linux-stable.git/arch, branch v3.4.55

sparc: tsb must be flushed before tlb

2013-07-28T23:25:52+00:00

Upstream commit 23a01138efe216f8084cfaa74b0b90dd4b097441

This fixes a race where a cpu may re-load a tlb from a stale tsb right
after it has been flushed by a remote function call.

I still see some instability when stressing the system with parallel
kernel builds while creating memory pressure by writing to
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, but this patch improves the stability
significantly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Acked-by: Bob Picco 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sparc64 address-congruence property

2013-07-28T23:25:50+00:00

Upstream commit 771a37ff4d80b80db3b0df3e7696f14b298c67b7

The Machine Description (MD) property "address-congruence-offset" is
optional. According to the MD specification the value is assumed 0UL when
not present. This caused early boot failure on T5.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco 
CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sparc32: vm_area_struct access for old Sun SPARCs.

2013-07-28T23:25:49+00:00

Upstream commit 961246b4ed8da3bcf4ee1eb9147f341013553e3c

Commit e4c6bfd2d79d063017ab19a18915f0bc759f32d9 ("mm: rearrange
vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses") changed the layout of the
vm_area_struct structure, it broke several SPARC32 assembly routines
which used numerical constants for accessing the vm_mm field.

This patch defines the VMA_VM_MM constant to replace the immediate values.

Signed-off-by: Olivier DANET 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 7765/1: perf: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain.

2013-07-22T01:19:02+00:00

commit c5f927a6f62196226915f12194c9d0df4e2210d7 upstream.

With this change, we no longer lose the innermost entry in the user-mode
part of the call chain.  See also the x86 port, which includes the ip.

It's possible to partially work around this problem by post-processing
the data to use the PERF_SAMPLE_IP value, but this works only if the CPU
wasn't in the kernel when the sample was taken.

Signed-off-by: Jed Davis 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"

2013-07-22T01:19:01+00:00

commit 0b0c002c340e78173789f8afaa508070d838cf3d upstream.

... because the "clock_event_device framework" already accounts for idle
time through the "event_handler" function pointer in
xen_timer_interrupt().

The patch is intended as the completion of [1]. It should fix the double
idle times seen in PV guests' /proc/stat [2]. It should be orthogonal to
stolen time accounting (the removed code seems to be isolated).

The approach may be completely misguided.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/10
[2] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg01068.html

John took the time to retest this patch on top of v3.10 and reported:
"idle time is correctly incremented for pv and hvm for the normal
case, nohz=off and nohz=idle." so lets put this patch in.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek 
Signed-off-by: John Haxby 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 7772/1: Fix missing flush_kernel_dcache_page() for noMMU

2013-07-03T17:59:00+00:00

commit 63384fd0b1509acf522a8a8fcede09087eedb7df upstream.

Commit 1bc3974 (ARM: 7755/1: handle user space mapped pages in
flush_kernel_dcache_page) moved the implementation of
flush_kernel_dcache_page() into mm/flush.c but did not implement it
on noMMU ARM.

Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz 
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 7755/1: handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page

2013-07-03T17:59:00+00:00

commit 1bc39742aab09248169ef9d3727c9def3528b3f3 upstream.

Commit f8b63c1 made flush_kernel_dcache_page a no-op assuming that
the pages it needs to handle are kernel mapped only.  However, for
example when doing direct I/O, pages with user space mappings may
occur.

Thus, continue to do lazy flushing if there are no user space
mappings.  Otherwise, flush the kernel cache lines directly.

Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz 
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: remove vcpu's CPL check in host-invoked XCR set

2013-06-27T18:27:30+00:00

commit 764bcbc5a6d7a2f3e75c9f0e4caa984e2926e346 upstream.

__kvm_set_xcr function does the CPL check when set xcr. __kvm_set_xcr is
called in two flows, one is invoked by guest, call stack shown as below,

  handle_xsetbv(or xsetbv_interception)
    kvm_set_xcr
      __kvm_set_xcr

the other one is invoked by host, for example during system reset:

  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_xcrs
      __kvm_set_xcr

The former does need the CPL check, but the latter does not.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Haoyu 
[Tweaks to commit message. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tilepro: work around module link error with gcc 4.7

2013-06-27T18:27:30+00:00

commit 3cb3f839d306443f3d1e79b0bde1a2ad2c12b555 upstream.

gcc 4.7.x is emitting calls to __ffsdi2 where previously
it used to inline the appropriate ctz instructions.
While this needs to be fixed in gcc, it's also easy to avoid
having it cause build failures when building with those
compilers by exporting __ffsdi2 to modules.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Fix missing/delayed calls to irq_work

2013-06-20T18:58:47+00:00

commit 230b3034793247f61e6a0b08c44cf415f6d92981 upstream.

When replaying interrupts (as a result of the interrupt occurring
while soft-disabled), in the case of the decrementer, we are exclusively
testing for a pending timer target. However we also use decrementer
interrupts to trigger the new "irq_work", which in this case would
be missed.

This change the logic to force a replay in both cases of a timer
boundary reached and a decrementer interrupt having actually occurred
while disabled. The former test is still useful to catch cases where
a CPU having been hard-disabled for a long time completely misses the
interrupt due to a decrementer rollover.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman