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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T17:33:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2020-08-07T17:33:50+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks &amp; rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks &amp; rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
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<title>powerpc/64s/hash: Fix hash_preload running with interrupts enabled</title>
<updated>2020-07-27T07:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-27T06:09:47+00:00</published>
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Commit 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the
caller") removed the local_irq_disable from hash_preload, but it was
required for more than just the page table walk: the hash pte busy bit is
effectively a lock which may be taken in interrupt context, and the local
update flag test must not be preempted before it's used.

This solves apparent lockups with perf interrupting __hash_page_64K. If
get_perf_callchain then also takes a hash fault on the same page while it
is already locked, it will loop forever taking hash faults, which looks like
this:

  cpu 0x49e: Vector: 100 (System Reset) at [c00000001a4f7d70]
      pc: c000000000072dc8: hash_page_mm+0x8/0x800
      lr: c00000000000c5a4: do_hash_page+0x24/0x38
      sp: c0002ac1cc69ac70
     msr: 8000000000081033
    current = 0xc0002ac1cc602e00
    paca    = 0xc00000001de1f280   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
      pid   = 20118, comm = pread2_processe
  Linux version 5.8.0-rc6-00345-g1fad14f18bc6
  49e:mon&gt; t
  [c0002ac1cc69ac70] c00000000000c5a4 do_hash_page+0x24/0x38 (unreliable)
  --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at c00000000008fa60 __copy_tofrom_user_power7+0x20c/0x7ac
  [link register   ] c000000000335d10 copy_from_user_nofault+0xf0/0x150
  [c0002ac1cc69af70] c00032bf9fa3c880 (unreliable)
  [c0002ac1cc69afa0] c000000000109df0 read_user_stack_64+0x70/0xf0
  [c0002ac1cc69afd0] c000000000109fcc perf_callchain_user_64+0x15c/0x410
  [c0002ac1cc69b060] c000000000109c00 perf_callchain_user+0x20/0x40
  [c0002ac1cc69b080] c00000000031c6cc get_perf_callchain+0x25c/0x360
  [c0002ac1cc69b120] c000000000316b50 perf_callchain+0x70/0xa0
  [c0002ac1cc69b140] c000000000316ddc perf_prepare_sample+0x25c/0x790
  [c0002ac1cc69b1a0] c000000000317350 perf_event_output_forward+0x40/0xb0
  [c0002ac1cc69b220] c000000000306138 __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x1a0
  [c0002ac1cc69b270] c00000000010cf70 record_and_restart+0x230/0x750
  [c0002ac1cc69b620] c00000000010d69c perf_event_interrupt+0x20c/0x510
  [c0002ac1cc69b730] c000000000027d9c performance_monitor_exception+0x4c/0x60
  [c0002ac1cc69b750] c00000000000b2f8 performance_monitor_common_virt+0x1b8/0x1c0
  --- Exception: f00 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000cb5b0 pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert+0x0/0x160
  [link register   ] c0000000000846f0 __hash_page_64K+0x210/0x540
  [c0002ac1cc69ba50] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
  [c0002ac1cc69bb00] c000000000073ae0 update_mmu_cache+0x390/0x3a0
  [c0002ac1cc69bb70] c00000000037f024 wp_page_copy+0x364/0xce0
  [c0002ac1cc69bc20] c00000000038272c do_wp_page+0xdc/0xa60
  [c0002ac1cc69bc70] c0000000003857bc handle_mm_fault+0xb9c/0x1b60
  [c0002ac1cc69bd50] c00000000006c434 __do_page_fault+0x314/0xc90
  [c0002ac1cc69be20] c00000000000c5c8 handle_page_fault+0x10/0x2c
  --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 00007fff8c861fe8
  SP (7ffff6b19660) is in userspace

Fixes: 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the caller")
Reported-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727060947.10060-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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Commit 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the
caller") removed the local_irq_disable from hash_preload, but it was
required for more than just the page table walk: the hash pte busy bit is
effectively a lock which may be taken in interrupt context, and the local
update flag test must not be preempted before it's used.

