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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: add a missing label in resume_kernel</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T07:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hao</name>
<email>haokexin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-09T22:31:24+00:00</published>
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A label 0 was missed in the patch a9c4e541 (powerpc/kprobe: Complete
kprobe and migrate exception frame). This will cause the kernel
branch to an undetermined address if there really has a conflict when
updating the thread flags.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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A label 0 was missed in the patch a9c4e541 (powerpc/kprobe: Complete
kprobe and migrate exception frame). This will cause the kernel
branch to an undetermined address if there really has a conflict when
updating the thread flags.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix audit crash due to save/restore PPR changes</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T07:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alistair Popple</name>
<email>alistair@popple.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T01:44:14+00:00</published>
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The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:

kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
    pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
    lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
    sp: c000000023883ce0
   msr: 8000000000029032
  current = 0xc000000023800000
  paca    = 0xc00000000f080380   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
 --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc

Bisecting found the following patch caused it:

commit 44e9309f1f357794b7ae93d5f3e3e6f11d2b8a7f
Author: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore

It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()

Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:

kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
    pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
    lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
    sp: c000000023883ce0
   msr: 8000000000029032
  current = 0xc000000023800000
  paca    = 0xc00000000f080380   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
 --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc

Bisecting found the following patch caused it:

commit 44e9309f1f357794b7ae93d5f3e3e6f11d2b8a7f
Author: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore

It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()

Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix compiling CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM when CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n</title>
<updated>2013-04-09T22:14:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-09T06:18:55+00:00</published>
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We can't compile a kernel with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n when
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y.  We currently get:

arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:320: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VSCR
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
etc.

The below fixes this with a sprinkling of #ifdefs.

This was found by mpe with kisskb:
  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8539442/

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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We can't compile a kernel with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n when
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y.  We currently get:

arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:320: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VSCR
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
etc.

The below fixes this with a sprinkling of #ifdefs.

This was found by mpe with kisskb:
  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8539442/

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: define the conditions where the ePAPR idle hcall can be supported</title>
<updated>2013-03-25T21:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stuart Yoder</name>
<email>stuart.yoder@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-22T09:12:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
For 32-bit, CONFIG_EPAPR_PARAVIRT pulls in both epapr_paravirt.c
and epapr_hcalls.c which contains the 32-bit paravirt idle loop.

For 64-bit, the paravirt idle loop is in idle_book3e.S and that
source file is included only if CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64 defined.

This patch makes that dependency for 64-bit explicit.

Fixes these build errors:

arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `restore_pblist_ptr':
ftrace.c:(.toc+0xdc0): undefined reference to `epapr_ev_idle_start'
ftrace.c:(.toc+0xdd0): undefined reference to `epapr_ev_idle'

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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For 32-bit, CONFIG_EPAPR_PARAVIRT pulls in both epapr_paravirt.c
and epapr_hcalls.c which contains the 32-bit paravirt idle loop.

For 64-bit, the paravirt idle loop is in idle_book3e.S and that
source file is included only if CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64 defined.

This patch makes that dependency for 64-bit explicit.

Fixes these build errors:

arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `restore_pblist_ptr':
ftrace.c:(.toc+0xdc0): undefined reference to `epapr_ev_idle_start'
ftrace.c:(.toc+0xdd0): undefined reference to `epapr_ev_idle'

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: make additional room in exception vector area</title>
<updated>2013-03-25T06:14:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Gang</name>
<email>gang.chen@asianux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-25T01:31:31+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The FWNMI region is fixed at 0x7000 and the vector are now overflowing
that with allmodconfig. Fix that by moving slb_miss_realmode code out
of that region as it doesn't need to be that close to the call sites
(it is a _GLOBAL function)

Fixes this build error:

arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1304: Error: attempt to move .org backwards

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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The FWNMI region is fixed at 0x7000 and the vector are now overflowing
that with allmodconfig. Fix that by moving slb_miss_realmode code out
of that region as it doesn't need to be that close to the call sites
(it is a _GLOBAL function)

Fixes this build error:

arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1304: Error: attempt to move .org backwards

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Rename USER_ESID_BITS* to ESID_BITS*</title>
<updated>2013-03-17T01:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-13T03:34:55+00:00</published>
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Now we use ESID_BITS of kernel address to build proto vsid. So rename
USER_ESIT_BITS to ESID_BITS

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.8]
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Now we use ESID_BITS of kernel address to build proto vsid. So rename
USER_ESIT_BITS to ESID_BITS

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.8]
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Update kernel VSID range</title>
<updated>2013-03-17T01:39:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-13T03:34:54+00:00</published>
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This patch change the kernel VSID range so that we limit VSID_BITS to 37.
This enables us to support 64TB with 65 bit VA (37+28). Without this patch
we have boot hangs on platforms that only support 65 bit VA.

With this patch we now have proto vsid generated as below:

We first generate a 37-bit "proto-VSID". Proto-VSIDs are generated
from mmu context id and effective segment id of the address.

For user processes max context id is limited to ((1ul &lt;&lt; 19) - 5)
for kernel space, we use the top 4 context ids to map address as below
0x7fffc -  [ 0xc000000000000000 - 0xc0003fffffffffff ]
0x7fffd -  [ 0xd000000000000000 - 0xd0003fffffffffff ]
0x7fffe -  [ 0xe000000000000000 - 0xe0003fffffffffff ]
0x7ffff -  [ 0xf000000000000000 - 0xf0003fffffffffff ]

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.8]
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This patch change the kernel VSID range so that we limit VSID_BITS to 37.
This enables us to support 64TB with 65 bit VA (37+28). Without this patch
we have boot hangs on platforms that only support 65 bit VA.

With this patch we now have proto vsid generated as below:

We first generate a 37-bit "proto-VSID". Proto-VSIDs are generated
from mmu context id and effective segment id of the address.

For user processes max context id is limited to ((1ul &lt;&lt; 19) - 5)
for kernel space, we use the top 4 context ids to map address as below
0x7fffc -  [ 0xc000000000000000 - 0xc0003fffffffffff ]
0x7fffd -  [ 0xd000000000000000 - 0xd0003fffffffffff ]
0x7fffe -  [ 0xe000000000000000 - 0xe0003fffffffffff ]
0x7ffff -  [ 0xf000000000000000 - 0xf0003fffffffffff ]

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.8]
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ptrace: Fix brk.len used uninitialised</title>
<updated>2013-03-17T01:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-11T16:42:49+00:00</published>
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With some CONFIGS it's possible that in ppc_set_hwdebug, brk.len is
uninitialised before being used.  It has been reported that GCC 4.2 will
produce the following error in this case:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1479: warning: 'brk.len' is used uninitialized in this function
  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1381: note: 'brk.len' was declared here

This patch corrects this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reported-by: Philippe De Muyter &lt;phdm@macqel.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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With some CONFIGS it's possible that in ppc_set_hwdebug, brk.len is
uninitialised before being used.  It has been reported that GCC 4.2 will
produce the following error in this case:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1479: warning: 'brk.len' is used uninitialized in this function
  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1381: note: 'brk.len' was declared here

This patch corrects this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reported-by: Philippe De Muyter &lt;phdm@macqel.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix -mcmodel=medium breakage in prom_init.c</title>
<updated>2013-03-12T23:06:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-12T01:51:51+00:00</published>
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Commit 5ac47f7a6efb (powerpc: Relocate prom_init.c on 64bit) made
prom_init.c position independent by manually relocating its entries
in the TOC.

We get the address of the TOC entries with the __prom_init_toc_start
linker symbol. If __prom_init_toc_start ends up as an entry in the
TOC then we need to add an offset to get the current address. This is
the case for older toolchains.

On the other hand, if we have a newer toolchain that supports
-mcmodel=medium then __prom_init_toc_start will be created by a
relative offset from r2 (the TOC pointer). Since r2 has already been
relocated, nothing more needs to be done.  Adding an offset in this
case is wrong and Aaro Koskinen and Alexander Graf have noticed noticed
G5 and OpenBIOS breakage.

Alan Modra suggested we just use r2 to get at the TOC which is simpler
and works with both old and new toolchains.

Reported-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit 5ac47f7a6efb (powerpc: Relocate prom_init.c on 64bit) made
prom_init.c position independent by manually relocating its entries
in the TOC.

We get the address of the TOC entries with the __prom_init_toc_start
linker symbol. If __prom_init_toc_start ends up as an entry in the
TOC then we need to add an offset to get the current address. This is
the case for older toolchains.

On the other hand, if we have a newer toolchain that supports
-mcmodel=medium then __prom_init_toc_start will be created by a
relative offset from r2 (the TOC pointer). Since r2 has already been
relocated, nothing more needs to be done.  Adding an offset in this
case is wrong and Aaro Koskinen and Alexander Graf have noticed noticed
G5 and OpenBIOS breakage.

Alan Modra suggested we just use r2 to get at the TOC which is simpler
and works with both old and new toolchains.

Reported-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix cputable entry for 970MP rev 1.0</title>
<updated>2013-03-12T23:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-12T22:55:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d63ac5f6cf31c8a83170a9509b350c1489a7262b'/>
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Commit 44ae3ab3358e962039c36ad4ae461ae9fb29596c forgot to update
the entry for the 970MP rev 1.0 processor when moving some CPU
features bits to the MMU feature bit mask. This breaks booting
on some rare G5 models using that chip revision.

Reported-by: Phileas Fogg &lt;phileas-fogg@mail.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.0+]
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Commit 44ae3ab3358e962039c36ad4ae461ae9fb29596c forgot to update
the entry for the 970MP rev 1.0 processor when moving some CPU
features bits to the MMU feature bit mask. This breaks booting
on some rare G5 models using that chip revision.

Reported-by: Phileas Fogg &lt;phileas-fogg@mail.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.0+]
</pre>
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</content>
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