kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch linux-3.11.y

powerpc/sysfs: Disable writing to PURR in guest mode

2013-10-14T01:14:28Z

commit d1211af3049f4c9c1d8d4eb8f8098cc4f4f0d0c7 upstream. arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c exports PURR with write permission. This may be valid for kernel in phyp mode. But writing to the file in guest mode causes crash due to a priviledge violation Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/vio: Fix modalias_show return values

2013-10-14T01:14:28Z

commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 upstream. modalias_show() should return an empty string on error, not -ENODEV. This causes the following false and annoying error: > find /sys/devices -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat >/dev/null cat: /sys/devices/vio/4000/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4001/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4002/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4004/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/modalias: No such device Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/tm: Turn interrupts hard off in tm_reclaim()

2013-10-14T01:14:28Z

commit c69e63b0f135fa51d6e1c38b5ac8a1def15ea3fa upstream. We can't take IRQs in tm_reclaim as we might have a bogus r13 and r1. This turns IRQs hard off in this function. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/tm: Switch out userspace PPR and DSCR sooner

2013-10-14T01:14:28Z

commit e9bdc3d6143d1c4b8d8ce5231fc958268331f983 upstream. When we do a treclaim or trecheckpoint we end up running with userspace PPR and DSCR values. Currently we don't do anything special to avoid running with user values which could cause a severe performance degradation. This patch moves the PPR and DSCR save and restore around treclaim and trecheckpoint so that we run with user values for a much shorter period. More care is taken with the PPR as it's impact is greater than the DSCR. This is similar to user exceptions, where we run HTM_MEDIUM early to ensure that we don't run with a userspace PPR values in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table()

2013-10-14T01:14:28Z

commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream. Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table(): page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2 allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths, but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate. With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to reproduce the panic. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Handle unaligned ldbrx/stdbrx

2013-09-27T00:21:35Z

commit 230aef7a6a23b6166bd4003bfff5af23c9bd381f upstream. Normally when we haven't implemented an alignment handler for a load or store instruction the process will be terminated. The alignment handler uses the DSISR (or a pseudo one) to locate the right handler. Unfortunately ldbrx and stdbrx overlap lfs and stfs so we incorrectly think ldbrx is an lfs and stdbrx is an stfs. This bug is particularly nasty - instead of terminating the process we apply an incorrect fixup and continue on. With more and more overlapping instructions we should stop creating a pseudo DSISR and index using the instruction directly, but for now add a special case to catch ldbrx/stdbrx. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Don't Oops when accessing /proc/powerpc/lparcfg without hypervisor

2013-08-27T06:38:33Z

/proc/powerpc/lparcfg is an ancient facility (though still actively used) which allows access to some informations relative to the partition when running underneath a PAPR compliant hypervisor. It makes no sense on non-pseries machines. However, currently, not only can it be created on these if the kernel has pseries support, but accessing it on such a machine will crash due to trying to do hypervisor calls. In fact, it should also not do HV calls on older pseries that didn't have an hypervisor either. Finally, it has the plumbing to be a module but is a "bool" Kconfig option. This fixes the whole lot by turning it into a machine_device_initcall that is only created on pseries, and adding the necessary hypervisor check before calling the H_GET_EM_PARMS hypercall CC: Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/tm: Fix context switching TAR, PPR and DSCR SPRs

2013-08-09T08:07:12Z

If a transaction is rolled back, the Target Address Register (TAR), Processor Priority Register (PPR) and Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) should be restored to the checkpointed values before the transaction began. Any changes to these SPRs inside the transaction should not be visible in the abort handler. Currently Linux doesn't save or restore the checkpointed TAR, PPR or DSCR. If we preempt a processes inside a transaction which has modified any of these, on process restore, that same transaction may be aborted we but we won't see the checkpointed versions of these SPRs. This adds checkpointed versions of these SPRs to the thread_struct and adds the save/restore of these three SPRs to the treclaim/trechkpt code. Without this if any of these SPRs are modified during a transaction, users may incorrectly see a speculated SPR value even if the transaction is aborted. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Cc: [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Save the TAR register earlier

2013-08-09T08:07:08Z

This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in __switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this. We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a transaction. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Cc: [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix context switch DSCR on POWER8

2013-08-09T08:07:05Z

POWER8 allows the DSCR to be accessed directly from userspace via a new SPR number 0x3 (Rather than 0x11. DSCR SPR number 0x11 is still used on POWER8 but like POWER7, is only accessible in HV and OS modes). Currently, we allow this by setting H/FSCR DSCR bit on boot. Unfortunately this doesn't work, as the kernel needs to see the DSCR change so that it knows to no longer restore the system wide version of DSCR on context switch (ie. to set thread.dscr_inherit). This clears the H/FSCR DSCR bit initially. If a process then accesses the DSCR (via SPR 0x3), it'll trap into the kernel where we set thread.dscr_inherit in facility_unavailable_exception(). We also change _switch() so that we set or clear the H/FSCR DSCR bit based on the thread.dscr_inherit. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Cc: [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt