linux.git/arch/powerpc/lib, branch v2.6.29

powerpc: Fix 64bit __copy_tofrom_user() regression

2009-02-26T03:02:54+00:00

This fixes a regression introduced by commit
a4e22f02f5b6518c1484faea1f88d81802b9feac ("powerpc: Update 64bit
__copy_tofrom_user() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

The same bug that existed in the 64bit memcpy() also exists here so fix
it here too. The fix is the same as that applied to memcpy() with the
addition of fixes for the exception handling code required for
__copy_tofrom_user().

This stops us reading beyond the end of the source region we were told
to copy.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix 64bit memcpy() regression

2009-02-26T03:02:53+00:00

This fixes a regression introduced by commit
25d6e2d7c58ddc4a3b614fc5381591c0cfe66556 ("powerpc: Update 64bit memcpy()
using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

This commit allowed CPUs that have the CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD CPU
feature bit present to do the memcpy() with unaligned load doubles. But,
along with this came a bug where our final load double would read bytes
beyond a page boundary and into the next (unmapped) page. This was caught
by enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,

The fix was to read only the number of bytes that we need to store rather
than reading a full 8-byte doubleword and storing only a portion of that.

In order to minimise the amount of existing code touched we use the
original do_tail for the src_unaligned case.

Below is an example of the regression, as reported by Sachin Sant:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc00000003f380000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000039574
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000003baf3020]
    pc: c000000000039574: .memcpy+0x74/0x244
    lr: d00000000244916c: .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
    sp: c00000003baf32a0
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: c00000003f380000
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc00000003e54b010
  paca    = 0xc000000000a53680
    pid   = 1840, comm = readahead
enter ? for help
[link register   ] d00000000244916c .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
[c00000003baf32a0] d000000002449104 .ext3_xattr_get+0x220/0x2f4 [ext3]
(unreliab
le)
[c00000003baf3390] d00000000244a6e8 .ext3_xattr_security_get+0x40/0x5c [ext3]
[c00000003baf3400] c000000000148154 .generic_getxattr+0x74/0x9c
[c00000003baf34a0] c000000000333400 .inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c4/0x678
[c00000003baf3560] c00000000032c6b0 .security_d_instantiate+0x50/0x68
[c00000003baf35e0] c00000000013c818 .d_instantiate+0x78/0x9c
[c00000003baf3680] c00000000013ced0 .d_splice_alias+0xf0/0x120
[c00000003baf3720] d00000000243e05c .ext3_lookup+0xec/0x134 [ext3]
[c00000003baf37c0] c000000000131e74 .do_lookup+0x110/0x260
[c00000003baf3880] c000000000134ed0 .__link_path_walk+0xa98/0x1010
[c00000003baf3970] c0000000001354a0 .path_walk+0x58/0xc4
[c00000003baf3a20] c000000000135720 .do_path_lookup+0x138/0x1e4
[c00000003baf3ad0] c00000000013645c .path_lookup_open+0x6c/0xc8
[c00000003baf3b70] c000000000136780 .do_filp_open+0xcc/0x874
[c00000003baf3d10] c0000000001251e0 .do_sys_open+0x80/0x140
[c00000003baf3dc0] c00000000016aaec .compat_sys_open+0x24/0x38
[c00000003baf3e30] c00000000000855c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Don't emulate mr. instructions

2009-02-10T03:39:07+00:00

Currently emulate_step() emulates mr. instructions without updating cr0
and this can be disastrous. Don't emulate mr.

This bug has been around for a while, but I am not sure if its a worthy
-stable candidate. I'll leave it to Ben do decide.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2008-12-29T00:54:33+00:00

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
  powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
  powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
  powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
  powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
  powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
  powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
  powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
  powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
  powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
  powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
  powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
  powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
  powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
  powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
  powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions

powerpc: Rename struct vm_region to avoid conflict with NOMMU

2008-12-21T03:21:14+00:00

Rename PowerPC's struct vm_region so that I can introduce my own
global version for NOMMU.  It's feasible that the PowerPC version may
wish to use my global one instead.

The NOMMU vm_region struct defines areas of the physical memory map
that are under mmap.  This may include chunks of RAM or regions of
memory mapped devices, such as flash.  It is also used to retain
copies of file content so that shareable private memory mappings of
files can be made.  As such, it may be compatible with what is
described in the banner comment for PowerPC's vm_region struct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core

2008-12-19T08:42:40+00:00

Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h

Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into next

2008-12-18T00:06:12+00:00

powerpc: Fix corruption error in rh_alloc_fixed()

2008-12-17T16:06:14+00:00

There is an error in rh_alloc_fixed() of the Remote Heap code:
If there is at least one free block blk won't be NULL at the end of the
search loop, so -ENOMEM won't be returned and the else branch of
"if (bs == s || be == e)" will be taken, corrupting the management
structures.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel 
Acked-by: Timur Tabi 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

powerpc/ppc32: static ftrace fixes for PPC32

2008-11-28T13:08:07+00:00

Impact: fix for PowerPC 32 code

There were some early init code that was not safe for static
ftrace to boot on my PowerBook. This code must only use relative
addressing, and static mcount performs a compare of the
ftrace_trace_function pointer, and gets that with an absolute address.
In the early init boot up code, this will cause a fault.

This patch removes tracing from the files containing the offending
functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

powerpc: Update 64bit __copy_tofrom_user() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD

2008-11-19T05:04:54+00:00

In exactly the same way that we updated memcpy() with new feature
sections in commit 25d6e2d7c58ddc4a3b614fc5381591c0cfe66556 ("powerpc:
Update 64bit memcpy() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD"), we do the same
thing here for __copy_tofrom_user().  Once again this is purely a
performance tweak for Cell and Power6 - this has no effect on all the
other 64bit powerpc chips.

We can make these same changes to __copy_tofrom_user() because the
basic copy algorithm is the same as in memcpy() - this version just
has all the exception handling logic needed when copying to or from
userspace as well as a special case for copying whole 4K pages that
are page aligned.

CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD CPU was added in commit
4ec577a28980a0790df3c3dfe9c81f6e2222acfb ("powerpc: Add new CPU
feature: CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

We also make the same simple one line change from cmpldi r1,... to
cmpldi cr1,... for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras