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<title>arch/powerpc/kernel: Use %12.12s instead of %12s to avoid memory overflow</title>
<updated>2013-11-25T00:50:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Gang</name>
<email>gang.chen@asianux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-24T04:14:52+00:00</published>
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for tmp_part-&gt;header.name:
    it is "Terminating null required only for names &lt; 12 chars".
    so need to limit the %.12s for it in printk

  additional info:

    %12s  limit the width, not for the original string output length
          if name length is more than 12, it still can be fully displayed.
          if name length is less than 12, the ' ' will be filled before name.

    %.12s truly limit the original string output length (precision)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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for tmp_part-&gt;header.name:
    it is "Terminating null required only for names &lt; 12 chars".
    so need to limit the %.12s for it in printk

  additional info:

    %12s  limit the width, not for the original string output length
          if name length is more than 12, it still can be fully displayed.
          if name length is less than 12, the ' ' will be filled before name.

    %.12s truly limit the original string output length (precision)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/signals: Improved mark VSX not saved with small contexts fix</title>
<updated>2013-11-25T00:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-25T00:12:20+00:00</published>
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In a recent patch:
  commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42
  Author: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch
was merged.

Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit
this issue (but has never been reported).

Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to.  The
new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the
context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when
VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the
state).

This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution.  It
also adds a 64 bit version.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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In a recent patch:
  commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42
  Author: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch
was merged.

Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit
this issue (but has never been reported).

Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to.  The
new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the
context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when
VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the
state).

This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution.  It
also adds a 64 bit version.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kdump: Adding symbols in vmcoreinfo to facilitate dump filtering</title>
<updated>2013-11-25T00:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T17:31:32+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP option is used in kernel, makedumpfile fails
to filter vmcore dump as it fails to do vmemmap translations. So far
dump filtering on ppc64 never had to deal with vmemmap addresses seperately
as vmemmap regions where mapped in zone normal. But with the inclusion of
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP config option in kernel, this vmemmap address
translation support becomes necessary for dump filtering. For vmemmap adress
translation, few kernel symbols are needed by dump filtering tool. This patch
adds those symbols to vmcoreinfo, which a dump filtering tool can use for
filtering the kernel dump. Tested this changes successfully with makedumpfile
tool that supports vmemmap to physical address translation outside zone normal.

[ Removed unneeded #ifdef as suggested by Michael Ellerman --BenH ]

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP option is used in kernel, makedumpfile fails
to filter vmcore dump as it fails to do vmemmap translations. So far
dump filtering on ppc64 never had to deal with vmemmap addresses seperately
as vmemmap regions where mapped in zone normal. But with the inclusion of
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP config option in kernel, this vmemmap address
translation support becomes necessary for dump filtering. For vmemmap adress
translation, few kernel symbols are needed by dump filtering tool. This patch
adds those symbols to vmcoreinfo, which a dump filtering tool can use for
filtering the kernel dump. Tested this changes successfully with makedumpfile
tool that supports vmemmap to physical address translation outside zone normal.

[ Removed unneeded #ifdef as suggested by Michael Ellerman --BenH ]

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/8xx: mfspr SPRN_TBRx in lieu of mftb/mftbu is not supported</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T22:56:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>LEROY Christophe</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T16:57:31+00:00</published>
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Commit beb2dc0a7a84be003ce54e98b95d65cc66e6e536 breaks the MPC8xx which
seems to not support using mfspr SPRN_TBRx instead of mftb/mftbu
despite what is written in the reference manual.

This patch reverts to the use of mftb/mftbu when CONFIG_8xx is
selected.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Commit beb2dc0a7a84be003ce54e98b95d65cc66e6e536 breaks the MPC8xx which
seems to not support using mfspr SPRN_TBRx instead of mftb/mftbu
despite what is written in the reference manual.

This patch reverts to the use of mftb/mftbu when CONFIG_8xx is
selected.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T23:33:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-20T05:18:54+00:00</published>
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The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX
state.  Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage.

Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state,
we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit.

This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide
enough space.  This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user
context.

This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use
VSX but only provide a small context.  For example, getcontext in glibc
provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over
the glibc function call.  But since the program calling getcontext may have
used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not.  If
the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without
VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context.  This situation
has been reported by the glibc community.

Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell.

Tested-by: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX
state.  Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage.

Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state,
we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit.

This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide
enough space.  This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user
context.

This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use
VSX but only provide a small context.  For example, getcontext in glibc
provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over
the glibc function call.  But since the program calling getcontext may have
used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not.  If
the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without
VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context.  This situation
has been reported by the glibc community.

Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell.

Tested-by: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Make cpu_to_chip_id() available when SMP=n</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T23:33:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-20T00:05:01+00:00</published>
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Up until now we have only used cpu_to_chip_id() in the topology code,
which is only used on SMP builds. However my recent commit a4da0d5
"Implement arch_get_random_long/int() for powernv" added a usage when
SMP=n, breaking the build.

Move cpu_to_chip_id() into prom.c so it is available for SMP=n builds.

We would move the extern to prom.h, but that breaks the include in
topology.h. Instead we leave it in smp.h, but move it out of the
CONFIG_SMP #ifdef. We also need to include asm/smp.h in rng.c, because
the linux version skips asm/smp.h on UP. What a mess.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Up until now we have only used cpu_to_chip_id() in the topology code,
which is only used on SMP builds. However my recent commit a4da0d5
"Implement arch_get_random_long/int() for powernv" added a usage when
SMP=n, breaking the build.

Move cpu_to_chip_id() into prom.c so it is available for SMP=n builds.

We would move the extern to prom.h, but that breaks the include in
topology.h. Instead we leave it in smp.h, but move it out of the
CONFIG_SMP #ifdef. We also need to include asm/smp.h in rng.c, because
the linux version skips asm/smp.h on UP. What a mess.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vio: Fix a dma_mask issue of vio</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T23:33:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhong</name>
<email>zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T08:11:37+00:00</published>
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I encountered following issue:
[    0.283035] ibmvscsi 30000015: couldn't initialize event pool
[    5.688822] ibmvscsi: probe of 30000015 failed with error -1

which prevents the storage from being recognized, and the machine from
booting.

After some digging, it seems that it is caused by commit 4886c399da

as dma_mask pointer in viodev-&gt;dev is not set, so in
dma_set_mask_and_coherent(), dma_set_coherent_mask() is not called
because dma_set_mask(), which is dma_set_mask_pSeriesLP() returned EIO.
While before the commit, dma_set_coherent_mask() is always called.

I tried to replace dma_set_mask_and_coherent() with
dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(), and the machine could boot again.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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I encountered following issue:
[    0.283035] ibmvscsi 30000015: couldn't initialize event pool
[    5.688822] ibmvscsi: probe of 30000015 failed with error -1

which prevents the storage from being recognized, and the machine from
booting.

After some digging, it seems that it is caused by commit 4886c399da

as dma_mask pointer in viodev-&gt;dev is not set, so in
dma_set_mask_and_coherent(), dma_set_coherent_mask() is not called
because dma_set_mask(), which is dma_set_mask_pSeriesLP() returned EIO.
While before the commit, dma_set_coherent_mask() is always called.

I tried to replace dma_set_mask_and_coherent() with
dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(), and the machine could boot again.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Only print PACATMSCRATCH in oops when TM is active</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T23:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-18T02:19:17+00:00</published>
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If TM is not active there is no need to print PACATMSCRATCH
so we can save ourselves a line.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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If TM is not active there is no need to print PACATMSCRATCH
so we can save ourselves a line.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T23:33:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-17T00:39:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=84b073868b9d9e754ae48b828337633d1b386482'/>
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When reading from the dispatch trace log (dtl) userspace interface, I
sometimes see duplicate entries. One example:

# hexdump -C dtl.out

00000000  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

00000030  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

The problem is in scan_dispatch_log() where we call dtl_consumer()
but bail out before incrementing the index.

To fix this I moved dtl_consumer() after the timebase comparison.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When reading from the dispatch trace log (dtl) userspace interface, I
sometimes see duplicate entries. One example:

# hexdump -C dtl.out

00000000  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

00000030  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

The problem is in scan_dispatch_log() where we call dtl_consumer()
but bail out before incrementing the index.

To fix this I moved dtl_consumer() after the timebase comparison.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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