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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/64: Add CONFIG_PPC_BARRIER_NOSPEC</title>
<updated>2018-08-07T14:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-27T23:06:34+00:00</published>
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Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add a config symbol to encode which platforms support the
barrier_nospec speculation barrier. Currently this is just Book3S 64
but we will add Book3E in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-07T17:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-07T17:23:33+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for split PMD page table lock on 64-bit Book3S (Power8/9).

   - Add support for HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, so we properly support
     live patching again.

   - Add support for patching barrier_nospec in copy_from_user() and
     syscall entry.

   - A couple of fixes for our data breakpoints on Book3S.

   - A series from Nick optimising TLB/mm handling with the Radix MMU.

   - Numerous small cleanups to squash sparse/gcc warnings from Mathieu
     Malaterre.

   - Several series optimising various parts of the 32-bit code from
     Christophe Leroy.

   - Removal of support for two old machines, "SBC834xE" and "C2K"
     ("GEFanuc,C2K"), which is why the diffstat has so many deletions.

  And many other small improvements &amp; fixes.

  There's a few out-of-area changes. Some minor ftrace changes OK'ed by
  Steve, and a fix to our powernv cpuidle driver. Then there's a series
  touching mm, x86 and fs/proc/task_mmu.c, which cleans up some details
  around pkey support. It was ack'ed/reviewed by Ingo &amp; Dave and has
  been in next for several weeks.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Al
  Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd
  Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dave Hansen, Fabio Estevam, Finn Thain,
  Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Ingo
  Molnar, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Josh Poimboeuf, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Greer, Mathieu Malaterre,
  Matthew Wilcox, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Nicolai Stange, Olof Johansson, Paul Gortmaker, Paul
  Mackerras, Peter Rosin, Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi, Ram Pai, Rashmica
  Gupta, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Samuel
  Mendoza-Jonas, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo,
  Souptick Joarder, Stewart Smith, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Torsten Duwe,
  Vaibhav Jain, Wei Yongjun, Wolfram Sang, Yisheng Xie, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (251 commits)
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix missing ptesync in flush_cache_vmap
  cpuidle: powernv: Fix promotion from snooze if next state disabled
  powerpc: fix build failure by disabling attribute-alias warning in pci_32
  ocxl: Fix missing unlock on error in afu_ioctl_enable_p9_wait()
  powerpc-opal: fix spelling mistake "Uniterrupted" -&gt; "Uninterrupted"
  powerpc: fix spelling mistake: "Usupported" -&gt; "Unsupported"
  powerpc/pkeys: Detach execute_only key on !PROT_EXEC
  powerpc/powernv: copy/paste - Mask SO bit in CR
  powerpc: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell mv64x60 i2c controller
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell MPSC serial controller
  powerpc/embedded6xx: Remove C2K board support
  powerpc/lib: optimise PPC32 memcmp
  powerpc/lib: optimise 32 bits __clear_user()
  powerpc/time: inline arch_vtime_task_switch()
  powerpc/Makefile: set -mcpu=860 flag for the 8xx
  powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6_magic in assembly
  powerpc/32: Optimise __csum_partial()
  powerpc/lib: Adjust .balign inside string functions for PPC32
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for split PMD page table lock on 64-bit Book3S (Power8/9).

   - Add support for HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, so we properly support
     live patching again.

   - Add support for patching barrier_nospec in copy_from_user() and
     syscall entry.

   - A couple of fixes for our data breakpoints on Book3S.

   - A series from Nick optimising TLB/mm handling with the Radix MMU.

   - Numerous small cleanups to squash sparse/gcc warnings from Mathieu
     Malaterre.

   - Several series optimising various parts of the 32-bit code from
     Christophe Leroy.

   - Removal of support for two old machines, "SBC834xE" and "C2K"
     ("GEFanuc,C2K"), which is why the diffstat has so many deletions.

  And many other small improvements &amp; fixes.

  There's a few out-of-area changes. Some minor ftrace changes OK'ed by
  Steve, and a fix to our powernv cpuidle driver. Then there's a series
  touching mm, x86 and fs/proc/task_mmu.c, which cleans up some details
  around pkey support. It was ack'ed/reviewed by Ingo &amp; Dave and has
  been in next for several weeks.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Al
  Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd
  Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dave Hansen, Fabio Estevam, Finn Thain,
  Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Ingo
  Molnar, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Josh Poimboeuf, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Greer, Mathieu Malaterre,
  Matthew Wilcox, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Nicolai Stange, Olof Johansson, Paul Gortmaker, Paul
  Mackerras, Peter Rosin, Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi, Ram Pai, Rashmica
  Gupta, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Samuel
  Mendoza-Jonas, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo,
  Souptick Joarder, Stewart Smith, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Torsten Duwe,
  Vaibhav Jain, Wei Yongjun, Wolfram Sang, Yisheng Xie, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (251 commits)
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix missing ptesync in flush_cache_vmap
  cpuidle: powernv: Fix promotion from snooze if next state disabled
  powerpc: fix build failure by disabling attribute-alias warning in pci_32
  ocxl: Fix missing unlock on error in afu_ioctl_enable_p9_wait()
  powerpc-opal: fix spelling mistake "Uniterrupted" -&gt; "Uninterrupted"
  powerpc: fix spelling mistake: "Usupported" -&gt; "Unsupported"
  powerpc/pkeys: Detach execute_only key on !PROT_EXEC
  powerpc/powernv: copy/paste - Mask SO bit in CR
  powerpc: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell mv64x60 i2c controller
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell MPSC serial controller
  powerpc/embedded6xx: Remove C2K board support
  powerpc/lib: optimise PPC32 memcmp
  powerpc/lib: optimise 32 bits __clear_user()
  powerpc/time: inline arch_vtime_task_switch()
  powerpc/Makefile: set -mcpu=860 flag for the 8xx
  powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6_magic in assembly
  powerpc/32: Optimise __csum_partial()
  powerpc/lib: Adjust .balign inside string functions for PPC32
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T18:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-06T18:00:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8715ee75fe6fa3aed367f28aa7a3655e6a8e4688'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files

 - fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script

 - remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up
   several tools and linker scripts

 - clean-up modpost

 - allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT
   mode

 - improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance

 - pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture

 - misc fixes

* tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
  kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS
  kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS
  kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice
  scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch
  scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation
  coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance
  coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance
  powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected
  kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled
  kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build
  kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible
  modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test
  modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely
  modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo()
  checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
  kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
  export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore
  depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files

 - fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script

 - remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up
   several tools and linker scripts

 - clean-up modpost

 - allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT
   mode

 - improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance

 - pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture

 - misc fixes

* tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
  kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS
  kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS
  kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice
  scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch
  scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation
  coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance
  coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance
  powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected
  kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled
  kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build
  kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible
  modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test
  modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely
  modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo()
  checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
  kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
  export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore
  depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for ori barrier_nospec patching</title>
<updated>2018-06-03T10:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Suchanek</name>
<email>msuchanek@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-24T04:15:55+00:00</published>
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Based on the RFI patching. This is required to be able to disable the
speculation barrier.

Only one barrier type is supported and it does nothing when the
firmware does not enable it. Also re-patching modules is not supported
So the only meaningful thing that can be done is patching out the
speculation barrier at boot when the user says it is not wanted.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Based on the RFI patching. This is required to be able to disable the
speculation barrier.

Only one barrier type is supported and it does nothing when the
firmware does not enable it. Also re-patching modules is not supported
So the only meaningful thing that can be done is patching out the
speculation barrier at boot when the user says it is not wanted.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit</title>
<updated>2018-05-22T03:45:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-21T23:00:00+00:00</published>
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On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T13:45:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T13:00:01+00:00</published>
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This requires further changes to linker script to KEEP some tables
and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place. This
includes pp32 modifications from Christophe Leroy.

When compiling powernv_defconfig with this option, the resulting
kernel is almost 400kB smaller (and still boots):

    text      data       bss        dec   filename
11827621   4810490   1341080   17979191   vmlinux
11752437   4598858   1338776   17690071   vmlinux.dcde

Mathieu's numbers for custom Mac Mini G4 config has almost 200kB
saving. It also had some increase in vmlinux size for as-yet
unknown reasons.

    text      data       bss        dec   filename
 7461457   2475122   1428064   11364643   vmlinux
 7386425   2364370   1425432   11176227   vmlinux.dcde

Tested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt; [8xx]
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt; [32-bit powermac]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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This requires further changes to linker script to KEEP some tables
and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place. This
includes pp32 modifications from Christophe Leroy.

When compiling powernv_defconfig with this option, the resulting
kernel is almost 400kB smaller (and still boots):

    text      data       bss        dec   filename
11827621   4810490   1341080   17979191   vmlinux
11752437   4598858   1338776   17690071   vmlinux.dcde

Mathieu's numbers for custom Mac Mini G4 config has almost 200kB
saving. It also had some increase in vmlinux size for as-yet
unknown reasons.

    text      data       bss        dec   filename
 7461457   2475122   1428064   11364643   vmlinux
 7386425   2364370   1425432   11176227   vmlinux.dcde

Tested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt; [8xx]
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt; [32-bit powermac]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&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'/>
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<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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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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' into next</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T12:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T12:21:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ebf0b6a8b1e445d2be66087732aafcda12ab9f59'/>
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Merge our fixes branch from the 4.15 cycle.

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

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

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

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

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

And we also fix a few other minor merge conflicts.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for RFI flush of L1-D cache</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T10:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T16:07:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aa8a5e0062ac940f7659394f4817c948dc8c0667'/>
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On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.

The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.

In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.

In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.

For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.

In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.

Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
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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On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.

The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.

In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.

In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.

For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.

In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.

Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
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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