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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix PPC_EMULATED_STATS build break with sync patch</title>
<updated>2013-10-29T03:08:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-29T03:07:59+00:00</published>
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Commit 9863c28a2af90a56c088f5f6288d7f6d2c923c14 ("powerpc: Emulate sync
instruction variants") introduced a build breakage with
CONFIG_PPC_EMULATED_STATS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
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Commit 9863c28a2af90a56c088f5f6288d7f6d2c923c14 ("powerpc: Emulate sync
instruction variants") introduced a build breakage with
CONFIG_PPC_EMULATED_STATS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
---
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mpc8xx: Clearer Oops message for Software Emulation Exception</title>
<updated>2013-10-29T02:11:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>LEROY Christophe</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-28T14:19:17+00:00</published>
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This patch modifies the Oops message in case of Software Emulation Exception.
The existing message is quite confusing because it refers to FPU Emulation
while most often the issue is due to either a non supported instruction
(not necessarily FPU related) or a stale instruction due to HW issues.
The new message tries to be more generic in order to make the user understand
that the Oops is due to something wrong with an instruction, not necessarily
due to an FPU instruction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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This patch modifies the Oops message in case of Software Emulation Exception.
The existing message is quite confusing because it refers to FPU Emulation
while most often the issue is due to either a non supported instruction
(not necessarily FPU related) or a stale instruction due to HW issues.
The new message tries to be more generic in order to make the user understand
that the Oops is due to something wrong with an instruction, not necessarily
due to an FPU instruction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: move debug registers in a structure</title>
<updated>2013-10-18T23:44:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bharat Bhushan</name>
<email>r65777@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T06:15:46+00:00</published>
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This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: removed obvious debug_reg comment]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: removed obvious debug_reg comment]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: move debug registers in a structure</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T12:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bharat Bhushan</name>
<email>r65777@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-26T05:42:22+00:00</published>
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This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Emulate sync instruction variants</title>
<updated>2013-10-16T23:51:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Yang</name>
<email>James.Yang@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T21:26:47+00:00</published>
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Reserved fields of the sync instruction have been used for other
instructions (e.g. lwsync).  On processors that do not support variants
of the sync instruction, emulate it by executing a sync to subsume the
effect of the intended instruction.

Signed-off-by: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: whitespace and subject line fix]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Reserved fields of the sync instruction have been used for other
instructions (e.g. lwsync).  On processors that do not support variants
of the sync instruction, emulate it by executing a sync to subsume the
effect of the intended instruction.

Signed-off-by: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: whitespace and subject line fix]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures</title>
<updated>2013-10-11T06:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-10T10:20:42+00:00</published>
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This creates new 'thread_fp_state' and 'thread_vr_state' structures
to store FP/VSX state (including FPSCR) and Altivec/VSX state
(including VSCR), and uses them in the thread_struct.  In the
thread_fp_state, the FPRs and VSRs are represented as u64 rather
than double, since we rarely perform floating-point computations
on the values, and this will enable the structures to be used
in KVM code as well.  Similarly FPSCR is now a u64 rather than
a structure of two 32-bit values.

This takes the offsets out of the macros such as SAVE_32FPRS,
REST_32FPRS, etc.  This enables the same macros to be used for normal
and transactional state, enabling us to delete the transactional
versions of the macros.   This also removes the unused do_load_up_fpu
and do_load_up_altivec, which were in fact buggy since they didn't
create large enough stack frames to account for the fact that
load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec are not designed to be called from C
and assume that their caller's stack frame is an interrupt frame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This creates new 'thread_fp_state' and 'thread_vr_state' structures
to store FP/VSX state (including FPSCR) and Altivec/VSX state
(including VSCR), and uses them in the thread_struct.  In the
thread_fp_state, the FPRs and VSRs are represented as u64 rather
than double, since we rarely perform floating-point computations
on the values, and this will enable the structures to be used
in KVM code as well.  Similarly FPSCR is now a u64 rather than
a structure of two 32-bit values.

