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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T17:19:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7e67ef889c9ab7246547db73d524459f47403a77 ]

Similar to the PowerMac3,1, the PowerBook6,7 is missing the #size-cells
property on the i2s node.

Depends-on: commit 045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
[maddy: added "commit" work in depends-on to avoid checkpatch error]
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/875xmizl6a.fsf@igel.home
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7e67ef889c9ab7246547db73d524459f47403a77 ]

Similar to the PowerMac3,1, the PowerBook6,7 is missing the #size-cells
property on the i2s node.

Depends-on: commit 045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
[maddy: added "commit" work in depends-on to avoid checkpatch error]
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/875xmizl6a.fsf@igel.home
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing powermac #size-cells</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:48:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T02:57:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a79a7e3c03ae2a07f68b5f24d5ed549f9799ec89'/>
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[ Upstream commit cf89c9434af122f28a3552e6f9cc5158c33ce50a ]

On some powermacs `escc` nodes are missing `#size-cells` properties,
which is deprecated and now triggers a warning at boot since commit
045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells
handling").

For example:

  Missing '#size-cells' in /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/escc@13000
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/of/base.c:133 of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108
  Hardware name: PowerMac3,1 7400 0xc0209 PowerMac
  ...
  Call Trace:
    of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108 (unreliable)
    of_bus_default_count_cells+0x40/0x60
    __of_get_address+0xc8/0x21c
    __of_address_to_resource+0x5c/0x228
    pmz_init_port+0x5c/0x2ec
    pmz_probe.isra.0+0x144/0x1e4
    pmz_console_init+0x10/0x48
    console_init+0xcc/0x138
    start_kernel+0x5c4/0x694

As powermacs boot via prom_init it's possible to add the missing
properties to the device tree during boot, avoiding the warning. Note
that `escc-legacy` nodes are also missing `#size-cells` properties, but
they are skipped by the macio driver, so leave them alone.

Depends-on: 045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241126025710.591683-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ Upstream commit cf89c9434af122f28a3552e6f9cc5158c33ce50a ]

On some powermacs `escc` nodes are missing `#size-cells` properties,
which is deprecated and now triggers a warning at boot since commit
045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells
handling").

For example:

  Missing '#size-cells' in /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/escc@13000
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/of/base.c:133 of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108
  Hardware name: PowerMac3,1 7400 0xc0209 PowerMac
  ...
  Call Trace:
    of_bus_n_size_cells+0x98/0x108 (unreliable)
    of_bus_default_count_cells+0x40/0x60
    __of_get_address+0xc8/0x21c
    __of_address_to_resource+0x5c/0x228
    pmz_init_port+0x5c/0x2ec
    pmz_probe.isra.0+0x144/0x1e4
    pmz_console_init+0x10/0x48
    console_init+0xcc/0x138
    start_kernel+0x5c4/0x694

As powermacs boot via prom_init it's possible to add the missing
properties to the device tree during boot, avoiding the warning. Note
that `escc-legacy` nodes are also missing `#size-cells` properties, but
they are skipped by the macio driver, so leave them alone.

Depends-on: 045b14ca5c36 ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241126025710.591683-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Add support for FORM2 associativity</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T10:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-12T13:22:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1c6b5a7e74052768977855f95d6b8812f6e7772c ]

PAPR interface currently supports two different ways of communicating resource
grouping details to the OS. These are referred to as Form 0 and Form 1
associativity grouping. Form 0 is the older format and is now considered
deprecated. This patch adds another resource grouping named FORM2.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza &lt;danielhb413@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132223.225214-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Stable-dep-of: b277fc793daf ("powerpc/papr_scm: Update the NUMA distance table for the target node")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1c6b5a7e74052768977855f95d6b8812f6e7772c ]

PAPR interface currently supports two different ways of communicating resource
grouping details to the OS. These are referred to as Form 0 and Form 1
associativity grouping. Form 0 is the older format and is now considered
deprecated. This patch adds another resource grouping named FORM2.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza &lt;danielhb413@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132223.225214-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Stable-dep-of: b277fc793daf ("powerpc/papr_scm: Update the NUMA distance table for the target node")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Rename TYPE1_AFFINITY to FORM1_AFFINITY</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T10:10:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-12T13:22:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f2ae0eb96bfbd03b9ff3a8901f35b506787c6c62'/>
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[ Upstream commit 0eacd06bb8adea8dd9edb0a30144166d9f227e64 ]

