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2012-06-08powerpc: Fix kernel panic during kernel module loadSteffen Rumler
This fixes a problem which can causes kernel oopses while loading a kernel module. According to the PowerPC EABI specification, GPR r11 is assigned the dedicated function to point to the previous stack frame. In the powerpc-specific kernel module loader, do_plt_call() (in arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c), GPR r11 is also used to generate trampoline code. This combination crashes the kernel, in the case where the compiler chooses to use a helper function for saving GPRs on entry, and the module loader has placed the .init.text section far away from the .text section, meaning that it has to generate a trampoline for functions in the .init.text section to call the GPR save helper. Because the trampoline trashes r11, references to the stack frame using r11 can cause an oops. The fix just uses GPR r12 instead of GPR r11 for generating the trampoline code. According to the statements from Freescale, this is safe from an EABI perspective. I've tested the fix for kernel 2.6.33 on MPC8541. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steffen Rumler <steffen.rumler.ext@nsn.com> [paulus@samba.org: reworded the description] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2012-06-08powerpc/time: Sanity check of decrementer expiration is necessaryPaul Mackerras
This reverts 68568add2c ("powerpc/time: Remove unnecessary sanity check of decrementer expiration"). We do need to check whether we have reached the expiration time of the next event, because we sometimes get an early decrementer interrupt, most notably when we set the decrementer to 1 in arch_irq_work_raise(). The effect of not having the sanity check is that if timer_interrupt() gets called early, we leave the decrementer set to its maximum value, which means we then don't get any more decrementer interrupts for about 4 seconds (or longer, depending on timebase frequency). I saw these pauses as a consequence of getting a stray hypervisor decrementer interrupt left over from exiting a KVM guest. This isn't quite a straight revert because of changes to the surrounding code, but it restores the same algorithm as was previously used. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2012-06-01new helper: signal_delivered()Al Viro
Does block_sigmask() + tracehook_signal_handler(); called when sigframe has been successfully built. All architectures converted to it; block_sigmask() itself is gone now (merged into this one). I'm still not too happy with the signature, but that's a separate story (IMO we need a structure that would contain signal number + siginfo + k_sigaction, so that get_signal_to_deliver() would fill one, signal_delivered(), handle_signal() and probably setup...frame() - take one). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()Al Viro
... it's just a call of set_current_blocked() now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from setAl Viro
Only 3 out of 63 do not. Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(), added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched open-coded instances to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01new helper: sigmask_to_save()Al Viro
replace boilerplate "should we use ->saved_sigmask or ->blocked?" with calls of obvious inlined helper... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()Al Viro
first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK and restore the blocked mask from ->saved_mask" into a common helper. Open-coded instances switched... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull second pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro: "This one is just task_work_add() series + remaining prereqs for it. There probably will be another pull request from that tree this cycle - at least for helpers, to get them out of the way for per-arch fixes remaining in the tree." Fix trivial conflict in kernel/irq/manage.c: the merge of Andrew's pile had brought in commit 97fd75b7b8e0 ("kernel/irq/manage.c: use the pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks") which changed one of the pr_err() calls that this merge moves around. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: keys: kill task_struct->replacement_session_keyring keys: kill the dummy key_replace_session_keyring() keys: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add() genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add() task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks avr32: missed _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME on one of do_notify_resume callers parisc: need to check NOTIFY_RESUME when exiting from syscall move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume() TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is defined on all targets now
2012-05-28powerpc: Use the new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()Paul Mackerras
This is much the same as for SPARC except that we can do the find_zero() function more efficiently using the count-leading-zeroes instructions. Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-24Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity: "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO, faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations and fixes. Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc update. Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while others are true pulls. In either case the signoffs should be correct now." Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h. I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid" check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different commits), but better safe than sorry ;) * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits) KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390 KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte() KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields ...
2012-05-24move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull first series of signal handling cleanups from Al Viro: "This is just the first part of the queue (about a half of it); assorted fixes all over the place in signal handling. This one ends with all sigsuspend() implementations switched to generic one (->saved_sigmask-based). With this, a bunch of assorted old buglets are fixed and most of the missing bits of NOTIFY_RESUME hookup are in place. Two more fixes sit in arm and um trees respectively, and there's a couple of broken ones that need obvious fixes - parisc and avr32 check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME only on one of two codepaths; fixes for that will happen in the next series" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (55 commits) unicore32: if there's no handler we need to restore sigmask, syscall or no syscall xtensa: add handling of TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME microblaze: drop 'oldset' argument of do_notify_resume() microblaze: handle TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME score: add handling of NOTIFY_RESUME to do_notify_resume() m68k: add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and handle it. sparc: kill ancient comment in sparc_sigaction() h8300: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values frv: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values cris: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values powerpc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values sh: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values sparc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values avr32: struct old_sigaction is never used m32r: struct old_sigaction is never used xtensa: xtensa_sigaction doesn't exist alpha: tidy signal delivery up score: don't open-code force_sigsegv() cris: don't open-code force_sigsegv() blackfin: don't open-code force_sigsegv() ...
