<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/trace, branch v5.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault</title>
<updated>2020-06-17T17:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T07:37:53+00:00</published>
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Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add a probe_kernel_read_inst() function</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:34+00:00</published>
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Introduce a probe_kernel_read_inst() function to use in cases where
probe_kernel_read() is used for getting an instruction. This will be
more useful for prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
[mpe: Don't write to *inst on error]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-15-jniethe5@gmail.com
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Introduce a probe_kernel_read_inst() function to use in cases where
probe_kernel_read() is used for getting an instruction. This will be
more useful for prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
[mpe: Don't write to *inst on error]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-15-jniethe5@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use a function for reading instructions</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f8faaffaa7d99028e457ef2d1dcb43a98f736938'/>
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Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different
length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not
necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading
instructions from memory into the instruction data type.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-13-jniethe5@gmail.com
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Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different
length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not
necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading
instructions from memory into the instruction data type.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-13-jniethe5@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:31+00:00</published>
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Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc.
This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words.

However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean
this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed
Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix
followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction.
No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first.
Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64.

Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word
instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively
have word instructions on powerpc32.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com
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Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc.
This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words.

However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean
this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed
Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix
followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction.
No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first.
Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64.

Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word
instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively
have word instructions on powerpc32.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Introduce functions for instruction equality</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=217862d9b98bf08958d57fd7b31b9de0f1a9477d'/>
<id>217862d9b98bf08958d57fd7b31b9de0f1a9477d</id>
<content type='text'>
In preparation for an instruction data type that can not be directly
used with the '==' operator use functions for checking equality.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balamuruhan S &lt;bala24@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-11-jniethe5@gmail.com
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<pre>
In preparation for an instruction data type that can not be directly
used with the '==' operator use functions for checking equality.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balamuruhan S &lt;bala24@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-11-jniethe5@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use an accessor for instructions</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=777e26f0edf8dab58b8dd474d35d83bde0ac6d76'/>
<id>777e26f0edf8dab58b8dd474d35d83bde0ac6d76</id>
<content type='text'>
In preparation for introducing a more complicated instruction type to
accommodate prefixed instructions use an accessor for getting an
instruction as a u32.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-8-jniethe5@gmail.com
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<pre>
In preparation for introducing a more complicated instruction type to
accommodate prefixed instructions use an accessor for getting an
instruction as a u32.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-8-jniethe5@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32s</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=753462512868674a788ecc77bb96752efb818785'/>
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In preparation for instructions having a more complex data type start
using a macro, ppc_inst(), for making an instruction out of a u32.  A
macro is used so that instructions can be used as initializer elements.
Currently this does nothing, but it will allow for creating a data type
that can represent prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Change include guard to _ASM_POWERPC_INST_H]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-7-jniethe5@gmail.com
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<pre>
In preparation for instructions having a more complex data type start
using a macro, ppc_inst(), for making an instruction out of a u32.  A
macro is used so that instructions can be used as initializer elements.
Currently this does nothing, but it will allow for creating a data type
that can represent prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Change include guard to _ASM_POWERPC_INST_H]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-7-jniethe5@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Change calling convention for create_branch() et. al.</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7c95d8893fb55869882c9f68f4c94840dc43f18f'/>
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create_branch(), create_cond_branch() and translate_branch() return the
instruction that they create, or return 0 to signal an error. Separate
these concerns in preparation for an instruction type that is not just
an unsigned int.  Fill the created instruction to a pointer passed as
the first parameter to the function and use a non-zero return value to
signify an error.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-6-jniethe5@gmail.com
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create_branch(), create_cond_branch() and translate_branch() return the
instruction that they create, or return 0 to signal an error. Separate
these concerns in preparation for an instruction type that is not just
an unsigned int.  Fill the created instruction to a pointer passed as
the first parameter to the function and use a non-zero return value to
signify an error.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-6-jniethe5@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR</title>
<updated>2019-09-18T02:24:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-05T18:20:29+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This associates entries in the ftrace_ret_stack with corresponding stack
frames, enabling more robust stack unwinding. Also update the only user
of ftrace_graph_ret_addr() to pass the stack pointer.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0224f2d0971b069c678e2ff678cfc2cd1e114cfe.1567707399.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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<pre>
This associates entries in the ftrace_ret_stack with corresponding stack
frames, enabling more robust stack unwinding. Also update the only user
of ftrace_graph_ret_addr() to pass the stack pointer.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0224f2d0971b069c678e2ff678cfc2cd1e114cfe.1567707399.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
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