linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.3-rc4

powerpc/perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values, breaking frequency events

2012-02-16T05:24:35+00:00

perf on POWER stopped working after commit e050e3f0a71b (perf: Fix
broken interrupt rate throttling). That patch exposed a bug in
the POWER perf_events code.

Since the PMCs count upwards and take an exception when the top bit
is set, we want to write 0x80000000 - left in power_pmu_start. We were
instead programming in left which effectively disables the counter
until we eventually hit 0x80000000. This could take seconds or longer.

With the patch applied I get the expected number of samples:

          SAMPLE events:       9948

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc:

powerpc: Disable interrupts early in Program Check

2012-02-16T05:15:10+00:00

Program Check exceptions are the result of WARNs, BUGs, some
type of breakpoints, kprobe, and other illegal instructions.

We want interrupts (and thus preemption) to remain disabled
while doing the initial stage of testing the reason and
branching off to a debugger or kprobe, so we are still on
the original CPU which makes debugging easier in various cases.

This is how the code was intended, hence the local_irq_enable()
right in the middle of program_check_exception().

However, the assembly exception prologue for that exception was
incorrectly marked as enabling interrupts, which defeats that
(and records a redundant enable with lockdep).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix kernel log of oops/panic instruction dump

2012-02-16T05:11:23+00:00

A kernel oops/panic prints an instruction dump showing several
instructions before and after the instruction which caused the
oops/panic.

The code intended that the faulting instruction be enclosed in angle
brackets, however a bug caused the faulting instruction to be
interpreted by printk() as the message log level.

To fix this, the KERN_CONT log level is added before the actual text of
the printed message.

=== Before the patch ===

[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

<4>[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
<4>[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
<4>[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
<98090000>[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

=== After the patch ===

[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 <98090000> 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

<4>[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
<4>[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
<4>[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 <98090000> 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Fix partition migration hang in stop_topology_update

2012-02-14T04:01:39+00:00

This fixes a hang that was observed during live partition migration.
Since stop_topology_update must not be called from an interrupt
context, call it earlier in the migration process. The hang observed
can be seen below:

WARNING: at kernel/timer.c:1011
Modules linked in: ip6t_LOG xt_tcpudp xt_pkttype ipt_LOG xt_limit ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_raw xt_NOTRACK ipt_REJECT xt_state iptable_raw iptable_filter ip6table_mangle nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 fuse loop ibmveth sg ext3 jbd mbcache raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx raid10 raid1 raid0 scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc dm_round_robin dm_multipath scsi_dh sd_mod crc_t10dif ibmvfc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt scsi_mod dm_snapshot dm_mod
NIP: c0000000000c52d8 LR: c00000000004be28 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c00000005ffd77d0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (3.2.0-git-00001-g07d106d)
MSR: 8000000000021032   CR: 48000084  XER: 00000001
CFAR: c00000000004be20
TASK = c00000005ec78860[0] 'swapper/3' THREAD: c00000005ec98000 CPU: 3
GPR00: 0000000000000001 c00000005ffd7a50 c000000000fbbc98 c000000000ec8340
GPR04: 00000000282a0020 0000000000000000 0000000000004000 0000000000000101
GPR08: 0000000000000012 c00000005ffd4000 0000000000000020 c000000000f3ba88
GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000007f40900 0000000000000001 0000000000000004
GPR16: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000001022310
GPR20: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 c000000001029e14
GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000040 c00000003f74bc80
GPR28: c00000003f74bc84 c000000000f38038 c000000000f16b58 c000000000ec8340
NIP [c0000000000c52d8] .del_timer_sync+0x28/0x60
LR [c00000000004be28] .stop_topology_update+0x20/0x38
Call Trace:
[c00000005ffd7a50] [c00000005ec78860] 0xc00000005ec78860 (unreliable)
[c00000005ffd7ad0] [c00000000004be28] .stop_topology_update+0x20/0x38
[c00000005ffd7b40] [c000000000028378] .__rtas_suspend_last_cpu+0x58/0x260
[c00000005ffd7bf0] [c0000000000fa230] .generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x160/0x358
[c00000005ffd7cf0] [c000000000036ec8] .smp_ipi_demux+0x88/0x100
[c00000005ffd7d80] [c00000000005c154] .icp_hv_ipi_action+0x5c/0x80
[c00000005ffd7e00] [c00000000012a088] .handle_irq_event_percpu+0x100/0x318
[c00000005ffd7f00] [c00000000012e774] .handle_percpu_irq+0x84/0xd0
[c00000005ffd7f90] [c000000000022ba8] .call_handle_irq+0x1c/0x2c
[c00000005ec9ba20] [c00000000001157c] .do_IRQ+0x22c/0x2a8
[c00000005ec9bae0] [c0000000000054bc] hardware_interrupt_entry+0x18/0x1c
Exception: 501 at .cpu_idle+0x194/0x2f8
    LR = .cpu_idle+0x194/0x2f8
[c00000005ec9bdd0] [c000000000017e58] .cpu_idle+0x188/0x2f8 (unreliable)
[c00000005ec9be90] [c00000000067ec18] .start_secondary+0x3e4/0x524
[c00000005ec9bf90] [c0000000000093e8] .start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
Instruction dump:
ebe1fff8 4e800020 fbe1fff8 7c0802a6 f8010010 7c7f1b78 f821ff81 78290464
80090014 5400019e 7c0000d0 78000fe0 <0b000000> 4800000c 7c210b78 7c421378

Signed-off-by: Brian King 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix WARN_ON in decrementer_check_overflow

2012-02-14T04:01:38+00:00

We use __get_cpu_var() which triggers a false positive warning
in smp_processor_id() thinking interrupts are enabled (at this
point, they are soft-enabled but hard-disabled).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix build on some non-freescale platforms

2012-01-25T02:33:22+00:00

Commit 9deaa53ac7fa373623123aa4f18828dd62292b1a broke build
on platforms that use legacy_serial.c without also having
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_FSL enabled due to an unconditional code
to a routine in that module.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/crash: Fix build error without SMP

2012-01-24T22:47:45+00:00

I could not find cpus_in_crash anywhere in the sourcetree, except for
arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c. Moving the definition into the CONFIG_SMP
fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit

2012-01-18T00:41:31+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
  audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
  audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
  audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
  audit: comparison on interprocess fields
  audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
  audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
  audit: complex interfield comparison helper
  audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
  Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
  audit: do not call audit_getname on error
  audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
  audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
  audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
  audit: allow matching on obj_uid
  audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
  audit: reject entry,always rules
  audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
  audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
  audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
  audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
  ...

Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.

Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.

audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce burden on archs

2012-01-17T21:16:56+00:00

Every arch calls:

if (unlikely(current->audit_context))
	audit_syscall_entry()

which requires knowledge about audit (the existance of audit_context) in
the arch code.  Just do it all in static inline in audit.h so that arch's
can remain blissfully ignorant.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h

2012-01-17T21:16:56+00:00

The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to
supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was.
Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things
by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating
success or failure.  This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid
pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall.  The fix is to fix the
layering foolishness.  We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it
in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to
determine if the syscall was a success or failure.  We also define a generic
is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the
value is < -MAX_ERRNO.  This works for arches like x86 which do not use a
separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure.

We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines
instead of macros.  The reason is because the audit function must take a void*
for the regs.  (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct
pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs).  Since the audit
function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the
arch correct structure to dereference it.

The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we
change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure.
THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it
makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs.

In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old
audit code as the return value.  But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro
regs_return_value() as regs[3].  I have no idea which one is correct, but this
patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3].

For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the
regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3].  regs->gprs[3] is
always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative
before calling the audit code when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin  [for x86 portion]
Acked-by: Tony Luck  [for ia64]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger  [for uml]
Acked-by: David S. Miller  [for sparc]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle  [for mips]
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt  [for ppc]