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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Always disable branch profiling for prom_init.o</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-06T02:30:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6266a4dadb1d0976490fdf5af4f7941e36f64e80 ]

Otherwise the build fails because prom_init is calling symbols it's
not allowed to, eg:

  Error: External symbol 'ftrace_likely_update' referenced from prom_init.c
  make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:197: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106051129.7626-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6266a4dadb1d0976490fdf5af4f7941e36f64e80 ]

Otherwise the build fails because prom_init is calling symbols it's
not allowed to, eg:

  Error: External symbol 'ftrace_likely_update' referenced from prom_init.c
  make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:197: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106051129.7626-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Make setjmp/longjmp signature standard</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T08:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clement Courbet</name>
<email>courbet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T08:03:56+00:00</published>
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commit c17eb4dca5a353a9dbbb8ad6934fe57af7165e91 upstream.

Declaring setjmp()/longjmp() as taking longs makes the signature
non-standard, and makes clang complain. In the past, this has been
worked around by adding -ffreestanding to the compile flags.

The implementation looks like it only ever propagates the value
(in longjmp) or sets it to 1 (in setjmp), and we only call longjmp
with integer parameters.

This allows removing -ffreestanding from the compilation flags.

Fixes: c9029ef9c957 ("powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Clement Courbet &lt;courbet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200330080400.124803-1-courbet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c17eb4dca5a353a9dbbb8ad6934fe57af7165e91 upstream.

Declaring setjmp()/longjmp() as taking longs makes the signature
non-standard, and makes clang complain. In the past, this has been
worked around by adding -ffreestanding to the compile flags.

The implementation looks like it only ever propagates the value
(in longjmp) or sets it to 1 (in setjmp), and we only call longjmp
with integer parameters.

This allows removing -ffreestanding from the compilation flags.

Fixes: c9029ef9c957 ("powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Clement Courbet &lt;courbet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200330080400.124803-1-courbet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T18:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T04:57:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c9029ef9c95765e7b63c4d9aa780674447db1ec0 ]

Commit aea447141c7e ("powerpc: Disable -Wbuiltin-requires-header when
setjmp is used") disabled -Wbuiltin-requires-header because of a
warning about the setjmp and longjmp declarations.

r367387 in clang added another diagnostic around this, complaining
that there is no jmp_buf declaration.

  In file included from ../arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:47:
  ../arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h:10:13: error: declaration of
  built-in function 'setjmp' requires the declaration of the 'jmp_buf'
  type, commonly provided in the header &lt;setjmp.h&gt;.
  [-Werror,-Wincomplete-setjmp-declaration]
  extern long setjmp(long *);
              ^
  ../arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h:11:13: error: declaration of
  built-in function 'longjmp' requires the declaration of the 'jmp_buf'
  type, commonly provided in the header &lt;setjmp.h&gt;.
  [-Werror,-Wincomplete-setjmp-declaration]
  extern void longjmp(long *, long);
              ^
  2 errors generated.

We are not using the standard library's longjmp/setjmp implementations
for obvious reasons; make this clear to clang by using -ffreestanding
on these files.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Suggested-by: Segher Boessenkool &lt;segher@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-3-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c9029ef9c95765e7b63c4d9aa780674447db1ec0 ]

Commit aea447141c7e ("powerpc: Disable -Wbuiltin-requires-header when
setjmp is used") disabled -Wbuiltin-requires-header because of a
warning about the setjmp and longjmp declarations.

r367387 in clang added another diagnostic around this, complaining
that there is no jmp_buf declaration.

  In file included from ../arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:47:
  ../arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h:10:13: error: declaration of
  built-in function 'setjmp' requires the declaration of the 'jmp_buf'
  type, commonly provided in the header &lt;setjmp.h&gt;.
  [-Werror,-Wincomplete-setjmp-declaration]
  extern long setjmp(long *);
              ^
  ../arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h:11:13: error: declaration of
  built-in function 'longjmp' requires the declaration of the 'jmp_buf'
  type, commonly provided in the header &lt;setjmp.h&gt;.
  [-Werror,-Wincomplete-setjmp-declaration]
  extern void longjmp(long *, long);
              ^
  2 errors generated.

We are not using the standard library's longjmp/setjmp implementations
for obvious reasons; make this clear to clang by using -ffreestanding
on these files.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Suggested-by: Segher Boessenkool &lt;segher@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-3-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-09-20T18:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-20T18:48:06+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "This is a bit late, partly due to me travelling, and partly due to a
  power outage knocking out some of my test systems *while* I was
  travelling.

   - Initial support for running on a system with an Ultravisor, which
     is software that runs below the hypervisor and protects guests
     against some attacks by the hypervisor.

   - Support for building the kernel to run as a "Secure Virtual
     Machine", ie. as a guest capable of running on a system with an
     Ultravisor.

   - Some changes to our DMA code on bare metal, to allow devices with
     medium sized DMA masks (&gt; 32 &amp;&amp; &lt; 59 bits) to use more than 2GB of
     DMA space.

   - Support for firmware assisted crash dumps on bare metal (powernv).

   - Two series fixing bugs in and refactoring our PCI EEH code.

   - A large series refactoring our exception entry code to use gas
     macros, both to make it more readable and also enable some future
     optimisations.

  As well as many cleanups and other minor features &amp; fixups.

  Thanks to: Adam Zerella, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
  JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig,
  Claudio Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, David Hildenbrand,
  Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg
  Kurz, Guerney Hunt, Gustavo Romero, Halil Pasic, Hari Bathini, Joakim
  Tjernlund, Jonathan Neuschafer, Jordan Niethe, Leonardo Bras, Lianbo
  Jiang, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Maxiwell S. Garcia, Michael Anderson, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Reza Arbab, Ryan Grimm,
  Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Segher Boessenkool, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
  Thiago Bauermann, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Thomas Gleixner, Tom
  Lendacky, Vasant Hegde"

* tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (264 commits)
  powerpc/mm/mce: Keep irqs disabled during lockless page table walk
  powerpc: Use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() when unwinding
  powerpc/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
  ftrace: Look up the address of return_to_handler() using helpers
  powerpc: dump kernel log before carrying out fadump or kdump
  docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference
  powerpc/xmon: Fix output of XIVE IPI
  powerpc/xmon: Improve output of XIVE interrupts
  powerpc/mm/radix: remove useless kernel messages
  powerpc/fadump: support holes in kernel boot memory area
  powerpc/fadump: remove RMA_START and RMA_END macros
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore
  powerpc/fadump: consider f/w load area
  powerpc/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /sys/firmware/opal/core file
  powerpc/opalcore: export /sys/firmware/opal/core for analysing opal crashes
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP
  powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel
  powerpc/fadump: improve how crashed kernel's memory is reserved
  powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory
  powerpc/fadump: make crash memory ranges array allocation generic
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "This is a bit late, partly due to me travelling, and partly due to a
  power outage knocking out some of my test systems *while* I was
  travelling.

   - Initial support for running on a system with an Ultravisor, which
     is software that runs below the hypervisor and protects guests
     against some attacks by the hypervisor.

   - Support for building the kernel to run as a "Secure Virtual
     Machine", ie. as a guest capable of running on a system with an
     Ultravisor.

   - Some changes to our DMA code on bare metal, to allow devices with
     medium sized DMA masks (&gt; 32 &amp;&amp; &lt; 59 bits) to use more than 2GB of
     DMA space.

   - Support for firmware assisted crash dumps on bare metal (powernv).

   - Two series fixing bugs in and refactoring our PCI EEH code.

   - A large series refactoring our exception entry code to use gas
     macros, both to make it more readable and also enable some future
     optimisations.

  As well as many cleanups and other minor features &amp; fixups.

  Thanks to: Adam Zerella, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
  JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig,
  Claudio Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, David Hildenbrand,
  Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg
  Kurz, Guerney Hunt, Gustavo Romero, Halil Pasic, Hari Bathini, Joakim
  Tjernlund, Jonathan Neuschafer, Jordan Niethe, Leonardo Bras, Lianbo
  Jiang, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Maxiwell S. Garcia, Michael Anderson, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Reza Arbab, Ryan Grimm,
  Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Segher Boessenkool, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
  Thiago Bauermann, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Thomas Gleixner, Tom
  Lendacky, Vasant Hegde"

* tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (264 commits)
  powerpc/mm/mce: Keep irqs disabled during lockless page table walk
  powerpc: Use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() when unwinding
  powerpc/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
  ftrace: Look up the address of return_to_handler() using helpers
  powerpc: dump kernel log before carrying out fadump or kdump
  docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference
  powerpc/xmon: Fix output of XIVE IPI
  powerpc/xmon: Improve output of XIVE interrupts
  powerpc/mm/radix: remove useless kernel messages
  powerpc/fadump: support holes in kernel boot memory area
  powerpc/fadump: remove RMA_START and RMA_END macros
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore
  powerpc/fadump: consider f/w load area
  powerpc/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /sys/firmware/opal/core file
  powerpc/opalcore: export /sys/firmware/opal/core for analysing opal crashes
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP
  powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel
  powerpc/fadump: improve how crashed kernel's memory is reserved
  powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory
  powerpc/fadump: make crash memory ranges array allocation generic
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel</title>
<updated>2019-09-13T14:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-11T14:56:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add a new kernel config option, CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP that ensures
that crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. This
helps in cases where FADump is not enabled but the subsequent memory
preserving kernel boot is likely to process this crash data. One
typical usecase for this config option is petitboot kernel.

As OPAL allows registering address with it in the first kernel and
retrieving it after MPIPL, use it to store the top of boot memory.
A kernel that intends to preserve crash data retrieves it and avoids
using memory beyond this address.

Move arch_reserved_kernel_pages() function as it is needed for both
FA_DUMP and PRESERVE_FA_DUMP configurations.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821375751.5656.11459483669542541602.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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Add a new kernel config option, CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP that ensures
that crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. This
helps in cases where FADump is not enabled but the subsequent memory
preserving kernel boot is likely to process this crash data. One
typical usecase for this config option is petitboot kernel.

As OPAL allows registering address with it in the first kernel and
retrieving it after MPIPL, use it to store the top of boot memory.
A kernel that intends to preserve crash data retrieves it and avoids
using memory beyond this address.

Move arch_reserved_kernel_pages() function as it is needed for both
FA_DUMP and PRESERVE_FA_DUMP configurations.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821375751.5656.11459483669542541602.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: improve prom_init_check rule</title>
<updated>2019-09-13T14:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-12T07:40:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1fdfa4c6af0cc1854b017f308af6bece94568bb6'/>
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This slightly improves the prom_init_check rule.

[1] Avoid needless check

Currently, prom_init_check.sh is invoked every time you run 'make'
even if you have changed nothing in prom_init.c. With this commit,
the script is re-run only when prom_init.o is recompiled.

[2] Beautify the build log

Currently, the O= build shows the absolute path to the script:

  CALL    /abs/path/to/source/of/linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh

With this commit, it is always a relative path to the timestamp file:

  PROMCHK arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190912074037.13813-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
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This slightly improves the prom_init_check rule.

[1] Avoid needless check

Currently, prom_init_check.sh is invoked every time you run 'make'
even if you have changed nothing in prom_init.c. With this commit,
the script is re-run only when prom_init.o is recompiled.

[2] Beautify the build log

Currently, the O= build shows the absolute path to the script:

  CALL    /abs/path/to/source/of/linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh

With this commit, it is always a relative path to the timestamp file:

  PROMCHK arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190912074037.13813-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Introduce option to build secure virtual machines</title>
<updated>2019-08-29T23:53:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thiago Jung Bauermann</name>
<email>bauerman@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T02:13:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=136bc0397ae21dbf63ca02e5775ad353a479cd2f'/>
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<content type='text'>
Introduce CONFIG_PPC_SVM to control support for secure guests and include
Ultravisor-related helpers when it is selected

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820021326.6884-3-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
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<pre>
Introduce CONFIG_PPC_SVM to control support for secure guests and include
Ultravisor-related helpers when it is selected

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820021326.6884-3-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Add ucall_norets() ultravisor call handler</title>
<updated>2019-08-29T23:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Claudio Carvalho</name>
<email>cclaudio@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-22T03:48:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a49dddbdb0cca1d00fc9251e543a0aac09a6a65b'/>
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The ultracalls (ucalls for short) allow the Secure Virtual Machines
(SVM)s and hypervisor to request services from the ultravisor such as
accessing a register or memory region that can only be accessed when
running in ultravisor-privileged mode.

This patch adds the ucall_norets() ultravisor call handler.

The specific service needed from an ucall is specified in register
R3 (the first parameter to the ucall). Other parameters to the
ucall, if any, are specified in registers R4 through R12.

Return value of all ucalls is in register R3. Other output values
from the ucall, if any, are returned in registers R4 through R12.

Each ucall returns specific error codes, applicable in the context
of the ucall. However, like with the PowerPC Architecture Platform
Reference (PAPR), if no specific error code is defined for a particular
situation, then the ucall will fallback to an erroneous
parameter-position based code. i.e U_PARAMETER, U_P2, U_P3 etc depending
on the ucall parameter that may have caused the error.

Every host kernel (powernv) needs to be able to do ucalls in case it
ends up being run in a machine with ultravisor enabled. Otherwise, the
kernel may crash early in boot trying to access ultravisor resources,
for instance, trying to set the partition table entry 0. Secure guests
also need to be able to do ucalls and its kernel may not have
CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV=y. For that reason, the ucall.S file is placed under
arch/powerpc/kernel.

If ultravisor is not enabled, the ucalls will be redirected to the
hypervisor which must handle/fail the call.

Thanks to inputs from Ram Pai and Michael Anderson.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-3-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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The ultracalls (ucalls for short) allow the Secure Virtual Machines
(SVM)s and hypervisor to request services from the ultravisor such as
accessing a register or memory region that can only be accessed when
running in ultravisor-privileged mode.

This patch adds the ucall_norets() ultravisor call handler.

The specific service needed from an ucall is specified in register
R3 (the first parameter to the ucall). Other parameters to the
ucall, if any, are specified in registers R4 through R12.

Return value of all ucalls is in register R3. Other output values
from the ucall, if any, are returned in registers R4 through R12.

Each ucall returns specific error codes, applicable in the context
of the ucall. However, like with the PowerPC Architecture Platform
Reference (PAPR), if no specific error code is defined for a particular
situation, then the ucall will fallback to an erroneous
parameter-position based code. i.e U_PARAMETER, U_P2, U_P3 etc depending
on the ucall parameter that may have caused the error.

Every host kernel (powernv) needs to be able to do ucalls in case it
ends up being run in a machine with ultravisor enabled. Otherwise, the
kernel may crash early in boot trying to access ultravisor resources,
for instance, trying to set the partition table entry 0. Secure guests
also need to be able to do ucalls and its kernel may not have
CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV=y. For that reason, the ucall.S file is placed under
arch/powerpc/kernel.

If ultravisor is not enabled, the ucalls will be redirected to the
hypervisor which must handle/fail the call.

Thanks to inputs from Ram Pai and Michael Anderson.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-3-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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<title>powerpc: Add PowerPC Capabilities ELF note</title>
<updated>2019-08-29T23:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Claudio Carvalho</name>
<email>cclaudio@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-29T15:50:20+00:00</published>
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Add the PowerPC name and the PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES type in the
kernel binary ELF note. This type is a bitmap that can be used to
advertise kernel capabilities to userland.

This patch also defines PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT as being the bit zero.

Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[ maxiwell: Define the 'PowerPC' type in the elfnote.h ]
Signed-off-by: Maxiwell S. Garcia &lt;maxiwell@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829155021.2915-2-maxiwell@linux.ibm.com
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Add the PowerPC name and the PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES type in the
kernel binary ELF note. This type is a bitmap that can be used to
advertise kernel capabilities to userland.

This patch also defines PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT as being the bit zero.

Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[ maxiwell: Define the 'PowerPC' type in the elfnote.h ]
Signed-off-by: Maxiwell S. Garcia &lt;maxiwell@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829155021.2915-2-maxiwell@linux.ibm.com
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<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: fix page attributes for dma_mmap_*</title>
<updated>2019-08-10T17:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-26T07:26:40+00:00</published>
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All the way back to introducing dma_common_mmap we've defaulted to mark
the pages as uncached.  But this is wrong for DMA coherent devices.
Later on DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE also got incorrect treatment as that
flag is only treated special on the alloc side for non-coherent devices.

Introduce a new dma_pgprot helper that deals with the check for coherent
devices so that only the remapping cases ever reach arch_dma_mmap_pgprot
and we thus ensure no aliasing of page attributes happens, which makes
the powerpc version of arch_dma_mmap_pgprot obsolete and simplifies the
remaining ones.

Note that this means arch_dma_mmap_pgprot is a bit misnamed now, but
we'll phase it out soon.

Fixes: 64ccc9c033c6 ("common: dma-mapping: add support for generic dma_mmap_* calls")
Reported-by: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Reported-by: Gavin Li &lt;git@thegavinli.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt; # arm64
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All the way back to introducing dma_common_mmap we've defaulted to mark
the pages as uncached.  But this is wrong for DMA coherent devices.
Later on DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE also got incorrect treatment as that
flag is only treated special on the alloc side for non-coherent devices.

Introduce a new dma_pgprot helper that deals with the check for coherent
devices so that only the remapping cases ever reach arch_dma_mmap_pgprot
and we thus ensure no aliasing of page attributes happens, which makes
the powerpc version of arch_dma_mmap_pgprot obsolete and simplifies the
remaining ones.

Note that this means arch_dma_mmap_pgprot is a bit misnamed now, but
we'll phase it out soon.

Fixes: 64ccc9c033c6 ("common: dma-mapping: add support for generic dma_mmap_* calls")
Reported-by: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Reported-by: Gavin Li &lt;git@thegavinli.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt; # arm64
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