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<title>powerpc/irq: fix stack overflow verification</title>
<updated>2019-12-13T20:59:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-09T06:19:08+00:00</published>
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Before commit 0366a1c70b89 ("powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of
the irq stack"), check_stack_overflow() was called by do_IRQ(), before
switching to the irq stack.
In that commit, do_IRQ() was renamed __do_irq(), and is now executing
on the irq stack, so check_stack_overflow() has just become almost
useless.

Move check_stack_overflow() call in do_IRQ() to do the check while
still on the current stack.

Fixes: 0366a1c70b89 ("powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of the irq stack")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e033aa8116ab12b7ca9a9c75189ad0741e3b9b5f.1575872340.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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Before commit 0366a1c70b89 ("powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of
the irq stack"), check_stack_overflow() was called by do_IRQ(), before
switching to the irq stack.
In that commit, do_IRQ() was renamed __do_irq(), and is now executing
on the irq stack, so check_stack_overflow() has just become almost
useless.

Move check_stack_overflow() call in do_IRQ() to do the check while
still on the current stack.

Fixes: 0366a1c70b89 ("powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of the irq stack")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e033aa8116ab12b7ca9a9c75189ad0741e3b9b5f.1575872340.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix vDSO clock_getres()</title>
<updated>2019-12-04T13:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
<email>vincenzo.frascino@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T07:57:29+00:00</published>
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clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kasan: Fix boot failure with RELOCATABLE &amp;&amp; FSL_BOOKE</title>
<updated>2019-12-04T13:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-29T14:26:41+00:00</published>
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When enabling CONFIG_RELOCATABLE and CONFIG_KASAN on FSL_BOOKE,
the kernel doesn't boot.

relocate_init() requires KASAN early shadow area to be set up because
it needs access to the device tree through generic functions.

Call kasan_early_init() before calling relocate_init()

Reported-by: Lexi Shao &lt;shaolexi@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 2edb16efc899 ("powerpc/32: Add KASAN support")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b58426f1664a4b344ff696d18cacf3b3e8962111.1575036985.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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When enabling CONFIG_RELOCATABLE and CONFIG_KASAN on FSL_BOOKE,
the kernel doesn't boot.

relocate_init() requires KASAN early shadow area to be set up because
it needs access to the device tree through generic functions.

Call kasan_early_init() before calling relocate_init()

Reported-by: Lexi Shao &lt;shaolexi@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 2edb16efc899 ("powerpc/32: Add KASAN support")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b58426f1664a4b344ff696d18cacf3b3e8962111.1575036985.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T22:00:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T22:00:59+00:00</published>
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Pull y2038 cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "y2038 syscall implementation cleanups

  This is a series of cleanups for the y2038 work, mostly intended for
  namespace cleaning: the kernel defines the traditional time_t, timeval
  and timespec types that often lead to y2038-unsafe code. Even though
  the unsafe usage is mostly gone from the kernel, having the types and
  associated functions around means that we can still grow new users,
  and that we may be missing conversions to safe types that actually
  matter.

  There are still a number of driver specific patches needed to get the
  last users of these types removed, those have been submitted to the
  respective maintainers"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de/

* tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (26 commits)
  y2038: alarm: fix half-second cut-off
  y2038: ipc: fix x32 ABI breakage
  y2038: fix typo in powerpc vdso "LOPART"
  y2038: allow disabling time32 system calls
  y2038: itimer: change implementation to timespec64
  y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c
  y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha
  y2038: itimer: compat handling to itimer.c
  y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()
  y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally
  y2038: elfcore: Use __kernel_old_timeval for process times
  y2038: make ns_to_compat_timeval use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: socket: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec
  y2038: socket: remove timespec reference in timestamping
  y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t
  y2038: stat: avoid 'time_t' in 'struct stat'
  y2038: ipc: remove __kernel_time_t reference from headers
  y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references
  ...
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<pre>
Pull y2038 cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "y2038 syscall implementation cleanups

  This is a series of cleanups for the y2038 work, mostly intended for
  namespace cleaning: the kernel defines the traditional time_t, timeval
  and timespec types that often lead to y2038-unsafe code. Even though
  the unsafe usage is mostly gone from the kernel, having the types and
  associated functions around means that we can still grow new users,
  and that we may be missing conversions to safe types that actually
  matter.

