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<title>kernel.git/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c, branch linux-4.16.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2018-02-07T14:57:02Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T14:57:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-26T11:46:47Z</published>
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Add CONFIG_EXPOLINE to enable the use of the new -mindirect-branch= and
-mfunction_return= compiler options to create a kernel fortified against
the specte v2 attack.

With CONFIG_EXPOLINE=y all indirect branches will be issued with an
execute type instruction. For z10 or newer the EXRL instruction will
be used, for older machines the EX instruction. The typical indirect
call

	basr	%r14,%r1

is replaced with a PC relative call to a new thunk

	brasl	%r14,__s390x_indirect_jump_r1

The thunk contains the EXRL/EX instruction to the indirect branch

__s390x_indirect_jump_r1:
	exrl	0,0f
	j	.
0:	br	%r1

The detour via the execute type instruction has a performance impact.
To get rid of the detour the new kernel parameter "nospectre_v2" and
"spectre_v2=[on,off,auto]" can be used. If the parameter is specified
the kernel and module code will be patched at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel</title>
<updated>2018-02-05T12:49:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T06:11:45Z</published>
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Add the PPA instruction to the system entry and exit path to switch
the kernel to a different branch prediction behaviour. The instructions
are added via CPU alternatives and can be disabled with the "nospec"
or the "nobp=0" kernel parameter. If the default behaviour selected
with CONFIG_KERNEL_NOBP is set to "n" then the "nobp=1" parameter can be
used to enable the changed kernel branch prediction.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask</title>
<updated>2018-02-05T12:49:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T06:03:44Z</published>
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To be able to switch off specific CPU alternatives with kernel parameters
make a copy of the facility bit mask provided by STFLE and use the copy
for the decision to apply an alternative.

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T15:34:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
</author>
<published>2017-12-19T18:15:09Z</published>
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Convert DEVICE_ATTR uses to DEVICE_ATTR_WO where possible.

Done with perl script:

$ git grep -w --name-only DEVICE_ATTR | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/; while (&lt;&gt;) { s/\bDEVICE_ATTR\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*,\s*\(?(?:\s*S_IWUSR\s*|\s*0200\s*)\)?\s*,\s*NULL\s*,\s*\s_store\s*\)/DEVICE_ATTR_WO(\1)/g; print;}'

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/topology: fix compile error in file arch/s390/kernel/smp.c</title>
<updated>2017-11-20T07:51:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T13:26:36Z</published>
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Commit 1887aa07b676
("s390/topology: add detection of dedicated vs shared CPUs")
introduced following compiler error when CONFIG_SCHED_TOPOLOGY is not set.

 CC      arch/s390/kernel/smp.o
...
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c: In function ‘smp_start_secondary’:
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c:812:6: error: implicit declaration of function
	‘topology_cpu_dedicated’; did you mean ‘topology_cpu_init’?

This patch fixes the compiler error by adding function
topology_cpu_dedicated() to return false when this config option is
not defined.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-13T19:47:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-13T19:47:01Z</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
 "Since Martin is on vacation you get the s390 pull request for the
  v4.15 merge window this time from me.

  Besides a lot of cleanups and bug fixes these are the most important
  changes:

   - a new regset for runtime instrumentation registers

   - hardware accelerated AES-GCM support for the aes_s390 module

   - support for the new CEX6S crypto cards

   - support for FORTIFY_SOURCE

   - addition of missing z13 and new z14 instructions to the in-kernel
     disassembler

   - generate opcode tables for the in-kernel disassembler out of a
     simple text file instead of having to manually maintain those
     tables

   - fast memset16, memset32 and memset64 implementations

   - removal of named saved segment support

   - hardware counter support for z14

   - queued spinlocks and queued rwlocks implementations for s390

   - use the stack_depth tracking feature for s390 BPF JIT

   - a new s390_sthyi system call which emulates the sthyi (store
     hypervisor information) instruction

   - removal of the old KVM virtio transport

   - an s390 specific CPU alternatives implementation which is used in
     the new spinlock code"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (88 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add virtio-ccw.h to virtio/s390 section
  s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT
  s390: fix transactional execution control register handling
  s390/bpf: take advantage of stack_depth tracking
  s390: simplify transactional execution elf hwcap handling
  s390/zcrypt: Rework struct ap_qact_ap_info.
  s390/virtio: remove unused header file kvm_virtio.h
  s390: avoid undefined behaviour
  s390/disassembler: generate opcode tables from text file
  s390/disassembler: remove insn_to_mnemonic()
  s390/dasd: avoid calling do_gettimeofday()
  s390: vfio-ccw: Do not attempt to free no-op, test and tic cda.
  s390: remove named saved segment support
  s390/archrandom: Reconsider s390 arch random implementation
  s390/pci: do not require AIS facility
  s390/qdio: sanitize put_indicator
  s390/qdio: use atomic_cmpxchg
  s390/nmi: avoid using long-displacement facility
  s390: pass endianness info to sparse
  s390/decompressor: remove informational messages
  ...
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>s390/nmi: allocation of the extended save area</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T15:07:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-12T11:24:47Z</published>
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The machine check extended save area is needed to store the vector
registers and the guarded storage control block when a CPU is
interrupted by a machine check.

Move the slab cache allocation of the full save area to nmi.c,
for early boot use a static __initdata block.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>s390/nmi: use smp_emergency_stop instead of smp_send_stop</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T15:07:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T14:24:31Z</published>
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The smp_send_stop() function can be called from s390_handle_damage
while DAT is off. This happens if a machine check indicates that
kernel gprs or control registers can not be restored. The function
smp_send_stop reenables DAT via __load_psw_mask. That should work
for the case of lost kernel gprs and the system will do the expected
stop of all CPUs. But if control registers are lost, in particular
CR13 with the home space ASCE, interesting secondary crashes may
occur.

Make smp_emergency_stop callable from nmi.c and remove the cpumask
argument. Replace the smp_send_stop call with smp_emergency_stop in
the s390_handle_damage function.

In addition add notrace and NOKPROBE_SYMBOL annotations for all
functions required for the emergency shutdown.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>s390/cputime: fix guest/irq/softirq times after CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2017-10-16T06:19:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-04T12:46:17Z</published>
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On CPU hotplug some cpu stats contain bogus values:

$ cat /proc/stat
cpu 0 0 49 1280 0 0 0 3 0 0
cpu0 0 0 49 618 0 0 0 3 0 0
cpu1 0 0 0 662 0 0 0 0 0 0
[...]
$ echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
$ echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
$ cat /proc/stat
cpu 0 0 49 3200 0 450359962737 450359962737 3 0 0
cpu0 0 0 49 1956 0 0 0 3 0 0
cpu1 0 0 0 1244 0 450359962737 450359962737 0 0 0
[...]

pcpu_attach_task() needs the same assignments as vtime_task_switch.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: b7394a5f4ce9 ("sched/cputime, s390: Implement delayed accounting of system time")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11+
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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