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<title>powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T17:28:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-27T10:55:34+00:00</published>
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commit 011e4b02f1da156ac7fea28a9da878f3c23af739 upstream.

If we try to perform a kexec when the machine is in ST (Single-Threaded) mode
(ppc64_cpu --smt=off), the kexec operation doesn't succeed properly, and we
get the following messages during boot:

[    0.089866] POWER8 performance monitor hardware support registered
[    0.089985] power8-pmu: PMAO restore workaround active.
[    5.095419] Processor 1 is stuck.
[   10.097933] Processor 2 is stuck.
[   15.100480] Processor 3 is stuck.
[   20.102982] Processor 4 is stuck.
[   25.105489] Processor 5 is stuck.
[   30.108005] Processor 6 is stuck.
[   35.110518] Processor 7 is stuck.
[   40.113369] Processor 9 is stuck.
[   45.115879] Processor 10 is stuck.
[   50.118389] Processor 11 is stuck.
[   55.120904] Processor 12 is stuck.
[   60.123425] Processor 13 is stuck.
[   65.125970] Processor 14 is stuck.
[   70.128495] Processor 15 is stuck.
[   75.131316] Processor 17 is stuck.

Note that only the sibling threads are stuck, while the primary threads (0, 8,
16 etc) boot just fine. Looking closer at the previous step of kexec, we observe
that kexec tries to wakeup (bring online) the sibling threads of all the cores,
before performing kexec:

[ 9464.131231] Starting new kernel
[ 9464.148507] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[ 9464.148552] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[ 9464.148600] kexec: Waking offline cpu 3.
[ 9464.148636] kexec: Waking offline cpu 4.
[ 9464.148671] kexec: Waking offline cpu 5.
[ 9464.148708] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[ 9464.148743] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.
[ 9464.148779] kexec: Waking offline cpu 9.
[ 9464.148815] kexec: Waking offline cpu 10.
[ 9464.148851] kexec: Waking offline cpu 11.
[ 9464.148887] kexec: Waking offline cpu 12.
[ 9464.148922] kexec: Waking offline cpu 13.
[ 9464.148958] kexec: Waking offline cpu 14.
[ 9464.148994] kexec: Waking offline cpu 15.
[ 9464.149030] kexec: Waking offline cpu 17.

Instrumenting this piece of code revealed that the cpu_up() operation actually
fails with -EBUSY. Thus, only the primary threads of all the cores are online
during kexec, and hence this is a sure-shot receipe for disaster, as explained
in commit e8e5c2155b (powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec),
as well as in the comment above wake_offline_cpus().

It turns out that cpu_up() was returning -EBUSY because the variable
'cpu_hotplug_disabled' was set to 1; and this disabling of CPU hotplug was done
by migrate_to_reboot_cpu() inside kernel_kexec().

Now, migrate_to_reboot_cpu() was originally written with the assumption that
any further code will not need to perform CPU hotplug, since we are anyway in
the reboot path. However, kexec is clearly not such a case, since we depend on
onlining CPUs, atleast on powerpc.

So re-enable cpu-hotplug after returning from migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in the
kexec path, to fix this regression in kexec on powerpc.

Also, wrap the cpu_up() in powerpc kexec code within a WARN_ON(), so that we
can catch such issues more easily in the future.

Fixes: c97102ba963 (kexec: migrate to reboot cpu)
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 011e4b02f1da156ac7fea28a9da878f3c23af739 upstream.

If we try to perform a kexec when the machine is in ST (Single-Threaded) mode
(ppc64_cpu --smt=off), the kexec operation doesn't succeed properly, and we
get the following messages during boot:

[    0.089866] POWER8 performance monitor hardware support registered
[    0.089985] power8-pmu: PMAO restore workaround active.
[    5.095419] Processor 1 is stuck.
[   10.097933] Processor 2 is stuck.
[   15.100480] Processor 3 is stuck.
[   20.102982] Processor 4 is stuck.
[   25.105489] Processor 5 is stuck.
[   30.108005] Processor 6 is stuck.
[   35.110518] Processor 7 is stuck.
[   40.113369] Processor 9 is stuck.
[   45.115879] Processor 10 is stuck.
[   50.118389] Processor 11 is stuck.
[   55.120904] Processor 12 is stuck.
[   60.123425] Processor 13 is stuck.
[   65.125970] Processor 14 is stuck.
[   70.128495] Processor 15 is stuck.
[   75.131316] Processor 17 is stuck.

Note that only the sibling threads are stuck, while the primary threads (0, 8,
16 etc) boot just fine. Looking closer at the previous step of kexec, we observe
that kexec tries to wakeup (bring online) the sibling threads of all the cores,
before performing kexec:

[ 9464.131231] Starting new kernel
[ 9464.148507] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[ 9464.148552] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[ 9464.148600] kexec: Waking offline cpu 3.
[ 9464.148636] kexec: Waking offline cpu 4.
[ 9464.148671] kexec: Waking offline cpu 5.
[ 9464.148708] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[ 9464.148743] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.
[ 9464.148779] kexec: Waking offline cpu 9.
[ 9464.148815] kexec: Waking offline cpu 10.
[ 9464.148851] kexec: Waking offline cpu 11.
[ 9464.148887] kexec: Waking offline cpu 12.
[ 9464.148922] kexec: Waking offline cpu 13.
[ 9464.148958] kexec: Waking offline cpu 14.
[ 9464.148994] kexec: Waking offline cpu 15.
[ 9464.149030] kexec: Waking offline cpu 17.

Instrumenting this piece of code revealed that the cpu_up() operation actually
fails with -EBUSY. Thus, only the primary threads of all the cores are online
during kexec, and hence this is a sure-shot receipe for disaster, as explained
in commit e8e5c2155b (powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec),
as well as in the comment above wake_offline_cpus().

It turns out that cpu_up() was returning -EBUSY because the variable
'cpu_hotplug_disabled' was set to 1; and this disabling of CPU hotplug was done
by migrate_to_reboot_cpu() inside kernel_kexec().

Now, migrate_to_reboot_cpu() was originally written with the assumption that
any further code will not need to perform CPU hotplug, since we are anyway in
the reboot path. However, kexec is clearly not such a case, since we depend on
onlining CPUs, atleast on powerpc.

So re-enable cpu-hotplug after returning from migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in the
kexec path, to fix this regression in kexec on powerpc.

Also, wrap the cpu_up() in powerpc kexec code within a WARN_ON(), so that we
can catch such issues more easily in the future.

Fixes: c97102ba963 (kexec: migrate to reboot cpu)
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: irq work racing with timer interrupt can result in timer interrupt hang</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T17:28:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-09T07:47:12+00:00</published>
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commit 8050936caf125fbe54111ba5e696b68a360556ba upstream.

I am seeing an issue where a CPU running perf eventually hangs.
Traces show timer interrupts happening every 4 seconds even
when a userspace task is running on the CPU. /proc/timer_list
also shows pending hrtimers have not run in over an hour,
including the scheduler.

Looking closer, decrementers_next_tb is getting set to
0xffffffffffffffff, and at that point we will never take
a timer interrupt again.

In __timer_interrupt() we set decrementers_next_tb to
0xffffffffffffffff and rely on -&gt;event_handler to update it:

        *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
        if (evt-&gt;event_handler)
                evt-&gt;event_handler(evt);

In this case -&gt;event_handler is hrtimer_interrupt. This will eventually
call back through the clockevents code with the next event to be
programmed:

static int decrementer_set_next_event(unsigned long evt,
                                      struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
        /* Don't adjust the decrementer if some irq work is pending */
        if (test_irq_work_pending())
                return 0;
        __get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb) = get_tb_or_rtc() + evt;

If irq work came in between these two points, we will return
before updating decrementers_next_tb and we never process a timer
interrupt again.

This looks to have been introduced by 0215f7d8c53f (powerpc: Fix races
with irq_work). Fix it by removing the early exit and relying on
code later on in the function to force an early decrementer:

       /* We may have raced with new irq work */
       if (test_irq_work_pending())
               set_dec(1);

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8050936caf125fbe54111ba5e696b68a360556ba upstream.

I am seeing an issue where a CPU running perf eventually hangs.
Traces show timer interrupts happening every 4 seconds even
when a userspace task is running on the CPU. /proc/timer_list
also shows pending hrtimers have not run in over an hour,
including the scheduler.

Looking closer, decrementers_next_tb is getting set to
0xffffffffffffffff, and at that point we will never take
a timer interrupt again.

In __timer_interrupt() we set decrementers_next_tb to
0xffffffffffffffff and rely on -&gt;event_handler to update it:

        *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
        if (evt-&gt;event_handler)
                evt-&gt;event_handler(evt);

In this case -&gt;event_handler is hrtimer_interrupt. This will eventually
call back through the clockevents code with the next event to be
programmed:

static int decrementer_set_next_event(unsigned long evt,
                                      struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
        /* Don't adjust the decrementer if some irq work is pending */
        if (test_irq_work_pending())
                return 0;
        __get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb) = get_tb_or_rtc() + evt;

If irq work came in between these two points, we will return
before updating decrementers_next_tb and we never process a timer
interrupt again.

This looks to have been introduced by 0215f7d8c53f (powerpc: Fix races
with irq_work). Fix it by removing the early exit and relying on
code later on in the function to force an early decrementer:

       /* We may have raced with new irq work */
       if (test_irq_work_pending())
               set_dec(1);

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Disable IRQ in tm_recheckpoint</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-04T09:19:48+00:00</published>
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commit e6b8fd028b584ffca7a7255b8971f254932c9fce upstream.

We can't take an IRQ when we're about to do a trechkpt as our GPR state is set
to user GPR values.

We've hit this when running some IBM Java stress tests in the lab resulting in
the following dump:

  cpu 0x3f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007eb3d40]
      pc: c000000000050074: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
      lr: 00000000b52a8184
      sp: ac57d360
     msr: 8000000100201030
    current = 0xc00000002c500000
    paca    = 0xc000000007dbfc00     softe: 0     irq_happened: 0x00
      pid   = 34535, comm = Pooled Thread #
  R00 = 00000000b52a8184   R16 = 00000000b3e48fda
  R01 = 00000000ac57d360   R17 = 00000000ade79bd8
  R02 = 00000000ac586930   R18 = 000000000fac9bcc
  R03 = 00000000ade60000   R19 = 00000000ac57f930
  R04 = 00000000f6624918   R20 = 00000000ade79be8
  R05 = 00000000f663f238   R21 = 00000000ac218a54
  R06 = 0000000000000002   R22 = 000000000f956280
  R07 = 0000000000000008   R23 = 000000000000007e
  R08 = 000000000000000a   R24 = 000000000000000c
  R09 = 00000000b6e69160   R25 = 00000000b424cf00
  R10 = 0000000000000181   R26 = 00000000f66256d4
  R11 = 000000000f365ec0   R27 = 00000000b6fdcdd0
  R12 = 00000000f66400f0   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = 00000000ada71900   R29 = 00000000ade5a300
  R14 = 00000000ac2185a8   R30 = 00000000f663f238
  R15 = 0000000000000004   R31 = 00000000f6624918
  pc  = c000000000050074 restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
  cfar= c00000000004fe28 dont_restore_vec+0x1c/0x1a4
  lr  = 00000000b52a8184
  msr = 8000000100201030   cr  = 24804888
  ctr = 0000000000000000   xer = 0000000000000000   trap =  700

This moves tm_recheckpoint to a C function and moves the tm_restore_sprs into
that function.  It then adds IRQ disabling over the trechkpt critical section.
It also sets the TEXASR FS in the signals code to ensure this is never set now
that we explictly write the TM sprs in tm_recheckpoint.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e6b8fd028b584ffca7a7255b8971f254932c9fce upstream.

We can't take an IRQ when we're about to do a trechkpt as our GPR state is set
to user GPR values.

We've hit this when running some IBM Java stress tests in the lab resulting in
the following dump:

  cpu 0x3f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007eb3d40]
      pc: c000000000050074: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
      lr: 00000000b52a8184
      sp: ac57d360
     msr: 8000000100201030
    current = 0xc00000002c500000
    paca    = 0xc000000007dbfc00     softe: 0     irq_happened: 0x00
      pid   = 34535, comm = Pooled Thread #
  R00 = 00000000b52a8184   R16 = 00000000b3e48fda
  R01 = 00000000ac57d360   R17 = 00000000ade79bd8
  R02 = 00000000ac586930   R18 = 000000000fac9bcc
  R03 = 00000000ade60000   R19 = 00000000ac57f930
  R04 = 00000000f6624918   R20 = 00000000ade79be8
  R05 = 00000000f663f238   R21 = 00000000ac218a54
  R06 = 0000000000000002   R22 = 000000000f956280
  R07 = 0000000000000008   R23 = 000000000000007e
  R08 = 000000000000000a   R24 = 000000000000000c
  R09 = 00000000b6e69160   R25 = 00000000b424cf00
  R10 = 0000000000000181   R26 = 00000000f66256d4
  R11 = 000000000f365ec0   R27 = 00000000b6fdcdd0
  R12 = 00000000f66400f0   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = 00000000ada71900   R29 = 00000000ade5a300
  R14 = 00000000ac2185a8   R30 = 00000000f663f238
  R15 = 0000000000000004   R31 = 00000000f6624918
  pc  = c000000000050074 restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
  cfar= c00000000004fe28 dont_restore_vec+0x1c/0x1a4
  lr  = 00000000b52a8184
  msr = 8000000100201030   cr  = 24804888
  ctr = 0000000000000000   xer = 0000000000000000   trap =  700

This moves tm_recheckpoint to a C function and moves the tm_restore_sprs into
that function.  It then adds IRQ disabling over the trechkpt critical section.
It also sets the TEXASR FS in the signals code to ensure this is never set now
that we explictly write the TM sprs in tm_recheckpoint.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T02:50:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T21:31:24+00:00</published>
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The 64bit relocation code places a few symbols in the text segment.
These symbols are only 4 byte aligned where they need to be 8 byte
aligned. Add an explicit alignment.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The 64bit relocation code places a few symbols in the text segment.
These symbols are only 4 byte aligned where they need to be 8 byte
aligned. Add an explicit alignment.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T02:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T03:21:40+00:00</published>
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Increase stack redzone for 64-bit userspace to 512 bytes</title>
<updated>2014-02-28T07:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T06:07:38+00:00</published>
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The new ELFv2 little-endian ABI increases the stack redzone -- the
area below the stack pointer that can be used for storing data --
from 288 bytes to 512 bytes.  This means that we need to allow more
space on the user stack when delivering a signal to a 64-bit process.

To make the code a bit clearer, we define new USER_REDZONE_SIZE and
KERNEL_REDZONE_SIZE symbols in ptrace.h.  For now, we leave the
kernel redzone size at 288 bytes, since increasing it to 512 bytes
would increase the size of interrupt stack frames correspondingly.

Gcc currently only makes use of 288 bytes of redzone even when
compiling for the new little-endian ABI, and the kernel cannot
currently be compiled with the new ABI anyway.

In the future, hopefully gcc will provide an option to control the
amount of redzone used, and then we could reduce it even more.

This also changes the code in arch_compat_alloc_user_space() to
preserve the expanded redzone.  It is not clear why this function would
ever be used on a 64-bit process, though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.13]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The new ELFv2 little-endian ABI increases the stack redzone -- the
area below the stack pointer that can be used for storing data --
from 288 bytes to 512 bytes.  This means that we need to allow more
space on the user stack when delivering a signal to a 64-bit process.