  There are still a number of driver specific patches needed to get the
  last users of these types removed, those have been submitted to the
  respective maintainers"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de/

* tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (26 commits)
  y2038: alarm: fix half-second cut-off
  y2038: ipc: fix x32 ABI breakage
  y2038: fix typo in powerpc vdso "LOPART"
  y2038: allow disabling time32 system calls
  y2038: itimer: change implementation to timespec64
  y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c
  y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha
  y2038: itimer: compat handling to itimer.c
  y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()
  y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally
  y2038: elfcore: Use __kernel_old_timeval for process times
  y2038: make ns_to_compat_timeval use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: socket: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec
  y2038: socket: remove timespec reference in timestamping
  y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t
  y2038: stat: avoid 'time_t' in 'struct stat'
  y2038: ipc: remove __kernel_time_t reference from headers
  y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-11-30T22:35:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-30T22:35:43+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Infrastructure for secure boot on some bare metal Power9 machines.
     The firmware support is still in development, so the code here
     won't actually activate secure boot on any existing systems.

   - A change to xmon (our crash handler / pseudo-debugger) to restrict
     it to read-only mode when the kernel is lockdown'ed, otherwise it's
     trivial to drop into xmon and modify kernel data, such as the
     lockdown state.

   - Support for KASLR on 32-bit BookE machines (Freescale / NXP).

   - Fixes for our flush_icache_range() and __kernel_sync_dicache()
     (VDSO) to work with memory ranges &gt;4GB.

   - Some reworks of the pseries CMM (Cooperative Memory Management)
     driver to make it behave more like other balloon drivers and enable
     some cleanups of generic mm code.

   - A series of fixes to our hardware breakpoint support to properly
     handle unaligned watchpoint addresses.

  Plus a bunch of other smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anthony Steinhauser, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Chris Smart,
  Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Claudio
  Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Hildenbrand, Deb McLemore, Diana
  Craciun, Eric Richter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
  Kurz, Gustavo L. F. Walbon, Hari Bathini, Harish, Jason Yan, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Leonardo Bras, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
  Michal Suchanek, Mimi Zohar, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nayna
  Jain, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Rasmus Villemoes,
  Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Thomas Huth,
  Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Valentin Longchamp, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (144 commits)
  powerpc/fixmap: fix crash with HIGHMEM
  x86/efi: remove unused variables
  powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep
  powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
  powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp
  powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang
  powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation
  powerpc/fixmap: don't clear fixmap area in paging_init()
  selftests/powerpc: spectre_v2 test must be built 64-bit
  powerpc/powernv: Disable native PCIe port management
  powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir.
  powerpc/32: Split kexec low level code out of misc_32.S
  powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio
  powerpc/83xx: map IMMR with a BAT.
  powerpc/32s: automatically allocate BAT in setbat()
  powerpc/ioremap: warn on early use of ioremap()
  powerpc: Add support for GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
  powerpc/fixmap: Use __fix_to_virt() instead of fix_to_virt()
  powerpc/8xx: use the fixmapped IMMR in cpm_reset()
  powerpc/8xx: add __init to cpm1 init functions
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Infrastructure for secure boot on some bare metal Power9 machines.
     The firmware support is still in development, so the code here
     won't actually activate secure boot on any existing systems.

   - A change to xmon (our crash handler / pseudo-debugger) to restrict
     it to read-only mode when the kernel is lockdown'ed, otherwise it's
     trivial to drop into xmon and modify kernel data, such as the
     lockdown state.

   - Support for KASLR on 32-bit BookE machines (Freescale / NXP).

   - Fixes for our flush_icache_range() and __kernel_sync_dicache()
     (VDSO) to work with memory ranges &gt;4GB.

   - Some reworks of the pseries CMM (Cooperative Memory Management)
     driver to make it behave more like other balloon drivers and enable
     some cleanups of generic mm code.

   - A series of fixes to our hardware breakpoint support to properly
     handle unaligned watchpoint addresses.

