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<title>powerpc: Fix vDSO clock_getres()</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:35:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T07:57:29Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 552263456215ada7ee8700ce022d12b0cffe4802 ]

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;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:44:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2019-04-21T14:19:47Z</published>
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commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream.

The fallback RFI flush is used when firmware does not provide a way
to flush the cache. It's a "displacement flush" that evicts useful
data by displacing it with an uninteresting buffer.

The flush has to take care to work with implementation specific cache
replacment policies, so the recipe has been in flux. The initial
slow but conservative approach is to touch all lines of a congruence
class, with dependencies between each load. It has since been
determined that a linear pattern of loads without dependencies is
sufficient, and is significantly faster.

Measuring the speed of a null syscall with RFI fallback flush enabled
gives the relative improvement:

P8 - 1.83x
P9 - 1.75x

The flush also becomes simpler and more adaptable to different cache
geometries.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for RFI flush of L1-D cache</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:09:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T16:07:15Z</published>
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commit aa8a5e0062ac940f7659394f4817c948dc8c0667 upstream.

On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.

The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.

In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.

In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.

For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.

In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.

Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
[Balbir - back ported to stable with changes]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state</title>
<updated>2017-01-09T07:07:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
</author>
<published>2016-11-07T04:09:58Z</published>
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commit 0d808df06a44200f52262b6eb72bcb6042f5a7c5 upstream.

When switching from/to a guest that has a transaction in progress,
we need to save/restore the checkpointed register state.  Although
XER is part of the CPU state that gets checkpointed, the code that
does this saving and restoring doesn't save/restore XER.

This fixes it by saving and restoring the XER.  To allow userspace
to read/write the checkpointed XER value, we also add a new ONE_REG
specifier.

The visible effect of this bug is that the guest may see its XER
value being corrupted when it uses transactions.

Fixes: e4e38121507a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support")
Fixes: 0a8eccefcb34 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-09-10T23:42:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-10T23:42:49Z</published>
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Pull more kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - Full debug support for arm64
   - Active state switching for timer interrupts
   - Lazy FP/SIMD save/restore for arm64
   - Generic ARMv8 target

  PPC:
   - Book3S: A few bug fixes
   - Book3S: Allow micro-threading on POWER8

  x86:
   - Compiler warnings

  Generic:
   - Adaptive polling for guest halt"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (49 commits)
  kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak
  kvm: move new trace event outside #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF
  KVM: trace kvm_halt_poll_ns grow/shrink
  KVM: dynamic halt-polling
  KVM: make halt_poll_ns per-vCPU
  Silence compiler warning in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
  kvm: compile process_smi_save_seg_64() only for x86_64
  KVM: x86: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix typo in top comment about locking
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix size of the PSPB register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Exit on H_DOORBELL if HOST_IPI is set
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in starting secondary threads
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: correct width in XER handling
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix preempted vcore stolen time calculation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix preempted vcore list locking
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix bug in dirty page tracking
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in reading change bit when removing HPTE
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make use of unused threads when running guests
  ...
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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8</title>
<updated>2015-08-22T09:16:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
</author>
<published>2015-07-02T10:38:16Z</published>
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This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical
core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER8
chip.  Previously, only vcores from the same VM could be run together,
and (on POWER8) only if they had just one thread per core.  With the
ability to split the core on guest entry and unsplit it on guest exit,
we can run up to 8 vcpu threads from up to 4 different VMs, and we can
run multiple vcores with 2 or 4 vcpus per vcore.

Dynamic micro-threading is only available if the static configuration
of the cores is whole-core mode (unsplit), and only on POWER8.

To manage this, we introduce a new kvm_split_mode struct which is
shared across all of the subcores in the core, with a pointer in the
paca on each thread.  In addition we extend the core_info struct to
have information on each subcore.  When deciding whether to add a
vcore to the set already on the core, we now have two possibilities:
(a) piggyback the vcore onto an existing subcore, or (b) start a new
subcore.

Currently, when any vcpu needs to exit the guest and switch to host
virtual mode, we interrupt all the threads in all subcores and switch
the core back to whole-core mode.  It may be possible in future to
allow some of the subcores to keep executing in the guest while
subcore 0 switches to the host, but that is not implemented in this
patch.

This adds a module parameter called dynamic_mt_modes which controls
which micro-threading (split-core) modes the code will consider, as a
bitmap.  In other words, if it is 0, no micro-threading mode is
considered; if it is 2, only 2-way micro-threading is considered; if
it is 4, only 4-way, and if it is 6, both 2-way and 4-way
micro-threading mode will be considered.  The default is 6.

With this, we now have secondary threads which are the primary thread
for their subcore and therefore need to do the MMU switch.  These
threads will need to be started even if they have no vcpu to run, so
we use the vcore pointer in the PACA rather than the vcpu pointer to
trigger them.

It is now possible for thread 0 to find that an exit has been
requested before it gets to switch the subcore state to the guest.  In
that case we haven't added the guest's timebase offset to the
timebase, so we need to be careful not to subtract the offset in the
guest exit path.  In fact we just skip the whole path that switches
back to host context, since we haven't switched to the guest context.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make use of unused threads when running guests</title>
<updated>2015-08-22T09:16:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T11:18:03Z</published>
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When running a virtual core of a guest that is configured with fewer
threads per core than the physical cores have, the extra physical
threads are currently unused.  This makes it possible to use them to
run one or more other virtual cores from the same guest when certain
conditions are met.  This applies on POWER7, and on POWER8 to guests
with one thread per virtual core.  (It doesn't apply to POWER8 guests
with multiple threads per vcore because they require a 1-1 virtual to
physical thread mapping in order to be able to use msgsndp and the
TIR.)

The idea is that we maintain a list of preempted vcores for each
physical cpu (i.e. each core, since the host runs single-threaded).
Then, when a vcore is about to run, it checks to see if there are
any vcores on the list for its physical cpu that could be
piggybacked onto this vcore's execution.  If so, those additional
vcores are put into state VCORE_PIGGYBACK and their runnable VCPU
threads are started as well as the original vcore, which is called
the master vcore.

After the vcores have exited the guest, the extra ones are put back
onto the preempted list if any of their VCPUs are still runnable and
not idle.

This means that vcpu-&gt;arch.ptid is no longer necessarily the same as
the physical thread that the vcpu runs on.  In order to make it easier
for code that wants to send an IPI to know which CPU to target, we
now store that in a new field in struct vcpu_arch, called thread_cpu.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/e6500: remove the stale TCD_LOCK macro</title>
<updated>2015-08-17T23:53:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hao</name>
</author>
<published>2015-08-13T11:51:35Z</published>
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Since we moved the "lock" to be the first element of
struct tlb_core_data in commit 82d86de25b9c ("powerpc/e6500: Make TLB
lock recursive"), this macro is not used by any code. Just delete it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Rename PACA_DSCR to PACA_DSCR_DEFAULT</title>
<updated>2015-06-07T09:29:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
</author>
<published>2015-05-21T06:43:03Z</published>
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PACA_DSCR offset macro tracks dscr_default element in the paca
structure. Better change the name of this macro to match that of the
data element it tracks. Makes the code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T13:21:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
</author>
<published>2015-03-28T03:21:12Z</published>
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This uses msgsnd where possible for signalling other threads within
the same core on POWER8 systems, rather than IPIs through the XICS
interrupt controller.  This includes waking secondary threads to run
the guest, the interrupts generated by the virtual XICS, and the
interrupts to bring the other threads out of the guest when exiting.

Aggregated statistics from debugfs across vcpus for a guest with 32
vcpus, 8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, show this before the
change:

 rm_entry:     3387.6ns (228 - 86600, 1008969 samples)
  rm_exit:     4561.5ns (12 - 3477452, 1009402 samples)
  rm_intr:     1660.0ns (12 - 553050, 3600051 samples)

and this after the change:

 rm_entry:     3060.1ns (212 - 65138, 953873 samples)
  rm_exit:     4244.1ns (12 - 9693408, 954331 samples)
  rm_intr:     1342.3ns (12 - 1104718, 3405326 samples)

for a test of booting Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.

The time taken for a H_PROD hcall (which is handled in the host
kernel) went down from about 35 microseconds to about 16 microseconds
with this change.

The noinline added to kvmppc_run_core turned out to be necessary for
good performance, at least with gcc 4.9.2 as packaged with Fedora 21
and a little-endian POWER8 host.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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