To make the code a bit clearer, we define new USER_REDZONE_SIZE and
KERNEL_REDZONE_SIZE symbols in ptrace.h.  For now, we leave the
kernel redzone size at 288 bytes, since increasing it to 512 bytes
would increase the size of interrupt stack frames correspondingly.

Gcc currently only makes use of 288 bytes of redzone even when
compiling for the new little-endian ABI, and the kernel cannot
currently be compiled with the new ABI anyway.

In the future, hopefully gcc will provide an option to control the
amount of redzone used, and then we could reduce it even more.

This also changes the code in arch_compat_alloc_user_space() to
preserve the expanded redzone.  It is not clear why this function would
ever be used on a 64-bit process, though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.13]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: bugfix for test_24bit_addr</title>
<updated>2014-02-28T07:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu Ping Fan</name>
<email>kernelfans@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T02:23:01+00:00</published>
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The branch target should be the func addr, not the addr of func_descr_t.
So using ppc_function_entry() to generate the right target addr.

Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan &lt;pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The branch target should be the func addr, not the addr of func_descr_t.
So using ppc_function_entry() to generate the right target addr.

Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan &lt;pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/crashdump : Fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page</title>
<updated>2014-02-28T07:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-24T16:30:55+00:00</published>
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In copy_oldmem_page, the current check using max_pfn and min_low_pfn to
decide if the page is backed or not, is not valid when the memory layout is
not continuous.

This happens when running as a QEMU/KVM guest, where RTAS is mapped higher
in the memory. In that case max_pfn points to the end of RTAS, and a hole
between the end of the kdump kernel and RTAS is not backed by PTEs. As a
consequence, the kdump kernel is crashing in copy_oldmem_page when accessing
in a direct way the pages in that hole.

This fix relies on the memblock's service memblock_is_region_memory to
check if the read page is part or not of the directly accessible memory.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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In copy_oldmem_page, the current check using max_pfn and min_low_pfn to
decide if the page is backed or not, is not valid when the memory layout is
not continuous.

This happens when running as a QEMU/KVM guest, where RTAS is mapped higher
in the memory. In that case max_pfn points to the end of RTAS, and a hole
between the end of the kdump kernel and RTAS is not backed by PTEs. As a
consequence, the kdump kernel is crashing in copy_oldmem_page when accessing
in a direct way the pages in that hole.

This fix relies on the memblock's service memblock_is_region_memory to
check if the read page is part or not of the directly accessible memory.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/eeh: Disable EEH on reboot</title>
<updated>2014-02-17T00:19:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gavin Shan</name>
<email>shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-12T07:24:56+00:00</published>
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We possiblly detect EEH errors during reboot, particularly in kexec
path, but it's impossible for device drivers and EEH core to handle
or recover them properly.

The patch registers one reboot notifier for EEH and disable EEH
subsystem during reboot. That means the EEH errors is going to be
cleared by hardware reset or second kernel during early stage of
PCI probe.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We possiblly detect EEH errors during reboot, particularly in kexec
path, but it's impossible for device drivers and EEH core to handle
or recover them properly.

The patch registers one reboot notifier for EEH and disable EEH
subsystem during reboot. That means the EEH errors is going to be
cleared by hardware reset or second kernel during early stage of
PCI probe.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/eeh: Cleanup on eeh_subsystem_enabled</title>
<updated>2014-02-17T00:19:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gavin Shan</name>
<email>shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-12T07:24:55+00:00</published>
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The patch cleans up variable eeh_subsystem_enabled so that we needn't
refer the variable directly from external. Instead, we will use
function eeh_enabled() and eeh_set_enable() to operate the variable.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The patch cleans up variable eeh_subsystem_enabled so that we needn't
refer the variable directly from external. Instead, we will use
function eeh_enabled() and eeh_set_enable() to operate the variable.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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