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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/Makefiles: Convert ifeq to ifdef where possible</title>
<updated>2018-08-07T14:32:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rodrigo R. Galvao</name>
<email>rosattig@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-06T16:42:03+00:00</published>
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In Makefiles if we're testing a CONFIG_FOO symbol for equality with 'y'
we can instead just use ifdef. The latter reads easily, so convert to
it where possible.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo R. Galvao &lt;rosattig@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro S. M. Rodrigues &lt;maurosr@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In Makefiles if we're testing a CONFIG_FOO symbol for equality with 'y'
we can instead just use ifdef. The latter reads easily, so convert to
it where possible.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo R. Galvao &lt;rosattig@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro S. M. Rodrigues &lt;maurosr@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Add CONFIG_PPC_BARRIER_NOSPEC</title>
<updated>2018-08-07T14:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-27T23:06:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=179ab1cbf883575c3a585bcfc0f2160f1d22a149'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T19:08:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T19:08:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=49a695ba723224875df50e327bd7b0b65dd9a56b'/>
<id>49a695ba723224875df50e327bd7b0b65dd9a56b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for 4PB user address space on 64-bit, opt-in via mmap().

   - Removal of POWER4 support, which was accidentally broken in 2016
     and no one noticed, and blocked use of some modern instructions.

   - Workarounds so that the hypervisor can enable Transactional Memory
     on Power9.

   - A series to disable the DAWR (Data Address Watchpoint Register) on
     Power9.

   - More information displayed in the meltdown/spectre_v1/v2 sysfs
     files.

   - A vpermxor (Power8 Altivec) implementation for the raid6 Q
     Syndrome.

   - A big series to make the allocation of our pacas (per cpu area),
     kernel page tables, and per-cpu stacks NUMA aware when using the
     Radix MMU on Power9.

  And as usual many fixes, reworks and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Aaro Koskinen, Alexandre Belloni, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andy Shevchenko, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Cyril Bur, Daniel Axtens, Dave Young, Finn Thain, Frederic
  Barrat, Gustavo Romero, Horia Geantă, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook,
  Larry Finger, Laurent Dufour, Laurent Vivier, Logan Gunthorpe,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Greer, Mark Hairgrove, Markus Elfring,
  Mathieu Malaterre, Matt Brown, Matt Evans, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira,
  Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras,
  Philippe Bergheaud, Ram Pai, Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Segher
  Boessenkool, Simon Guo, Simon Horman, Stewart Smith, Sukadev
  Bhattiprolu, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Vaibhav
  Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wei Yongjun"

* tag 'powerpc-4.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (207 commits)
  powerpc/64s/idle: Fix restore of AMOR on POWER9 after deep sleep
  powerpc/64s: Fix POWER9 DD2.2 and above in cputable features
  powerpc/64s: Fix pkey support in dt_cpu_ftrs, add CPU_FTR_PKEY bit
  powerpc/64s: Fix dt_cpu_ftrs to have restore_cpu clear unwanted LPCR bits
  Revert "powerpc/64s/idle: POWER9 ESL=0 stop avoid save/restore overhead"
  powerpc: iomap.c: introduce io{read|write}64_{lo_hi|hi_lo}
  powerpc: io.h: move iomap.h include so that it can use readq/writeq defs
  cxl: Fix possible deadlock when processing page faults from cxllib
  powerpc/hw_breakpoint: Only disable hw breakpoint if cpu supports it
  powerpc/mm/radix: Update command line parsing for disable_radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Parse disable_radix commandline correctly.
  powerpc/mm/hugetlb: initialize the pagetable cache correctly for hugetlb
  powerpc/mm/radix: Update pte fragment count from 16 to 256 on radix
  powerpc/mm/keys: Update documentation and remove unnecessary check
  powerpc/64s/idle: POWER9 ESL=0 stop avoid save/restore overhead
  powerpc/64s/idle: Consolidate power9_offline_stop()/power9_idle_stop()
  powerpc/powernv: Always stop secondaries before reboot/shutdown
  powerpc: hard disable irqs in smp_send_stop loop
  powerpc: use NMI IPI for smp_send_stop
  powerpc/powernv: Fix SMT4 forcing idle code
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for 4PB user address space on 64-bit, opt-in via mmap().

   - Removal of POWER4 support, which was accidentally broken in 2016
     and no one noticed, and blocked use of some modern instructions.

   - Workarounds so that the hypervisor can enable Transactional Memory
     on Power9.

   - A series to disable the DAWR (Data Address Watchpoint Register) on
     Power9.

   - More information displayed in the meltdown/spectre_v1/v2 sysfs
     files.

   - A vpermxor (Power8 Altivec) implementation for the raid6 Q
     Syndrome.

   - A big series to make the allocation of our pacas (per cpu area),
     kernel page tables, and per-cpu stacks NUMA aware when using the
     Radix MMU on Power9.

  And as usual many fixes, reworks and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Aaro Koskinen, Alexandre Belloni, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andy Shevchenko, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Cyril Bur, Daniel Axtens, Dave Young, Finn Thain, Frederic
  Barrat, Gustavo Romero, Horia Geantă, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook,
  Larry Finger, Laurent Dufour, Laurent Vivier, Logan Gunthorpe,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Greer, Mark Hairgrove, Markus Elfring,
  Mathieu Malaterre, Matt Brown, Matt Evans, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira,
  Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras,
  Philippe Bergheaud, Ram Pai, Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Segher
  Boessenkool, Simon Guo, Simon Horman, Stewart Smith, Sukadev
  Bhattiprolu, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Vaibhav
  Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wei Yongjun"

* tag 'powerpc-4.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (207 commits)
  powerpc/64s/idle: Fix restore of AMOR on POWER9 after deep sleep
  powerpc/64s: Fix POWER9 DD2.2 and above in cputable features
  powerpc/64s: Fix pkey support in dt_cpu_ftrs, add CPU_FTR_PKEY bit
  powerpc/64s: Fix dt_cpu_ftrs to have restore_cpu clear unwanted LPCR bits
  Revert "powerpc/64s/idle: POWER9 ESL=0 stop avoid save/restore overhead"
  powerpc: iomap.c: introduce io{read|write}64_{lo_hi|hi_lo}
  powerpc: io.h: move iomap.h include so that it can use readq/writeq defs
  cxl: Fix possible deadlock when processing page faults from cxllib
  powerpc/hw_breakpoint: Only disable hw breakpoint if cpu supports it
  powerpc/mm/radix: Update command line parsing for disable_radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Parse disable_radix commandline correctly.
  powerpc/mm/hugetlb: initialize the pagetable cache correctly for hugetlb
  powerpc/mm/radix: Update pte fragment count from 16 to 256 on radix
  powerpc/mm/keys: Update documentation and remove unnecessary check
  powerpc/64s/idle: POWER9 ESL=0 stop avoid save/restore overhead
  powerpc/64s/idle: Consolidate power9_offline_stop()/power9_idle_stop()
  powerpc/powernv: Always stop secondaries before reboot/shutdown
  powerpc: hard disable irqs in smp_send_stop loop
  powerpc: use NMI IPI for smp_send_stop
  powerpc/powernv: Fix SMT4 forcing idle code
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown</title>
<updated>2018-03-27T12:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-27T12:01:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f'/>
<id>9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f</id>
<content type='text'>
This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a</title>
<updated>2018-03-25T17:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-10T14:25:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f49821ee32b76b1a356fab17316eb62430182ecf'/>
<id>f49821ee32b76b1a356fab17316eb62430182ecf</id>
<content type='text'>
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
is the usual extension for archive files.

This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:

git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'

The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:

-libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
+libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<pre>
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
is the usual extension for archive files.

This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:

git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'

The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:

-libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
+libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T20:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T20:47:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5b0e2cb020085efe202123162502e0b551e49a0e'/>
<id>5b0e2cb020085efe202123162502e0b551e49a0e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
  KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
  think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.

  Non-highlights:

   - Five fixes for the &gt;128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
     in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
     with x86.

  Highlights:

   - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
     true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.

   - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.

   - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
     can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.

   - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
     to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.

   - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
     some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).

   - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
     some Power9 revisions.

   - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
     CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.

   - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
     for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
     to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.

   - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
     using transactional memory.

   - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
     Power9.

   - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
     Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
     handles requests.

   - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.

  Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
  Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
  Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
  Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
  Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
  Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
  Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
  Kennington III"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
  powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
  powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use &gt;= 128T
  powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
  powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
  powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
  powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
  powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
  powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
  powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
  powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
  KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
  think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.

  Non-highlights:

   - Five fixes for the &gt;128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
     in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
     with x86.

  Highlights:

   - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
     true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.

   - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.

   - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
     can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.

   - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
     to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.

   - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
     some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).

   - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
     some Power9 revisions.

   - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
     CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.

   - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
     for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
     to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.

   - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
     using transactional memory.

   - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
     Power9.

   - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
     Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
     handles requests.

   - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.

  Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
  Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
  Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
  Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
  Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
  Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
  Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
  Kennington III"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
  powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
  powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use &gt;= 128T
  powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
  powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
  powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
  powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
  powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
  powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
  powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
  powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds</title>
<updated>2017-11-12T12:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T06:49:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fc2a5a6161a26b386eb0936b74a852ff83793fb6'/>
<id>fc2a5a6161a26b386eb0936b74a852ff83793fb6</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 78adf6c214f0 ("powerpc/64s: Implement system reset idle wakeup
reason"), added a call to ppc_save_regs() in the book3s code.

ppc_save_regs() is only built if XMON and/or KEXEC_CORE are enabled,
which is usually the case, however if they're not enabled then the
build breaks.

Fix it by making the Makefile check also build ppc_save_regs.o if
CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S is enabled.

Fixes: 78adf6c214f0 ("powerpc/64s: Implement system reset idle wakeup reason")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
[mpe: Write change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 78adf6c214f0 ("powerpc/64s: Implement system reset idle wakeup
reason"), added a call to ppc_save_regs() in the book3s code.

ppc_save_regs() is only built if XMON and/or KEXEC_CORE are enabled,
which is usually the case, however if they're not enabled then the
build breaks.

Fix it by making the Makefile check also build ppc_save_regs.o if
CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S is enabled.

Fixes: 78adf6c214f0 ("powerpc/64s: Implement system reset idle wakeup reason")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
[mpe: Write change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd'/>
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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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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/8xx: Getting rid of remaining use of CONFIG_8xx</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T13:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-08T11:58:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=968159c0031ac1e07ab4426397e786c9c483f068'/>
<id>968159c0031ac1e07ab4426397e786c9c483f068</id>
<content type='text'>
Two config options exist to define powerpc MPC8xx:
* CONFIG_PPC_8xx
* CONFIG_8xx

arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype has contained the following
comment about CONFIG_8xx item for some years:
"# this is temp to handle compat with arch=ppc"

arch/powerpc is now the only place with remaining use of
CONFIG_8xx: get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Two config options exist to define powerpc MPC8xx:
* CONFIG_PPC_8xx
* CONFIG_8xx

arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype has contained the following
comment about CONFIG_8xx item for some years:
"# this is temp to handle compat with arch=ppc"

arch/powerpc is now the only place with remaining use of
CONFIG_8xx: get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix powerpc-specific watchdog build configuration</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T12:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T12:00:52+00:00</published>
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<id>75eb767e4c417379abde72435c50f25c454f3099</id>
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The powerpc kernel/watchdog.o should be built when HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
and HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH are both selected. If only the former
is selected, then the generic perf watchdog has been selected.

To simplify this check, introduce a new Kconfig symbol PPC_WATCHDOG that
depends on both. This Kconfig option means the powerpc specific
watchdog is enabled.

Without this patch, Book3E will attempt to build the powerpc watchdog.

Fixes: 2104180a53 ("powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog")
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 type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The powerpc kernel/watchdog.o should be built when HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
and HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH are both selected. If only the former
is selected, then the generic perf watchdog has been selected.

To simplify this check, introduce a new Kconfig symbol PPC_WATCHDOG that
depends on both. This Kconfig option means the powerpc specific
watchdog is enabled.

Without this patch, Book3E will attempt to build the powerpc watchdog.

Fixes: 2104180a53 ("powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog")
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>
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