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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/mm, branch v3.18.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: tlbex: Fix potential HTW race on TLBL/M/S handlers</title>
<updated>2014-11-27T16:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonid Yegoshin</name>
<email>Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-27T11:13:08+00:00</published>
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There is a potential race when probing the TLB in TLBL/M/S exception
handlers for a matching entry. Between the time we hit a TLBL/S/M
exception and the time we get to execute the TLBP instruction, the
HTW may have replaced the TLB entry we are interested in hence the TLB
probe may fail. However, in the existing handlers, we never checked the
status of the TLBP (ie check the result in the C0/Index register). We
fix this by adding such a check when the core implements the HTW. If
we couldn't find a matching entry, we return back and try again.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8599/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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There is a potential race when probing the TLB in TLBL/M/S exception
handlers for a matching entry. Between the time we hit a TLBL/S/M
exception and the time we get to execute the TLBP instruction, the
HTW may have replaced the TLB entry we are interested in hence the TLB
probe may fail. However, in the existing handlers, we never checked the
status of the TLBP (ie check the result in the C0/Index register). We
fix this by adding such a check when the core implements the HTW. If
we couldn't find a matching entry, we return back and try again.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8599/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: tlb-r4k: Add missing HTW stop/start sequences</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T17:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-17T09:31:07+00:00</published>
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HTW needs to stop and start again whenever the EntryHI register
changes otherwise an inflight HTW operation might use the new
EntryHI register for updating an old entry and that could lead
to crashes or even a machine check exception. We fix this by
ensuring the HTW has stop whenever the EntryHI register is about
to change

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8511/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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HTW needs to stop and start again whenever the EntryHI register
changes otherwise an inflight HTW operation might use the new
EntryHI register for updating an old entry and that could lead
to crashes or even a machine check exception. We fix this by
ensuring the HTW has stop whenever the EntryHI register is about
to change

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8511/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler</title>
<updated>2014-10-22T17:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>david.daney@cavium.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T22:34:23+00:00</published>
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In commit 8393c524a25609 (MIPS: tlbex: Fix a missing statement for
HUGETLB), the TLB Refill handler was fixed so that non-OCTEON targets
would work properly with huge pages.  The change was incorrect in that
it broke the OCTEON case.

The problem is shown here:

    xxx0:	df7a0000 	ld	k0,0(k1)
    .
    .
    .
    xxxc0:	df610000 	ld	at,0(k1)
    xxxc4:	335a0ff0 	andi	k0,k0,0xff0
    xxxc8:	e825ffcd 	bbit1	at,0x5,0x0
    xxxcc:	003ad82d 	daddu	k1,at,k0
    .
    .
    .

In the non-octeon case there is a destructive test for the huge PTE
bit, and then at 0, $k0 is reloaded (that is what the 8393c524a25609
patch added).

In the octeon case, we modify k1 in the branch delay slot, but we
never need k0 again, so the new load is not needed, but since k1 is
modified, if we do the load, we load from a garbage location and then
get a nested TLB Refill, which is seen in userspace as either SIGBUS
or SIGSEGV (depending on the garbage).

The real fix is to only do this reloading if it is needed, and never
where it is harmful.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8151/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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In commit 8393c524a25609 (MIPS: tlbex: Fix a missing statement for
HUGETLB), the TLB Refill handler was fixed so that non-OCTEON targets
would work properly with huge pages.  The change was incorrect in that
it broke the OCTEON case.

The problem is shown here:

    xxx0:	df7a0000 	ld	k0,0(k1)
    .
    .
    .
    xxxc0:	df610000 	ld	at,0(k1)
    xxxc4:	335a0ff0 	andi	k0,k0,0xff0
    xxxc8:	e825ffcd 	bbit1	at,0x5,0x0
    xxxcc:	003ad82d 	daddu	k1,at,k0
    .
    .
    .

In the non-octeon case there is a destructive test for the huge PTE
bit, and then at 0, $k0 is reloaded (that is what the 8393c524a25609
patch added).

In the octeon case, we modify k1 in the branch delay slot, but we
never need k0 again, so the new load is not needed, but since k1 is
modified, if we do the load, we load from a garbage location and then
get a nested TLB Refill, which is seen in userspace as either SIGBUS
or SIGSEGV (depending on the garbage).

