linux-toradex.git, branch v4.4.1

Linux 4.4.1

2016-01-31T19:29:37+00:00

arm64: kernel: fix architected PMU registers unconditional access

2016-01-31T19:29:04+00:00

commit f436b2ac90a095746beb6729b8ee8ed87c9eaede upstream.

The Performance Monitors extension is an optional feature of the
AArch64 architecture, therefore, in order to access Performance
Monitors registers safely, the kernel should detect the architected
PMU unit presence through the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register PMUVer field
before accessing them.

This patch implements a guard by reading the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register
PMUVer field to detect the architected PMU presence and prevent accessing
PMU system registers if the Performance Monitors extension is not
implemented in the core.

Cc: Peter Maydell 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Fixes: 60792ad349f3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization and restore")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi 
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck 
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization and restore

2016-01-31T19:29:04+00:00

commit 60792ad349f3c6dc5735aafefe5dc9121c79e320 upstream.

The pmuserenr_el0 register value is architecturally UNKNOWN on reset.
Current kernel code resets that register value iff the core pmu device is
correctly probed in the kernel. On platforms with missing DT pmu nodes (or
disabled perf events in the kernel), the pmu is not probed, therefore the
pmuserenr_el0 register is not reset in the kernel, which means that its
value retains the reset value that is architecturally UNKNOWN (system
may run with eg pmuserenr_el0 == 0x1, which means that PMU counters access
is available at EL0, which must be disallowed).

This patch adds code that resets pmuserenr_el0 on cold boot and restores
it on core resume from shutdown, so that the pmuserenr_el0 setup is
always enforced in the kernel.

Cc: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker

2016-01-31T19:29:04+00:00

commit 32d6397805d00573ce1fa55f408ce2bca15b0ad3 upstream.

In paging_init, we allocate the zero page, memset it to zero and then
point TTBR0 to it in order to avoid speculative fetches through the
identity mapping.

In order to guarantee that the freshly zeroed page is indeed visible to
the page table walker, we need to execute a dsb instruction prior to
writing the TTBR.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: Clear out any singlestep state on a ptrace detach operation

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit 5db4fd8c52810bd9740c1240ebf89223b171aa70 upstream.

Make sure to clear out any ptrace singlestep state when a ptrace(2)
PTRACE_DETACH call is made on arm64 systems.

Otherwise, the previously ptraced task will die off with a SIGTRAP
signal if the debugger just previously singlestepped the ptraced task.

Signed-off-by: John Blackwood 
[will: added comment to justify why this is in the arch code]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit a61674bdfc7c2bf909c4010699607b62b69b7bec upstream.

GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le.  This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
	addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
	addi  r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
	.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

	.quad .TOC.-func
func:
	.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
	ld    r2, -8(r12)
	add   r2, r2, r12
	.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too.  This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit 2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769 upstream.

If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first
function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl
gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module
objects.

This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create
such text sections.  However, this has changed with a recent change
in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its
assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem.

There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs
on the sparc64 platform.  This patch uses the same method to handle
those on powerpc as well.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Make {cmp}xchg* and their atomic_ versions fully ordered

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit 81d7a3294de7e9828310bbf986a67246b13fa01e upstream.

According to memory-barriers.txt, xchg*, cmpxchg* and their atomic_
versions all need to be fully ordered, however they are now just
RELEASE+ACQUIRE, which are not fully ordered.

So also replace PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER and PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER with
PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER and PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER in
__{cmp,}xchg_{u32,u64} respectively to guarantee fully ordered semantics
of atomic{,64}_{cmp,}xchg() and {cmp,}xchg(), as a complement of commit
b97021f85517 ("powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics")

This patch depends on patch "powerpc: Make value-returning atomics fully
ordered" for PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER definition.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Make value-returning atomics fully ordered

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit 49e9cf3f0c04bf76ffa59242254110309554861d upstream.

According to memory-barriers.txt:

> Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns
> information about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional
> general memory barrier (smp_mb()) on each side of the actual
> operation ...

Which mean these operations should be fully ordered. However on PPC,
PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER is the barrier before the actual operation,
which is currently "lwsync" if SMP=y. The leading "lwsync" can not
guarantee fully ordered atomics, according to Paul Mckenney:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/14/970

To fix this, we define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER as "sync" to guarantee
the fully-ordered semantics.

This also makes futex atomics fully ordered, which can avoid possible
memory ordering problems if userspace code relies on futex system call
for fully ordered semantics.

Fixes: b97021f85517 ("powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics")
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks

2016-01-31T19:29:03+00:00

commit 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman