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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2020-05-15T01:58:54Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Don't initialise init_task-&gt;thread.regs</title>
<updated>2020-05-15T01:58:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2020-04-28T12:31:30Z</published>
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Aneesh increased the size of struct pt_regs by 16 bytes and started
seeing this WARN_ON:

  smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:455 giveup_all+0xb4/0x110
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc2-gcc-8.2.0-1.g8f6a41f-default+ #318
  NIP:  c00000000001a2b4 LR: c00000000001a29c CTR: c0000000031d0000
  REGS: c0000000026d3980 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.7.0-rc2-gcc-8.2.0-1.g8f6a41f-default+)
  MSR:  800000000282b033 &lt;SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 48048224  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000019cc8 IRQMASK: 1
  GPR00: c00000000001a264 c0000000026d3c20 c0000000026d7200 800000000280b033
  GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000077 30206d7372203164
  GPR08: 0000000000002000 0000000002002000 800000000280b033 3230303030303030
  GPR12: 0000000000008800 c0000000031d0000 0000000000800050 0000000002000066
  GPR16: 000000000309a1a0 000000000309a4b0 000000000309a2d8 000000000309a890
  GPR20: 00000000030d0098 c00000000264da40 00000000fd620000 c0000000ff798080
  GPR24: c00000000264edf0 c0000001007469f0 00000000fd620000 c0000000020e5e90
  GPR28: c00000000264edf0 c00000000264d200 000000001db60000 c00000000264d200
  NIP [c00000000001a2b4] giveup_all+0xb4/0x110
  LR [c00000000001a29c] giveup_all+0x9c/0x110
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000026d3c20] [c00000000001a264] giveup_all+0x64/0x110 (unreliable)
  [c0000000026d3c90] [c00000000001ae34] __switch_to+0x104/0x480
  [c0000000026d3cf0] [c000000000e0b8a0] __schedule+0x320/0x970
  [c0000000026d3dd0] [c000000000e0c518] schedule_idle+0x38/0x70
  [c0000000026d3df0] [c00000000019c7c8] do_idle+0x248/0x3f0
  [c0000000026d3e70] [c00000000019cbb8] cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40
  [c0000000026d3ea0] [c000000000011bb0] rest_init+0xe0/0xf8
  [c0000000026d3ed0] [c000000002004820] start_kernel+0x990/0x9e0
  [c0000000026d3f90] [c00000000000c49c] start_here_common+0x1c/0x400

Which was unexpected. The warning is checking the thread.regs-&gt;msr
value of the task we are switching from:

  usermsr = tsk-&gt;thread.regs-&gt;msr;
  ...
  WARN_ON((usermsr &amp; MSR_VSX) &amp;&amp; !((usermsr &amp; MSR_FP) &amp;&amp; (usermsr &amp; MSR_VEC)));

ie. if MSR_VSX is set then both of MSR_FP and MSR_VEC are also set.

Dumping tsk-&gt;thread.regs-&gt;msr we see that it's: 0x1db60000

Which is not a normal looking MSR, in fact the only valid bit is
MSR_VSX, all the other bits are reserved in the current definition of
the MSR.

We can see from the oops that it was swapper/0 that we were switching
from when we hit the warning, ie. init_task. So its thread.regs points
to the base (high addresses) in init_stack.

Dumping the content of init_task-&gt;thread.regs, with the members of
pt_regs annotated (the 16 bytes larger version), we see:

  0000000000000000 c000000002780080    gpr[0]     gpr[1]
  0000000000000000 c000000002666008    gpr[2]     gpr[3]
  c0000000026d3ed0 0000000000000078    gpr[4]     gpr[5]
  c000000000011b68 c000000002780080    gpr[6]     gpr[7]
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    gpr[8]     gpr[9]
  c0000000026d3f90 0000800000002200    gpr[10]    gpr[11]
  c000000002004820 c0000000026d7200    gpr[12]    gpr[13]
  000000001db60000 c0000000010aabe8    gpr[14]    gpr[15]
  c0000000010aabe8 c0000000010aabe8    gpr[16]    gpr[17]
  c00000000294d598 0000000000000000    gpr[18]    gpr[19]
  0000000000000000 0000000000001ff8    gpr[20]    gpr[21]
  0000000000000000 c00000000206d608    gpr[22]    gpr[23]
  c00000000278e0cc 0000000000000000    gpr[24]    gpr[25]
  000000002fff0000 c000000000000000    gpr[26]    gpr[27]
  0000000002000000 0000000000000028    gpr[28]    gpr[29]
  000000001db60000 0000000004750000    gpr[30]    gpr[31]
  0000000002000000 000000001db60000    nip        msr
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    orig_r3    ctr
  c00000000000c49c 0000000000000000    link       xer
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    ccr        softe
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    trap       dar
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    dsisr      result
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    ppr        kuap
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000    pad[2]     pad[3]

This looks suspiciously like stack frames, not a pt_regs. If we look
closely we can see return addresses from the stack trace above,
c000000002004820 (start_kernel) and c00000000000c49c (start_here_common).

init_task-&gt;thread.regs is setup at build time in processor.h:

  #define INIT_THREAD  { \
  	.ksp = INIT_SP, \
  	.regs = (struct pt_regs *)INIT_SP - 1, /* XXX bogus, I think */ \

The early boot code where we setup the initial stack is:

  LOAD_REG_ADDR(r3,init_thread_union)

  /* set up a stack pointer */
  LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r1,THREAD_SIZE)
  add	r1,r3,r1
  li	r0,0
  stdu	r0,-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r1)

Which creates a stack frame of size 112 bytes (STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD).
Which is far too small to contain a pt_regs.

So the result is init_task-&gt;thread.regs is pointing at some stack
frames on the init stack, not at a pt_regs.

We have gotten away with this for so long because with pt_regs at its
current size the MSR happens to point into the first frame, at a
location that is not written to by the early asm. With the 16 byte
expansion the MSR falls into the second frame, which is used by the
compiler, and collides with a saved register that tends to be
non-zero.

As far as I can see this has been wrong since the original merge of
64-bit ppc support, back in 2002.

Conceptually swapper should have no regs, it never entered from
userspace, and in fact that's what we do on 32-bit. It's also
presumably what the "bogus" comment is referring to.

So I think the right fix is to just not-initialise regs at all. I'm
slightly worried this will break some code that isn't prepared for a
NULL regs, but we'll have to see.

Remove the comment in head_64.S which refers to us setting up the
regs (even though we never did), and is otherwise not really accurate
any more.

Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200428123130.73078-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix section mismatch warnings from boot code</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T01:07:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2020-02-25T03:13:28Z</published>
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We currently have two section mismatch warnings:

  The function __boot_from_prom() references
  the function __init prom_init().

  The function start_here_common() references
  the function __init start_kernel().

The warnings are correct, we do have branches from non-init code into
init code, which is freed after boot. But we don't expect to ever
execute any of that early boot code after boot, if we did that would
be a bug. In particular calling into OF after boot would be fatal
because OF is no longer resident.

So for now fix the warnings by marking the relevant functions as
__REF, which puts them in the ".ref.text" section.

This causes some reordering of the functions in the final link:

  @@ -217,10 +217,9 @@
   c00000000000b088 t generic_secondary_common_init
   c00000000000b124 t __mmu_off
   c00000000000b14c t __start_initialization_multiplatform
  -c00000000000b1ac t __boot_from_prom
  -c00000000000b1ec t __after_prom_start
  -c00000000000b260 t p_end
  -c00000000000b27c T copy_and_flush
  +c00000000000b1ac t __after_prom_start
  +c00000000000b220 t p_end
  +c00000000000b23c T copy_and_flush
   c00000000000b300 T __secondary_start
   c00000000000b300 t copy_to_here
   c00000000000b344 t start_secondary_prolog
  @@ -228,8 +227,9 @@
   c00000000000b36c t enable_64b_mode
   c00000000000b388 T relative_toc
   c00000000000b3a8 t p_toc
  -c00000000000b3b0 t start_here_common
  -c00000000000b3d0 t start_here_multiplatform
  +c00000000000b3b0 t __boot_from_prom
  +c00000000000b3f0 t start_here_multiplatform
  +c00000000000b480 t start_here_common
   c00000000000b880 T system_call_common
   c00000000000b974 t system_call
   c00000000000b9dc t system_call_exit

In particular __boot_from_prom moves after copy_to_here, which means
it's not copied to zero in the first stage of copy of the kernel to
zero.

But that's OK, because we only call __boot_from_prom before we do the
copy, so it makes no difference when it's copied. The call sequence
is:
  __start
  -&gt; __start_initialization_multiplatform
     -&gt; __boot_from_prom
        -&gt; __start
           -&gt; __start_initialization_multiplatform
              -&gt; __after_prom_start
                 -&gt; copy_and_flush
                 -&gt; copy_and_flush (relocated to 0)
                    -&gt; start_here_multiplatform
                       -&gt; early_setup

Reported-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Roman Bolshakov &lt;r.bolshakov@yadro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225031328.14676-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom: convert PROM_BUG() to standard trap</title>
<updated>2019-08-28T01:31:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
</author>
<published>2019-08-26T11:10:23Z</published>
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Prior to commit 1bd98d7fbaf5 ("ppc64: Update BUG handling based on
ppc32"), BUG() family was using BUG_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION which
was an invalid instruction opcode to trap into program check
exception.

That commit converted them to using standard trap instructions,
but prom/prom_init and their PROM_BUG() macro were left over.
head_64.S and exception-64s.S were left aside as well.

Convert them to using the standard BUG infrastructure.

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/cdaf4bbbb64c288a077845846f04b12683f8875a.1566817807.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: optimise LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE_SYM()</title>
<updated>2019-08-27T03:03:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T14:34:14Z</published>
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Optimise LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE_SYM() using a temporary register to
parallelise operations.

It reduces the path from 5 to 3 instructions.

Suggested-by: Segher Boessenkool &lt;segher@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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/bad41ed02531bb0382420cbab50a0d7153b71767.1566311636.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: rewrite LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() as an intelligent macro</title>
<updated>2019-08-27T03:03:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T14:34:12Z</published>
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Today LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() is a basic #define which loads all
parts on a value into a register, including the parts that are NUL.

This means always 2 instructions on PPC32 and always 5 instructions
on PPC64. And those instructions cannot run in parallele as they are
updating the same register.

Ex: LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r1,THREAD_SIZE) in head_64.S results in:

3c 20 00 00     lis     r1,0
60 21 00 00     ori     r1,r1,0
78 21 07 c6     rldicr  r1,r1,32,31
64 21 00 00     oris    r1,r1,0
60 21 40 00     ori     r1,r1,16384

Rewrite LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() with GAS macro in order to skip
the parts that are NUL.

Rename existing LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() as LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE_SYM()
and use that one for loading value of symbols which are not known
at compile time.

Now LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r1,THREAD_SIZE) in head_64.S results in:

38 20 40 00     li      r1,16384

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/d60ce8dd3a383c7adbfc322bf1d53d81724a6000.1566311636.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-13T23:08:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T23:08:36Z</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: mark start_here_multiplatform as __ref</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T14:00:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
</author>
<published>2019-05-10T06:31:28Z</published>
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Otherwise, the following warning is encountered:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3dc6): Section mismatch in reference from the variable start_here_multiplatform to the function .init.text:.early_setup()
The function start_here_multiplatform() references
the function __init .early_setup().
This is often because start_here_multiplatform lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of .early_setup is wrong.

Fixes: 56c46bba9bbf ("powerpc/64: Fix booting large kernels with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX")
Cc: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01Z</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Fix booting large kernels with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX</title>
<updated>2019-04-20T12:02:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell Currey</name>
</author>
<published>2019-03-27T03:35:54Z</published>
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With STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled anything marked __init is placed at a 16M
boundary.  This is necessary so that it can be repurposed later with
different permissions.  However, in kernels with text larger than 16M,
this pushes early_setup past 32M, incapable of being reached by the
branch instruction.

Fix this by setting the CTR and branching there instead.

Fixes: 1e0fc9d1eb2b ("powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs")
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
[mpe: Fix it to work on BE by using DOTSYM()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Simplify __secondary_start paca-&gt;kstack handling</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T11:31:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2019-02-22T12:58:21Z</published>
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In __secondary_start() we load the thread_info of the idle task of the
secondary CPU from current_set[cpu], and then convert it into a stack
pointer before storing that back to paca-&gt;kstack.

As pointed out in commit f761622e5943 ("powerpc: Initialise
paca-&gt;kstack before early_setup_secondary") it's important that we
initialise paca-&gt;kstack before calling the MMU setup code, in
particular slb_initialize(), because it will bolt the SLB entry for
the kstack into the SLB.

However we have already setup paca-&gt;kstack in cpu_idle_thread_init(),
since commit 3b5750644b2f ("[POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel
stack on secondary cpus") (May 2008).

It's also in cpu_idle_thread_init() that we initialise current_set[cpu]
with the thread_info pointer, so there is no issue of the timing being
different between the two.

Therefore the initialisation of paca-&gt;kstack in __setup_secondary() is
completely redundant, so remove it.

This has the added benefit of removing code that runs in real mode,
and is therefore restricted by the RMO, and so opens the way for us to
enable THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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