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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-01-20T19:41:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-20T19:41:09+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - fix incorrect huge page mappings on systems using the contiguous
     hint for hugetlbfs
   - support alternative GICv4 init sequence
   - correctly implement the ARM SMCC for HVC and SMC handling

  PPC:
   - add KVM IOCTL for reporting vulnerability and workaround status

  s390:
   - provide userspace interface for branch prediction changes in
     firmware

  x86:
   - use correct macros for bits"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds
  KVM/x86: Fix wrong macro references of X86_CR0_PG_BIT and X86_CR4_PAE_BIT in kvm_valid_sregs()
  arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  KVM: arm64: Fix GICv4 init when called from vgic_its_create
  KVM: arm/arm64: Check pagesize when allocating a hugepage at Stage 2
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Pull KVM fixes from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - fix incorrect huge page mappings on systems using the contiguous
     hint for hugetlbfs
   - support alternative GICv4 init sequence
   - correctly implement the ARM SMCC for HVC and SMC handling

  PPC:
   - add KVM IOCTL for reporting vulnerability and workaround status

  s390:
   - provide userspace interface for branch prediction changes in
     firmware

  x86:
   - use correct macros for bits"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds
  KVM/x86: Fix wrong macro references of X86_CR0_PG_BIT and X86_CR4_PAE_BIT in kvm_valid_sregs()
  arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  KVM: arm64: Fix GICv4 init when called from vgic_its_create
  KVM: arm/arm64: Check pagesize when allocating a hugepage at Stage 2
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T19:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-19T19:19:11+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "More than we'd like after rc8, but nothing very alarming either, just
  tying up loose ends before the release:

  Since we changed powernv to use cpufreq_get() from show_cpuinfo(), we
  see warnings with PREEMPT enabled. But the preempt_disable() in
  show_cpuinfo() doesn't actually prevent CPU hotplug as it suggests, so
  remove it.

  Two updates to the recently merged RFI flush code. Wire up the generic
  sysfs file to report the status, and add a debugfs file to allow
  enabling/disabling it at runtime.

  Two updates to xmon, one to add the RFI flush related fields to the
  paca dump, and another to not use hashed pointers in the paca dump.

  And one minor fix to add a missing include of linux/types.h in
  asm/hvcall.h, not seen to break the build in upstream, but correct
  anyway.

  Thanks to: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Michal Suchanek, Nicholas Piggin"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/pseries: include linux/types.h in asm/hvcall.h
  powerpc/64s: Allow control of RFI flush via debugfs
  powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_meltdown()
  powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in show_cpuinfo()
  powerpc/xmon: Don't print hashed pointers in paca dump
  powerpc/xmon: Add RFI flush related fields to paca dump
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "More than we'd like after rc8, but nothing very alarming either, just
  tying up loose ends before the release:

  Since we changed powernv to use cpufreq_get() from show_cpuinfo(), we
  see warnings with PREEMPT enabled. But the preempt_disable() in
  show_cpuinfo() doesn't actually prevent CPU hotplug as it suggests, so
  remove it.

  Two updates to the recently merged RFI flush code. Wire up the generic
  sysfs file to report the status, and add a debugfs file to allow
  enabling/disabling it at runtime.

  Two updates to xmon, one to add the RFI flush related fields to the
  paca dump, and another to not use hashed pointers in the paca dump.

  And one minor fix to add a missing include of linux/types.h in
  asm/hvcall.h, not seen to break the build in upstream, but correct
  anyway.

  Thanks to: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Michal Suchanek, Nicholas Piggin"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/pseries: include linux/types.h in asm/hvcall.h
  powerpc/64s: Allow control of RFI flush via debugfs
  powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_meltdown()
  powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in show_cpuinfo()
  powerpc/xmon: Don't print hashed pointers in paca dump
  powerpc/xmon: Add RFI flush related fields to paca dump
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T04:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T05:06:47+00:00</published>
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This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: include linux/types.h in asm/hvcall.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T12:30:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Suchanek</name>
<email>msuchanek@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T13:30:03+00:00</published>
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Commit 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush
settings") uses u64 in asm/hvcall.h without including linux/types.h

This breaks hvcall.h users that do not include the header themselves.

Fixes: 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush
settings") uses u64 in asm/hvcall.h without including linux/types.h

This breaks hvcall.h users that do not include the header themselves.

