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<title>MIPS: Fix CONFIG_CMDLINE handling</title>
<updated>2018-09-28T19:09:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-27T22:59:18+00:00</published>
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Commit 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup boot_command_line before
plat_mem_setup") fixed a problem for systems which have
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y &amp; use a DT with a chosen node that has either no
bootargs property or an empty one. In this configuration
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() copies CONFIG_CMDLINE into
boot_command_line, but the MIPS code doesn't know this so it appends
CONFIG_CMDLINE (via builtin_cmdline) to boot_command_line again. The
result is that boot_command_line contains the arguments from
CONFIG_CMDLINE twice.

That commit took the approach of simply setting up boot_command_line
from the MIPS code before early_init_dt_scan_chosen() runs, causing it
not to copy CONFIG_CMDLINE to boot_command_line if a chosen node with no
bootargs property is found.

Unfortunately this is problematic for systems which do have a non-empty
bootargs property &amp; CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y. There
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() will overwrite boot_command_line with the
arguments from DT, which means we lose those from CONFIG_CMDLINE
entirely. This breaks CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_DTB_EXTEND. If we have
CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER or
CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_BUILTIN_EXTEND selected and the DT has a bootargs
property which we should ignore, it will instead be honoured breaking
those configurations too.

Fix this by reverting commit 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup
boot_command_line before plat_mem_setup") to restore the former
behaviour, and fixing the CONFIG_CMDLINE duplication issue by
initializing boot_command_line to a non-empty string that
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() will not overwrite with CONFIG_CMDLINE.

This is a little ugly, but cleanup in this area is on its way. In the
meantime this is at least easy to backport &amp; contains the ugliness
within arch/mips/.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup boot_command_line before plat_mem_setup")
References: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18804/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20813/
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jaedon Shin &lt;jaedon.shin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh+dt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16+
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Commit 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup boot_command_line before
plat_mem_setup") fixed a problem for systems which have
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y &amp; use a DT with a chosen node that has either no
bootargs property or an empty one. In this configuration
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() copies CONFIG_CMDLINE into
boot_command_line, but the MIPS code doesn't know this so it appends
CONFIG_CMDLINE (via builtin_cmdline) to boot_command_line again. The
result is that boot_command_line contains the arguments from
CONFIG_CMDLINE twice.

That commit took the approach of simply setting up boot_command_line
from the MIPS code before early_init_dt_scan_chosen() runs, causing it
not to copy CONFIG_CMDLINE to boot_command_line if a chosen node with no
bootargs property is found.

Unfortunately this is problematic for systems which do have a non-empty
bootargs property &amp; CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y. There
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() will overwrite boot_command_line with the
arguments from DT, which means we lose those from CONFIG_CMDLINE
entirely. This breaks CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_DTB_EXTEND. If we have
CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER or
CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_BUILTIN_EXTEND selected and the DT has a bootargs
property which we should ignore, it will instead be honoured breaking
those configurations too.

Fix this by reverting commit 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup
boot_command_line before plat_mem_setup") to restore the former
behaviour, and fixing the CONFIG_CMDLINE duplication issue by
initializing boot_command_line to a non-empty string that
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() will not overwrite with CONFIG_CMDLINE.

This is a little ugly, but cleanup in this area is on its way. In the
meantime this is at least easy to backport &amp; contains the ugliness
within arch/mips/.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: 8ce355cf2e38 ("MIPS: Setup boot_command_line before plat_mem_setup")
References: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18804/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20813/
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jaedon Shin &lt;jaedon.shin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh+dt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16+
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory</title>
<updated>2018-09-28T19:09:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-25T22:51:26+00:00</published>
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When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s
unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting
from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate
large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being
located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space
available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to
the introduction of the VDSO.

For example:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  ...

Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO &amp;
providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this
space even when using the legacy mmap layout.

We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit &amp; 64
bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base
address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap
base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB &amp; 256MB
sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some
randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address
space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems.

With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of
space for statically linked programs to make use of brk:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  ...
  7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
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When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s
unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting
from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate
large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being
located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space
available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to
the introduction of the VDSO.

