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<title>Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T20:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T20:53:55+00:00</published>
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Pull exec domain removal from Richard Weinberger:
 "This series removes execution domain support from Linux.

  The idea behind exec domains was to support different ABIs.  The
  feature was never complete nor stable.  Let's rip it out and make the
  kernel signal handling code less complicated"

* 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc: (27 commits)
  arm64: Removed unused variable
  sparc: Fix execution domain removal
  Remove rest of exec domains.
  arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs
  arc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  x86: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  unicore32: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  um: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  tile: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sparc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sh: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  s390: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  mn10300: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  microblaze: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m68k: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  frv: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  ...
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Pull exec domain removal from Richard Weinberger:
 "This series removes execution domain support from Linux.

  The idea behind exec domains was to support different ABIs.  The
  feature was never complete nor stable.  Let's rip it out and make the
  kernel signal handling code less complicated"

* 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc: (27 commits)
  arm64: Removed unused variable
  sparc: Fix execution domain removal
  Remove rest of exec domains.
  arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs
  arc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  x86: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  unicore32: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  um: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  tile: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sparc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sh: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  s390: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  mn10300: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  microblaze: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m68k: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  frv: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T04:03:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T04:03:26+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update are both some long term fixes and some new
  features.

  Fixes:

   - An integer overflow in the calculation of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

   - Avoiding OOMs for high-order IOMMU allocations

   - SMP requires the data cache to be enabled for synchronisation
     primitives to work, so prevent the CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE option being
     visible on SMP builds.

   - A bug going back 10+ years in the noMMU ARM94* CPU support code,
     where it corrupts registers.  Found by folk getting Linux running
     on their cameras.

   - Versatile Express needs an errata workaround enabled for CPU
     hot-unplug to work.

  Features:

   - Clean up module linker by handling out of range relocations
     separately from relocation cases we don't handle.

   - Fix a long term bug in the pci_mmap_page_range() code, which we
     hope won't impact userspace (we hope there's no users of the
     existing broken interface.)

   - Don't map DMA coherent allocations when we don't have a MMU.

   - Drop experimental status for SMP_ON_UP.

   - Warn when DT doesn't specify ePAPR mandatory cache properties.

   - Add documentation concerning how we find the start of physical
     memory for AUTO_ZRELADDR kernels, detailing why we have chosen the
     mask and the implications of changing it.

   - Updates from Ard Biesheuvel to address some issues with large
     kernels (such as allyesconfig) failing to link.

   - Allow hibernation to work on modern (ARMv7) CPUs - this appears to
     have never worked in the past on these CPUs.

   - Enable IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL, which changes the /proc/interrupts output
     format (hopefully without userspace breaking...  let's hope that if
     it causes someone a problem, they tell us.)

   - Fix tegra-ahb DT offsets.

   - Rework ARM errata 643719 code (and ARMv7 flush_cache_louis()/
     flush_dcache_all()) code to be more efficient, and enable this
     errata workaround by default for ARMv7+SMP CPUs.  This complements
     the Versatile Express fix above.

   - Rework ARMv7 context code for errata 430973, so that only Cortex A8
     CPUs are impacted by the branch target buffer flush when this
     errata is enabled.  Also update the help text to indicate that all
     r1p* A8 CPUs are impacted.

   - Switch ARM to the generic show_mem() implementation, it conveys all
     the information which we were already reporting.

   - Prevent slow timer sources being used for udelay() - timers running
     at less than 1MHz are not useful for this, and can cause udelay()
     to return immediately, without any wait.  Using such a slow timer
     is silly.

   - VDSO support for 32-bit ARM, mainly for gettimeofday() using the
     ARM architected timer.

   - Perf support for Scorpion performance monitoring units"

vdso semantic conflict fixed up as per linux-next.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: update errata 430973 documentation to cover Cortex A8 r1p*
  ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays
  ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation
  ARM: proc-v7: avoid errata 430973 workaround for non-Cortex A8 CPUs
  ARM: enable ARM errata 643719 workaround by default
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise test for Cortex A9 r0pX devices
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise branches in v7_flush_cache_louis
  ARM: cache-v7: consolidate initialisation of cache level index
  ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking
  ARM: cache-v7: use movw/movt instructions
  ARM: allow 16-bit instructions in ALT_UP()
  ARM: proc-arm94*.S: fix setup function
  ARM: vexpress: fix CPU hotplug with CT9x4 tile.
  ARM: 8276/1: Make CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE depend on !SMP
  ARM: 8335/1: Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: document the legacy base address
  ARM: 8334/1: amba: tegra-ahb: detect and correct bogus base address
  ARM: 8333/1: amba: tegra-ahb: fix register offsets in the macros
  ARM: 8339/1: Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
  ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
  ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update are both some long term fixes and some new
  features.

  Fixes:

   - An integer overflow in the calculation of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

   - Avoiding OOMs for high-order IOMMU allocations

   - SMP requires the data cache to be enabled for synchronisation
     primitives to work, so prevent the CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE option being
     visible on SMP builds.

   - A bug going back 10+ years in the noMMU ARM94* CPU support code,
     where it corrupts registers.  Found by folk getting Linux running
     on their cameras.

   - Versatile Express needs an errata workaround enabled for CPU
     hot-unplug to work.

  Features:

   - Clean up module linker by handling out of range relocations
     separately from relocation cases we don't handle.

   - Fix a long term bug in the pci_mmap_page_range() code, which we
     hope won't impact userspace (we hope there's no users of the
     existing broken interface.)

   - Don't map DMA coherent allocations when we don't have a MMU.

   - Drop experimental status for SMP_ON_UP.

   - Warn when DT doesn't specify ePAPR mandatory cache properties.

   - Add documentation concerning how we find the start of physical
     memory for AUTO_ZRELADDR kernels, detailing why we have chosen the
     mask and the implications of changing it.

   - Updates from Ard Biesheuvel to address some issues with large
     kernels (such as allyesconfig) failing to link.

   - Allow hibernation to work on modern (ARMv7) CPUs - this appears to
     have never worked in the past on these CPUs.

   - Enable IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL, which changes the /proc/interrupts output
     format (hopefully without userspace breaking...  let's hope that if
     it causes someone a problem, they tell us.)

   - Fix tegra-ahb DT offsets.

   - Rework ARM errata 643719 code (and ARMv7 flush_cache_louis()/
     flush_dcache_all()) code to be more efficient, and enable this
     errata workaround by default for ARMv7+SMP CPUs.  This complements
     the Versatile Express fix above.

   - Rework ARMv7 context code for errata 430973, so that only Cortex A8
     CPUs are impacted by the branch target buffer flush when this
     errata is enabled.  Also update the help text to indicate that all
     r1p* A8 CPUs are impacted.

   - Switch ARM to the generic show_mem() implementation, it conveys all
     the information which we were already reporting.

   - Prevent slow timer sources being used for udelay() - timers running
     at less than 1MHz are not useful for this, and can cause udelay()
     to return immediately, without any wait.  Using such a slow timer
     is silly.

   - VDSO support for 32-bit ARM, mainly for gettimeofday() using the
     ARM architected timer.

   - Perf support for Scorpion performance monitoring units"

vdso semantic conflict fixed up as per linux-next.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: update errata 430973 documentation to cover Cortex A8 r1p*
  ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays
  ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation
  ARM: proc-v7: avoid errata 430973 workaround for non-Cortex A8 CPUs
  ARM: enable ARM errata 643719 workaround by default
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise test for Cortex A9 r0pX devices
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise branches in v7_flush_cache_louis
  ARM: cache-v7: consolidate initialisation of cache level index
  ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking
  ARM: cache-v7: use movw/movt instructions
  ARM: allow 16-bit instructions in ALT_UP()
  ARM: proc-arm94*.S: fix setup function
  ARM: vexpress: fix CPU hotplug with CT9x4 tile.
  ARM: 8276/1: Make CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE depend on !SMP
  ARM: 8335/1: Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: document the legacy base address
  ARM: 8334/1: amba: tegra-ahb: detect and correct bogus base address
  ARM: 8333/1: amba: tegra-ahb: fix register offsets in the macros
  ARM: 8339/1: Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
  ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
  ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm: Remove signal translation and exec_domain</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T18:58:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-13T13:24:03+00:00</published>
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As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8330/1: add VDSO user-space code</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T22:20:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathan_lynch@mentor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-25T18:14:22+00:00</published>
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Place VDSO-related user-space code in arch/arm/kernel/vdso/.

It is almost completely written in C with some assembly helpers to
load the data page address, sample the counter, and fall back to
system calls when necessary.

The VDSO can service gettimeofday and clock_gettime when
CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER is enabled and the architected timer is present
(and correctly configured).  It reads the CP15-based virtual counter
to compute high-resolution timestamps.

Of particular note is that a post-processing step ("vdsomunge") is
necessary to produce a shared object which is architecturally allowed
to be used by both soft- and hard-float EABI programs.

The 2012 edition of the ARM ABI defines Tag_ABI_VFP_args = 3 "Code is
compatible with both the base and VFP variants; the user did not
permit non-variadic functions to pass FP parameters/results."
Unfortunately current toolchains do not support this tag, which is
ideally what we would use.

The best available option is to ensure that both EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT
and EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD are unset in the ELF header's e_flags,
indicating that the shared object is "old" and should be accepted for
backward compatibility's sake.  While binutils &lt; 2.24 appear to
produce a vdso.so with both flags clear, 2.24 always sets
EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT, with no way to inhibit this behavior.  So we
have to fix things up with a custom post-processing step.

In fact, the VDSO code in glibc does much less validation (including
checking these flags) than the code for handling conventional
file-backed shared libraries, so this is a bit moot unless glibc's
VDSO code becomes more strict.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Place VDSO-related user-space code in arch/arm/kernel/vdso/.

It is almost completely written in C with some assembly helpers to
load the data page address, sample the counter, and fall back to
system calls when necessary.

The VDSO can service gettimeofday and clock_gettime when
CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER is enabled and the architected timer is present
(and correctly configured).  It reads the CP15-based virtual counter
to compute high-resolution timestamps.

Of particular note is that a post-processing step ("vdsomunge") is
necessary to produce a shared object which is architecturally allowed
to be used by both soft- and hard-float EABI programs.

The 2012 edition of the ARM ABI defines Tag_ABI_VFP_args = 3 "Code is
compatible with both the base and VFP variants; the user did not
permit non-variadic functions to pass FP parameters/results."
Unfortunately current toolchains do not support this tag, which is
ideally what we would use.

The best available option is to ensure that both EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT
and EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD are unset in the ELF header's e_flags,
indicating that the shared object is "old" and should be accepted for
backward compatibility's sake.  While binutils &lt; 2.24 appear to
produce a vdso.so with both flags clear, 2.24 always sets
EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT, with no way to inhibit this behavior.  So we
have to fix things up with a custom post-processing step.

In fact, the VDSO code in glibc does much less validation (including
checking these flags) than the code for handling conventional
file-backed shared libraries, so this is a bit moot unless glibc's
VDSO code becomes more strict.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Kill CONFIG_KVM_ARM_{VGIC,TIMER}</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T14:15:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-11T13:21:31+00:00</published>
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We can definitely decide at run-time whether to use the GIC and timers
or not, and the extra code and data structures that we allocate space
for is really negligable with this config option, so I don't think it's
worth the extra complexity of always having to define stub static
inlines.  The !CONFIG_KVM_ARM_VGIC/TIMER case is pretty much an untested
code path anyway, so we're better off just getting rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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We can definitely decide at run-time whether to use the GIC and timers
or not, and the extra code and data structures that we allocate space
for is really negligable with this config option, so I don't think it's
worth the extra complexity of always having to define stub static
inlines.  The !CONFIG_KVM_ARM_VGIC/TIMER case is pretty much an untested
code path anyway, so we're better off just getting rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Blacklist GCC 4.8.0 to GCC 4.8.2 - PR58854</title>
<updated>2014-10-19T08:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-15T21:37:13+00:00</published>
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These stock GCC versions miscompile the kernel by incorrectly optimising
the function epilogue code - by first increasing the stack pointer, and
then loading entries from below the stack.  This means that an opportune
interrupt or exception will corrupt the current function's saved state,
which may result in the parent function seeing different register
values.

As this bug has been known to result in corrupted filesystems, and these
buggy compiler versions seem to be frequently used, we have little
option but to blacklist these compiler versions.

Distributions may have fixed PR58854, but as their compilers are totally
indistinguishable from the buggy versions, it is unfortunate that this
also results in those also being blacklisted.  Given the filesystem
corruption potential of the original, this is the lesser evil.  People
who want to build with their fixed compiler versions will need to adjust
the kernel source.  (Distros need to think about the implications of
fixing such a compiler bug, and consider how to ensure that their fixed
compiler versions can be detected if they wish to avoid this.)

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These stock GCC versions miscompile the kernel by incorrectly optimising
the function epilogue code - by first increasing the stack pointer, and
then loading entries from below the stack.  This means that an opportune
interrupt or exception will corrupt the current function's saved state,
which may result in the parent function seeing different register
values.

As this bug has been known to result in corrupted filesystems, and these
buggy compiler versions seem to be frequently used, we have little
option but to blacklist these compiler versions.

Distributions may have fixed PR58854, but as their compilers are totally
indistinguishable from the buggy versions, it is unfortunate that this
also results in those also being blacklisted.  Given the filesystem
corruption potential of the original, this is the lesser evil.  People
who want to build with their fixed compiler versions will need to adjust
the kernel source.  (Distros need to think about the implications of
fixing such a compiler bug, and consider how to ensure that their fixed
compiler versions can be detected if they wish to avoid this.)

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: move GICv2 registers to their own structure</title>
<updated>2014-07-11T11:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-30T09:20:36+00:00</published>
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In order to make way for the GICv3 registers, move the v2-specific
registers to their own structure.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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In order to make way for the GICv3 registers, move the v2-specific
registers to their own structure.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: KVM: introduce per-vcpu HYP Configuration Register</title>
<updated>2014-03-03T01:15:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-22T09:43:38+00:00</published>
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So far, KVM/ARM used a fixed HCR configuration per guest, except for
the VI/VF/VA bits to control the interrupt in absence of VGIC.

With the upcoming need to dynamically reconfigure trapping, it becomes
necessary to allow the HCR to be changed on a per-vcpu basis.

The fix here is to mimic what KVM/arm64 already does: a per vcpu HCR
field, initialized at setup time.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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So far, KVM/ARM used a fixed HCR configuration per guest, except for
the VI/VF/VA bits to control the interrupt in absence of VGIC.

With the upcoming need to dynamically reconfigure trapping, it becomes
necessary to allow the HCR to be changed on a per-vcpu basis.

The fix here is to mimic what KVM/arm64 already does: a per vcpu HCR
field, initialized at setup time.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: kernel: implement stack pointer save array through MPIDR hashing</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T10:24:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-16T09:34:30+00:00</published>
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Current implementation of cpu_{suspend}/cpu_{resume} relies on the MPIDR
to index the array of pointers where the context is saved and restored.
The current approach works as long as the MPIDR can be considered a
linear index, so that the pointers array can simply be dereferenced by
using the MPIDR[7:0] value.
On ARM multi-cluster systems, where the MPIDR may not be a linear index,
to properly dereference the stack pointer array, a mapping function should
be applied to it so that it can be used for arrays look-ups.

This patch adds code in the cpu_{suspend}/cpu_{resume} implementation
that relies on shifting and ORing hashing method to map a MPIDR value to a
set of buckets precomputed at boot to have a collision free mapping from
MPIDR to context pointers.

