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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Fix flush_(d|i)cache_range() called from modules</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T10:41:13+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>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>powerpc/64/kexec: Copy image with MMU off when possible</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T21:54:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T08:52:38+00:00</published>
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Currently we turn the MMU off after copying the image, and we make
sure there is no overlap between the hash table and the target pages
in that case.

That doesn't work for Radix however. In that case, the page tables
are scattered and we can't really enforce that the target of the
image isn't overlapping one of them.

So instead, let's turn the MMU off before copying the image in radix
mode. Thankfully, in radix mode, even under a hypervisor, we know we
don't have the same kind of RMA limitations that hash mode has.

While at it, also turn the MMU off early when using hash in non-LPAR
mode, that way we can get rid of the collision check completely.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently we turn the MMU off after copying the image, and we make
sure there is no overlap between the hash table and the target pages
in that case.

That doesn't work for Radix however. In that case, the page tables
are scattered and we can't really enforce that the target of the
image isn't overlapping one of them.

So instead, let's turn the MMU off before copying the image in radix
mode. Thankfully, in radix mode, even under a hypervisor, we know we
don't have the same kind of RMA limitations that hash mode has.

While at it, also turn the MMU off early when using hash in non-LPAR
mode, that way we can get rid of the collision check completely.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64/kexec: NULL check "clear_all" in kexec_sequence</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T21:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T08:52:35+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
With Radix, it can be NULL even on !BOOKE these days so replace
the ifdef with a NULL check which is cleaner anyway.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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With Radix, it can be NULL even on !BOOKE these days so replace
the ifdef with a NULL check which is cleaner anyway.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Use kprobe blacklist for asm functions</title>
<updated>2016-09-19T00:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-16T10:48:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6f698df10cb24d466b9a790b9daedb9e7bcd5d2a'/>
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Rather than forcing the whole function into the ".kprobes.text" section,
just add the symbol's address to the kprobe blacklist.

This also lets us drop the three versions of the_KPROBE macro, in
exchange for just one version of _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL - which is a good
cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Rather than forcing the whole function into the ".kprobes.text" section,
just add the symbol's address to the kprobe blacklist.

This also lets us drop the three versions of the_KPROBE macro, in
exchange for just one version of _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL - which is a good
cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&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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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm: Move hash table ops to a separate structure</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T08:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-05T05:03:58+00:00</published>
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Moving probe_machine() to after mmu init will cause the ppc_md
fields relative to the hash table management to be overwritten.

Since we have essentially disconnected the machine type from
the hash backend ops, finish the job by moving them to a different
structure.

The only callback that didn't quite fix is update_partition_table
since this is not specific to hash, so I moved it to a standalone
variable for now. We can revisit later if needed.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build failure in kexec]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Moving probe_machine() to after mmu init will cause the ppc_md
fields relative to the hash table management to be overwritten.

Since we have essentially disconnected the machine type from
the hash backend ops, finish the job by moving them to a different
structure.

The only callback that didn't quite fix is update_partition_table
since this is not specific to hash, so I moved it to a standalone
variable for now. We can revisit later if needed.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build failure in kexec]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Define and use PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2/v1</title>
<updated>2016-06-14T03:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-06T16:56:10+00:00</published>
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We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T03:10:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-15T09:52:22+00:00</published>
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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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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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<content type='text'>
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;
</pre>
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