VDSO, because there
is no 32-bit userspace.

This patch is a fairly ugly mess of #ifdefs, but is the minimal logic
required to disable the 32-bit VDSO. We can hopefully clean up the
result in future with some further refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: kill PPC_OF</title>
<updated>2015-03-17T09:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hao</name>
<email>haokexin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T12:32:50+00:00</published>
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We have set CONFIG_PPC_OF to always 'y' in commit 0a498d96a332
("powerpc: set CONFIG_PPC_OF=y always for ARCH=powerpc") nine years
ago. And the arch/ppc also has gone away for many years. The OF
functionality was also moved to a common place and be used by many
archs. So it does make no sense to keep such a option in the current
kernel. Just kill it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We have set CONFIG_PPC_OF to always 'y' in commit 0a498d96a332
("powerpc: set CONFIG_PPC_OF=y always for ARCH=powerpc") nine years
ago. And the arch/ppc also has gone away for many years. The OF
functionality was also moved to a common place and be used by many
archs. So it does make no sense to keep such a option in the current
kernel. Just kill it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Separate ppc32 symbol exports into ppc_ksyms_32.c</title>
<updated>2014-09-25T13:14:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-19T22:00:05+00:00</published>
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Simplify things considerably by moving all the ppc32 specific
symbol exports into its own file.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Simplify things considerably by moving all the ppc32 specific
symbol exports into its own file.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove platforms/wsp and associated pieces</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T06:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T01:20:46+00:00</published>
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__attribute__ ((unused))

WSP is the last user of CONFIG_PPC_A2, so we remove that as well.

Although CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX still exists, it's no longer selectable for
any Book3E platform, so we can remove the code in mmu-book3e.h that
depended on it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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__attribute__ ((unused))

WSP is the last user of CONFIG_PPC_A2, so we remove that as well.

Although CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX still exists, it's no longer selectable for
any Book3E platform, so we can remove the code in mmu-book3e.h that
depended on it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: use libfdt accessors for header data</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T05:59:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-31T20:15:00+00:00</published>
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With libfdt support, we can take advantage of helper accessors in libfdt
for accessing the FDT header data. This makes the code more readable and
makes the FDT blob structure more opaque to the kernel. This also
prepares for removing struct boot_param_header completely.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers &lt;schivers@csc.com&gt;
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With libfdt support, we can take advantage of helper accessors in libfdt
for accessing the FDT header data. This makes the code more readable and
makes the FDT blob structure more opaque to the kernel. This also
prepares for removing struct boot_param_header completely.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers &lt;schivers@csc.com&gt;
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