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<title>x86/exceptions: Split debug IST stack</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T13:14:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-14T15:59:57+00:00</published>
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The debug IST stack is actually two separate debug stacks to handle #DB
recursion. This is required because the CPU starts always at top of stack
on exception entry, which means on #DB recursion the second #DB would
overwrite the stack of the first.

The low level entry code therefore adjusts the top of stack on entry so a
secondary #DB starts from a different stack page. But the stack pages are
adjacent without a guard page between them.

Split the debug stack into 3 stacks which are separated by guard pages. The
3rd stack is never mapped into the cpu_entry_area and is only there to
catch triple #DB nesting:

      --- top of DB_stack	&lt;- Initial stack
      --- end of DB_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB1_stack	&lt;- Top of stack after entering first #DB
      --- end of DB1_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB2_stack	&lt;- Top of stack after entering second #DB
      --- end of DB2_stack
      	  guard page

If DB2 would not act as the final guard hole, a second #DB would point the
top of #DB stack to the stack below #DB1 which would be valid and not catch
the not so desired triple nesting.

The backing store does not allocate any memory for DB2 and its guard page
as it is not going to be mapped into the cpu_entry_area.

 - Adjust the low level entry code so it adjusts top of #DB with the offset
   between the stacks instead of exception stack size.

 - Make the dumpstack code aware of the new stacks.

 - Adjust the in_debug_stack() implementation and move it into the NMI code
   where it belongs. As this is NMI hotpath code, it just checks the full
   area between top of DB_stack and bottom of DB1_stack without checking
   for the guard page. That's correct because the NMI cannot hit a
   stackpointer pointing to the guard page between DB and DB1 stack.  Even
   if it would, then the NMI operation still is unaffected, but the resume
   of the debug exception on the topmost DB stack will crash by touching
   the guard page.

  [ bp: Make exception_stack_names static const char * const ]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" &lt;chang.seok.bae@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190414160145.439944544@linutronix.de
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The debug IST stack is actually two separate debug stacks to handle #DB
recursion. This is required because the CPU starts always at top of stack
on exception entry, which means on #DB recursion the second #DB would
overwrite the stack of the first.

The low level entry code therefore adjusts the top of stack on entry so a
secondary #DB starts from a different stack page. But the stack pages are
adjacent without a guard page between them.

Split the debug stack into 3 stacks which are separated by guard pages. The
3rd stack is never mapped into the cpu_entry_area and is only there to
catch triple #DB nesting:

      --- top of DB_stack	&lt;- Initial stack
      --- end of DB_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB1_stack	&lt;- Top of stack after entering first #DB
      --- end of DB1_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB2_stack	&lt;- Top of stack after entering second #DB
      --- end of DB2_stack
      	  guard page

If DB2 would not act as the final guard hole, a second #DB would point the
top of #DB stack to the stack below #DB1 which would be valid and not catch
the not so desired triple nesting.

The backing store does not allocate any memory for DB2 and its guard page
as it is not going to be mapped into the cpu_entry_area.

 - Adjust the low level entry code so it adjusts top of #DB with the offset
   between the stacks instead of exception stack size.

 - Make the dumpstack code aware of the new stacks.

 - Adjust the in_debug_stack() implementation and move it into the NMI code
   where it belongs. As this is NMI hotpath code, it just checks the full
   area between top of DB_stack and bottom of DB1_stack without checking
   for the guard page. That's correct because the NMI cannot hit a
   stackpointer pointing to the guard page between DB and DB1 stack.  Even
   if it would, then the NMI operation still is unaffected, but the resume
   of the debug exception on the topmost DB stack will crash by touching
   the guard page.

  [ bp: Make exception_stack_names static const char * const ]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" &lt;chang.seok.bae@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190414160145.439944544@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>x86/paravirt: Move the Xen-only pv_cpu_ops under the PARAVIRT_XXL umbrella</title>
<updated>2018-09-03T14:50:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-28T07:40:23+00:00</published>
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Most of the paravirt ops defined in pv_cpu_ops are for Xen PV guests
only. Define them only if CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL is set.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828074026.820-13-jgross@suse.com

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Most of the paravirt ops defined in pv_cpu_ops are for Xen PV guests
only. Define them only if CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL is set.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828074026.820-13-jgross@suse.com

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</entry>
<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>perf/x86/amd: AMD support for bp_len &gt; HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8</title>
<updated>2014-12-03T14:14:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jacob Shin</name>
<email>jacob.w.shin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T15:26:50+00:00</published>
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Implement hardware breakpoint address mask for AMD Family 16h and
above processors. CPUID feature bit indicates hardware support for
DRn_ADDR_MASK MSRs. These masks further qualify DRn/DR7 hardware
breakpoint addresses to allow matching of larger addresses ranges.

Valuable advice and pseudo code from Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.w.shin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: xiakaixu &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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Implement hardware breakpoint address mask for AMD Family 16h and
above processors. CPUID feature bit indicates hardware support for
DRn_ADDR_MASK MSRs. These masks further qualify DRn/DR7 hardware
breakpoint addresses to allow matching of larger addresses ranges.

Valuable advice and pseudo code from Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.w.shin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: xiakaixu &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Replace __get_cpu_var uses</title>
<updated>2014-08-26T17:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-17T17:30:40+00:00</published>
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__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(var)))

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(var)))

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm</title>
<updated>2012-12-14T22:37:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-14T22:37:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.</title>
<updated>2012-02-28T22:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T21:24:09+00:00</published>
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Since we already have a debugreg.h header file, move the
assoc. get/set functions to it.  In addition to it being the
logical home for them, it has a secondary advantage.  The
functions that are moved use BUG().  So we really need to
have linux/bug.h in scope.  But asm/processor.h is used about
600 times, vs. only about 15 for debugreg.h -- so adding bug.h
to the latter reduces the amount of time we'll be processing
it during a compile.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Since we already have a debugreg.h header file, move the
assoc. get/set functions to it.  In addition to it being the
logical home for them, it has a secondary advantage.  The
functions that are moved use BUG().  So we really need to
have linux/bug.h in scope.  But asm/processor.h is used about
600 times, vs. only about 15 for debugreg.h -- so adding bug.h
to the latter reduces the amount of time we'll be processing
it during a compile.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled</title>
<updated>2011-12-21T20:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-16T16:43:02+00:00</published>
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Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with
NMIs running on the debug stack:

  int3 -&gt; interrupt -&gt; NMI -&gt; int3

Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that
it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case,
interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in
an a location in the exception table (fixup).

  userspace -&gt; int3 -&gt; interurpt -&gt; NMI -&gt; int3

All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed
without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will
panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location
within the kernel.

Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while
using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case.
If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug
stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to
change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will
corrupt the stack if it does).

Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h
and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to
inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires
smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with
NMIs running on the debug stack:

  int3 -&gt; interrupt -&gt; NMI -&gt; int3

Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that
it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case,
interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in
an a location in the exception table (fixup).

  userspace -&gt; int3 -&gt; interurpt -&gt; NMI -&gt; int3

All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed
without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will
panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location
within the kernel.

Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while
using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case.
If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug
stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to
change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will
corrupt the stack if it does).

Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h
and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to
inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires
smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code</title>
<updated>2010-12-30T11:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-18T15:28:55+00:00</published>
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Go through x86 code and replace __get_cpu_var and get_cpu_var
instances that refer to a scalar and are not used for address
determinations.

Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Go through x86 code and replace __get_cpu_var and get_cpu_var
instances that refer to a scalar and are not used for address
determinations.

Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/debug: Clear reserved bits of DR6 in do_debug()</title>
<updated>2010-01-29T01:26:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K.Prasad</name>
<email>prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-28T11:14:01+00:00</published>
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Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status
register (DR6).
This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing
of a debug event origin.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status
register (DR6).
This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing
of a debug event origin.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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