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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>arm64: Improve detection of user/non-user mappings in set_pte(_at)</title>
<updated>2017-05-14T12:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T10:54:12+00:00</published>
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commit ec663d967b2276448a416406ca59ff247c0c80c5 upstream.

Commit cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access
permissions") allowed a valid user PTE to have the PTE_USER bit clear.
As a consequence, the pte_valid_not_user() macro in set_pte() was
replaced with pte_valid_global() under the assumption that only user
pages have the nG bit set. EFI mappings, however, also have the nG bit
set and set_pte() wrongly ignores issuing the DSB+ISB.

This patch reinstates the pte_valid_not_user() macro and adds the
PTE_UXN bit check since all kernel mappings have this bit set. For
clarity, pte_exec() is renamed to pte_user_exec() as it only checks for
the absence of PTE_UXN. Consequently, the user executable check in
set_pte_at() drops the pte_ng() test since pte_user_exec() is
sufficient.

Fixes: cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ec663d967b2276448a416406ca59ff247c0c80c5 upstream.

Commit cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access
permissions") allowed a valid user PTE to have the PTE_USER bit clear.
As a consequence, the pte_valid_not_user() macro in set_pte() was
replaced with pte_valid_global() under the assumption that only user
pages have the nG bit set. EFI mappings, however, also have the nG bit
set and set_pte() wrongly ignores issuing the DSB+ISB.

This patch reinstates the pte_valid_not_user() macro and adds the
PTE_UXN bit check since all kernel mappings have this bit set. For
clarity, pte_exec() is renamed to pte_user_exec() as it only checks for
the absence of PTE_UXN. Consequently, the user executable check in
set_pte_at() drops the pte_ng() test since pte_user_exec() is
sufficient.

Fixes: cab15ce604e5 ("arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: hibernate: Support DEBUG_PAGEALLOC</title>
<updated>2016-08-25T17:00:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-24T17:27:30+00:00</published>
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC removes the valid bit of page table entries to prevent
any access to unallocated memory. Hibernate uses this as a hint that those
pages don't need to be saved/restored. This patch adds the
kernel_page_present() function it uses.

hibernate.c copies the resume kernel's linear map for use during restore.
Add _copy_pte() to fill-in the holes made by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in the resume
kernel, so we can restore data the original kernel had at these addresses.

Finally, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC means the linear-map alias of KERNEL_START to
KERNEL_END may have holes in it, so we can't lazily clean this whole
area to the PoC. Only clean the new mmuoff region, and the kernel/kvm
idmaps.

This reverts commit da24eb1f3f9e2c7b75c5f8c40d8e48e2c4789596.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC removes the valid bit of page table entries to prevent
any access to unallocated memory. Hibernate uses this as a hint that those
pages don't need to be saved/restored. This patch adds the
kernel_page_present() function it uses.

hibernate.c copies the resume kernel's linear map for use during restore.
Add _copy_pte() to fill-in the holes made by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in the resume
kernel, so we can restore data the original kernel had at these addresses.

Finally, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC means the linear-map alias of KERNEL_START to
KERNEL_END may have holes in it, so we can't lazily clean this whole
area to the PoC. Only clean the new mmuoff region, and the kernel/kvm
idmaps.

This reverts commit da24eb1f3f9e2c7b75c5f8c40d8e48e2c4789596.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Introduce execute-only page access permissions</title>
<updated>2016-08-25T17:00:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T17:44:50+00:00</published>
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The ARMv8 architecture allows execute-only user permissions by clearing
the PTE_UXN and PTE_USER bits. However, the kernel running on a CPU
implementation without User Access Override (ARMv8.2 onwards) can still
access such page, so execute-only page permission does not protect
against read(2)/write(2) etc. accesses. Systems requiring such
protection must enable features like SECCOMP.

