linux.git/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch v4.13

MIPS: Remove r2_emul_return from struct thread_info

2017-01-03T15:34:41+00:00

The r2_emul_return field in struct thread_info was used in order to take
an alternate codepath when returning to userland, which (besides not
implementing certain features) effectively used the eretnc instruction
in place of eret. The difference is that eretnc doesn't clear LLBit, and
therefore doesn't cause a linked load & store sequence to fail due to
emulation like eret would.

The reason eret would usually be used to clear LLBit is so that after
context switching we ensure that a load performed by one task doesn't
influence another task. However commit 7c151d3d5d7a ("MIPS: Make use of
the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6") which introduced the r2_emul_return
field and conditional use of eretnc also for some reason began
explicitly clearing LLBit during context switches - despite retaining
the use of eret for everything but returns from the pre-r6 instruction
emulation code.

As LLBit is cleared upon context switches anyway, simplify this by using
eretnc unconditionally for MIPSr6 kernels. This allows us to remove the
4 byte r2_emul_return boolean from struct thread_info, simplify the
return to user code in entry.S and avoid the overhead of tracking &
checking state which we don't need.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14408/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Add uprobes support.

2015-09-03T10:08:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2015-04-17T19:50:54+00:00

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS for Linux 4.1.  Most
  noteworthy:

   - Add more Octeon-optimized crypto functions
   - Octeon crypto preemption and locking fixes
   - Little endian support for Octeon
   - Use correct CSR to soft reset Octeons
   - Support LEDs on the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Fix PCI interrupt mapping for the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Mark prom_free_prom_memory() as __init for a number of systems
   - Support for Imagination's Pistachio SOC.  This includes arch and
     CLK bits.  I'd like to merge pinctrl bits later
   - Improve parallelism of csum_partial for certain pipelines
   - Organize DTB files in subdirs like other architectures
   - Implement read_sched_clock for all MIPS platforms other than
     Octeon
   - Massive series of 38 fixes and cleanups for the FPU emulator /
     kernel
   - Further FPU remulator work to support new features.  This sits on a
     separate branch which also has been pulled into the 4.1 KVM branch
   - Clean up and fixes for the SEAD3 eval board; remove unused file
   - Various updates for Netlogic platforms
   - A number of small updates for Loongson 3 platforms
   - Increase the memory limit for ATH79 platforms to 256MB
   - A fair number of fixes and updates for BCM47xx platforms
   - Finish the implementation of XPA support
   - MIPS FDC support.  No, not floppy controller but Fast Debug Channel :)
   - Detect the R16000 used in SGI legacy platforms
   - Fix Kconfig dependencies for the SSB bus support"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (265 commits)
  MIPS: Makefile: Fix MIPS ASE detection code
  MIPS: asm: elf: Set O32 default FPU flags
  MIPS: BCM47XX: Fix detecting Microsoft MN-700 & Asus WL500G
  MIPS: Kconfig: Disable SMP/CPS for 64-bit
  MIPS: Hibernate: flush TLB entries earlier
  MIPS: smp-cps: cpu_set FPU mask if FPU present
  MIPS: lose_fpu(): Disable FPU when MSA enabled
  MIPS: ralink: add missing symbol for RALINK_ILL_ACC
  MIPS: ralink: Fix bad config symbol in PCI makefile.
  SSB: fix Kconfig dependencies
  MIPS: Malta: Detect and fix bad memsize values
  Revert "MIPS: Avoid pipeline stalls on some MIPS32R2 cores."
  MIPS: Octeon: Delete override of cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: Fix cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: kernel: entry.S: Set correct ISA level for mips_ihb
  MIPS: asm: spinlock: Fix addiu instruction for R10000_LLSC_WAR case
  MIPS: r4kcache: Use correct base register for MIPS R6 cache flushes
  MIPS: Kconfig: Fix typo for the r2-to-r6 emulator kernel parameter
  MIPS: unaligned: Fix regular load/store instruction emulation for EVA
  MIPS: unaligned: Surround load/store macros in do {} while statements
  ...

arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs

2015-04-12T19:03:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

MIPS: Changed current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC

2015-04-01T15:21:45+00:00

Without this, a 'break' instruction is executed very early in the boot and
the boot hangs.

