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<title>um: time: fix initialization in time-travel mode</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T21:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-15T11:49:45+00:00</published>
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In time-travel mode, since my previous patch, the start time was
initialized too late, so that the system would read it before we
set it, thus always starting system time at 0 (1970-01-01). This
happens because timekeeping_init() reads the time and is called
before time_init().

Unfortunately, I didn't see this before because I was testing it
only with the RTC patch applied (and enabled), and then the time
is read again by the RTC a little - after time_init() this time.

Fix this by just doing the initialization whenever necessary.

Fixes: 2701c1bd91dd ("um: time: Fix read_persistent_clock64() in time-travel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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In time-travel mode, since my previous patch, the start time was
initialized too late, so that the system would read it before we
set it, thus always starting system time at 0 (1970-01-01). This
happens because timekeeping_init() reads the time and is called
before time_init().

Unfortunately, I didn't see this before because I was testing it
only with the RTC patch applied (and enabled), and then the time
is read again by the RTC a little - after time_init() this time.

Fix this by just doing the initialization whenever necessary.

Fixes: 2701c1bd91dd ("um: time: Fix read_persistent_clock64() in time-travel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>Revert "um: support some of ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY"</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T21:11:38+00:00</updated>
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<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-10T18:05:09+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 963285b0b47a ("um: support some of
ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY"), as it turns out that it's not only not
working (due to um never using the protection bits in the
page tables) but also corrupts the page tables if used on a
non-vmalloc page, since um never allocates proper page tables
for the 'physmem' in the first place.

Fixing all this will take more effort, so for now revert it.

Reported-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Fixes: 963285b0b47a ("um: support some of ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This reverts commit 963285b0b47a ("um: support some of
ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY"), as it turns out that it's not only not
working (due to um never using the protection bits in the
page tables) but also corrupts the page tables if used on a
non-vmalloc page, since um never allocates proper page tables
for the 'physmem' in the first place.

Fixing all this will take more effort, so for now revert it.

Reported-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Fixes: 963285b0b47a ("um: support some of ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>Revert "um: allocate a guard page to helper threads"</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T21:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-10T18:05:08+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit ef4459a6da09 ("um: allocate a guard page to
helper threads"), it's broken in multiple ways:

 1) the free no longer matches the alloc; and

 2) more importantly, the set_memory_ro() causes allocation of
    page tables for the normal memory that doesn't have any,
    and that later causes corruption and crashes (usually but
    not always in vfree()).

We could fix the first bug and use vmalloc() to work around the
second, but set_memory_ro() actually doesn't do anything either
so I'll just revert that as well.

Reported-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Fixes: ef4459a6da09 ("um: allocate a guard page to helper threads")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This reverts commit ef4459a6da09 ("um: allocate a guard page to
helper threads"), it's broken in multiple ways:

 1) the free no longer matches the alloc; and

 2) more importantly, the set_memory_ro() causes allocation of
    page tables for the normal memory that doesn't have any,
    and that later causes corruption and crashes (usually but
    not always in vfree()).

We could fix the first bug and use vmalloc() to work around the
second, but set_memory_ro() actually doesn't do anything either
so I'll just revert that as well.

Reported-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Fixes: ef4459a6da09 ("um: allocate a guard page to helper threads")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: kmsg_dumper: always dump when not tty console</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T21:11:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Meyer</name>
<email>thomas@m3y3r.de</email>
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<published>2021-01-07T08:05:31+00:00</published>
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With the addition of the ttynull console driver, the chance that a
console driver was already registerd did increase. Refine the logic when
to dump the kernel message buffer: always dump the buffer, when the UML
stdio console driver is not active and the preferred console.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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With the addition of the ttynull console driver, the chance that a
console driver was already registerd did increase. Refine the logic when
to dump the kernel message buffer: always dump the buffer, when the UML
stdio console driver is not active and the preferred console.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: stdio_console: Make preferred console</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T21:11:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Meyer</name>
<email>thomas@m3y3r.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-05T12:01:28+00:00</published>
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The addition of the "ttynull" console driver did break the ordering of the
UML stdio console driver.
The UML stdio console driver is added in late_initcall (7), whereby the
ttynull driver is added in device_initcall (6), which always does make the
ttynull driver the default console.

Fix it by explicitly adding the UML stdio console as the preferred console,
in case no 'console=' command line option was specified.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The addition of the "ttynull" console driver did break the ordering of the
UML stdio console driver.
The UML stdio console driver is added in late_initcall (7), whereby the
ttynull driver is added in device_initcall (6), which always does make the
ttynull driver the default console.

Fix it by explicitly adding the UML stdio console as the preferred console,
in case no 'console=' command line option was specified.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: Fix build w/o CONFIG_PM_SLEEP</title>
<updated>2020-12-14T20:15:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-14T19:51:02+00:00</published>
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uml_pm_wake() is unconditionally called from the SIGUSR1 wakeup
handler since that's in the userspace portion of UML, and thus
a bit tricky to ifdef out. Since pm_system_wakeup() can always
be called (but may be an empty inline), also simply always have
uml_pm_wake() to fix the build.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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uml_pm_wake() is unconditionally called from the SIGUSR1 wakeup
handler since that's in the userspace portion of UML, and thus
a bit tricky to ifdef out. Since pm_system_wakeup() can always
be called (but may be an empty inline), also simply always have
uml_pm_wake() to fix the build.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: time-travel: Correct time event IRQ delivery</title>
<updated>2020-12-13T21:42:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-13T21:18:18+00:00</published>
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Lockdep (on 5.10-rc) points out that we're delivering IRQs while IRQs
are not even enabled, which clearly shouldn't happen. Defer the time
event IRQ delivery until they actually are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Lockdep (on 5.10-rc) points out that we're delivering IRQs while IRQs
are not even enabled, which clearly shouldn't happen. Defer the time
event IRQ delivery until they actually are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: irq/sigio: Support suspend/resume handling of workaround IRQs</title>
<updated>2020-12-13T21:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-11T09:56:07+00:00</published>
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If the sigio workaround needed to be applied to a file descriptor,
set_irq_wake() wouldn't work for it since it would get polled by
the thread instead of causing SIGIO, and thus could never really
cause a wakeup, since the thread notification FD wasn't marked as
being able to wake up the system.

Fix this by marking the thread's notification FD explicitly as a
wake source FD, i.e. not suppressing SIGIO for it in suspend. In
order to not cause spurious wakeups, we then need to remove all
FDs that shouldn't wake up the system from the polling thread. In
order to do this, add unlocked versions of ignore_sigio_fd() and
add_sigio_fd() (nothing else is happening in suspend, so this is
fine), and also modify ignore_sigio_fd() to return -ENOENT if the
FD wasn't originally in there. This doesn't matter because nothing
else currently checks the return value, but the irq code needs to
know which ones to restore the workaround for.

All told, this lets us use a timerfd for the RTC clock in the next
patch, which doesn't send SIGIO.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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If the sigio workaround needed to be applied to a file descriptor,
set_irq_wake() wouldn't work for it since it would get polled by
the thread instead of causing SIGIO, and thus could never really
cause a wakeup, since the thread notification FD wasn't marked as
being able to wake up the system.

Fix this by marking the thread's notification FD explicitly as a
wake source FD, i.e. not suppressing SIGIO for it in suspend. In
order to not cause spurious wakeups, we then need to remove all
FDs that shouldn't wake up the system from the polling thread. In
order to do this, add unlocked versions of ignore_sigio_fd() and
add_sigio_fd() (nothing else is happening in suspend, so this is
fine), and also modify ignore_sigio_fd() to return -ENOENT if the
FD wasn't originally in there. This doesn't matter because nothing
else currently checks the return value, but the irq code needs to
know which ones to restore the workaround for.

All told, this lets us use a timerfd for the RTC clock in the next
patch, which doesn't send SIGIO.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: time-travel: Actually apply "free-until" optimisation</title>
<updated>2020-12-13T21:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-11T08:01:14+00:00</published>
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Due a bug - we never checked the time_travel_ext_free_until value - we
were always requesting time for every single scheduling. This adds up
since we make reading time cost 256ns, and it's a fairly common call.
Fix this.

While at it, also make reading time only cost something when we're not
currently waiting for our scheduling turn - otherwise things get mixed
up in a very confusing way. We should never get here, since we're not
actually running, but it's possible if you stick printk() or such into
the virtio code that must handle the external interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Due a bug - we never checked the time_travel_ext_free_until value - we
were always requesting time for every single scheduling. This adds up
since we make reading time cost 256ns, and it's a fairly common call.
Fix this.

While at it, also make reading time only cost something when we're not
currently waiting for our scheduling turn - otherwise things get mixed
up in a very confusing way. We should never get here, since we're not
actually running, but it's possible if you stick printk() or such into
the virtio code that must handle the external interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: allocate a guard page to helper threads</title>
<updated>2020-12-13T21:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-05T20:50:18+00:00</published>
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We've been running into stack overflows in helper threads
corrupting memory (e.g. because somebody put printf() or
os_info() there), so to avoid those causing hard-to-debug
issues later on, allocate a guard page for helper thread
stacks and mark it read-only.

Unfortunately, the crash dump at that point is useless as
the stack tracer will try to backtrace the *kernel* thread,
not the helper thread, but at least we don't survive to a
random issue caused by corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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We've been running into stack overflows in helper threads
corrupting memory (e.g. because somebody put printf() or
os_info() there), so to avoid those causing hard-to-debug
issues later on, allocate a guard page for helper thread
stacks and mark it read-only.

Unfortunately, the crash dump at that point is useless as
the stack tracer will try to backtrace the *kernel* thread,
not the helper thread, but at least we don't survive to a
random issue caused by corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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