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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-01-30T00:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-30T00:10:16+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 - Wire up copy_file_range() syscall from Chandan Rajendra
 - Simplify module TOC handling from Alan Modra
 - Remove newly added extra definition of pmd_dirty from Stephen Rothwell
 - Allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf from Vasant Hegde
 - Fix PE location code from Gavin Shan
 - Remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag for Power8 from Madhavan Srinivasan
 - Fixup _HPAGE_CHG_MASK from Aneesh Kumar K.V

* tag 'powerpc-4.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/mm: Fixup _HPAGE_CHG_MASK
  powerpc/perf: Remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag for Power8
  powerpc/eeh: Fix PE location code
  powerpc/mm: Allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf
  powerpc: Remove newly added extra definition of pmd_dirty
  powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling
  powerpc: Wire up copy_file_range() syscall
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 - Wire up copy_file_range() syscall from Chandan Rajendra
 - Simplify module TOC handling from Alan Modra
 - Remove newly added extra definition of pmd_dirty from Stephen Rothwell
 - Allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf from Vasant Hegde
 - Fix PE location code from Gavin Shan
 - Remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag for Power8 from Madhavan Srinivasan
 - Fixup _HPAGE_CHG_MASK from Aneesh Kumar K.V

* tag 'powerpc-4.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/mm: Fixup _HPAGE_CHG_MASK
  powerpc/perf: Remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag for Power8
  powerpc/eeh: Fix PE location code
  powerpc/mm: Allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf
  powerpc: Remove newly added extra definition of pmd_dirty
  powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling
  powerpc: Wire up copy_file_range() syscall
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/eeh: Fix PE location code</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T00:37:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gavin Shan</name>
<email>gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-02T05:25:32+00:00</published>
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In eeh_pe_loc_get(), the PE location code is retrieved from the
"ibm,loc-code" property of the device node for the bridge of the
PE's primary bus. It's not correct because the property indicates
the parent PE's location code.

This reads the correct PE location code from "ibm,io-base-loc-code"
or "ibm,slot-location-code" property of PE parent bus's device node.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Fixes: 357b2f3dd9b7 ("powerpc/eeh: Dump PE location code")
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In eeh_pe_loc_get(), the PE location code is retrieved from the
"ibm,loc-code" property of the device node for the bridge of the
PE's primary bus. It's not correct because the property indicates
the parent PE's location code.

This reads the correct PE location code from "ibm,io-base-loc-code"
or "ibm,slot-location-code" property of PE parent bus's device node.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Fixes: 357b2f3dd9b7 ("powerpc/eeh: Dump PE location code")
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T20:32:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-21T20:32:08+00:00</published>
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Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "I'm pretty much done for -rc1 now:

   - the rest of MM, basically

   - lib/ updates

   - checkpatch, epoll, hfs, fatfs, ptrace, coredump, exit

   - cpu_mask simplifications

   - kexec, rapidio, MAINTAINERS etc, etc.

   - more dma-mapping cleanups/simplifications from hch"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (109 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add/fix git URLs for various subsystems
  mm: memcontrol: add "sock" to cgroup2 memory.stat
  mm: memcontrol: basic memory statistics in cgroup2 memory controller
  mm: memcontrol: do not uncharge old page in page cache replacement
  Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} description
  mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full
  mm: vmscan: do not scan anon pages if memcg swap limit is hit
  swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file
  mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online with mem_cgroup_online
  mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count()
  mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2
  mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions
  mm: memcontrol: flatten struct cg_proto
  mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
  net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c
  mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM
  mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
  mm: memcontrol: account "kmem" consumers in cgroup2 memory controller
  mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
  mm: memcontrol: separate kmem code from legacy tcp accounting code
  ...
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Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "I'm pretty much done for -rc1 now:

   - the rest of MM, basically

   - lib/ updates

   - checkpatch, epoll, hfs, fatfs, ptrace, coredump, exit

   - cpu_mask simplifications

   - kexec, rapidio, MAINTAINERS etc, etc.

   - more dma-mapping cleanups/simplifications from hch"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (109 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add/fix git URLs for various subsystems
  mm: memcontrol: add "sock" to cgroup2 memory.stat
  mm: memcontrol: basic memory statistics in cgroup2 memory controller
  mm: memcontrol: do not uncharge old page in page cache replacement
  Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} description
  mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full
  mm: vmscan: do not scan anon pages if memcg swap limit is hit
  swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file
  mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online with mem_cgroup_online
  mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count()
  mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2
  mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions
  mm: memcontrol: flatten struct cg_proto
  mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
  net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c
  mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM
  mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
  mm: memcontrol: account "kmem" consumers in cgroup2 memory controller
  mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
  mm: memcontrol: separate kmem code from legacy tcp accounting code
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v4.5-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T19:52:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-21T19:52:16+00:00</published>
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI changes for the v4.5 merge window:

  Enumeration:
   - Simplify config space size computation (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Avoid iterating through ROM outside the resource window (Edward O'Callaghan)
   - Support PCIe devices with short cfg_size (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Add Netronome vendor and device IDs (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Limit config space size for Netronome NFP6000 family (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Add Netronome NFP4000 PF device ID (Simon Horman)
   - Limit config space size for Netronome NFP4000 (Simon Horman)
   - Print warnings for all invalid expansion ROM headers (Vladis Dronov)

  Resource management:
   - Fix minimum allocation address overwrite (Christoph Biedl)

  PCI device hotplug:
   - acpiphp_ibm: Fix null dereferences on null ibm_slot (Colin Ian King)
   - pciehp: Always protect pciehp_disable_slot() with hotplug mutex (Guenter Roeck)
   - shpchp: Constify hpc_ops structure (Julia Lawall)
   - ibmphp: Remove unneeded NULL test (Julia Lawall)

  Power management:
   - Make ASPM sysfs link_state_store() consistent with link_state_show() (Andy Lutomirski)

  Virtualization
   - Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Lite-On/Plextor M6e/Marvell 88SS9183 (Tim Sander)

  MSI:
   - Remove empty pci_msi_init_pci_dev() (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Mark PCIe/PCI (MSI) IRQ cascade handlers as IRQF_NO_THREAD (Grygorii Strashko)
   - Initialize MSI capability for all architectures (Guilherme G. Piccoli)
   - Relax msi_domain_alloc() to support parentless MSI irqdomains (Liu Jiang)

  ARM Versatile host bridge driver:
   - Remove unused pci_sys_data structures (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

  Broadcom iProc host bridge driver:
   - Hide CONFIG_PCIE_IPROC (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Do not use 0x in front of %pap (Dmitry V. Krivenok)
   - Update iProc PCIe device tree binding (Ray Jui)
   - Add PAXC interface support (Ray Jui)
   - Add iProc PCIe MSI device tree binding (Ray Jui)
   - Add iProc PCIe MSI support (Ray Jui)

  Freescale i.MX6 host bridge driver:
   - Use gpio_set_value_cansleep() (Fabio Estevam)
   - Add support for active-low reset GPIO (Petr Štetiar)

  HiSilicon host bridge driver:
   - Add support for HiSilicon Hip06 PCIe host controllers (Gabriele Paoloni)

  Intel VMD host bridge driver:
   - Export irq_domain_set_info() for module use (Keith Busch)
   - x86/PCI: Allow DMA ops specific to a PCI domain (Keith Busch)
   - Use 32 bit PCI domain numbers (Keith Busch)
   - Add driver for Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) (Keith Busch)

  Qualcomm host bridge driver:
   - Document PCIe devicetree bindings (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - Add Qualcomm PCIe controller driver (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - dts: apq8064: add PCIe devicetree node (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - dts: ifc6410: enable PCIe DT node for this board (Stanimir Varbanov)

  Renesas R-Car host bridge driver:
   - Add support for R-Car H3 to pcie-rcar (Harunobu Kurokawa)
   - Allow DT to override default window settings (Phil Edworthy)
   - Convert to DT resource parsing API (Phil Edworthy)
   - Revert "PCI: rcar: Build pcie-rcar.c only on ARM" (Phil Edworthy)
   - Remove unused pci_sys_data struct from pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add runtime PM support to pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add Gen2 PHY setup to pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add gen2 fallback compatibility string for pci-rcar-gen2 (Simon Horman)
   - Add gen2 fallback compatibility string for pcie-rcar (Simon Horman)

  Synopsys DesignWare host bridge driver:
   - Simplify control flow (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Make config accessor override checking symmetric (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Ensure ATU is enabled before IO/conf space accesses (Stanimir Varbanov)

  Miscellaneous:
   - Add of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() stub (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Check for PCI_HEADER_TYPE_BRIDGE equality, not bitmask (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Fix all whitespace issues (Bogicevic Sasa)
   - x86/PCI: Simplify pci_bios_{read,write} (Geliang Tang)
   - Use to_pci_dev() instead of open-coding it (Geliang Tang)
   - Use kobj_to_dev() instead of open-coding it (Geliang Tang)
   - Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code (Geliang Tang)
   - Fix typos in &lt;linux/msi.h&gt; (Thomas Petazzoni)
   - x86/PCI: Clarify AMD Fam10h config access restrictions comment (Tomasz Nowicki)"

* tag 'pci-v4.5-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (58 commits)
  PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Lite-On/Plextor M6e/Marvell 88SS9183
  PCI: Limit config space size for Netronome NFP4000
  PCI: Add Netronome NFP4000 PF device ID
  x86/PCI: Add driver for Intel Volume Management Device (VMD)
  PCI/AER: Use 32 bit PCI domain numbers
  x86/PCI: Allow DMA ops specific to a PCI domain
  irqdomain: Export irq_domain_set_info() for module use
  PCI: host: Add of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() stub
  genirq/MSI: Relax msi_domain_alloc() to support parentless MSI irqdomains
  PCI: rcar: Add Gen2 PHY setup to pcie-rcar
  PCI: rcar: Add runtime PM support to pcie-rcar
  PCI: designware: Make config accessor override checking symmetric
  PCI: ibmphp: Remove unneeded NULL test
  ARM: dts: ifc6410: enable PCIe DT node for this board
  ARM: dts: apq8064: add PCIe devicetree node
  PCI: hotplug: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code
  PCI: rcar: Remove unused pci_sys_data struct from pcie-rcar
  PCI: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon Hip06 PCIe host controllers
  PCI: Avoid iterating through memory outside the resource window
  PCI: acpiphp_ibm: Fix null dereferences on null ibm_slot
  ...
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI changes for the v4.5 merge window:

  Enumeration:
   - Simplify config space size computation (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Avoid iterating through ROM outside the resource window (Edward O'Callaghan)
   - Support PCIe devices with short cfg_size (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Add Netronome vendor and device IDs (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Limit config space size for Netronome NFP6000 family (Jason S. McMullan)
   - Add Netronome NFP4000 PF device ID (Simon Horman)
   - Limit config space size for Netronome NFP4000 (Simon Horman)
   - Print warnings for all invalid expansion ROM headers (Vladis Dronov)

  Resource management:
   - Fix minimum allocation address overwrite (Christoph Biedl)

  PCI device hotplug:
   - acpiphp_ibm: Fix null dereferences on null ibm_slot (Colin Ian King)
   - pciehp: Always protect pciehp_disable_slot() with hotplug mutex (Guenter Roeck)
   - shpchp: Constify hpc_ops structure (Julia Lawall)
   - ibmphp: Remove unneeded NULL test (Julia Lawall)

  Power management:
   - Make ASPM sysfs link_state_store() consistent with link_state_show() (Andy Lutomirski)

  Virtualization
   - Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Lite-On/Plextor M6e/Marvell 88SS9183 (Tim Sander)

  MSI:
   - Remove empty pci_msi_init_pci_dev() (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Mark PCIe/PCI (MSI) IRQ cascade handlers as IRQF_NO_THREAD (Grygorii Strashko)
   - Initialize MSI capability for all architectures (Guilherme G. Piccoli)
   - Relax msi_domain_alloc() to support parentless MSI irqdomains (Liu Jiang)

  ARM Versatile host bridge driver:
   - Remove unused pci_sys_data structures (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

  Broadcom iProc host bridge driver:
   - Hide CONFIG_PCIE_IPROC (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Do not use 0x in front of %pap (Dmitry V. Krivenok)
   - Update iProc PCIe device tree binding (Ray Jui)
   - Add PAXC interface support (Ray Jui)
   - Add iProc PCIe MSI device tree binding (Ray Jui)
   - Add iProc PCIe MSI support (Ray Jui)

  Freescale i.MX6 host bridge driver:
   - Use gpio_set_value_cansleep() (Fabio Estevam)
   - Add support for active-low reset GPIO (Petr Štetiar)

  HiSilicon host bridge driver:
   - Add support for HiSilicon Hip06 PCIe host controllers (Gabriele Paoloni)

  Intel VMD host bridge driver:
   - Export irq_domain_set_info() for module use (Keith Busch)
   - x86/PCI: Allow DMA ops specific to a PCI domain (Keith Busch)
   - Use 32 bit PCI domain numbers (Keith Busch)
   - Add driver for Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) (Keith Busch)

  Qualcomm host bridge driver:
   - Document PCIe devicetree bindings (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - Add Qualcomm PCIe controller driver (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - dts: apq8064: add PCIe devicetree node (Stanimir Varbanov)
   - dts: ifc6410: enable PCIe DT node for this board (Stanimir Varbanov)

  Renesas R-Car host bridge driver:
   - Add support for R-Car H3 to pcie-rcar (Harunobu Kurokawa)
   - Allow DT to override default window settings (Phil Edworthy)
   - Convert to DT resource parsing API (Phil Edworthy)
   - Revert "PCI: rcar: Build pcie-rcar.c only on ARM" (Phil Edworthy)
   - Remove unused pci_sys_data struct from pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add runtime PM support to pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add Gen2 PHY setup to pcie-rcar (Phil Edworthy)
   - Add gen2 fallback compatibility string for pci-rcar-gen2 (Simon Horman)
   - Add gen2 fallback compatibility string for pcie-rcar (Simon Horman)

  Synopsys DesignWare host bridge driver:
   - Simplify control flow (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Make config accessor override checking symmetric (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Ensure ATU is enabled before IO/conf space accesses (Stanimir Varbanov)

  Miscellaneous:
   - Add of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() stub (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Check for PCI_HEADER_TYPE_BRIDGE equality, not bitmask (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Fix all whitespace issues (Bogicevic Sasa)
   - x86/PCI: Simplify pci_bios_{read,write} (Geliang Tang)
   - Use to_pci_dev() instead of open-coding it (Geliang Tang)
   - Use kobj_to_dev() instead of open-coding it (Geliang Tang)
   - Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code (Geliang Tang)
   - Fix typos in &lt;linux/msi.h&gt; (Thomas Petazzoni)
   - x86/PCI: Clarify AMD Fam10h config access restrictions comment (Tomasz Nowicki)"

* tag 'pci-v4.5-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (58 commits)
  PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Lite-On/Plextor M6e/Marvell 88SS9183
  PCI: Limit config space size for Netronome NFP4000
  PCI: Add Netronome NFP4000 PF device ID
  x86/PCI: Add driver for Intel Volume Management Device (VMD)
  PCI/AER: Use 32 bit PCI domain numbers
  x86/PCI: Allow DMA ops specific to a PCI domain
  irqdomain: Export irq_domain_set_info() for module use
  PCI: host: Add of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() stub
  genirq/MSI: Relax msi_domain_alloc() to support parentless MSI irqdomains
  PCI: rcar: Add Gen2 PHY setup to pcie-rcar
  PCI: rcar: Add runtime PM support to pcie-rcar
  PCI: designware: Make config accessor override checking symmetric
  PCI: ibmphp: Remove unneeded NULL test
  ARM: dts: ifc6410: enable PCIe DT node for this board
  ARM: dts: apq8064: add PCIe devicetree node
  PCI: hotplug: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code
  PCI: rcar: Remove unused pci_sys_data struct from pcie-rcar
  PCI: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon Hip06 PCIe host controllers
  PCI: Avoid iterating through memory outside the resource window
  PCI: acpiphp_ibm: Fix null dereferences on null ibm_slot
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T03:10:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-15T09:52:22+00:00</published>
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PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: enable UBSAN support</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T23:00:58+00:00</published>
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This hooks up UBSAN support for PowerPC.

So far it's found some interesting cases where we don't properly sanitise
input to shifts, including one in our futex handling.  Nothing critical,
but interesting and worth fixing.

[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: arch/powerpc/Kconfig: fix typo in select statement]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This hooks up UBSAN support for PowerPC.

So far it's found some interesting cases where we don't properly sanitise
input to shifts, including one in our futex handling.  Nothing critical,
but interesting and worth fixing.

[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: arch/powerpc/Kconfig: fix typo in select statement]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: rename cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T23:00:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a0512164278b11deb3b07bf14e72f8b979b07aa6'/>
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The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed
readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask.  But they are
also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions
set_cpu_xyz.  There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which
iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access
go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless
indirection.

It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of
indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a
problem.  In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see
4/6).

Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a
struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask
becomes a macro later in the series.  The next four patches eliminate the
cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after
renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through
cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as
they used to have.

After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be
out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or
false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one
or two instructions.

For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes.
We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte
smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount).  Mostly because, when
iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask
into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each
find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate
address into %rdi before each call.

[1] See Rusty's kind explanation
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for
some historic context.

This patch (of 6):

As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global
cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the
cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply
online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed
readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask.  But they are
also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions
set_cpu_xyz.  There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which
iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access
go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless
indirection.

It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of
indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a
problem.  In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see
4/6).

Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a
struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask
becomes a macro later in the series.  The next four patches eliminate the
cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after
renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through
cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as
they used to have.

After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be
out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or
false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one
or two instructions.

For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes.
We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte
smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount).  Mostly because, when
iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask
into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each
find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate
address into %rdi before each call.

[1] See Rusty's kind explanation
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for
some historic context.

This patch (of 6):

As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global
cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the
cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply
online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-01-15T21:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-15T21:18:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f689b742f217b2ffe7925f8a6521b208ee995309'/>
<id>f689b742f217b2ffe7925f8a6521b208ee995309</id>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Core:
   - Ground work for the new Power9 MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V
   - Optimise FP/VMX/VSX context switching from Anton Blanchard

  Misc:
   - Various cleanups from Krzysztof Kozlowski, John Ogness, Rashmica
     Gupta, Russell Currey, Gavin Shan, Daniel Axtens, Michael Neuling,
     Andrew Donnellan
   - Allow wrapper to work on non-english system from Laurent Vivier
   - Add rN aliases to the pt_regs_offset table from Rashmica Gupta
   - Fix module autoload for rackmeter &amp; axonram drivers from Luis de
     Bethencourt
   - Include KVM guest test in all interrupt vectors from Paul Mackerras
   - Fix DSCR inheritance over fork() from Anton Blanchard
   - Make value-returning atomics &amp; {cmp}xchg* &amp; their atomic_ versions
     fully ordered from Boqun Feng
   - Print MSR TM bits in oops messages from Michael Neuling
   - Add TM signal return &amp; invalid stack selftests from Michael Neuling
   - Limit EPOW reset event warnings from Vipin K Parashar
   - Remove the Cell QPACE code from Rashmica Gupta
   - Append linux_banner to exception information in xmon from Rashmica
     Gupta
   - Add selftest to check if VSRs are corrupted from Rashmica Gupta
   - Remove broken GregorianDay() from Daniel Axtens
   - Import Anton's context_switch2 benchmark into selftests from
     Michael Ellerman
   - Add selftest script to test HMI functionality from Daniel Axtens
   - Remove obsolete OPAL v2 support from Stewart Smith
   - Make enter_rtas() private from Michael Ellerman
   - PPR exception cleanups from Michael Ellerman
   - Add page soft dirty tracking from Laurent Dufour
   - Add support for Nvlink NPUs from Alistair Popple
   - Add support for kexec on 476fpe from Alistair Popple
   - Enable kernel CPU dlpar from sysfs from Nathan Fontenot
   - Copy only required pieces of the mm_context_t to the paca from
     Michael Neuling
   - Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes OPAL console output on panic from
     Russell Currey
   - Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
     from Steven Rostedt
   - Add HWCAP bits for Power9 from Michael Ellerman
   - Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff from Aneesh Kumar K.V
   - Fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff from Hugh Dickins
   - scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
     from Ulrich Weigand
   - Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations in modules from Ulrich Weigand

  cxl:
   - cxl: Fix possible idr warning when contexts are released from
     Vaibhav Jain
   - cxl: use correct operator when writing pcie config space values
     from Andrew Donnellan
   - cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits from Vaibhav
     Jain
   - cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x from Brian Norris
   - cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR from Brian Norris
   - cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter from Uma
     Krishnan

  Freescale:
   - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include moving QE code out
     of arch/powerpc (to be shared with arm), device tree updates, and
     minor fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (149 commits)
  powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations
  scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
  powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH prototype and usages
  powerpc/mm: fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff
  powerpc/mm: Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff
  cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter
  cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR
  cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x
  powerpc: Add HWCAP bits for Power9
  powerpc/powernv: Reserve PE#0 on NPU
  powerpc/powernv: Change NPU PE# assignment
  powerpc/powernv: Fix update of NVLink DMA mask
  powerpc/powernv: Remove misleading comment in pci.c
  powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
  powerpc: Fix build break due to paca mm_context_t changes
  cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits
  MAINTAINERS: Update Scott Wood's e-mail address
  powerpc/powernv: Fix minor off-by-one error in opal_mce_check_early_recovery()
  powerpc: Fix style of self-test config prompts
  powerpc/powernv: Only delay opal_rtc_read() retry when necessary
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Core:
   - Ground work for the new Power9 MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V
   - Optimise FP/VMX/VSX context switching from Anton Blanchard

  Misc:
   - Various cleanups from Krzysztof Kozlowski, John Ogness, Rashmica
     Gupta, Russell Currey, Gavin Shan, Daniel Axtens, Michael Neuling,
     Andrew Donnellan
   - Allow wrapper to work on non-english system from Laurent Vivier
   - Add rN aliases to the pt_regs_offset table from Rashmica Gupta
   - Fix module autoload for rackmeter &amp; axonram drivers from Luis de
     Bethencourt
   - Include KVM guest test in all interrupt vectors from Paul Mackerras
   - Fix DSCR inheritance over fork() from Anton Blanchard
   - Make value-returning atomics &amp; {cmp}xchg* &amp; their atomic_ versions
     fully ordered from Boqun Feng
   - Print MSR TM bits in oops messages from Michael Neuling
   - Add TM signal return &amp; invalid stack selftests from Michael Neuling
   - Limit EPOW reset event warnings from Vipin K Parashar
   - Remove the Cell QPACE code from Rashmica Gupta
   - Append linux_banner to exception information in xmon from Rashmica
     Gupta
   - Add selftest to check if VSRs are corrupted from Rashmica Gupta
   - Remove broken GregorianDay() from Daniel Axtens
   - Import Anton's context_switch2 benchmark into selftests from
     Michael Ellerman
   - Add selftest script to test HMI functionality from Daniel Axtens
   - Remove obsolete OPAL v2 support from Stewart Smith
   - Make enter_rtas() private from Michael Ellerman
   - PPR exception cleanups from Michael Ellerman
   - Add page soft dirty tracking from Laurent Dufour
   - Add support for Nvlink NPUs from Alistair Popple
   - Add support for kexec on 476fpe from Alistair Popple
   - Enable kernel CPU dlpar from sysfs from Nathan Fontenot
   - Copy only required pieces of the mm_context_t to the paca from
     Michael Neuling
   - Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes OPAL console output on panic from
     Russell Currey
   - Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
     from Steven Rostedt
   - Add HWCAP bits for Power9 from Michael Ellerman
   - Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff from Aneesh Kumar K.V
   - Fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff from Hugh Dickins
   - scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
     from Ulrich Weigand
   - Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations in modules from Ulrich Weigand

  cxl:
   - cxl: Fix possible idr warning when contexts are released from
     Vaibhav Jain
   - cxl: use correct operator when writing pcie config space values
     from Andrew Donnellan
   - cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits from Vaibhav
     Jain
   - cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x from Brian Norris
   - cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR from Brian Norris
   - cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter from Uma
     Krishnan

  Freescale:
   - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include moving QE code out
     of arch/powerpc (to be shared with arm), device tree updates, and
     minor fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (149 commits)
  powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations
  scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
  powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH prototype and usages
  powerpc/mm: fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff
  powerpc/mm: Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff
  cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter
  cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR
  cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x
  powerpc: Add HWCAP bits for Power9
  powerpc/powernv: Reserve PE#0 on NPU
  powerpc/powernv: Change NPU PE# assignment
  powerpc/powernv: Fix update of NVLink DMA mask
  powerpc/powernv: Remove misleading comment in pci.c
  powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
  powerpc: Fix build break due to paca mm_context_t changes
  cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits
  MAINTAINERS: Update Scott Wood's e-mail address
  powerpc/powernv: Fix minor off-by-one error in opal_mce_check_early_recovery()
  powerpc: Fix style of self-test config prompts
  powerpc/powernv: Only delay opal_rtc_read() retry when necessary
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2016-01-15T00:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-15T00:38:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0f0836b7eb1b9d14862ee40c7856227a3ead70db'/>
<id>0f0836b7eb1b9d14862ee40c7856227a3ead70db</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - RO/NX attribute fixes for patch module relocations from Josh
   Poimboeuf.  As part of this effort, module.c has been cleaned up as
   well and livepatching is piggy-backing on this cleanup.  Rusty is OK
   with this whole lot going through livepatching tree.

 - symbol disambiguation support from Chris J Arges.  That series is
   also

        Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;

   but this came in only after I've alredy pushed out.  Didn't want to
   rebase because of that, hence I am mentioning it here.

 - symbol lookup fix from Miroslav Benes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: Cleanup module page permission changes
  module: keep percpu symbols in module's symtab
  module: clean up RO/NX handling.
  module: use a structure to encapsulate layout.
  gcov: use within_module() helper.
  module: Use the same logic for setting and unsetting RO/NX
  livepatch: function,sympos scheme in livepatch sysfs directory
  livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc
  livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - RO/NX attribute fixes for patch module relocations from Josh
   Poimboeuf.  As part of this effort, module.c has been cleaned up as
   well and livepatching is piggy-backing on this cleanup.  Rusty is OK
   with this whole lot going through livepatching tree.

 - symbol disambiguation support from Chris J Arges.  That series is
   also

        Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;

   but this came in only after I've alredy pushed out.  Didn't want to
   rebase because of that, hence I am mentioning it here.

 - symbol lookup fix from Miroslav Benes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: Cleanup module page permission changes
  module: keep percpu symbols in module's symtab
  module: clean up RO/NX handling.
  module: use a structure to encapsulate layout.
  gcov: use within_module() helper.
  module: Use the same logic for setting and unsetting RO/NX
  livepatch: function,sympos scheme in livepatch sysfs directory
  livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc
  livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T01:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulrich Weigand</name>
<email>ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T12:14:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a61674bdfc7c2bf909c4010699607b62b69b7bec'/>
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GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le.  This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
	addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
	addi  r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
	.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

	.quad .TOC.-func
func:
	.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
	ld    r2, -8(r12)
	add   r2, r2, r12
	.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too.  This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand &lt;ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le.  This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
	addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
	addi  r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
	.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

	.quad .TOC.-func
func:
	.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
	ld    r2, -8(r12)
	add   r2, r2, r12
	.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too.  This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand &lt;ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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