This solves apparent lockups with perf interrupting __hash_page_64K. If
get_perf_callchain then also takes a hash fault on the same page while it
is already locked, it will loop forever taking hash faults, which looks like
this:

  cpu 0x49e: Vector: 100 (System Reset) at [c00000001a4f7d70]
      pc: c000000000072dc8: hash_page_mm+0x8/0x800
      lr: c00000000000c5a4: do_hash_page+0x24/0x38
      sp: c0002ac1cc69ac70
     msr: 8000000000081033
    current = 0xc0002ac1cc602e00
    paca    = 0xc00000001de1f280   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
      pid   = 20118, comm = pread2_processe
  Linux version 5.8.0-rc6-00345-g1fad14f18bc6
  49e:mon&gt; t
  [c0002ac1cc69ac70] c00000000000c5a4 do_hash_page+0x24/0x38 (unreliable)
  --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at c00000000008fa60 __copy_tofrom_user_power7+0x20c/0x7ac
  [link register   ] c000000000335d10 copy_from_user_nofault+0xf0/0x150
  [c0002ac1cc69af70] c00032bf9fa3c880 (unreliable)
  [c0002ac1cc69afa0] c000000000109df0 read_user_stack_64+0x70/0xf0
  [c0002ac1cc69afd0] c000000000109fcc perf_callchain_user_64+0x15c/0x410
  [c0002ac1cc69b060] c000000000109c00 perf_callchain_user+0x20/0x40
  [c0002ac1cc69b080] c00000000031c6cc get_perf_callchain+0x25c/0x360
  [c0002ac1cc69b120] c000000000316b50 perf_callchain+0x70/0xa0
  [c0002ac1cc69b140] c000000000316ddc perf_prepare_sample+0x25c/0x790
  [c0002ac1cc69b1a0] c000000000317350 perf_event_output_forward+0x40/0xb0
  [c0002ac1cc69b220] c000000000306138 __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x1a0
  [c0002ac1cc69b270] c00000000010cf70 record_and_restart+0x230/0x750
  [c0002ac1cc69b620] c00000000010d69c perf_event_interrupt+0x20c/0x510
  [c0002ac1cc69b730] c000000000027d9c performance_monitor_exception+0x4c/0x60
  [c0002ac1cc69b750] c00000000000b2f8 performance_monitor_common_virt+0x1b8/0x1c0
  --- Exception: f00 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000cb5b0 pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert+0x0/0x160
  [link register   ] c0000000000846f0 __hash_page_64K+0x210/0x540
  [c0002ac1cc69ba50] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
  [c0002ac1cc69bb00] c000000000073ae0 update_mmu_cache+0x390/0x3a0
  [c0002ac1cc69bb70] c00000000037f024 wp_page_copy+0x364/0xce0
  [c0002ac1cc69bc20] c00000000038272c do_wp_page+0xdc/0xa60
  [c0002ac1cc69bc70] c0000000003857bc handle_mm_fault+0xb9c/0x1b60
  [c0002ac1cc69bd50] c00000000006c434 __do_page_fault+0x314/0xc90
  [c0002ac1cc69be20] c00000000000c5c8 handle_page_fault+0x10/0x2c
  --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 00007fff8c861fe8
  SP (7ffff6b19660) is in userspace

Fixes: 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the caller")
Reported-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727060947.10060-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'scv' support into next</title>
<updated>2020-07-23T07:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T07:43:44+00:00</published>
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From Nick's cover letter:

Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

System Call Vectored (scv) ABI
==============================

The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an
rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is
performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and
entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can
reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to
cover the Linux system call space).

Assignment and advertisement
----------------------------
The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise
them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more.

Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction
will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and
deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a
HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it.

This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with
PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system
calls (equivalent to 'sc').

Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be
delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility
unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled).

Calling convention
------------------
The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call
ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]:

- LR is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the
  scv instruction clobbers LR. From previous discussion, this should
  be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI.

- cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow
  the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr
  registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid
  information leaks).

- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to
  move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to
  indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is
  closer to a function call.

Notes
-----
- r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch
  as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for
  deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by
  preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from
  the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow
  the ABI.

Previous discussions:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
[2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html
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From Nick's cover letter:

Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

System Call Vectored (scv) ABI
==============================

The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an
rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is
performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and
entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can
reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to
cover the Linux system call space).