Also make related code cleanup that will allow adding FORM2_AFFINITY in
later patches. No functional change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132223.225214-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Stable-dep-of: b277fc793daf ("powerpc/papr_scm: Update the NUMA distance table for the target node")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0eacd06bb8adea8dd9edb0a30144166d9f227e64 ]

Also make related code cleanup that will allow adding FORM2_AFFINITY in
later patches. No functional change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132223.225214-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Stable-dep-of: b277fc793daf ("powerpc/papr_scm: Update the NUMA distance table for the target node")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Fix improper check of prom_getprop()</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T09:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peiwei Hu</name>
<email>jlu.hpw@foxmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-19T09:12:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5a821af769bbf3c8c9e813af767a9bd4330d5be3'/>
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[ Upstream commit 869fb7e5aecbc163003f93f36dcc26d0554319f6 ]

prom_getprop() can return PROM_ERROR. Binary operator can not identify
it.

Fixes: 94d2dde738a5 ("[POWERPC] Efika: prune fixups and make them more carefull")
Signed-off-by: Peiwei Hu &lt;jlu.hpw@foxmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_BA28CC6897B7C95A92EB8C580B5D18589105@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 869fb7e5aecbc163003f93f36dcc26d0554319f6 ]

prom_getprop() can return PROM_ERROR. Binary operator can not identify
it.

Fixes: 94d2dde738a5 ("[POWERPC] Efika: prune fixups and make them more carefull")
Signed-off-by: Peiwei Hu &lt;jlu.hpw@foxmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_BA28CC6897B7C95A92EB8C580B5D18589105@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom: Fix "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support" scan</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cédric Le Goater</name>
<email>clg@kaod.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T07:50:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6f7e5b49f6c91c622d76d91ce5e87c962b79734d'/>
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commit ed5b00a05c2ae95b59adc3442f45944ec632e794 upstream.

The "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support" property is a list of pairs of
bytes representing the options and values supported by the platform
firmware. At boot time, Linux scans this list and activates the
available features it recognizes : Radix and XIVE.

A recent change modified the number of entries to loop on and 8 bytes,
4 pairs of { options, values } entries are always scanned. This is
fine on KVM but not on PowerVM which can advertises less. As a
consequence on this platform, Linux reads extra entries pointing to
random data, interprets these as available features and tries to
activate them, leading to a firmware crash in
ibm,client-architecture-support.

Fix that by using the property length of "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support".

Fixes: ab91239942a9 ("powerpc/prom: Remove VLA in prom_check_platform_support()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas &lt;farosas@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122075029.797013-1-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ed5b00a05c2ae95b59adc3442f45944ec632e794 upstream.

The "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support" property is a list of pairs of
bytes representing the options and values supported by the platform
firmware. At boot time, Linux scans this list and activates the
available features it recognizes : Radix and XIVE.

A recent change modified the number of entries to loop on and 8 bytes,
4 pairs of { options, values } entries are always scanned. This is
fine on KVM but not on PowerVM which can advertises less. As a
consequence on this platform, Linux reads extra entries pointing to
random data, interprets these as available features and tries to
activate them, leading to a firmware crash in
ibm,client-architecture-support.

Fix that by using the property length of "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support".

Fixes: ab91239942a9 ("powerpc/prom: Remove VLA in prom_check_platform_support()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas &lt;farosas@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122075029.797013-1-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")</title>
<updated>2020-10-25T21:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-22T02:36:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=33def8498fdde180023444b08e12b72a9efed41d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.

Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.

Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.

Conversion done using the script at:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@gooogle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.

Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.

Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.

Conversion done using the script at:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@gooogle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Check display props exist before enabling btext</title>
<updated>2020-09-18T09:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T10:34:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6c71cfcc01685ef495ca7886471a76e73446424e'/>
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<content type='text'>
It's possible to enable CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX for a pseries
kernel (maybe it shouldn't be), which is then booted with qemu/slof.

But if you do that the kernel crashes in draw_byte(), with a DAR
pointing somewhere near INT_MAX.

Adding some debug to prom_init we see that we're not able to read the
"address" property from OF, so we're just using whatever junk value
was on the stack.

So check the properties can be read properly from OF, if not we bail
out before initialising btext, which avoids the crash.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821103407.3362149-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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It's possible to enable CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX for a pseries
kernel (maybe it shouldn't be), which is then booted with qemu/slof.

But if you do that the kernel crashes in draw_byte(), with a DAR
pointing somewhere near INT_MAX.

Adding some debug to prom_init we see that we're not able to read the
"address" property from OF, so we're just using whatever junk value
was on the stack.

So check the properties can be read properly from OF, if not we bail
out before initialising btext, which avoids the crash.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821103407.3362149-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10</title>
<updated>2020-07-30T00:50:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladis Dronov</name>
<email>vdronov@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-29T13:37:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=aff779515a070df7e23da9e86f1096f7d10d647e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Certain warnings are emitted for powerpc code when building with a gcc-10
toolset:

    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x377c): Section mismatch in
    reference from the function remove_pmd_table() to the function
    .meminit.text:split_kernel_mapping()
    The function remove_pmd_table() references
    the function __meminit split_kernel_mapping().
    This is often because remove_pmd_table lacks a __meminit
    annotation or the annotation of split_kernel_mapping is wrong.

Add the appropriate __init and __meminit annotations to make modpost not
complain. In all the cases there are just a single callsite from another
__init or __meminit function:

__meminit remove_pagetable() -&gt; remove_pud_table() -&gt; remove_pmd_table()
__init prom_init() -&gt; setup_secure_guest()
__init xive_spapr_init() -&gt; xive_spapr_disabled()

Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov &lt;vdronov@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200729133741.62789-1-vdronov@redhat.com
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Certain warnings are emitted for powerpc code when building with a gcc-10
toolset:

    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x377c): Section mismatch in
    reference from the function remove_pmd_table() to the function
    .meminit.text:split_kernel_mapping()
    The function remove_pmd_table() references
    the function __meminit split_kernel_mapping().
    This is often because remove_pmd_table lacks a __meminit
    annotation or the annotation of split_kernel_mapping is wrong.

Add the appropriate __init and __meminit annotations to make modpost not
complain. In all the cases there are just a single callsite from another
__init or __meminit function:

__meminit remove_pagetable() -&gt; remove_pud_table() -&gt; remove_pmd_table()
__init prom_init() -&gt; setup_secure_guest()
__init xive_spapr_init() -&gt; xive_spapr_disabled()

Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov &lt;vdronov@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200729133741.62789-1-vdronov@redhat.com
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<title>powerpc/book3s64/radix: Add kernel command line option to disable radix GTSE</title>
<updated>2020-07-29T11:09:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-27T08:59:08+00:00</published>
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This adds a kernel command line option that can be used to disable GTSE support.
Disabling GTSE implies kernel will make hcalls to invalidate TLB entries.

This was done so that we can do VM migration between configs that enable/disable
GTSE support via hypervisor. To migrate a VM from a system that supports
GTSE to a system that doesn't, we can boot the guest with
radix_hcall_invalidate=on, thereby forcing the guest to use hcalls for TLB
invalidates.

The check for hcall availability is done in pSeries_setup_arch so that
the panic message appears on the console. This should only happen on
a hypervisor that doesn't force the guest to hash translation even
though it can't handle the radix GTSE=0 request via CAS. With
radix_hcall_invalidate=on if the hypervisor doesn't support hcall_rpt_invalidate
hcall it should force the LPAR to hash translation.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727085908.420806-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
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This adds a kernel command line option that can be used to disable GTSE support.
Disabling GTSE implies kernel will make hcalls to invalidate TLB entries.

This was done so that we can do VM migration between configs that enable/disable
GTSE support via hypervisor. To migrate a VM from a system that supports
GTSE to a system that doesn't, we can boot the guest with
radix_hcall_invalidate=on, thereby forcing the guest to use hcalls for TLB
invalidates.

The check for hcall availability is done in pSeries_setup_arch so that
the panic message appears on the console. This should only happen on
a hypervisor that doesn't force the guest to hash translation even
though it can't handle the radix GTSE=0 request via CAS. With
radix_hcall_invalidate=on if the hypervisor doesn't support hcall_rpt_invalidate
hcall it should force the LPAR to hash translation.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727085908.420806-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
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