The problem is that clang doesn't honour named registers on local variables
and silently treats them as normal uninitialized variables. However, it
does honour them on global variables.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Sanders 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Markos Chandras 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Cc: David Daney 
Acked-by: Behan Webster 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9311/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2015-02-22T03:41:38+00:00

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS:

   - a number of fixes that didn't make the 3.19 release.

   - a number of cleanups.

   - preliminary support for Cavium's Octeon 3 SOCs which feature up to
     48 MIPS64 R3 cores with FPU and hardware virtualization.

   - support for MIPS R6 processors.

     Revision 6 of the MIPS architecture is a major revision of the MIPS
     architecture which does away with many of original sins of the
     architecture such as branch delay slots.  This and other changes in
     R6 require major changes throughout the entire MIPS core
     architecture code and make up for the lion share of this pull
     request.

   - finally some preparatory work for eXtendend Physical Address
     support, which allows support of up to 40 bit of physical address
     space on 32 bit processors"

     [ Ahh, MIPS can't leave the PAE brain damage alone.  It's like
       every CPU architect has to make that mistake, but pee in the snow
       by changing the TLA.  But whether it's called PAE, LPAE or XPA,
       it's horrid crud   - Linus ]

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (114 commits)
  MIPS: sead3: Corrected get_c0_perfcount_int
  MIPS: mm: Remove dead macro definitions
  MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes
  MIPS: OCTEON: Don't do acknowledge operations for level triggered irqs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: More OCTEONIII support
  MIPS: OCTEON: Remove setting of processor specific CVMCTL icache bits.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Core-15169 Workaround and general CVMSEG cleanup.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Update octeon-model.h code for new SoCs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement DCache errata workaround for all CN6XXX
  MIPS: OCTEON: Add little-endian support to asm/octeon/octeon.h
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement the core-16057 workaround
  MIPS: OCTEON: Delete unused COP2 saving code
  MIPS: OCTEON: Use correct instruction to read 64-bit COP0 register
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save and restore CP2 SHA3 state
  MIPS: OCTEON: Fix FP context save.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save/Restore wider multiply registers in OCTEON III CPUs
  MIPS: boot: Provide more uImage options
  MIPS: Remove unneeded #ifdef __KERNEL__ from asm/processor.h
  MIPS: ip22-gio: Remove legacy suspend/resume support
  mips: pci: Add ifdef around pci_proc_domain
  ...

MIPS: Make use of the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6

2015-02-17T15:37:37+00:00

The ERETNC instruction, introduced in MIPS R5, is similar to the ERET
one, except it does not clear the LLB bit in the LLADDR register.
This feature is necessary to safely emulate R2 LL/SC instructions.
However, on context switches, we need to clear the LLAddr/LLB bit
in order to make sure that an SC instruction from the new thread
will never succeed if it happens to interrupt an LL operation on the
same address from the previous thread.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: David Miller 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MIPS: Fix syscall_get_nr for the syscall exit tracing.

2015-02-04T15:40:09+00:00

Register 2 is alredy overwritten by the return value when
syscall_trace_leave() is called.

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9187/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Support for hybrid FPRs

2014-11-24T06:45:07+00:00

Hybrid FPRs is a scheme where scalar FP registers are 64b wide, but
accesses to odd indexed single registers use bits 63:32 of the
preceeding even indexed 64b register. In this mode all FP code
except that built for the plain FP64 ABI can execute correctly. Most
notably a combination of FP64A & FP32 code can execute correctly,
allowing for existing FP32 binaries to be linked with new FP64A binaries
that can make use of 64 bit FP & MSA.

Hybrid FPRs are implemented by setting both the FR & FRE bits, trapping
& emulating single precision FP instructions (via Reserved Instruction
exceptions) whilst allowing others to execute natively. It therefore has
a penalty in terms of execution speed, and should only be used when no
fully native mode can be. As more binaries are recompiled to use either
the FPXX or FP64(A) ABIs, the need for hybrid FPRs should diminish.
However in the short to mid term it allows for a gradual transition
towards that world, rather than a complete ABI break which is not
feasible for some users & not desirable for many.

A task will be executed using the hybrid FPR scheme when its
TIF_HYBRID_FPREGS flag is set & TIF_32BIT_FPREGS is clear. A further
patch will set the flags as necessary, this patch simply adds the
infrastructure necessary for the hybrid FPR mode to work.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7683/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle