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<title>linux.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch v5.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-04-05T18:12:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-05T18:12:59+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Slightly late as I had to rebase mid-week to insert a bug fix:

   - A large series from Nick for 64-bit to further rework our exception
     vectors, and rewrite portions of the syscall entry/exit and
     interrupt return in C. The result is much easier to follow code
     that is also faster in general.

   - Cleanup of our ptrace code to split various parts out that had
     become badly intertwined with #ifdefs over the years.

   - Changes to our NUMA setup under the PowerVM hypervisor which should
     hopefully avoid non-sensical topologies which can lead to warnings
     from the workqueue code and other problems.

   - MAINTAINERS updates to remove some of our old orphan entries and
     update the status of others.

   - Quite a few other small changes and fixes all over the map.

  Thanks to: Abdul Haleem, afzal mohammed, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Cédric Le Goater, Chen
  Zhou, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Clement
  Courbet, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Douglas Miller, Fabiano Rosas,
  Fangrui Song, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
  Greg Kurz, Gustavo Luiz Duarte, Hari Bathini, Ilie Halip, Jan Kara,
  Joe Lawrence, Joe Perches, Kajol Jain, Larry Finger, Laurentiu Tudor,
  Leonardo Bras, Libor Pechacek, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Masami Hiramatsu, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira, Michael
  Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Mike Rapoport, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick
  Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Po-Hsu Lin, Pratik Rajesh Sampat,
  Rasmus Villemoes, Ravi Bangoria, Roman Bolshakov, Sam Bobroff,
  Sandipan Das, Santosh S, Sedat Dilek, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G
  Bhat, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
  powerpc: Make setjmp/longjmp signature standard
  powerpc/cputable: Remove unnecessary copy of cpu_spec-&gt;oprofile_type
  powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation
  powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
  powerpc/32: drop unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
  powerpc/powernv: Add documentation for the opal sensor_groups sysfs interfaces
  selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash
  powerpc/ptrace: move ptrace_triggered() into hw_breakpoint.c
  powerpc/ptrace: create ppc_gethwdinfo()
  powerpc/ptrace: create ptrace_get_debugreg()
  powerpc/ptrace: split out ADV_DEBUG_REGS related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: move register viewing functions out of ptrace.c
  powerpc/ptrace: split out TRANSACTIONAL_MEM related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out SPE related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out ALTIVEC related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out VSX related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: drop PARAMETER_SAVE_AREA_OFFSET
  powerpc/ptrace: drop unnecessary #ifdefs CONFIG_PPC64
  powerpc/ptrace: remove unused header includes
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Slightly late as I had to rebase mid-week to insert a bug fix:

   - A large series from Nick for 64-bit to further rework our exception
     vectors, and rewrite portions of the syscall entry/exit and
     interrupt return in C. The result is much easier to follow code
     that is also faster in general.

   - Cleanup of our ptrace code to split various parts out that had
     become badly intertwined with #ifdefs over the years.

   - Changes to our NUMA setup under the PowerVM hypervisor which should
     hopefully avoid non-sensical topologies which can lead to warnings
     from the workqueue code and other problems.

   - MAINTAINERS updates to remove some of our old orphan entries and
     update the status of others.

   - Quite a few other small changes and fixes all over the map.

  Thanks to: Abdul Haleem, afzal mohammed, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Cédric Le Goater, Chen
  Zhou, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Clement
  Courbet, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Douglas Miller, Fabiano Rosas,
  Fangrui Song, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
  Greg Kurz, Gustavo Luiz Duarte, Hari Bathini, Ilie Halip, Jan Kara,
  Joe Lawrence, Joe Perches, Kajol Jain, Larry Finger, Laurentiu Tudor,
  Leonardo Bras, Libor Pechacek, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Masami Hiramatsu, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira, Michael
  Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Mike Rapoport, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick
  Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Po-Hsu Lin, Pratik Rajesh Sampat,
  Rasmus Villemoes, Ravi Bangoria, Roman Bolshakov, Sam Bobroff,
  Sandipan Das, Santosh S, Sedat Dilek, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G
  Bhat, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
  powerpc: Make setjmp/longjmp signature standard
  powerpc/cputable: Remove unnecessary copy of cpu_spec-&gt;oprofile_type
  powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation
  powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
  powerpc/32: drop unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
  powerpc/powernv: Add documentation for the opal sensor_groups sysfs interfaces
  selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash
  powerpc/ptrace: move ptrace_triggered() into hw_breakpoint.c
  powerpc/ptrace: create ppc_gethwdinfo()
  powerpc/ptrace: create ptrace_get_debugreg()
  powerpc/ptrace: split out ADV_DEBUG_REGS related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: move register viewing functions out of ptrace.c
  powerpc/ptrace: split out TRANSACTIONAL_MEM related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out SPE related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out ALTIVEC related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: split out VSX related functions.
  powerpc/ptrace: drop PARAMETER_SAVE_AREA_OFFSET
  powerpc/ptrace: drop unnecessary #ifdefs CONFIG_PPC64
  powerpc/ptrace: remove unused header includes
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel</title>
<updated>2020-03-20T23:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+huawei@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-20T15:11:02+00:00</published>
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Changeset 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each
document title, plus to each chapter inside it.

There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections
with the same name anymore.

A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to
avoid most creating references for every single section title,
but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside
a document.

There are a few places where there are two chapters with the
same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to
avoid symbol conflict within the same document.

PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend
(Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches"
for this document:

	Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst

Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<pre>
Changeset 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each
document title, plus to each chapter inside it.

There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections
with the same name anymore.

A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to
avoid most creating references for every single section title,
but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside
a document.

There are a few places where there are two chapters with the
same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to
avoid symbol conflict within the same document.

PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend
(Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches"
for this document:

	Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst

Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: sysfs for fadump memory reservation</title>
<updated>2020-02-19T11:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
<email>sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-11T16:09:10+00:00</published>
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Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by FADump for
saving the crash dump.

Also added Documentation/ABI for the new sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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<pre>
Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by FADump for
saving the crash dump.

Also added Documentation/ABI for the new sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/ABI: Mark /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated</title>
<updated>2020-02-19T11:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
<email>sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-11T16:09:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3f5f1f22ef10ee0278cef1243944c93aca01b236'/>
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Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and
move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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<pre>
Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and
move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Move core and fadump_release_opalcore under new kobject</title>
<updated>2020-02-19T10:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
<email>sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-11T16:09:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8852c07a881b0acfd3d75cf3927adaab815c4ee5'/>
<id>8852c07a881b0acfd3d75cf3927adaab815c4ee5</id>
<content type='text'>
The /sys/firmware/opal/core and /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
sysfs files are used to export and release the OPAL memory on PowerNV
platform. let's organize them into a new kobject under
/sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/ directory.

A symlink is added to maintain the backward compatibility for
/sys/firmware/opal/core sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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<pre>
The /sys/firmware/opal/core and /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
sysfs files are used to export and release the OPAL memory on PowerNV
platform. let's organize them into a new kobject under
/sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/ directory.

A symlink is added to maintain the backward compatibility for
/sys/firmware/opal/core sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-02-04T13:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-04T13:06:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=71c3a888cbcaf453aecf8d2f8fb003271d28073f'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A pretty small batch for us, and apologies for it being a bit late, I
  wanted to sneak Christophe's user_access_begin() series in.

  Summary:

   - Implement user_access_begin() and friends for our platforms that
     support controlling kernel access to userspace.

   - Enable CONFIG_VMAP_STACK on 32-bit Book3S and 8xx.

   - Some tweaks to our pseries IOMMU code to allow SVMs ("secure"
     virtual machines) to use the IOMMU.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 32-bit
     VDSO, and some other improvements.

   - A series to use the PCI hotplug framework to control opencapi
     card's so that they can be reset and re-read after flashing a new
     FPGA image.

  As well as other minor fixes and improvements as usual.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexandre Ghiti, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Bai Yingjie, Chen
  Zhou, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Greg Kurz, Jason A.
  Donenfeld, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Laurentiu Tudor, Linus Walleij, Michael
  Bringmann, Nathan Chancellor, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers,
  Oliver O'Halloran, Peter Ujfalusi, Pingfan Liu, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap,
  Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shawn
  Anastasio, Stephen Rothwell, Steve Best, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago
  Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain"

* tag 'powerpc-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (131 commits)
  powerpc: configs: Cleanup old Kconfig options
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable some more hardening options
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Disable xmon default &amp; enable reboot on panic
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable security features
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Update for symbol movement only
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop default n CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop HID_LOGITECH
  powerpc/configs: Drop NET_VENDOR_HP which moved to staging
  powerpc/configs: NET_CADENCE became NET_VENDOR_CADENCE
  powerpc/configs: Drop CONFIG_QLGE which moved to staging
  powerpc: Do not consider weak unresolved symbol relocations as bad
  powerpc/32s: Fix kasan_early_hash_table() for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
  powerpc: indent to improve Kconfig readability
  powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls
  powerpc: Implement user_access_save() and user_access_restore()
  powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
  powerpc/32s: Prepare prevent_user_access() for user_access_end()
  powerpc/32s: Drop NULL addr verification
  powerpc/kuap: Fix set direction in allow/prevent_user_access()
  powerpc/32s: Fix bad_kuap_fault()
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A pretty small batch for us, and apologies for it being a bit late, I
  wanted to sneak Christophe's user_access_begin() series in.

  Summary:

   - Implement user_access_begin() and friends for our platforms that
     support controlling kernel access to userspace.

   - Enable CONFIG_VMAP_STACK on 32-bit Book3S and 8xx.

   - Some tweaks to our pseries IOMMU code to allow SVMs ("secure"
     virtual machines) to use the IOMMU.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 32-bit
     VDSO, and some other improvements.

   - A series to use the PCI hotplug framework to control opencapi
     card's so that they can be reset and re-read after flashing a new
     FPGA image.

  As well as other minor fixes and improvements as usual.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexandre Ghiti, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Bai Yingjie, Chen
  Zhou, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Greg Kurz, Jason A.
  Donenfeld, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Laurentiu Tudor, Linus Walleij, Michael
  Bringmann, Nathan Chancellor, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers,
  Oliver O'Halloran, Peter Ujfalusi, Pingfan Liu, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap,
  Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shawn
  Anastasio, Stephen Rothwell, Steve Best, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago
  Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain"

* tag 'powerpc-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (131 commits)
  powerpc: configs: Cleanup old Kconfig options
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable some more hardening options
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Disable xmon default &amp; enable reboot on panic
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable security features
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Update for symbol movement only
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop default n CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
  powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop HID_LOGITECH
  powerpc/configs: Drop NET_VENDOR_HP which moved to staging
  powerpc/configs: NET_CADENCE became NET_VENDOR_CADENCE
  powerpc/configs: Drop CONFIG_QLGE which moved to staging
  powerpc: Do not consider weak unresolved symbol relocations as bad
  powerpc/32s: Fix kasan_early_hash_table() for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
  powerpc: indent to improve Kconfig readability
  powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls
  powerpc: Implement user_access_save() and user_access_restore()
  powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
  powerpc/32s: Prepare prevent_user_access() for user_access_end()
  powerpc/32s: Drop NULL addr verification
  powerpc/kuap: Fix set direction in allow/prevent_user_access()
  powerpc/32s: Fix bad_kuap_fault()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T10:30:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaibhav Jain</name>
<email>vaibhav@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-28T08:27:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=58b278f568f0509497e2df7310bfd719156a60d1'/>
<id>58b278f568f0509497e2df7310bfd719156a60d1</id>
<content type='text'>
This doc patch provides an initial description of the hcall op-codes
that are used by Linux kernel running as a guest (LPAR) on top of
PowerVM or any other sPAPR compliant hyper-visor (e.g qemu).

Apart from documenting the hcalls the doc-patch also provides a
rudimentary overview of how hcall ABI, how they are issued with the
Linux kernel and how information/control flows between the guest and
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Add SPDX tag, add it to index.rst]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190828082729.16695-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This doc patch provides an initial description of the hcall op-codes
that are used by Linux kernel running as a guest (LPAR) on top of
PowerVM or any other sPAPR compliant hyper-visor (e.g qemu).

Apart from documenting the hcalls the doc-patch also provides a
rudimentary overview of how hcall ABI, how they are issued with the
Linux kernel and how information/control flows between the guest and
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Add SPDX tag, add it to index.rst]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190828082729.16695-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall</title>
<updated>2020-01-17T04:08:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-07T02:02:37+00:00</published>
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Implement the H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall which the Ultravisor can use to
abort an SVM after it has issued the H_SVM_INIT_START and before the
H_SVM_INIT_DONE hcalls. This hcall could be used when Ultravisor
encounters security violations or other errors when starting an SVM.

Note that this hcall is different from UV_SVM_TERMINATE ucall which
is used by HV to terminate/cleanup an VM that has becore secure.

The H_SVM_INIT_ABORT basically undoes operations that were done
since the H_SVM_INIT_START hcall - i.e page-out all the VM pages back
to normal memory, and terminate the SVM.

(If we do not bring the pages back to normal memory, the text/data
of the VM would be stuck in secure memory and since the SVM did not
go secure, its MSR_S bit will be clear and the VM wont be able to
access its pages even to do a clean exit).

Based on patches and discussion with Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and
Bharata Rao.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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Implement the H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall which the Ultravisor can use to
abort an SVM after it has issued the H_SVM_INIT_START and before the
H_SVM_INIT_DONE hcalls. This hcall could be used when Ultravisor
encounters security violations or other errors when starting an SVM.

Note that this hcall is different from UV_SVM_TERMINATE ucall which
is used by HV to terminate/cleanup an VM that has becore secure.

The H_SVM_INIT_ABORT basically undoes operations that were done
since the H_SVM_INIT_START hcall - i.e page-out all the VM pages back
to normal memory, and terminate the SVM.

(If we do not bring the pages back to normal memory, the text/data
of the VM would be stuck in secure memory and since the SVM did not
go secure, its MSR_S bit will be clear and the VM wont be able to
access its pages even to do a clean exit).

Based on patches and discussion with Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and
Bharata Rao.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/imc: Add documentation for IMC and trace-mode</title>
<updated>2020-01-06T05:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anju T Sudhakar</name>
<email>anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-28T10:08:16+00:00</published>
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Documentation for IMC (In-Memory Collection Counters) infrastructure
and trace-mode of IMC.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Convert to rst, minor rewording, make PMI example more concise]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028100816.6270-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Documentation for IMC (In-Memory Collection Counters) infrastructure
and trace-mode of IMC.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Convert to rst, minor rewording, make PMI example more concise]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028100816.6270-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl_booke/32: Document KASLR implementation</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T08:27:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Yan</name>
<email>yanaijie@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-20T09:45:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c2d1a13520eee7f0ac64ffb94f8756006320e4b8'/>
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Add document to explain how we implement KASLR for fsl_booke32.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
[mpe: Add it to the index as well]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add document to explain how we implement KASLR for fsl_booke32.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
[mpe: Add it to the index as well]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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