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<title>parisc: Fix compiler warnings in debug_core.c</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-20T20:00:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 75cf9797006a3a9f29a3a25c1febd6842a4a9eb2 ]

Fix this compiler warning:
kernel/debug/debug_core.c: In function ‘kgdb_cpu_enter’:
arch/parisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:48:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
   48 |  ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))))
arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:78:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘xchg’
   78 | #define atomic_xchg(v, new) (xchg(&amp;((v)-&gt;counter), new))
      |                              ^~~~
kernel/debug/debug_core.c:596:4: note: in expansion of macro ‘atomic_xchg’
  596 |    atomic_xchg(&amp;kgdb_active, cpu);
      |    ^~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 75cf9797006a3a9f29a3a25c1febd6842a4a9eb2 ]

Fix this compiler warning:
kernel/debug/debug_core.c: In function ‘kgdb_cpu_enter’:
arch/parisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:48:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
   48 |  ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))))
arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:78:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘xchg’
   78 | #define atomic_xchg(v, new) (xchg(&amp;((v)-&gt;counter), new))
      |                              ^~~~
kernel/debug/debug_core.c:596:4: note: in expansion of macro ‘atomic_xchg’
  596 |    atomic_xchg(&amp;kgdb_active, cpu);
      |    ^~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T12:35:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8fabc623238e68b3ac63c0dd1657bf86c1fa33af ]

Some powerpc platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below 4G.
If a system has more physical memory than this limit, the swiotlb
buffer is not addressable because it is allocated from memblock using
top-down mode.

Force memblock to bottom-up mode before calling swiotlb_init() to
ensure that the swiotlb buffer is DMA-able.

Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204123524.22919-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8fabc623238e68b3ac63c0dd1657bf86c1fa33af ]

Some powerpc platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below 4G.
If a system has more physical memory than this limit, the swiotlb
buffer is not addressable because it is allocated from memblock using
top-down mode.

Force memblock to bottom-up mode before calling swiotlb_init() to
ensure that the swiotlb buffer is DMA-able.

Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204123524.22919-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomi Valkeinen</name>
<email>tomi.valkeinen@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T09:39:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c6b16761c6908d3dc167a0a566578b4b0b972905 ]

The LCD panel on AM4 GP EVMs and ePOS boards seems to be
osd070t1718-19ts. The current dts files say osd057T0559-34ts. Possibly
the panel has changed since the early EVMs, or there has been a mistake
with the panel type.

Update the DT files accordingly.

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart &lt;laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen &lt;tomi.valkeinen@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c6b16761c6908d3dc167a0a566578b4b0b972905 ]

The LCD panel on AM4 GP EVMs and ePOS boards seems to be
osd070t1718-19ts. The current dts files say osd057T0559-34ts. Possibly
the panel has changed since the early EVMs, or there has been a mistake
with the panel type.

Update the DT files accordingly.

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart &lt;laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen &lt;tomi.valkeinen@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: vexpress: Set-up shared OPP table instead of individual for each CPU</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudeep Holla</name>
<email>sudeep.holla@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T15:56:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2a76352ad2cc6b78e58f737714879cc860903802 ]

Currently we add individual copy of same OPP table for each CPU within
the cluster. This is redundant and doesn't reflect the reality.

We can't use core cpumask to set policy-&gt;cpus in ve_spc_cpufreq_init()
anymore as it gets called via cpuhp_cpufreq_online()-&gt;cpufreq_online()
-&gt;cpufreq_driver-&gt;init() and the cpumask gets updated upon CPU hotplug
operations. It also may cause issues when the vexpress_spc_cpufreq
driver is built as a module.

Since ve_spc_clk_init is built-in device initcall, we should be able to
use the same topology_core_cpumask to set the opp sharing cpumask via
dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus and use the same later in the driver via
dev_pm_opp_get_sharing_cpus.

Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2a76352ad2cc6b78e58f737714879cc860903802 ]

Currently we add individual copy of same OPP table for each CPU within
the cluster. This is redundant and doesn't reflect the reality.

We can't use core cpumask to set policy-&gt;cpus in ve_spc_cpufreq_init()
anymore as it gets called via cpuhp_cpufreq_online()-&gt;cpufreq_online()
-&gt;cpufreq_driver-&gt;init() and the cpumask gets updated upon CPU hotplug
operations. It also may cause issues when the vexpress_spc_cpufreq
driver is built as a module.

