linux-toradex.git/arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S, branch v4.4.89

parisc: Add Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support

2015-11-22T11:23:10+00:00

This patch adds huge page support to allow userspace to allocate huge
pages and to use hugetlbfs filesystem on 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels.
A later patch will add kernel support to map kernel text and data on
huge pages.

The only requirement is, that the kernel needs to be compiled for a
PA8X00 CPU (PA2.0 architecture). Older PA1.X CPUs do not support
variable page sizes. 64bit Kernels are compiled for PA2.0 by default.

Technically on parisc multiple physical huge pages may be needed to
emulate standard 2MB huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Initialize the fault vector earlier in the boot process.

2015-11-22T11:22:43+00:00

A fault vector on parisc needs to be 2K aligned.  Furthermore the
checksum of the fault vector needs to sum up to 0 which is being
calculated and written at runtime.

Up to now we aligned both PA20 and PA11 fault vectors on the same 4K
page in order to easily write the checksum after having mapped the
kernel read-only (by mapping this page only as read-write).
But when we want to map the kernel text and data on huge pages this
makes things harder.
So, simplify it by aligning both fault vectors on 2K boundries and write
the checksum before we map the page read-only.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Fix some PTE/TLB race conditions and optimize __flush_tlb_range based on timing results

2015-07-10T19:47:47+00:00

The increased use of pdtlb/pitlb instructions seemed to increase the
frequency of random segmentation faults building packages. Further, we
had a number of cases where TLB inserts would repeatedly fail and all
forward progress would stop. The Haskell ghc package caused a lot of
trouble in this area. The final indication of a race in pte handling was
this syslog entry on sibaris (C8000):

 swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000004
 BUG: Bad page map in process mysqld  pte:00000100 pmd:019bbec5
 addr:00000000ec464000 vm_flags:00100073 anon_vma:0000000221023828 mapping: (null) index:ec464
 CPU: 1 PID: 9176 Comm: mysqld Not tainted 4.0.0-2-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.0.5-1
 Backtrace:
  [<0000000040173eb0>] show_stack+0x20/0x38
  [<0000000040444424>] dump_stack+0x9c/0x110
  [<00000000402a0d38>] print_bad_pte+0x1a8/0x278
  [<00000000402a28b8>] unmap_single_vma+0x3d8/0x770
  [<00000000402a4090>] zap_page_range+0xf0/0x198
  [<00000000402ba2a4>] SyS_madvise+0x404/0x8c0

Note that the pte value is 0 except for the accessed bit 0x100. This bit
shouldn't be set without the present bit.

It should be noted that the madvise system call is probably a trigger for many
of the random segmentation faults.

In looking at the kernel code, I found the following problems:

1) The pte_clear define didn't take TLB lock when clearing a pte.
2) We didn't test pte present bit inside lock in exception support.
3) The pte and tlb locks needed to merged in order to ensure consistency
between page table and TLB. This also has the effect of serializing TLB
broadcasts on SMP systems.

The attached change implements the above and a few other tweaks to try
to improve performance. Based on the timing code, TLB purges are very
slow (e.g., ~ 209 cycles per page on rp3440). Thus, I think it
beneficial to test the split_tlb variable to avoid duplicate purges.
Probably, all PA 2.0 machines have combined TLBs.

I dropped using __flush_tlb_range in flush_tlb_mm as I realized all
applications and most threads have a stack size that is too large to
make this useful. I added some comments to this effect.

Since implementing 1 through 3, I haven't had any random segmentation
faults on mx3210 (rp3440) in about one week of building code and running
as a Debian buildd.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level

2015-04-14T23:49:02+00:00

We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

parisc: hpux - Remove hpux gateway page

2015-02-16T21:35:06+00:00

Drop code to create HP-UX gateway page and syscall entry code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: make interrupt and interruption stack allocation reentrant

2013-05-24T20:35:36+00:00

The get_stack_use_cr30 and get_stack_use_r30 macros allocate a stack
frame for external interrupts and interruptions requiring a stack frame.
They are currently not reentrant in that they save register context
before the stack is set or adjusted.

I have observed a number of system crashes where there was clear
evidence of stack corruption during interrupt processing, and as a
result register corruption. Some interruptions can still occur during
interruption processing, however external interrupts are disabled and
data TLB misses don't occur for absolute accesses. So, it's not entirely
clear what triggers this issue. Also, if an interruption occurs when
Q=0, it is generally not possible to recover as the shadowed registers
are not copied.

The attached patch reworks the get_stack_use_cr30 and get_stack_use_r30
macros to allocate stack before doing register saves. The new code is a
couple of instructions shorter than the old implementation. Thus, it's
an improvement even if it doesn't fully resolve the stack corruption
issue. Based on limited testing, it improves SMP system stability.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: fix SMP races when updating PTE and TLB entries in entry.S

2013-05-11T19:13:04+00:00

Currently, race conditions exist in the handling of TLB interruptions in
entry.S.  In particular, dirty bit updates can be lost if an accessed
interruption occurs just after the dirty bit interruption on a different
cpu.  Lost dirty bit updates result in user pages not being flushed and
general system instability.  This change adds lock and unlock macros to
synchronize all PTE and TLB updates done in entry.S.  As a result,
userspace stability is significantly improved.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: implement irq stacks

2013-05-07T20:30:35+00:00

Default kernel stack size on parisc is 16k.  During tests we found that the
kernel stack can easily grow beyond 13k, which leaves 3k left for irq
processing.

This patch adds the possibility to activate an additional stack of 16k per CPU
which is being used during irq processing.  This implementation does not yet
uses this irq stack for the irq bh handler.

The assembler code for call_on_stack was heavily cleaned up by John
David Anglin.

CC: John David Anglin 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: only re-enable interrupts if we need to schedule or deliver signals when returning to userspace

2013-05-07T18:33:03+00:00

Helge and I have found that we have a kernel stack overflow problem
which causes a variety of random failures.
Currently, we re-enable interrupts when returning from an external
interrupt incase we need to schedule or delivery
signals.  As a result, a potentially unlimited number of interrupts
can occur while we are running on the kernel
stack.  It is very limited in space (currently, 16k).  This change
defers enabling interrupts until we have
actually decided to schedule or delivery signals.  This only occurs
when we about to return to userspace.  This
limits the number of interrupts on the kernel stack to one.  In other
cases, interrupts remain disabled until the
final return from interrupt (rfi).

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: use long branch in fork_like macro

2013-05-06T21:09:48+00:00

The "b" branch instruction used in the fork_like macro only can handle
17-bit pc-relative offsets.
This fails with an out of range offset with some .config files.
Rewrite to use the "be" instruction which
can branch to any address in a space.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller