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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore TM state in H_CEDE</title>
<updated>2016-08-20T16:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T05:52:55+00:00</published>
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commit 93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 upstream.

It turns out that if the guest does a H_CEDE while the CPU is in
a transactional state, and the H_CEDE does a nap, and the nap
loses the architected state of the CPU (which is is allowed to do),
then we lose the checkpointed state of the virtual CPU.  In addition,
the transactional-memory state recorded in the MSR gets reset back
to non-transactional, and when we try to return to the guest, we take
a TM bad thing type of program interrupt because we are trying to
transition from non-transactional to transactional with a hrfid
instruction, which is not permitted.

The result of the program interrupt occurring at that point is that
the host CPU will hang in an infinite loop with interrupts disabled.
Thus this is a denial of service vulnerability in the host which can
be triggered by any guest (and depending on the guest kernel, it can
potentially triggered by unprivileged userspace in the guest).

This vulnerability has been assigned the ID CVE-2016-5412.

To fix this, we save the TM state before napping and restore it
on exit from the nap, when handling a H_CEDE in real mode.  The
case where H_CEDE exits to host virtual mode is already OK (as are
other hcalls which exit to host virtual mode) because the exit
path saves the TM state.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 upstream.

It turns out that if the guest does a H_CEDE while the CPU is in
a transactional state, and the H_CEDE does a nap, and the nap
loses the architected state of the CPU (which is is allowed to do),
then we lose the checkpointed state of the virtual CPU.  In addition,
the transactional-memory state recorded in the MSR gets reset back
to non-transactional, and when we try to return to the guest, we take
a TM bad thing type of program interrupt because we are trying to
transition from non-transactional to transactional with a hrfid
instruction, which is not permitted.

The result of the program interrupt occurring at that point is that
the host CPU will hang in an infinite loop with interrupts disabled.
Thus this is a denial of service vulnerability in the host which can
be triggered by any guest (and depending on the guest kernel, it can
potentially triggered by unprivileged userspace in the guest).

This vulnerability has been assigned the ID CVE-2016-5412.

To fix this, we save the TM state before napping and restore it
on exit from the nap, when handling a H_CEDE in real mode.  The
case where H_CEDE exits to host virtual mode is already OK (as are
other hcalls which exit to host virtual mode) because the exit
path saves the TM state.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pull out TM state save/restore into separate procedures</title>
<updated>2016-08-20T16:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T04:21:59+00:00</published>
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commit f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 upstream.

This moves the transactional memory state save and restore sequences
out of the guest entry/exit paths into separate procedures.  This is
so that these sequences can be used in going into and out of nap
in a subsequent patch.

The only code changes here are (a) saving and restore LR on the
stack, since these new procedures get called with a bl instruction,
(b) explicitly saving r1 into the PACA instead of assuming that
HSTATE_HOST_R1(r13) is already set, and (c) removing an unnecessary
and redundant setting of MSR[TM] that should have been removed by
commit 9d4d0bdd9e0a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory
support", 2013-09-24) but wasn't.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 upstream.

This moves the transactional memory state save and restore sequences
out of the guest entry/exit paths into separate procedures.  This is
so that these sequences can be used in going into and out of nap
in a subsequent patch.

The only code changes here are (a) saving and restore LR on the
stack, since these new procedures get called with a bl instruction,
(b) explicitly saving r1 into the PACA instead of assuming that
HSTATE_HOST_R1(r13) is already set, and (c) removing an unnecessary
and redundant setting of MSR[TM] that should have been removed by
commit 9d4d0bdd9e0a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory
support", 2013-09-24) but wasn't.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T15:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-05T08:34:39+00:00</published>
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commit ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c upstream.

Thomas Huth discovered that a guest could cause a hard hang of a
host CPU by setting the Instruction Authority Mask Register (IAMR)
to a suitable value.  It turns out that this is because when the
code was added to context-switch the new special-purpose registers
(SPRs) that were added in POWER8, we forgot to add code to ensure
that they were restored to a sane value on guest exit.

This adds code to set those registers where a bad value could
compromise the execution of the host kernel to a suitable neutral
value on guest exit.

Fixes: b005255e12a3
Reported-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c upstream.

Thomas Huth discovered that a guest could cause a hard hang of a
host CPU by setting the Instruction Authority Mask Register (IAMR)
to a suitable value.  It turns out that this is because when the
code was added to context-switch the new special-purpose registers
(SPRs) that were added in POWER8, we forgot to add code to ensure
that they were restored to a sane value on guest exit.

This adds code to set those registers where a bad value could
compromise the execution of the host kernel to a suitable neutral
value on guest exit.

Fixes: b005255e12a3
Reported-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Fix ONE_REG AltiVec support</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T20:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kurz</name>
<email>gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T17:28:17+00:00</published>
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commit b4d7f161feb3015d6306e1d35b565c888ff70c9d upstream.

The get and set operations got exchanged by mistake when moving the
code from book3s.c to powerpc.c.

Fixes: 3840edc8033ad5b86deee309c1c321ca54257452
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz &lt;gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b4d7f161feb3015d6306e1d35b565c888ff70c9d upstream.

The get and set operations got exchanged by mistake when moving the
code from book3s.c to powerpc.c.

Fixes: 3840edc8033ad5b86deee309c1c321ca54257452
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz &lt;gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Fix emulation of H_SET_DABR/X on POWER8</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T20:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-20T08:11:45+00:00</published>
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commit 760a7364f27d974d100118d88190e574626e18a6 upstream.

In the old DABR register, the BT (Breakpoint Translation) bit
is bit number 61. In the new DAWRX register, the WT (Watchpoint
Translation) bit is bit number 59. So to move the DABR-BT bit
into the position of the DAWRX-WT bit, it has to be shifted by
two, not only by one. This fixes hardware watchpoints in gdb of
older guests that only use the H_SET_DABR/X interface instead
of the new H_SET_MODE interface.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 760a7364f27d974d100118d88190e574626e18a6 upstream.

In the old DABR register, the BT (Breakpoint Translation) bit
is bit number 61. In the new DAWRX register, the WT (Watchpoint
Translation) bit is bit number 59. So to move the DABR-BT bit
into the position of the DAWRX-WT bit, it has to be shifted by
two, not only by one. This fixes hardware watchpoints in gdb of
older guests that only use the H_SET_DABR/X interface instead
of the new H_SET_MODE interface.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prohibit setting illegal transaction state in MSR</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T00:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-12T05:43:02+00:00</published>
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Currently it is possible for userspace (e.g. QEMU) to set a value
for the MSR for a guest VCPU which has both of the TS bits set,
which is an illegal combination.  The result of this is that when
we execute a hrfid (hypervisor return from interrupt doubleword)
instruction to enter the guest, the CPU will take a TM Bad Thing
type of program interrupt (vector 0x700).

Now, if PR KVM is configured in the kernel along with HV KVM, we
actually handle this without crashing the host or giving hypervisor
privilege to the guest; instead what happens is that we deliver a
program interrupt to the guest, with SRR0 reflecting the address
of the hrfid instruction and SRR1 containing the MSR value at that
point.  If PR KVM is not configured in the kernel, then we try to
run the host's program interrupt handler with the MMU set to the
guest context, which almost certainly causes a host crash.

This closes the hole by making kvmppc_set_msr_hv() check for the
illegal combination and force the TS field to a safe value (00,
meaning non-transactional).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Currently it is possible for userspace (e.g. QEMU) to set a value
for the MSR for a guest VCPU which has both of the TS bits set,
which is an illegal combination.  The result of this is that when
we execute a hrfid (hypervisor return from interrupt doubleword)
instruction to enter the guest, the CPU will take a TM Bad Thing
type of program interrupt (vector 0x700).

Now, if PR KVM is configured in the kernel along with HV KVM, we
actually handle this without crashing the host or giving hypervisor
privilege to the guest; instead what happens is that we deliver a
program interrupt to the guest, with SRR0 reflecting the address
of the hrfid instruction and SRR1 containing the MSR value at that
point.  If PR KVM is not configured in the kernel, then we try to
run the host's program interrupt handler with the MMU set to the
guest context, which almost certainly causes a host crash.

This closes the hole by making kvmppc_set_msr_hv() check for the
illegal combination and force the TS field to a safe value (00,
meaning non-transactional).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-11-12T22:34:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-12T22:34:06+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Four changes:

   - x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs
     while another is being delivered.  The endless stream of exceptions
     causes an infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or
     SMIs can interrupt; in the virt case, there is no possibility to
     exit to the host either.

   - x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate.  Long supported by
     AMD, the patches mostly move things from there to common
     arch/x86/kvm/ code.

   - generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and
     exit paths when context tracking is enabled.  The patches are a few
     months old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit.  Andy
     will pick up from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user
     entry/exit paths.

   - PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits)
  KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept
  KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB
  KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
  context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit
  context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled check
  KVM: VMX: Dump TSC multiplier in dump_vmcs()
  KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC
  KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded
  KVM: VMX: Enable and initialize VMX TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc()
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset()
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio
  KVM: x86: declare a few variables as __read_mostly
  KVM: x86: merge handle_mmio_page_fault and handle_mmio_page_fault_common
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split
  ...
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Pull second batch of kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Four changes:

   - x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs
     while another is being delivered.  The endless stream of exceptions
     causes an infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or
     SMIs can interrupt; in the virt case, there is no possibility to
     exit to the host either.

   - x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate.  Long supported by
     AMD, the patches mostly move things from there to common
     arch/x86/kvm/ code.

   - generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and
     exit paths when context tracking is enabled.  The patches are a few
     months old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit.  Andy
     will pick up from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user
     entry/exit paths.

   - PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits)
  KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept
  KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB
  KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
  context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit
  context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled check
  KVM: VMX: Dump TSC multiplier in dump_vmcs()
  KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC
  KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded
  KVM: VMX: Enable and initialize VMX TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc()
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset()
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio
  KVM: x86: declare a few variables as __read_mostly
  KVM: x86: merge handle_mmio_page_fault and handle_mmio_page_fault_common
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T07:38:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T07:38:43+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
   Feng
 - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
 - Emit GNU &amp; SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
 - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
 - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
 - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
 - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
   K.V
 - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
 - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
 - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
   Fontenot
 - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
 - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
 - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
   Mendoza-Jonas
 - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
   Colin Ian King
 - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
   Kumar K.V
 - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
 - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
 - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
 - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
 - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
   Gortmaker
 - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
 - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
 - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
 - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
 - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
 - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
 - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
 - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
   Kirjanov
 - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
 - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
 - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
 - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
   Koskinen
 - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
 - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
   Michael Ellerman
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
   with O= from Michael Ellerman
 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
   kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
   changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
   some fixes.
 - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
   MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
   documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.

* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
  powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
  powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
  powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
  powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
  powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
  powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
  powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
  powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
  powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
  powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
  powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
  powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
  powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
  powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
   Feng
 - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
 - Emit GNU &amp; SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
 - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
 - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
 - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
 - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
   K.V
 - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
 - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
 - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
   Fontenot
 - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
 - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
 - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
   Mendoza-Jonas
 - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
   Colin Ian King
 - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
   Kumar K.V
 - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
 - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
 - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
 - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
 - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
   Gortmaker
 - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
 - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
 - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
 - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
 - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
 - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
 - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
 - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
   Kirjanov
 - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
 - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
 - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
 - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
   Koskinen
 - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
 - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
   Michael Ellerman
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
   with O= from Michael Ellerman
 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
   kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
   changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
   some fixes.
 - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
   MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
   documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.

* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
  powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
  powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
  powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
  powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
  powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
  powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
  powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
  powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
  powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
  powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
  powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
  powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
  powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
  powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T05:02:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-03T05:03:30+00:00</published>
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In static micro-threading modes, the dynamic micro-threading code
is supposed to be disabled, because subcores can't make independent
decisions about what micro-threading mode to put the core in - there is
only one micro-threading mode for the whole core.  The code that
implements dynamic micro-threading checks for this, except that the
check was missed in one case.  This means that it is possible for a
subcore in static 2-way micro-threading mode to try to put the core
into 4-way micro-threading mode, which usually leads to stuck CPUs,
spinlock lockups, and other stalls in the host.

The problem was in the can_split_piggybacked_subcores() function, which
should always return false if the system is in a static micro-threading
mode.  This fixes the problem by making can_split_piggybacked_subcores()
use subcore_config_ok() for its checks, as subcore_config_ok() includes
the necessary check for the static micro-threading modes.

Credit to Gautham Shenoy for working out that the reason for the hangs
and stalls we were seeing was that we were trying to do dynamic 4-way
micro-threading while we were in static 2-way mode.

Fixes: b4deba5c41e9
Cc: vger@stable.kernel.org # v4.3
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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In static micro-threading modes, the dynamic micro-threading code
is supposed to be disabled, because subcores can't make independent
decisions about what micro-threading mode to put the core in - there is
only one micro-threading mode for the whole core.  The code that
implements dynamic micro-threading checks for this, except that the
check was missed in one case.  This means that it is possible for a
subcore in static 2-way micro-threading mode to try to put the core
into 4-way micro-threading mode, which usually leads to stuck CPUs,
spinlock lockups, and other stalls in the host.

The problem was in the can_split_piggybacked_subcores() function, which
should always return false if the system is in a static micro-threading
mode.  This fixes the problem by making can_split_piggybacked_subcores()
use subcore_config_ok() for its checks, as subcore_config_ok() includes
the necessary check for the static micro-threading modes.

Credit to Gautham Shenoy for working out that the reason for the hangs
and stalls we were seeing was that we were trying to do dynamic 4-way
micro-threading while we were in static 2-way mode.

Fixes: b4deba5c41e9
Cc: vger@stable.kernel.org # v4.3
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Synthesize segment fault if SLB lookup fails</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T04:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-27T05:10:20+00:00</published>
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When handling a hypervisor data or instruction storage interrupt (HDSI
or HISI), we look up the SLB entry for the address being accessed in
order to translate the effective address to a virtual address which can
be looked up in the guest HPT.  This lookup can occasionally fail due
to the guest replacing an SLB entry without invalidating the evicted
SLB entry.  In this situation an ERAT (effective to real address
translation cache) entry can persist and be used by the hardware even
though there is no longer a corresponding SLB entry.

Previously we would just deliver a data or instruction storage interrupt
(DSI or ISI) to the guest in this case.  However, this is not correct
and has been observed to cause guests to crash, typically with a
data storage protection interrupt on a store to the vmemmap area.

Instead, what we do now is to synthesize a data or instruction segment
interrupt.  That should cause the guest to reload an appropriate entry
into the SLB and retry the faulting instruction.  If it still faults,
we should find an appropriate SLB entry next time and be able to handle
the fault.

Tested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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When handling a hypervisor data or instruction storage interrupt (HDSI
or HISI), we look up the SLB entry for the address being accessed in
order to translate the effective address to a virtual address which can
be looked up in the guest HPT.  This lookup can occasionally fail due
to the guest replacing an SLB entry without invalidating the evicted
SLB entry.  In this situation an ERAT (effective to real address
translation cache) entry can persist and be used by the hardware even
though there is no longer a corresponding SLB entry.

Previously we would just deliver a data or instruction storage interrupt
(DSI or ISI) to the guest in this case.  However, this is not correct
and has been observed to cause guests to crash, typically with a
data storage protection interrupt on a store to the vmemmap area.

Instead, what we do now is to synthesize a data or instruction segment
interrupt.  That should cause the guest to reload an appropriate entry
into the SLB and retry the faulting instruction.  If it still faults,
we should find an appropriate SLB entry next time and be able to handle
the fault.

Tested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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