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<title>powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:09:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2016-01-15T09:52:22+00:00</published>
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commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 upstream.

PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.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 c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 upstream.

PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.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/64: Fix flush_(d|i)cache_range() called from modules</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:09:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver O'Halloran</name>
<email>oohall@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-03T03:25:12+00:00</published>
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commit 8f5f525d5b83f7d76a6baf9c4e94d4bf312ea7f6 upstream.

When the kernel is compiled to use 64bit ABIv2 the _GLOBAL() macro does
not include a global entry point. A function's global entry point is
used when the function is called from a different TOC context and in the
kernel this typically means a call from a module into the vmlinux (or
vice-versa).

There are a few exported asm functions declared with _GLOBAL() and
calling them from a module will likely crash the kernel since any TOC
relative load will yield garbage.

flush_icache_range() and flush_dcache_range() are both exported to
modules, and use the TOC, so must use _GLOBAL_TOC().

Fixes: 721aeaa9fdf3 ("powerpc: Build little endian ppc64 kernel with ABIv2")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.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 8f5f525d5b83f7d76a6baf9c4e94d4bf312ea7f6 upstream.

When the kernel is compiled to use 64bit ABIv2 the _GLOBAL() macro does
not include a global entry point. A function's global entry point is
used when the function is called from a different TOC context and in the
kernel this typically means a call from a module into the vmlinux (or
vice-versa).

There are a few exported asm functions declared with _GLOBAL() and
calling them from a module will likely crash the kernel since any TOC
relative load will yield garbage.

flush_icache_range() and flush_dcache_range() are both exported to
modules, and use the TOC, so must use _GLOBAL_TOC().

Fixes: 721aeaa9fdf3 ("powerpc: Build little endian ppc64 kernel with ABIv2")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.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/book3e-64: Enable kexec</title>
<updated>2015-10-27T23:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiejun Chen</name>
<email>tiejun.chen@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-07T03:48:22+00:00</published>
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Allow KEXEC for book3e, and bypass or convert non-book3e stuff
in kexec code.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: move code to minimize diff, and cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Allow KEXEC for book3e, and bypass or convert non-book3e stuff
in kexec code.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: move code to minimize diff, and cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop</title>
<updated>2015-10-27T23:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-07T03:48:21+00:00</published>
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book3e_secondary_core_init will only create a TLB entry if r4 = 0,
so do so.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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book3e_secondary_core_init will only create a TLB entry if r4 = 0,
so do so.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping</title>
<updated>2015-10-27T23:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiejun Chen</name>
<email>tiejun.chen@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-07T03:48:18+00:00</published>
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book3e has no real MMU mode so we have to create an identity TLB
mapping to make sure we can access the real physical address.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
[scottwood: cleanup, and split off some changes]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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book3e has no real MMU mode so we have to create an identity TLB
mapping to make sure we can access the real physical address.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
[scottwood: cleanup, and split off some changes]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianness before kexec</title>
<updated>2015-08-20T08:19:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Mendoza-Jonas</name>
<email>sam.mj@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-22T05:50:50+00:00</published>
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If the target kernel does not inlcude the FIXUP_ENDIAN check, coming
from a different-endian kernel will cause the target kernel to panic.
All ppc64 kernels can handle starting in big-endian mode, so return to
big-endian before branching into the target kernel.

This mainly affects pseries as secondaries on powernv are returned to
OPAL.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas &lt;sam.mj@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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If the target kernel does not inlcude the FIXUP_ENDIAN check, coming
from a different-endian kernel will cause the target kernel to panic.
All ppc64 kernels can handle starting in big-endian mode, so return to
big-endian before branching into the target kernel.

This mainly affects pseries as secondaries on powernv are returned to
OPAL.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas &lt;sam.mj@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: module: handle MODVERSION for .TOC.</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-18T09:29:11+00:00</published>
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For the ELFv2 ABI, powerpc introduces a magic symbol ".TOC.".  If we
don't create a CRC for it (minus the leading ".", since we strip that)
we get a modpost warning about missing CRC and the CRC array seems to
be displaced by 1 so other CRCs mismatch too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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For the ELFv2 ABI, powerpc introduces a magic symbol ".TOC.".  If we
don't create a CRC for it (minus the leading ".", since we strip that)
we get a modpost warning about missing CRC and the CRC array seems to
be displaced by 1 so other CRCs mismatch too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: EXPORT_SYMBOL(.TOC.)</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-18T07:07:28+00:00</published>
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For the ELFv2 ABI, powerpc introduces a magic symbol ".TOC.".  depmod
then complains that this doesn't resolve (so does modpost, but we could
easily fix that).  To export this, we need to use asm.

modpost and depmod both strip "." from symbols for the old PPC64 ELFv1
ABI, so we actually export a "TOC.".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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For the ELFv2 ABI, powerpc introduces a magic symbol ".TOC.".  depmod
then complains that this doesn't resolve (so does modpost, but we could
easily fix that).  To export this, we need to use asm.

modpost and depmod both strip "." from symbols for the old PPC64 ELFv1
ABI, so we actually export a "TOC.".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: ABIv2 function calls must place target address in r12</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-04T05:07:47+00:00</published>
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To establish addressability quickly, ABIv2 requires the target
address of the function being called to be in r12. Fix a number of
places in assembly code that we do indirect function calls.

We need to avoid function descriptors on ABIv2 too.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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To establish addressability quickly, ABIv2 requires the target
address of the function being called to be in r12. Fix a number of
places in assembly code that we do indirect function calls.

We need to avoid function descriptors on ABIv2 too.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a function</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-04T05:04:35+00:00</published>
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binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.

Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.

Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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