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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T19:25:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T04:44:45+00:00</published>
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commit 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&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 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&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 tag 'powerpc-4.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T23:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T23:41:38+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - support "hybrid" iommu/direct DMA ops for coherent_mask &lt; dma_mask
   from Benjamin Herrenschmidt

 - EEH fixes for SRIOV from Gavin

 - introduce rtas_get_sensor_fast() for IRQ handlers from Thomas Huth

 - use hardware RNG for arch_get_random_seed_* not arch_get_random_*
   from Paul Mackerras

 - seccomp filter support from Michael Ellerman

 - opal_cec_reboot2() handling for HMIs &amp; machine checks from Mahesh
   Salgaonkar

 - add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source from Naveen N.  Rao

 - misc cleanups in the xmon, signal &amp; SLB code from Anshuman Khandual

 - add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0 from Gautham R.  Shenoy

 - fix pte_pagesize_index() crash on 4K w/64K hash from Michael Ellerman

 - drop support for 64K local store on 4K kernels from Michael Ellerman

 - move dma_get_required_mask() from pnv_phb to pci_controller_ops from
   Andrew Donnellan

 - initialize distance lookup table from drconf path from Nikunj A
   Dadhania

 - enable RTC class support from Vaibhav Jain

 - disable automatically blocked PCI config from Gavin Shan

 - add LEDs driver for PowerNV platform from Vasant Hegde

 - fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver from Laurent Dufour

 - kexec endian fixes from Samuel Mendoza-Jonas

 - fix corrupted pdn list from Gavin Shan

 - fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail() from Gavin Shan

 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 32-bit memcpy/memset
   optimizations, checksum optimizations, 85xx config fragments and
   updates, device tree updates, e6500 fixes for non-SMP, and misc
   cleanup and minor fixes.

 - a ton of cxl updates &amp; fixes:
    - add explicit precision specifiers from Rasmus Villemoes
    - use more common format specifier from Rasmus Villemoes
    - destroy cxl_adapter_idr on module_exit from Johannes Thumshirn
    - destroy afu-&gt;contexts_idr on release of an afu from Johannes
      Thumshirn
    - compile with -Werror from Daniel Axtens
    - EEH support from Daniel Axtens
    - plug irq_bitmap getting leaked in cxl_context from Vaibhav Jain
    - add alternate MMIO error handling from Ian Munsie
    - allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
      from Andrew Donnellan
    - remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE from Vaishali Thakkar
    - release irqs if memory allocation fails from Vaibhav Jain
    - remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset from Daniel
      Axtens
    - fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init from Ian Munsie
    - fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel
      api from Ian Munsie
    - set up and enable PSL Timebase from Philippe Bergheaud

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (140 commits)
  cxl: Set up and enable PSL Timebase
  cxl: Fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel api
  cxl: Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init
  powerpc/eeh: Fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail()
  powerpc/pseries: Cleanup on pci_dn_reconfig_notifier()
  powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list
  powerpc/powernv: Enable LEDS support
  powerpc/iommu: Set default DMA offset in dma_dev_setup
  cxl: Remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset
  cxl: Release irqs if memory allocation fails
  cxl: Remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
  powerpc/powernv: Fix mis-merge of OPAL support for LEDS driver
  powerpc/powernv: Reset HILE before kexec_sequence()
  powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianness before kexec
  powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver
  leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform
  powerpc/powernv: Create LED platform device
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states
  powerpc/powernv: Fix the log message when disabling VF
  cxl: Allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - support "hybrid" iommu/direct DMA ops for coherent_mask &lt; dma_mask
   from Benjamin Herrenschmidt

 - EEH fixes for SRIOV from Gavin

 - introduce rtas_get_sensor_fast() for IRQ handlers from Thomas Huth

 - use hardware RNG for arch_get_random_seed_* not arch_get_random_*
   from Paul Mackerras

 - seccomp filter support from Michael Ellerman

 - opal_cec_reboot2() handling for HMIs &amp; machine checks from Mahesh
   Salgaonkar

 - add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source from Naveen N.  Rao

 - misc cleanups in the xmon, signal &amp; SLB code from Anshuman Khandual

 - add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0 from Gautham R.  Shenoy

 - fix pte_pagesize_index() crash on 4K w/64K hash from Michael Ellerman

 - drop support for 64K local store on 4K kernels from Michael Ellerman

 - move dma_get_required_mask() from pnv_phb to pci_controller_ops from
   Andrew Donnellan

 - initialize distance lookup table from drconf path from Nikunj A
   Dadhania

 - enable RTC class support from Vaibhav Jain

 - disable automatically blocked PCI config from Gavin Shan

 - add LEDs driver for PowerNV platform from Vasant Hegde

 - fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver from Laurent Dufour

 - kexec endian fixes from Samuel Mendoza-Jonas

 - fix corrupted pdn list from Gavin Shan

 - fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail() from Gavin Shan

 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 32-bit memcpy/memset
   optimizations, checksum optimizations, 85xx config fragments and
   updates, device tree updates, e6500 fixes for non-SMP, and misc
   cleanup and minor fixes.

 - a ton of cxl updates &amp; fixes:
    - add explicit precision specifiers from Rasmus Villemoes
    - use more common format specifier from Rasmus Villemoes
    - destroy cxl_adapter_idr on module_exit from Johannes Thumshirn
    - destroy afu-&gt;contexts_idr on release of an afu from Johannes
      Thumshirn
    - compile with -Werror from Daniel Axtens
    - EEH support from Daniel Axtens
    - plug irq_bitmap getting leaked in cxl_context from Vaibhav Jain
    - add alternate MMIO error handling from Ian Munsie
    - allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
      from Andrew Donnellan
    - remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE from Vaishali Thakkar
    - release irqs if memory allocation fails from Vaibhav Jain
    - remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset from Daniel
      Axtens
    - fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init from Ian Munsie
    - fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel
      api from Ian Munsie
    - set up and enable PSL Timebase from Philippe Bergheaud

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (140 commits)
  cxl: Set up and enable PSL Timebase
  cxl: Fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel api
  cxl: Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init
  powerpc/eeh: Fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail()
  powerpc/pseries: Cleanup on pci_dn_reconfig_notifier()
  powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list
  powerpc/powernv: Enable LEDS support
  powerpc/iommu: Set default DMA offset in dma_dev_setup
  cxl: Remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset
  cxl: Release irqs if memory allocation fails
  cxl: Remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
  powerpc/powernv: Fix mis-merge of OPAL support for LEDS driver
  powerpc/powernv: Reset HILE before kexec_sequence()
  powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianness before kexec
  powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver
  leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform
  powerpc/powernv: Create LED platform device
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states
  powerpc/powernv: Fix the log message when disabling VF
  cxl: Allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Drop tm_orig_msr from thread_struct</title>
<updated>2015-07-16T06:02:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T10:54:10+00:00</published>
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Currently tm_orig_msr is getting used during process context switch only.
Then there is ckpt_regs which saves the checkpointed userspace context
The MSR slot contained in ckpt_regs structure can be used during process
context switch instead of tm_orig_msr, thus allowing us to drop it from
thread_struct structure. This patch does that change.

Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently tm_orig_msr is getting used during process context switch only.
Then there is ckpt_regs which saves the checkpointed userspace context
The MSR slot contained in ckpt_regs structure can be used during process
context switch instead of tm_orig_msr, thus allowing us to drop it from
thread_struct structure. This patch does that change.

Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Uncomment and make enable_kernel_vsx() routine available</title>
<updated>2015-07-14T06:56:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonidas Da Silva Barbosa</name>
<email>leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-13T16:51:01+00:00</published>
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enable_kernel_vsx() function was commented since anything was using
it. However, vmx-crypto driver uses VSX instructions which are
only available if VSX is enable. Otherwise it rises an exception oops.

This patch uncomment enable_kernel_vsx() routine and makes it available.

Signed-off-by: Leonidas S. Barbosa &lt;leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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enable_kernel_vsx() function was commented since anything was using
it. However, vmx-crypto driver uses VSX instructions which are
only available if VSX is enable. Otherwise it rises an exception oops.

This patch uncomment enable_kernel_vsx() routine and makes it available.

Signed-off-by: Leonidas S. Barbosa &lt;leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Remove the unused extern dscr_default</title>
<updated>2015-06-07T09:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-21T06:43:02+00:00</published>
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The process context switch code no longer uses dscr_default variable
from the sysfs.c file. The variable became unused when we started
storing the CPU specific DSCR value in the PACA structure instead.
This patch just removes this extern declaration. It was originally
added by the following commit.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The process context switch code no longer uses dscr_default variable
from the sysfs.c file. The variable became unused when we started
storing the CPU specific DSCR value in the PACA structure instead.
This patch just removes this extern declaration. It was originally
added by the following commit.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Rename copy_thread() 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'</title>
<updated>2015-03-20T01:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Dowad</name>
<email>alexinbeijing@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T18:14:46+00:00</published>
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The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad &lt;alexinbeijing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad &lt;alexinbeijing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use generic PIE randomization</title>
<updated>2014-11-17T06:55:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineeth Vijayan</name>
<email>vvijayan@mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T09:12:05+00:00</published>
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Back in 2009 we merged 501cb16d3cfd "Randomise PIEs", which added support for
randomizing PIE (Position Independent Executable) binaries.

That commit added randomize_et_dyn(), which correctly randomized the addresses,
but failed to honor PF_RANDOMIZE. That means it was not possible to disable PIE
randomization via the personality flag, or /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space.

Since then there has been generic support for PIE randomization added to
binfmt_elf.c, selectable via ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE.

Enabling that allows us to drop randomize_et_dyn(), which means we start
honoring PF_RANDOMIZE correctly.

It also causes a fairly major change to how we layout PIE binaries.

Currently we will place the binary at 512MB-520MB for 32 bit binaries, or
512MB-1.5GB for 64 bit binaries, eg:

    $ cat /proc/$$/maps
    4e550000-4e580000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813       /bin/dash
    4e580000-4e590000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813       /bin/dash
    10014110000-10014140000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [heap]
    3fffaa3f0000-3fffaa5a0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921  /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fffaa5a0000-3fffaa5b0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921  /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fffaa5c0000-3fffaa5d0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
    3fffaa5d0000-3fffaa5f0000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0    [vdso]
    3fffaa5f0000-3fffaa620000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fffaa620000-3fffaa630000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3ffffc340000-3ffffc370000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0    [stack]

With this commit applied we don't do any special randomisation for the binary,
and instead rely on mmap randomisation. This means the binary ends up at high
addresses, eg:

    $ cat /proc/$$/maps
    3fff99820000-3fff999d0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921    /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fff999d0000-3fff999e0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921    /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fff999f0000-3fff99a00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
    3fff99a00000-3fff99a20000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0      [vdso]
    3fff99a20000-3fff99a50000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246   /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fff99a50000-3fff99a60000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246   /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fff99a60000-3fff99a90000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash
    3fff99a90000-3fff99aa0000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash
    3fffc3de0000-3fffc3e10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [stack]
    3fffc55e0000-3fffc5610000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [heap]

Although this should be OK, it's possible it might break badly written
binaries that make assumptions about the address space layout.

Signed-off-by: Vineeth Vijayan &lt;vvijayan@mvista.com&gt;
[mpe: Rewrite changelog]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Back in 2009 we merged 501cb16d3cfd "Randomise PIEs", which added support for
randomizing PIE (Position Independent Executable) binaries.

That commit added randomize_et_dyn(), which correctly randomized the addresses,
but failed to honor PF_RANDOMIZE. That means it was not possible to disable PIE
randomization via the personality flag, or /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space.

Since then there has been generic support for PIE randomization added to
binfmt_elf.c, selectable via ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE.

Enabling that allows us to drop randomize_et_dyn(), which means we start
honoring PF_RANDOMIZE correctly.

It also causes a fairly major change to how we layout PIE binaries.

Currently we will place the binary at 512MB-520MB for 32 bit binaries, or
512MB-1.5GB for 64 bit binaries, eg:

    $ cat /proc/$$/maps
    4e550000-4e580000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813       /bin/dash
    4e580000-4e590000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813       /bin/dash
    10014110000-10014140000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [heap]
    3fffaa3f0000-3fffaa5a0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921  /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fffaa5a0000-3fffaa5b0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921  /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fffaa5c0000-3fffaa5d0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
    3fffaa5d0000-3fffaa5f0000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0    [vdso]
    3fffaa5f0000-3fffaa620000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fffaa620000-3fffaa630000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3ffffc340000-3ffffc370000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0    [stack]

With this commit applied we don't do any special randomisation for the binary,
and instead rely on mmap randomisation. This means the binary ends up at high
addresses, eg:

    $ cat /proc/$$/maps
    3fff99820000-3fff999d0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921    /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fff999d0000-3fff999e0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921    /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
    3fff999f0000-3fff99a00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
    3fff99a00000-3fff99a20000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0      [vdso]
    3fff99a20000-3fff99a50000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246   /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fff99a50000-3fff99a60000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246   /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
    3fff99a60000-3fff99a90000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash
    3fff99a90000-3fff99aa0000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash
    3fffc3de0000-3fffc3e10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [stack]
    3fffc55e0000-3fffc5610000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0      [heap]

Although this should be OK, it's possible it might break badly written
binaries that make assumptions about the address space layout.

Signed-off-by: Vineeth Vijayan &lt;vvijayan@mvista.com&gt;
[mpe: Rewrite changelog]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Remove mod_return_to_handler</title>
<updated>2014-11-09T22:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T07:07:03+00:00</published>
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mod_return_to_handler is the same as return_to_handler, except
it handles the change of the TOC (r2). Add this into
return_to_handler and remove mod_return_to_handler.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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mod_return_to_handler is the same as return_to_handler, except
it handles the change of the TOC (r2). Add this into
return_to_handler and remove mod_return_to_handler.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use probe_kernel_address in show_instructions</title>
<updated>2014-11-05T10:00:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T09:27:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7b051f665c32db3339ac9b6d9806ef508d09647f'/>
<id>7b051f665c32db3339ac9b6d9806ef508d09647f</id>
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We really don't want to take a pagefault in show_instructions,
so use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We really don't want to take a pagefault in show_instructions,
so use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses</title>
<updated>2014-11-03T01:12:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-21T20:23:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=69111bac42f5ceacdd22e30947837ceb2c4493ed'/>
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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