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<title>s390/bitops: remove 31 bit related comments</title>
<updated>2015-10-14T12:32:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T11:51:44+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/udelay: make udelay have busy loop semantics</title>
<updated>2015-10-14T12:32:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-15T09:42:21+00:00</published>
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When using systemtap it was observed that our udelay implementation is
rather suboptimal if being called from a kprobe handler installed by
systemtap.

The problem observed when a kprobe was installed on lock_acquired().
When the probe was hit the kprobe handler did call udelay, which set
up an (internal) timer and reenabled interrupts (only the clock comparator
interrupt) and waited for the interrupt.
This is an optimization to avoid that the cpu is busy looping while waiting
that enough time passes. The problem is that the interrupt handler still
does call irq_enter()/irq_exit() which then again can lead to a deadlock,
since some accounting functions may take locks as well.

If one of these locks is the same, which caused lock_acquired() to be
called, we have a nice deadlock.

This patch reworks the udelay code for the interrupts disabled case to
immediately leave the low level interrupt handler when the clock
comparator interrupt happens. That way no C code is being called and the
deadlock cannot happen anymore.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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When using systemtap it was observed that our udelay implementation is
rather suboptimal if being called from a kprobe handler installed by
systemtap.

The problem observed when a kprobe was installed on lock_acquired().
When the probe was hit the kprobe handler did call udelay, which set
up an (internal) timer and reenabled interrupts (only the clock comparator
interrupt) and waited for the interrupt.
This is an optimization to avoid that the cpu is busy looping while waiting
that enough time passes. The problem is that the interrupt handler still
does call irq_enter()/irq_exit() which then again can lead to a deadlock,
since some accounting functions may take locks as well.

If one of these locks is the same, which caused lock_acquired() to be
called, we have a nice deadlock.

This patch reworks the udelay code for the interrupts disabled case to
immediately leave the low level interrupt handler when the clock
comparator interrupt happens. That way no C code is being called and the
deadlock cannot happen anymore.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/spinlock: use correct barriers</title>
<updated>2015-10-14T12:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-11T14:09:56+00:00</published>
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_raw_write_lock_wait first sets the high order bit to indicate a
pending writer and then waits for the reader to drop to zero.
smp_rmb by definition only orders reads against reads. Let's use
a full smp_mb instead. As right now smp_rmb is implemented
as full serialization, this needs no stable backport, but this
patch will be necessary if we reimplement smp_rmb.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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_raw_write_lock_wait first sets the high order bit to indicate a
pending writer and then waits for the reader to drop to zero.
smp_rmb by definition only orders reads against reads. Let's use
a full smp_mb instead. As right now smp_rmb is implemented
as full serialization, this needs no stable backport, but this
patch will be necessary if we reimplement smp_rmb.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T22:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T22:46:07+00:00</published>
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Pull locking and atomic updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes in this cycle are:

   - Extend atomic primitives with coherent logic op primitives
     (atomic_{or,and,xor}()) and deprecate the old partial APIs
     (atomic_{set,clear}_mask())

     The old ops were incoherent with incompatible signatures across
     architectures and with incomplete support.  Now every architecture
     supports the primitives consistently (by Peter Zijlstra)

   - Generic support for 'relaxed atomics':

       - _acquire/release/relaxed() flavours of xchg(), cmpxchg() and {add,sub}_return()
       - atomic_read_acquire()
       - atomic_set_release()

     This came out of porting qwrlock code to arm64 (by Will Deacon)

   - Clean up the fragile static_key APIs that were causing repeat bugs,
     by introducing a new one:

       DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(name);
       DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(name);

     which define a key of different types with an initial true/false
     value.

     Then allow:

       static_branch_likely()
       static_branch_unlikely()

     to take a key of either type and emit the right instruction for the
     case.  To be able to know the 'type' of the static key we encode it
     in the jump entry (by Peter Zijlstra)

   - Static key self-tests (by Jason Baron)

   - qrwlock optimizations (by Waiman Long)

   - small futex enhancements (by Davidlohr Bueso)

   - ... and misc other changes"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (63 commits)
  jump_label/x86: Work around asm build bug on older/backported GCCs
  locking, ARM, atomics: Define our SMP atomics in terms of _relaxed() operations
  locking, include/llist: Use linux/atomic.h instead of asm/cmpxchg.h
  locking/qrwlock: Make use of _{acquire|release|relaxed}() atomics
  locking/qrwlock: Implement queue_write_unlock() using smp_store_release()
  locking/lockref: Remove homebrew cmpxchg64_relaxed() macro definition
  locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'
  locking, asm-generic: Rework atomic-long.h to avoid bulk code duplication
  locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations
  locking, compiler.h: Cast away attributes in the WRITE_ONCE() magic
  locking/static_keys: Make verify_keys() static
  jump label, locking/static_keys: Update docs
  locking/static_keys: Provide a selftest
  jump_label: Provide a self-test
  s390/uaccess, locking/static_keys: employ static_branch_likely()
  x86, tsc, locking/static_keys: Employ static_branch_likely()
  locking/static_keys: Add selftest
  locking/static_keys: Add a new static_key interface
  locking/static_keys: Rework update logic
  locking/static_keys: Add static_key_{en,dis}able() helpers
  ...
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Pull locking and atomic updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes in this cycle are:

   - Extend atomic primitives with coherent logic op primitives
     (atomic_{or,and,xor}()) and deprecate the old partial APIs
     (atomic_{set,clear}_mask())

     The old ops were incoherent with incompatible signatures across
     architectures and with incomplete support.  Now every architecture
     supports the primitives consistently (by Peter Zijlstra)

   - Generic support for 'relaxed atomics':

       - _acquire/release/relaxed() flavours of xchg(), cmpxchg() and {add,sub}_return()
       - atomic_read_acquire()
       - atomic_set_release()

     This came out of porting qwrlock code to arm64 (by Will Deacon)

   - Clean up the fragile static_key APIs that were causing repeat bugs,
     by introducing a new one:

       DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(name);
       DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(name);

     which define a key of different types with an initial true/false
     value.

     Then allow:

       static_branch_likely()
       static_branch_unlikely()

     to take a key of either type and emit the right instruction for the
     case.  To be able to know the 'type' of the static key we encode it
     in the jump entry (by Peter Zijlstra)

   - Static key self-tests (by Jason Baron)

   - qrwlock optimizations (by Waiman Long)

   - small futex enhancements (by Davidlohr Bueso)

   - ... and misc other changes"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (63 commits)
  jump_label/x86: Work around asm build bug on older/backported GCCs
  locking, ARM, atomics: Define our SMP atomics in terms of _relaxed() operations
  locking, include/llist: Use linux/atomic.h instead of asm/cmpxchg.h
  locking/qrwlock: Make use of _{acquire|release|relaxed}() atomics
  locking/qrwlock: Implement queue_write_unlock() using smp_store_release()
  locking/lockref: Remove homebrew cmpxchg64_relaxed() macro definition
  locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'
  locking, asm-generic: Rework atomic-long.h to avoid bulk code duplication
  locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations
  locking, compiler.h: Cast away attributes in the WRITE_ONCE() magic
  locking/static_keys: Make verify_keys() static
  jump label, locking/static_keys: Update docs
  locking/static_keys: Provide a selftest
  jump_label: Provide a self-test
  s390/uaccess, locking/static_keys: employ static_branch_likely()
  x86, tsc, locking/static_keys: Employ static_branch_likely()
  locking/static_keys: Add selftest
  locking/static_keys: Add a new static_key interface
  locking/static_keys: Rework update logic
  locking/static_keys: Add static_key_{en,dis}able() helpers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>s390/uaccess: remove uaccess_primary kernel parameter</title>
<updated>2015-08-19T08:39:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-13T11:44:34+00:00</published>
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get_user() and put_user() are inline functions in the meantime
again. Both will generate the mvcos instruction if compiled
with -march=z10 (or greater).

The kernel parameter "uaccess_primary" can only change the behavior
of out-of-line uaccess functions like copy_from_user() to not use
the mvcos instruction, but not for the above named inlined functions.

Therefore it is quite useless and the parameter can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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get_user() and put_user() are inline functions in the meantime
again. Both will generate the mvcos instruction if compiled
with -march=z10 (or greater).

The kernel parameter "uaccess_primary" can only change the behavior
of out-of-line uaccess functions like copy_from_user() to not use
the mvcos instruction, but not for the above named inlined functions.

Therefore it is quite useless and the parameter can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/lib: export __delay</title>
<updated>2015-08-07T07:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T06:38:23+00:00</published>
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__delay is exported by most architectures, and may be used in modules.
Since it is not exported for s390, s390:allmodconfig currently fails
to build with

ERROR: "__delay" [drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.ko] undefined!

Fixes: a6d678645210 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both
	ThunderX and Octeon")
Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla &lt;rchintakuntla@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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__delay is exported by most architectures, and may be used in modules.
Since it is not exported for s390, s390:allmodconfig currently fails
to build with

ERROR: "__delay" [drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.ko] undefined!

Fixes: a6d678645210 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both
	ThunderX and Octeon")
Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla &lt;rchintakuntla@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/uaccess, locking/static_keys: employ static_branch_likely()</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T09:34:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T06:31:24+00:00</published>
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Use the new static_branch_likely() primitive to make sure that the
most likely case is executed without taking an unconditional branch.
This wasn't possible with the old jump label primitives.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150729064600.GB3953@osiris
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Use the new static_branch_likely() primitive to make sure that the
most likely case is executed without taking an unconditional branch.
This wasn't possible with the old jump label primitives.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150729064600.GB3953@osiris
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove "64" suffix from mem64.S and swsusp_asm64.S</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T10:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T07:10:53+00:00</published>
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Rename two more files which I forgot. Also remove the "asm" from the
swsusp_asm64.S file, since the ".S" suffix already makes it obvious
that this file contains assembler code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Rename two more files which I forgot. Also remove the "asm" from the
swsusp_asm64.S file, since the ".S" suffix already makes it obvious
that this file contains assembler code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove 31 bit support</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T10:49:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T12:08:27+00:00</published>
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Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and
effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no
distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel.

The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before
anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel
shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e5826 ("s390: add 31 bit warning
message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit
code. We didn't get any response.

Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's
remove the code.
Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and
effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no
distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel.

The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before
anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel
shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e5826 ("s390: add 31 bit warning
message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit
code. We didn't get any response.

Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's
remove the code.
Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T14:17:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-14T16:52:33+00:00</published>
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Add the compare-and-delay instruction to the spin-lock and rw-lock
retry loops. A CPU executing the compare-and-delay instruction stops
until the lock value has changed. This is done to make the locking
code for contended locks to behave better in regard to the multi-
hreading facility. A thread of a core executing a compare-and-delay
will allow the other threads of a core to get a larger share of the
core resources.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Add the compare-and-delay instruction to the spin-lock and rw-lock
retry loops. A CPU executing the compare-and-delay instruction stops
until the lock value has changed. This is done to make the locking
code for contended locks to behave better in regard to the multi-
hreading facility. A thread of a core executing a compare-and-delay
will allow the other threads of a core to get a larger share of the
core resources.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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