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<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>
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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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-25T05:40:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-25T05:40:12+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "A small batch of fixes, about 50% tagged for stable and the rest for
  recently merged code.

  There's one more fix for the &gt;128T handling on hash. Once a process
  had requested a single mmap above 128T we would then always search
  above 128T. The correct behaviour is to consider the hint address in
  isolation for each mmap request.

  Then a couple of fixes for the IMC PMU, a missing EXPORT_SYMBOL in
  VAS, a fix for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 32-bit, and a fix to correctly
  identify P9 DD2.1 but in code that is currently not used by default.

  Thanks to: Aneesh Kumar K.V, Christophe Leroy, Madhavan Srinivasan,
  Sukadev Bhattiprolu"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.1 logic in DT CPU features
  powerpc/perf: Fix IMC_MAX_PMU macro
  powerpc/perf: Fix pmu_count to count only nest imc pmus
  powerpc: Fix boot on BOOK3S_32 with CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
  powerpc/perf/imc: Use cpu_to_node() not topology_physical_package_id()
  powerpc/vas: Export chip_to_vas_id()
  powerpc/64s/slice: Use addr limit when computing slice mask
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "A small batch of fixes, about 50% tagged for stable and the rest for
  recently merged code.

  There's one more fix for the &gt;128T handling on hash. Once a process
  had requested a single mmap above 128T we would then always search
  above 128T. The correct behaviour is to consider the hint address in
  isolation for each mmap request.

  Then a couple of fixes for the IMC PMU, a missing EXPORT_SYMBOL in
  VAS, a fix for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 32-bit, and a fix to correctly
  identify P9 DD2.1 but in code that is currently not used by default.

  Thanks to: Aneesh Kumar K.V, Christophe Leroy, Madhavan Srinivasan,
  Sukadev Bhattiprolu"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.1 logic in DT CPU features
  powerpc/perf: Fix IMC_MAX_PMU macro
  powerpc/perf: Fix pmu_count to count only nest imc pmus
  powerpc: Fix boot on BOOK3S_32 with CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
  powerpc/perf/imc: Use cpu_to_node() not topology_physical_package_id()
  powerpc/vas: Export chip_to_vas_id()
  powerpc/64s/slice: Use addr limit when computing slice mask
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix boot on BOOK3S_32 with CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX</title>
<updated>2017-11-22T12:04:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-21T14:28:20+00:00</published>
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On powerpc32, patch_instruction() is called by apply_feature_fixups()
which is called from early_init()

There is the following note in front of early_init():
 * Note that the kernel may be running at an address which is different
 * from the address that it was linked at, so we must use RELOC/PTRRELOC
 * to access static data (including strings).  -- paulus

Therefore, slab_is_available() cannot be called yet, and
text_poke_area must be addressed with PTRRELOC()

Fixes: 95902e6c8864 ("powerpc/mm: Implement STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on PPC32")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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On powerpc32, patch_instruction() is called by apply_feature_fixups()
which is called from early_init()

There is the following note in front of early_init():
 * Note that the kernel may be running at an address which is different
 * from the address that it was linked at, so we must use RELOC/PTRRELOC
 * to access static data (including strings).  -- paulus

Therefore, slab_is_available() cannot be called yet, and
text_poke_area must be addressed with PTRRELOC()

Fixes: 95902e6c8864 ("powerpc/mm: Implement STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on PPC32")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T20:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T20:47:46+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
  KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
  think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.

  Non-highlights:

   - Five fixes for the &gt;128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
     in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
     with x86.

  Highlights:

   - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
     true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.

   - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.

   - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
     can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.

   - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
     to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.

   - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
     some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).

   - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
     some Power9 revisions.

   - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
     CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.

   - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
     for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
     to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.

   - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
     using transactional memory.

   - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
     Power9.

   - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
     Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
     handles requests.

   - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.

  Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
  Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
  Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
  Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
  Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
  Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
  Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
  Kennington III"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
  powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
  powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use &gt;= 128T
  powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
  powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
  powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
  powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
  powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
  powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
  powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
  powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
  KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
  think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.

  Non-highlights:

   - Five fixes for the &gt;128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
     in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
     with x86.

  Highlights:

   - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
     true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.

   - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.

   - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
     can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.

   - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
     to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.

   - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
     some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).

   - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
     some Power9 revisions.

   - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
     CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.

   - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
     for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
     to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.

   - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
     using transactional memory.

   - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
     Power9.

   - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
     Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
     handles requests.

   - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.

  Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
  Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
  Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
  Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
  Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
  Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
  Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
  Kennington III"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
  powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
  powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use &gt;= 128T
  powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
  powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
  powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
  powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
  powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
  powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
  powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
  powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API</title>
<updated>2017-11-12T21:00:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver O'Halloran</name>
<email>oohall@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-19T07:13:55+00:00</published>
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Implement the architecture specific portitions of the UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
API. This provides functions for the copy_user_flushcache iterator that
ensure that when the copy is finished the destination buffer contains
a copy of the original and that the destination buffer is clean in the
processor caches.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Implement the architecture specific portitions of the UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
API. This provides functions for the copy_user_flushcache iterator that
ensure that when the copy is finished the destination buffer contains
a copy of the original and that the destination buffer is clean in the
processor caches.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API</title>
<updated>2017-11-12T21:00:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver O'Halloran</name>
<email>oohall@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-19T07:13:54+00:00</published>
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Implement the architecture specific cache maintence functions that make
up the "PMEM API". Currently the writeback and invalidate functions
are the same since the function of the DCBST (data cache block store)
instruction is typically interpreted as "writeback to the point of
coherency" rather than to memory. As a result implementing the API
requires a full cache flush rather than just a cache write back. This
will probably change in the not-too-distant future.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Implement the architecture specific cache maintence functions that make
up the "PMEM API". Currently the writeback and invalidate functions
are the same since the function of the DCBST (data cache block store)
instruction is typically interpreted as "writeback to the point of
coherency" rather than to memory. As a result implementing the API
requires a full cache flush rather than just a cache write back. This
will probably change in the not-too-distant future.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran &lt;oohall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes</title>
<updated>2017-11-12T12:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-23T16:37:40+00:00</published>
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Commit 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't
modify *regs") introduced emulate_update_regs() to perform part of what
emulate_step() was doing earlier. However, this function was not added
to the kprobes blacklist. Add it so as to prevent it from being probed.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't
modify *regs") introduced emulate_update_regs() to perform part of what
emulate_step() was doing earlier. However, this function was not added
to the kprobes blacklist. Add it so as to prevent it from being probed.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' into next</title>
<updated>2017-11-10T09:55:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T09:55:03+00:00</published>
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We have some dependencies &amp; conflicts between patches in fixes and
things to go in next, both in the radix TLB flush code and the IMC PMU
driver. So merge fixes into next.
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We have some dependencies &amp; conflicts between patches in fixes and
things to go in next, both in the radix TLB flush code and the IMC PMU
driver. So merge fixes into next.
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/lib/sstep: Fix count leading zeros instructions</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T09:16:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sandipan Das</name>
<email>sandipan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T06:45:30+00:00</published>
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According to the GCC documentation, the behaviour of __builtin_clz()
and __builtin_clzl() is undefined if the value of the input argument
is zero. Without handling this special case, these builtins have been
used for emulating the following instructions:
  * Count Leading Zeros Word (cntlzw[.])
  * Count Leading Zeros Doubleword (cntlzd[.])

This fixes the emulated behaviour of these instructions by adding an
additional check for this special case.

Fixes: 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs")
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das &lt;sandipan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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According to the GCC documentation, the behaviour of __builtin_clz()
and __builtin_clzl() is undefined if the value of the input argument
is zero. Without handling this special case, these builtins have been
used for emulating the following instructions:
  * Count Leading Zeros Word (cntlzw[.])
  * Count Leading Zeros Doubleword (cntlzd[.])

This fixes the emulated behaviour of these instructions by adding an
additional check for this special case.

Fixes: 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs")
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das &lt;sandipan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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