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<title>powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T02:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T03:21:40+00:00</published>
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix hw breakpoints on !HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT configurations</title>
<updated>2014-01-29T05:58:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-21T22:24:02+00:00</published>
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This fixes a logic error that caused a failure to update the hw breakpoint
registers when not using the hw-breakpoint interface.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This fixes a logic error that caused a failure to update the hw breakpoint
registers when not using the hw-breakpoint interface.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'scott/next' into next</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T03:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T03:22:35+00:00</published>
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Freescale updates from Scott:

&lt;&lt;
Highlights include 32-bit booke relocatable support, e6500 hardware
tablewalk support, various e500 SPE fixes, some new/revived boards, and
e6500 deeper idle and altivec powerdown modes.
&gt;&gt;
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Freescale updates from Scott:

&lt;&lt;
Highlights include 32-bit booke relocatable support, e6500 hardware
tablewalk support, various e500 SPE fixes, some new/revived boards, and
e6500 deeper idle and altivec powerdown modes.
&gt;&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:59:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T04:56:29+00:00</published>
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Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Delete non-required instances of include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:46:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-09T05:44:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c141611fb1ee2cfc374cf9be5327e97f361c4bed'/>
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<content type='text'>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

The one instance where we add an include for init.h covers off
a case where that file was implicitly getting it from another
header which itself didn't need it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

The one instance where we add an include for init.h covers off
a case where that file was implicitly getting it from another
header which itself didn't need it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix exception clearing in e500 SPE float emulation</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-10T23:07:45+00:00</published>
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &amp;= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
&lt;fenv.h&gt; functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &amp;= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
&lt;fenv.h&gt; functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'signed-for-3.13' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T18:13:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T18:13:58+00:00</published>
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Patch queue for 3.13 - 2013-12-18

This fixes some grave issues we've only found after 3.13-rc1:

  - Make the modularized HV/PR book3s kvm work well as modules
  - Fix some race conditions
  - Fix compilation with certain compilers (booke)
  - Fix THP for book3s_hv
  - Fix preemption for book3s_pr

Alexander Graf (4):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier

Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):
      powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path

Paul Mackerras (5):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits

Scott Wood (1):
      powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning

pingfan liu (1):
      powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
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Patch queue for 3.13 - 2013-12-18

This fixes some grave issues we've only found after 3.13-rc1:

  - Make the modularized HV/PR book3s kvm work well as modules
  - Fix some race conditions
  - Fix compilation with certain compilers (booke)
  - Fix THP for book3s_hv
  - Fix preemption for book3s_pr

Alexander Graf (4):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -&gt; vcpu store preempt savvy
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier

Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):
      powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path

Paul Mackerras (5):
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits

Scott Wood (1):
      powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning

pingfan liu (1):
      powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning</title>
<updated>2013-12-10T23:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T21:52:29+00:00</published>
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Commit ce11e48b7fdd256ec68b932a89b397a790566031 ("KVM: PPC: E500: Add
userspace debug stub support") added "struct thread_struct" to the
stack of kvmppc_vcpu_run().  thread_struct is 1152 bytes on my build,
compared to 48 bytes for the recently-introduced "struct debug_reg".
Use the latter instead.

This fixes the following error:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c: In function 'kvmppc_vcpu_run':
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c:760:1: error: the frame size of 1424 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Commit ce11e48b7fdd256ec68b932a89b397a790566031 ("KVM: PPC: E500: Add
userspace debug stub support") added "struct thread_struct" to the
stack of kvmppc_vcpu_run().  thread_struct is 1152 bytes on my build,
compared to 48 bytes for the recently-introduced "struct debug_reg".
Use the latter instead.

This fixes the following error:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c: In function 'kvmppc_vcpu_run':
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c:760:1: error: the frame size of 1424 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T16:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T16:07:11+00:00</published>
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Pull third set of powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "This is a small collection of random bug fixes and a few improvements
  of Oops output which I deemed valuable enough to include as well.

  The fixes are essentially recent build breakage and regressions, and a
  couple of older bugs such as the DTL log duplication, the EEH issue
  with PCI_COMMAND_MASTER and the problem with small contexts passed to
  get/set_context with VSX enabled"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts
  powerpc/pseries: Fix SMP=n build of rng.c
  powerpc: Make cpu_to_chip_id() available when SMP=n
  powerpc/vio: Fix a dma_mask issue of vio
  powerpc: booke: Fix build failures
  powerpc: ppc64 address space capped at 32TB, mmap randomisation disabled
  powerpc: Only print PACATMSCRATCH in oops when TM is active
  powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace
  powerpc: Remove a few lines of oops output
  powerpc: Print DAR and DSISR on machine check oopses
  powerpc: Fix __get_user_pages_fast() irq handling
  powerpc/eeh: More accurate log
  powerpc/eeh: Enable PCI_COMMAND_MASTER for PCI bridges
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Pull third set of powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "This is a small collection of random bug fixes and a few improvements
  of Oops output which I deemed valuable enough to include as well.

  The fixes are essentially recent build breakage and regressions, and a
  couple of older bugs such as the DTL log duplication, the EEH issue
  with PCI_COMMAND_MASTER and the problem with small contexts passed to
  get/set_context with VSX enabled"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts
  powerpc/pseries: Fix SMP=n build of rng.c
  powerpc: Make cpu_to_chip_id() available when SMP=n
  powerpc/vio: Fix a dma_mask issue of vio
  powerpc: booke: Fix build failures
  powerpc: ppc64 address space capped at 32TB, mmap randomisation disabled
  powerpc: Only print PACATMSCRATCH in oops when TM is active
  powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace
  powerpc: Remove a few lines of oops output
  powerpc: Print DAR and DSISR on machine check oopses
  powerpc: Fix __get_user_pages_fast() irq handling
  powerpc/eeh: More accurate log
  powerpc/eeh: Enable PCI_COMMAND_MASTER for PCI bridges
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