<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c, branch v5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T02:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-29T11:56:56+00:00</published>
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The recent module relocation overflow crash demonstrated that we
have no range checking on REL32 relative relocations. This patch
implements a basic check, the same kernel that previously oopsed
and rebooted now continues with some of these errors when loading
the module:

  module_64: x_tables: REL32 527703503449812 out of range!

Possibly other relocations (ADDR32, REL16, TOC16, etc.) should also have
overflow checks.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The recent module relocation overflow crash demonstrated that we
have no range checking on REL32 relative relocations. This patch
implements a basic check, the same kernel that previously oopsed
and rebooted now continues with some of these errors when loading
the module:

  module_64: x_tables: REL32 527703503449812 out of range!

Possibly other relocations (ADDR32, REL16, TOC16, etc.) should also have
overflow checks.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64/module elfv1: Set opd addresses after module relocation</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T02:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-29T06:51:00+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
module_frob_arch_sections() is called before the module is moved to its
final location. The function descriptor section addresses we are setting
here are thus invalid. Fix this by processing opd section during
module_finalize()

Fixes: 5633e85b2c313 ("powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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module_frob_arch_sections() is called before the module is moved to its
final location. The function descriptor section addresses we are setting
here are thus invalid. Fix this by processing opd section during
module_finalize()

Fixes: 5633e85b2c313 ("powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kbuild: move -mprofile-kernel check to Kconfig</title>
<updated>2018-06-11T00:16:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T12:19:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=abba759796f9b73eb24df9b734dd063839fc62e0'/>
<id>abba759796f9b73eb24df9b734dd063839fc62e0</id>
<content type='text'>
This eliminates the workaround that requires disabling
-mprofile-kernel by default in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<pre>
This eliminates the workaround that requires disabling
-mprofile-kernel by default in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: remove unused mod_arch_specific.toc field</title>
<updated>2018-05-28T08:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-25T03:48:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8ce621e1d946b1d1d7717337ab8dc3cbc4fd996f'/>
<id>8ce621e1d946b1d1d7717337ab8dc3cbc4fd996f</id>
<content type='text'>
The toc field in the mod_arch_specific struct isn't actually used
anywhere, so remove it.

Also the ftrace-specific fields are now common between 32-bit and
64-bit, so simplify the struct definition a bit by moving them out of
the __powerpc64__ #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
The toc field in the mod_arch_specific struct isn't actually used
anywhere, so remove it.

Also the ftrace-specific fields are now common between 32-bit and
64-bit, so simplify the struct definition a bit by moving them out of
the __powerpc64__ #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64/ftrace: Implement support for ftrace_regs_caller()</title>
<updated>2018-05-03T12:32:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-19T07:04:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ae30cc05bed2fd7eb05e4fb53f412783f05ccb7b'/>
<id>ae30cc05bed2fd7eb05e4fb53f412783f05ccb7b</id>
<content type='text'>
With -mprofile-kernel, we always save the full register state in
ftrace_caller(). While this works, this is inefficient if we're not
interested in the register state, such as when we're using the function
tracer.

Rename the existing ftrace_caller() as ftrace_regs_caller() and provide
a simpler implementation for ftrace_caller() that is used when registers
are not required to be saved.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
With -mprofile-kernel, we always save the full register state in
ftrace_caller(). While this works, this is inefficient if we're not
interested in the register state, such as when we're using the function
tracer.

Rename the existing ftrace_caller() as ftrace_regs_caller() and provide
a simpler implementation for ftrace_caller() that is used when registers
are not required to be saved.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64/module: Tighten detection of mcount call sites with -mprofile-kernel</title>
<updated>2018-05-03T12:32:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-19T07:04:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=250122baed29d90c643be8809d75274336b98fb0'/>
<id>250122baed29d90c643be8809d75274336b98fb0</id>
<content type='text'>
For R_PPC64_REL24 relocations, we suppress emitting instructions for TOC
load/restore in the relocation stub if the relocation is for _mcount()
call when using -mprofile-kernel ABI.

To detect this, we check if the preceding instructions are per the
standard set of instructions emitted by gcc: either the two instruction
sequence of 'mflr r0; std r0,16(r1)', or the more optimized variant of a
single 'mflr r0'. This is not sufficient since nothing prevents users
from hand coding sequences involving a 'mflr r0' followed by a 'bl'.

For removing the toc save instruction from the stub, we additionally
check if the symbol is "_mcount". Add the same check here as well.

Also rename is_early_mcount_callsite() to is_mprofile_mcount_callsite()
since that is what is being checked. The use of "early" is misleading
since there is nothing involving this function that qualifies as early.

Fixes: 153086644fd1f ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
For R_PPC64_REL24 relocations, we suppress emitting instructions for TOC
load/restore in the relocation stub if the relocation is for _mcount()
call when using -mprofile-kernel ABI.

To detect this, we check if the preceding instructions are per the
standard set of instructions emitted by gcc: either the two instruction
sequence of 'mflr r0; std r0,16(r1)', or the more optimized variant of a
single 'mflr r0'. This is not sufficient since nothing prevents users
from hand coding sequences involving a 'mflr r0' followed by a 'bl'.

For removing the toc save instruction from the stub, we additionally
check if the symbol is "_mcount". Add the same check here as well.

Also rename is_early_mcount_callsite() to is_mprofile_mcount_callsite()
since that is what is being checked. The use of "early" is misleading
since there is nothing involving this function that qualifies as early.

Fixes: 153086644fd1f ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=03f51d4efa2287cc628bb20b0c032036d2a9e66a'/>
<id>03f51d4efa2287cc628bb20b0c032036d2a9e66a</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T09:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T23:48:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5633e85b2c3133051d8201b586ba195f1733096b'/>
<id>5633e85b2c3133051d8201b586ba195f1733096b</id>
<content type='text'>
We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

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

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

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

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

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

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

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

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Fix alignment of .toc section in kernel modules</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-06T19:12:28+00:00</published>
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powerpc64 gcc can generate code that offsets an address, to access
part of an object in memory. If the address is a -mcmodel=medium toc
pointer relative address then code like the following is possible.

  addis r9,r2,var@toc@ha
  ld r3,var@toc@l(r9)
  ld r4,(var+8)@toc@l(r9)

This works fine so long as var is naturally aligned, *and* r2 is
sufficiently aligned. If not, there is a possibility that the offset
added to access var+8 wraps over a n*64k+32k boundary. Modules don't
have any guarantee that r2 is sufficiently aligned. Moreover, code
generated by older compilers generates a .toc section with 2**0
alignment, which can result in relocation failures at module load time
even without the wrap problem.

Thus, this patch links modules with an aligned .toc section (Makefile
and module.lds changes), and forces alignment for out of tree modules
or those without a .toc section (module_64.c changes).

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
[desnesn: updated patch to apply to powerpc-next kernel v4.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario &lt;desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix out-of-tree build, swap -256 for ~0xff, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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powerpc64 gcc can generate code that offsets an address, to access
part of an object in memory. If the address is a -mcmodel=medium toc
pointer relative address then code like the following is possible.

  addis r9,r2,var@toc@ha
  ld r3,var@toc@l(r9)
  ld r4,(var+8)@toc@l(r9)

This works fine so long as var is naturally aligned, *and* r2 is
sufficiently aligned. If not, there is a possibility that the offset
added to access var+8 wraps over a n*64k+32k boundary. Modules don't
have any guarantee that r2 is sufficiently aligned. Moreover, code
generated by older compilers generates a .toc section with 2**0
alignment, which can result in relocation failures at module load time
even without the wrap problem.

Thus, this patch links modules with an aligned .toc section (Makefile
and module.lds changes), and forces alignment for out of tree modules
or those without a .toc section (module_64.c changes).

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
[desnesn: updated patch to apply to powerpc-next kernel v4.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario &lt;desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix out-of-tree build, swap -256 for ~0xff, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/modules: Improve restore_r2() error message</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2017-11-14T09:29:10+00:00</published>
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Print the function address associated with the restore_r2() error to
make it easier to debug the problem.

Also clarify the wording a bit.

Before:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

After:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expected nop after call, got 7c630034 at netdev_has_upper_dev+0x54/0xb0 [patch_foo]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Change noop to nop, as that's the name of the instruction]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Print the function address associated with the restore_r2() error to
make it easier to debug the problem.

Also clarify the wording a bit.

Before:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

After:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expected nop after call, got 7c630034 at netdev_has_upper_dev+0x54/0xb0 [patch_foo]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Change noop to nop, as that's the name of the instruction]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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