The hashing algorithm must be simple, fast, and implementable with few
instructions since in the cpu_resume path the mapping is carried out with
the MMU off and the I-cache off, hence code and data are fetched from DRAM
with no-caching available. Simplicity is counterbalanced with a little
increase of memory (allocated dynamically) for stack pointers buckets, that
should be anyway fairly limited on most systems.

Memory for context pointers is allocated in a early_initcall with
size precomputed and stashed previously in kernel data structures.
Memory for context pointers is allocated through kmalloc; this
guarantees contiguous physical addresses for the allocated memory which
is fundamental to the correct functioning of the resume mechanism that
relies on the context pointer array to be a chunk of contiguous physical
memory. Virtual to physical address conversion for the context pointer
array base is carried out at boot to avoid fiddling with virt_to_phys
conversions in the cpu_resume path which is quite fragile and should be
optimized to execute as few instructions as possible.
Virtual and physical context pointer base array addresses are stashed in a
struct that is accessible from assembly using values generated through the
asm-offsets.c mechanism.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Amit Kucheria &lt;amit.kucheria@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@wwwdotorg.org&gt;
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Current implementation of cpu_{suspend}/cpu_{resume} relies on the MPIDR
to index the array of pointers where the context is saved and restored.
The current approach works as long as the MPIDR can be considered a
linear index, so that the pointers array can simply be dereferenced by
using the MPIDR[7:0] value.
On ARM multi-cluster systems, where the MPIDR may not be a linear index,
to properly dereference the stack pointer array, a mapping function should
be applied to it so that it can be used for arrays look-ups.

This patch adds code in the cpu_{suspend}/cpu_{resume} implementation
that relies on shifting and ORing hashing method to map a MPIDR value to a
set of buckets precomputed at boot to have a collision free mapping from
MPIDR to context pointers.

The hashing algorithm must be simple, fast, and implementable with few
instructions since in the cpu_resume path the mapping is carried out with
the MMU off and the I-cache off, hence code and data are fetched from DRAM
with no-caching available. Simplicity is counterbalanced with a little
increase of memory (allocated dynamically) for stack pointers buckets, that
should be anyway fairly limited on most systems.

Memory for context pointers is allocated in a early_initcall with
size precomputed and stashed previously in kernel data structures.
Memory for context pointers is allocated through kmalloc; this
guarantees contiguous physical addresses for the allocated memory which
is fundamental to the correct functioning of the resume mechanism that
relies on the context pointer array to be a chunk of contiguous physical
memory. Virtual to physical address conversion for the context pointer
array base is carried out at boot to avoid fiddling with virt_to_phys
conversions in the cpu_resume path which is quite fragile and should be
optimized to execute as few instructions as possible.
Virtual and physical context pointer base array addresses are stashed in a
struct that is accessible from assembly using values generated through the
asm-offsets.c mechanism.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Amit Kucheria &lt;amit.kucheria@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@wwwdotorg.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-05-05T21:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-05T21:47:31+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
 "Highlights of the updates are:

  general:
   - new emulated device API
   - legacy device assignment is now optional
   - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches

  x86:
   - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
   - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
   - Optimize mmio spte zapping

  ppc:
    - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
    - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
    - Book3S: HV: migration fixes
    - BookE: more debug support preparation
    - BookE: e6500 support

  ARM:
   - reworking of Hyp idmaps

  s390:
   - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw

  And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
  KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
  kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
  kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
  ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
  KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
  ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
  KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
  ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
  ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
  ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
  ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
  ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
  ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
  ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
 "Highlights of the updates are:

  general:
   - new emulated device API
   - legacy device assignment is now optional
   - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches

  x86:
   - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
   - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
   - Optimize mmio spte zapping

  ppc:
    - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
    - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
    - Book3S: HV: migration fixes
    - BookE: more debug support preparation
    - BookE: e6500 support

  ARM:
   - reworking of Hyp idmaps

  s390:
   - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw

  And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
  KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
  kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
  kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
  ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
  KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
  ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
  KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
  ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
  ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
  ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
  ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
  ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
  ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
  ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
  ...
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