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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/frace: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack</title>
<updated>2018-12-22T13:20:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T17:35:47+00:00</published>
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The structure of the ret_stack array on the task struct is going to
change, and accessing it directly via the curr_ret_stack index will no
longer give the ret_stack entry that holds the return address. To access
that, architectures must now use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to get the
associated ret_stack that matches the saved return address.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The structure of the ret_stack array on the task struct is going to
change, and accessing it directly via the curr_ret_stack index will no
longer give the ret_stack entry that holds the return address. To access
that, architectures must now use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to get the
associated ret_stack that matches the saved return address.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T16:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T16:19:35+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some things that I missed due to travel, or that came in late.

  Two fixes also going to stable:

   - A revert of a buggy change to the 8xx TLB miss handlers.

   - Our flushing of SPE (Signal Processing Engine) registers on fork
     was broken.

  Other changes:

   - A change to the KVM decrementer emulation to use proper APIs.

   - Some cleanups to the way we do code patching in the 8xx code.

   - Expose the maximum possible memory for the system in
     /proc/powerpc/lparcfg.

   - Merge some updates from Scott: "a couple device tree updates, and a
     fix for a missing prototype warning"

  A few other minor fixes and a handful of fixes for our selftests.

  Thanks to: Aravinda Prasad, Breno Leitao, Camelia Groza, Christophe
  Leroy, Felipe Rechia, Joel Stanley, Naveen N. Rao, Paul Mackerras,
  Scott Wood, Tyrel Datwyler"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (21 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix compilation issue due to asm label
  selftests/powerpc/cache_shape: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/switch_endian: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: Link ebb tests with -no-pie
  selftests/powerpc/signal: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Fix out-of-tree build
  powerpc/xmon: Relax frame size for clang
  selftests: powerpc: Fix warning for security subdir
  selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test
  powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
  powerpc/pseries: add missing cpumask.h include file
  selftests/powerpc: Fix ptrace tm failure
  KVM: PPC: Use exported tb_to_ns() function in decrementer emulation
  powerpc/pseries: Export maximum memory value
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for perf counters setup
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for memory setup patching
  powerpc/code-patching: Add a helper to get the address of a patch_site
  Revert "powerpc/8xx: Use L1 entry APG to handle _PAGE_ACCESSED for CONFIG_SWAP"
  powerpc/8xx: add missing header in 8xx_mmu.c
  powerpc/8xx: Add DT node for using the SEC engine of the MPC885
  ...
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some things that I missed due to travel, or that came in late.

  Two fixes also going to stable:

   - A revert of a buggy change to the 8xx TLB miss handlers.

   - Our flushing of SPE (Signal Processing Engine) registers on fork
     was broken.

  Other changes:

   - A change to the KVM decrementer emulation to use proper APIs.

   - Some cleanups to the way we do code patching in the 8xx code.

   - Expose the maximum possible memory for the system in
     /proc/powerpc/lparcfg.

   - Merge some updates from Scott: "a couple device tree updates, and a
     fix for a missing prototype warning"

  A few other minor fixes and a handful of fixes for our selftests.

  Thanks to: Aravinda Prasad, Breno Leitao, Camelia Groza, Christophe
  Leroy, Felipe Rechia, Joel Stanley, Naveen N. Rao, Paul Mackerras,
  Scott Wood, Tyrel Datwyler"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (21 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix compilation issue due to asm label
  selftests/powerpc/cache_shape: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/switch_endian: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: Link ebb tests with -no-pie
  selftests/powerpc/signal: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Fix out-of-tree build
  powerpc/xmon: Relax frame size for clang
  selftests: powerpc: Fix warning for security subdir
  selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test
  powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
  powerpc/pseries: add missing cpumask.h include file
  selftests/powerpc: Fix ptrace tm failure
  KVM: PPC: Use exported tb_to_ns() function in decrementer emulation
  powerpc/pseries: Export maximum memory value
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for perf counters setup
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for memory setup patching
  powerpc/code-patching: Add a helper to get the address of a patch_site
  Revert "powerpc/8xx: Use L1 entry APG to handle _PAGE_ACCESSED for CONFIG_SWAP"
  powerpc/8xx: add missing header in 8xx_mmu.c
  powerpc/8xx: Add DT node for using the SEC engine of the MPC885
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T10:58:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felipe Rechia</name>
<email>felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T13:57:22+00:00</published>
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Fix a bug introduced by the creation of flush_all_to_thread() for
processors that have SPE (Signal Processing Engine) and use it to
compute floating-point operations.

&gt;From userspace perspective, the problem was seen in attempts of
computing floating-point operations which should generate exceptions.
For example:

  fork();
  float x = 0.0 / 0.0;
  isnan(x);           // forked process returns False (should be True)

The operation above also should always cause the SPEFSCR FINV bit to
be set. However, the SPE floating-point exceptions were turned off
after a fork().

Kernel versions prior to the bug used flush_spe_to_thread(), which
first saves SPEFSCR register values in tsk-&gt;thread and then calls
giveup_spe(tsk).

After commit 579e633e764e, the save_all() function was called first
to giveup_spe(), and then the SPEFSCR register values were saved in
tsk-&gt;thread. This would save the SPEFSCR register values after
disabling SPE for that thread, causing the bug described above.

Fixes 579e633e764e ("powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()")
Signed-off-by: Felipe Rechia &lt;felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Fix a bug introduced by the creation of flush_all_to_thread() for
processors that have SPE (Signal Processing Engine) and use it to
compute floating-point operations.

&gt;From userspace perspective, the problem was seen in attempts of
computing floating-point operations which should generate exceptions.
For example:

  fork();
  float x = 0.0 / 0.0;
  isnan(x);           // forked process returns False (should be True)

The operation above also should always cause the SPEFSCR FINV bit to
be set. However, the SPE floating-point exceptions were turned off
after a fork().

Kernel versions prior to the bug used flush_spe_to_thread(), which
first saves SPEFSCR register values in tsk-&gt;thread and then calls
giveup_spe(tsk).

After commit 579e633e764e, the save_all() function was called first
to giveup_spe(), and then the SPEFSCR register values were saved in
tsk-&gt;thread. This would save the SPEFSCR register values after
disabling SPE for that thread, causing the bug described above.

Fixes 579e633e764e ("powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()")
Signed-off-by: Felipe Rechia &lt;felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-10-24T10:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T10:22:39+00:00</published>
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Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
 "I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
  that work.

  The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
  been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
  specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
  new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
  difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
  fields.

  At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
  the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
  bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
  definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
  bytes.

  This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
  For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
  can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
  rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
  si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
  used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
  the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
  verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.

  I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
  anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
  I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
  to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.

  Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
  sigqueueinfo over si-&gt;signo, so bit the bullet and added the
  complexity necessary to handle that case.

  Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
  number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
  will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
  have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
  signal numbers are handled"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
  signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
  signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
  signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
  signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
  signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
  signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
  signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
  signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
  signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
  signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
  signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
  signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
  signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  ...
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Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
 "I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
  that work.

  The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
  been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
  specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
  new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
  difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
  fields.

  At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
  the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
  bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
  definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
  bytes.

  This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
  For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
  can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
  rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
  si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
  used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
  the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
  verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.

  I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
  anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
  I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
  to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.

  Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
  sigqueueinfo over si-&gt;signo, so bit the bullet and added the
  complexity necessary to handle that case.

  Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
  number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
  will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
  have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
  signal numbers are handled"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
  signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
  signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
  signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
  signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
  signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
  signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
  signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
  signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
  signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
  signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
  signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
  signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
  signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache</title>
<updated>2018-10-14T07:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-14T15:30:56+00:00</published>
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When switching processes, currently all user SLBEs are cleared, and a
few (exec_base, pc, and stack) are preloaded. In trivial testing with
small apps, this tends to miss the heap and low 256MB segments, and it
will also miss commonly accessed segments on large memory workloads.

Add a simple round-robin preload cache that just inserts the last SLB
miss into the head of the cache and preloads those at context switch
time. Every 256 context switches, the oldest entry is removed from the
cache to shrink the cache and require fewer slbmte if they are unused.

Much more could go into this, including into the SLB entry reclaim
side to track some LRU information etc, which would require a study of
large memory workloads. But this is a simple thing we can do now that
is an obvious win for common workloads.

With the full series, process switching speed on the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash (with kernel speculation security masures
disabled) increases from 140K/s to 178K/s (27%).

POWER8 does not change much (within 1%), it's unclear why it does not
see a big gain like POWER9.

Booting to busybox init with 256MB segments has SLB misses go down
from 945 to 69, and with 1T segments 900 to 21. These could almost all
be eliminated by preloading a bit more carefully with ELF binary
loading.

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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When switching processes, currently all user SLBEs are cleared, and a
few (exec_base, pc, and stack) are preloaded. In trivial testing with
small apps, this tends to miss the heap and low 256MB segments, and it
will also miss commonly accessed segments on large memory workloads.

