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<title>Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2011-11-20T22:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-11-20T22:57:43+00:00</published>
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* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock
  Revert "KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting"
  KVM: VMX: Check for automatic switch msr table overflow
  KVM: VMX: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
  KVM: VMX: add support for switching of PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
  KVM: s390: announce SYNC_MMU
  KVM: s390: Fix tprot locking
  KVM: s390: handle SIGP sense running intercepts
  KVM: s390: Fix RUNNING flag misinterpretation
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* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock
  Revert "KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting"
  KVM: VMX: Check for automatic switch msr table overflow
  KVM: VMX: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
  KVM: VMX: add support for switching of PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
  KVM: s390: announce SYNC_MMU
  KVM: s390: Fix tprot locking
  KVM: s390: handle SIGP sense running intercepts
  KVM: s390: Fix RUNNING flag misinterpretation
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<title>Revert "KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting"</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T14:30:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
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<published>2011-11-17T14:26:35+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit a15bd354f083f20f257db450488db52ac27df439.

It exceeded the padding on the SREGS struct, rendering the ABI
backwards-incompatible.

Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
	include/linux/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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This reverts commit a15bd354f083f20f257db450488db52ac27df439.

It exceeded the padding on the SREGS struct, rendering the ABI
backwards-incompatible.

Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
	include/linux/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>powerpc/signal32: Fix sigset_t conversion when copying to user</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:41:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-08T04:51:19+00:00</published>
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On PPC64, put_sigset_t converts a sigset_t to a compat_sigset_t
before copying it to userspace. There is a typo in the case that
we have 4 words to copy, meaning that we corrupt the compat_sigset_t.

It appears that _NSIG_WORDS can't be greater than 2 at the moment
so this code is probably always optimised away anyway.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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On PPC64, put_sigset_t converts a sigset_t to a compat_sigset_t
before copying it to userspace. There is a typo in the case that
we have 4 words to copy, meaning that we corrupt the compat_sigset_t.

It appears that _NSIG_WORDS can't be greater than 2 at the moment
so this code is probably always optimised away anyway.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-15T17:11:27+00:00</published>
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The Documentation/memory-barriers.txt document requires that atomic
operations that return a value act as a memory barrier both before
and after the actual atomic operation.

Our current implementation doesn't guarantee this. More specifically,
while a load following the isync can not be issued before stwcx. has
completed, that completion doesn't architecturally means that the
result of stwcx. is visible to other processors (or any previous stores
for that matter) (typically, the other processors L1 caches can still
hold the old value).

This has caused an actual crash in RCU torture testing on Power 7

This fixes it by changing those atomic ops to use new macros instead
of RELEASE/ACQUIRE barriers, called ATOMIC_ENTRY and ATMOIC_EXIT barriers,
which are then defined respectively to lwsync and sync.

I haven't had a chance to measure the performance impact (or rather
what I measured with kernel compiles is in the noise, I yet have to
find a more precise benchmark)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The Documentation/memory-barriers.txt document requires that atomic
operations that return a value act as a memory barrier both before
and after the actual atomic operation.

Our current implementation doesn't guarantee this. More specifically,
while a load following the isync can not be issued before stwcx. has
completed, that completion doesn't architecturally means that the
result of stwcx. is visible to other processors (or any previous stores
for that matter) (typically, the other processors L1 caches can still
hold the old value).

This has caused an actual crash in RCU torture testing on Power 7

This fixes it by changing those atomic ops to use new macros instead
of RELEASE/ACQUIRE barriers, called ATOMIC_ENTRY and ATMOIC_EXIT barriers,
which are then defined respectively to lwsync and sync.

I haven't had a chance to measure the performance impact (or rather
what I measured with kernel compiles is in the noise, I yet have to
find a more precise benchmark)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils &lt; 2.12.1</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle Moffett</name>
<email>Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T13:30:43+00:00</published>
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Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions.  This
triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.

In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
practice it has long outlived its utility.  It is virtually impossible
to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.

To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
binutils, the test is simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett &lt;Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions.  This
triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.

In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
practice it has long outlived its utility.  It is virtually impossible
to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.

To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
binutils, the test is simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett &lt;Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/book3e-64: Fix debug support for userspace</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T02:53:40+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS user space debug is
broken on Book-E 64-bit parts that support delayed debug events.  When
switch_booke_debug_regs() sets DBCR0 we'll start getting debug events as
MSR_DE is also set and we aren't able to handle debug events from kernel
space.

We can remove the hack that always enables MSR_DE and loads up DBCR0 and
just utilize switch_booke_debug_regs() to get user space debug working
again.

We still need to handle critical/debug exception stacks &amp; proper
save/restore of state for those exception levles to support debug events
from kernel space like we have on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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With the introduction of CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS user space debug is
broken on Book-E 64-bit parts that support delayed debug events.  When
switch_booke_debug_regs() sets DBCR0 we'll start getting debug events as
MSR_DE is also set and we aren't able to handle debug events from kernel
space.

We can remove the hack that always enables MSR_DE and loads up DBCR0 and
just utilize switch_booke_debug_regs() to get user space debug working
again.

We still need to handle critical/debug exception stacks &amp; proper
save/restore of state for those exception levles to support debug events
from kernel space like we have on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Remove extraneous CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS define</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T02:53:39+00:00</published>
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All of DebugException is already protected by CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
there is no need to have another such ifdef inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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All of DebugException is already protected by CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
there is no need to have another such ifdef inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Revert show_regs() define for readability</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T02:53:38+00:00</published>
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We had an existing ifdef for 4xx &amp; BOOKE processors that got changed to
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define has nothing to do with
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define really should be:

 #if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)

and not

 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We had an existing ifdef for 4xx &amp; BOOKE processors that got changed to
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define has nothing to do with
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define really should be:

 #if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)

and not

 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/ps3: Fix SMP lockdep boot warning</title>
<updated>2011-11-16T03:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geoff Levand</name>
<email>geoff@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-08T12:38:21+00:00</published>
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Move the PS3 IPI message setup from ps3_smp_setup_cpu() to ps3_smp_probe().

Fixes startup warnings like these:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2649
  Modules linked in:
  ...
  ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Move the PS3 IPI message setup from ps3_smp_setup_cpu() to ps3_smp_probe().

Fixes startup warnings like these:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2649
  Modules linked in:
  ...
  ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/ps3: Fix lost SMP IPIs</title>
<updated>2011-11-16T03:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geoff Levand</name>
<email>geoff@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-08T12:37:26+00:00</published>
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Fixes the PS3 bootup hang introduced in 3.0-rc1 by:

  commit 317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a
  sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu

Move the PS3's LV1 EOI call lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() from ps3_chip_eoi()
to ps3_get_irq() for IPI messages.

If lv1_send_event_locally() is called between a previous call to
lv1_send_event_locally() and the coresponding call to
lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() the second event will not be delivered to the
target cpu.

The PS3's SMP IPIs are implemented using lv1_send_event_locally(), so if two
IPI messages of the same type are sent to the same target in a relatively
short period of time the second IPI event can become lost when
lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() is called from ps3_chip_eoi().

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Fixes the PS3 bootup hang introduced in 3.0-rc1 by:

  commit 317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a
  sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu

Move the PS3's LV1 EOI call lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() from ps3_chip_eoi()
to ps3_get_irq() for IPI messages.

If lv1_send_event_locally() is called between a previous call to
lv1_send_event_locally() and the coresponding call to
lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() the second event will not be delivered to the
target cpu.

The PS3's SMP IPIs are implemented using lv1_send_event_locally(), so if two
IPI messages of the same type are sent to the same target in a relatively
short period of time the second IPI event can become lost when
lv1_end_of_interrupt_ext() is called from ps3_chip_eoi().

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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