The real fix is to only do this reloading if it is needed, and never
where it is harmful.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8151/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2014-10-18T21:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-18T21:24:36+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the MIPS pull request for the next kernel:

   - Zubair's patch series adds CMA support for MIPS.  Doing so it also
     touches ARM64 and x86.
   - remove the last instance of IRQF_DISABLED from arch/mips
   - updates to two of the MIPS defconfig files.
   - cleanup of how cache coherency bits are handled on MIPS and
     implement support for write-combining.
   - platform upgrades for Alchemy
   - move MIPS DTS files to arch/mips/boot/dts/"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (24 commits)
  MIPS: ralink: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  MIPS: pgtable.h: Implement the pgprot_writecombine function for MIPS
  MIPS: cpu-probe: Set the write-combine CCA value on per core basis
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Define the CCA bit for WC writes on Ingenic cores
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Move the CCA bits out of the core's ifdef blocks
  MIPS: DMA: Add cma support
  x86: use generic dma-contiguous.h
  arm64: use generic dma-contiguous.h
  asm-generic: Add dma-contiguous.h
  MIPS: BPF: Add new emit_long_instr macro
  MIPS: ralink: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Netlogic: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: sead3: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Lantiq: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Octeon: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Add support for building device-tree binaries
  MIPS: Create common infrastructure for building built-in device-trees
  MIPS: SEAD3: Enable DEVTMPFS
  MIPS: SEAD3: Regenerate defconfigs
  MIPS: Alchemy: DB1300: Add touch penirq support
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the MIPS pull request for the next kernel:

   - Zubair's patch series adds CMA support for MIPS.  Doing so it also
     touches ARM64 and x86.
   - remove the last instance of IRQF_DISABLED from arch/mips
   - updates to two of the MIPS defconfig files.
   - cleanup of how cache coherency bits are handled on MIPS and
     implement support for write-combining.
   - platform upgrades for Alchemy
   - move MIPS DTS files to arch/mips/boot/dts/"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (24 commits)
  MIPS: ralink: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  MIPS: pgtable.h: Implement the pgprot_writecombine function for MIPS
  MIPS: cpu-probe: Set the write-combine CCA value on per core basis
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Define the CCA bit for WC writes on Ingenic cores
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Move the CCA bits out of the core's ifdef blocks
  MIPS: DMA: Add cma support
  x86: use generic dma-contiguous.h
  arm64: use generic dma-contiguous.h
  asm-generic: Add dma-contiguous.h
  MIPS: BPF: Add new emit_long_instr macro
  MIPS: ralink: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Netlogic: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: sead3: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Lantiq: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Octeon: Move device-trees to arch/mips/boot/dts/
  MIPS: Add support for building device-tree binaries
  MIPS: Create common infrastructure for building built-in device-trees
  MIPS: SEAD3: Enable DEVTMPFS
  MIPS: SEAD3: Regenerate defconfigs
  MIPS: Alchemy: DB1300: Add touch penirq support
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-09-22T18:58:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-22T18:58:23+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Two very simple bugfixes, affecting all supported architectures"

[ Two? There's three commits in here.  Oh well, I guess Paolo didn't
  count the preparatory symbol export ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
  KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
  mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Two very simple bugfixes, affecting all supported architectures"

[ Two? There's three commits in here.  Oh well, I guess Paolo didn't
  count the preparatory symbol export ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
  KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
  mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: DMA: Add cma support</title>
<updated>2014-09-22T11:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel</name>
<email>Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-16T15:51:32+00:00</published>
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Adds cma support to the MIPS architecture.

cma uses memblock. However, mips uses bootmem.
bootmem is informed about any regions reserved by memblock

dma api is modified to use cma reserved memory regions when available

Tested using cma_test. cma_test is a simple driver that assigns blocks
of memory from cma reserved sections.

Signed-off-by: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel &lt;Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: m.szyprowski@samsung.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7360/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Adds cma support to the MIPS architecture.

cma uses memblock. However, mips uses bootmem.
bootmem is informed about any regions reserved by memblock

dma api is modified to use cma reserved memory regions when available

Tested using cma_test. cma_test is a simple driver that assigns blocks
of memory from cma reserved sections.

Signed-off-by: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel &lt;Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: m.szyprowski@samsung.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7360/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()</title>
<updated>2014-09-14T14:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-12T20:17:23+00:00</published>
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In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove race window in page fault handling</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T11:31:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Persson</name>
<email>lars.persson@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T13:47:48+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;larper@axis.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7511/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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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 &lt;larper@axis.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7511/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch '3.16-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-01T22:07:03+00:00</published>
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<title>MIPS: Initialise MAARs</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2014-07-14T09:32:15+00:00</published>
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Add initialisation for Memory Accessibility Attribute Registers. Generic
code cannot know the platform-specific requirements with regards to
speculative accesses, so it simply calls a platform_maar_init function
which platforms with MAARs are expected to implement by calling the
provided write_maar_pair function &amp; returning the number of MAAR pairs
used. A weak default implementation will simply use no MAAR pairs. Any
present but unused MAAR pairs are then marked invalid, effectively
disabling them.

The end result of this patch is that MAARs are all marked invalid, until
platforms implement the platform_maar_init function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7331/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Add initialisation for Memory Accessibility Attribute Registers. Generic
code cannot know the platform-specific requirements with regards to
speculative accesses, so it simply calls a platform_maar_init function
which platforms with MAARs are expected to implement by calling the
provided write_maar_pair function &amp; returning the number of MAAR pairs
used. A weak default implementation will simply use no MAAR pairs. Any
present but unused MAAR pairs are then marked invalid, effectively
disabling them.

The end result of this patch is that MAARs are all marked invalid, until
platforms implement the platform_maar_init function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7331/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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