Add a simple round-robin preload cache that just inserts the last SLB
miss into the head of the cache and preloads those at context switch
time. Every 256 context switches, the oldest entry is removed from the
cache to shrink the cache and require fewer slbmte if they are unused.

Much more could go into this, including into the SLB entry reclaim
side to track some LRU information etc, which would require a study of
large memory workloads. But this is a simple thing we can do now that
is an obvious win for common workloads.

With the full series, process switching speed on the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash (with kernel speculation security masures
disabled) increases from 140K/s to 178K/s (27%).

POWER8 does not change much (within 1%), it's unclear why it does not
see a big gain like POWER9.

Booting to busybox init with 256MB segments has SLB misses go down
from 945 to 69, and with 1T segments 900 to 21. These could almost all
be eliminated by preloading a bit more carefully with ELF binary
loading.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/hash: Provide arch_setup_exec() hooks for hash slice setup</title>
<updated>2018-10-14T07:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-14T15:30:55+00:00</published>
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This will be used by the SLB code in the next patch, but for now this
sets the slb_addr_limit to the correct size for 32-bit tasks.

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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This will be used by the SLB code in the next patch, but for now this
sets the slb_addr_limit to the correct size for 32-bit tasks.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Interrupts save PPR on stack rather than thread_struct</title>
<updated>2018-10-14T07:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-12T13:15:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4c2de74cc8696154b283f241d74ec0bb24438e22'/>
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PPR is the odd register out when it comes to interrupt handling, it is
saved in current-&gt;thread.ppr while all others are saved on the stack.

The difficulty with this is that accessing thread.ppr can cause a SLB
fault, but the SLB fault handler implementation in C change had
assumed the normal exception entry handlers would not cause an SLB
fault.

Fix this by allocating room in the interrupt stack to save PPR.

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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PPR is the odd register out when it comes to interrupt handling, it is
saved in current-&gt;thread.ppr while all others are saved on the stack.

The difficulty with this is that accessing thread.ppr can cause a SLB
fault, but the SLB fault handler implementation in C change had
assumed the normal exception entry handlers would not cause an SLB
fault.

Fix this by allocating room in the interrupt stack to save PPR.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/process: Constify the number of insns printed by show instructions functions.</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-06T16:51:16+00:00</published>
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instructions_to_print var is assigned value 16 and there is no
way to change it.

This patch replaces it by a constant.

Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo &lt;muriloo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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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instructions_to_print var is assigned value 16 and there is no
way to change it.

This patch replaces it by a constant.

Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo &lt;muriloo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/process: Fix interleaved output in show_user_instructions()</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-06T16:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb2d9505c0dbd4f5e00db70f7ca0ca7a3d75ca63'/>
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When two processes crash at the same time, we sometimes encounter
interleaving in the middle of a line:

  init[1]: segfault (11) at 0 nip 0 lr 0 code 1
  init[1]: code: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[74]: segfault (11) at 10a74 nip 1000c198 lr 100078c8 code 1 in sh[10000000+14000]
  XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[1]: code: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[74]: code: 90010024 bf61000c 91490a7c 3fa01002 3be00000 7d3e4b78 3bbd0c20 3b600000
  init[74]: code: 3b9d0040 7c7fe02e 2f830000 419e0028 &lt;89230000&gt; 2f890000 41be001c 4b7f6e79

This patch fixes it by preparing complete lines in a buffer and
printing it at once.

Fixes: 88b0fe1757359 ("powerpc: Add show_user_instructions()")
Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo &lt;muriloo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Use seq_buf_printf() not seq_buf_puts() which doesn't NULL terminate]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When two processes crash at the same time, we sometimes encounter
interleaving in the middle of a line:

  init[1]: segfault (11) at 0 nip 0 lr 0 code 1
  init[1]: code: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[74]: segfault (11) at 10a74 nip 1000c198 lr 100078c8 code 1 in sh[10000000+14000]
  XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[1]: code: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  init[74]: code: 90010024 bf61000c 91490a7c 3fa01002 3be00000 7d3e4b78 3bbd0c20 3b600000
  init[74]: code: 3b9d0040 7c7fe02e 2f830000 419e0028 &lt;89230000&gt; 2f890000 41be001c 4b7f6e79

This patch fixes it by preparing complete lines in a buffer and
printing it at once.

Fixes: 88b0fe1757359 ("powerpc: Add show_user_instructions()")
Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo &lt;muriloo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Use seq_buf_printf() not seq_buf_puts() which doesn't NULL terminate]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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