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<title>powerpc: Revert the initial stack protector support</title>
<updated>2017-01-24T10:37:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-24T10:37:20+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately the stack protector support we merged recently only works
on some toolchains. If the toolchain is built without glibc support
everything works fine, but if glibc is built then it leads to a panic
at boot.

The solution is not rc5 material, so revert the support for now. This
reverts commits:

6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
902e06eb86cd ("powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task")

Fixes: 6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Unfortunately the stack protector support we merged recently only works
on some toolchains. If the toolchain is built without glibc support
everything works fine, but if glibc is built then it leads to a panic
at boot.

The solution is not rc5 material, so revert the support for now. This
reverts commits:

6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
902e06eb86cd ("powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task")

Fixes: 6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-12-16T17:26:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-16T17:26:42+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for the kexec_file_load() syscall, which is a prereq for
     secure and trusted boot.

   - Prevent kernel execution of userspace on P9 Radix (similar to
     SMEP/PXN).

   - Sort the exception tables at build time, to save time at boot, and
     store them as relative offsets to save space in the kernel image &amp;
     memory.

   - Allow building the kernel with thin archives, which should allow us
     to build an allyesconfig once some other fixes land.

   - Build fixes to allow us to correctly rebuild when changing the
     kernel endian from big to little or vice versa.

   - Plumbing so that we can avoid doing a full mm TLB flush on P9
     Radix.

   - Initial stack protector support (-fstack-protector).

   - Support for dumping the radix (aka. Linux) and hash page tables via
     debugfs.

   - Fix an oops in cxl coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx hugepage
     support, qbman fixes/cleanup, device tree updates, and some misc
     cleanup."

   - Many and varied fixes and minor enhancements as always.

  Thanks to:
    Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman
    Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
    Christophe Jaillet, Christophe Leroy, Denis Kirjanov, Elimar
    Riesebieter, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff
    Levand, Jack Miller, Johan Hovold, Lars-Peter Clausen, Libin,
    Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N.
    Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Pan Xinhui, Peter Senna Tschudin, Rashmica
    Gupta, Rui Teng, Russell Currey, Scott Wood, Simon Guo, Suraj
    Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tobias Klauser, Vaibhav Jain"

[ And thanks to Michael, who took time off from a new baby to get this
  pull request done.   - Linus ]

* tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (174 commits)
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add FMan node for t1042d4rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add sg_2500_aqr105_phy4 alias on t1024rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1024
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1023
  soc/fsl/qman: test: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/fsl-lbc: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/8xx: Implement support of hugepages
  powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic
  powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
  powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper
  soc/fsl/bman: Use resource_size instead of computation
  soc/fsl/qe: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/fsl_pmc: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/83xx/suspend: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding
  powerpc/perf: power9 raw event format encoding
  powerpc/perf: update attribute_group data structure
  powerpc/perf: factor out the event format field
  powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for the kexec_file_load() syscall, which is a prereq for
     secure and trusted boot.

   - Prevent kernel execution of userspace on P9 Radix (similar to
     SMEP/PXN).

   - Sort the exception tables at build time, to save time at boot, and
     store them as relative offsets to save space in the kernel image &amp;
     memory.

   - Allow building the kernel with thin archives, which should allow us
     to build an allyesconfig once some other fixes land.

   - Build fixes to allow us to correctly rebuild when changing the
     kernel endian from big to little or vice versa.

   - Plumbing so that we can avoid doing a full mm TLB flush on P9
     Radix.

   - Initial stack protector support (-fstack-protector).

   - Support for dumping the radix (aka. Linux) and hash page tables via
     debugfs.

   - Fix an oops in cxl coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx hugepage
     support, qbman fixes/cleanup, device tree updates, and some misc
     cleanup."

   - Many and varied fixes and minor enhancements as always.

  Thanks to:
    Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman
    Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
    Christophe Jaillet, Christophe Leroy, Denis Kirjanov, Elimar
    Riesebieter, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff
    Levand, Jack Miller, Johan Hovold, Lars-Peter Clausen, Libin,
    Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N.
    Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Pan Xinhui, Peter Senna Tschudin, Rashmica
    Gupta, Rui Teng, Russell Currey, Scott Wood, Simon Guo, Suraj
    Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tobias Klauser, Vaibhav Jain"

[ And thanks to Michael, who took time off from a new baby to get this
  pull request done.   - Linus ]

* tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (174 commits)
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add FMan node for t1042d4rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add sg_2500_aqr105_phy4 alias on t1024rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1024
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1023
  soc/fsl/qman: test: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/fsl-lbc: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/8xx: Implement support of hugepages
  powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic
  powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
  powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper
  soc/fsl/bman: Use resource_size instead of computation
  soc/fsl/qe: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/fsl_pmc: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/83xx/suspend: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding
  powerpc/perf: power9 raw event format encoding
  powerpc/perf: update attribute_group data structure
  powerpc/perf: factor out the event format field
  powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T11:57:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-22T10:49:30+00:00</published>
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Partialy copied from commit c743f38013aef ("ARM: initial stack protector
(-fstack-protector) support")

This is the very basic stuff without the changing canary upon
task switch yet.  Just the Kconfig option and a constant canary
value initialized at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Partialy copied from commit c743f38013aef ("ARM: initial stack protector
(-fstack-protector) support")

This is the very basic stuff without the changing canary upon
task switch yet.  Just the Kconfig option and a constant canary
value initialized at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert Load Monitor Register Support</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T09:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-31T02:19:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Load monitored is no longer supported on POWER9 so let's remove the
code.

This reverts commit bd3ea317fddf ("powerpc: Load Monitor Register
Support").

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Load monitored is no longer supported on POWER9 so let's remove the
code.

This reverts commit bd3ea317fddf ("powerpc: Load Monitor Register
Support").

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/oops: Fix missing pr_cont()s in instruction dump</title>
<updated>2016-11-12T09:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Donnellan</name>
<email>andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-04T06:20:40+00:00</published>
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Since the KERN_CONT changes, the current code in show_instructions()
prints out a whole bunch of unnecessary newlines. Change occurrences of
printk("\n") to pr_cont("\n"). While we're here, change all the other
cases of printk(KERN_CONT ...) to pr_cont() as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Since the KERN_CONT changes, the current code in show_instructions()
prints out a whole bunch of unnecessary newlines. Change occurrences of
printk("\n") to pr_cont("\n"). While we're here, change all the other
cases of printk(KERN_CONT ...) to pr_cont() as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/oops: Fix missing pr_cont()s in show_regs()</title>
<updated>2016-11-12T09:12:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T09:45:26+00:00</published>
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Fix up our oops output by converting continuation lines to use
pr_cont(). Some of these are dubious, eg. printing a continuation line
which starts with a newline, but seem to work OK for now. This whole
function needs a rewrite in the next release.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Fix up our oops output by converting continuation lines to use
pr_cont(). Some of these are dubious, eg. printing a continuation line
which starts with a newline, but seem to work OK for now. This whole
function needs a rewrite in the next release.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/oops: Fix missing pr_cont()s in print_msr_bits() et. al.</title>
<updated>2016-11-12T09:12:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T11:20:47+00:00</published>
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Since the KERN_CONT changes these are being horribly split across lines,
for example:

    MSR: 8000000000009033 &lt;
    SF,EE
    ,ME,IR
    ,DR,RI
    ,LE&gt;

So fix it by using pr_cont() where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Since the KERN_CONT changes these are being horribly split across lines,
for example:

    MSR: 8000000000009033 &lt;
    SF,EE
    ,ME,IR
    ,DR,RI
    ,LE&gt;

So fix it by using pr_cont() where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/oops: Fix missing pr_cont()s in show_stack()</title>
<updated>2016-11-12T09:12:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T11:20:46+00:00</published>
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Previously we got away with printing the stack trace in multiple pieces
and it usually looked right.  But since commit 4bcc595ccd80 ("printk:
reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines"), KERN_CONT is now
required when printing continuation lines. Use pr_cont() as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Previously we got away with printing the stack trace in multiple pieces
and it usually looked right.  But since commit 4bcc595ccd80 ("printk:
reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines"), KERN_CONT is now
required when printing continuation lines. Use pr_cont() as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/process: Fix CONFIG_ALIVEC typo in restore_tm_state()</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T10:52:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Rothberg</name>
<email>valentinrothberg@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-05T05:57:26+00:00</published>
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It should be ALTIVEC, not ALIVEC.

Cyril explains: If a thread performs a transaction with altivec and then
gets preempted for whatever reason, this bug may cause the kernel to not
re-enable altivec when that thread runs again. This will result in an
altivec unavailable fault, when that fault happens inside a user
transaction the kernel has no choice but to enable altivec and doom the
transaction.

The result is that transactions using altivec may get aborted more often
than they should.

The difficulty in catching this with a selftest is my deliberate use of
the word may above. Optimisations to avoid FPU/altivec/VSX faults mean
that the kernel will always leave them on for 255 switches. This code
prevents the kernel turning it off if it got to the 256th switch (and
userspace was transactional).

Fixes: dc16b553c949 ("powerpc: Always restore FPU/VEC/VSX if hardware transactional memory in use")
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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It should be ALTIVEC, not ALIVEC.

Cyril explains: If a thread performs a transaction with altivec and then
gets preempted for whatever reason, this bug may cause the kernel to not
re-enable altivec when that thread runs again. This will result in an
altivec unavailable fault, when that fault happens inside a user
transaction the kernel has no choice but to enable altivec and doom the
transaction.

The result is that transactions using altivec may get aborted more often
than they should.

The difficulty in catching this with a selftest is my deliberate use of
the word may above. Optimisations to avoid FPU/altivec/VSX faults mean
that the kernel will always leave them on for 255 switches. This code
prevents the kernel turning it off if it got to the 256th switch (and
userspace was transactional).

Fixes: dc16b553c949 ("powerpc: Always restore FPU/VEC/VSX if hardware transactional memory in use")
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T08:02:16+00:00</published>
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Currently the MSR TM bit is always set if the hardware is TM capable.
This adds extra overhead as it means the TM SPRS (TFHAR, TEXASR and
TFAIR) must be swapped for each process regardless of if they use TM.

For processes that don't use TM the TM MSR bit can be turned off
allowing the kernel to avoid the expensive swap of the TM registers.

A TM unavailable exception will occur if a thread does use TM and the
kernel will enable MSR_TM and leave it so for some time afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently the MSR TM bit is always set if the hardware is TM capable.
This adds extra overhead as it means the TM SPRS (TFHAR, TEXASR and
TFAIR) must be swapped for each process regardless of if they use TM.

For processes that don't use TM the TM MSR bit can be turned off
allowing the kernel to avoid the expensive swap of the TM registers.

A TM unavailable exception will occur if a thread does use TM and the
kernel will enable MSR_TM and leave it so for some time afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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