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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-01-13T03:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T03:59:05+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fix from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's one regression fix for 3.13 that I would appreciate if you
  could still pull in.  It was an "interesting" one to debug, basically
  it's an old bug that got somewhat "exposed" by new code breaking the
  boot on PA Semi boards (yes, it does appear that some people are still
  using these!)"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call
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Pull powerpc fix from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's one regression fix for 3.13 that I would appreciate if you
  could still pull in.  It was an "interesting" one to debug, basically
  it's an old bug that got somewhat "exposed" by new code breaking the
  boot on PA Semi boards (yes, it does appear that some people are still
  using these!)"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call</title>
<updated>2014-01-12T22:49:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-12T22:49:17+00:00</published>
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On PA-Semi firmware, the instance-to-package callback doesn't seem
to be implemented. We didn't check for error, however, thus
subsequently passed the -1 value returned into stdout_node to
thins like prom_getprop etc...

Thus caused the firmware to load values around 0 (physical) internally
as node structures. It somewhat "worked" as long as we had a NULL in the
right place (address 8) at the beginning of the kernel, we didn't "see"
the bug. But commit 5c0484e25ec03243d4c2f2d4416d4a13efc77f6a
"powerpc: Endian safe trampoline" changed the kernel entry point causing
that old bug to now cause a crash early during boot.

This fixes booting on PA-Semi board by properly checking the return
value from instance-to-package.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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On PA-Semi firmware, the instance-to-package callback doesn't seem
to be implemented. We didn't check for error, however, thus
subsequently passed the -1 value returned into stdout_node to
thins like prom_getprop etc...

Thus caused the firmware to load values around 0 (physical) internally
as node structures. It somewhat "worked" as long as we had a NULL in the
right place (address 8) at the beginning of the kernel, we didn't "see"
the bug. But commit 5c0484e25ec03243d4c2f2d4416d4a13efc77f6a
"powerpc: Endian safe trampoline" changed the kernel entry point causing
that old bug to now cause a crash early during boot.

This fixes booting on PA-Semi board by properly checking the return
value from instance-to-package.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
---
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2013-12-30T18:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-30T18:22:57+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "A bit more endian problems found during testing of 3.13 and a few
  other simple fixes and regressions fixes"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars
  powerpc: Align p_end
  powernv/eeh: Add buffer for P7IOC hub error data
  powernv/eeh: Fix possible buffer overrun in ioda_eeh_phb_diag()
  powerpc: Make 64-bit non-VMX __copy_tofrom_user bi-endian
  powerpc: Make unaligned accesses endian-safe for powerpc
  powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry
  powerpc/512x: dts: disable MPC5125 usb module
  powerpc/512x: dts: remove misplaced IRQ spec from 'soc' node (5125)
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Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "A bit more endian problems found during testing of 3.13 and a few
  other simple fixes and regressions fixes"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars
  powerpc: Align p_end
  powernv/eeh: Add buffer for P7IOC hub error data
  powernv/eeh: Fix possible buffer overrun in ioda_eeh_phb_diag()
  powerpc: Make 64-bit non-VMX __copy_tofrom_user bi-endian
  powerpc: Make unaligned accesses endian-safe for powerpc
  powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry
  powerpc/512x: dts: disable MPC5125 usb module
  powerpc/512x: dts: remove misplaced IRQ spec from 'soc' node (5125)
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars</title>
<updated>2013-12-30T03:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olof Johansson</name>
<email>olof@lixom.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-28T21:01:47+00:00</published>
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Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in
losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting
secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on
PA Semi-based systems.

This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig,
so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set.

Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :)

[ It appears that there is a different issue with PA Semi systems
  however this fix is definitely correct so applying anyway -- BenH
]

Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline')
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in
losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting
secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on
PA Semi-based systems.

This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig,
so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set.

Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :)

[ It appears that there is a different issue with PA Semi systems
  however this fix is definitely correct so applying anyway -- BenH
]

Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline')
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Align p_end</title>
<updated>2013-12-30T03:02:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-23T01:19:51+00:00</published>
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p_end is an 8 byte value embedded in the text section. This means it
is only 4 byte aligned when it should be 8 byte aligned. Fix this
by adding an explicit alignment.

This fixes an issue where POWER7 little endian builds with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y fail to boot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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p_end is an 8 byte value embedded in the text section. This means it
is only 4 byte aligned when it should be 8 byte aligned. Fix this
by adding an explicit alignment.

