linux.git/arch/arm64/include, branch v3.10.27

arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine

2014-01-09T20:24:27+00:00

commit 4f00130b70e5eee813cc7bc298e0f3fdf79673cc upstream.

This provides better performance compared to Device GRE and also allows
unaligned accesses. Such memory is intended to be used with standard RAM
(e.g. framebuffers) and not I/O.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters

2014-01-09T20:24:26+00:00

commit 0d651e4e65e96989f72236bf83bd4c6e55eb6ce4 upstream.

Switching between reading the virtual or physical counters is
problematic, as some core code wants a view of time before we're fully
set up. Using a function pointer and switching the source after the
first read can make time appear to go backwards, and having a check in
the read function is an unfortunate block on what we want to be a fast
path.

Instead, this patch makes us always use the virtual counters. If we're a
guest, or don't have hyp mode, we'll use the virtual timers, and as such
don't care about CNTVOFF as long as it doesn't change in such a way as
to make time appear to travel backwards. As the guest will use the
virtual timers, a (potential) KVM host must use the physical timers
(which can wake up the host even if they fire while a guest is
executing), and hence a host must have CNTVOFF set to zero so as to have
a consistent view of time between the physical timers and virtual
counters.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier 
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: check for number of arguments in syscall_get/set_arguments()

2014-01-09T20:24:26+00:00

commit 7b22c03536a539142f931815528d55df455ffe2d upstream.

In ftrace_syscall_enter(),
    syscall_get_arguments(..., 0, n, ...)
        if (i == 0) {  ...; n--;}
        memcpy(..., n * sizeof(args[0]));
If 'number of arguments(n)' is zero and 'argument index(i)' is also zero in
syscall_get_arguments(), none of arguments should be copied by memcpy().
Otherwise 'n--' can be a big positive number and unexpected amount of data
will be copied. Tracing system calls which take no argument, say sync(void),
may hit this case and eventually make the system corrupted.
This patch fixes the issue both in syscall_get_arguments() and
syscall_set_arguments().

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: Change kernel stack size to 16K

2014-01-09T20:24:26+00:00

commit 845ad05ec31e0f3872a321e10dbeaf872022632c upstream.

Written by Catalin Marinas, tested by APM on storm platform. This is needed
because of the failures encountered when running SpecWeb benchmark test.

Signed-off-by: Feng Kan 
Acked-by: Kumar Sankaran 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: virt: ensure visibility of __boot_cpu_mode

2014-01-09T20:24:26+00:00

commit 82b2f495fba338d1e3098dde1df54944a9c19751 upstream.

Secondary CPUs write to __boot_cpu_mode with caches disabled, and thus a
cached value of __boot_cpu_mode may be incoherent with that in memory.
This could lead to a failure to detect mismatched boot modes.

This patch adds flushing to ensure that writes by secondaries to
__boot_cpu_mode are made visible before we test against it.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Marc Zyngier 
Cc: Christoffer Dall 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: spinlock: retry trylock operation if strex fails on free lock

2014-01-09T20:24:20+00:00

commit 4ecf7ccb1973fd826456b6ab1e6dfafe9023c753 upstream.

An exclusive store instruction may fail for reasons other than lock
contention (e.g. a cache eviction during the critical section) so, in
line with other architectures using similar exclusive instructions
(alpha, mips, powerpc), retry the trylock operation if the lock appears
to be free but the strex reported failure.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reported-by: Tony Thompson 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases

2013-08-20T15:43:05+00:00

commit 2b047252d087be7f2ba088b4933cd904f92e6fce upstream.

Ben Tebulin reported:

 "Since v3.7.2 on two independent machines a very specific Git
  repository fails in 9/10 cases on git-fsck due to an SHA1/memory
  failures.  This only occurs on a very specific repository and can be
  reproduced stably on two independent laptops.  Git mailing list ran
  out of ideas and for me this looks like some very exotic kernel issue"

and bisected the failure to the backport of commit 53a59fc67f97 ("mm:
limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT").

That commit itself is not actually buggy, but what it does is to make it
much more likely to hit the partial TLB invalidation case, since it
introduces a new case in tlb_next_batch() that previously only ever
happened when running out of memory.

The real bug is that the TLB gather virtual memory range setup is subtly
buggered.  It was introduced in commit 597e1c3580b7 ("mm/mmu_gather:
enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather"), and the range handling
was already fixed at least once in commit e6c495a96ce0 ("mm: fix the TLB
range flushed when __tlb_remove_page() runs out of slots"), but that fix
was not complete.

The problem with the TLB gather virtual address range is that it isn't
set up by the initial tlb_gather_mmu() initialization (which didn't get
the TLB range information), but it is set up ad-hoc later by the
functions that actually flush the TLB.  And so any such case that forgot
to update the TLB range entries would potentially miss TLB invalidates.

Rather than try to figure out exactly which particular ad-hoc range
setup was missing (I personally suspect it's the hugetlb case in
zap_huge_pmd(), which didn't have the same logic as zap_pte_range()
did), this patch just gets rid of the problem at the source: make the
TLB range information available to tlb_gather_mmu(), and initialize it
when initializing all the other tlb gather fields.

This makes the patch larger, but conceptually much simpler.  And the end
result is much more understandable; even if you want to play games with
partial ranges when invalidating the TLB contents in chunks, now the
range information is always there, and anybody who doesn't want to
bother with it won't introduce subtle bugs.

Ben verified that this fixes his problem.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Ben Tebulin 
Build-testing-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Build-testing-by: Richard Weinberger 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: debug: fix mdscr.ss check when enabling debug exceptions

2013-05-17T17:24:19+00:00

When we take an exception at EL1, we only want to enable debug
exceptions if we're not currently stepping, otherwise we can easily get
stuck in a loop stepping into interrupt handlers.

Unfortunately, the current code tests the wrong bit in the mdscr, so fix
that.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2013-05-10T16:21:05+00:00

Pull stray syscall bits from Al Viro:
 "Several syscall-related commits that were missing from the original"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  switch compat_sys_sysctl to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  unicore32: just use mmap_pgoff()...
  unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  x86, vm86: fix VM86 syscalls: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx(...)

unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

2013-05-09T17:46:38+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro