linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu, branch v3.10.76

x86, hyperv: Mark the Hyper-V clocksource as being continuous

2015-01-30T01:40:56+00:00

commit 32c6590d126836a062b3140ed52d898507987017 upstream.

The Hyper-V clocksource is continuous; mark it accordingly.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Acked-by: jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: olaf@aepfle.de
Cc: apw@canonical.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421108762-3331-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make sure only uncore events are collected

2015-01-16T14:59:03+00:00

commit af91568e762d04931dcbdd6bef4655433d8b9418 upstream.

The uncore_collect_events functions assumes that event group
might contain only uncore events which is wrong, because it
might contain any type of events.

This bug leads to uncore framework touching 'not' uncore events,
which could end up all sorts of bugs.

One was triggered by Vince's perf fuzzer, when the uncore code
touched breakpoint event private event space as if it was uncore
event and caused BUG:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff82822068
   IP: [] uncore_assign_events+0x188/0x250
   ...

The code in uncore_assign_events() function was looking for
event->hw.idx data while the event was initialized as a
breakpoint with different members in event->hw union.

This patch forces uncore_collect_events() to collect only uncore
events.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Yan, Zheng 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418243031-20367-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option

2014-12-06T23:05:46+00:00

commit 2cd3949f702692cf4c5d05b463f19cd706a92dd3 upstream.

We have some very similarly named command-line options:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup);

__setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like
"foo=bar" where you would have:

	__setup("foo", x86_foo_func...);

The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in
the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar".  If you boot an old
kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the
command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which
is not what you want at all.

This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds
an *exact* match.

[ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86/intel: Use proper dTLB-load-misses event on IvyBridge

2014-11-21T17:22:55+00:00

commit 1996388e9f4e3444db8273bc08d25164d2967c21 upstream.

This was discussed back in February:

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/956

But I never saw a patch come out of it.

On IvyBridge we share the SandyBridge cache event tables, but the
dTLB-load-miss event is not compatible.  Patch it up after
the fact to the proper DTLB_LOAD_MISSES.DEMAND_LD_MISS_CAUSES_A_WALK

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1407141528200.17214@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Hou Pengyang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace

2014-11-14T16:47:54+00:00

commit 8c7aa698baca5e8f1ba9edb68081f1e7a1abf455 upstream.

The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET
to #GP. Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf.

Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so
the only relevant entries are fast syscalls.

If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at
least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble. For example,
user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows
what would happen? Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do
this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault. That
segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too.

This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both
32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT
in software on entry via SYSENTER.

To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen:
it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it. As a result,
it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my
machine.

There's another minor bug fix in here: it looks like the CFI
annotations were wrong if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n.

Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF.

I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels.

The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish
Bhatt.

Note to stable maintainers: there is no known security issue here.
A misguided program can set NT and cause the kernel to try and fail
to deliver SIGSEGV, crashing the program. This patch fixes Far Cry
on Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275

Reported-by: Anish Bhatt
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/395749a5d39a29bd3e4b35899cf3a3c1340e5595.1412189265.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/intel/quark: Switch off CR4.PGE so TLB flush uses CR3 instead

2014-10-30T16:35:10+00:00

commit ee1b5b165c0a2f04d2107e634e51f05d0eb107de upstream.

Quark x1000 advertises PGE via the standard CPUID method
PGE bits exist in Quark X1000's PTEs. In order to flush
an individual PTE it is necessary to reload CR3 irrespective
of the PTE.PGE bit.

See Quark Core_DevMan_001.pdf section 6.4.11

This bug was fixed in Galileo kernels, unfixed vanilla kernels are expected to
crash and burn on this platform.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411514784-14885-1-git-send-email-pure.logic@nexus-software.ie
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86/intel: ignore CondChgd bit to avoid false NMI handling

2014-07-28T15:00:06+00:00

commit b292d7a10487aee6e74b1c18b8d95b92f40d4a4f upstream.

Currently, any NMI is falsely handled by a NMI handler of NMI watchdog
if CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR is set.

For example, we use external NMI to make system panic to get crash
dump, but in this case, the external NMI is falsely handled do to the
issue.

This commit deals with the issue simply by ignoring CondChgd bit.

Here is explanation in detail.

On x86 NMI watchdog uses performance monitoring feature to
periodically signal NMI each time performance counter gets overflowed.

intel_pmu_handle_irq() is called as a NMI_LOCAL handler from a NMI
handler of NMI watchdog, perf_event_nmi_handler(). It identifies an
owner of a given NMI by looking at overflow status bits in
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR. If some of the bits are set, then it
handles the given NMI as its own NMI.

The problem is that the intel_pmu_handle_irq() doesn't distinguish
CondChgd bit from other bits. Unlike the other status bits, CondChgd
bit doesn't represent overflow status for performance counters. Thus,
CondChgd bit cannot be thought of as a mark indicating a given NMI is
NMI watchdog's.

As a result, if CondChgd bit is set, any NMI is falsely handled by the
NMI handler of NMI watchdog. Also, if type of the falsely handled NMI
is either NMI_UNKNOWN, NMI_SERR or NMI_IO_CHECK, the corresponding
action is never performed until CondChgd bit is cleared.

I noticed this behavior on systems with Ivy Bridge processors: Intel
Xeon CPU E5-2630 v2 and Intel Xeon CPU E7-8890 v2. On both systems,
CondChgd bit in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR has already been set
in the beginning at boot. Then the CondChgd bit is immediately cleared
by next wrmsr to MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR and appears to remain
0.

On the other hand, on older processors such as Nehalem, Xeon E7540,
CondChgd bit is not set in the beginning at boot.

I'm not sure about exact behavior of CondChgd bit, in particular when
this bit is set. Although I read Intel System Programmer's Manual to
figure out that, the descriptions I found are:

  In 18.9.1:

  "The MSR_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS MSR also provides a ¡sticky bit¢ to
   indicate changes to the state of performancmonitoring hardware"

  In Table 35-2 IA-32 Architectural MSRs

  63 CondChg: status bits of this register has changed.

These are different from the bahviour I see on the actual system as I
explained above.

At least, I think ignoring CondChgd bit should be enough for NMI
watchdog perspective.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140625.103503.409316067.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow

2014-06-11T19:03:26+00:00

commit 14c63f17b1fde5a575a28e96547a22b451c71fb5 upstream.

This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen 
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Weng Meiling 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86: Fix event scheduling

2014-03-07T05:30:08+00:00

commit 26e61e8939b1fe8729572dabe9a9e97d930dd4f6 upstream.

Vince "Super Tester" Weaver reported a new round of syscall fuzzing (Trinity) failures,
with perf WARN_ON()s triggering. He also provided traces of the failures.

This is I think the relevant bit:

	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_disable: x86_pmu_disable
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926153: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926156: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926158: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926159: x86_pmu_state: }
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926160: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 1, n_added: 0, n_txn: 1
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926161: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926162: x86_pmu_state:   0->33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926163: x86_pmu_state: }
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926166: collect_events: Adding event: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)

So we add the insn:p event (fd[23]).

At this point we should have:

  n_events = 2, n_added = 1, n_txn = 1

	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926170: collect_events: Adding event: 0 (ffff8800c9e01800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926172: collect_events: Adding event: 4 (ffff8800cbab2c00)

We try and add the {BP,cycles,br_insn} group (fd[3], fd[4], fd[15]).
These events are 0:cycles and 4:br_insn, the BP event isn't x86_pmu so
that's not visible.

	group_sched_in()
	  pmu->start_txn() /* nop - BP pmu */
	  event_sched_in()
	     event->pmu->add()

So here we should end up with:

  0: n_events = 3, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2
  4: n_events = 4, n_added = 3, n_txn = 3

But seeing the below state on x86_pmu_enable(), the must have failed,
because the 0 and 4 events aren't there anymore.

Looking at group_sched_in(), since the BP is the leader, its
event_sched_in() must have succeeded, for otherwise we would not have
seen the sibling adds.

But since neither 0 or 4 are in the below state; their event_sched_in()
must have failed; but I don't see why, the complete state: 0,0,1:p,4
fits perfectly fine on a core2.

However, since we try and schedule 4 it means the 0 event must have
succeeded!  Therefore the 4 event must have failed, its failure will
have put group_sched_in() into the fail path, which will call:

	event_sched_out()
	  event->pmu->del()

on 0 and the BP event.

Now x86_pmu_del() will reduce n_events; but it will not reduce n_added;
giving what we see below:

 n_event = 2, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2

	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_enable: x86_pmu_enable
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926177: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926179: x86_pmu_state:   0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff (          (null))
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926181: x86_pmu_state:   33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926182: x86_pmu_state: }
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 2, n_added: 2, n_txn: 2
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926184: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926186: x86_pmu_state:   0->33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state:   1->0 tag: 1 config: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926188: x86_pmu_state: }
	>    pec_1076_warn-2804  [000] d...   147.926190: x86_pmu_enable: S0: hwc->idx: 33, hwc->last_cpu: 0, hwc->last_tag: 1 hwc->state: 0

So the problem is that x86_pmu_del(), when called from a
group_sched_in() that fails (for whatever reason), and without x86_pmu
TXN support (because the leader is !x86_pmu), will corrupt the n_added
state.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140221150312.GF3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, smap: Don't enable SMAP if CONFIG_X86_SMAP is disabled

2014-02-22T20:41:27+00:00

commit 03bbd596ac04fef47ce93a730b8f086d797c3021 upstream.

If SMAP support is not compiled into the kernel, don't enable SMAP in
CR4 -- in fact, we should clear it, because the kernel doesn't contain
the proper STAC/CLAC instructions for SMAP support.

Found by Fengguang Wu's test system.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140213124550.GA30497@localhost
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman