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<title>linux.git/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h, branch v3.14.29</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 7950/1: mm: Fix stage-2 device memory attributes</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T11:44:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-02T21:21:31+00:00</published>
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The stage-2 memory attributes are distinct from the Hyp memory
attributes and the Stage-1 memory attributes.  We were using the stage-1
memory attributes for stage-2 mappings causing device mappings to be
mapped as normal memory.  Add the S2 equivalent defines for memory
attributes and fix the comments explaining the defines while at it.

Add a prot_pte_s2 field to the mem_type struct and fill out the field
for device mappings accordingly.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.9+]
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The stage-2 memory attributes are distinct from the Hyp memory
attributes and the Stage-1 memory attributes.  We were using the stage-1
memory attributes for stage-2 mappings causing device mappings to be
mapped as normal memory.  Add the S2 equivalent defines for memory
attributes and fix the comments explaining the defines while at it.

Add a prot_pte_s2 field to the mem_type struct and fill out the field
for device mappings accordingly.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.9+]
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: add support to dump the kernel page tables</title>
<updated>2013-12-11T09:53:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-23T15:13:02+00:00</published>
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This patch allows the kernel page tables to be dumped via a debugfs file,
allowing kernel developers to check the layout of the kernel page tables
and the verify the various permissions and type settings.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch allows the kernel page tables to be dumped via a debugfs file,
allowing kernel developers to check the layout of the kernel page tables
and the verify the various permissions and type settings.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7858/1: mm: make UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY huge page aware</title>
<updated>2013-10-29T11:06:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-14T08:49:10+00:00</published>
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The memory pinning code in uaccess_with_memcpy.c does not check
for HugeTLB or THP pmds, and will enter an infinite loop should
a __copy_to_user or __clear_user occur against a huge page.

This patch adds detection code for huge pages to pin_page_for_write.
As this code can be executed in a fast path it refers to the actual
pmds rather than the vma. If a HugeTLB or THP is found (they have
the same pmd representation on ARM), the page table spinlock is
taken to prevent modification whilst the page is pinned.

On ARM, huge pages are only represented as pmds, thus no huge pud
checks are performed. (For huge puds one would lock the page table
in a similar manner as in the pmd case).

Two helper functions are introduced; pmd_thp_or_huge will check
whether or not a page is huge or transparent huge (which have the
same pmd layout on ARM), and pmd_hugewillfault will detect whether
or not a page fault will occur on write to the page.

Running the following test (with the chunking from read_zero
removed):
 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10M count=1024
Gave:  2.3 GB/s backed by normal pages,
       2.9 GB/s backed by huge pages,
       5.1 GB/s backed by huge pages, with page mask=HPAGE_MASK.

After some discussion, it was decided not to adopt the HPAGE_MASK,
as this would have a significant detrimental effect on the overall
system latency due to page_table_lock being held for too long.
This could be revisited if split huge page locks are adopted.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The memory pinning code in uaccess_with_memcpy.c does not check
for HugeTLB or THP pmds, and will enter an infinite loop should
a __copy_to_user or __clear_user occur against a huge page.

This patch adds detection code for huge pages to pin_page_for_write.
As this code can be executed in a fast path it refers to the actual
pmds rather than the vma. If a HugeTLB or THP is found (they have
the same pmd representation on ARM), the page table spinlock is
taken to prevent modification whilst the page is pinned.

On ARM, huge pages are only represented as pmds, thus no huge pud
checks are performed. (For huge puds one would lock the page table
in a similar manner as in the pmd case).

Two helper functions are introduced; pmd_thp_or_huge will check
whether or not a page is huge or transparent huge (which have the
same pmd layout on ARM), and pmd_hugewillfault will detect whether
or not a page fault will occur on write to the page.

Running the following test (with the chunking from read_zero
removed):
 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10M count=1024
Gave:  2.3 GB/s backed by normal pages,
       2.9 GB/s backed by huge pages,
       5.1 GB/s backed by huge pages, with page mask=HPAGE_MASK.

After some discussion, it was decided not to adopt the HPAGE_MASK,
as this would have a significant detrimental effect on the overall
system latency due to page_table_lock being held for too long.
This could be revisited if split huge page locks are adopted.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: ARM: Support hugetlbfs backed huge pages</title>
<updated>2013-10-18T00:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-01T16:14:45+00:00</published>
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Support huge pages in KVM/ARM and KVM/ARM64.  The pud_huge checking on
the unmap path may feel a bit silly as the pud_huge check is always
defined to false, but the compiler should be smart about this.

Note: This deals only with VMAs marked as huge which are allocated by
users through hugetlbfs only.  Transparent huge pages can only be
detected by looking at the underlying pages (or the page tables
themselves) and this patch so far simply maps these on a page-by-page
level in the Stage-2 page tables.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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Support huge pages in KVM/ARM and KVM/ARM64.  The pud_huge checking on
the unmap path may feel a bit silly as the pud_huge check is always
defined to false, but the compiler should be smart about this.

Note: This deals only with VMAs marked as huge which are allocated by
users through hugetlbfs only.  Transparent huge pages can only be
detected by looking at the underlying pages (or the page tables
themselves) and this patch so far simply maps these on a page-by-page
level in the Stage-2 page tables.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-rmk/lpae' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2013-06-18T19:11:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T19:11:32+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

Please pull these miscellaneous LPAE fixes I've been collecting for a while
now for 3.11. They've been tested and reviewed by quite a few people, and most
of the patches are pretty trivial. -- Will Deacon.
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

Please pull these miscellaneous LPAE fixes I've been collecting for a while
now for 3.11. They've been tested and reviewed by quite a few people, and most
of the patches are pretty trivial. -- Will Deacon.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.</title>
<updated>2013-06-04T15:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T13:39:26+00:00</published>
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The patch adds support for THP (transparent huge pages) to LPAE
systems. When this feature is enabled, the kernel tries to map
anonymous pages as 2MB sections where possible.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants used, value of
PMD_SECT_SPLITTING adjusted, tlbflush.h included in pgtable.h,
added PROT_NONE support.]
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The patch adds support for THP (transparent huge pages) to LPAE
systems. When this feature is enabled, the kernel tries to map
anonymous pages as 2MB sections where possible.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants used, value of
PMD_SECT_SPLITTING adjusted, tlbflush.h included in pgtable.h,
added PROT_NONE support.]
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: mm: HugeTLB support for LPAE systems.</title>
<updated>2013-06-04T15:52:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T13:32:38+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for hugetlbfs based on the x86 implementation.
It allows mapping of 2MB sections (see Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
for usage). The 64K pages configuration is not supported (section size
is 512MB in this case).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants replace numbers in places.
Split up into multiple files, to simplify future non-LPAE support,
removed huge_pmd_share code, as this is very rarely executed,
Added PROT_NONE support].
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This patch adds support for hugetlbfs based on the x86 implementation.
It allows mapping of 2MB sections (see Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
for usage). The 64K pages configuration is not supported (section size
is 512MB in this case).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants replace numbers in places.
Split up into multiple files, to simplify future non-LPAE support,
removed huge_pmd_share code, as this is very rarely executed,
Added PROT_NONE support].
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: mm: correct pte_same behaviour for LPAE.</title>
<updated>2013-06-04T15:52:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-17T11:32:55+00:00</published>
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For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user
address ptes that are written to a page table but not for ptes
created with mk_pte.

This can cause some comparison tests made by pte_same to fail
spuriously and lead to other problems.

To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that
is present before running the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user
address ptes that are written to a page table but not for ptes
created with mk_pte.

This can cause some comparison tests made by pte_same to fail
spuriously and lead to other problems.

To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that
is present before running the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: lpae: fix definition of PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T15:02:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T12:52:01+00:00</published>
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For 2-level page tables, PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS describes the offset between
Linux PTEs and hardware PTEs. On LPAE, there is no distinction (since
we have 64-bit descriptors with plenty of space) so PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS
should be 0. Unfortunately, it is wrongly defined as PTRS_PER_PTE,
meaning that current pte table flushing is off by a page. Luckily,
all current LPAE implementations are SMP, so the hardware walker can
snoop L1.

This patch fixes the broken definition.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For 2-level page tables, PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS describes the offset between
Linux PTEs and hardware PTEs. On LPAE, there is no distinction (since
we have 64-bit descriptors with plenty of space) so PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS
should be 0. Unfortunately, it is wrongly defined as PTRS_PER_PTE,
meaning that current pte table flushing is off by a page. Luckily,
all current LPAE implementations are SMP, so the hardware walker can
snoop L1.

This patch fixes the broken definition.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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