This takes the offsets out of the macros such as SAVE_32FPRS,
REST_32FPRS, etc.  This enables the same macros to be used for normal
and transactional state, enabling us to delete the transactional
versions of the macros.   This also removes the unused do_load_up_fpu
and do_load_up_altivec, which were in fact buggy since they didn't
create large enough stack frames to account for the fact that
load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec are not designed to be called from C
and assume that their caller's stack frame is an interrupt frame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Cleanup handling of the DSCR bit in the FSCR register</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T05:05:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-26T03:55:57+00:00</published>
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As suggested by paulus we can simplify the Data Stream Control Register
(DSCR) Facility Status and Control Register (FSCR) handling.

Firstly, we simplify the asm by using a rldimi.

Secondly, we now use the FSCR only to control the DSCR facility, rather
than both the FSCR and HFSCR.  Users will see no functional change from
this but will get a minor speedup as they will trap into the kernel only
once (rather than twice) when they first touch the DSCR.  Also, this
changes removes a bunch of ugly FTR_SECTION code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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As suggested by paulus we can simplify the Data Stream Control Register
(DSCR) Facility Status and Control Register (FSCR) handling.

Firstly, we simplify the asm by using a rldimi.

Secondly, we now use the FSCR only to control the DSCR facility, rather
than both the FSCR and HFSCR.  Users will see no functional change from
this but will get a minor speedup as they will trap into the kernel only
once (rather than twice) when they first touch the DSCR.  Also, this
changes removes a bunch of ugly FTR_SECTION code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' into next</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T05:03:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-27T05:03:30+00:00</published>
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Merge stuff that already went into Linus via "merge" which
are pre-reqs for subsequent patches
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Merge stuff that already went into Linus via "merge" which
are pre-reqs for subsequent patches
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Skip emulating &amp; leave interrupts off for kernel program checks</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T04:45:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-15T05:22:19+00:00</published>
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In the program check handler we handle some causes with interrupts off
and others with interrupts on.

We need to enable interrupts to handle the emulation cases, because they
access userspace memory and might sleep.

For faults in the kernel we don't want to do any emulation, and
emulate_instruction() enforces that. do_mathemu() doesn't but probably
should.

The other disadvantage of enabling interrupts for kernel faults is that
we may take another interrupt, and recurse. As seen below:

  --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
  [link register   ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
  [c000000fb185dc10] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
  [c000000fb185dc80] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0
  [c000000fb185dd00] c000000000002f40 emulation_assist_common+0x140/0x180
  --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
  [link register   ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
  [c000000fb185dff0] 00000000008b9190 (unreliable)
  [c000000fb185e060] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0

So avoid both problems by checking if the fault was in the kernel and
skipping the enable of interrupts and the emulation. Go straight to
delivering the SIGILL, which for kernel faults calls die() and so on,
dropping us in the debugger etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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In the program check handler we handle some causes with interrupts off
and others with interrupts on.

We need to enable interrupts to handle the emulation cases, because they
access userspace memory and might sleep.

For faults in the kernel we don't want to do any emulation, and
emulate_instruction() enforces that. do_mathemu() doesn't but probably
should.

The other disadvantage of enabling interrupts for kernel faults is that
we may take another interrupt, and recurse. As seen below:

  --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
  [link register   ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
  [c000000fb185dc10] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
  [c000000fb185dc80] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0
  [c000000fb185dd00] c000000000002f40 emulation_assist_common+0x140/0x180
  --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
  [link register   ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
  [c000000fb185dff0] 00000000008b9190 (unreliable)
  [c000000fb185e060] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0

So avoid both problems by checking if the fault was in the kernel and
skipping the enable of interrupts and the emulation. Go straight to
delivering the SIGILL, which for kernel faults calls die() and so on,
dropping us in the debugger etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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