Fixes: 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T23:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T23:03:17+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "One fix for an oops at boot if we take a hotplug interrupt before we
  are ready to handle it.

  The bulk is patches to implement mitigation for Meltdown, see the
  change logs for more details.

  Thanks to: Nicholas Piggin, Michael Neuling, Oliver O'Halloran, Jon
  Masters, Jose Ricardo Ziviani, David Gibson"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings
  powerpc/pseries: Query hypervisor for RFI flush settings
  powerpc/64s: Support disabling RFI flush with no_rfi_flush and nopti
  powerpc/64s: Add support for RFI flush of L1-D cache
  powerpc/64s: Convert slb_miss_common to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64: Convert fast_exception_return to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64: Convert the syscall exit path to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64s: Simple RFI macro conversions
  powerpc/64: Add macros for annotating the destination of rfid/hrfid
  powerpc/pseries: Add H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags &amp; wrapper
  powerpc/pseries: Make RAS IRQ explicitly dependent on DLPAR WQ
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "One fix for an oops at boot if we take a hotplug interrupt before we
  are ready to handle it.

  The bulk is patches to implement mitigation for Meltdown, see the
  change logs for more details.

  Thanks to: Nicholas Piggin, Michael Neuling, Oliver O'Halloran, Jon
  Masters, Jose Ricardo Ziviani, David Gibson"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings
  powerpc/pseries: Query hypervisor for RFI flush settings
  powerpc/64s: Support disabling RFI flush with no_rfi_flush and nopti
  powerpc/64s: Add support for RFI flush of L1-D cache
  powerpc/64s: Convert slb_miss_common to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64: Convert fast_exception_return to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64: Convert the syscall exit path to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL
  powerpc/64s: Simple RFI macro conversions
  powerpc/64: Add macros for annotating the destination of rfid/hrfid
  powerpc/pseries: Add H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags &amp; wrapper
  powerpc/pseries: Make RAS IRQ explicitly dependent on DLPAR WQ
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for RFI flush of L1-D cache</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T10:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T16:07:15+00:00</published>
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On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.

The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.

In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.

In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.

For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.

In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.

Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
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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On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.

The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.

In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.

In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.

For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.

In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.

Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Simple RFI macro conversions</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T16:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T16:07:15+00:00</published>
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This commit does simple conversions of rfi/rfid to the new macros that
include the expected destination context. By simple we mean cases
where there is a single well known destination context, and it's
simply a matter of substituting the instruction for the appropriate
macro.

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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This commit does simple conversions of rfi/rfid to the new macros that
include the expected destination context. By simple we mean cases
where there is a single well known destination context, and it's
simply a matter of substituting the instruction for the appropriate
macro.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Add macros for annotating the destination of rfid/hrfid</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T16:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T16:07:15+00:00</published>
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The rfid/hrfid ((Hypervisor) Return From Interrupt) instruction is
used for switching from the kernel to userspace, and from the
hypervisor to the guest kernel. However it can and is also used for
other transitions, eg. from real mode kernel code to virtual mode
kernel code, and it's not always clear from the code what the
destination context is.

To make it clearer when reading the code, add macros which encode the
expected destination context.

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 rfid/hrfid ((Hypervisor) Return From Interrupt) instruction is
used for switching from the kernel to userspace, and from the
hypervisor to the guest kernel. However it can and is also used for
other transitions, eg. from real mode kernel code to virtual mode
kernel code, and it's not always clear from the code what the
destination context is.

To make it clearer when reading the code, add macros which encode the
expected destination context.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'topic/ppc-kvm' into fixes</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T15:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T15:24:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Merge the topic branch with share with the kvm-ppc tree. In this case
we need to share the definition of a new hypervisor call and
associated flags.
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Merge the topic branch with share with the kvm-ppc tree. In this case
we need to share the definition of a new hypervisor call and
associated flags.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Add H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags &amp; wrapper</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T14:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T16:52:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=191eccb1580939fb0d47deb405b82a85b0379070'/>
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A new hypervisor call has been defined to communicate various
characteristics of the CPU to guests. Add definitions for the hcall
number, flags and a wrapper function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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A new hypervisor call has been defined to communicate various
characteristics of the CPU to guests. Add definitions for the hcall
number, flags and a wrapper function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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