This patch changes the arm64 __P100 and __S100 protection_map[] macros
to the new __PAGE_EXECONLY attributes. A side effect is that
pte_user() no longer triggers for __PAGE_EXECONLY since PTE_USER isn't
set. To work around this, the check is done on the PTE_NG bit via the
pte_ng() macro. VM_READ is also checked now for page faults.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The ARMv8 architecture allows execute-only user permissions by clearing
the PTE_UXN and PTE_USER bits. However, the kernel running on a CPU
implementation without User Access Override (ARMv8.2 onwards) can still
access such page, so execute-only page permission does not protect
against read(2)/write(2) etc. accesses. Systems requiring such
protection must enable features like SECCOMP.

This patch changes the arm64 __P100 and __S100 protection_map[] macros
to the new __PAGE_EXECONLY attributes. A side effect is that
pte_user() no longer triggers for __PAGE_EXECONLY since PTE_USER isn't
set. To work around this, the check is done on the PTE_NG bit via the
pte_ng() macro. VM_READ is also checked now for page faults.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Fix copy-on-write referencing in HugeTLB</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T12:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T14:15:55+00:00</published>
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set_pte_at(.) will set or unset the PTE_RDONLY hardware bit before
writing the entry to the table.

This can cause problems with the copy-on-write logic in hugetlb_cow:
 *) hugetlb_cow(.) called to handle a write fault on read only pte,
 *) Before the copy-on-write updates the new page table a call is
    made to pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte)), to check for a race,
 *) Because set_pte_at(.) changed the pte, *ptep != pte, and the
    hugetlb_cow(.) code erroneously assumes that it lost the race,
 *) The new page is subsequently freed without being used.

On arm64 this problem only becomes apparent when we apply:
67961f9 mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reserve accounting for private
mappings

When one runs the libhugetlbfs test suite, there are allocation errors
and hugetlbfs pages become erroneously locked in memory as reserved.
(There is a high HugePages_Rsvd: count).

In this patch we introduce pte_same which ignores the PTE_RDONLY bit,
allowing for the libhugetlbfs test suite to pass as expected and
without leaking any reserved HugeTLB pages.

Reported-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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set_pte_at(.) will set or unset the PTE_RDONLY hardware bit before
writing the entry to the table.

This can cause problems with the copy-on-write logic in hugetlb_cow:
 *) hugetlb_cow(.) called to handle a write fault on read only pte,
 *) Before the copy-on-write updates the new page table a call is
    made to pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte)), to check for a race,
 *) Because set_pte_at(.) changed the pte, *ptep != pte, and the
    hugetlb_cow(.) code erroneously assumes that it lost the race,
 *) The new page is subsequently freed without being used.

On arm64 this problem only becomes apparent when we apply:
67961f9 mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reserve accounting for private
mappings

When one runs the libhugetlbfs test suite, there are allocation errors
and hugetlbfs pages become erroneously locked in memory as reserved.
(There is a high HugePages_Rsvd: count).

In this patch we introduce pte_same which ignores the PTE_RDONLY bit,
allowing for the libhugetlbfs test suite to pass as expected and
without leaking any reserved HugeTLB pages.

Reported-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T03:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T03:00:06+00:00</published>
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify fix

 - poll() timeout fix

 - a few scripts/ tweaks

 - debugobjects updates

 - the (small) ocfs2 queue

 - Minor fixes to kernel/padata.c

 - Maybe half of the MM queue

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (117 commits)
  mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed
  mm, page_alloc: uninline the bad page part of check_new_page()
  mm, page_alloc: don't duplicate code in free_pcp_prepare
  mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP
  mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain
  cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API
  mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths
  mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk
  mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages_check
  mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of free_pages_check
  mm, page_alloc: check multiple page fields with a single branch
  mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context
  mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice
  mm, page_alloc: shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages
  mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry
  mm, page_alloc: shorten the page allocator fast path
  mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks
  mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath
  mm, page_alloc: simplify last cpupid reset
  mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary initialisation from __alloc_pages_nodemask()
  ...
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify fix

