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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</published>
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</published>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T21:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T18:41:19+00:00</published>
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/Makefile: Drop CONFIG_WORD_SIZE for BITS</title>
<updated>2016-09-13T07:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T06:03:14+00:00</published>
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Commit 2578bfae84a7 ("[POWERPC] Create and use CONFIG_WORD_SIZE") added
CONFIG_WORD_SIZE, and suggests that other arches were going to do
likewise.

But that never happened, powerpc is the only architecture which uses it.

So switch to using a simple make variable, BITS, like x86, sh, sparc and
tile. It is also easier to spell and simpler, avoiding any confusion
about whether it's defined due to ordering of make vs kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 2578bfae84a7 ("[POWERPC] Create and use CONFIG_WORD_SIZE") added
CONFIG_WORD_SIZE, and suggests that other arches were going to do
likewise.

But that never happened, powerpc is the only architecture which uses it.

So switch to using a simple make variable, BITS, like x86, sh, sparc and
tile. It is also easier to spell and simpler, avoiding any confusion
about whether it's defined due to ordering of make vs kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: move hmi.c to arch/powerpc/kvm/</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T01:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T13:07:43+00:00</published>
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hmi.c functions are unused unless sibling_subcore_state is nonzero, and
that in turn happens only if KVM is in use.  So move the code to
arch/powerpc/kvm/, putting it under CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
rather than CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64.  The sibling_subcore_state is also
included in struct paca_struct only if KVM is supported by the kernel.

Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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hmi.c functions are unused unless sibling_subcore_state is nonzero, and
that in turn happens only if KVM is in use.  So move the code to
arch/powerpc/kvm/, putting it under CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
rather than CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64.  The sibling_subcore_state is also
included in struct paca_struct only if KVM is supported by the kernel.

Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppc: move exports to definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:50:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T04:33:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T20:11:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T20:11:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=221bb8a46e230b9824204ae86537183d9991ff2a'/>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:

 - ARM: GICv3 ITS emulation and various fixes.  Removal of the
   old VGIC implementation.

 - s390: support for trapping software breakpoints, nested
   virtualization (vSIE), the STHYI opcode, initial extensions
   for CPU model support.

 - MIPS: support for MIPS64 hosts (32-bit guests only) and lots
   of cleanups, preliminary to this and the upcoming support for
   hardware virtualization extensions.

 - x86: support for execute-only mappings in nested EPT; reduced
   vmexit latency for TSC deadline timer (by about 30%) on Intel
   hosts; support for more than 255 vCPUs.

 - PPC: bugfixes.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (302 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM
  MIPS: Select HAVE_KVM for MIPS64_R{2,6}
  MIPS: KVM: Reset CP0_PageMask during host TLB flush
  MIPS: KVM: Fix ptr-&gt;int cast via KVM_GUEST_KSEGX()
  MIPS: KVM: Sign extend MFC0/RDHWR results
  MIPS: KVM: Fix 64-bit big endian dynamic translation
  MIPS: KVM: Fail if ebase doesn't fit in CP0_EBase
  MIPS: KVM: Use 64-bit CP0_EBase when appropriate
  MIPS: KVM: Set CP0_Status.KX on MIPS64
  MIPS: KVM: Make entry code MIPS64 friendly
  MIPS: KVM: Use kmap instead of CKSEG0ADDR()
  MIPS: KVM: Use virt_to_phys() to get commpage PFN
  MIPS: Fix definition of KSEGX() for 64-bit
  KVM: VMX: Add VMCS to CPU's loaded VMCSs before VMPTRLD
  kvm: x86: nVMX: maintain internal copy of current VMCS
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore TM state in H_CEDE
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pull out TM state save/restore into separate procedures
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Simplify MAPI error handling
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Make vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi similar to other handlers
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Turn device_id validation into generic ID validation
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:

 - ARM: GICv3 ITS emulation and various fixes.  Removal of the
   old VGIC implementation.

 - s390: support for trapping software breakpoints, nested
   virtualization (vSIE), the STHYI opcode, initial extensions
   for CPU model support.

 - MIPS: support for MIPS64 hosts (32-bit guests only) and lots
   of cleanups, preliminary to this and the upcoming support for
   hardware virtualization extensions.

 - x86: support for execute-only mappings in nested EPT; reduced
   vmexit latency for TSC deadline timer (by about 30%) on Intel
   hosts; support for more than 255 vCPUs.

 - PPC: bugfixes.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (302 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM
  MIPS: Select HAVE_KVM for MIPS64_R{2,6}
  MIPS: KVM: Reset CP0_PageMask during host TLB flush
  MIPS: KVM: Fix ptr-&gt;int cast via KVM_GUEST_KSEGX()
  MIPS: KVM: Sign extend MFC0/RDHWR results
  MIPS: KVM: Fix 64-bit big endian dynamic translation
  MIPS: KVM: Fail if ebase doesn't fit in CP0_EBase
  MIPS: KVM: Use 64-bit CP0_EBase when appropriate
  MIPS: KVM: Set CP0_Status.KX on MIPS64
  MIPS: KVM: Make entry code MIPS64 friendly
  MIPS: KVM: Use kmap instead of CKSEG0ADDR()
  MIPS: KVM: Use virt_to_phys() to get commpage PFN
  MIPS: Fix definition of KSEGX() for 64-bit
  KVM: VMX: Add VMCS to CPU's loaded VMCSs before VMPTRLD
  kvm: x86: nVMX: maintain internal copy of current VMCS
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore TM state in H_CEDE
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pull out TM state save/restore into separate procedures
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Simplify MAPI error handling
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Make vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi similar to other handlers
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Turn device_id validation into generic ID validation
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Remove RELOCATABLE_PPC32</title>
<updated>2016-07-19T10:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hao</name>
<email>haokexin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-13T01:14:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=27d1149667352772240655b65372a4294f992ea7'/>
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It is seldom used in the kernel code and can be easily replaced by
either RELOCATABLE or PPC32. So there is no reason to keep a separate
kernel option for this.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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It is seldom used in the kernel code and can be easily replaced by
either RELOCATABLE or PPC32. So there is no reason to keep a separate
kernel option for this.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Rename idle_power7.S to idle_book3s.S</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T10:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shreyas B. Prabhu</name>
<email>shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T06:20:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=83289f909a72596d4902be3b3e1dffe48e6074af'/>
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<content type='text'>
idle_power7.S handles idle entry/exit for POWER7, POWER8 and in next
patch for POWER9. Rename the file to a non-hardware specific
name.

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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<pre>
idle_power7.S handles idle entry/exit for POWER7, POWER8 and in next
patch for POWER9. Rename the file to a non-hardware specific
name.

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>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix TB corruption in guest exit path on HMI interrupt</title>
<updated>2016-06-20T04:11:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-15T04:14:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fd7bacbca47a86a6f418440d8a5d7b7edbb2f8f9'/>
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When a guest is assigned to a core it converts the host Timebase (TB)
into guest TB by adding guest timebase offset before entering into
guest. During guest exit it restores the guest TB to host TB. This means
under certain conditions (Guest migration) host TB and guest TB can differ.

When we get an HMI for TB related issues the opal HMI handler would
try fixing errors and restore the correct host TB value. With no guest
running, we don't have any issues. But with guest running on the core
we run into TB corruption issues.

If we get an HMI while in the guest, the current HMI handler invokes opal
hmi handler before forcing guest to exit. The guest exit path subtracts
the guest TB offset from the current TB value which may have already
been restored with host value by opal hmi handler. This leads to incorrect
host and guest TB values.

With split-core, things become more complex. With split-core, TB also gets
split and each subcore gets its own TB register. When a hmi handler fixes
a TB error and restores the TB value, it affects all the TB values of
sibling subcores on the same core. On TB errors all the thread in the core
gets HMI. With existing code, the individual threads call opal hmi handle
independently which can easily throw TB out of sync if we have guest
running on subcores. Hence we will need to co-ordinate with all the
threads before making opal hmi handler call followed by TB resync.

This patch introduces a sibling subcore state structure (shared by all
threads in the core) in paca which holds information about whether sibling
subcores are in Guest mode or host mode. An array in_guest[] of size
MAX_SUBCORE_PER_CORE=4 is used to maintain the state of each subcore.
The subcore id is used as index into in_guest[] array. Only primary
thread entering/exiting the guest is responsible to set/unset its
designated array element.

On TB error, we get HMI interrupt on every thread on the core. Upon HMI,
this patch will now force guest to vacate the core/subcore. Primary
thread from each subcore will then turn off its respective bit
from the above bitmap during the guest exit path just after the
guest-&gt;host partition switch is complete.

All other threads that have just exited the guest OR were already in host
will wait until all other subcores clears their respective bit.
Once all the subcores turn off their respective bit, all threads will
will make call to opal hmi handler.

It is not necessary that opal hmi handler would resync the TB value for
every HMI interrupts. It would do so only for the HMI caused due to
TB errors. For rest, it would not touch TB value. Hence to make things
simpler, primary thread would call TB resync explicitly once for each
core immediately after opal hmi handler instead of subtracting guest
offset from TB. TB resync call will restore the TB with host value.
Thus we can be sure about the TB state.

One of the primary threads exiting the guest will take up the
responsibility of calling TB resync. It will use one of the top bits
(bit 63) from subcore state flags bitmap to make the decision. The first
primary thread (among the subcores) that is able to set the bit will
have to call the TB resync. Rest all other threads will wait until TB
resync is complete.  Once TB resync is complete all threads will then
proceed.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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When a guest is assigned to a core it converts the host Timebase (TB)
into guest TB by adding guest timebase offset before entering into
guest. During guest exit it restores the guest TB to host TB. This means
under certain conditions (Guest migration) host TB and guest TB can differ.

When we get an HMI for TB related issues the opal HMI handler would
try fixing errors and restore the correct host TB value. With no guest
running, we don't have any issues. But with guest running on the core
we run into TB corruption issues.

If we get an HMI while in the guest, the current HMI handler invokes opal
hmi handler before forcing guest to exit. The guest exit path subtracts
the guest TB offset from the current TB value which may have already
been restored with host value by opal hmi handler. This leads to incorrect
host and guest TB values.

With split-core, things become more complex. With split-core, TB also gets
split and each subcore gets its own TB register. When a hmi handler fixes
a TB error and restores the TB value, it affects all the TB values of
sibling subcores on the same core. On TB errors all the thread in the core
gets HMI. With existing code, the individual threads call opal hmi handle
independently which can easily throw TB out of sync if we have guest
running on subcores. Hence we will need to co-ordinate with all the
threads before making opal hmi handler call followed by TB resync.

This patch introduces a sibling subcore state structure (shared by all
threads in the core) in paca which holds information about whether sibling
subcores are in Guest mode or host mode. An array in_guest[] of size
MAX_SUBCORE_PER_CORE=4 is used to maintain the state of each subcore.
The subcore id is used as index into in_guest[] array. Only primary
thread entering/exiting the guest is responsible to set/unset its
designated array element.

On TB error, we get HMI interrupt on every thread on the core. Upon HMI,
this patch will now force guest to vacate the core/subcore. Primary
thread from each subcore will then turn off its respective bit
from the above bitmap during the guest exit path just after the
guest-&gt;host partition switch is complete.

All other threads that have just exited the guest OR were already in host
will wait until all other subcores clears their respective bit.
Once all the subcores turn off their respective bit, all threads will
will make call to opal hmi handler.

It is not necessary that opal hmi handler would resync the TB value for
every HMI interrupts. It would do so only for the HMI caused due to
TB errors. For rest, it would not touch TB value. Hence to make things
simpler, primary thread would call TB resync explicitly once for each
core immediately after opal hmi handler instead of subtracting guest
offset from TB. TB resync call will restore the TB with host value.
Thus we can be sure about the TB state.

One of the primary threads exiting the guest will take up the
responsibility of calling TB resync. It will use one of the top bits
(bit 63) from subcore state flags bitmap to make the decision. The first
primary thread (among the subcores) that is able to set the bit will
have to call the TB resync. Rest all other threads will wait until TB
resync is complete.  Once TB resync is complete all threads will then
proceed.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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