  Plus a bunch of other smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anthony Steinhauser, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Chris Smart,
  Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Claudio
  Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Hildenbrand, Deb McLemore, Diana
  Craciun, Eric Richter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
  Kurz, Gustavo L. F. Walbon, Hari Bathini, Harish, Jason Yan, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Leonardo Bras, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
  Michal Suchanek, Mimi Zohar, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nayna
  Jain, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Rasmus Villemoes,
  Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Thomas Huth,
  Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Valentin Longchamp, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (144 commits)
  powerpc/fixmap: fix crash with HIGHMEM
  x86/efi: remove unused variables
  powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep
  powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
  powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp
  powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang
  powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation
  powerpc/fixmap: don't clear fixmap area in paging_init()
  selftests/powerpc: spectre_v2 test must be built 64-bit
  powerpc/powernv: Disable native PCIe port management
  powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir.
  powerpc/32: Split kexec low level code out of misc_32.S
  powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio
  powerpc/83xx: map IMMR with a BAT.
  powerpc/32s: automatically allocate BAT in setbat()
  powerpc/ioremap: warn on early use of ioremap()
  powerpc: Add support for GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
  powerpc/fixmap: Use __fix_to_virt() instead of fix_to_virt()
  powerpc/8xx: use the fixmapped IMMR in cpm_reset()
  powerpc/8xx: add __init to cpm1 init functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-spectre-rsb' of powerpc-CVE-2019-18660.bundle</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T19:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T19:25:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=80eb5fea3c14fb171facb5242a1555b3aafea4d0'/>
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Pull powerpc Spectre-RSB fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "We failed to activate the mitigation for Spectre-RSB (Return Stack
  Buffer, aka. ret2spec) on context switch, on CPUs prior to Power9
  DD2.3.

  That allows a process to poison the RSB (called Link Stack on Power
  CPUs) and possibly misdirect speculative execution of another process.
  If the victim process can be induced to execute a leak gadget then it
  may be possible to extract information from the victim via a side
  channel.

  The fix is to correctly activate the link stack flush mitigation on
  all CPUs that have any mitigation of Spectre v2 in userspace enabled.

  There's a second commit which adds a link stack flush in the KVM guest
  exit path. A leak via that path has not been demonstrated, but we
  believe it's at least theoretically possible.

  This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660"

* tag 'powerpc-spectre-rsb' of /home/torvalds/Downloads/powerpc-CVE-2019-18660.bundle:
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel
  powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch
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<pre>
Pull powerpc Spectre-RSB fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "We failed to activate the mitigation for Spectre-RSB (Return Stack
  Buffer, aka. ret2spec) on context switch, on CPUs prior to Power9
  DD2.3.

  That allows a process to poison the RSB (called Link Stack on Power
  CPUs) and possibly misdirect speculative execution of another process.
  If the victim process can be induced to execute a leak gadget then it
  may be possible to extract information from the victim via a side
  channel.

  The fix is to correctly activate the link stack flush mitigation on
  all CPUs that have any mitigation of Spectre v2 in userspace enabled.

  There's a second commit which adds a link stack flush in the KVM guest
  exit path. A leak via that path has not been demonstrated, but we
  believe it's at least theoretically possible.

  This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660"

* tag 'powerpc-spectre-rsb' of /home/torvalds/Downloads/powerpc-CVE-2019-18660.bundle:
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel
  powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T23:23:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T23:23:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=77a05940eee7e9891cd6add7a690a3e762ee21b0'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes in this cycle were:

   - Make kcpustat vtime aware (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Rework the CFS load_balance() logic (Vincent Guittot)

   - Misc cleanups, smaller enhancements, fixes.

  The load-balancing rework is the most intrusive change: it replaces
  the old heuristics that have become less meaningful after the
  introduction of the PELT metrics, with a grounds-up load-balancing
  algorithm.

  As such it's not really an iterative series, but replaces the old
  load-balancing logic with the new one. We hope there are no
  performance regressions left - but statistically it's highly probable
  that there *is* going to be some workload that is hurting from these
  chnages. If so then we'd prefer to have a look at that workload and
  fix its scheduling, instead of reverting the changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  rackmeter: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  leds: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessors for user time
  procfs: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  sched/vtime: Bring up complete kcpustat accessor
  sched/cputime: Support other fields on kcpustat_field()
  sched/cpufreq: Move the cfs_rq_util_change() call to cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/fair: Add comments for group_type and balancing at SD_NUMA level
  sched/fair: Fix rework of find_idlest_group()
  sched/uclamp: Fix overzealous type replacement
  sched/Kconfig: Fix spelling mistake in user-visible help text
  sched/core: Further clarify sched_class::set_next_task()
  sched/fair: Use mul_u32_u32()
  sched/core: Simplify sched_class::pick_next_task()
  sched/core: Optimize pick_next_task()
  sched/core: Make pick_next_task_idle() more consistent
  sched/fair: Better document newidle_balance()
  leds: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  procfs: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes in this cycle were:

   - Make kcpustat vtime aware (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Rework the CFS load_balance() logic (Vincent Guittot)

   - Misc cleanups, smaller enhancements, fixes.

  The load-balancing rework is the most intrusive change: it replaces
  the old heuristics that have become less meaningful after the
  introduction of the PELT metrics, with a grounds-up load-balancing
  algorithm.

  As such it's not really an iterative series, but replaces the old
  load-balancing logic with the new one. We hope there are no
  performance regressions left - but statistically it's highly probable
  that there *is* going to be some workload that is hurting from these
  chnages. If so then we'd prefer to have a look at that workload and
  fix its scheduling, instead of reverting the changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  rackmeter: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  leds: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessors for user time
  procfs: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor
  sched/vtime: Bring up complete kcpustat accessor
  sched/cputime: Support other fields on kcpustat_field()
  sched/cpufreq: Move the cfs_rq_util_change() call to cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/fair: Add comments for group_type and balancing at SD_NUMA level
  sched/fair: Fix rework of find_idlest_group()
  sched/uclamp: Fix overzealous type replacement
  sched/Kconfig: Fix spelling mistake in user-visible help text
  sched/core: Further clarify sched_class::set_next_task()
  sched/fair: Use mul_u32_u32()
  sched/core: Simplify sched_class::pick_next_task()
  sched/core: Optimize pick_next_task()
  sched/core: Make pick_next_task_idle() more consistent
  sched/fair: Better document newidle_balance()
  leds: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  procfs: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1d87200446f1d10dfe9672ca8edb027a82612f8c'/>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T10:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T04:57:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8dcd71b45df34d9b903450fab147ee8c1e6c16b5'/>
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LLVM revision r374662 gives LLVM the ability to convert certain loops
into a reference to bcmp as an optimization; this breaks
prom_init_check.sh:

    CALL    arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
  Error: External symbol 'bcmp' referenced from prom_init.c
  make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:196: prom_init_check] Error 1

bcmp is defined in lib/string.c as a wrapper for memcmp so this could
be added to the whitelist. However, commit
450e7dd4001f ("powerpc/prom_init: don't use string functions from
lib/") copied memcmp as prom_memcmp to avoid KASAN instrumentation so
having bcmp be resolved to regular memcmp would break that assumption.
Furthermore, because the compiler is the one that inserted bcmp, we
cannot provide something like prom_bcmp.

To prevent LLVM from being clever with optimizations like this, use
-ffreestanding to tell LLVM we are not hosted so it is not free to
make transformations like this.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulneris &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-4-natechancellor@gmail.com
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LLVM revision r374662 gives LLVM the ability to convert certain loops
into a reference to bcmp as an optimization; this breaks
prom_init_check.sh:

    CALL    arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
  Error: External symbol 'bcmp' referenced from prom_init.c
  make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:196: prom_init_check] Error 1

bcmp is defined in lib/string.c as a wrapper for memcmp so this could
be added to the whitelist. However, commit
450e7dd4001f ("powerpc/prom_init: don't use string functions from
lib/") copied memcmp as prom_memcmp to avoid KASAN instrumentation so
having bcmp be resolved to regular memcmp would break that assumption.
Furthermore, because the compiler is the one that inserted bcmp, we
cannot provide something like prom_bcmp.

To prevent LLVM from being clever with optimizations like this, use
-ffreestanding to tell LLVM we are not hosted so it is not free to
make transformations like this.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulneris &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-4-natechancellor@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: fix typo in powerpc vdso "LOPART"</title>
<updated>2019-11-21T14:19:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T14:19:49+00:00</published>
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The earlier patch introduced a typo, change LOWPART back to
LOPART.

Fixes: 176ed98c8a76 ("y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The earlier patch introduced a typo, change LOWPART back to
LOPART.

Fixes: 176ed98c8a76 ("y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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