2012-05-23Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar: "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to arch_dup_task_struct(). It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks." Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy(). * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state() coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
2012-05-23Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Here are the powerpc goodies for 3.5. Main highlights are: - Support for the NX crypto engine in Power7+ - A bunch of Anton goodness, including some micro optimization of our syscall entry on Power7 - I converted a pile of our thermal control drivers to the new i2c APIs (essentially turning the old therm_pm72 into a proper set of windfarm drivers). That's one more step toward removing the deprecated i2c APIs, there's still a few drivers to fix, but we are getting close - kexec/kdump support for 47x embedded cores The big missing thing here is no updates from Freescale. Not sure what's up here, but with Kumar not working for them anymore things are a bit in a state of flux in that area." * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits) powerpc: Fix irq distribution Revert "powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags" powerpc: Fixing a cputhread code documentation powerpc/crypto: Enable the PFO-based encryption device powerpc/crypto: Build files for the nx device driver powerpc/crypto: debugfs routines and docs for the nx device driver powerpc/crypto: SHA512 hash routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: SHA256 hash routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-XCBC mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-GCM mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-ECB mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-CTR mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-CCM mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: AES-CBC mode routines for nx encryption powerpc/crypto: nx driver code supporting nx encryption powerpc/pseries: Enable the PFO-based RNG accelerator powerpc/pseries/hwrng: PFO-based hwrng driver powerpc/pseries: Add PFO support to the VIO bus powerpc/pseries: Add pseries update notifier for OFDT prop changes powerpc/pseries: Add new hvcall constants to support PFO ...
2012-05-22powerpc: Fix irq distributionKim Phillips
setting CONFIG_IRQ_ALL_CPUS distributes IRQs to CPUs only when the number of online CPUs equals NR_CPUS. See commit 280ff97494e0fef4124bee5c52e39b23a18dd283 "sparc64: fix and optimize irq distribution" for more details. Using the online mask fixes IRQ-to-CPU distribution on systems that boot with less than NR_CPUS. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-22Revert "powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new ↵Benjamin Herrenschmidt
PPC ptrace flags" This reverts commit 1b788400bbcbfe25280dc0b8000d2142bfe3be3b. It causes oopses when passed incorrect arguments and has a design fault using IPIs with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> ---
2012-05-22powerpc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return valuesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-22new helper: sigsuspend()Al Viro
guts of saved_sigmask-based sigsuspend/rt_sigsuspend. Takes kernel sigset_t *. Open-coded instances replaced with calling it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-22Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "New notable features: - The seccomp work from Will Drewry - PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS from Andy Lutomirski - Longer security labels for Smack from Casey Schaufler - Additional ptrace restriction modes for Yama by Kees Cook" Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and include/linux/filter.h * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (65 commits) apparmor: fix long path failure due to disconnected path apparmor: fix profile lookup for unconfined ima: fix filename hint to reflect script interpreter name KEYS: Don't check for NULL key pointer in key_validate() Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4 gfp flags for security_inode_alloc()? Smack: recursive tramsmute Yama: replace capable() with ns_capable() TOMOYO: Accept manager programs which do not start with / . KEYS: Add invalidation support KEYS: Do LRU discard in full keyrings KEYS: Permit in-place link replacement in keyring list KEYS: Perform RCU synchronisation on keys prior to key destruction KEYS: Announce key type (un)registration KEYS: Reorganise keys Makefile KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig KEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat Yama: remove an unused variable samples/seccomp: fix dependencies on arch macros Yama: add additional ptrace scopes ...
2012-05-22Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner: "This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet. I wish I'd had something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking horror..." Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits) um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node() task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator score: Use common threadinfo allocator sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator mips: Use common threadinfo allocator hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator frv: Use common threadinfo allocator cris: Use common threadinfo allocator x86: Use common threadinfo allocator c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator tile: Use common threadinfo allocator fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header fork: Remove the weak insanity sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait() ...
2012-05-16fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()Suresh Siddha
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended register state like fpu there. Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-16powerpc/crypto: Enable the PFO-based encryption deviceKent Yoder
This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform Facilities Option (PFO) based encryption accelerator device. The nx device driver provides support for this hardware feature. Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-14powerpc/pseries: Enable the PFO-based RNG acceleratorKent Yoder
This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform Facilities Option (PFO) based random number generator accerator. The pseries-rng driver provides support for this hardware feature. Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-14powerpc/pseries: Add PFO support to the VIO busKent Yoder
Add support for the Platform Facilities Option (PFO) to the VIO bus. These devices have a separate root node in OpenFirmware which requires additional parsing to map into the existing VIO device structure fields. This adds the interface for PFO device drivers to make synchronous hypervisor calls. Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-14powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ↵K.Prasad
ptrace flags PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO, PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG and PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG are PowerPC specific ptrace flags that use the watchpoint register. While they are targeted primarily towards BookE users, user-space applications such as GDB have started using them for BookS too. This patch enables the use of generic hardware breakpoint interfaces for these new flags. Apart from the usual benefits of using generic hw-breakpoint interfaces, these changes allow debuggers (such as GDB) to use a common set of ptrace flags for their watchpoint needs and allow more precise breakpoint specification (length of the variable can be specified). Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-14powerpc/pseries: Support lower minimum entitlement for virtual processorsRobert Jennings
This patch changes the architecture vector to advertise support for a lower minimum virtual processor entitled capacity. The default minimum without this patch is 10%, this patch specifies 1%. Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-14Merge branch 'merge' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
We want the irq fixes from the "merge" branch.
2012-05-11powerpc/irq: Fix another case of lazy IRQ state getting out of syncBenjamin Herrenschmidt
So we have another case of paca->irq_happened getting out of sync with the HW irq state. This can happen when a perfmon interrupt occurs while soft disabled, as it will return to a soft disabled but hard enabled context while leaving a stale PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS flag set. This patch fixes it, and also adds a test for the condition of those flags being out of sync in arch_local_irq_restore() when CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS is enabled. This helps catching those gremlins faster (and so far I can't seem see any anymore, so that's good news). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-10Merge remote-tracking branch 'jwb/next' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Josh writes: << A few patches from Suzie for 47x kexec/kdump support, and some MSI patches from Mai La. >>
2012-05-09Merge branch 'merge' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-08powerpc/irq: Make alignment & program interrupt behave the sameBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Alignment was the last user of the ENABLE_INTS macro, which we can now remove. All non-syscall exceptions now disable interrupts on entry, they get re-enabled conditionally from C code. Don't unconditionally re-enable in program check either, check the original context. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-08powerpc/irq: Fix bug with new lazy IRQ handling codeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
We had a case where we could turn on hard interrupts while leaving the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS bit set in the PACA. This can in turn cause a BUG_ON() to hit in __check_irq_replay() due to interrupt state getting out of sync. The assembly code was also way too convoluted. Instead, we now leave it to the C code to do the right thing which ends up being smaller and more readable. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-08powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocatorThomas Gleixner
The core now has a threadinfo allocator which uses a kmemcache when THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.059161130@linutronix.de
2012-05-08Merge branch 'smp/threadalloc' into smp/hotplugThomas Gleixner
Reason: Pull in the separate branch which was created so arch/tile can base further work on it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-08powerpc: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()Thomas Gleixner
cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
2012-05-08powerpc: Fix broken cpu_idle_wait() implementationThomas Gleixner
commit 771dae818 (powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routines) implemented cpu_idle_wait() for powerpc. The changelog says: "The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c but the powerpc implementation is different.": Unfortunately the changelog is completely useless as it does not tell _WHY_ it is different. Aside of being different the implementation is patently wrong. The rescheduling IPI is async. That means that there is no guarantee, that the other cores have executed the IPI when cpu_idle_wait() returns. But that's the whole purpose of this function: to guarantee that no CPU uses the old idle handler anymore. Use the smp_functional_call() based implementation, which fulfils the requirements. [ This code is going to replaced by a core version to remove all the pointless copies in arch/*, but this one should go to stable ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175651.980164748@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-05-06kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infosBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This is necessary for qemu to be able to pass the right information to the guest, such as the supported page sizes and corresponding encodings in the SLB and hash table, which can vary depending on the processor type, the type of KVM used (PR vs HV) and the version of KVM Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [agraf: fix compilation on hv, adjust for newer ioctl numbers] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-06KVM: PPC: Use clockevent multiplier and shifter for decrementerBharat Bhushan
Time for which the hrtimer is started for decrementer emulation is calculated using tb_ticks_per_usec. While hrtimer uses the clockevent for DEC reprogramming (if needed) and which calculate timebase ticks using the multiplier and shifter mechanism implemented within clockevent layer. It was observed that this conversion (timebase->time->timebase) are not correct because the mechanism are not consistent. In our setup it adds 2% jitter. With this patch clockevent multiplier and shifter mechanism are used when starting hrtimer for decrementer emulation. Now the jitter is < 0.5%. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-05powerpc: Use generic init_taskThomas Gleixner
Same code. Use the generic version. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.211123184@linutronix.de
2012-05-04Merge tag 'v3.4-rc5' into nextJames Morris
Linux 3.4-rc5 Merge to pull in prerequisite change for Smack: 86812bb0de1a3758dc6c7aa01a763158a7c0638a Requested by Casey.
2012-05-03powerpc/47x: Kernel support for KEXECSuzuki Poulose
This patch adds support for creating 1:1 mapping for the PPC_47x during a KEXEC. The implementation is similar to that of the PPC440x which is described here : http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/104323/ PPC_47x MMU : The 47x uses Unified TLB 1024 entries, with 4-way associative mapping (4 x 256 entries). The index to be used is calculated by the MMU by hashing the PID, EPN and TS. The software can choose to specify the way by setting bit 0(enable way select) and the way in bits 1-2 in the TLB Word 0. Implementation: The patch erases all the UTLB entries which includes the tlb covering the mapping for our code. The shadow TLB caches the mapping for the running code which helps us to continue the execution until we do isync/rfi. We then create a tmp mapping for the current code in the other address space (TS) and switch to it. Then we create a 1:1 mapping(EPN=RPN) for 0-2GiB in the original address space and switch to the new mapping. TODO: Add SMP support. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
2012-05-03powerpc/44x: Fix/Initialize PID to kernel PID before the TLB searchSuzuki Poulose
Initialize the PID register with kernel pid (0) before we start setting the TLB mapping for KEXEC. Also set the MMUCR[TID] to kernel PID. This was spotted while testing the kexec on ISS for 47x. ISS doesn't return a successful tlbsx for a kernel address with PID set to a user PID. Though the hardware/qemu/simics work fine. This patch is harmless and initializes the PID to 0 (kernel PID) which is usually the case during a normal kernel boot. This would fix the kexec on ISS for 440. I have tested this patch on sequoia board. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
2012-04-30powerpc: Remove old powerpc specific ptrace getregs/setregs callsAnton Blanchard
PowerPC has non standard getregs calls that only dump the GPRs or FPRs and have their arguments reversed. commit e17666ba48f7 (ptrace updates & new, better requests) in 2.6.3 deprecated them and introduced more standard versions. It's been about 5 years and I know of no users of the old calls so lets remove them. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLYAnton Blanchard
Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two things: - It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is little downside to compiling this in. - It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions. Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via a feature fixup. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: Optimise enable_kernel_altivecAnton Blanchard
Add two optimisations to enable_kernel_altivec: - enable_kernel_altivec has already determined if we need to save the previous task's state but we call giveup_altivec in both cases, requiring an extra branch in giveup_altivec. Create giveup_altivec_notask which only turns on the VMX bit in the MSR. - We write the VMX MSR bit each time we call enable_kernel_altivec even it was already set. Check the bit and branch out if we have already set it. The classic case for this is vectored IO where we have to copy multiple buffers to or from userspace. The following testcase was used to confirm this patch improves performance: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c Since the current breakpoint for using VMX in copy_tofrom_user is 4096 bytes, I'm using buffers of 4096 + 1 cacheline (4224) bytes. A benchmark of 16 entry readvs (-s 16): time copy_to_user -l 4224 -s 16 -i 1000000 completes 5.2% faster on a POWER7 PS700. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: Remove empty giveup_altivec function on book3e CPUsAnton Blanchard
Use an empty inline instead of an empty function to implement giveup_altivec on book3e CPUs, similar to flush_altivec_to_thread. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: Remove iseries specific fields in lppacaAnton Blanchard
Remove all the iseries specific fields in the lppaca. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: Better scheduling of CR save code in system call pathAnton Blanchard
At the moment system call entry looks like: crclr so ... mfcr r9 ... std r9,_CCR(r1) commit bd19c8994a82 ([POWERPC] system call micro optimisation) put some space between the crclr and mfcr in order to avoid a stall. There is still a stall seen between the mfcr and std. We can avoid the crclr by doing it in a GPR with rlwinm which gives us more room to better schedule the sequence. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30powerpc: No need to preserve count register across system callAnton Blanchard
The count register is volatile so we don't need to preserve it. Store zero to the entry in the exception frame. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>