linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c, branch v4.12

powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation

2017-06-06T09:09:22+00:00

Currently tsk->thread.load_tm is not initialized in the task creation
and can contain garbage on a new task.

This is an undesired behaviour, since it affects the timing to enable
and disable the transactional memory laziness (disabling and enabling
the MSR TM bit, which affects TM reclaim and recheckpoint in the
scheduling process).

Fixes: 5d176f751ee3 ("powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration

2017-06-05T05:55:30+00:00

Currently tsk->thread->load_vec and load_fp are not initialized during
task creation, which can lead to garbage values in these variables (non-zero
values).

These variables will be checked later in restore_math() to validate if the
FP and vector registers are being utilized. Since these values might be
non-zero, the restore_math() will continue to save the FP and vectors even if
they were never utilized by the userspace application. load_fp and load_vec
counters will then overflow (they wrap at 255) and the FP and Altivec will be
finally disabled, but before that condition is reached (counter overflow)
several context switches will have restored FP and vector registers without
need, causing a performance degradation.

Fixes: 70fe3d980f5f ("powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao 
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero 
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/tm: Fix FP and VMX register corruption

2017-05-15T09:31:38+00:00

In commit dc3106690b20 ("powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state
to store live registers"), a section of code was removed that copied
the current state to checkpointed state. That code should not have been
removed.

When an FP (Floating Point) unavailable is taken inside a transaction,
we need to abort the transaction. This is because at the time of the
tbegin, the FP state is bogus so the state stored in the checkpointed
registers is incorrect. To fix this, we treclaim (to get the
checkpointed GPRs) and then copy the thread_struct FP live state into
the checkpointed state. We then trecheckpoint so that the FP state is
correctly restored into the CPU.

The copying of the FP registers from live to checkpointed is what was
missing.

This simplifies the logic slightly from the original patch.
tm_reclaim_thread() will now always write the checkpointed FP
state. Either the checkpointed FP state will be written as part of
the actual treclaim (in tm.S), or it'll be a copy of the live
state. Which one we use is based on MSR[FP] from userspace.

Similarly for VMX.

Fixes: dc3106690b20 ("powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Reviewed-by: cyrilbur@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-03-01T18:10:16+00:00

Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - an update of the disassembly code used by xmon to the latest
     versions in binutils. We've received permission from all the
     authors of the relevant binutils changes to relicense their changes
     to the relevant files from GPLv3 to GPLv2, for inclusion in Linux.
     Thanks to Peter Bergner for doing the leg work to get permission
     from everyone.

   - addition of the "architected" Power9 CPU table entry, allowing us
     to boot in Power9 architected mode under a hypervisor.

   - updates to the Power9 PMU code.

   - implementation of clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte() to optimise
     unlock_page().

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx breakpoints
     and perf, t1042rdb display support, and board updates."

  Thanks to:
    Al Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balbir Singh, Douglas
    Miller, Frédéric Weisbecker, Gavin Shan, Madhavan Srinivasan,
    Michael Roth, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Peter
    Bergner, Paul E. McKenney, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sahil
    Mehta, Stewart Smith"

* tag 'powerpc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (48 commits)
  powerpc: Remove leftover cputime_to_nsecs call causing build error
  powerpc/mm/hash: Always clear UPRT and Host Radix bits when setting up CPU
  powerpc/optprobes: Fix TOC handling in optprobes trampoline
  powerpc/pseries: Advertise Hot Plug Event support to firmware
  cxl: fix nested locking hang during EEH hotplug
  powerpc/xmon: Dump memory in CPU endian format
  powerpc/pseries: Revert 'Auto-online hotplugged memory'
  powerpc/powernv: Make PCI non-optional
  powerpc/64: Implement clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
  powerpc/powernv: Remove unused variable in pnv_pci_sriov_disable()
  powerpc/kernel: Remove error message in pcibios_setup_phb_resources()
  powerpc/mm: Fix typo in set_pte_at()
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable MSI and PCI device properly
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable surprise hotplug capability on conflicts
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Remove WARN_ON() in pnv_php_put_slot()
  powerpc: Add POWER9 architected mode to cputable
  powerpc/perf: use is_kernel_addr macro in perf_get_misc_flags()
  powerpc/perf: Avoid FAB_*_MATCH checks for power9
  powerpc/perf: Add restrictions to PMC5 in power9 DD1
  powerpc/perf: Use Instruction Counter value
  ...

powerpc/8xx: Implement hw_breakpoint

2017-01-25T08:43:59+00:00

This patch implements HW breakpoint on the 8xx. The 8xx has
capability to manage HW breakpoints, which is slightly different
than BOOK3S:
1/ The breakpoint match doesn't trigger a DSI exception but a
dedicated data breakpoint exception.
2/ The breakpoint happens after the instruction has completed,
no need to single step or emulate the instruction,
3/ Matched address is not set in DAR but in BAR,
4/ DABR register doesn't exist, instead we have registers
LCTRL1, LCTRL2 and CMPx registers,
5/ The match on one comparator is not on a double word but
on a single word.

The patch does:
1/ Prepare the dedicated registers in call to __set_dabr(). In order
to emulate the double word handling of BOOK3S, comparator E is set to
DABR address value and comparator F to address + 4. Then breakpoint 1
is set to match comparator E or F,
2/ Skip the singlestepping stage when compiled for CONFIG_PPC_8xx,
3/ Implement the exception. In that exception, the matched address
is taken from SPRN_BAR and manage as if it was from SPRN_DAR.
4/ I/D TLB error exception routines perform a tlbie on bad TLBs. That
tlbie triggers the breakpoint exception when performed on the
breakpoint address. For this reason, the routine returns if the match
is from one of those two tlbie.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy 
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood

powerpc: Revert the initial stack protector support

2017-01-24T10:37:43+00:00

Unfortunately the stack protector support we merged recently only works
on some toolchains. If the toolchain is built without glibc support
everything works fine, but if glibc is built then it leads to a panic
at boot.

The solution is not rc5 material, so revert the support for now. This
reverts commits:

6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
902e06eb86cd ("powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task")

Fixes: 6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2016-12-16T17:26:42+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for the kexec_file_load() syscall, which is a prereq for
     secure and trusted boot.

   - Prevent kernel execution of userspace on P9 Radix (similar to
     SMEP/PXN).

   - Sort the exception tables at build time, to save time at boot, and
     store them as relative offsets to save space in the kernel image &
     memory.

   - Allow building the kernel with thin archives, which should allow us
     to build an allyesconfig once some other fixes land.

   - Build fixes to allow us to correctly rebuild when changing the
     kernel endian from big to little or vice versa.

   - Plumbing so that we can avoid doing a full mm TLB flush on P9
     Radix.

   - Initial stack protector support (-fstack-protector).

   - Support for dumping the radix (aka. Linux) and hash page tables via
     debugfs.

   - Fix an oops in cxl coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx hugepage
     support, qbman fixes/cleanup, device tree updates, and some misc
     cleanup."

   - Many and varied fixes and minor enhancements as always.

  Thanks to:
    Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman
    Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
    Christophe Jaillet, Christophe Leroy, Denis Kirjanov, Elimar
    Riesebieter, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff
    Levand, Jack Miller, Johan Hovold, Lars-Peter Clausen, Libin,
    Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N.
    Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Pan Xinhui, Peter Senna Tschudin, Rashmica
    Gupta, Rui Teng, Russell Currey, Scott Wood, Simon Guo, Suraj
    Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tobias Klauser, Vaibhav Jain"

[ And thanks to Michael, who took time off from a new baby to get this
  pull request done.   - Linus ]

* tag 'powerpc-4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (174 commits)
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add FMan node for t1042d4rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add sg_2500_aqr105_phy4 alias on t1024rdb
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1024
  powerpc/fsl/dts: add QMan and BMan nodes on t1023
  soc/fsl/qman: test: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/fsl-lbc: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
  powerpc/8xx: Implement support of hugepages
  powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic
  powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
  powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper
  soc/fsl/bman: Use resource_size instead of computation
  soc/fsl/qe: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/fsl_pmc: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/83xx/suspend: use builtin_platform_driver
  powerpc/ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding
  powerpc/perf: power9 raw event format encoding
  powerpc/perf: update attribute_group data structure
  powerpc/perf: factor out the event format field
  powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown
  ...