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<title>Merge branch 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-10T17:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-10T17:17:09+00:00</published>
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Pull restartable sequence support from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The restartable sequences syscall (finally):

  After a lot of back and forth discussion and massive delays caused by
  the speculative distraction of maintainers, the core set of
  restartable sequences has finally reached a consensus.

  It comes with the basic non disputed core implementation along with
  support for arm, powerpc and x86 and a full set of selftests

  It was exposed to linux-next earlier this week, so it does not fully
  comply with the merge window requirements, but there is really no
  point to drag it out for yet another cycle"

* 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rseq/selftests: Provide Makefile, scripts, gitignore
  rseq/selftests: Provide parametrized tests
  rseq/selftests: Provide basic percpu ops test
  rseq/selftests: Provide basic test
  rseq/selftests: Provide rseq library
  selftests/lib.mk: Introduce OVERRIDE_TARGETS
  powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences system call
  powerpc: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences
  powerpc: Add support for restartable sequences
  x86: Wire up restartable sequence system call
  x86: Add support for restartable sequences
  arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call
  arm: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences
  arm: Add restartable sequences support
  rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call
  uapi/headers: Provide types_32_64.h
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Pull restartable sequence support from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The restartable sequences syscall (finally):

  After a lot of back and forth discussion and massive delays caused by
  the speculative distraction of maintainers, the core set of
  restartable sequences has finally reached a consensus.

  It comes with the basic non disputed core implementation along with
  support for arm, powerpc and x86 and a full set of selftests

  It was exposed to linux-next earlier this week, so it does not fully
  comply with the merge window requirements, but there is really no
  point to drag it out for yet another cycle"

* 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rseq/selftests: Provide Makefile, scripts, gitignore
  rseq/selftests: Provide parametrized tests
  rseq/selftests: Provide basic percpu ops test
  rseq/selftests: Provide basic test
  rseq/selftests: Provide rseq library
  selftests/lib.mk: Introduce OVERRIDE_TARGETS
  powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences system call
  powerpc: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences
  powerpc: Add support for restartable sequences
  x86: Wire up restartable sequence system call
  x86: Add support for restartable sequences
  arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call
  arm: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences
  arm: Add restartable sequences support
  rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call
  uapi/headers: Provide types_32_64.h
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T09:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T12:44:01+00:00</published>
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Syscalls are not allowed inside restartable sequences, so add a call to
rseq_syscall() at the very beginning of system call exiting path for
CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y kernel. This could help us to detect whether there
is a syscall issued inside restartable sequences.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Watson &lt;davejwatson@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Maurer &lt;bmaurer@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-10-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

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Syscalls are not allowed inside restartable sequences, so add a call to
rseq_syscall() at the very beginning of system call exiting path for
CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y kernel. This could help us to detect whether there
is a syscall issued inside restartable sequences.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Watson &lt;davejwatson@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Maurer &lt;bmaurer@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-10-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Use barrier_nospec in syscall entry</title>
<updated>2018-06-03T10:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-24T04:15:59+00:00</published>
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Our syscall entry is done in assembly so patch in an explicit
barrier_nospec.

Based on a patch by Michal Suchanek.

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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Our syscall entry is done in assembly so patch in an explicit
barrier_nospec.

Based on a patch by Michal Suchanek.

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>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm/hash: Add missing isync prior to kernel stack SLB switch</title>
<updated>2018-06-03T10:40:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T13:18:04+00:00</published>
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Currently we do not have an isync, or any other context synchronizing
instruction prior to the slbie/slbmte in _switch() that updates the
SLB entry for the kernel stack.

However that is not correct as outlined in the ISA.

From Power ISA Version 3.0B, Book III, Chapter 11, page 1133:

  "Changing the contents of ... the contents of SLB entries ... can
   have the side effect of altering the context in which data
   addresses and instruction addresses are interpreted, and in which
   instructions are executed and data accesses are performed.
   ...
   These side effects need not occur in program order, and therefore
   may require explicit synchronization by software.
   ...
   The synchronizing instruction before the context-altering
   instruction ensures that all instructions up to and including that
   synchronizing instruction are fetched and executed in the context
   that existed before the alteration."

And page 1136:

  "For data accesses, the context synchronizing instruction before the
   slbie, slbieg, slbia, slbmte, tlbie, or tlbiel instruction ensures
   that all preceding instructions that access data storage have
   completed to a point at which they have reported all exceptions
   they will cause."

We're not aware of any bugs caused by this, but it should be fixed
regardless.

Add the missing isync when updating kernel stack SLB entry.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out change log with more ISA text &amp; explanation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently we do not have an isync, or any other context synchronizing
instruction prior to the slbie/slbmte in _switch() that updates the
SLB entry for the kernel stack.

However that is not correct as outlined in the ISA.

From Power ISA Version 3.0B, Book III, Chapter 11, page 1133:

  "Changing the contents of ... the contents of SLB entries ... can
   have the side effect of altering the context in which data
   addresses and instruction addresses are interpreted, and in which
   instructions are executed and data accesses are performed.
   ...
   These side effects need not occur in program order, and therefore
   may require explicit synchronization by software.
   ...
   The synchronizing instruction before the context-altering
   instruction ensures that all instructions up to and including that
   synchronizing instruction are fetched and executed in the context
   that existed before the alteration."

And page 1136:

  "For data accesses, the context synchronizing instruction before the
   slbie, slbieg, slbia, slbmte, tlbie, or tlbiel instruction ensures
   that all preceding instructions that access data storage have
   completed to a point at which they have reported all exceptions
   they will cause."

We're not aware of any bugs caused by this, but it should be fixed
regardless.

Add the missing isync when updating kernel stack SLB entry.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out change log with more ISA text &amp; explanation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Set assembler machine type to POWER4</title>
<updated>2018-03-31T13:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-20T19:08:26+00:00</published>
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Rather than override the machine type in .S code (which can hide wrong
or ambiguous code generation for the target), set the type to power4
for all assembly.

This also means we need to be careful not to build power4-only code
when we're not building for Book3S, such as the "power7" versions of
copyuser/page/memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix Book3E build, don't build the "power7" variants for non-Book3S]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Rather than override the machine type in .S code (which can hide wrong
or ambiguous code generation for the target), set the type to power4
for all assembly.

This also means we need to be careful not to build power4-only code
when we're not building for Book3S, such as the "power7" versions of
copyuser/page/memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix Book3E build, don't build the "power7" variants for non-Book3S]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' into next</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T12:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T12:21:14+00:00</published>
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Merge our fixes branch from the 4.15 cycle.

Unusually the fixes branch saw some significant features merged,
notably the RFI flush patches, so we want the code in next to be
tested against that, to avoid any surprises when the two are merged.

There's also some other work on the panic handling that was reverted
in fixes and we now want to do properly in next, which would conflict.

And we also fix a few other minor merge conflicts.
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Merge our fixes branch from the 4.15 cycle.

Unusually the fixes branch saw some significant features merged,
notably the RFI flush patches, so we want the code in next to be
tested against that, to avoid any surprises when the two are merged.

There's also some other work on the panic handling that was reverted
in fixes and we now want to do properly in next, which would conflict.

And we also fix a few other minor merge conflicts.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add new kconfig CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T11:37:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-20T03:55:54+00:00</published>
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New Kconfig is added "CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG" to add WARN_ON
to alert the invalid transitions. Also moved the code under the
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS in arch_local_irq_restore() to new Kconfig.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix name of CONFIG option in change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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New Kconfig is added "CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG" to add WARN_ON
to alert the invalid transitions. Also moved the code under the
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS in arch_local_irq_restore() to new Kconfig.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix name of CONFIG option in change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support to mask perf interrupts and replay them</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T11:37:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-20T03:55:53+00:00</published>
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Two new bit mask field "IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_PMU" is introduced to support
the masking of PMI and "IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_ALL" to aid interrupt masking
checking.

Couple of new irq #defs "PACA_IRQ_PMI" and "SOFTEN_VALUE_0xf0*" added
to use in the exception code to check for PMI interrupts.

In the masked_interrupt handler, for PMIs we reset the MSR[EE] and
return. In the __check_irq_replay(), replay the PMI interrupt by
calling performance_monitor_common handler.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Two new bit mask field "IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_PMU" is introduced to support
the masking of PMI and "IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_ALL" to aid interrupt masking
checking.

Couple of new irq #defs "PACA_IRQ_PMI" and "SOFTEN_VALUE_0xf0*" added
to use in the exception code to check for PMI interrupts.

In the masked_interrupt handler, for PMIs we reset the MSR[EE] and
return. In the __check_irq_replay(), replay the PMI interrupt by
calling performance_monitor_common handler.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Rename soft_enabled to irq_soft_mask</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T11:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-20T03:55:50+00:00</published>
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Rename the paca-&gt;soft_enabled to paca-&gt;irq_soft_mask as it is no
longer used as a flag for interrupt state, but a mask.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Rename the paca-&gt;soft_enabled to paca-&gt;irq_soft_mask as it is no
longer used as a flag for interrupt state, but a mask.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Change soft_enabled from flag to bitmask</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T11:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-20T03:55:49+00:00</published>
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"paca-&gt;soft_enabled" is used as a flag to mask some of interrupts.
Currently supported flags values and their details:

soft_enabled    MSR[EE]

0               0       Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked)
1               1       Enabled

"paca-&gt;soft_enabled" is initialized to 1 to make the interripts as
enabled. arch_local_irq_disable() will toggle the value when
interrupts needs to disbled. At this point, the interrupts are not
actually disabled, instead, interrupt vector has code to check for the
flag and mask it when it occurs. By "mask it", it update interrupt
paca-&gt;irq_happened and return. arch_local_irq_restore() is called to
re-enable interrupts, which checks and replays interrupts if any
occured.

Now, as mentioned, current logic doesnot mask "performance monitoring
interrupts" and PMIs are implemented as NMI. But this patchset depends
on local_irq_* for a successful local_* update. Meaning, mask all
possible interrupts during local_* update and replay them after the
update.

So the idea here is to reserve the "paca-&gt;soft_enabled" logic. New
values and details:

soft_enabled    MSR[EE]

1               0       Disabled  (PMI and HMI not masked)
0               1       Enabled

Reason for the this change is to create foundation for a third mask
value "0x2" for "soft_enabled" to add support to mask PMIs. When
-&gt;soft_enabled is set to a value "3", PMI interrupts are mask and when
set to a value of "1", PMI are not mask. With this patch also extends
soft_enabled as interrupt disable mask.

Current flags are renamed from IRQ_[EN?DIS}ABLED to
IRQS_ENABLED and IRQS_DISABLED.

Patch also fixes the ptrace call to force the user to see the softe
value to be alway 1. Reason being, even though userspace has no
business knowing about softe, it is part of pt_regs. Like-wise in
signal context.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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"paca-&gt;soft_enabled" is used as a flag to mask some of interrupts.
Currently supported flags values and their details:

soft_enabled    MSR[EE]

0               0       Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked)
1               1       Enabled

"paca-&gt;soft_enabled" is initialized to 1 to make the interripts as
enabled. arch_local_irq_disable() will toggle the value when
interrupts needs to disbled. At this point, the interrupts are not
actually disabled, instead, interrupt vector has code to check for the
flag and mask it when it occurs. By "mask it", it update interrupt
paca-&gt;irq_happened and return. arch_local_irq_restore() is called to
re-enable interrupts, which checks and replays interrupts if any
occured.

Now, as mentioned, current logic doesnot mask "performance monitoring
interrupts" and PMIs are implemented as NMI. But this patchset depends
on local_irq_* for a successful local_* update. Meaning, mask all
possible interrupts during local_* update and replay them after the
update.

So the idea here is to reserve the "paca-&gt;soft_enabled" logic. New
values and details:

soft_enabled    MSR[EE]

1               0       Disabled  (PMI and HMI not masked)
0               1       Enabled

Reason for the this change is to create foundation for a third mask
value "0x2" for "soft_enabled" to add support to mask PMIs. When
-&gt;soft_enabled is set to a value "3", PMI interrupts are mask and when
set to a value of "1", PMI are not mask. With this patch also extends
soft_enabled as interrupt disable mask.

Current flags are renamed from IRQ_[EN?DIS}ABLED to
IRQS_ENABLED and IRQS_DISABLED.

Patch also fixes the ptrace call to force the user to see the softe
value to be alway 1. Reason being, even though userspace has no
business knowing about softe, it is part of pt_regs. Like-wise in
signal context.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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