This fixes an issue where POWER7 little endian builds with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y fail to boot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T20:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T20:26:54+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The PPC folks had a large amount of changes queued for 3.13, and now
  they are fixing the bugs"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits
  powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path
  powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
  powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The PPC folks had a large amount of changes queued for 3.13, and now
  they are fixing the bugs"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits
  powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path
  powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
  powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'signed-for-3.13' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T18:13:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T18:13:58+00:00</published>
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Patch queue for 3.13 - 2013-12-18

This fixes some grave issues we've only found after 3.13-rc1:

  - Make the modularized HV/PR book3s kvm work well as modules
  - Fix some race conditions
  - Fix compilation with certain compilers (booke)
  - Fix THP for book3s_hv
  - Fix preemption for book3s_pr

Alexander Graf (4):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier

Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):
      powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path

Paul Mackerras (5):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits

Scott Wood (1):
      powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning

pingfan liu (1):
      powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
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Patch queue for 3.13 - 2013-12-18

This fixes some grave issues we've only found after 3.13-rc1:

  - Make the modularized HV/PR book3s kvm work well as modules
  - Fix some race conditions
  - Fix compilation with certain compilers (booke)
  - Fix THP for book3s_hv
  - Fix preemption for book3s_pr

Alexander Graf (4):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier

Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):
      powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path

Paul Mackerras (5):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits

Scott Wood (1):
      powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning

pingfan liu (1):
      powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path</title>
<updated>2013-12-18T10:29:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-11T13:59:47+00:00</published>
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We don't use PACATOC for PR. Avoid updating HOST_R2 with PR
KVM mode when both HV and PR are enabled in the kernel. Without this we
get the below crash

(qemu)
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xffffffffffff8310
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000001d5a4
cpu 0x2: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000001dc53aef0]
    pc: c00000000001d5a4: .vtime_delta.isra.1+0x34/0x1d0
    lr: c00000000001d760: .vtime_account_system+0x20/0x60
    sp: c0000001dc53b170
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: ffffffffffff8310
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc0000001d76c62d0
  paca    = 0xc00000000fef1100   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 4472, comm = qemu-system-ppc
enter ? for help
[c0000001dc53b200] c00000000001d760 .vtime_account_system+0x20/0x60
[c0000001dc53b290] c00000000008d050 .kvmppc_handle_exit_pr+0x60/0xa50
[c0000001dc53b340] c00000000008f51c kvm_start_lightweight+0xb4/0xc4
[c0000001dc53b510] c00000000008cdf0 .kvmppc_vcpu_run_pr+0x150/0x2e0
[c0000001dc53b9e0] c00000000008341c .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40
[c0000001dc53ba50] c000000000080af4 .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x1b0
[c0000001dc53bae0] c00000000007b4c8 .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x478/0x730
[c0000001dc53bca0] c0000000002140cc .do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ac/0x770
[c0000001dc53bd80] c0000000002143e8 .SyS_ioctl+0x58/0xb0
[c0000001dc53be30] c000000000009e58 syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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We don't use PACATOC for PR. Avoid updating HOST_R2 with PR
KVM mode when both HV and PR are enabled in the kernel. Without this we
get the below crash

(qemu)
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xffffffffffff8310
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000001d5a4
cpu 0x2: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000001dc53aef0]
    pc: c00000000001d5a4: .vtime_delta.isra.1+0x34/0x1d0
    lr: c00000000001d760: .vtime_account_system+0x20/0x60
    sp: c0000001dc53b170
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: ffffffffffff8310
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc0000001d76c62d0
  paca    = 0xc00000000fef1100   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 4472, comm = qemu-system-ppc
enter ? for help
[c0000001dc53b200] c00000000001d760 .vtime_account_system+0x20/0x60
[c0000001dc53b290] c00000000008d050 .kvmppc_handle_exit_pr+0x60/0xa50
[c0000001dc53b340] c00000000008f51c kvm_start_lightweight+0xb4/0xc4
[c0000001dc53b510] c00000000008cdf0 .kvmppc_vcpu_run_pr+0x150/0x2e0
[c0000001dc53b9e0] c00000000008341c .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40
[c0000001dc53ba50] c000000000080af4 .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x1b0
[c0000001dc53bae0] c00000000007b4c8 .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x478/0x730
[c0000001dc53bca0] c0000000002140cc .do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ac/0x770
[c0000001dc53bd80] c0000000002143e8 .SyS_ioctl+0x58/0xb0
[c0000001dc53be30] c000000000009e58 syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix endian issues in crash dump code</title>
<updated>2013-12-13T04:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T04:59:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a29e30efa3a1b253fd1252731aa774a3544c5c3b'/>
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A couple more device tree properties that need byte swapping.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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A couple more device tree properties that need byte swapping.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix topology core_id endian issue on LE builds</title>
<updated>2013-12-13T04:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T04:59:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f8a1883a833bbad8e6b5ec4f0918b7797e652d65'/>
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cpu_to_core_id() is missing a byteswap:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu63/topology/core_id
201326592

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
cpu_to_core_id() is missing a byteswap:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu63/topology/core_id
201326592

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
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