 - poll() timeout fix

 - a few scripts/ tweaks

 - debugobjects updates

 - the (small) ocfs2 queue

 - Minor fixes to kernel/padata.c

 - Maybe half of the MM queue

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (117 commits)
  mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed
  mm, page_alloc: uninline the bad page part of check_new_page()
  mm, page_alloc: don't duplicate code in free_pcp_prepare
  mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP
  mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain
  cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API
  mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths
  mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk
  mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages_check
  mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of free_pages_check
  mm, page_alloc: check multiple page fields with a single branch
  mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context
  mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice
  mm, page_alloc: shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages
  mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry
  mm, page_alloc: shorten the page allocator fast path
  mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks
  mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath
  mm, page_alloc: simplify last cpupid reset
  mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary initialisation from __alloc_pages_nodemask()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch: fix has_transparent_hugepage()</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:13:00+00:00</published>
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I've just discovered that the useful-sounding has_transparent_hugepage()
is actually an architecture-dependent minefield: on some arches it only
builds if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y, on others it's also there when
not, but on some of those (arm and arm64) it then gives the wrong
answer; and on mips alone it's marked __init, which would crash if
called later (but so far it has not been called later).

Straighten this out: make it available to all configs, with a sensible
default in asm-generic/pgtable.h, removing its definitions from those
arches (arc, arm, arm64, sparc, tile) which are served by the default,
adding #define has_transparent_hugepage has_transparent_hugepage to
those (mips, powerpc, s390, x86) which need to override the default at
runtime, and removing the __init from mips (but maybe that kind of code
should be avoided after init: set a static variable the first time it's
called).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;		[arch/arc]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;	[arch/s390]
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I've just discovered that the useful-sounding has_transparent_hugepage()
is actually an architecture-dependent minefield: on some arches it only
builds if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y, on others it's also there when
not, but on some of those (arm and arm64) it then gives the wrong
answer; and on mips alone it's marked __init, which would crash if
called later (but so far it has not been called later).

Straighten this out: make it available to all configs, with a sensible
default in asm-generic/pgtable.h, removing its definitions from those
arches (arc, arm, arm64, sparc, tile) which are served by the default,
adding #define has_transparent_hugepage has_transparent_hugepage to
those (mips, powerpc, s390, x86) which need to override the default at
runtime, and removing the __init from mips (but maybe that kind of code
should be avoided after init: set a static variable the first time it's
called).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;		[arch/arc]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;	[arch/s390]
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T18:27:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-19T18:27:09+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release overall.

  x86:
   - miscellaneous fixes
   - AVIC support (local APIC virtualization, AMD version)

  s390:
   - polling for interrupts after a VCPU goes to halted state is now
     enabled for s390
   - use hardware provided information about facility bits that do not
     need any hypervisor activity, and other fixes for cpu models and
     facilities
   - improve perf output
   - floating interrupt controller improvements.

  MIPS:
   - miscellaneous fixes

  PPC:
   - bugfixes only

  ARM:
   - 16K page size support
   - generic firmware probing layer for timer and GIC

  Christoffer Dall (KVM-ARM maintainer) says:
    "There are a few changes in this pull request touching things
     outside KVM, but they should all carry the necessary acks and it
     made the merge process much easier to do it this way."

  though actually the irqchip maintainers' acks didn't make it into the
  patches.  Marc Zyngier, who is both irqchip and KVM-ARM maintainer,
  later acked at http://mid.gmane.org/573351D1.4060303@arm.com ('more
  formally and for documentation purposes')"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (82 commits)
  KVM: MTRR: remove MSR 0x2f8
  KVM: x86: make hwapic_isr_update and hwapic_irr_update look the same
  svm: Manage vcpu load/unload when enable AVIC
  svm: Do not intercept CR8 when enable AVIC
  svm: Do not expose x2APIC when enable AVIC
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops.apicv_post_state_restore
  svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC
  svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC
  KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support
  svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers
  KVM: split kvm_vcpu_wake_up from kvm_vcpu_kick
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops VCPU blocking/unblocking hooks
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops VM init/destroy hooks
  KVM: x86: Rename kvm_apic_get_reg to kvm_lapic_get_reg
  KVM: x86: Misc LAPIC changes to expose helper functions
  KVM: shrink halt polling even more for invalid wakeups
  KVM: s390: set halt polling to 80 microseconds
  KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Re-enable XICS fast path for irqfd-generated interrupts
  kvm: Conditionally register IRQ bypass consumer
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release overall.

  x86:
   - miscellaneous fixes
   - AVIC support (local APIC virtualization, AMD version)

  s390:
   - polling for interrupts after a VCPU goes to halted state is now
     enabled for s390
   - use hardware provided information about facility bits that do not
     need any hypervisor activity, and other fixes for cpu models and
     facilities
   - improve perf output
   - floating interrupt controller improvements.

  MIPS:
   - miscellaneous fixes

  PPC:
   - bugfixes only

  ARM:
   - 16K page size support
   - generic firmware probing layer for timer and GIC

  Christoffer Dall (KVM-ARM maintainer) says:
    "There are a few changes in this pull request touching things
     outside KVM, but they should all carry the necessary acks and it
     made the merge process much easier to do it this way."

  though actually the irqchip maintainers' acks didn't make it into the
  patches.  Marc Zyngier, who is both irqchip and KVM-ARM maintainer,
  later acked at http://mid.gmane.org/573351D1.4060303@arm.com ('more
  formally and for documentation purposes')"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (82 commits)
  KVM: MTRR: remove MSR 0x2f8
  KVM: x86: make hwapic_isr_update and hwapic_irr_update look the same
  svm: Manage vcpu load/unload when enable AVIC
  svm: Do not intercept CR8 when enable AVIC
  svm: Do not expose x2APIC when enable AVIC
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops.apicv_post_state_restore
  svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC
  svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC
  KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support
  svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers
  KVM: split kvm_vcpu_wake_up from kvm_vcpu_kick
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops VCPU blocking/unblocking hooks
  KVM: x86: Introducing kvm_x86_ops VM init/destroy hooks
  KVM: x86: Rename kvm_apic_get_reg to kvm_lapic_get_reg
  KVM: x86: Misc LAPIC changes to expose helper functions
  KVM: shrink halt polling even more for invalid wakeups
  KVM: s390: set halt polling to 80 microseconds
  KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Re-enable XICS fast path for irqfd-generated interrupts
  kvm: Conditionally register IRQ bypass consumer
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: arm64: Enable hardware updates of the Access Flag for Stage 2 page tables</title>
<updated>2016-05-09T20:23:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-13T16:57:37+00:00</published>
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The ARMv8.1 architecture extensions introduce support for hardware
updates of the access and dirty information in page table entries. With
VTCR_EL2.HA enabled (bit 21), when the CPU accesses an IPA with the
PTE_AF bit cleared in the stage 2 page table, instead of raising an
Access Flag fault to EL2 the CPU sets the actual page table entry bit
(10). To ensure that kernel modifications to the page table do not
inadvertently revert a bit set by hardware updates, certain Stage 2
software pte/pmd operations must be performed atomically.

The main user of the AF bit is the kvm_age_hva() mechanism. The
kvm_age_hva_handler() function performs a "test and clear young" action
on the pte/pmd. This needs to be atomic in respect of automatic hardware
updates of the AF bit. Since the AF bit is in the same position for both
Stage 1 and Stage 2, the patch reuses the existing
ptep_test_and_clear_young() functionality if
__HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG is defined. Otherwise, the
existing pte_young/pte_mkold mechanism is preserved.

The kvm_set_s2pte_readonly() (and the corresponding pmd equivalent) have
to perform atomic modifications in order to avoid a race with updates of
the AF bit. The arm64 implementation has been re-written using
exclusives.

Currently, kvm_set_s2pte_writable() (and pmd equivalent) take a pointer
argument and modify the pte/pmd in place. However, these functions are
only used on local variables rather than actual page table entries, so
it makes more sense to follow the pte_mkwrite() approach for stage 1
attributes. The change to kvm_s2pte_mkwrite() makes it clear that these
functions do not modify the actual page table entries.

The (pte|pmd)_mkyoung() uses on Stage 2 entries (setting the AF bit
explicitly) do not need to be modified since hardware updates of the
dirty status are not supported by KVM, so there is no possibility of
losing such information.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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The ARMv8.1 architecture extensions introduce support for hardware
updates of the access and dirty information in page table entries. With
VTCR_EL2.HA enabled (bit 21), when the CPU accesses an IPA with the
PTE_AF bit cleared in the stage 2 page table, instead of raising an
Access Flag fault to EL2 the CPU sets the actual page table entry bit
(10). To ensure that kernel modifications to the page table do not
inadvertently revert a bit set by hardware updates, certain Stage 2
software pte/pmd operations must be performed atomically.

The main user of the AF bit is the kvm_age_hva() mechanism. The
kvm_age_hva_handler() function performs a "test and clear young" action
on the pte/pmd. This needs to be atomic in respect of automatic hardware
updates of the AF bit. Since the AF bit is in the same position for both
Stage 1 and Stage 2, the patch reuses the existing
ptep_test_and_clear_young() functionality if
__HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG is defined. Otherwise, the
existing pte_young/pte_mkold mechanism is preserved.

The kvm_set_s2pte_readonly() (and the corresponding pmd equivalent) have
to perform atomic modifications in order to avoid a race with updates of
the AF bit. The arm64 implementation has been re-written using
exclusives.

Currently, kvm_set_s2pte_writable() (and pmd equivalent) take a pointer
argument and modify the pte/pmd in place. However, these functions are
only used on local variables rather than actual page table entries, so
it makes more sense to follow the pte_mkwrite() approach for stage 1
attributes. The change to kvm_s2pte_mkwrite() makes it clear that these
functions do not modify the actual page table entries.

The (pte|pmd)_mkyoung() uses on Stage 2 entries (setting the AF bit
explicitly) do not need to be modified since hardware updates of the
dirty status are not supported by KVM, so there is no possibility of
losing such information.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Ensure pmd_present() returns false after pmd_mknotpresent()</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T11:46:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T09:44:02+00:00</published>
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Currently, pmd_present() only checks for a non-zero value, returning
true even after pmd_mknotpresent() (which only clears the type bits).
This patch converts pmd_present() to using pte_present(), similar to the
other pmd_*() checks. As a side effect, it will return true for
PROT_NONE mappings, though they are not yet used by the kernel with
transparent huge pages.

For consistency, also change pmd_mknotpresent() to only clear the
PMD_SECT_VALID bit, even though the PMD_TABLE_BIT is already 0 for block
mappings (no functional change). The unused PMD_SECT_PROT_NONE
definition is removed as transparent huge pages use the pte page prot
values.

Fixes: 9c7e535fcc17 ("arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.15+
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently, pmd_present() only checks for a non-zero value, returning
true even after pmd_mknotpresent() (which only clears the type bits).
This patch converts pmd_present() to using pte_present(), similar to the
other pmd_*() checks. As a side effect, it will return true for
PROT_NONE mappings, though they are not yet used by the kernel with
transparent huge pages.

For consistency, also change pmd_mknotpresent() to only clear the
PMD_SECT_VALID bit, even though the PMD_TABLE_BIT is already 0 for block
mappings (no functional change). The unused PMD_SECT_PROT_NONE
definition is removed as transparent huge pages use the pte page prot
values.

Fixes: 9c7e535fcc17 ("arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.15+
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Replace hard-coded values in the pmd/pud_bad() macros</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T11:46:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T09:44:01+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces the hard-coded value 2 with PMD_TABLE_BIT in the
pmd/pud_bad() macros. Note that using these macros on pmd_trans_huge()
entries is giving incorrect results
(pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() correctly checks for
pmd_trans_huge before pmd_bad).

Additionally, white-space clean-up for pmd_mkclean().

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This patch replaces the hard-coded value 2 with PMD_TABLE_BIT in the
pmd/pud_bad() macros. Note that using these macros on pmd_trans_huge()
entries is giving incorrect results
(pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() correctly checks for
pmd_trans_huge before pmd_bad).

Additionally, white-space clean-up for pmd_mkclean().

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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