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<title>powerpc/imc-pmu: Revert nest_init_lock to being a mutex</title>
<updated>2023-02-22T11:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2023-01-30T01:44:01+00:00</published>
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commit ad53db4acb415976761d7302f5b02e97f2bd097e upstream.

The recent commit 76d588dddc45 ("powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in
IRQs disabled section") fixed warnings (and possible deadlocks) in the
IMC PMU driver by converting the locking to use spinlocks.

It also converted the init-time nest_init_lock to a spinlock, even
though it's not used at runtime in IRQ disabled sections or while
holding other spinlocks.

This leads to warnings such as:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:49
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-14719-gf12cd06109f4-dirty #1
  Hardware name: Mambo,Simulated-System POWER9 0x4e1203 opal:v6.6.6 PowerNV
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0xa8 (unreliable)
    __might_resched+0x178/0x1a0
    __cpuhp_setup_state+0x64/0x1e0
    init_imc_pmu+0xe48/0x1250
    opal_imc_counters_probe+0x30c/0x6a0
    platform_probe+0x78/0x110
    really_probe+0x104/0x420
    __driver_probe_device+0xb0/0x170
    driver_probe_device+0x58/0x180
    __driver_attach+0xd8/0x250
    bus_for_each_dev+0xb4/0x140
    driver_attach+0x34/0x50
    bus_add_driver+0x1e8/0x2d0
    driver_register+0xb4/0x1c0
    __platform_driver_register+0x38/0x50
    opal_imc_driver_init+0x2c/0x40
    do_one_initcall+0x80/0x360
    kernel_init_freeable+0x310/0x3b8
    kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Fix it by converting nest_init_lock back to a mutex, so that we can call
sleeping functions while holding it. There is no interaction between
nest_init_lock and the runtime spinlocks used by the actual PMU routines.

Fixes: 76d588dddc45 ("powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in IRQs disabled section")
Tested-by: Kajol Jain&lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain&lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130014401.540543-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ad53db4acb415976761d7302f5b02e97f2bd097e upstream.

The recent commit 76d588dddc45 ("powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in
IRQs disabled section") fixed warnings (and possible deadlocks) in the
IMC PMU driver by converting the locking to use spinlocks.

It also converted the init-time nest_init_lock to a spinlock, even
though it's not used at runtime in IRQ disabled sections or while
holding other spinlocks.

This leads to warnings such as:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:49
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-14719-gf12cd06109f4-dirty #1
  Hardware name: Mambo,Simulated-System POWER9 0x4e1203 opal:v6.6.6 PowerNV
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0xa8 (unreliable)
    __might_resched+0x178/0x1a0
    __cpuhp_setup_state+0x64/0x1e0
    init_imc_pmu+0xe48/0x1250
    opal_imc_counters_probe+0x30c/0x6a0
    platform_probe+0x78/0x110
    really_probe+0x104/0x420
    __driver_probe_device+0xb0/0x170
    driver_probe_device+0x58/0x180
    __driver_attach+0xd8/0x250
    bus_for_each_dev+0xb4/0x140
    driver_attach+0x34/0x50
    bus_add_driver+0x1e8/0x2d0
    driver_register+0xb4/0x1c0
    __platform_driver_register+0x38/0x50
    opal_imc_driver_init+0x2c/0x40
    do_one_initcall+0x80/0x360
    kernel_init_freeable+0x310/0x3b8
    kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Fix it by converting nest_init_lock back to a mutex, so that we can call
sleeping functions while holding it. There is no interaction between
nest_init_lock and the runtime spinlocks used by the actual PMU routines.

Fixes: 76d588dddc45 ("powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in IRQs disabled section")
Tested-by: Kajol Jain&lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain&lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130014401.540543-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in IRQs disabled section</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T10:42:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-06T06:51:57+00:00</published>
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commit 76d588dddc459fefa1da96e0a081a397c5c8e216 upstream.

Current imc-pmu code triggers a WARNING with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled, while running a thread_imc event.

Command to trigger the warning:
  # perf stat -e thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/ sleep 5

   Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':

                   0      thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/

         5.002117947 seconds time elapsed

         0.000131000 seconds user
         0.001063000 seconds sys

Below is snippet of the warning in dmesg:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2869, name: perf-exec
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
  4 locks held by perf-exec/2869:
   #0: c00000004325c540 (&amp;sig-&gt;cred_guard_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: bprm_execve+0x64/0xa90
   #1: c00000004325c5d8 (&amp;sig-&gt;exec_update_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: begin_new_exec+0x460/0xef0
   #2: c0000003fa99d4e0 (&amp;cpuctx_lock){-...}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x290/0x510
   #3: c000000017ab8418 (&amp;ctx-&gt;lock){....}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x29c/0x510
  irq event stamp: 4806
  hardirqs last  enabled at (4805): [&lt;c000000000f65b94&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xd0
  hardirqs last disabled at (4806): [&lt;c0000000003fae44&gt;] perf_event_exec+0x394/0x510
  softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;c00000000013c404&gt;] copy_process+0xc34/0x1ff0
  softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61
  Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xe0 (unreliable)
    __might_resched+0x2f8/0x310
    __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x13f0
    thread_imc_event_add+0xf4/0x1b0
    event_sched_in+0xe0/0x210
    merge_sched_in+0x1f0/0x600
    visit_groups_merge.isra.92.constprop.166+0x2bc/0x6c0
    ctx_flexible_sched_in+0xcc/0x140
    ctx_sched_in+0x20c/0x2a0
    ctx_resched+0x104/0x1c0
    perf_event_exec+0x340/0x510
    begin_new_exec+0x730/0xef0
    load_elf_binary+0x3f8/0x1e10
  ...
  do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2001 set at [&lt;00000000fd63e7cf&gt;] do_nanosleep+0x60/0x1a0
  WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 2869 at kernel/sched/core.c:9912 __might_sleep+0x9c/0xb0
  CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: sleep Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61
  Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV
  NIP:  c000000000194a1c LR: c000000000194a18 CTR: c000000000a78670
  REGS: c00000004d2134e0 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G        W           (6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2)
  MSR:  9000000000021033 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 48002824  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c00000000013fb64 IRQMASK: 1

The above warning triggered because the current imc-pmu code uses mutex
lock in interrupt disabled sections. The function mutex_lock()
internally calls __might_resched(), which will check if IRQs are
disabled and in case IRQs are disabled, it will trigger the warning.

Fix the issue by changing the mutex lock to spinlock.

Fixes: 8f95faaac56c ("powerpc/powernv: Detect and create IMC device")
Reported-by: Michael Petlan &lt;mpetlan@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix comments, trim oops in change log, add reported-by tags]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230106065157.182648-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 76d588dddc459fefa1da96e0a081a397c5c8e216 upstream.

Current imc-pmu code triggers a WARNING with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled, while running a thread_imc event.

Command to trigger the warning:
  # perf stat -e thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/ sleep 5

   Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':

                   0      thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/

         5.002117947 seconds time elapsed

         0.000131000 seconds user
         0.001063000 seconds sys

Below is snippet of the warning in dmesg:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2869, name: perf-exec
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
  4 locks held by perf-exec/2869:
   #0: c00000004325c540 (&amp;sig-&gt;cred_guard_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: bprm_execve+0x64/0xa90
   #1: c00000004325c5d8 (&amp;sig-&gt;exec_update_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: begin_new_exec+0x460/0xef0
   #2: c0000003fa99d4e0 (&amp;cpuctx_lock){-...}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x290/0x510
   #3: c000000017ab8418 (&amp;ctx-&gt;lock){....}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x29c/0x510
  irq event stamp: 4806
  hardirqs last  enabled at (4805): [&lt;c000000000f65b94&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xd0
  hardirqs last disabled at (4806): [&lt;c0000000003fae44&gt;] perf_event_exec+0x394/0x510
  softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;c00000000013c404&gt;] copy_process+0xc34/0x1ff0
  softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61
  Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xe0 (unreliable)
    __might_resched+0x2f8/0x310
    __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x13f0
    thread_imc_event_add+0xf4/0x1b0
    event_sched_in+0xe0/0x210
    merge_sched_in+0x1f0/0x600
    visit_groups_merge.isra.92.constprop.166+0x2bc/0x6c0
    ctx_flexible_sched_in+0xcc/0x140
    ctx_sched_in+0x20c/0x2a0
    ctx_resched+0x104/0x1c0
    perf_event_exec+0x340/0x510
    begin_new_exec+0x730/0xef0
    load_elf_binary+0x3f8/0x1e10
  ...
  do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2001 set at [&lt;00000000fd63e7cf&gt;] do_nanosleep+0x60/0x1a0
  WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 2869 at kernel/sched/core.c:9912 __might_sleep+0x9c/0xb0
  CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: sleep Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61
  Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV
  NIP:  c000000000194a1c LR: c000000000194a18 CTR: c000000000a78670
  REGS: c00000004d2134e0 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G        W           (6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2)
  MSR:  9000000000021033 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 48002824  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c00000000013fb64 IRQMASK: 1

The above warning triggered because the current imc-pmu code uses mutex
lock in interrupt disabled sections. The function mutex_lock()
internally calls __might_resched(), which will check if IRQs are
disabled and in case IRQs are disabled, it will trigger the warning.

Fix the issue by changing the mutex lock to spinlock.

Fixes: 8f95faaac56c ("powerpc/powernv: Detect and create IMC device")
Reported-by: Michael Petlan &lt;mpetlan@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix comments, trim oops in change log, add reported-by tags]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230106065157.182648-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/hv-gpci: Fix hv_gpci event list</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T10:41:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-30T17:45:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 03f7c1d2a49acd30e38789cd809d3300721e9b0e ]

Based on getPerfCountInfo v1.018 documentation, some of the
hv_gpci events were deprecated for platform firmware that
supports counter_info_version 0x8 or above.

Fix the hv_gpci event list by adding a new attribute group
called "hv_gpci_event_attrs_v6" and a "ENABLE_EVENTS_COUNTERINFO_V6"
macro to enable these events for platform firmware
that supports counter_info_version 0x6 or below. And assigning
the hv_gpci event list based on output counter info version
of underlying plaform.

Fixes: 97bf2640184f ("powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221130174513.87501-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 03f7c1d2a49acd30e38789cd809d3300721e9b0e ]

Based on getPerfCountInfo v1.018 documentation, some of the
hv_gpci events were deprecated for platform firmware that
supports counter_info_version 0x8 or above.

Fix the hv_gpci event list by adding a new attribute group
called "hv_gpci_event_attrs_v6" and a "ENABLE_EVENTS_COUNTERINFO_V6"
macro to enable these events for platform firmware
that supports counter_info_version 0x6 or below. And assigning
the hv_gpci event list based on output counter info version
of underlying plaform.

Fixes: 97bf2640184f ("powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221130174513.87501-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: callchain validate kernel stack pointer bounds</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T10:41:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-27T12:49:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 32c5209214bd8d4f8c4e9d9b630ef4c671f58e79 ]

The interrupt frame detection and loads from the hypothetical pt_regs
are not bounds-checked. The next-frame validation only bounds-checks
STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD, which does not include the pt_regs. Add another
test for this.

The user could set r1 to be equal to the address matching the first
interrupt frame - STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE, which is in the previous page
due to the kernel redzone, and induce the kernel to load the marker from
there. Possibly this could cause a crash at least. If the user could
induce the previous page to contain a valid marker, then it might be
able to direct perf to read specific memory addresses in a way that
could be transmitted back to the user in the perf data.

Fixes: 20002ded4d93 ("perf_counter: powerpc: Add callchain support")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 32c5209214bd8d4f8c4e9d9b630ef4c671f58e79 ]

The interrupt frame detection and loads from the hypothetical pt_regs
are not bounds-checked. The next-frame validation only bounds-checks
STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD, which does not include the pt_regs. Add another
test for this.

The user could set r1 to be equal to the address matching the first
interrupt frame - STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE, which is in the previous page
due to the kernel redzone, and induce the kernel to load the marker from
there. Possibly this could cause a crash at least. If the user could
induce the previous page to contain a valid marker, then it might be
able to direct perf to read specific memory addresses in a way that
could be transmitted back to the user in the perf data.

Fixes: 20002ded4d93 ("perf_counter: powerpc: Add callchain support")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix the threshold compare group constraint for power9</title>
<updated>2022-06-14T16:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-06T06:10:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ab0cc6bbf0c812731c703ec757fcc3fc3a457a34 ]

Thresh compare bits for a event is used to program thresh compare
field in Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA: 9-18 bits for power9).
When scheduling events as a group, all events in that group should
match value in threshold bits (like thresh compare, thresh control,
thresh select). Otherwise event open for the sibling events should fail.
But in the current code, incase thresh compare bits are not valid,
we are not failing in group_constraint function which can result
in invalid group schduling.

Fix the issue by returning -1 incase event is threshold and threshold
compare value is not valid.

Thresh control bits in the event code is used to program thresh_ctl
field in Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA: 48-55). In below example,
the scheduling of group events PM_MRK_INST_CMPL (873534401e0) and
PM_THRESH_MET (8734340101ec) is expected to fail as both event
request different thresh control bits and invalid thresh compare value.

Result before the patch changes:

[command]# perf stat -e "{r8735340401e0,r8734340101ec}" sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

            11,048      r8735340401e0
             1,967      r8734340101ec

       1.001354036 seconds time elapsed

       0.001421000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys

Result after the patch changes:

[command]# perf stat -e "{r8735340401e0,r8734340101ec}" sleep 1
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument)
for event (r8735340401e0).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

Fixes: 78a16d9fc1206 ("powerpc/perf: Avoid FAB_*_MATCH checks for power9")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506061015.43916-2-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ab0cc6bbf0c812731c703ec757fcc3fc3a457a34 ]

Thresh compare bits for a event is used to program thresh compare
field in Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA: 9-18 bits for power9).
When scheduling events as a group, all events in that group should
match value in threshold bits (like thresh compare, thresh control,
thresh select). Otherwise event open for the sibling events should fail.
But in the current code, incase thresh compare bits are not valid,
we are not failing in group_constraint function which can result
in invalid group schduling.

Fix the issue by returning -1 incase event is threshold and threshold
compare value is not valid.

Thresh control bits in the event code is used to program thresh_ctl
field in Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA: 48-55). In below example,
the scheduling of group events PM_MRK_INST_CMPL (873534401e0) and
PM_THRESH_MET (8734340101ec) is expected to fail as both event
request different thresh control bits and invalid thresh compare value.

Result before the patch changes:

[command]# perf stat -e "{r8735340401e0,r8734340101ec}" sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

            11,048      r8735340401e0
             1,967      r8734340101ec

       1.001354036 seconds time elapsed

       0.001421000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys

Result after the patch changes:

[command]# perf stat -e "{r8735340401e0,r8734340101ec}" sleep 1
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument)
for event (r8735340401e0).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

Fixes: 78a16d9fc1206 ("powerpc/perf: Avoid FAB_*_MATCH checks for power9")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506061015.43916-2-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix power9 event alternatives</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T11:50:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Athira Rajeev</name>
<email>atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-19T11:48:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0dcad700bb2776e3886fe0a645a4bf13b1e747cd ]

When scheduling a group of events, there are constraint checks done to
make sure all events can go in a group. Example, one of the criteria is
that events in a group cannot use the same PMC. But platform specific
PMU supports alternative event for some of the event codes. During
perf_event_open(), if any event group doesn't match constraint check
criteria, further lookup is done to find alternative event.

By current design, the array of alternatives events in PMU code is
expected to be sorted by column 0. This is because in
find_alternative() the return criteria is based on event code
comparison. ie. "event &lt; ev_alt[i][0])". This optimisation is there
since find_alternative() can be called multiple times. In power9 PMU
code, the alternative event array is not sorted properly and hence there
is breakage in finding alternative events.

To work with existing logic, fix the alternative event array to be
sorted by column 0 for power9-pmu.c

Results:

With alternative events, multiplexing can be avoided. That is, for
example, in power9 PM_LD_MISS_L1 (0x3e054) has alternative event,
PM_LD_MISS_L1_ALT (0x400f0). This is an identical event which can be
programmed in a different PMC.

Before:

 # perf stat -e r3e054,r300fc

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           1057860      r3e054              (50.21%)
               379      r300fc              (49.79%)

       0.944329741 seconds time elapsed

Since both the events are using PMC3 in this case, they are
multiplexed here.

After:

 # perf stat -e r3e054,r300fc

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           1006948      r3e054
               182      r300fc

Fixes: 91e0bd1e6251 ("powerpc/perf: Add PM_LD_MISS_L1 and PM_BR_2PATH to power9 event list")
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419114828.89843-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0dcad700bb2776e3886fe0a645a4bf13b1e747cd ]

When scheduling a group of events, there are constraint checks done to
make sure all events can go in a group. Example, one of the criteria is
that events in a group cannot use the same PMC. But platform specific
PMU supports alternative event for some of the event codes. During
perf_event_open(), if any event group doesn't match constraint check
criteria, further lookup is done to find alternative event.

By current design, the array of alternatives events in PMU code is
expected to be sorted by column 0. This is because in
find_alternative() the return criteria is based on event code
comparison. ie. "event &lt; ev_alt[i][0])". This optimisation is there
since find_alternative() can be called multiple times. In power9 PMU
code, the alternative event array is not sorted properly and hence there
is breakage in finding alternative events.

To work with existing logic, fix the alternative event array to be
sorted by column 0 for power9-pmu.c

Results:

With alternative events, multiplexing can be avoided. That is, for
example, in power9 PM_LD_MISS_L1 (0x3e054) has alternative event,
PM_LD_MISS_L1_ALT (0x400f0). This is an identical event which can be
programmed in a different PMC.

Before:

 # perf stat -e r3e054,r300fc

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           1057860      r3e054              (50.21%)
               379      r300fc              (49.79%)

       0.944329741 seconds time elapsed

Since both the events are using PMC3 in this case, they are
multiplexed here.

After:

 # perf stat -e r3e054,r300fc

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           1006948      r3e054
               182      r300fc

Fixes: 91e0bd1e6251 ("powerpc/perf: Add PM_LD_MISS_L1 and PM_BR_2PATH to power9 event list")
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419114828.89843-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Don't use perf_hw_context for trace IMC PMU</title>
<updated>2022-04-15T12:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Athira Rajeev</name>
<email>atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-02T04:18:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d2ee8da9f72d768acc7dc264d373070d403b5ed9'/>
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[ Upstream commit 0198322379c25215b2778482bf1221743a76e2b5 ]

Trace IMC (In-Memory collection counters) in powerpc is useful for
application level profiling.

For trace_imc, presently task context (task_ctx_nr) is set to
perf_hw_context. But perf_hw_context should only be used for CPU PMU.
See commit 26657848502b ("perf/core: Verify we have a single
perf_hw_context PMU").

So for trace_imc, even though it is per thread PMU, it is preferred to
use sw_context in order to be able to do application level monitoring.
Hence change the task_ctx_nr to use perf_sw_context.

Fixes: 012ae244845f ("powerpc/perf: Trace imc PMU functions")
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Update subject &amp; incorporate notes into change log, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202041837.65968-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0198322379c25215b2778482bf1221743a76e2b5 ]

Trace IMC (In-Memory collection counters) in powerpc is useful for
application level profiling.

For trace_imc, presently task context (task_ctx_nr) is set to
perf_hw_context. But perf_hw_context should only be used for CPU PMU.
See commit 26657848502b ("perf/core: Verify we have a single
perf_hw_context PMU").

So for trace_imc, even though it is per thread PMU, it is preferred to
use sw_context in order to be able to do application level monitoring.
Hence change the task_ctx_nr to use perf_sw_context.

Fixes: 012ae244845f ("powerpc/perf: Trace imc PMU functions")
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Update subject &amp; incorporate notes into change log, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202041837.65968-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Fix counter value parsing</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T10:26:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T08:21:58+00:00</published>
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commit f9addd85fbfacf0d155e83dbee8696d6df5ed0c7 upstream.

H_GetPerformanceCounterInfo (0xF080) hcall returns the counter data in
the result buffer. Result buffer has specific format defined in the PAPR
specification. One of the fields is counter offset and width of the
counter data returned.

Counter data are returned in a unsigned char array in big endian byte
order. To get the final counter data, the values must be left shifted
byte at a time. But commit 220a0c609ad17 ("powerpc/perf: Add support for
the hv gpci (get performance counter info) interface") made the shifting
bitwise and also assumed little endian order. Because of that, hcall
counters values are reported incorrectly.

In particular this can lead to counters go backwards which messes up the
counter prev vs now calculation and leads to huge counter value
reporting:

  #: perf stat -e hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
           -C 0 -I 1000
        time             counts unit events
     1.000078854 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     2.000213293                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     3.000320107                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     4.000428392                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     5.000537864                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     6.000649087                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     7.000760312                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     8.000865218             16,448      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     9.000978985 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    10.001088891             16,384      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    11.001201435                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    12.001307937 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/

Fix the shifting logic to correct match the format, ie. read bytes in
big endian order.

Fixes: e4f226b1580b ("powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Increase request buffer size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry&lt;rnsastry@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry&lt;rnsastry@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210813082158.429023-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f9addd85fbfacf0d155e83dbee8696d6df5ed0c7 upstream.

H_GetPerformanceCounterInfo (0xF080) hcall returns the counter data in
the result buffer. Result buffer has specific format defined in the PAPR
specification. One of the fields is counter offset and width of the
counter data returned.

Counter data are returned in a unsigned char array in big endian byte
order. To get the final counter data, the values must be left shifted
byte at a time. But commit 220a0c609ad17 ("powerpc/perf: Add support for
the hv gpci (get performance counter info) interface") made the shifting
bitwise and also assumed little endian order. Because of that, hcall
counters values are reported incorrectly.

In particular this can lead to counters go backwards which messes up the
counter prev vs now calculation and leads to huge counter value
reporting:

  #: perf stat -e hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
           -C 0 -I 1000
        time             counts unit events
     1.000078854 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     2.000213293                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     3.000320107                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     4.000428392                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     5.000537864                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     6.000649087                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     7.000760312                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     8.000865218             16,448      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
     9.000978985 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    10.001088891             16,384      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    11.001201435                  0      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/
    12.001307937 18,446,744,073,709,535,232      hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/

Fix the shifting logic to correct match the format, ie. read bytes in
big endian order.

Fixes: e4f226b1580b ("powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Increase request buffer size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry&lt;rnsastry@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry&lt;rnsastry@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210813082158.429023-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix PMU constraint check for EBB events</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T07:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Athira Rajeev</name>
<email>atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-06T16:16:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 10f8f96179ecc7f69c927f6d231f6d02736cea83 ]

The power PMU group constraints includes check for EBB events to make
sure all events in a group must agree on EBB. This will prevent
scheduling EBB and non-EBB events together. But in the existing check,
settings for constraint mask and value is interchanged. Patch fixes the
same.

Before the patch, PMU selftest "cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test" fails with
below in dmesg logs. This happens because EBB event gets enabled along
with a non-EBB cpu event.

  [35600.453346] cpu_event_pinne[41326]: illegal instruction (4)
  at 10004a18 nip 10004a18 lr 100049f8 code 1 in
  cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test[10000000+10000]

Test results after the patch:

  $ ./pmu/ebb/cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test
  test: cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb
  tags: git_version:v5.12-rc5-93-gf28c3125acd3-dirty
  Binding to cpu 8
  EBB Handler is at 0x100050c8
  read error on event 0x7fffe6bd4040!
  PM_RUN_INST_CMPL: result 9872 running/enabled 37930432
  success: cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb

This bug was hidden by other logic until commit 1908dc911792 (perf:
Tweak perf_event_attr::exclusive semantics).

Fixes: 4df489991182 ("powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support")
Reported-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Mention commit 1908dc911792]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617725761-1464-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 10f8f96179ecc7f69c927f6d231f6d02736cea83 ]

The power PMU group constraints includes check for EBB events to make
sure all events in a group must agree on EBB. This will prevent
scheduling EBB and non-EBB events together. But in the existing check,
settings for constraint mask and value is interchanged. Patch fixes the
same.

Before the patch, PMU selftest "cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test" fails with
below in dmesg logs. This happens because EBB event gets enabled along
with a non-EBB cpu event.

  [35600.453346] cpu_event_pinne[41326]: illegal instruction (4)
  at 10004a18 nip 10004a18 lr 100049f8 code 1 in
  cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test[10000000+10000]

Test results after the patch:

  $ ./pmu/ebb/cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb_test
  test: cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb
  tags: git_version:v5.12-rc5-93-gf28c3125acd3-dirty
  Binding to cpu 8
  EBB Handler is at 0x100050c8
  read error on event 0x7fffe6bd4040!
  PM_RUN_INST_CMPL: result 9872 running/enabled 37930432
  success: cpu_event_pinned_vs_ebb

This bug was hidden by other logic until commit 1908dc911792 (perf:
Tweak perf_event_attr::exclusive semantics).

Fixes: 4df489991182 ("powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support")
Reported-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Mention commit 1908dc911792]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617725761-1464-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Record counter overflow always if SAMPLE_IP is unset</title>
<updated>2021-03-17T16:03:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Athira Rajeev</name>
<email>atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T09:14:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d137845c973147a22622cc76c7b0bc16f6206323 ]

While sampling for marked events, currently we record the sample only
if the SIAR valid bit of Sampled Instruction Event Register (SIER) is
set. SIAR_VALID bit is used for fetching the instruction address from
Sampled Instruction Address Register(SIAR). But there are some
usecases, where the user is interested only in the PMU stats at each
counter overflow and the exact IP of the overflow event is not
required. Dropping SIAR invalid samples will fail to record some of
the counter overflows in such cases.

Example of such usecase is dumping the PMU stats (event counts) after
some regular amount of instructions/events from the userspace (ex: via
ptrace). Here counter overflow is indicated to userspace via signal
handler, and captured by monitoring and enabling I/O signaling on the
event file descriptor. In these cases, we expect to get
sample/overflow indication after each specified sample_period.

Perf event attribute will not have PERF_SAMPLE_IP set in the
sample_type if exact IP of the overflow event is not requested. So
while profiling if SAMPLE_IP is not set, just record the counter
overflow irrespective of SIAR_VALID check.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1612516492-1428-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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While sampling for marked events, currently we record the sample only
if the SIAR valid bit of Sampled Instruction Event Register (SIER) is
set. SIAR_VALID bit is used for fetching the instruction address from
Sampled Instruction Address Register(SIAR). But there are some
usecases, where the user is interested only in the PMU stats at each
counter overflow and the exact IP of the overflow event is not
required. Dropping SIAR invalid samples will fail to record some of
the counter overflows in such cases.

Example of such usecase is dumping the PMU stats (event counts) after
some regular amount of instructions/events from the userspace (ex: via
ptrace). Here counter overflow is indicated to userspace via signal
handler, and captured by monitoring and enabling I/O signaling on the
event file descriptor. In these cases, we expect to get
sample/overflow indication after each specified sample_period.

Perf event attribute will not have PERF_SAMPLE_IP set in the
sample_type if exact IP of the overflow event is not requested. So
while profiling if SAMPLE_IP is not set, just record the counter
overflow irrespective of SIAR_VALID check.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Reflow comment and if formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1612516492-1428-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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