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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h, branch v5.6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T07:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T07:41:26+00:00</published>
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Under certain circumstances, we hit a warning in lockdep_register_key:

        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(static_obj(key)))
                return;

This occurs when the key falls into initmem that has since been freed
and can now be reused. This has been observed on boot, and under
memory pressure.

Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed(), which allows lockdep to
correctly identify this memory as dynamic.

This fixes a bug picked up by the powerpc64 syzkaller instance where
we hit the WARN via alloc_netdev_mqs.

Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Reported-by: ppc syzbot c/o Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfs4f7d6.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net
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Under certain circumstances, we hit a warning in lockdep_register_key:

        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(static_obj(key)))
                return;

This occurs when the key falls into initmem that has since been freed
and can now be reused. This has been observed on boot, and under
memory pressure.

Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed(), which allows lockdep to
correctly identify this memory as dynamic.

This fixes a bug picked up by the powerpc64 syzkaller instance where
we hit the WARN via alloc_netdev_mqs.

Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Reported-by: ppc syzbot c/o Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfs4f7d6.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Remove overlaps_kvm_tmp()</title>
<updated>2019-09-13T14:04:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-11T11:57:44+00:00</published>
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kvm_tmp is now in .text and so doesn't need a special overlap check.

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/20190911115746.12433-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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kvm_tmp is now in .text and so doesn't need a special overlap check.

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/20190911115746.12433-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix unrelocated interrupt trampoline address test</title>
<updated>2019-03-01T13:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-01T12:56:36+00:00</published>
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The recent commit got this test wrong, it declared the assembler
symbols the wrong way, and also used the wrong symbol name
(xxx_start rather than start_xxx, see asm/head-64.h).

Fixes: ccd477028a ("powerpc/64s: Fix HV NMI vs HV interrupt recoverability test")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The recent commit got this test wrong, it declared the assembler
symbols the wrong way, and also used the wrong symbol name
(xxx_start rather than start_xxx, see asm/head-64.h).

Fixes: ccd477028a ("powerpc/64s: Fix HV NMI vs HV interrupt recoverability test")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T09:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T23:48:27+00:00</published>
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We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

For pointers that belong to the kernel
-  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
   .opd section address range;

-  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
   will dereference only function pointers that are within
   [__start_opd, __end_opd);

For pointers that belong to a module
-  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
   function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
   pointers that are within [module-&gt;opd.start, module-&gt;opd.end).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

For pointers that belong to the kernel
-  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
   .opd section address range;

-  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
   will dereference only function pointers that are within
   [__start_opd, __end_opd);

For pointers that belong to a module
-  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
   function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
   pointers that are within [module-&gt;opd.start, module-&gt;opd.end).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist exception handlers</title>
<updated>2017-04-23T10:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T15:29:51+00:00</published>
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Introduce __head_end to mark end of the early fixed sections and use it to
blacklist all exception handlers from kprobes.

mpe: We do not need to do anything special for relocatable kernels, where the
exception vectors are split from the main kernel, as the split vectors are
already excluded by the check for kernel_text_address().

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Move __head_end outside #ifdef 64-bit to unbreak the 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Introduce __head_end to mark end of the early fixed sections and use it to
blacklist all exception handlers from kprobes.

mpe: We do not need to do anything special for relocatable kernels, where the
exception vectors are split from the main kernel, as the split vectors are
already excluded by the check for kernel_text_address().

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Move __head_end outside #ifdef 64-bit to unbreak the 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Define and use PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2/v1</title>
<updated>2016-06-14T03:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-06T16:56:10+00:00</published>
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We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Create a helper for getting the kernel toc value</title>
<updated>2016-03-07T03:53:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-03T04:26:53+00:00</published>
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Move the logic to work out the kernel toc pointer into a header. This is
a good cleanup, and also means we can use it elsewhere in future.

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Move the logic to work out the kernel toc pointer into a header. This is
a good cleanup, and also means we can use it elsewhere in future.

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM guest: Make pv trampoline code executable</title>
<updated>2014-04-29T10:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T10:17:26+00:00</published>
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Our PV guest patching code assembles chunks of instructions on the fly when it
encounters more complicated instructions to hijack. These instructions need
to live in a section that we don't mark as non-executable, as otherwise we
fault when jumping there.

Right now we put it into the .bss section where it automatically gets marked
as non-executable. Add a check to the NX setting function to ensure that we
leave these particular pages executable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Our PV guest patching code assembles chunks of instructions on the fly when it
encounters more complicated instructions to hijack. These instructions need
to live in a section that we don't mark as non-executable, as otherwise we
fault when jumping there.

Right now we put it into the .bss section where it automatically gets marked
as non-executable. Add a check to the NX setting function to ensure that we
leave these particular pages executable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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