linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.2.68

powerpc: Fix build errors STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS

2014-09-13T22:41:44+00:00

commit 83d5e64b7efa7f39b10ff5e92792e807a720289c upstream.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc: Don't setup CPUs with bad status

2014-07-11T12:33:49+00:00

commit 59a53afe70fd530040bdc69581f03d880157f15a upstream.

OPAL will mark a CPU that is guarded as "bad" in the status property of the CPU
node.

Unfortunatley Linux doesn't check this property and will put the bad CPU in the
present map.  This has caused hangs on booting when we try to unsplit the core.

This patch checks the CPU is avaliable via this status property before putting
it in the present map.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports

2014-07-11T12:33:46+00:00

commit c4cad90f9e9dcb85afc5e75a02ae3522ed077296 upstream.

We had a mix & match of flags used when creating legacy ports
depending on where we found them in the device-tree. Among others
we were missing UPF_SKIP_TEST for some kind of ISA ports which is
a problem as quite a few UARTs out there don't support the loopback
test (such as a lot of BMCs).

Let's pick the set of flags used by the SoC code and generalize it
which means autoconf, no loopback test, irq maybe shared and fixed
port.

Sending to stable as the lack of UPF_SKIP_TEST is breaking
serial on some machines so I want this back into distros

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols

2014-04-01T23:58:58+00:00

commit a5b2cf5b1af424ee3dd9e3ce6d5cea18cb927e67 upstream.

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 
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/crashdump : Fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page

2014-04-01T23:58:57+00:00

commit f5295bd8ea8a65dc5eac608b151386314cb978f1 upstream.

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 
Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc: Make sure "cache" directory is removed when offlining cpu

2014-04-01T23:58:45+00:00

commit 91b973f90c1220d71923e7efe1e61f5329806380 upstream.

The code in remove_cache_dir() is supposed to remove the "cache"
subdirectory from the sysfs directory for a CPU when that CPU is
being offlined.  It tries to do this by calling kobject_put() on
the kobject for the subdirectory.  However, the subdirectory only
gets removed once the last reference goes away, and the reference
being put here may well not be the last reference.  That means
that the "cache" subdirectory may still exist when the offlining
operation has finished.  If the same CPU subsequently gets onlined,
the code tries to add a new "cache" subdirectory.  If the old
subdirectory has not yet been removed, we get a WARN_ON in the
sysfs code, with stack trace, and an error message printed on the
console.  Further, we ultimately end up with an online cpu with no
"cache" subdirectory.

This fixes it by doing an explicit kobject_del() at the point where
we want the subdirectory to go away.  kobject_del() removes the sysfs
directory even though the object still exists in memory.  The object
will get freed at some point in the future.  A subsequent onlining
operation can create a new sysfs directory, even if the old object
still exists in memory, without causing any problems.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/signals: Improved mark VSX not saved with small contexts fix

2014-01-03T04:33:24+00:00

commit ec67ad82814bee92251fd963bf01c7a173856555 upstream.

In a recent patch:
  commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42
  Author: Michael Neuling 
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch
was merged.

Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit
this issue (but has never been reported).

Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to.  The
new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the
context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when
VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the
state).

This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution.  It
also adds a 64 bit version.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

2014-01-03T04:33:23+00:00

commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 upstream.

The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX
state.  Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage.

Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state,
we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit.

This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide
enough space.  This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user
context.

This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use
VSX but only provide a small context.  For example, getcontext in glibc
provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over
the glibc function call.  But since the program calling getcontext may have
used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not.  If
the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without
VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context.  This situation
has been reported by the glibc community.

Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell.

Tested-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace

2014-01-03T04:33:23+00:00

commit 84b073868b9d9e754ae48b828337633d1b386482 upstream.

When reading from the dispatch trace log (dtl) userspace interface, I
sometimes see duplicate entries. One example:

# hexdump -C dtl.out

00000000  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

00000030  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

The problem is in scan_dispatch_log() where we call dtl_consumer()
but bail out before incrementing the index.

To fix this I moved dtl_consumer() after the timebase comparison.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show

2014-01-03T04:33:16+00:00

commit 411cabf79e684171669ad29a0628c400b4431e95 upstream.

Commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 used strcat instead of
strcpy which can result in an overflow of newlines on the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings