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<title>powerpc/sstep: make emulate_vsx_load and emulate_vsx_store static</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Suchanek</name>
<email>msuchanek@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T13:03:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a26c4dbb3d9c1821cb0fc11cb2dbc32d5bf3463b ]

These functions are not used outside of sstep.c

Fixes: 350779a29f11 ("powerpc: Handle most loads and stores in instruction emulation code")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001130356.14664-1-msuchanek@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a26c4dbb3d9c1821cb0fc11cb2dbc32d5bf3463b ]

These functions are not used outside of sstep.c

Fixes: 350779a29f11 ("powerpc: Handle most loads and stores in instruction emulation code")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001130356.14664-1-msuchanek@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T09:11:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nysal Jan K.A.</name>
<email>nysal@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T02:28:27+00:00</published>
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commit 734ad0af3609464f8f93e00b6c0de1e112f44559 upstream.

If an interrupt occurs in queued_spin_lock_slowpath() after we increment
qnodesp-&gt;count and before node-&gt;lock is initialized, another CPU might
see stale lock values in get_tail_qnode(). If the stale lock value happens
to match the lock on that CPU, then we write to the "next" pointer of
the wrong qnode. This causes a deadlock as the former CPU, once it becomes
the head of the MCS queue, will spin indefinitely until it's "next" pointer
is set by its successor in the queue.

Running stress-ng on a 16 core (16EC/16VP) shared LPAR, results in
occasional lockups similar to the following:

   $ stress-ng --all 128 --vm-bytes 80% --aggressive \
               --maximize --oomable --verify  --syslog \
               --metrics  --times  --timeout 5m

   watchdog: CPU 15 Hard LOCKUP
   ......
   NIP [c0000000000b78f4] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1184/0x1490
   LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
   Call Trace:
    0xc000002cfffa3bf0 (unreliable)
    _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
    raw_spin_rq_lock_nested.part.135+0x4c/0xd0
    sched_ttwu_pending+0x60/0x1f0
    __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1dc/0x670
    smp_ipi_demux_relaxed+0xa4/0x100
    xive_muxed_ipi_action+0x20/0x40
    __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x80/0x240
    handle_irq_event_percpu+0x2c/0x80
    handle_percpu_irq+0x84/0xd0
    generic_handle_irq+0x54/0x80
    __do_irq+0xac/0x210
    __do_IRQ+0x74/0xd0
    0x0
    do_IRQ+0x8c/0x170
    hardware_interrupt_common_virt+0x29c/0x2a0
   --- interrupt: 500 at queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490
   ......
   NIP [c0000000000b6c28] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490
   LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
   --- interrupt: 500
    0xc0000029c1a41d00 (unreliable)
    _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
    futex_wake+0x100/0x260
    do_futex+0x21c/0x2a0
    sys_futex+0x98/0x270
    system_call_exception+0x14c/0x2f0
    system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

The following code flow illustrates how the deadlock occurs.
For the sake of brevity, assume that both locks (A and B) are
contended and we call the queued_spin_lock_slowpath() function.

        CPU0                                   CPU1
        ----                                   ----
  spin_lock_irqsave(A)                          |
  spin_unlock_irqrestore(A)                     |
    spin_lock(B)                                |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
   id = qnodesp-&gt;count++;                       |
  (Note that nodes[0].lock == A)                |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
      Interrupt                                 |
  (happens before "nodes[0].lock = B")          |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
  spin_lock_irqsave(A)                          |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
   id = qnodesp-&gt;count++                        |
   nodes[1].lock = A                            |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
  Tail of MCS queue                             |
         |                             spin_lock_irqsave(A)
         ▼                                      |
  Head of MCS queue                             ▼
         |                             CPU0 is previous tail
         ▼                                      |
   Spin indefinitely                            ▼
  (until "nodes[1].next != NULL")      prev = get_tail_qnode(A, CPU0)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                       prev == &amp;qnodes[CPU0].nodes[0]
                                     (as qnodes[CPU0].nodes[0].lock == A)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                       WRITE_ONCE(prev-&gt;next, node)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                        Spin indefinitely
                                     (until nodes[0].locked == 1)

Thanks to Saket Kumar Bhaskar for help with recreating the issue

Fixes: 84990b169557 ("powerpc/qspinlock: add mcs queueing for contended waiters")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.2+
Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani &lt;geetika@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vaishnavi Bhat &lt;vaish123@in.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jijo Varghese &lt;vargjijo@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A. &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240829022830.1164355-1-nysal@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 734ad0af3609464f8f93e00b6c0de1e112f44559 upstream.

If an interrupt occurs in queued_spin_lock_slowpath() after we increment
qnodesp-&gt;count and before node-&gt;lock is initialized, another CPU might
see stale lock values in get_tail_qnode(). If the stale lock value happens
to match the lock on that CPU, then we write to the "next" pointer of
the wrong qnode. This causes a deadlock as the former CPU, once it becomes
the head of the MCS queue, will spin indefinitely until it's "next" pointer
is set by its successor in the queue.

Running stress-ng on a 16 core (16EC/16VP) shared LPAR, results in
occasional lockups similar to the following:

   $ stress-ng --all 128 --vm-bytes 80% --aggressive \
               --maximize --oomable --verify  --syslog \
               --metrics  --times  --timeout 5m

   watchdog: CPU 15 Hard LOCKUP
   ......
   NIP [c0000000000b78f4] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1184/0x1490
   LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
   Call Trace:
    0xc000002cfffa3bf0 (unreliable)
    _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
    raw_spin_rq_lock_nested.part.135+0x4c/0xd0
    sched_ttwu_pending+0x60/0x1f0
    __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1dc/0x670
    smp_ipi_demux_relaxed+0xa4/0x100
    xive_muxed_ipi_action+0x20/0x40
    __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x80/0x240
    handle_irq_event_percpu+0x2c/0x80
    handle_percpu_irq+0x84/0xd0
    generic_handle_irq+0x54/0x80
    __do_irq+0xac/0x210
    __do_IRQ+0x74/0xd0
    0x0
    do_IRQ+0x8c/0x170
    hardware_interrupt_common_virt+0x29c/0x2a0
   --- interrupt: 500 at queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490
   ......
   NIP [c0000000000b6c28] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490
   LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
   --- interrupt: 500
    0xc0000029c1a41d00 (unreliable)
    _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90
    futex_wake+0x100/0x260
    do_futex+0x21c/0x2a0
    sys_futex+0x98/0x270
    system_call_exception+0x14c/0x2f0
    system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

The following code flow illustrates how the deadlock occurs.
For the sake of brevity, assume that both locks (A and B) are
contended and we call the queued_spin_lock_slowpath() function.

        CPU0                                   CPU1
        ----                                   ----
  spin_lock_irqsave(A)                          |
  spin_unlock_irqrestore(A)                     |
    spin_lock(B)                                |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
   id = qnodesp-&gt;count++;                       |
  (Note that nodes[0].lock == A)                |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
      Interrupt                                 |
  (happens before "nodes[0].lock = B")          |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
  spin_lock_irqsave(A)                          |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
   id = qnodesp-&gt;count++                        |
   nodes[1].lock = A                            |
         |                                      |
         ▼                                      |
  Tail of MCS queue                             |
         |                             spin_lock_irqsave(A)
         ▼                                      |
  Head of MCS queue                             ▼
         |                             CPU0 is previous tail
         ▼                                      |
   Spin indefinitely                            ▼
  (until "nodes[1].next != NULL")      prev = get_tail_qnode(A, CPU0)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                       prev == &amp;qnodes[CPU0].nodes[0]
                                     (as qnodes[CPU0].nodes[0].lock == A)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                       WRITE_ONCE(prev-&gt;next, node)
                                                |
                                                ▼
                                        Spin indefinitely
                                     (until nodes[0].locked == 1)

Thanks to Saket Kumar Bhaskar for help with recreating the issue

Fixes: 84990b169557 ("powerpc/qspinlock: add mcs queueing for contended waiters")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.2+
Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani &lt;geetika@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vaishnavi Bhat &lt;vaish123@in.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jijo Varghese &lt;vargjijo@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A. &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240829022830.1164355-1-nysal@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: xor_vmx: Add '-mhard-float' to CFLAGS</title>
<updated>2024-04-03T13:28:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-27T18:07:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 35f20786c481d5ced9283ff42de5c69b65e5ed13 ]

arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o is built with '-msoft-float' (from the main
powerpc Makefile) and '-maltivec' (from its CFLAGS), which causes an
error when building with clang after a recent change in main:

  error: option '-msoft-float' cannot be specified with '-maltivec'
  make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o] Error 1

Explicitly add '-mhard-float' before '-maltivec' in xor_vmx.o's CFLAGS
to override the previous inclusion of '-msoft-float' (as the last option
wins), which matches how other areas of the kernel use '-maltivec', such
as AMDGPU.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1986
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4792f912b232141ecba4cbae538873be3c28556c
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240127-ppc-xor_vmx-drop-msoft-float-v1-1-f24140e81376@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 35f20786c481d5ced9283ff42de5c69b65e5ed13 ]

arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o is built with '-msoft-float' (from the main
powerpc Makefile) and '-maltivec' (from its CFLAGS), which causes an
error when building with clang after a recent change in main:

  error: option '-msoft-float' cannot be specified with '-maltivec'
  make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o] Error 1

Explicitly add '-mhard-float' before '-maltivec' in xor_vmx.o's CFLAGS
to override the previous inclusion of '-msoft-float' (as the last option
wins), which matches how other areas of the kernel use '-maltivec', such
as AMDGPU.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1986
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4792f912b232141ecba4cbae538873be3c28556c
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240127-ppc-xor_vmx-drop-msoft-float-v1-1-f24140e81376@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N Rao</name>
<email>naveen@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-23T07:17:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f9abaa6d7de0a70fc68acaedce290c1f96e2e59 ]

Some of the fp/vmx code in sstep.c assume a certain maximum size for the
instructions being emulated. The size of those operations however is
determined separately in analyse_instr().

Add a check to validate the assumption on the maximum size of the
operations, so as to prevent any unintended kernel stack corruption.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231123071705.397625-1-naveen@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8f9abaa6d7de0a70fc68acaedce290c1f96e2e59 ]

Some of the fp/vmx code in sstep.c assume a certain maximum size for the
instructions being emulated. The size of those operations however is
determined separately in analyse_instr().

Add a check to validate the assumption on the maximum size of the
operations, so as to prevent any unintended kernel stack corruption.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231123071705.397625-1-naveen@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: add crtsavres.o to always-y instead of extra-y</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T23:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-20T23:23:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1b1e38002648819c04773647d5242990e2824264 ]

crtsavres.o is linked to modules. However, as explained in commit
d0e628cd817f ("kbuild: doc: clarify the difference between extra-y
and always-y"), 'make modules' does not build extra-y.

For example, the following command fails:

  $ make ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN=1 mrproper ps3_defconfig modules
    [snip]
    LD [M]  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko
  ld.lld: error: cannot open arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file or directory
  make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] Error 1
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:1844: modules] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/masahiro/workspace/linux-kbuild/Makefile:350: __build_one_by_one] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: baa25b571a16 ("powerpc/64: Do not link crtsavres.o in vmlinux")
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231120232332.4100288-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1b1e38002648819c04773647d5242990e2824264 ]

crtsavres.o is linked to modules. However, as explained in commit
d0e628cd817f ("kbuild: doc: clarify the difference between extra-y
and always-y"), 'make modules' does not build extra-y.

For example, the following command fails:

  $ make ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN=1 mrproper ps3_defconfig modules
    [snip]
    LD [M]  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko
  ld.lld: error: cannot open arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file or directory
  make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] Error 1
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:1844: modules] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/masahiro/workspace/linux-kbuild/Makefile:350: __build_one_by_one] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: baa25b571a16 ("powerpc/64: Do not link crtsavres.o in vmlinux")
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231120232332.4100288-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/qspinlock: Fix stale propagated yield_cpu</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T10:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-16T12:43:00+00:00</published>
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yield_cpu is a sample of a preempted lock holder that gets propagated
back through the queue. Queued waiters use this to yield to the
preempted lock holder without continually sampling the lock word (which
would defeat the purpose of MCS queueing by bouncing the cache line).

The problem is that yield_cpu can become stale. It can take some time to
be passed down the chain, and if any queued waiter gets preempted then
it will cease to propagate the yield_cpu to later waiters.

This can result in yielding to a CPU that no longer holds the lock,
which is bad, but particularly if it is currently in H_CEDE (idle),
then it appears to be preempted and some hypervisors (PowerVM) can
cause very long H_CONFER latencies waiting for H_CEDE wakeup. This
results in latency spikes and hard lockups on oversubscribed
partitions with lock contention.

This is a minimal fix. Before yielding to yield_cpu, sample the lock
word to confirm yield_cpu is still the owner, and bail out of it is not.

Thanks to a bunch of people who reported this and tracked down the
exact problem using tracepoints and dispatch trace logs.

Fixes: 28db61e207ea ("powerpc/qspinlock: allow propagation of yield CPU down the queue")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.2+
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Debugged-by: "Nysal Jan K.A" &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231016124305.139923-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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yield_cpu is a sample of a preempted lock holder that gets propagated
back through the queue. Queued waiters use this to yield to the
preempted lock holder without continually sampling the lock word (which
would defeat the purpose of MCS queueing by bouncing the cache line).

The problem is that yield_cpu can become stale. It can take some time to
be passed down the chain, and if any queued waiter gets preempted then
it will cease to propagate the yield_cpu to later waiters.

This can result in yielding to a CPU that no longer holds the lock,
which is bad, but particularly if it is currently in H_CEDE (idle),
then it appears to be preempted and some hypervisors (PowerVM) can
cause very long H_CONFER latencies waiting for H_CEDE wakeup. This
results in latency spikes and hard lockups on oversubscribed
partitions with lock contention.

This is a minimal fix. Before yielding to yield_cpu, sample the lock
word to confirm yield_cpu is still the owner, and bail out of it is not.

Thanks to a bunch of people who reported this and tracked down the
exact problem using tracepoints and dispatch trace logs.

Fixes: 28db61e207ea ("powerpc/qspinlock: allow propagation of yield CPU down the queue")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.2+
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Debugged-by: "Nysal Jan K.A" &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231016124305.139923-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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<title>powerpc: Drop zalloc_maybe_bootmem()</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T12:33:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-23T05:54:30+00:00</published>
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The only callers of zalloc_maybe_bootmem() are PCI setup routines. These
used to be called early during boot before slab setup, and also during
runtime due to hotplug.

But commit 5537fcb319d0 ("powerpc/pci: Add ppc_md.discover_phbs()")
moved the boot-time calls later, after slab setup, meaning there's no
longer any need for zalloc_maybe_bootmem(), kzalloc() can be used in all
cases.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230823055430.752550-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

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The only callers of zalloc_maybe_bootmem() are PCI setup routines. These
used to be called early during boot before slab setup, and also during
runtime due to hotplug.

But commit 5537fcb319d0 ("powerpc/pci: Add ppc_md.discover_phbs()")
moved the boot-time calls later, after slab setup, meaning there's no
longer any need for zalloc_maybe_bootmem(), kzalloc() can be used in all
cases.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230823055430.752550-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T13:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-06T15:09:53+00:00</published>
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Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated &lt;asm/export.h&gt;, which is now a wrapper of &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

Replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

After all the &lt;asm/export.h&gt; lines are converted, &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and
&lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt; will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
[mpe: Fixup selftests that stub asm/export.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230806150954.394189-2-masahiroy@kernel.org

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Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated &lt;asm/export.h&gt;, which is now a wrapper of &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

Replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

After all the &lt;asm/export.h&gt; lines are converted, &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and
&lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt; will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
[mpe: Fixup selftests that stub asm/export.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230806150954.394189-2-masahiroy@kernel.org

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/step: Mark __copy_mem_out() and __emulate_dcbz() __always_inline</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T13:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-21T10:38:10+00:00</published>
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objtool reports two folliwng warnings:
  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o: warning: objtool: copy_mem_out+0x3c
    (.text+0x30c): call to __copy_mem_out() with UACCESS enabled
  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o: warning: objtool: emulate_dcbz+0x70
    (.text+0x4dc): call to __emulate_dcbz() with UACCESS enabled

Mark __copy_mem_out() and __emulate_dcbz() __always_inline

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/f1d4a15da70190f8c2fcddb377bbc1e09827242c.1687343857.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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objtool reports two folliwng warnings:
  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o: warning: objtool: copy_mem_out+0x3c
    (.text+0x30c): call to __copy_mem_out() with UACCESS enabled
  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o: warning: objtool: emulate_dcbz+0x70
    (.text+0x4dc): call to __emulate_dcbz() with UACCESS enabled

Mark __copy_mem_out() and __emulate_dcbz() __always_inline

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/f1d4a15da70190f8c2fcddb377bbc1e09827242c.1687343857.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/features: Add capability to update mmu features later</title>
<updated>2023-08-02T12:22:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-11T15:59:16+00:00</published>
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On powerpc32, features fixup is performed very early and that's too
early to read the cmdline and take into account 'nosmap' parameter.

On the other hand, no userspace access is performed that early and
KUAP feature fixup can be performed later.

Add a function to update mmu features. The function is passed a
mask with the features that can be updated.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/31b27ee2c9d338f4f82cd8cd69d6bff979495290.1689091022.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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On powerpc32, features fixup is performed very early and that's too
early to read the cmdline and take into account 'nosmap' parameter.

On the other hand, no userspace access is performed that early and
KUAP feature fixup can be performed later.

Add a function to update mmu features. The function is passed a
mask with the features that can be updated.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/31b27ee2c9d338f4f82cd8cd69d6bff979495290.1689091022.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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