Since ve_spc_clk_init is built-in device initcall, we should be able to
use the same topology_core_cpumask to set the opp sharing cpumask via
dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus and use the same later in the driver via
dev_pm_opp_get_sharing_cpus.

Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/x86: Remove the unused atomic_inc_short() methd</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-26T17:29:00+00:00</published>
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commit 31b35f6b4d5285a311e10753f4eb17304326b211 upstream.

It is completely unused and implemented only on x86.
Remove it.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526172900.91058-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 31b35f6b4d5285a311e10753f4eb17304326b211 upstream.

It is completely unused and implemented only on x86.
Remove it.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526172900.91058-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: fix physical to logical CPU map for SMT</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-17T13:55:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 72a81ad9d6d62dcb79f7e8ad66ffd1c768b72026 ]

If an SMT capable system is not IPL'ed from the first CPU the setup of
the physical to logical CPU mapping is broken: the IPL core gets CPU
number 0, but then the next core gets CPU number 1. Correct would be
that all SMT threads of CPU 0 get the subsequent logical CPU numbers.

This is important since a lot of code (like e.g. the CPU topology
code) assumes that CPU maps are setup like this. If the mapping is
broken the system will not IPL due to broken topology masks:

[    1.716341] BUG: arch topology broken
[    1.716342]      the SMT domain not a subset of the MC domain
[    1.716343] BUG: arch topology broken
[    1.716344]      the MC domain not a subset of the BOOK domain

This scenario can usually not happen since LPARs are always IPL'ed
from CPU 0 and also re-IPL is intiated from CPU 0. However older
kernels did initiate re-IPL on an arbitrary CPU. If therefore a re-IPL
from an old kernel into a new kernel is initiated this may lead to
crash.

Fix this by setting up the physical to logical CPU mapping correctly.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 72a81ad9d6d62dcb79f7e8ad66ffd1c768b72026 ]

If an SMT capable system is not IPL'ed from the first CPU the setup of
the physical to logical CPU mapping is broken: the IPL core gets CPU
number 0, but then the next core gets CPU number 1. Correct would be
that all SMT threads of CPU 0 get the subsequent logical CPU numbers.

This is important since a lot of code (like e.g. the CPU topology
code) assumes that CPU maps are setup like this. If the mapping is
broken the system will not IPL due to broken topology masks:

[    1.716341] BUG: arch topology broken
[    1.716342]      the SMT domain not a subset of the MC domain
[    1.716343] BUG: arch topology broken
[    1.716344]      the MC domain not a subset of the BOOK domain

This scenario can usually not happen since LPARs are always IPL'ed
from CPU 0 and also re-IPL is intiated from CPU 0. However older
kernels did initiate re-IPL on an arbitrary CPU. If therefore a re-IPL
from an old kernel into a new kernel is initiated this may lead to
crash.

Fix this by setting up the physical to logical CPU mapping correctly.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix stack overread via udbg</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T06:56:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 934bda59f286d0221f1a3ebab7f5156a996cc37d ]

While developing KASAN for 64-bit book3s, I hit the following stack
over-read.

It occurs because the hypercall to put characters onto the terminal
takes 2 longs (128 bits/16 bytes) of characters at a time, and so
hvc_put_chars() would unconditionally copy 16 bytes from the argument
buffer, regardless of supplied length. However, udbg_hvc_putc() can
call hvc_put_chars() with a single-byte buffer, leading to the error.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
  Read of size 8 at addr c0000000023e7a90 by task swapper/0

  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-rc2-next-20190528-02824-g048a6ab4835b #113
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x104/0x154 (unreliable)
    print_address_description+0xa0/0x30c
    __kasan_report+0x20c/0x224
    kasan_report+0x18/0x30
    __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x24/0x40
    hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
    hvterm_raw_put_chars+0x9c/0x110
    udbg_hvc_putc+0x154/0x200
    udbg_write+0xf0/0x240
    console_unlock+0x868/0xd30
    register_console+0x970/0xe90
    register_early_udbg_console+0xf8/0x114
    setup_arch+0x108/0x790
    start_kernel+0x104/0x784
    start_here_common+0x1c/0x534

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   c0000000023e7980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   c0000000023e7a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1
  &gt;c0000000023e7a80: f1 f1 01 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                           ^
   c0000000023e7b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   c0000000023e7b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ==================================================================

Document that a 16-byte buffer is requred, and provide it in udbg.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 934bda59f286d0221f1a3ebab7f5156a996cc37d ]

While developing KASAN for 64-bit book3s, I hit the following stack
over-read.

It occurs because the hypercall to put characters onto the terminal
takes 2 longs (128 bits/16 bytes) of characters at a time, and so
hvc_put_chars() would unconditionally copy 16 bytes from the argument
buffer, regardless of supplied length. However, udbg_hvc_putc() can
call hvc_put_chars() with a single-byte buffer, leading to the error.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
  Read of size 8 at addr c0000000023e7a90 by task swapper/0

  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-rc2-next-20190528-02824-g048a6ab4835b #113
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x104/0x154 (unreliable)
    print_address_description+0xa0/0x30c
    __kasan_report+0x20c/0x224
    kasan_report+0x18/0x30
    __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x24/0x40
    hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
    hvterm_raw_put_chars+0x9c/0x110
    udbg_hvc_putc+0x154/0x200
    udbg_write+0xf0/0x240
    console_unlock+0x868/0xd30
    register_console+0x970/0xe90
    register_early_udbg_console+0xf8/0x114
    setup_arch+0x108/0x790
    start_kernel+0x104/0x784
    start_here_common+0x1c/0x534

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   c0000000023e7980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   c0000000023e7a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1
  &gt;c0000000023e7a80: f1 f1 01 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                           ^
   c0000000023e7b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   c0000000023e7b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ==================================================================

Document that a 16-byte buffer is requred, and provide it in udbg.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Avoid VDSO ABI breakage due to global register variable</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-02T04:50:38+00:00</published>
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commit bbcc5672b0063b0e9d65dc8787a4f09c3b5bb5cc upstream.

Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bbcc5672b0063b0e9d65dc8787a4f09c3b5bb5cc upstream.

Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>s390/cpum_sf: Avoid SBD overflow condition in irq handler</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-29T14:24:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8af55939293b82595bdd8bde5a4717b1f57c8f7a'/>
<id>8af55939293b82595bdd8bde5a4717b1f57c8f7a</id>
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[ Upstream commit 0539ad0b22877225095d8adef0c376f52cc23834 ]

The s390 CPU Measurement sampling facility has an overflow condition
which fires when all entries in a SBD are used.
The measurement alert interrupt is triggered and reads out all samples
in this SDB. It then tests the successor SDB, if this SBD is not full,
the interrupt handler does not read any samples at all from this SDB
The design waits for the hardware to fill this SBD and then trigger
another meassurement alert interrupt.

This scheme works nicely until
an perf_event_overflow() function call discards the sample due to
a too high sampling rate.
The interrupt handler has logic to read out a partially filled SDB
when the perf event overflow condition in linux common code is met.
This causes the CPUM sampling measurement hardware and the PMU
device driver to operate on the same SBD's trailer entry.
This should not happen.

This can be seen here using this trace:
   cpumsf_pmu_add: tear:0xb5286000
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286000 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 0 over 0 flush_all:0
        above shows 1. interrupt
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 0 over 0 flush_all:0
        above shows 2. interrupt
	... this goes on fine until...
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286068 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   perf_push_sample1: overflow
      one or more samples read from the IRQ handler are rejected by
      perf_event_overflow() and the IRQ handler advances to the next SDB
      and modifies the trailer entry of a partially filled SDB.
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286070 full 0 over 0 flush_all:1
      timestamp: 14:32:52.519953

Next time the IRQ handler is called for this SDB the trailer entry shows
an overflow count of 19 missed entries.
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286070 full 1 over 19 flush_all:1
      timestamp: 14:32:52.970058

Remove access to a follow on SDB when event overflow happened.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0539ad0b22877225095d8adef0c376f52cc23834 ]

The s390 CPU Measurement sampling facility has an overflow condition
which fires when all entries in a SBD are used.
The measurement alert interrupt is triggered and reads out all samples
in this SDB. It then tests the successor SDB, if this SBD is not full,
the interrupt handler does not read any samples at all from this SDB
The design waits for the hardware to fill this SBD and then trigger
another meassurement alert interrupt.

This scheme works nicely until
an perf_event_overflow() function call discards the sample due to
a too high sampling rate.
The interrupt handler has logic to read out a partially filled SDB
when the perf event overflow condition in linux common code is met.
This causes the CPUM sampling measurement hardware and the PMU
device driver to operate on the same SBD's trailer entry.
This should not happen.

This can be seen here using this trace:
   cpumsf_pmu_add: tear:0xb5286000
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286000 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 0 over 0 flush_all:0
        above shows 1. interrupt
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286008 full 0 over 0 flush_all:0
        above shows 2. interrupt
	... this goes on fine until...
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286068 full 1 over 0 flush_all:0
   perf_push_sample1: overflow
      one or more samples read from the IRQ handler are rejected by
      perf_event_overflow() and the IRQ handler advances to the next SDB
      and modifies the trailer entry of a partially filled SDB.
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286070 full 0 over 0 flush_all:1
      timestamp: 14:32:52.519953

Next time the IRQ handler is called for this SDB the trailer entry shows
an overflow count of 19 missed entries.
   hw_perf_event_update: sdbt 0xb5286070 full 1 over 19 flush_all:1
      timestamp: 14:32:52.970058

Remove access to a follow on SDB when event overflow happened.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/cpum_sf: Adjust sampling interval to avoid hitting sample limits</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-28T09:26:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4c1f6ba05c680ab1bf211bc1dcbcee9b7e08fe0c'/>
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[ Upstream commit 39d4a501a9ef55c57b51e3ef07fc2aeed7f30b3b ]

Function perf_event_ever_overflow() and perf_event_account_interrupt()
are called every time samples are processed by the interrupt handler.
However function perf_event_account_interrupt() has checks to avoid being
flooded with interrupts (more then 1000 samples are received per
task_tick).  Samples are then dropped and a PERF_RECORD_THROTTLED is
added to the perf data. The perf subsystem limit calculation is:

    maximum sample frequency := 100000 --&gt; 1 samples per 10 us
    task_tick = 10ms = 10000us --&gt; 1000 samples per task_tick

The work flow is

measurement_alert() uses SDBT head and each SBDT points to 511
 SDB pages, each with 126 sample entries. After processing 8 SBDs
 and for each valid sample calling:

     perf_event_overflow()
       perf_event_account_interrupts()

there is a considerable amount of samples being dropped, especially when
the sample frequency is very high and near the 100000 limit.

To avoid the high amount of samples being dropped near the end of a
task_tick time frame, increment the sampling interval in case of
dropped events. The CPU Measurement sampling facility on the s390
supports only intervals, specifiing how many CPU cycles have to be
executed before a sample is generated. Increase the interval when the
samples being generated hit the task_tick limit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 39d4a501a9ef55c57b51e3ef07fc2aeed7f30b3b ]

Function perf_event_ever_overflow() and perf_event_account_interrupt()
are called every time samples are processed by the interrupt handler.
However function perf_event_account_interrupt() has checks to avoid being
flooded with interrupts (more then 1000 samples are received per
task_tick).  Samples are then dropped and a PERF_RECORD_THROTTLED is
added to the perf data. The perf subsystem limit calculation is:

    maximum sample frequency := 100000 --&gt; 1 samples per 10 us
    task_tick = 10ms = 10000us --&gt; 1000 samples per task_tick

The work flow is

measurement_alert() uses SDBT head and each SBDT points to 511
 SDB pages, each with 126 sample entries. After processing 8 SBDs
 and for each valid sample calling:

     perf_event_overflow()
       perf_event_account_interrupts()

there is a considerable amount of samples being dropped, especially when
the sample frequency is very high and near the 100000 limit.

To avoid the high amount of samples being dropped near the end of a
task_tick time frame, increment the sampling interval in case of
dropped events. The CPU Measurement sampling facility on the s390
supports only intervals, specifiing how many CPU cycles have to be
executed before a sample is generated. Increase the interval when the
samples being generated hit the task_tick limit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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