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<title>Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2024-07-25T19:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-25T19:37:42+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "The gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() syscalls are now available as
  vDSO functions, and Dave added a patch which allows to use NVMe cards
  in the PCI slots as fast and easy alternative to SCSI discs.

  Summary:

   - add gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions

   - enable PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS to allow PCI to PCIe bridge adaptor
     with PCIe NVME card to function in parisc machines

   - allow users to reduce kernel unaligned runtime warnings

   - minor code cleanups"

* tag 'parisc-for-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Add support for CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
  parisc: Use max() to calculate parisc_tlb_flush_threshold
  parisc: Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121
  parisc: Add 64-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions
  parisc: Add 32-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions
  parisc: Clean up unistd.h file
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "The gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() syscalls are now available as
  vDSO functions, and Dave added a patch which allows to use NVMe cards
  in the PCI slots as fast and easy alternative to SCSI discs.

  Summary:

   - add gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions

   - enable PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS to allow PCI to PCIe bridge adaptor
     with PCIe NVME card to function in parisc machines

   - allow users to reduce kernel unaligned runtime warnings

   - minor code cleanups"

* tag 'parisc-for-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Add support for CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
  parisc: Use max() to calculate parisc_tlb_flush_threshold
  parisc: Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121
  parisc: Add 64-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions
  parisc: Add 32-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions
  parisc: Clean up unistd.h file
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2024-07-25T17:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-25T17:42:22+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core changes for 6.11-rc1.

  Lots of stuff in here, with not a huge diffstat, but apis are evolving
  which required lots of files to be touched. Highlights of the changes
  in here are:

   - platform remove callback api final fixups (Uwe took many releases
     to get here, finally!)

   - Rust bindings for basic firmware apis and initial driver-core
     interactions.

     It's not all that useful for a "write a whole driver in rust" type
     of thing, but the firmware bindings do help out the phy rust
     drivers, and the driver core bindings give a solid base on which
     others can start their work.

     There is still a long way to go here before we have a multitude of
     rust drivers being added, but it's a great first step.

   - driver core const api changes.

     This reached across all bus types, and there are some fix-ups for
     some not-common bus types that linux-next and 0-day testing shook
     out.

     This work is being done to help make the rust bindings more safe,
     as well as the C code, moving toward the end-goal of allowing us to
     put driver structures into read-only memory. We aren't there yet,
     but are getting closer.

   - minor devres cleanups and fixes found by code inspection

   - arch_topology minor changes

   - other minor driver core cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a very long time with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  ARM: sa1100: make match function take a const pointer
  sysfs/cpu: Make crash_hotplug attribute world-readable
  dio: Have dio_bus_match() callback take a const *
  zorro: make match function take a const pointer
  driver core: module: make module_[add|remove]_driver take a const *
  driver core: make driver_find_device() take a const *
  driver core: make driver_[create|remove]_file take a const *
  firmware_loader: fix soundness issue in `request_internal`
  firmware_loader: annotate doctests as `no_run`
  devres: Correct code style for functions that return a pointer type
  devres: Initialize an uninitialized struct member
  devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()
  devres: Fix devm_krealloc() wasting memory
  driver core: platform: Switch to use kmemdup_array()
  driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust device abstractions to DRIVER CORE
  device: rust: improve safety comments
  MAINTAINERS: add Danilo as FIRMWARE LOADER maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust FW abstractions to FIRMWARE LOADER
  firmware: rust: improve safety comments
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core changes for 6.11-rc1.

  Lots of stuff in here, with not a huge diffstat, but apis are evolving
  which required lots of files to be touched. Highlights of the changes
  in here are:

   - platform remove callback api final fixups (Uwe took many releases
     to get here, finally!)

   - Rust bindings for basic firmware apis and initial driver-core
     interactions.

     It's not all that useful for a "write a whole driver in rust" type
     of thing, but the firmware bindings do help out the phy rust
     drivers, and the driver core bindings give a solid base on which
     others can start their work.

     There is still a long way to go here before we have a multitude of
     rust drivers being added, but it's a great first step.

   - driver core const api changes.

     This reached across all bus types, and there are some fix-ups for
     some not-common bus types that linux-next and 0-day testing shook
     out.

     This work is being done to help make the rust bindings more safe,
     as well as the C code, moving toward the end-goal of allowing us to
     put driver structures into read-only memory. We aren't there yet,
     but are getting closer.

   - minor devres cleanups and fixes found by code inspection

   - arch_topology minor changes

   - other minor driver core cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a very long time with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  ARM: sa1100: make match function take a const pointer
  sysfs/cpu: Make crash_hotplug attribute world-readable
  dio: Have dio_bus_match() callback take a const *
  zorro: make match function take a const pointer
  driver core: module: make module_[add|remove]_driver take a const *
  driver core: make driver_find_device() take a const *
  driver core: make driver_[create|remove]_file take a const *
  firmware_loader: fix soundness issue in `request_internal`
  firmware_loader: annotate doctests as `no_run`
  devres: Correct code style for functions that return a pointer type
  devres: Initialize an uninitialized struct member
  devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()
  devres: Fix devm_krealloc() wasting memory
  driver core: platform: Switch to use kmemdup_array()
  driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust device abstractions to DRIVER CORE
  device: rust: improve safety comments
  MAINTAINERS: add Danilo as FIRMWARE LOADER maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust FW abstractions to FIRMWARE LOADER
  firmware: rust: improve safety comments
  ...
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Add support for CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T00:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-21T21:36:36+00:00</published>
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Allow users to disable kernel warnings for unaligned memory
accesses from kernel via the /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
procfs entry.
That way users can disable those warnings in case they happen too
often.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Allow users to disable kernel warnings for unaligned memory
accesses from kernel via the /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
procfs entry.
That way users can disable those warnings in case they happen too
often.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Use max() to calculate parisc_tlb_flush_threshold</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T20:37:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@toblux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-04T04:51:34+00:00</published>
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Use max() to reduce 4 lines of code to a single line and improve its
readability.

Fixes the following Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by
minmax.cocci:

  WARNING opportunity for max()

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Use max() to reduce 4 lines of code to a single line and improve its
readability.

Fixes the following Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by
minmax.cocci:

  WARNING opportunity for max()

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T13:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T12:07:37+00:00</published>
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In the match() callback, the struct device_driver * should not be
changed, so change the function callback to be a const *.  This is one
step of many towards making the driver core safe to have struct
device_driver in read-only memory.

Because the match() callback is in all busses, all busses are modified
to handle this properly.  This does entail switching some container_of()
calls to container_of_const() to properly handle the constant *.

For some busses, like PCI and USB and HV, the const * is cast away in
the match callback as those busses do want to modify those structures at
this point in time (they have a local lock in the driver structure.)
That will have to be changed in the future if they wish to have their
struct device * in read-only-memory.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024070136-wrongdoer-busily-01e8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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In the match() callback, the struct device_driver * should not be
changed, so change the function callback to be a const *.  This is one
step of many towards making the driver core safe to have struct
device_driver in read-only memory.

Because the match() callback is in all busses, all busses are modified
to handle this properly.  This does entail switching some container_of()
calls to container_of_const() to properly handle the constant *.

For some busses, like PCI and USB and HV, the const * is cast away in
the match callback as those busses do want to modify those structures at
this point in time (they have a local lock in the driver structure.)
That will have to be changed in the future if they wish to have their
struct device * in read-only-memory.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024070136-wrongdoer-busily-01e8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>parisc: use generic sys_fanotify_mark implementation</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T13:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T11:40:45+00:00</published>
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The sys_fanotify_mark() syscall on parisc uses the reverse word order
for the two halves of the 64-bit argument compared to all syscalls on
all 32-bit architectures. As far as I can tell, the problem is that
the function arguments on parisc are sorted backwards (26, 25, 24, 23,
...) compared to everyone else, so the calling conventions of using an
even/odd register pair in native word order result in the lower word
coming first in function arguments, matching the expected behavior
on little-endian architectures. The system call conventions however
ended up matching what the other 32-bit architectures do.

A glibc cleanup in 2020 changed the userspace behavior in a way that
handles all architectures consistently, but this inadvertently broke
parisc32 by changing to the same method as everyone else.

The change made it into glibc-2.35 and subsequently into debian 12
(bookworm), which is the latest stable release. This means we
need to choose between reverting the glibc change or changing the
kernel to match it again, but either hange will leave some systems
broken.

Pick the option that is more likely to help current and future
users and change the kernel to match current glibc. This also
means the behavior is now consistent across architectures, but
it breaks running new kernels with old glibc builds before 2.35.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d150181d73d9
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c?h=57b1dfbd5b4a39d
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
---
I found this through code inspection, please double-check to make
sure I got the bug and the fix right.

The alternative is to fix this by reverting glibc back to the
unusual behavior.
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The sys_fanotify_mark() syscall on parisc uses the reverse word order
for the two halves of the 64-bit argument compared to all syscalls on
all 32-bit architectures. As far as I can tell, the problem is that
the function arguments on parisc are sorted backwards (26, 25, 24, 23,
...) compared to everyone else, so the calling conventions of using an
even/odd register pair in native word order result in the lower word
coming first in function arguments, matching the expected behavior
on little-endian architectures. The system call conventions however
ended up matching what the other 32-bit architectures do.

A glibc cleanup in 2020 changed the userspace behavior in a way that
handles all architectures consistently, but this inadvertently broke
parisc32 by changing to the same method as everyone else.

The change made it into glibc-2.35 and subsequently into debian 12
(bookworm), which is the latest stable release. This means we
need to choose between reverting the glibc change or changing the
kernel to match it again, but either hange will leave some systems
broken.

Pick the option that is more likely to help current and future
users and change the kernel to match current glibc. This also
means the behavior is now consistent across architectures, but
it breaks running new kernels with old glibc builds before 2.35.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d150181d73d9
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c?h=57b1dfbd5b4a39d
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
---
I found this through code inspection, please double-check to make
sure I got the bug and the fix right.

The alternative is to fix this by reverting glibc back to the
unusual behavior.
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<entry>
<title>parisc: use correct compat recv/recvfrom syscalls</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T13:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T12:27:55+00:00</published>
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Johannes missed parisc back when he introduced the compat version
of these syscalls, so receiving cmsg messages that require a compat
conversion is still broken.

Use the correct calls like the other architectures do.

Fixes: 1dacc76d0014 ("net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks")
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Johannes missed parisc back when he introduced the compat version
of these syscalls, so receiving cmsg messages that require a compat
conversion is still broken.

Use the correct calls like the other architectures do.

Fixes: 1dacc76d0014 ("net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks")
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add 64-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T22:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T22:11:58+00:00</published>
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Add 64-bit vDSO implementations for gettimeofday() and clock_gettime().

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Add 64-bit vDSO implementations for gettimeofday() and clock_gettime().

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add 32-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T22:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-18T23:42:28+00:00</published>
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Add vDSO implementations for gettimeofday(), clock_gettime() and
clock_gettime64() kernel syscalls.
Currently those functions are implemented as pure syscall wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Add vDSO implementations for gettimeofday(), clock_gettime() and
clock_gettime64() kernel syscalls.
Currently those functions are implemented as pure syscall wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T23:57:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave@parisc-linux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-10T18:47:07+00:00</published>
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PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems
with random segmentation faults for many years.  Systems with earlier
processors are much more stable.

Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which
needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is
flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to
non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems.

The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at
appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and
malloc.

My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On
reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues
which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate
to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs
is racy.

1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively
load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in
the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each
CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing
the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems.

In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called
and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush
routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush.

2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to
try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations.
This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware
lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being
flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in
random inequivalent mappings to physical pages.

The __flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry
and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find
the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical
address of the page. We can also purge the TLB entry for the page
before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special
TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in.

When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are
removed from the cache.  It is not sufficient to just flush the
lines to memory as they may come back.

This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required
flush operations using tmpalias routines. This includes flushes
for user and kernel pages.

After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear
that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The
frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900)
and systems with more CPUs (rp4440).

The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect
pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems.

Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found
that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages
that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed
problematic.

I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush.
The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was
obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If
we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache
and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way
to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the
associated page at a later time.

I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of
ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440
and rp3440, as well as on my c8000.

At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only
flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed.
However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed
bit is cleared in ptep_clear_flush_young to keep things synchronized.
The default implementation only flushes the TLB entry.

Other changes in this version are:

1) Implement parisc specific version of ptep_get. It's identical to
default but needed in arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h.
2) Revise parisc implementation of ptep_test_and_clear_young to use
ptep_get (READ_ONCE).
3) Drop parisc implementation of ptep_get_and_clear. We can use default.
4) Revise flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to
use full data cache flush.
5) Move flush_cache_vmap and flush_cache_vunmap to cache.c. Handle
VM_IOREMAP case in flush_cache_vmap.

At this time, I don't know whether it is better to always flush when
the PTE present bit is set or when both the accessed and present bits
are set. The later saves flushing pages that haven't been accessed,
but we need to flush in ptep_clear_flush_young. It also needs a page
table lookup to find the PTE pointer. The lpa instruction only needs
a page table lookup when the PTE entry isn't in the TLB.

We don't atomically handle setting and clearing the _PAGE_ACCESSED bit.
If we miss an update, we may miss a flush and the cache may get corrupted.
Whether the current code is effectively atomic depends on process control.

When CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED is set to zero, the page will eventually
be flushed when the PTE is cleared or in flush_cache_page_if_present. The
_PAGE_ACCESSED bit is not used, so the problem is avoided.

The flush method can be selected using the CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED
define in cache.c. The default is 0. I didn't see a large difference
in performance.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.6+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems
with random segmentation faults for many years.  Systems with earlier
processors are much more stable.

Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which
needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is
flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to
non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems.

The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at
appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and
malloc.

My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On
reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues
which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate
to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs
is racy.

1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively
load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in
the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each
CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing
the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems.

In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called
and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush
routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush.

2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to
try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations.
This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware
lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being
flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in
random inequivalent mappings to physical pages.

The __flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry
and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find
the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical
address of the page. We can also purge the TLB entry for the page
before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special
TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in.

When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are
removed from the cache.  It is not sufficient to just flush the
lines to memory as they may come back.

This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required
flush operations using tmpalias routines. This includes flushes
for user and kernel pages.

After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear
that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The
frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900)
and systems with more CPUs (rp4440).

The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect
pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems.

Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found
that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages
that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed
problematic.

I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush.
The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was
obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If
we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache
and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way
to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the
associated page at a later time.

I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of
ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440
and rp3440, as well as on my c8000.

At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only
flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed.
However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed
bit is cleared in ptep_clear_flush_young to keep things synchronized.
The default implementation only flushes the TLB entry.

Other changes in this version are:

1) Implement parisc specific version of ptep_get. It's identical to
default but needed in arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h.
2) Revise parisc implementation of ptep_test_and_clear_young to use
ptep_get (READ_ONCE).
3) Drop parisc implementation of ptep_get_and_clear. We can use default.
4) Revise flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to
use full data cache flush.
5) Move flush_cache_vmap and flush_cache_vunmap to cache.c. Handle
VM_IOREMAP case in flush_cache_vmap.

At this time, I don't know whether it is better to always flush when
the PTE present bit is set or when both the accessed and present bits
are set. The later saves flushing pages that haven't been accessed,
but we need to flush in ptep_clear_flush_young. It also needs a page
table lookup to find the PTE pointer. The lpa instruction only needs
a page table lookup when the PTE entry isn't in the TLB.

We don't atomically handle setting and clearing the _PAGE_ACCESSED bit.
If we miss an update, we may miss a flush and the cache may get corrupted.
Whether the current code is effectively atomic depends on process control.

When CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED is set to zero, the page will eventually
be flushed when the PTE is cleared or in flush_cache_page_if_present. The
_PAGE_ACCESSED bit is not used, so the problem is avoided.

The flush method can be selected using the CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED
define in cache.c. The default is 0. I didn't see a large difference
in performance.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.6+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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