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<title>kernel.git/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c, branch linux-4.14.y</title>
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<updated>2019-05-31T13:47:26Z</updated>
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<title>arm64: vdso: Fix clock_getres() for CLOCK_REALTIME</title>
<updated>2019-05-31T13:47:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
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<published>2019-04-16T16:14:30Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 81fb8736dd81da3fe94f28968dac60f392ec6746 ]

clock_getres() in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:

    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;

where 'hrtimer_resolution' depends on whether or not high resolution
timers are enabled, which is a runtime decision.

The vDSO incorrectly returns the constant CLOCK_REALTIME_RES. Fix this
by exposing 'hrtimer_resolution' in the vDSO datapage and returning that
instead.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
[will: Use WRITE_ONCE(), move adr off COARSE path, renumber labels, use 'w' reg]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests</title>
<updated>2018-07-22T12:28:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T09:53:11Z</published>
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commit b4f18c063a13dfb33e3a63fe1844823e19c2265e upstream.

In order to forward the guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 calls to EL3,
add a small(-ish) sequence to handle it at EL2. Special care must
be taken to track the state of the guest itself by updating the
workaround flags. We also rely on patching to enable calls into
the firmware.

Note that since we need to execute branches, this always executes
after the Spectre-v2 mitigation has been applied.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Avoid storing the vcpu pointer on the stack</title>
<updated>2018-07-22T12:28:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T09:52:58Z</published>
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Commit 4464e210de9e80e38de59df052fe09ea2ff80b1b upstream.

We already have the percpu area for the host cpu state, which points to
the VCPU, so there's no need to store the VCPU pointer on the stack on
every context switch.  We can be a little more clever and just use
tpidr_el2 for the percpu offset and load the VCPU pointer from the host
context.

This has the benefit of being able to retrieve the host context even
when our stack is corrupted, and it has a potential performance benefit
because we trade a store plus a load for an mrs and a load on a round
trip to the guest.

This does require us to calculate the percpu offset without including
the offset from the kernel mapping of the percpu array to the linear
mapping of the array (which is what we store in tpidr_el1), because a
PC-relative generated address in EL2 is already giving us the hyp alias
of the linear mapping of a kernel address.  We do this in
__cpu_init_hyp_mode() by using kvm_ksym_ref().

The code that accesses ESR_EL2 was previously using an alternative to
use the _EL1 accessor on VHE systems, but this was actually unnecessary
as the _EL1 accessor aliases the ESR_EL2 register on VHE, and the _EL2
accessor does the same thing on both systems.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: mm: Map entry trampoline into trampoline and kernel page tables</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:22:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T14:14:17Z</published>
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Commit 51a0048beb44 upstream.

The exception entry trampoline needs to be mapped at the same virtual
address in both the trampoline page table (which maps nothing else)
and also the kernel page table, so that we can swizzle TTBR1_EL1 on
exceptions from and return to EL0.

This patch maps the trampoline at a fixed virtual address in the fixmap
area of the kernel virtual address space, which allows the kernel proper
to be randomized with respect to the trampoline when KASLR is enabled.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;shankerd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: unwind: reference pt_regs via embedded stack frame</title>
<updated>2017-08-09T13:07:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-22T17:45:33Z</published>
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As it turns out, the unwind code is slightly broken, and probably has
been for a while. The problem is in the dumping of the exception stack,
which is intended to dump the contents of the pt_regs struct at each
level in the call stack where an exception was taken and routed to a
routine marked as __exception (which means its stack frame is right
below the pt_regs struct on the stack).

'Right below the pt_regs struct' is ill defined, though: the unwind
code assigns 'frame pointer + 0x10' to the .sp member of the stackframe
struct at each level, and dump_backtrace() happily dereferences that as
the pt_regs pointer when encountering an __exception routine. However,
the actual size of the stack frame created by this routine (which could
be one of many __exception routines we have in the kernel) is not known,
and so frame.sp is pretty useless to figure out where struct pt_regs
really is.

So it seems the only way to ensure that we can find our struct pt_regs
when walking the stack frames is to put it at a known fixed offset of
the stack frame pointer that is passed to such __exception routines.
The simplest way to do that is to put it inside pt_regs itself, which is
the main change implemented by this patch. As a bonus, doing this allows
us to get rid of a fair amount of cruft related to walking from one stack
to the other, which is especially nice since we intend to introduce yet
another stack for overflow handling once we add support for vmapped
stacks. It also fixes an inconsistency where we only add a stack frame
pointing to ELR_EL1 if we are executing from the IRQ stack but not when
we are executing from the task stack.

To consistly identify exceptions regs even in the presence of exceptions
taken from entry code, we must check whether the next frame was created
by entry text, rather than whether the current frame was crated by
exception text.

To avoid backtracing using PCs that fall in the idmap, or are controlled
by userspace, we must explcitly zero the FP and LR in startup paths, and
must ensure that the frame embedded in pt_regs is zeroed upon entry from
EL0. To avoid these NULL entries showin in the backtrace, unwind_frame()
is updated to avoid them.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[Mark: compare current frame against .entry.text, avoid bogus PCs]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: kernel: Add SMC structure parameter</title>
<updated>2017-02-03T18:46:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Gross</name>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T17:28:27Z</published>
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This patch adds a quirk parameter to the arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) calls.
The quirk structure allows for specialized SMC operations due to SoC
specific requirements.  The current arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) is renamed and
macros are used instead to specify the standard arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) or
the arm_smccc_(smc/hvc)_quirk function.

This patch and partial implementation was suggested by Will Deacon.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gross &lt;andy.gross@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Introduce uaccess_{disable,enable} functionality based on TTBR0_EL1</title>
<updated>2016-11-21T18:48:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
</author>
<published>2016-07-01T15:53:00Z</published>
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This patch adds the uaccess macros/functions to disable access to user
space by setting TTBR0_EL1 to a reserved zeroed page. Since the value
written to TTBR0_EL1 must be a physical address, for simplicity this
patch introduces a reserved_ttbr0 page at a constant offset from
swapper_pg_dir. The uaccess_disable code uses the ttbr1_el1 value
adjusted by the reserved_ttbr0 offset.

Enabling access to user is done by restoring TTBR0_EL1 with the value
from the struct thread_info ttbr0 variable. Interrupts must be disabled
during the uaccess_ttbr0_enable code to ensure the atomicity of the
thread_info.ttbr0 read and TTBR0_EL1 write. This patch also moves the
get_thread_info asm macro from entry.S to assembler.h for reuse in the
uaccess_ttbr0_* macros.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: split thread_info from task stack</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T18:25:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T20:23:13Z</published>
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This patch moves arm64's struct thread_info from the task stack into
task_struct. This protects thread_info from corruption in the case of
stack overflows, and makes its address harder to determine if stack
addresses are leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult. Precise
detection and handling of overflow is left for subsequent patches.

Largely, this involves changing code to store the task_struct in sp_el0,
and acquire the thread_info from the task struct. Core code now
implements current_thread_info(), and as noted in &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; this
relies on offsetof(task_struct, thread_info) == 0, enforced by core
code.

This change means that the 'tsk' register used in entry.S now points to
a task_struct, rather than a thread_info as it used to. To make this
clear, the TI_* field offsets are renamed to TSK_TI_*, with asm-offsets
appropriately updated to account for the structural change.

Userspace clobbers sp_el0, and we can no longer restore this from the
stack. Instead, the current task is cached in a per-cpu variable that we
can safely access from early assembly as interrupts are disabled (and we
are thus not preemptible).

Both secondary entry and idle are updated to stash the sp and task
pointer separately.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: asm-offsets: remove unused definitions</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T18:25:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T20:23:04Z</published>
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Subsequent patches will move the thread_info::{task,cpu} fields, and the
current TI_{TASK,CPU} offset definitions are not used anywhere.

This patch removes the redundant definitions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Work around systems with mismatched cache line sizes</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T14:03:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
</author>
<published>2016-09-09T13:07:16Z</published>
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Systems with differing CPU i-cache/d-cache line sizes can cause
problems with the cache management by software when the execution
is migrated from one to another. Usually, the application reads
the cache size on a CPU and then uses that length to perform cache
operations. However, if it gets migrated to another CPU with a smaller
cache line size, things could go completely wrong. To prevent such
cases, always use the smallest cache line size among the CPUs. The
kernel CPU feature infrastructure already keeps track of the safe
value for all CPUID registers including CTR. This patch works around
the problem by :

For kernel, dynamically patch the kernel to read the cache size
from the system wide copy of CTR_EL0.

For applications, trap read accesses to CTR_EL0 (by clearing the SCTLR.UCT)
and emulate the mrs instruction to return the system wide safe value
of CTR_EL0.

For faster access (i.e, avoiding to lookup the system wide value of CTR_EL0
via read_system_reg), we keep track of the pointer to table entry for
CTR_EL0 in the CPU feature infrastructure.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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