linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/mm/cache.c, branch v4.2.7

MIPS: Partially disable RIXI support.

2015-08-03T07:25:11+00:00

Execution of break instruction, trap instructions, emulation of unaligned
loads or floating point instructions - anything that tries to read the
instruction's opcode from userspace - needs read access to a page.

RIXI (Read Inhibit / Execute Inhibit) support however allows the creation of
pags that are executable but not readable.  On such a mapping the attempted
load of the opcode by the kernel is going to cause an endless loop of
page faults.

The quick workaround for this is to disable the combinations that the kernel
currently isn't able to handle which are executable mappings.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Fix race condition in lazy cache flushing.

2015-03-25T12:48:00+00:00

The lazy cache flushing implemented in the MIPS kernel suffers from a
race condition that is exposed by do_set_pte() in mm/memory.c.

A pre-condition is a file-system that writes to the page from the CPU
in its readpage method and then calls flush_dcache_page(). One example
is ubifs. Another pre-condition is that the dcache flush is postponed
in __flush_dcache_page().

Upon a page fault for an executable mapping not existing in the
page-cache, the following will happen:
1. Write to the page
2. flush_dcache_page
3. flush_icache_page
4. set_pte_at
5. update_mmu_cache (commits the flush of a dcache-dirty page)

Between steps 4 and 5 another thread can hit the same page and it will
encounter a valid pte. Because the data still is in the L1 dcache the CPU
will fetch stale data from L2 into the icache and execute garbage.

This fix moves the commit of the cache flush to step 3 to close the
race window. It also reduces the amount of flushes on non-executable
mappings because we never enter __flush_dcache_page() for non-aliasing
CPUs.

Regressions can occur in drivers that mistakenly relies on the
flush_dcache_page() in get_user_pages() for DMA operations.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in patch 9346 to fix highmem issue.]

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: paul.burton@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9346/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9738/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Revert "MIPS: Remove race window in page fault handling"

2015-03-25T12:48:00+00:00

Revert commit 2a4a8b1e5d9d ("MIPS: Remove race window in page fault
handling") because it increased the number of flushed dcache pages and
became a performance problem for some workloads.

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: paul.burton@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9345/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Remove race window in page fault handling

2014-08-19T11:31:09+00:00

Multicore MIPSes without I/D hardware coherency suffered from a race
condition in the page fault handler. The page table entry was
published before any pending lazy D-cache flush was committed, hence
it allowed execution of stale page cache data by other VPEs in the
system.

To make the cache handling safe we need to perform flushing already in
the set_pte_at function. MIPSes without coherent I-caches can get a
small increase in flushes due to the unavailability of the execute
flag in set_pte_at.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: outlining set_pte_at() saves a good k in a test
build, so I moved its definition from pgtable.h to cache.c.]

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7511/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm into next

2014-06-04T15:47:12+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
  was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

   - a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration, GDB
     support and more

   - ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
     interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by
     Catalin)

   - initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

   - support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

   - pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace
     interface and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

   - for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still, we
     have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
     fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
     always worked).  And some optimizations too.

  The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
  that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (203 commits)
  KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Rework SLB switching code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use SLB entry 0
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix machine check delivery to guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix dirty map for hugepages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Put huge-page HPTEs in rmap chain for base address
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix check for running inside guest in global_invalidates()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed
  KVM: PPC: Add CAP to indicate hcall fixes
  KVM: PPC: MPIC: Reset IRQ source private members
  KVM: PPC: Graciously fail broken LE hypercalls
  PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Remove open coded make_dsisr in alignment handler
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Always use the saved DAR value
  PPC: KVM: Make NX bit available with magic page
  KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Add mixed page-size support for guest
  ...

MIPS: Export local_flush_icache_range for KVM

2014-05-30T10:59:28+00:00

Export the local_flush_icache_range function pointer for GPL modules so
that it can be used by KVM for syncing the icache after binary
translation of trapping instructions.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sanjay Lal 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

mips: export flush_icache_range

2014-04-18T23:40:09+00:00

The lkdtm module performs tests against executable memory ranges, so it
needs to flush the icache for proper behaviors.  Other architectures
already export this, so do the same for MIPS.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: relocate export sites]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Sanjay Lal 
Cc: John Crispin 
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MIPS: Extend DMA_MAYBE_COHERENT logic to DMA_NONCOHERENT use

2014-03-26T22:09:20+00:00

Setting DMA_MAYBE_COHERENT gives a platform the opportunity to select
use of cache ops at boot.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss 
Cc: Linux-MIPS 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6575/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

mips: delete non-required instances of include

2014-01-24T21:39:56+00:00

None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include .  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: John Crispin 
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6320/

MIPS: Delete cpuinit/CPUINIT usage from MIPS code

2013-07-14T23:36:51+00:00

commit 3747069b25e419f6b51395f48127e9812abc3596 upstream.

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

Here, we remove all the MIPS __cpuinit from C code and __CPUINIT
from asm files.  MIPS is interesting in this respect, because there
are also uasm users hiding behind their own renamed versions of the
__cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in Paul's followup fix.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5494/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5495/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5509/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle