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<title>MIPS: SMP: Fix deadlock &amp; online race</title>
<updated>2017-11-01T00:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2017-09-27T09:13:25+00:00</published>
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Commit 6f542ebeaee0 ("MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting
cpu_online_mask") effectively reverted commit 8f46cca1e6c06 ("MIPS: SMP:
Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online") and thus has
reinstated the possibility of deadlock.

The commit was based on testing of kernel v4.4, where the CPU hotplug
core code issued a BUG() if the starting CPU is not marked online when
the boot CPU returns from __cpu_up. The commit fixes this race (in
v4.4), but re-introduces the deadlock situation.

As noted in the commit message, upstream differs in this area. Commit
8df3e07e7f21f ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up")
adds a completion event in the CPU hotplug core code, making this race
impossible. However, people were unhappy with relying on the core code
to do the right thing.

To address the issues both commits were trying to fix, add a second
completion event in the MIPS smp hotplug path. It removes the
possibility of a race, since the MIPS smp hotplug code now synchronises
both the boot and secondary CPUs before they return to the hotplug core
code. It also addresses the deadlock by ensuring that the secondary CPU
is not marked online before it's counters are synchronised.

This fix should also be backported to fix the race condition introduced
by the backport of commit 8f46cca1e6c06 ("MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of
deadlock when bringing CPUs online"), through really that race only
existed before commit 8df3e07e7f21f ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu
bring itself fully up").

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 6f542ebeaee0 ("MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask")
CC: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: 8f46cca1e6c0: "MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: a00eeede507c: "MIPS: SMP: Use a completion event to signal CPU up"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: 6f542ebeaee0: "MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17376/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 6f542ebeaee0 ("MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting
cpu_online_mask") effectively reverted commit 8f46cca1e6c06 ("MIPS: SMP:
Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online") and thus has
reinstated the possibility of deadlock.

The commit was based on testing of kernel v4.4, where the CPU hotplug
core code issued a BUG() if the starting CPU is not marked online when
the boot CPU returns from __cpu_up. The commit fixes this race (in
v4.4), but re-introduces the deadlock situation.

As noted in the commit message, upstream differs in this area. Commit
8df3e07e7f21f ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up")
adds a completion event in the CPU hotplug core code, making this race
impossible. However, people were unhappy with relying on the core code
to do the right thing.

To address the issues both commits were trying to fix, add a second
completion event in the MIPS smp hotplug path. It removes the
possibility of a race, since the MIPS smp hotplug code now synchronises
both the boot and secondary CPUs before they return to the hotplug core
code. It also addresses the deadlock by ensuring that the secondary CPU
is not marked online before it's counters are synchronised.

This fix should also be backported to fix the race condition introduced
by the backport of commit 8f46cca1e6c06 ("MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of
deadlock when bringing CPUs online"), through really that race only
existed before commit 8df3e07e7f21f ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu
bring itself fully up").

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 6f542ebeaee0 ("MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask")
CC: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: 8f46cca1e6c0: "MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: a00eeede507c: "MIPS: SMP: Use a completion event to signal CPU up"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+: 6f542ebeaee0: "MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.1+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17376/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: generic: Fix compilation error from include asm/mips-cpc.h</title>
<updated>2017-10-31T23:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-16T10:06:49+00:00</published>
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Commit e83f7e02af50c ("MIPS: CPS: Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC
headers") adds a #error to arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h if it is
included directly. While this commit replaced almost all direct includes
of mips-cm.h and mips-cpc.h, 2 remain.

With some defconfigs, mips-cps.h is indirectly included before
mips-cpc.h, but in others this results in compilation errors:

In file included from arch/mips/generic/init.c:23:0:
./arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h:12:3: error: #error Please include
asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h
 # error Please include asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h

In file included from arch/mips/kernel/smp.c:23:0:
./arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h:12:3: error: #error Please include
asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h
 # error Please include asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h

In both cases, fix this by including mips-cps.h instead.

Fixes: e83f7e02af50c ("MIPS: CPS: Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC headers")
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17492/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit e83f7e02af50c ("MIPS: CPS: Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC
headers") adds a #error to arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h if it is
included directly. While this commit replaced almost all direct includes
of mips-cm.h and mips-cpc.h, 2 remain.

With some defconfigs, mips-cps.h is indirectly included before
mips-cpc.h, but in others this results in compilation errors:

In file included from arch/mips/generic/init.c:23:0:
./arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h:12:3: error: #error Please include
asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h
 # error Please include asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h

In file included from arch/mips/kernel/smp.c:23:0:
./arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cpc.h:12:3: error: #error Please include
asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h
 # error Please include asm/mips-cps.h rather than asm/mips-cpc.h

In both cases, fix this by including mips-cps.h instead.

Fixes: e83f7e02af50c ("MIPS: CPS: Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC headers")
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17492/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch '4.14-features' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2017-09-16T03:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-16T03:43:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for 4.14 for MIPS; below a summary of
  the non-merge commits:

  CM:
   - Rename mips_cm_base to mips_gcr_base
   - Specify register size when generating accessors
   - Use BIT/GENMASK for register fields, order &amp; drop shifts
   - Add cluster &amp; block args to mips_cm_lock_other()

  CPC:
   - Use common CPS accessor generation macros
   - Use BIT/GENMASK for register fields, order &amp; drop shifts
   - Introduce register modify (set/clear/change) accessors
   - Use change_*, set_* &amp; clear_* where appropriate
   - Add CM/CPC 3.5 register definitions
   - Use GlobalNumber macros rather than magic numbers
   - Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC headers
   - Cluster support for topology functions
   - Detect CPUs in secondary clusters

  CPS:
   - Read GIC_VL_IDENT directly, not via irqchip driver

  DMA:
   - Consolidate coherent and non-coherent dma_alloc code
   - Don't use dma_cache_sync to implement fd_cacheflush

  FPU emulation / FP assist code:
   - Another series of 14 commits fixing corner cases such as NaN
     propgagation and other special input values.
   - Zero bits 32-63 of the result for a CLASS.D instruction.
   - Enhanced statics via debugfs
   - Do not use bools for arithmetic. GCC 7.1 moans about this.
   - Correct user fault_addr type

  Generic MIPS:
   - Enhancement of stack backtraces
   - Cleanup from non-existing options
   - Handle non word sized instructions when examining frame
   - Fix detection and decoding of ADDIUSP instruction
   - Fix decoding of SWSP16 instruction
   - Refactor handling of stack pointer in get_frame_info
   - Remove unreachable code from force_fcr31_sig()
   - Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
   - Remove the R6000 support.
   - Move FP code from *_switch.S to *_fpu.S
   - Remove unused ST_OFF from r2300_switch.S
   - Allow platform to specify multiple its.S files
   - Add #includes to various files to ensure code builds reliable and
     without warning..
   - Remove __invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
   - Remove plat_timer_setup
   - Declare various variables &amp; functions static
   - Abstract CPU core &amp; VP(E) ID access through accessor functions
   - Store core &amp; VP IDs in GlobalNumber-style variable
   - Unify checks for sibling CPUs
   - Add CPU cluster number accessors
   - Prevent direct use of generic_defconfig
   - Make CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMP default y
   - Add __ioread64_copy
   - Remove unnecessary inclusions of linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h

  GIC:
   - Introduce asm/mips-gic.h with accessor functions
   - Use new GIC accessor functions in mips-gic-timer
   - Remove counter access functions from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Remove gic_read_local_vp_id() from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Simplify shared interrupt pending/mask reads in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Simplify gic_local_irq_domain_map() in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Drop gic_(re)set_mask() functions in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Remove gic_set_polarity(), gic_set_trigger(), gic_set_dual_edge(),
     gic_map_to_pin() and gic_map_to_vpe() from irq-mips-gic.c.
   - Convert remaining shared reg access, local int mask access and
     remaining local reg access to new accessors
   - Move GIC_LOCAL_INT_* to asm/mips-gic.h
   - Remove GIC_CPU_INT* macros from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Move various definitions to the driver
   - Remove gic_get_usm_range()
   - Remove __gic_irq_dispatch() forward declaration
   - Remove gic_init()
   - Use mips_gic_present() in place of gic_present and remove
     gic_present
   - Move gic_get_c0_*_int() to asm/mips-gic.h
   - Remove linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h
   - Inline __gic_init()
   - Inline gic_basic_init()
   - Make pcpu_masks a per-cpu variable
   - Use pcpu_masks to avoid reading GIC_SH_MASK*
   - Clean up mti, reserved-cpu-vectors handling
   - Use cpumask_first_and() in gic_set_affinity()
   - Let the core set struct irq_common_data affinity

  microMIPS:
   - Fix microMIPS stack unwinding on big endian systems

  MIPS-GIC:
   - SYNC after enabling GIC region

  NUMA:
   - Remove the unused parent_node() macro

  R6:
   - Constify r2_decoder_tables
   - Add accessor &amp; bit definitions for GlobalNumber

  SMP:
   - Constify smp ops
   - Allow boot_secondary SMP op to return errors

  VDSO:
   - Drop gic_get_usm_range() usage
   - Avoid use of linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h

  Platform changes:

  Alchemy:
   - Add devboard machine type to cpuinfo
   - update cpu feature overrides
   - Threaded carddetect irqs for devboards

  AR7:
   - allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  BCM63xx:
   - Fix ENETDMA_6345_MAXBURST_REG offset
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  CI20:
   - Enable GPIO and RTC drivers in defconfig
   - Add ethernet and fixed-regulator nodes to DTS

  Generic platform:
   - Move Boston and NI 169445 FIT image source to their own files
   - Include asm/bootinfo.h for plat_fdt_relocated()
   - Include asm/time.h for get_c0_*_int()
   - Include asm/bootinfo.h for plat_fdt_relocated()
   - Include asm/time.h for get_c0_*_int()
   - Allow filtering enabled boards by requirements
   - Don't explicitly disable CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT
   - Bump default NR_CPUS to 16

  JZ4700:
   - Probe the jz4740-rtc driver from devicetree

  Lantiq:
   - Drop check of boot select from the spi-falcon driver.
   - Drop check of boot select from the lantiq-flash MTD driver.
   - Access boot cause register in the watchdog driver through regmap
   - Add device tree binding documentation for the watchdog driver
   - Add docs for the RCU DT bindings.
   - Convert the fpi bus driver to a platform_driver
   - Remove ltq_reset_cause() and ltq_boot_select(
   - Switch to a proper reset driver
   - Switch to a new drivers/soc GPHY driver
   - Add an USB PHY driver for the Lantiq SoCs using the RCU module
   - Use of_platform_default_populate instead of __dt_register_buses
   - Enable MFD_SYSCON to be able to use it for the RCU MFD
   - Replace ltq_boot_select() with dummy implementation.

  Loongson 2F:
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  Malta:
   - Use new GIC accessor functions

  NI 169445:
   - Add support for NI 169445 board.
   - Only include in 32r2el kernels

  Octeon:
   - Add support for watchdog of 78XX SOCs.
   - Add support for watchdog of CN68XX SOCs.
   - Expose support for mips32r1, mips32r2 and mips64r1
   - Enable more drivers in config file
   - Add support for accessing the boot vector.
   - Remove old boot vector code from watchdog driver
   - Define watchdog registers for 70xx, 73xx, 78xx, F75xx.
   - Make CSR functions node aware.
   - Allow access to CIU3 IRQ domains.
   - Misc cleanups in the watchdog driver

  Omega2+:
   - New board, add support and defconfig

  Pistachio:
   - Enable Root FS on NFS in defconfig

  Ralink:
   - Add Mediatek MT7628A SoC
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
   - Explicitly request exclusive reset control in the pci-mt7620 PCI driver.

  SEAD3:
   - Only include in 32 bit kernels by default

  VoCore:
   - Add VoCore as a vendor t0 dt-bindings
   - Add defconfig file"

* '4.14-features' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (167 commits)
  MIPS: Refactor handling of stack pointer in get_frame_info
  MIPS: Stacktrace: Fix microMIPS stack unwinding on big endian systems
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix decoding of swsp16 instruction
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix decoding of addiusp instruction
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix detection of addiusp instruction
  MIPS: Handle non word sized instructions when examining frame
  MIPS: ralink: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: Loongson 2F: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: BCM63XX: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: AR7: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: BCM63XX: fix ENETDMA_6345_MAXBURST_REG offset
  mips: Save all registers when saving the frame
  MIPS: Add DWARF unwinding to assembly
  MIPS: Make SAVE_SOME more standard
  MIPS: Fix issues in backtraces
  MIPS: jz4780: DTS: Probe the jz4740-rtc driver from devicetree
  MIPS: Ci20: Enable RTC driver
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: Add support for 78XX SOCs.
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: Add support for cn68XX SOCs.
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: File cleaning.
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for 4.14 for MIPS; below a summary of
  the non-merge commits:

  CM:
   - Rename mips_cm_base to mips_gcr_base
   - Specify register size when generating accessors
   - Use BIT/GENMASK for register fields, order &amp; drop shifts
   - Add cluster &amp; block args to mips_cm_lock_other()

  CPC:
   - Use common CPS accessor generation macros
   - Use BIT/GENMASK for register fields, order &amp; drop shifts
   - Introduce register modify (set/clear/change) accessors
   - Use change_*, set_* &amp; clear_* where appropriate
   - Add CM/CPC 3.5 register definitions
   - Use GlobalNumber macros rather than magic numbers
   - Have asm/mips-cps.h include CM &amp; CPC headers
   - Cluster support for topology functions
   - Detect CPUs in secondary clusters

  CPS:
   - Read GIC_VL_IDENT directly, not via irqchip driver

  DMA:
   - Consolidate coherent and non-coherent dma_alloc code
   - Don't use dma_cache_sync to implement fd_cacheflush

  FPU emulation / FP assist code:
   - Another series of 14 commits fixing corner cases such as NaN
     propgagation and other special input values.
   - Zero bits 32-63 of the result for a CLASS.D instruction.
   - Enhanced statics via debugfs
   - Do not use bools for arithmetic. GCC 7.1 moans about this.
   - Correct user fault_addr type

  Generic MIPS:
   - Enhancement of stack backtraces
   - Cleanup from non-existing options
   - Handle non word sized instructions when examining frame
   - Fix detection and decoding of ADDIUSP instruction
   - Fix decoding of SWSP16 instruction
   - Refactor handling of stack pointer in get_frame_info
   - Remove unreachable code from force_fcr31_sig()
   - Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
   - Remove the R6000 support.
   - Move FP code from *_switch.S to *_fpu.S
   - Remove unused ST_OFF from r2300_switch.S
   - Allow platform to specify multiple its.S files
   - Add #includes to various files to ensure code builds reliable and
     without warning..
   - Remove __invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
   - Remove plat_timer_setup
   - Declare various variables &amp; functions static
   - Abstract CPU core &amp; VP(E) ID access through accessor functions
   - Store core &amp; VP IDs in GlobalNumber-style variable
   - Unify checks for sibling CPUs
   - Add CPU cluster number accessors
   - Prevent direct use of generic_defconfig
   - Make CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMP default y
   - Add __ioread64_copy
   - Remove unnecessary inclusions of linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h

  GIC:
   - Introduce asm/mips-gic.h with accessor functions
   - Use new GIC accessor functions in mips-gic-timer
   - Remove counter access functions from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Remove gic_read_local_vp_id() from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Simplify shared interrupt pending/mask reads in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Simplify gic_local_irq_domain_map() in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Drop gic_(re)set_mask() functions in irq-mips-gic.c
   - Remove gic_set_polarity(), gic_set_trigger(), gic_set_dual_edge(),
     gic_map_to_pin() and gic_map_to_vpe() from irq-mips-gic.c.
   - Convert remaining shared reg access, local int mask access and
     remaining local reg access to new accessors
   - Move GIC_LOCAL_INT_* to asm/mips-gic.h
   - Remove GIC_CPU_INT* macros from irq-mips-gic.c
   - Move various definitions to the driver
   - Remove gic_get_usm_range()
   - Remove __gic_irq_dispatch() forward declaration
   - Remove gic_init()
   - Use mips_gic_present() in place of gic_present and remove
     gic_present
   - Move gic_get_c0_*_int() to asm/mips-gic.h
   - Remove linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h
   - Inline __gic_init()
   - Inline gic_basic_init()
   - Make pcpu_masks a per-cpu variable
   - Use pcpu_masks to avoid reading GIC_SH_MASK*
   - Clean up mti, reserved-cpu-vectors handling
   - Use cpumask_first_and() in gic_set_affinity()
   - Let the core set struct irq_common_data affinity

  microMIPS:
   - Fix microMIPS stack unwinding on big endian systems

  MIPS-GIC:
   - SYNC after enabling GIC region

  NUMA:
   - Remove the unused parent_node() macro

  R6:
   - Constify r2_decoder_tables
   - Add accessor &amp; bit definitions for GlobalNumber

  SMP:
   - Constify smp ops
   - Allow boot_secondary SMP op to return errors

  VDSO:
   - Drop gic_get_usm_range() usage
   - Avoid use of linux/irqchip/mips-gic.h

  Platform changes:

  Alchemy:
   - Add devboard machine type to cpuinfo
   - update cpu feature overrides
   - Threaded carddetect irqs for devboards

  AR7:
   - allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  BCM63xx:
   - Fix ENETDMA_6345_MAXBURST_REG offset
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  CI20:
   - Enable GPIO and RTC drivers in defconfig
   - Add ethernet and fixed-regulator nodes to DTS

  Generic platform:
   - Move Boston and NI 169445 FIT image source to their own files
   - Include asm/bootinfo.h for plat_fdt_relocated()
   - Include asm/time.h for get_c0_*_int()
   - Include asm/bootinfo.h for plat_fdt_relocated()
   - Include asm/time.h for get_c0_*_int()
   - Allow filtering enabled boards by requirements
   - Don't explicitly disable CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT
   - Bump default NR_CPUS to 16

  JZ4700:
   - Probe the jz4740-rtc driver from devicetree

  Lantiq:
   - Drop check of boot select from the spi-falcon driver.
   - Drop check of boot select from the lantiq-flash MTD driver.
   - Access boot cause register in the watchdog driver through regmap
   - Add device tree binding documentation for the watchdog driver
   - Add docs for the RCU DT bindings.
   - Convert the fpi bus driver to a platform_driver
   - Remove ltq_reset_cause() and ltq_boot_select(
   - Switch to a proper reset driver
   - Switch to a new drivers/soc GPHY driver
   - Add an USB PHY driver for the Lantiq SoCs using the RCU module
   - Use of_platform_default_populate instead of __dt_register_buses
   - Enable MFD_SYSCON to be able to use it for the RCU MFD
   - Replace ltq_boot_select() with dummy implementation.

  Loongson 2F:
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate

  Malta:
   - Use new GIC accessor functions

  NI 169445:
   - Add support for NI 169445 board.
   - Only include in 32r2el kernels

  Octeon:
   - Add support for watchdog of 78XX SOCs.
   - Add support for watchdog of CN68XX SOCs.
   - Expose support for mips32r1, mips32r2 and mips64r1
   - Enable more drivers in config file
   - Add support for accessing the boot vector.
   - Remove old boot vector code from watchdog driver
   - Define watchdog registers for 70xx, 73xx, 78xx, F75xx.
   - Make CSR functions node aware.
   - Allow access to CIU3 IRQ domains.
   - Misc cleanups in the watchdog driver

  Omega2+:
   - New board, add support and defconfig

  Pistachio:
   - Enable Root FS on NFS in defconfig

  Ralink:
   - Add Mediatek MT7628A SoC
   - Allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
   - Explicitly request exclusive reset control in the pci-mt7620 PCI driver.

  SEAD3:
   - Only include in 32 bit kernels by default

  VoCore:
   - Add VoCore as a vendor t0 dt-bindings
   - Add defconfig file"

* '4.14-features' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (167 commits)
  MIPS: Refactor handling of stack pointer in get_frame_info
  MIPS: Stacktrace: Fix microMIPS stack unwinding on big endian systems
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix decoding of swsp16 instruction
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix decoding of addiusp instruction
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix detection of addiusp instruction
  MIPS: Handle non word sized instructions when examining frame
  MIPS: ralink: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: Loongson 2F: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: BCM63XX: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: AR7: allow NULL clock for clk_get_rate
  MIPS: BCM63XX: fix ENETDMA_6345_MAXBURST_REG offset
  mips: Save all registers when saving the frame
  MIPS: Add DWARF unwinding to assembly
  MIPS: Make SAVE_SOME more standard
  MIPS: Fix issues in backtraces
  MIPS: jz4780: DTS: Probe the jz4740-rtc driver from devicetree
  MIPS: Ci20: Enable RTC driver
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: Add support for 78XX SOCs.
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: Add support for cn68XX SOCs.
  watchdog: octeon-wdt: File cleaning.
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: SMP: Allow boot_secondary SMP op to return errors</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T22:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-13T02:49:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d595d423d06071bd7a4892c3c2f16bfe1d5b3a85'/>
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Allow the boot_secondary SMP op to return an error to __cpu_up(), which
will in turn return it to its caller.

This will allow SMP implementations to return errors quickly in cases
they they know have failed, rather than relying upon __cpu_up()
eventually timing out waiting for the cpu_running completion.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17014/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Allow the boot_secondary SMP op to return an error to __cpu_up(), which
will in turn return it to its caller.

This will allow SMP implementations to return errors quickly in cases
they they know have failed, rather than relying upon __cpu_up()
eventually timing out waiting for the cpu_running completion.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17014/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: CM: Add cluster &amp; block args to mips_cm_lock_other()</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T22:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-13T02:49:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=68923cdc2eb34124d77bc27f7945d7ff16b236dd'/>
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With CM &gt;= 3.5 we have the notion of multiple clusters &amp; can access
their CM, CPC &amp; GIC registers via the apporpriate redirect/other
register blocks. In order to allow for this introduce cluster &amp; block
arguments to mips_cm_lock_other() which configures the redirect/other
region to point at the appropriate cluster, core, VP &amp; register block.

Since we now have 4 arguments to mips_cm_lock_other() &amp; a common use is
likely to be to target the cluster, core &amp; VP corresponding to a
particular Linux CPU number we also add a new mips_cm_lock_other_cpu()
helper function which handles that without the caller needing to
manually pull out the cluster, core &amp; VP numbers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17013/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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With CM &gt;= 3.5 we have the notion of multiple clusters &amp; can access
their CM, CPC &amp; GIC registers via the apporpriate redirect/other
register blocks. In order to allow for this introduce cluster &amp; block
arguments to mips_cm_lock_other() which configures the redirect/other
region to point at the appropriate cluster, core, VP &amp; register block.

Since we now have 4 arguments to mips_cm_lock_other() &amp; a common use is
likely to be to target the cluster, core &amp; VP corresponding to a
particular Linux CPU number we also add a new mips_cm_lock_other_cpu()
helper function which handles that without the caller needing to
manually pull out the cluster, core &amp; VP numbers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17013/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Unify checks for sibling CPUs</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T22:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-13T02:49:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=fe7a38c625a2ee375870567c9fc8302e51e550f7'/>
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Up until now we have open-coded checks for whether CPUs are siblings,
with slight variations on whether we consider the package ID or not.

This will only get more complex when we introduce cluster support, so in
preparation for that this patch introduces a cpus_are_siblings()
function which can be used to check whether or not 2 CPUs are siblings
in a consistent manner.

By checking globalnumber with the VP ID masked out this also has the
neat side effect of being ready for multi-cluster systems already.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17011/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Up until now we have open-coded checks for whether CPUs are siblings,
with slight variations on whether we consider the package ID or not.

This will only get more complex when we introduce cluster support, so in
preparation for that this patch introduces a cpus_are_siblings()
function which can be used to check whether or not 2 CPUs are siblings
in a consistent manner.

By checking globalnumber with the VP ID masked out this also has the
neat side effect of being ready for multi-cluster systems already.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17011/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Abstract CPU core &amp; VP(E) ID access through accessor functions</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T22:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-13T02:49:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f875a832d2028523f9b53c261b67e05a359bab8b'/>
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We currently have fields in struct cpuinfo_mips for the core &amp; VP(E) ID
of a particular CPU, and various pieces of code directly access those
fields. This patch abstracts such access by introducing accessor
functions cpu_core(), cpu_set_core(), cpu_vpe_id() &amp; cpu_set_vpe_id()
and having code that needs to access these values call those functions
rather than directly accessing the struct cpuinfo_mips fields. This
prepares us for changes to the way in which those values are stored in
later patches.

The cpu_vpe_id() function is introduced even though we already had a
cpu_vpe_id() macro for a couple of reasons:

  1) It's more consistent with the core, and future cluster, accessors.

  2) It ensures a sensible return type without explicit casts.

  3) It's generally preferable to use functions rather than macros.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17009/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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We currently have fields in struct cpuinfo_mips for the core &amp; VP(E) ID
of a particular CPU, and various pieces of code directly access those
fields. This patch abstracts such access by introducing accessor
functions cpu_core(), cpu_set_core(), cpu_vpe_id() &amp; cpu_set_vpe_id()
and having code that needs to access these values call those functions
rather than directly accessing the struct cpuinfo_mips fields. This
prepares us for changes to the way in which those values are stored in
later patches.

The cpu_vpe_id() function is introduced even though we already had a
cpu_vpe_id() macro for a couple of reasons:

  1) It's more consistent with the core, and future cluster, accessors.

  2) It ensures a sensible return type without explicit casts.

  3) It's generally preferable to use functions rather than macros.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17009/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: SMP: Constify smp ops</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T13:21:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T08:21:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=ff2c8252bfbf069dda1e53353a63b560f1369f59'/>
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smp_ops providers do not modify their ops structures, so they should be
made const for robustness. Since currently the MIPS kernel is not mapped
with memory protection, this does not in itself provide any security
benefit, but it still makes sense to make this change.

There are also slight code size efficincies from the structure being
made read-only, saving 128 bytes of kernel text on a
pistachio_defconfig.
Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7187239	1772752	 470224	9430215	 8fe4c7	vmlinux
After:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7187111	1772752	 470224	9430087	 8fe447	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;steven.hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16784/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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smp_ops providers do not modify their ops structures, so they should be
made const for robustness. Since currently the MIPS kernel is not mapped
with memory protection, this does not in itself provide any security
benefit, but it still makes sense to make this change.

There are also slight code size efficincies from the structure being
made read-only, saving 128 bytes of kernel text on a
pistachio_defconfig.
Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7187239	1772752	 470224	9430215	 8fe4c7	vmlinux
After:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7187111	1772752	 470224	9430087	 8fe447	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;steven.hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16784/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T13:14:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ying Huang</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-08T04:30:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=966a967116e699762dbf4af7f9e0d1955c25aa37'/>
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struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between
CPUs.  Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than
cache line size.  Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment
requirements.  This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to
cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines
that need to be transferred among CPUs.

This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the
size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the
power of 2.  If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to
add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2
as well.

Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes.

To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of
call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used.

To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple
thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt).  The test will create multiple
threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap
is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping
memory.  In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5%
compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
[ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between
CPUs.  Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than
cache line size.  Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment
requirements.  This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to
cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines
that need to be transferred among CPUs.

This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the
size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the
power of 2.  If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to
add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2
as well.

Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes.

To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of
call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used.

To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple
thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt).  The test will create multiple
threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap
is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping
memory.  In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5%
compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
[ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T09:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matija Glavinic Pecotic</name>
<email>matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-03T06:20:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=6f542ebeaee0ee552a902ce3892220fc22c7ec8e'/>
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While testing cpu hoptlug (cpu down and up in loops) on kernel 4.4, it was
observed that occasionally check for cpu online will fail in kernel/cpu.c,
_cpu_up:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/kernel/cpu.c?h=v4.4.79#n485
 518        /* Arch-specific enabling code. */
 519        ret = __cpu_up(cpu, idle);
 520
 521        if (ret != 0)
 522                goto out_notify;
 523        BUG_ON(!cpu_online(cpu));

Reason is race between start_secondary and _cpu_up. cpu_callin_map is set
before cpu_online_mask. In __cpu_up, cpu_callin_map is waited for, but cpu
online mask is not, resulting in race in which secondary processor started
and set cpu_callin_map, but not yet set the online mask,resulting in above
BUG being hit.

Upstream differs in the area. cpu_online check is in bringup_wait_for_ap,
which is after cpu reached AP_ONLINE_IDLE,where secondary passed its start
function. Nonetheless, fix makes start_secondary safe and not depending on
other locks throughout the code. It protects as well against cpu_online
checks put in between sometimes in the future.

Fix this by moving completion after all flags are set.

Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16925/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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While testing cpu hoptlug (cpu down and up in loops) on kernel 4.4, it was
observed that occasionally check for cpu online will fail in kernel/cpu.c,
_cpu_up:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/kernel/cpu.c?h=v4.4.79#n485
 518        /* Arch-specific enabling code. */
 519        ret = __cpu_up(cpu, idle);
 520
 521        if (ret != 0)
 522                goto out_notify;
 523        BUG_ON(!cpu_online(cpu));

Reason is race between start_secondary and _cpu_up. cpu_callin_map is set
before cpu_online_mask. In __cpu_up, cpu_callin_map is waited for, but cpu
online mask is not, resulting in race in which secondary processor started
and set cpu_callin_map, but not yet set the online mask,resulting in above
BUG being hit.

Upstream differs in the area. cpu_online check is in bringup_wait_for_ap,
which is after cpu reached AP_ONLINE_IDLE,where secondary passed its start
function. Nonetheless, fix makes start_secondary safe and not depending on
other locks throughout the code. It protects as well against cpu_online
checks put in between sometimes in the future.

Fix this by moving completion after all flags are set.

Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16925/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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