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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c, branch v5.4.30</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix vDSO clock_getres()</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T18:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
<email>vincenzo.frascino@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T07:57:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 552263456215ada7ee8700ce022d12b0cffe4802 ]

clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 552263456215ada7ee8700ce022d12b0cffe4802 ]

clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: Use UV_RETURN ucall to return to ultravisor</title>
<updated>2019-08-29T23:40:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-22T03:48:38+00:00</published>
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When an SVM makes an hypercall or incurs some other exception, the
Ultravisor usually forwards (a.k.a. reflects) the exceptions to the
Hypervisor. After processing the exception, Hypervisor uses the
UV_RETURN ultracall to return control back to the SVM.

The expected register state on entry to this ultracall is:

* Non-volatile registers are restored to their original values.
* If returning from an hypercall, register R0 contains the return value
  (unlike other ultracalls) and, registers R4 through R12 contain any
  output values of the hypercall.
* R3 contains the ultracall number, i.e UV_RETURN.
* If returning with a synthesized interrupt, R2 contains the
  synthesized interrupt number.

Thanks to input from Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and Mike Anderson.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-8-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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When an SVM makes an hypercall or incurs some other exception, the
Ultravisor usually forwards (a.k.a. reflects) the exceptions to the
Hypervisor. After processing the exception, Hypervisor uses the
UV_RETURN ultracall to return control back to the SVM.

The expected register state on entry to this ultracall is:

* Non-volatile registers are restored to their original values.
* If returning from an hypercall, register R0 contains the return value
  (unlike other ultracalls) and, registers R4 through R12 contain any
  output values of the hypercall.
* R3 contains the ultracall number, i.e UV_RETURN.
* If returning with a synthesized interrupt, R2 contains the
  synthesized interrupt number.

Thanks to input from Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and Mike Anderson.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho &lt;cclaudio@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-8-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T23:08:36+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: remove bad stack branch</title>
<updated>2019-07-02T11:39:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-28T06:33:18+00:00</published>
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The bad stack test in interrupt handlers has a few problems. For
performance it is taken in the common case, which is a fetch bubble
and a waste of i-cache.

For code development and maintainence, it requires yet another stack
frame setup routine, and that constrains all exception handlers to
follow the same register save pattern which inhibits future
optimisation.

Remove the test/branch and replace it with a trap. Teach the program
check handler to use the emergency stack for this case.

This does not result in quite so nice a message, however the SRR0 and
SRR1 of the crashed interrupt can be seen in r11 and r12, as is the
original r1 (adjusted by INT_FRAME_SIZE). These are the most important
parts to debugging the issue.

The original r9-12 and cr0 is lost, which is the main downside.

  kernel BUG at linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:847!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
  NIP:  c000000000009108 LR: c000000000cadbcc CTR: c0000000000090f0
  REGS: c0000000fffcbd70 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted
  MSR:  9000000000021032 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI&gt;  CR: 28222448  XER: 20040000
  CFAR: c000000000009100 IRQMASK: 0
  GPR00: 000000000000003d fffffffffffffd00 c0000000018cfb00 c0000000f02b3166
  GPR04: fffffffffffffffd 0000000000000007 fffffffffffffffb 0000000000000030
  GPR08: 0000000000000037 0000000028222448 0000000000000000 c000000000ca8de0
  GPR12: 9000000002009032 c000000001ae0000 c000000000010a00 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: c0000000f00322c0 c000000000f85200 0000000000000004 ffffffffffffffff
  GPR24: fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000000a
  GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000f02b391c c0000000f02b3167
  NIP [c000000000009108] decrementer_common+0x18/0x160
  LR [c000000000cadbcc] .vsnprintf+0x3ec/0x4f0
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  996d098a 994d098b 38610070 480246ed 48005518 60000000 38200000 718a4000
  7c2a0b78 3821fd00 41c20008 e82d0970 &lt;0981fd00&gt; f92101a0 f9610170 f9810178

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The bad stack test in interrupt handlers has a few problems. For
performance it is taken in the common case, which is a fetch bubble
and a waste of i-cache.

For code development and maintainence, it requires yet another stack
frame setup routine, and that constrains all exception handlers to
follow the same register save pattern which inhibits future
optimisation.

Remove the test/branch and replace it with a trap. Teach the program
check handler to use the emergency stack for this case.

This does not result in quite so nice a message, however the SRR0 and
SRR1 of the crashed interrupt can be seen in r11 and r12, as is the
original r1 (adjusted by INT_FRAME_SIZE). These are the most important
parts to debugging the issue.

The original r9-12 and cr0 is lost, which is the main downside.

  kernel BUG at linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:847!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
  NIP:  c000000000009108 LR: c000000000cadbcc CTR: c0000000000090f0
  REGS: c0000000fffcbd70 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted
  MSR:  9000000000021032 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI&gt;  CR: 28222448  XER: 20040000
  CFAR: c000000000009100 IRQMASK: 0
  GPR00: 000000000000003d fffffffffffffd00 c0000000018cfb00 c0000000f02b3166
  GPR04: fffffffffffffffd 0000000000000007 fffffffffffffffb 0000000000000030
  GPR08: 0000000000000037 0000000028222448 0000000000000000 c000000000ca8de0
  GPR12: 9000000002009032 c000000001ae0000 c000000000010a00 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: c0000000f00322c0 c000000000f85200 0000000000000004 ffffffffffffffff
  GPR24: fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000000a
  GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000f02b391c c0000000f02b3167
  NIP [c000000000009108] decrementer_common+0x18/0x160
  LR [c000000000cadbcc] .vsnprintf+0x3ec/0x4f0
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  996d098a 994d098b 38610070 480246ed 48005518 60000000 38200000 718a4000
  7c2a0b78 3821fd00 41c20008 e82d0970 &lt;0981fd00&gt; f92101a0 f9610170 f9810178

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567'/>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'topic/ppc-kvm' into next</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T12:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-30T12:52:03+00:00</published>
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Merge our topic branch shared with KVM. In particular this includes the
rewrite of the idle code into C.
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Merge our topic branch shared with KVM. In particular this includes the
rewrite of the idle code into C.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T12:37:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-12T14:30:52+00:00</published>
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Reimplement Book3S idle code in C, moving POWER7/8/9 implementation
speific HV idle code to the powernv platform code.

Book3S assembly stubs are kept in common code and used only to save
the stack frame and non-volatile GPRs before executing architected
idle instructions, and restoring the stack and reloading GPRs then
returning to C after waking from idle.

The complex logic dealing with threads and subcores, locking, SPRs,
HMIs, timebase resync, etc., is all done in C which makes it more
maintainable.

This is not a strict translation to C code, there are some
significant differences:

- Idle wakeup no longer uses the -&gt;cpu_restore call to reinit SPRs,
  but saves and restores them itself.

- The optimisation where EC=ESL=0 idle modes did not have to save GPRs
  or change MSR is restored, because it's now simple to do. ESL=1
  sleeps that do not lose GPRs can use this optimization too.

- KVM secondary entry and cede is now more of a call/return style
  rather than branchy. nap_state_lost is not required because KVM
  always returns via NVGPR restoring path.

- KVM secondary wakeup from offline sequence is moved entirely into
  the offline wakeup, which avoids a hwsync in the normal idle wakeup
  path.

Performance measured with context switch ping-pong on different
threads or cores, is possibly improved a small amount, 1-3% depending
on stop state and core vs thread test for shallow states. Deep states
it's in the noise compared with other latencies.

KVM improvements:

- Idle sleepers now always return to caller rather than branch out
  to KVM first.

- This allows optimisations like very fast return to caller when no
  state has been lost.

- KVM no longer requires nap_state_lost because it controls NVGPR
  save/restore itself on the way in and out.

- The heavy idle wakeup KVM request check can be moved out of the
  normal host idle code and into the not-performance-critical offline
  code.

- KVM nap code now returns from where it is called, which makes the
  flow a bit easier to follow.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash the KVM changes in]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Reimplement Book3S idle code in C, moving POWER7/8/9 implementation
speific HV idle code to the powernv platform code.

Book3S assembly stubs are kept in common code and used only to save
the stack frame and non-volatile GPRs before executing architected
idle instructions, and restoring the stack and reloading GPRs then
returning to C after waking from idle.

The complex logic dealing with threads and subcores, locking, SPRs,
HMIs, timebase resync, etc., is all done in C which makes it more
maintainable.

This is not a strict translation to C code, there are some
significant differences:

- Idle wakeup no longer uses the -&gt;cpu_restore call to reinit SPRs,
  but saves and restores them itself.

- The optimisation where EC=ESL=0 idle modes did not have to save GPRs
  or change MSR is restored, because it's now simple to do. ESL=1
  sleeps that do not lose GPRs can use this optimization too.

- KVM secondary entry and cede is now more of a call/return style
  rather than branchy. nap_state_lost is not required because KVM
  always returns via NVGPR restoring path.

- KVM secondary wakeup from offline sequence is moved entirely into
  the offline wakeup, which avoids a hwsync in the normal idle wakeup
  path.

Performance measured with context switch ping-pong on different
threads or cores, is possibly improved a small amount, 1-3% depending
on stop state and core vs thread test for shallow states. Deep states
it's in the noise compared with other latencies.

KVM improvements:

- Idle sleepers now always return to caller rather than branch out
  to KVM first.

- This allows optimisations like very fast return to caller when no
  state has been lost.

- KVM no longer requires nap_state_lost because it controls NVGPR
  save/restore itself on the way in and out.

- The heavy idle wakeup KVM request check can be moved out of the
  normal host idle code and into the not-performance-critical offline
  code.

- KVM nap code now returns from where it is called, which makes the
  flow a bit easier to follow.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash the KVM changes in]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/32s: Implement Kernel Userspace Access Protection</title>
<updated>2019-04-21T13:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T08:30:38+00:00</published>
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This patch implements Kernel Userspace Access Protection for
book3s/32.

Due to limitations of the processor page protection capabilities,
the protection is only against writing. read protection cannot be
achieved using page protection.

The previous patch modifies the page protection so that RW user
pages are RW for Key 0 and RO for Key 1, and it sets Key 0 for
both user and kernel.

This patch changes userspace segment registers are set to Ku 0
and Ks 1. When kernel needs to write to RW pages, the associated
segment register is then changed to Ks 0 in order to allow write
access to the kernel.

In order to avoid having the read all segment registers when
locking/unlocking the access, some data is kept in the thread_struct
and saved on stack on exceptions. The field identifies both the
first unlocked segment and the first segment following the last
unlocked one. When no segment is unlocked, it contains value 0.

As the hash_page() function is not able to easily determine if a
protfault is due to a bad kernel access to userspace, protfaults
need to be handled by handle_page_fault when KUAP is set.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Drop allow_read/write_to/from_user() as they're now in kup.h,
      and adapt allow_user_access() to do nothing when to == NULL]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This patch implements Kernel Userspace Access Protection for
book3s/32.

Due to limitations of the processor page protection capabilities,
the protection is only against writing. read protection cannot be
achieved using page protection.

The previous patch modifies the page protection so that RW user
pages are RW for Key 0 and RO for Key 1, and it sets Key 0 for
both user and kernel.

This patch changes userspace segment registers are set to Ku 0
and Ks 1. When kernel needs to write to RW pages, the associated
segment register is then changed to Ks 0 in order to allow write
access to the kernel.

In order to avoid having the read all segment registers when
locking/unlocking the access, some data is kept in the thread_struct
and saved on stack on exceptions. The field identifies both the
first unlocked segment and the first segment following the last
unlocked one. When no segment is unlocked, it contains value 0.

As the hash_page() function is not able to easily determine if a
protfault is due to a bad kernel access to userspace, protfaults
need to be handled by handle_page_fault when KUAP is set.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Drop allow_read/write_to/from_user() as they're now in kup.h,
      and adapt allow_user_access() to do nothing when to == NULL]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add a framework for Kernel Userspace Access Protection</title>
<updated>2019-04-21T13:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-18T06:51:20+00:00</published>
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This patch implements a framework for Kernel Userspace Access
Protection.

Then subarches will have the possibility to provide their own
implementation by providing setup_kuap() and
allow/prevent_user_access().

Some platforms will need to know the area accessed and whether it is
accessed from read, write or both. Therefore source, destination and
size and handed over to the two functions.

mpe: Rename to allow/prevent rather than unlock/lock, and add
read/write wrappers. Drop the 32-bit code for now until we have an
implementation for it. Add kuap to pt_regs for 64-bit as well as
32-bit. Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This patch implements a framework for Kernel Userspace Access
Protection.

Then subarches will have the possibility to provide their own
implementation by providing setup_kuap() and
allow/prevent_user_access().

Some platforms will need to know the area accessed and whether it is
accessed from read, write or both. Therefore source, destination and
size and handed over to the two functions.

mpe: Rename to allow/prevent rather than unlock/lock, and add
read/write wrappers. Drop the 32-bit code for now until we have an
implementation for it. Add kuap to pt_regs for 64-bit as well as
32-bit. Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Replace CURRENT_THREAD_INFO with PACA_THREAD_INFO</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T11:31:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-12T09:55:50+00:00</published>
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Now that current_thread_info is located at the beginning of 'current'
task struct, CURRENT_THREAD_INFO macro is not really needed any more.

This patch replaces it by loads of the value at PACA_THREAD_INFO(r13).

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Add PACA_THREAD_INFO rather than using PACACURRENT]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Now that current_thread_info is located at the beginning of 'current'
task struct, CURRENT_THREAD_INFO macro is not really needed any more.

This patch replaces it by loads of the value at PACA_THREAD_INFO(r13).

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Add PACA_THREAD_INFO rather than using PACACURRENT]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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