For example:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  ...

Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO &amp;
providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this
space even when using the legacy mmap layout.

We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit &amp; 64
bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base
address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap
base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB &amp; 256MB
sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some
randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address
space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems.

With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of
space for statically linked programs to make use of brk:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  ...
  7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: VDSO: Match data page cache colouring when D$ aliases</title>
<updated>2018-08-31T17:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-30T18:01:21+00:00</published>
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When a system suffers from dcache aliasing a user program may observe
stale VDSO data from an aliased cache line. Notably this can break the
expectation that clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...) is, as its name
suggests, monotonic.

In order to ensure that users observe updates to the VDSO data page as
intended, align the user mappings of the VDSO data page such that their
cache colouring matches that of the virtual address range which the
kernel will use to update the data page - typically its unmapped address
within kseg0.

This ensures that we don't introduce aliasing cache lines for the VDSO
data page, and therefore that userland will observe updates without
requiring cache invalidation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Reported-by: Rene Nielsen &lt;rene.nielsen@microsemi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20344/
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
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When a system suffers from dcache aliasing a user program may observe
stale VDSO data from an aliased cache line. Notably this can break the
expectation that clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...) is, as its name
suggests, monotonic.

In order to ensure that users observe updates to the VDSO data page as
intended, align the user mappings of the VDSO data page such that their
cache colouring matches that of the virtual address range which the
kernel will use to update the data page - typically its unmapped address
within kseg0.

This ensures that we don't introduce aliasing cache lines for the VDSO
data page, and therefore that userland will observe updates without
requiring cache invalidation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Reported-by: Rene Nielsen &lt;rene.nielsen@microsemi.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20344/
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mips_4.19_2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux</title>
<updated>2018-08-23T21:23:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-23T21:23:08+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS fixes from Paul Burton:

  - Fix microMIPS build failures by adding a .insn directive to the
    barrier_before_unreachable() asm statement in order to convince the
    toolchain that the asm statement is a valid branch target rather
    than a bogus attempt to switch ISA.

  - Clean up our declarations of TLB functions that we overwrite with
    generated code in order to prevent the compiler making assumptions
    about alignment that cause microMIPS kernels built with GCC 7 &amp;
    above to die early during boot.

  - Fix up a regression for MIPS32 kernels which slipped into the main
    MIPS pull for 4.19, causing CONFIG_32BIT=y kernels to contain
    inappropriate MIPS64 instructions.

  - Extend our existing workaround for MIPSr6 builds that end up using
    the __multi3 intrinsic to GCC 7 &amp; below, rather than just GCC 7.

* tag 'mips_4.19_2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
  MIPS: lib: Provide MIPS64r6 __multi3() for GCC &lt; 7
  MIPS: Workaround GCC __builtin_unreachable reordering bug
  compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h
  MIPS: Avoid move psuedo-instruction whilst using MIPS_ISA_LEVEL
  MIPS: Consistently declare TLB functions
  MIPS: Export tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd near its definition
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Pull MIPS fixes from Paul Burton:

  - Fix microMIPS build failures by adding a .insn directive to the
    barrier_before_unreachable() asm statement in order to convince the
    toolchain that the asm statement is a valid branch target rather
    than a bogus attempt to switch ISA.

  - Clean up our declarations of TLB functions that we overwrite with
    generated code in order to prevent the compiler making assumptions
    about alignment that cause microMIPS kernels built with GCC 7 &amp;
    above to die early during boot.

  - Fix up a regression for MIPS32 kernels which slipped into the main
    MIPS pull for 4.19, causing CONFIG_32BIT=y kernels to contain
    inappropriate MIPS64 instructions.

  - Extend our existing workaround for MIPSr6 builds that end up using
    the __multi3 intrinsic to GCC 7 &amp; below, rather than just GCC 7.

* tag 'mips_4.19_2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
  MIPS: lib: Provide MIPS64r6 __multi3() for GCC &lt; 7
  MIPS: Workaround GCC __builtin_unreachable reordering bug
  compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h
  MIPS: Avoid move psuedo-instruction whilst using MIPS_ISA_LEVEL
  MIPS: Consistently declare TLB functions
  MIPS: Export tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd near its definition
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mips_4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T02:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T02:24:32+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
 "Here are the main MIPS changes for 4.19.

  An overview of the general architecture changes:

   - Massive DMA ops refactoring from Christoph Hellwig (huzzah for
     deleting crufty code!).

   - We introduce NT_MIPS_DSP &amp; NT_MIPS_FP_MODE ELF notes &amp;
     corresponding regsets to expose DSP ASE &amp; floating point mode state
     respectively, both for live debugging &amp; core dumps.

   - We better optimize our code by hard-coding cpu_has_* macros at
     compile time where their values are known due to the ISA revision
     that the kernel build is targeting.

   - The EJTAG exception handler now better handles SMP systems, where
     it was previously possible for CPUs to clobber a register value
     saved by another CPU.

   - Our implementation of memset() gained a couple of fixes for MIPSr6
     systems to return correct values in some cases where stores fault.

   - We now implement ioremap_wc() using the uncached-accelerated cache
     coherency attribute where supported, which is detected during boot,
     and fall back to plain uncached access where necessary. The
     MIPS-specific (and unused in tree) ioremap_uncached_accelerated() &amp;
     ioremap_cacheable_cow() are removed.

   - The prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...) syscall is better supported for SMP
     systems by reworking the way we ensure remote CPUs that may be
     running threads within the affected process switch mode.

   - Systems using the MIPS Coherence Manager will now set the
     MIPS_IC_SNOOPS_REMOTE flag to avoid some unnecessary cache
     maintenance overhead when flushing the icache.

   - A few fixes were made for building with clang/LLVM, which now
     sucessfully builds kernels for many of our platforms.

   - Miscellaneous cleanups all over.

  And some platform-specific changes:

   - ar7 gained stubs for a few clock API functions to fix build
     failures for some drivers.

   - ath79 gained support for a few new SoCs, a few fixes &amp; better
     gpio-keys support.

   - Ci20 now exposes its SPI bus using the spi-gpio driver.

   - The generic platform can now auto-detect a suitable value for
     PHYS_OFFSET based upon the memory map described by the device tree,
     allowing us to avoid wasting memory on page book-keeping for
     systems where RAM starts at a non-zero physical address.

   - Ingenic systems using the jz4740 platform code now link their
     vmlinuz higher to allow for kernels of a realistic size.

   - Loongson32 now builds the kernel targeting MIPSr1 rather than
     MIPSr2 to avoid CPU errata.

   - Loongson64 gains a couple of fixes, a workaround for a write
     buffering issue &amp; support for the Loongson 3A R3.1 CPU.

   - Malta now uses the piix4-poweroff driver to handle powering down.

   - Microsemi Ocelot gained support for its SPI bus &amp; NOR flash, its
     second MDIO bus and can now be supported by a FIT/.itb image.

   - Octeon saw a bunch of header cleanups which remove a lot of
     duplicate or unused code"

* tag 'mips_4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (123 commits)
  MIPS: Remove remnants of UASM_ISA
  MIPS: netlogic: xlr: Remove erroneous check in nlm_fmn_send()
  MIPS: VDSO: Force link endianness
  MIPS: Always specify -EB or -EL when using clang
  MIPS: Use dins to simplify __write_64bit_c0_split()
  MIPS: Use read-write output operand in __write_64bit_c0_split()
  MIPS: Avoid using array as parameter to write_c0_kpgd()
  MIPS: vdso: Allow clang's --target flag in VDSO cflags
  MIPS: genvdso: Remove GOT checks
  MIPS: Remove obsolete MIPS checks for DST node "chosen@0"
  MIPS: generic: Remove input symbols from defconfig
  MIPS: Delete unused code in linux32.c
  MIPS: Remove unused sys_32_mmap2
  MIPS: Remove nabi_no_regargs
  mips: dts: mscc: enable spi and NOR flash support on ocelot PCB123
  mips: dts: mscc: Add spi on Ocelot
  MIPS: Loongson: Merge load addresses
  MIPS: Loongson: Set Loongson32 to MIPS32R1
  MIPS: mscc: ocelot: add interrupt controller properties to GPIO controller
  MIPS: generic: Select MIPS_AUTO_PFN_OFFSET
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
 "Here are the main MIPS changes for 4.19.

  An overview of the general architecture changes:

   - Massive DMA ops refactoring from Christoph Hellwig (huzzah for
     deleting crufty code!).

   - We introduce NT_MIPS_DSP &amp; NT_MIPS_FP_MODE ELF notes &amp;
     corresponding regsets to expose DSP ASE &amp; floating point mode state
     respectively, both for live debugging &amp; core dumps.

   - We better optimize our code by hard-coding cpu_has_* macros at
     compile time where their values are known due to the ISA revision
     that the kernel build is targeting.

   - The EJTAG exception handler now better handles SMP systems, where
     it was previously possible for CPUs to clobber a register value
     saved by another CPU.

   - Our implementation of memset() gained a couple of fixes for MIPSr6
     systems to return correct values in some cases where stores fault.

   - We now implement ioremap_wc() using the uncached-accelerated cache
     coherency attribute where supported, which is detected during boot,
     and fall back to plain uncached access where necessary. The
     MIPS-specific (and unused in tree) ioremap_uncached_accelerated() &amp;
     ioremap_cacheable_cow() are removed.

   - The prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...) syscall is better supported for SMP
     systems by reworking the way we ensure remote CPUs that may be
     running threads within the affected process switch mode.

   - Systems using the MIPS Coherence Manager will now set the
     MIPS_IC_SNOOPS_REMOTE flag to avoid some unnecessary cache
     maintenance overhead when flushing the icache.

   - A few fixes were made for building with clang/LLVM, which now
     sucessfully builds kernels for many of our platforms.

   - Miscellaneous cleanups all over.

  And some platform-specific changes:

   - ar7 gained stubs for a few clock API functions to fix build
     failures for some drivers.

   - ath79 gained support for a few new SoCs, a few fixes &amp; better
     gpio-keys support.

   - Ci20 now exposes its SPI bus using the spi-gpio driver.

   - The generic platform can now auto-detect a suitable value for
     PHYS_OFFSET based upon the memory map described by the device tree,
     allowing us to avoid wasting memory on page book-keeping for
     systems where RAM starts at a non-zero physical address.

   - Ingenic systems using the jz4740 platform code now link their
     vmlinuz higher to allow for kernels of a realistic size.

   - Loongson32 now builds the kernel targeting MIPSr1 rather than
     MIPSr2 to avoid CPU errata.

   - Loongson64 gains a couple of fixes, a workaround for a write
     buffering issue &amp; support for the Loongson 3A R3.1 CPU.

   - Malta now uses the piix4-poweroff driver to handle powering down.

   - Microsemi Ocelot gained support for its SPI bus &amp; NOR flash, its
     second MDIO bus and can now be supported by a FIT/.itb image.

   - Octeon saw a bunch of header cleanups which remove a lot of
     duplicate or unused code"

* tag 'mips_4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (123 commits)
  MIPS: Remove remnants of UASM_ISA
  MIPS: netlogic: xlr: Remove erroneous check in nlm_fmn_send()
  MIPS: VDSO: Force link endianness
  MIPS: Always specify -EB or -EL when using clang
  MIPS: Use dins to simplify __write_64bit_c0_split()
  MIPS: Use read-write output operand in __write_64bit_c0_split()
  MIPS: Avoid using array as parameter to write_c0_kpgd()
  MIPS: vdso: Allow clang's --target flag in VDSO cflags
  MIPS: genvdso: Remove GOT checks
  MIPS: Remove obsolete MIPS checks for DST node "chosen@0"
  MIPS: generic: Remove input symbols from defconfig
  MIPS: Delete unused code in linux32.c
  MIPS: Remove unused sys_32_mmap2
  MIPS: Remove nabi_no_regargs
  mips: dts: mscc: enable spi and NOR flash support on ocelot PCB123
  mips: dts: mscc: Add spi on Ocelot
  MIPS: Loongson: Merge load addresses
  MIPS: Loongson: Set Loongson32 to MIPS32R1
  MIPS: mscc: ocelot: add interrupt controller properties to GPIO controller
  MIPS: generic: Select MIPS_AUTO_PFN_OFFSET
  ...
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<title>Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T00:08:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-09T04:18:52+00:00</published>
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Add addition argument 'arch_uprobe' to uprobe_write_opcode().
We need this in later set of patches.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809041856.1547-3-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add addition argument 'arch_uprobe' to uprobe_write_opcode().
We need this in later set of patches.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809041856.1547-3-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Consistently declare TLB functions</title>
<updated>2018-08-11T00:27:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-10T23:03:31+00:00</published>
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Since at least the beginning of the git era we've declared our TLB
exception handling functions inconsistently. They're actually functions,
but we declare them as arrays of u32 where each u32 is an encoded
instruction. This has always been the case for arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c, and
has also been true for arch/mips/kernel/traps.c since commit
86a1708a9d54 ("MIPS: Make tlb exception handler definitions and
declarations match.") which aimed for consistency but did so by
consistently making the our C code inconsistent with our assembly.

This is all usually harmless, but when using GCC 7 or newer to build a
kernel targeting microMIPS (ie. CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS=y) it becomes
problematic. With microMIPS bit 0 of the program counter indicates the
ISA mode. When bit 0 is zero instructions are decoded using the standard
MIPS32 or MIPS64 ISA. When bit 0 is one instructions are decoded using
microMIPS. This means that function pointers become odd - their least
significant bit is one for microMIPS code. We work around this in cases
where we need to access code using loads &amp; stores with our
msk_isa16_mode() macro which simply clears bit 0 of the value it is
given:

  #define msk_isa16_mode(x) ((x) &amp; ~0x1)

For example we do this for our TLB load handler in
build_r4000_tlb_load_handler():

  u32 *p = (u32 *)msk_isa16_mode((ulong)handle_tlbl);

We then write code to p, expecting it to be suitably aligned (our LEAF
macro aligns functions on 4 byte boundaries, so (ulong)handle_tlbl will
give a value one greater than a multiple of 4 - ie. the start of a
function on a 4 byte boundary, with the ISA mode bit 0 set).

This worked fine up to GCC 6, but GCC 7 &amp; onwards is smart enough to
presume that handle_tlbl which we declared as an array of u32s must be
aligned sufficiently that bit 0 of its address will never be set, and as
a result optimize out msk_isa16_mode(). This leads to p having an
address with bit 0 set, and when we go on to attempt to store code at
that address we take an address error exception due to the unaligned
memory access.

This leads to an exception prior to the kernel having configured its own
exception handlers, so we jump to whatever handlers the bootloader
configured. In the case of QEMU this results in a silent hang, since it
has no useful general exception vector.

Fix this by consistently declaring our TLB-related functions as
functions. For handle_tlbl(), handle_tlbs() &amp; handle_tlbm() we do this
in asm/tlbex.h &amp; we make use of the existing declaration of
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd() in asm/mmu_context.h. Our TLB handler
generation code in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c is adjusted to deal with these
definitions, in most cases simply by casting the function pointers to
u32 pointers.

This allows us to include asm/mmu_context.h in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c to
get the definitions of tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd &amp; pgd_current, removing
some needless duplication. Consistently using msk_isa16_mode() on
function pointers means we no longer need the
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd_start symbol so that is removed entirely.

Now that we're declaring our functions as functions GCC stops optimizing
out msk_isa16_mode() &amp; a microMIPS kernel built with either GCC 7.3.0 or
8.1.0 boots successfully.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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Since at least the beginning of the git era we've declared our TLB
exception handling functions inconsistently. They're actually functions,
but we declare them as arrays of u32 where each u32 is an encoded
instruction. This has always been the case for arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c, and
has also been true for arch/mips/kernel/traps.c since commit
86a1708a9d54 ("MIPS: Make tlb exception handler definitions and
declarations match.") which aimed for consistency but did so by
consistently making the our C code inconsistent with our assembly.

This is all usually harmless, but when using GCC 7 or newer to build a
kernel targeting microMIPS (ie. CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS=y) it becomes
problematic. With microMIPS bit 0 of the program counter indicates the
ISA mode. When bit 0 is zero instructions are decoded using the standard
MIPS32 or MIPS64 ISA. When bit 0 is one instructions are decoded using
microMIPS. This means that function pointers become odd - their least
significant bit is one for microMIPS code. We work around this in cases
where we need to access code using loads &amp; stores with our
msk_isa16_mode() macro which simply clears bit 0 of the value it is
given:

  #define msk_isa16_mode(x) ((x) &amp; ~0x1)

For example we do this for our TLB load handler in
build_r4000_tlb_load_handler():

  u32 *p = (u32 *)msk_isa16_mode((ulong)handle_tlbl);

We then write code to p, expecting it to be suitably aligned (our LEAF
macro aligns functions on 4 byte boundaries, so (ulong)handle_tlbl will
give a value one greater than a multiple of 4 - ie. the start of a
function on a 4 byte boundary, with the ISA mode bit 0 set).

This worked fine up to GCC 6, but GCC 7 &amp; onwards is smart enough to
presume that handle_tlbl which we declared as an array of u32s must be
aligned sufficiently that bit 0 of its address will never be set, and as
a result optimize out msk_isa16_mode(). This leads to p having an
address with bit 0 set, and when we go on to attempt to store code at
that address we take an address error exception due to the unaligned
memory access.

This leads to an exception prior to the kernel having configured its own
exception handlers, so we jump to whatever handlers the bootloader
configured. In the case of QEMU this results in a silent hang, since it
has no useful general exception vector.

Fix this by consistently declaring our TLB-related functions as
functions. For handle_tlbl(), handle_tlbs() &amp; handle_tlbm() we do this
in asm/tlbex.h &amp; we make use of the existing declaration of
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd() in asm/mmu_context.h. Our TLB handler
generation code in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c is adjusted to deal with these
definitions, in most cases simply by casting the function pointers to
u32 pointers.

This allows us to include asm/mmu_context.h in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c to
get the definitions of tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd &amp; pgd_current, removing
some needless duplication. Consistently using msk_isa16_mode() on
function pointers means we no longer need the
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd_start symbol so that is removed entirely.

Now that we're declaring our functions as functions GCC stops optimizing
out msk_isa16_mode() &amp; a microMIPS kernel built with either GCC 7.3.0 or
8.1.0 boots successfully.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Delete unused code in linux32.c</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T20:15:18+00:00</published>
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The A() &amp; AA() macros have been unused since commit 05e4396651ca
("[MIPS] Use SYSVIPC_COMPAT to fix various problems on N32"), which
switched to the more standard compat_ptr().

RLIM_INFINITY32, RESOURCE32() &amp; struct rlimit32 have been present but
unused since the beginning of the git era.

Remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20108/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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The A() &amp; AA() macros have been unused since commit 05e4396651ca
("[MIPS] Use SYSVIPC_COMPAT to fix various problems on N32"), which
switched to the more standard compat_ptr().

RLIM_INFINITY32, RESOURCE32() &amp; struct rlimit32 have been present but
unused since the beginning of the git era.

Remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20108/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove unused sys_32_mmap2</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:20:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T20:15:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3a1c0fc5927f001d2c70998c08cad42ee5f64849'/>
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<content type='text'>
The sys_32_mmap2 function has been unused since we started using syscall
wrappers in commit dbda6ac08976 ("MIPS: CVE-2009-0029: Enable syscall
wrappers."), and is indeed identical to the sys_mips_mmap2 function that
replaced it in sys32_call_table.

Remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20107/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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The sys_32_mmap2 function has been unused since we started using syscall
wrappers in commit dbda6ac08976 ("MIPS: CVE-2009-0029: Enable syscall
wrappers."), and is indeed identical to the sys_mips_mmap2 function that
replaced it in sys32_call_table.

Remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20107/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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