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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix interrupt exit race with security mitigation switch</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T23:13:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-06T04:22:40+00:00</published>
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The RFI and STF security mitigation options can flip the
interrupt_exit_not_reentrant static branch condition concurrently with
the interrupt exit code which tests that branch.

Interrupt exit tests this condition to set MSR[EE|RI] for exit, then
again in the case a soft-masked interrupt is found pending, to recover
the MSR so the interrupt can be replayed before attempting to exit
again. If the condition changes between these two tests, the MSR and irq
soft-mask state will become corrupted, leading to warnings and possible
crashes. For example, if the branch is initially true then false,
MSR[EE] will be 0 but PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS clear and EE may not get
enabled, leading to warnings in irq_64.c.

Fixes: 13799748b957 ("powerpc/64: use interrupt restart table to speed up return from interrupt")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230206042240.92103-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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The RFI and STF security mitigation options can flip the
interrupt_exit_not_reentrant static branch condition concurrently with
the interrupt exit code which tests that branch.

Interrupt exit tests this condition to set MSR[EE|RI] for exit, then
again in the case a soft-masked interrupt is found pending, to recover
the MSR so the interrupt can be replayed before attempting to exit
again. If the condition changes between these two tests, the MSR and irq
soft-mask state will become corrupted, leading to warnings and possible
crashes. For example, if the branch is initially true then false,
MSR[EE] will be 0 but PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS clear and EE may not get
enabled, leading to warnings in irq_64.c.

Fixes: 13799748b957 ("powerpc/64: use interrupt restart table to speed up return from interrupt")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230206042240.92103-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Perf NMI should not take normal exit path</title>
<updated>2022-10-18T11:46:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-06T14:04:11+00:00</published>
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NMI interrupts should exit with EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS not with
interrupt_return_srr, which is what the perf NMI handler currently does.
This breaks if a PMI hits after interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main() has
switched the context tracking to user mode, then the CT_WARN_ON() in
interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() fires because it returns to kernel with
context set to user.

This could possibly be solved by soft-disabling PMIs in the exit path,
but that reduces our ability to profile that code. The warning could be
removed, but it's potentially useful.

All other NMIs and soft-NMIs return using EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS, so
this makes perf interrupts consistent with that and seems like the best
fix.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash in fixups from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006140413.126443-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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NMI interrupts should exit with EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS not with
interrupt_return_srr, which is what the perf NMI handler currently does.
This breaks if a PMI hits after interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main() has
switched the context tracking to user mode, then the CT_WARN_ON() in
interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() fires because it returns to kernel with
context set to user.

This could possibly be solved by soft-disabling PMIs in the exit path,
but that reduces our ability to profile that code. The warning could be
removed, but it's potentially useful.

All other NMIs and soft-NMIs return using EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS, so
this makes perf interrupts consistent with that and seems like the best
fix.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash in fixups from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006140413.126443-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64/interrupt: Prevent NMI PMI causing a dangerous warning</title>
<updated>2022-10-18T11:46:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T03:07:29+00:00</published>
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NMI PMIs really should not return using the normal interrupt_return
function. If such a PMI hits in code returning to user with the context
switched to user mode, this warning can fire. This was enough to cause
crashes when reproducing on 64s, because another perf interrupt would
hit while reporting bug, and that would cause another bug, and so on
until smashing the stack.

Work around that particular crash for now by just disabling that context
warning for PMIs. This is a hack and not a complete fix, there could be
other such problems lurking in corners. But it does fix the known crash.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014030729.2077151-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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NMI PMIs really should not return using the normal interrupt_return
function. If such a PMI hits in code returning to user with the context
switched to user mode, this warning can fire. This was enough to cause
crashes when reproducing on 64s, because another perf interrupt would
hit while reporting bug, and that would cause another bug, and so on
until smashing the stack.

Work around that particular crash for now by just disabling that context
warning for PMIs. This is a hack and not a complete fix, there could be
other such problems lurking in corners. But it does fix the known crash.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014030729.2077151-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64/interrupt: Fix return to masked context after hard-mask irq becomes pending</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T09:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-26T05:43:01+00:00</published>
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If a synchronous interrupt (e.g., hash fault) is taken inside an
irqs-disabled region which has MSR[EE]=1, then an asynchronous interrupt
that is PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK (e.g., PMI) is taken inside the
synchronous interrupt handler, then the synchronous interrupt will
return with MSR[EE]=1 and the asynchronous interrupt fires again.

If the asynchronous interrupt is a PMI and the original context does not
have PMIs disabled (only Linux IRQs), the asynchronous interrupt will
fire despite having the PMI marked soft pending. This can confuse the
perf code and cause warnings.

This patch changes the interrupt return so that irqs-disabled MSR[EE]=1
contexts will be returned to with MSR[EE]=0 if a PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK
interrupt has become pending in the meantime.

The longer explanation for what happens:
1. local_irq_disable()
2. Hash fault interrupt fires, do_hash_fault handler runs
3. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets IRQS_ALL_DISABLED
4. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets MSR[EE]=1
5. PMU interrupt fires, masked handler runs
6. Masked handler marks PMI pending
7. Masked handler returns with PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS set, MSR[EE]=0
8. do_hash_fault interrupt return handler runs
9. interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() clears PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS
10. interrupt returns with MSR[EE]=1
11. PMU interrupt fires, perf handler runs

Fixes: 4423eb5ae32e ("powerpc/64/interrupt: make normal synchronous interrupts enable MSR[EE] if possible")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926054305.2671436-4-npiggin@gmail.com

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If a synchronous interrupt (e.g., hash fault) is taken inside an
irqs-disabled region which has MSR[EE]=1, then an asynchronous interrupt
that is PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK (e.g., PMI) is taken inside the
synchronous interrupt handler, then the synchronous interrupt will
return with MSR[EE]=1 and the asynchronous interrupt fires again.

If the asynchronous interrupt is a PMI and the original context does not
have PMIs disabled (only Linux IRQs), the asynchronous interrupt will
fire despite having the PMI marked soft pending. This can confuse the
perf code and cause warnings.

This patch changes the interrupt return so that irqs-disabled MSR[EE]=1
contexts will be returned to with MSR[EE]=0 if a PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK
interrupt has become pending in the meantime.

The longer explanation for what happens:
1. local_irq_disable()
2. Hash fault interrupt fires, do_hash_fault handler runs
3. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets IRQS_ALL_DISABLED
4. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets MSR[EE]=1
5. PMU interrupt fires, masked handler runs
6. Masked handler marks PMI pending
7. Masked handler returns with PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS set, MSR[EE]=0
8. do_hash_fault interrupt return handler runs
9. interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() clears PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS
10. interrupt returns with MSR[EE]=1
11. PMU interrupt fires, perf handler runs

Fixes: 4423eb5ae32e ("powerpc/64/interrupt: make normal synchronous interrupts enable MSR[EE] if possible")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926054305.2671436-4-npiggin@gmail.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move system_call_exception() to syscall.c</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T06:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiu Jianfeng</name>
<email>xiujianfeng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-01T08:24:34+00:00</published>
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This is a lead-up patch to enable syscall stack randomization, which
uses alloca() and makes the compiler add unconditional stack canaries
on syscall entry. In order to avoid triggering needless checks and
slowing down the entry path, the feature needs to disable stack
protector at the compilation unit level as there is no general way to
control stack protector coverage with a function attribute.

So move system_call_exception() to syscall.c to avoid affecting other
functions in interrupt.c.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701082435.126596-2-xiujianfeng@huawei.com

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This is a lead-up patch to enable syscall stack randomization, which
uses alloca() and makes the compiler add unconditional stack canaries
on syscall entry. In order to avoid triggering needless checks and
slowing down the entry path, the feature needs to disable stack
protector at the compilation unit level as there is no general way to
control stack protector coverage with a function attribute.

So move system_call_exception() to syscall.c to avoid affecting other
functions in interrupt.c.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701082435.126596-2-xiujianfeng@huawei.com

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move C prototypes out of asm-prototypes.h</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T11:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-04T17:04:05+00:00</published>
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We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd78 ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.

A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05cb ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.

Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.

Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.

For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd78 ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.

A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05cb ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.

Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.

Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.

For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-14T14:17:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T14:17:26+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Optimise radix KVM guest entry/exit by 2x on Power9/Power10.

 - Allow firmware to tell us whether to disable the entry and uaccess
   flushes on Power10 or later CPUs.

 - Add BPF_PROBE_MEM support for 32 and 64-bit BPF jits.

 - Several fixes and improvements to our hard lockup watchdog.

 - Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on 32-bit.

 - Allow building the 64-bit Book3S kernel without hash MMU support, ie.
   Radix only.

 - Add KUAP (SMAP) support for 40x, 44x, 8xx, Book3E (64-bit).

 - Add new encodings for perf_mem_data_src.mem_hops field, and use them
   on Power10.

 - A series of small performance improvements to 64-bit interrupt entry.

 - Several commits fixing issues when building with the clang integrated
   assembler.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Alan Modra, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Ammar Faizi, Anders Roxell,
Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, David Yang, Erhard
Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Guo Ren, Hari Bathini, Jason
Wang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Brown, Minghao Chi, Nageswara R Sastry, Naresh
Kamboju, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Child,
Oliver O'Halloran, Peiwei Hu, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring,
Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tyrel Datwyler, Xiang wangx, and Yang
Guang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (240 commits)
  powerpc/xmon: Dump XIVE information for online-only processors.
  powerpc/opal: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/cacheinfo: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/sched: Remove unused TASK_SIZE_OF
  powerpc/xive: Add missing null check after calling kmalloc
  powerpc/floppy: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of sigreturning to an unaligned address
  powerpc/64s: Use EMIT_WARN_ENTRY for SRR debug warnings
  powerpc/64s: Mask NIP before checking against SRR0
  powerpc/perf: Fix spelling of "its"
  powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy plugin
  powerpc/code-patching: Replace patch_instruction() by ppc_inst_write() in selftests
  powerpc/code-patching: Move code patching selftests in its own file
  powerpc/code-patching: Move instr_is_branch_{i/b}form() in code-patching.h
  powerpc/code-patching: Move patch_exception() outside code-patching.c
  powerpc/code-patching: Use test_trampoline for prefixed patch test
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix patch_branch() return on out-of-range failure
  powerpc/code-patching: Reorganise do_patch_instruction() to ease error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix unmap_patch_area() error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix error handling in do_patch_instruction()
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Optimise radix KVM guest entry/exit by 2x on Power9/Power10.

 - Allow firmware to tell us whether to disable the entry and uaccess
   flushes on Power10 or later CPUs.

 - Add BPF_PROBE_MEM support for 32 and 64-bit BPF jits.

 - Several fixes and improvements to our hard lockup watchdog.

 - Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on 32-bit.

 - Allow building the 64-bit Book3S kernel without hash MMU support, ie.
   Radix only.

 - Add KUAP (SMAP) support for 40x, 44x, 8xx, Book3E (64-bit).

 - Add new encodings for perf_mem_data_src.mem_hops field, and use them
   on Power10.

 - A series of small performance improvements to 64-bit interrupt entry.

 - Several commits fixing issues when building with the clang integrated
   assembler.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Alan Modra, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Ammar Faizi, Anders Roxell,
Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, David Yang, Erhard
Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Guo Ren, Hari Bathini, Jason
Wang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Brown, Minghao Chi, Nageswara R Sastry, Naresh
Kamboju, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Child,
Oliver O'Halloran, Peiwei Hu, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring,
Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tyrel Datwyler, Xiang wangx, and Yang
Guang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (240 commits)
  powerpc/xmon: Dump XIVE information for online-only processors.
  powerpc/opal: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/cacheinfo: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/sched: Remove unused TASK_SIZE_OF
  powerpc/xive: Add missing null check after calling kmalloc
  powerpc/floppy: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of sigreturning to an unaligned address
  powerpc/64s: Use EMIT_WARN_ENTRY for SRR debug warnings
  powerpc/64s: Mask NIP before checking against SRR0
  powerpc/perf: Fix spelling of "its"
  powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy plugin
  powerpc/code-patching: Replace patch_instruction() by ppc_inst_write() in selftests
  powerpc/code-patching: Move code patching selftests in its own file
  powerpc/code-patching: Move instr_is_branch_{i/b}form() in code-patching.h
  powerpc/code-patching: Move patch_exception() outside code-patching.c
  powerpc/code-patching: Use test_trampoline for prefixed patch test
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix patch_branch() return on out-of-range failure
  powerpc/code-patching: Reorganise do_patch_instruction() to ease error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix unmap_patch_area() error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix error handling in do_patch_instruction()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kuap: Add kuap_lock()</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T11:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
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<published>2021-10-19T07:29:23+00:00</published>
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Add kuap_lock() and call it when entering interrupts from user.

It is called kuap_lock() as it is similar to kuap_save_and_lock()
without the save.

However book3s/32 already have a kuap_lock(). Rename it
kuap_lock_addr().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4437e2deb9f6f549f7089d45e9c6f96a7e77905a.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Add kuap_lock() and call it when entering interrupts from user.

It is called kuap_lock() as it is similar to kuap_save_and_lock()
without the save.

However book3s/32 already have a kuap_lock(). Rename it
kuap_lock_addr().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4437e2deb9f6f549f7089d45e9c6f96a7e77905a.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<title>powerpc/32s: Do kuep_lock() and kuep_unlock() in assembly</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T11:41:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-19T07:29:17+00:00</published>
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When interrupt and syscall entries where converted to C, KUEP locking
and unlocking was also converted. It improved performance by unrolling
the loop, and allowed easily implementing boot time deactivation of
KUEP.

However, null_syscall selftest shows that KUEP is still heavy
(361 cycles with KUEP, 212 cycles without).

A way to improve more is to group 'mtsr's together, instead of
repeating 'addi' + 'mtsr' several times.

In order to do that, more registers need to be available. In C, GCC
will always be able to provide the requested number of registers, but
at the cost of saving some data on the stack, which is counter
performant here.

So let's do it in assembly, when we have full control of which
register can be used. It also has the advantage of locking earlier
and unlocking later and it helps GCC generating less tricky code.
The only drawback is to make boot time deactivation less straight
forward and require 'hand' instruction patching.

Group 'mtsr's by 4.

With this change, null_syscall selftest reports 336 cycles. Without
the change it was 361 cycles, that's a 7% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/115cb279e9b9948dfd93a065e047081c59e3a2a6.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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When interrupt and syscall entries where converted to C, KUEP locking
and unlocking was also converted. It improved performance by unrolling
the loop, and allowed easily implementing boot time deactivation of
KUEP.

However, null_syscall selftest shows that KUEP is still heavy
(361 cycles with KUEP, 212 cycles without).

A way to improve more is to group 'mtsr's together, instead of
repeating 'addi' + 'mtsr' several times.

In order to do that, more registers need to be available. In C, GCC
will always be able to provide the requested number of registers, but
at the cost of saving some data on the stack, which is counter
performant here.

So let's do it in assembly, when we have full control of which
register can be used. It also has the advantage of locking earlier
and unlocking later and it helps GCC generating less tricky code.
The only drawback is to make boot time deactivation less straight
forward and require 'hand' instruction patching.

Group 'mtsr's by 4.

With this change, null_syscall selftest reports 336 cycles. Without
the change it was 361 cycles, that's a 7% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/115cb279e9b9948dfd93a065e047081c59e3a2a6.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<title>powerpc: Snapshot thread flags</title>
<updated>2021-11-30T23:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T13:06:52+00:00</published>
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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-11-mark.rutland@arm.com

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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-11-mark.rutland@arm.com

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