Assignment and advertisement
----------------------------
The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise
them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more.

Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction
will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and
deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a
HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it.

This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with
PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system
calls (equivalent to 'sc').

Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be
delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility
unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled).

Calling convention
------------------
The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call
ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]:

- LR is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the
  scv instruction clobbers LR. From previous discussion, this should
  be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI.

- cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow
  the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr
  registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid
  information leaks).

- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to
  move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to
  indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is
  closer to a function call.

Notes
-----
- r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch
  as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for
  deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by
  preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from
  the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow
  the ABI.

Previous discussions:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
[2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T13:00:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T08:12:03+00:00</published>
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Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs.

For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to
'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor
are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO],
but by returning a negative errno.

rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not
be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to
preserve LR.

getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318
cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
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Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs.

For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to
'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor
are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO],
but by returning a negative errno.

rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not
be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to
preserve LR.

getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318
cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
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<title>powerpc/64s/exception: treat NIA below __end_interrupts as soft-masked</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T13:00:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T08:12:02+00:00</published>
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The scv instruction causes an interrupt which can enter the kernel with
MSR[EE]=1, thus allowing interrupts to hit at any time. These must not
be taken as normal interrupts, because they come from MSR[PR]=0 context,
and yet the kernel stack is not yet set up and r13 is not set to the
PACA).

Treat this as a soft-masked interrupt regardless of the soft masked
state. This does not affect behaviour yet, because currently all
interrupts are taken with MSR[EE]=0.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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The scv instruction causes an interrupt which can enter the kernel with
MSR[EE]=1, thus allowing interrupts to hit at any time. These must not
be taken as normal interrupts, because they come from MSR[PR]=0 context,
and yet the kernel stack is not yet set up and r13 is not set to the
PACA).

Treat this as a soft-masked interrupt regardless of the soft masked
state. This does not affect behaviour yet, because currently all
interrupts are taken with MSR[EE]=0.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: Fix 0x1500 interrupt handler crash</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T10:41:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T07:49:42+00:00</published>
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A typo caused the interrupt handler to branch immediately to the
common "unknown interrupt" handler and skip the special case test for
denormal cause.

This does not affect KVM softpatch handling (e.g., for POWER9 TM
assist) because the KVM test was moved to common code by commit
9600f261acaa ("powerpc/64s/exception: Move KVM test to common code")
just before this bug was introduced.

Fixes: 3f7fbd97d07d ("powerpc/64s/exception: Clean up SRR specifiers")
Reported-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
[mpe: Split selftest into a separate patch]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708074942.1713396-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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A typo caused the interrupt handler to branch immediately to the
common "unknown interrupt" handler and skip the special case test for
denormal cause.

This does not affect KVM softpatch handling (e.g., for POWER9 TM
assist) because the KVM test was moved to common code by commit
9600f261acaa ("powerpc/64s/exception: Move KVM test to common code")
just before this bug was introduced.

Fixes: 3f7fbd97d07d ("powerpc/64s/exception: Clean up SRR specifiers")
Reported-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
[mpe: Split selftest into a separate patch]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708074942.1713396-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix KVM interrupt using wrong save area</title>
<updated>2020-06-16T02:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-15T06:12:47+00:00</published>
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The CTR register reload in the KVM interrupt path used the wrong save
area for SLB (and NMI) interrupts.

Fixes: 9600f261acaa ("powerpc/64s/exception: Move KVM test to common code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7+
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615061247.1310763-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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The CTR register reload in the KVM interrupt path used the wrong save
area for SLB (and NMI) interrupts.

Fixes: 9600f261acaa ("powerpc/64s/exception: Move KVM test to common code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7+
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Zigotzky &lt;chzigotzky@xenosoft.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615061247.1310763-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/kuap: Conditionally restore AMR in kuap_restore_amr asm</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T13:24:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-29T06:56:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d4539074b0e9c5fa6508e8c33aaf51abc8ff6e91'/>
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Similar to the C code change, make the AMR restore conditional on
whether the register has changed.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429065654.1677541-7-npiggin@gmail.com
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Similar to the C code change, make the AMR restore conditional on
whether the register has changed.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429065654.1677541-7-npiggin@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' into next</title>
<updated>2020-05-26T12:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-26T12:56:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=baddc87d6824cda18037881352fe97382fdb0867'/>
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Merge our fixes branch from this cycle. It contains several important
fixes we need in next for testing purposes, and also some that will
conflict with upcoming changes.
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Merge our fixes branch from this cycle. It contains several important
fixes we need in next for testing purposes, and also some that will
conflict with upcoming changes.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix restore of NV GPRs after facility unavailable exception</title>
<updated>2020-05-26T07:32:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-26T06:18:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=595d153dd1022392083ac93a1550382cbee127e0'/>
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Commit 702f09805222 ("powerpc/64s/exception: Remove lite interrupt
return") changed the interrupt return path to not restore non-volatile
registers by default, and explicitly restore them in paths where it is
required.

But it missed that the facility unavailable exception can sometimes
modify user registers, ie. when it does emulation of move from DSCR.

This is seen as a failure of the dscr_sysfs_thread_test:
  test: dscr_sysfs_thread_test
  [cpu 0] User DSCR should be 1 but is 0
  failure: dscr_sysfs_thread_test

So restore non-volatile GPRs after facility unavailable exceptions.

Currently the hypervisor facility unavailable exception is also wired
up to call facility_unavailable_exception().

In practice we should never take a hypervisor facility unavailable
exception for the DSCR. On older bare metal systems we set HFSCR_DSCR
unconditionally in __init_HFSCR, or on newer systems it should be
enabled via the "data-stream-control-register" device tree CPU
feature.

Even if it's not, since commit f3c99f97a3cd ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV:
Don't access HFSCR, LPIDR or LPCR when running nested"), the KVM code
has unconditionally set HFSCR_DSCR when running guests.

So we should only get a hypervisor facility unavailable for the DSCR
if skiboot has disabled the "data-stream-control-register" feature,
and we are somehow in guest context but not via KVM.

Given all that, it should be unnecessary to add a restore of
non-volatile GPRs after the hypervisor facility exception, because we
never expect to hit that path. But equally we may as well add the
restore, because we never expect to hit that path, and if we ever did,
at least we would correctly restore the registers to their post
emulation state.

In future we can split the non-HV and HV facility unavailable handling
so that there is no emulation in the HV handler, and then remove the
restore for the HV case.

Fixes: 702f09805222 ("powerpc/64s/exception: Remove lite interrupt return")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526061808.2472279-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Commit 702f09805222 ("powerpc/64s/exception: Remove lite interrupt
return") changed the interrupt return path to not restore non-volatile
registers by default, and explicitly restore them in paths where it is
required.

But it missed that the facility unavailable exception can sometimes
modify user registers, ie. when it does emulation of move from DSCR.

This is seen as a failure of the dscr_sysfs_thread_test:
  test: dscr_sysfs_thread_test
  [cpu 0] User DSCR should be 1 but is 0
  failure: dscr_sysfs_thread_test

So restore non-volatile GPRs after facility unavailable exceptions.

Currently the hypervisor facility unavailable exception is also wired
up to call facility_unavailable_exception().

In practice we should never take a hypervisor facility unavailable
exception for the DSCR. On older bare metal systems we set HFSCR_DSCR
unconditionally in __init_HFSCR, or on newer systems it should be
enabled via the "data-stream-control-register" device tree CPU
feature.

Even if it's not, since commit f3c99f97a3cd ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV:
Don't access HFSCR, LPIDR or LPCR when running nested"), the KVM code
has unconditionally set HFSCR_DSCR when running guests.

So we should only get a hypervisor facility unavailable for the DSCR
if skiboot has disabled the "data-stream-control-register" feature,
and we are somehow in guest context but not via KVM.

Given all that, it should be unnecessary to add a restore of
non-volatile GPRs after the hypervisor facility exception, because we
never expect to hit that path. But equally we may as well add the
restore, because we never expect to hit that path, and if we ever did,
at least we would correctly restore the registers to their post
emulation state.

In future we can split the non-HV and HV facility unavailable handling
so that there is no emulation in the HV handler, and then remove the
restore for the HV case.

Fixes: 702f09805222 ("powerpc/64s/exception: Remove lite interrupt return")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526061808.2472279-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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