linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.8

powerpc: Max next_tb to prevent from replaying timer interrupt

2013-01-28T23:18:16+00:00

With lazy interrupt, we always call __check_irq_replaysome with
decrementers_next_tb to check if we need to replay timer interrupt.
So in hotplug case we also need to set decrementers_next_tb as MAX
to make sure __check_irq_replay don't replay timer interrupt
when return as we expect, otherwise we'll trap here infinitely.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: kernel/kgdb.c: Fix memory leakage

2013-01-28T23:18:15+00:00

the variable backup_current_thread_info isn't freed before existing the
function.

Signed-off-by: Cong Ding 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/book3e: Disable interrupt after preempt_schedule_irq

2013-01-28T23:18:15+00:00

In preempt case current arch_local_irq_restore() from
preempt_schedule_irq() may enable hard interrupt but we really
should disable interrupts when we return from the interrupt,
and so that we don't get interrupted after loading SRR0/1.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen 
CC: 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning for ppc32

2013-01-28T23:10:22+00:00

This patch fixes MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning for ppc32,
which is similar to commit 12660b17.

Reported-by: Christian Kujau 
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong 
Tested-by: Christian Kujau 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-01-04T00:17:50+00:00

Pull driver core __dev* removal patches - take 3 - from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are the remaining __dev* removal patches against the 3.8-rc2
  tree.  All of these patches were previously sent to the subsystem
  maintainers, most of them were picked up and pushed to you, but there
  were a number that fell through the cracks, and new drivers were added
  during the merge window, so this series cleans up the rest of the
  instances of these markings.

  Third time's the charm...

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "

Fixed up trivial conflict with the pinctrl pull in pinctrl-sirf.c.

* tag 'driver-core-3.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (54 commits)
  misc: remove __dev* attributes.
  include: remove __dev* attributes.
  Documentation: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: misc: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: block: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: bcma: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: char: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: clocksource: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: ssb: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: dma: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: gpu: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: infinband: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: memory: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: mmc: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: iommu: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: power: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: message: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: macintosh: remove __dev* attributes.
  Drivers: mfd: remove __dev* attributes.
  pstore: remove __dev* attributes.
  ...

POWERPC: drivers: remove __dev* attributes.

2013-01-03T23:57:04+00:00

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/vdso: Remove redundant locking in update_vsyscall_tz()

2013-01-03T05:45:51+00:00

The locking in update_vsyscall_tz() is not only unnecessary because the vdso
code copies the data unproteced in __kernel_gettimeofday() but also
introduces a hard to reproduce race condition between update_vsyscall()
and update_vsyscall_tz(), which causes user space process to loop
forever in vdso code.

The following patch removes the locking from update_vsyscall_tz().

Locking is not only unnecessary because the vdso code copies the data
unprotected in __kernel_gettimeofday() but also erroneous because updating
the tb_update_count is not atomic and introduces a hard to reproduce race
condition between update_vsyscall() and update_vsyscall_tz(), which further
causes user space process to loop forever in vdso code.

The below scenario describes the race condition,
x==0	Boot CPU			other CPU
	proc_P: x==0
	    timer interrupt
		update_vsyscall
x==1		    x++;sync		settimeofday
					    update_vsyscall_tz
x==2						x++;sync
x==3		    sync;x++
						sync;x++
	proc_P: x==3 (loops until x becomes even)

Because the ++ operator would be implemented as three instructions and not
atomic on powerpc.

A similar change was made for x86 in commit 6c260d58634
("x86: vdso: Remove bogus locking in update_vsyscall_tz")

Signed-off-by: Shan Hai 
CC: 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2012-12-18T17:58:09+00:00

Pull powerpc update from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "The main highlight is probably some base POWER8 support.  There's more
  to come such as transactional memory support but that will wait for
  the next one.

  Overall it's pretty quiet, or rather I've been pretty poor at picking
  things up from patchwork and reviewing them this time around and Kumar
  no better on the FSL side it seems..."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (73 commits)
  powerpc+of: Rename and fix OF reconfig notifier error inject module
  powerpc: mpc5200: Add a3m071 board support
  powerpc/512x: don't compile any platform DIU code if the DIU is not enabled
  powerpc/mpc52xx: use module_platform_driver macro
  powerpc+of: Export of_reconfig_notifier_[register,unregister]
  powerpc/dma/raidengine: add raidengine device
  powerpc/iommu/fsl: Add PAMU bypass enable register to ccsr_guts struct
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Change spin table to cached memory
  powerpc/fsl-pci: Add PCI controller ATMU PM support
  powerpc/86xx: fsl_pcibios_fixup_bus requires CONFIG_PCI
  drivers/virt: the Freescale hypervisor driver doesn't need to check MSR[GS]
  powerpc/85xx: p1022ds: Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers
  powerpc: Disable relocation on exceptions when kexecing
  powerpc: Enable relocation on during exceptions at boot
  powerpc: Move get_longbusy_msecs into hvcall.h and remove duplicate function
  powerpc: Add wrappers to enable/disable relocation on exceptions
  powerpc: Add set_mode hcall
  powerpc: Setup relocation on exceptions for bare metal systems
  powerpc: Move initial mfspr LPCR out of __init_LPCR
  powerpc: Add relocation on exception vector handlers
  ...

compat: generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval() implementation

2012-12-18T01:15:18+00:00

This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat support.
 The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for PowerPC to do
the u32->int sign extension.

The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile, sparc and arm64 is
to keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
function declarations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf   [for tile]
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2012-12-13T23:31:08+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti:
 "Considerable KVM/PPC work, x86 kvmclock vsyscall support,
  IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR emulation, amongst others."

Fix up trivial conflict in kernel/sched/core.c due to cross-cpu
migration notifier added next to rq migration call-back.

* tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (156 commits)
  KVM: emulator: fix real mode segment checks in address linearization
  VMX: remove unneeded enable_unrestricted_guest check
  KVM: VMX: fix DPL during entry to protected mode
  x86/kexec: crash_vmclear_local_vmcss needs __rcu
  kvm: Fix irqfd resampler list walk
  KVM: VMX: provide the vmclear function and a bitmap to support VMCLEAR in kdump
  x86/kexec: VMCLEAR VMCSs loaded on all cpus if necessary
  KVM: MMU: optimize for set_spte
  KVM: PPC: booke: Get/set guest EPCR register using ONE_REG interface
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery
  KVM: PPC: Make EPCR a valid field for booke64 and bookehv
  KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit
  KVM: PPC: e500: Mask MAS2 EPN high 32-bits in 32/64 tlbwe emulation
  KVM: PPC: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation
  KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea
  KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for interrupt handling
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler
  KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit
  KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code
  ...