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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T17:55:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-06-30T17:55:34+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Hopefully the last two powerpc fixes for 4.12.

  The CXL one is larger than I'd usually send at rc7, but it fixes new
  code this cycle, so better to have it working for the release. It was
  actually sent a few weeks back but got blocked in testing behind
  another fix that was causing issues.

  We are still tracking one crash in v4.12-rc7, but only one person has
  reproduced it and the commit identified by bisect doesn't touch any of
  the relevant code, so I think it's 50/50 whether that commit is
  actually the problem or it's some code layout / toolchain issue.

  Two fixes for code we merged this cycle:

   - cxl: Fixes for Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0

   - Avoid miscompilation w/GCC 4.6.3 on 32-bit - don't inline
     copy_to/from_user()

  Thanks to Al Viro, Larry Finger, Christophe Lombard"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/32: Avoid miscompilation w/GCC 4.6.3 - don't inline copy_to/from_user()
  cxl: Fixes for Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Hopefully the last two powerpc fixes for 4.12.

  The CXL one is larger than I'd usually send at rc7, but it fixes new
  code this cycle, so better to have it working for the release. It was
  actually sent a few weeks back but got blocked in testing behind
  another fix that was causing issues.

  We are still tracking one crash in v4.12-rc7, but only one person has
  reproduced it and the commit identified by bisect doesn't touch any of
  the relevant code, so I think it's 50/50 whether that commit is
  actually the problem or it's some code layout / toolchain issue.

  Two fixes for code we merged this cycle:

   - cxl: Fixes for Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0

   - Avoid miscompilation w/GCC 4.6.3 on 32-bit - don't inline
     copy_to/from_user()

  Thanks to Al Viro, Larry Finger, Christophe Lombard"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/32: Avoid miscompilation w/GCC 4.6.3 - don't inline copy_to/from_user()
  cxl: Fixes for Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0
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<entry>
<title>arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved_pc()</title>
<updated>2017-06-28T23:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-28T13:30:02+00:00</published>
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The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
sched_show_task()").  Remove the implementations as well.

Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code.
Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
sched_show_task()").  Remove the implementations as well.

Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code.
Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/32: Avoid miscompilation w/GCC 4.6.3 - don't inline copy_to/from_user()</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T13:25:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-26T01:30:57+00:00</published>
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Larry Finger reported that his Powerbook G4 was no longer booting with v4.12-rc,
userspace was up but giving weird errors such as:

  udevd[64]: starting version 175
  udevd[64]: Unable to receive ctrl message: Bad address.
  modprobe: chdir(4.12-rc1): No such file or directory

He bisected the problem to commit 3448890c32c3 ("powerpc: get rid of zeroing,
switch to RAW_COPY_USER").

Al identified that the problem is actually a miscompilation by GCC 4.6.3, which
is exposed by the above commit.

Al also pointed out that inlining copy_to/from_user() is probably of little or
no benefit, which is correct. Using Anton's copy_to_user benchmark, with a
pathological single byte copy, we see a small increase in performance
by *removing* inlining:

  Before (inlined):
  # time ./copy_to_user -w -l 1 -i 10000000	( x 3 )
  real	0m22.063s
  real	0m22.059s
  real	0m22.076s

  After:
  # time ./copy_to_user -w -l 1 -i 10000000	( x 3 )
  real	0m21.325s
  real	0m21.299s
  real	0m21.364s

So as a small performance improvement and to avoid the miscompilation, drop
inlining copy_to/from_user() on 32-bit.

Fixes: 3448890c32c3 ("powerpc: get rid of zeroing, switch to RAW_COPY_USER")
Reported-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Larry Finger reported that his Powerbook G4 was no longer booting with v4.12-rc,
userspace was up but giving weird errors such as:

  udevd[64]: starting version 175
  udevd[64]: Unable to receive ctrl message: Bad address.
  modprobe: chdir(4.12-rc1): No such file or directory

He bisected the problem to commit 3448890c32c3 ("powerpc: get rid of zeroing,
switch to RAW_COPY_USER").

Al identified that the problem is actually a miscompilation by GCC 4.6.3, which
is exposed by the above commit.

Al also pointed out that inlining copy_to/from_user() is probably of little or
no benefit, which is correct. Using Anton's copy_to_user benchmark, with a
pathological single byte copy, we see a small increase in performance
by *removing* inlining:

  Before (inlined):
  # time ./copy_to_user -w -l 1 -i 10000000	( x 3 )
  real	0m22.063s
  real	0m22.059s
  real	0m22.076s

  After:
  # time ./copy_to_user -w -l 1 -i 10000000	( x 3 )
  real	0m21.325s
  real	0m21.299s
  real	0m21.364s

So as a small performance improvement and to avoid the miscompilation, drop
inlining copy_to/from_user() on 32-bit.

Fixes: 3448890c32c3 ("powerpc: get rid of zeroing, switch to RAW_COPY_USER")
Reported-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kprobes: Skip livepatch_handler() for jprobes</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T09:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-01T10:48:17+00:00</published>
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ftrace_caller() depends on a modified regs-&gt;nip to detect if a certain
function has been livepatched. However, with KPROBES_ON_FTRACE, it is
possible for regs-&gt;nip to have been modified by the kprobes pre_handler
(jprobes, for instance). In this case, we do not want to invoke the
livepatch_handler so as not to consume the livepatch stack.

To distinguish between the two (kprobes and livepatch), we check if
there is an active kprobe on the current function. If there is, then we
know for sure that it must have modified the NIP as we don't support
livepatching a kprobe'd function. In this case, we simply skip the
livepatch_handler and branch to the new NIP. Otherwise, the
livepatch_handler is invoked.

Fixes: ead514d5fb30 ("powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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ftrace_caller() depends on a modified regs-&gt;nip to detect if a certain
function has been livepatched. However, with KPROBES_ON_FTRACE, it is
possible for regs-&gt;nip to have been modified by the kprobes pre_handler
(jprobes, for instance). In this case, we do not want to invoke the
livepatch_handler so as not to consume the livepatch stack.

To distinguish between the two (kprobes and livepatch), we check if
there is an active kprobe on the current function. If there is, then we
know for sure that it must have modified the NIP as we don't support
livepatching a kprobe'd function. In this case, we simply skip the
livepatch_handler and branch to the new NIP. Otherwise, the
livepatch_handler is invoked.

Fixes: ead514d5fb30 ("powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/debug: Add missing warn flag to WARN_ON's non-builtin path</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T06:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Kardashevskiy</name>
<email>aik@ozlabs.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-14T03:01:25+00:00</published>
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When trapped on WARN_ON(), report_bug() is expected to return
BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN so the caller will increment NIP by 4 and continue.
The __builtin_constant_p() path of the PPC's WARN_ON()
calls (indirectly) __WARN_FLAGS() which has BUGFLAG_WARNING set,
however the other branch does not which makes report_bug() report a
bug rather than a warning.

Fixes: f26dee15103f ("debug: Avoid setting BUGFLAG_WARNING twice")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When trapped on WARN_ON(), report_bug() is expected to return
BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN so the caller will increment NIP by 4 and continue.
The __builtin_constant_p() path of the PPC's WARN_ON()
calls (indirectly) __WARN_FLAGS() which has BUGFLAG_WARNING set,
however the other branch does not which makes report_bug() report a
bug rather than a warning.

Fixes: f26dee15103f ("debug: Avoid setting BUGFLAG_WARNING twice")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xive: Fix offset for store EOI MMIOs</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T13:29:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-14T00:19:25+00:00</published>
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Architecturally we should apply a 0x400 offset for these. Not doing
it will break future HW implementations.

The offset of 0 is supposed to remain for "triggers" though not all
sources support both trigger and store EOI, and in P9 specifically,
some sources will treat 0 as a store EOI. But future chips will not.
So this makes us use the properly architected offset which should work
always.

Fixes: 243e25112d06 ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Architecturally we should apply a 0x400 offset for these. Not doing
it will break future HW implementations.

The offset of 0 is supposed to remain for "triggers" though not all
sources support both trigger and store EOI, and in P9 specifically,
some sources will treat 0 as a store EOI. But future chips will not.
So this makes us use the properly architected offset which should work
always.

Fixes: 243e25112d06 ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T10:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-01T14:35:04+00:00</published>
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Supporting 512TB requires us to do a order 3 allocation for level 1 page
table (pgd). This results in page allocation failures with certain workloads.
For now limit 4k linux page size config to 64TB.

Fixes: f6eedbba7a26 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB")
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Supporting 512TB requires us to do a order 3 allocation for level 1 page
table (pgd). This results in page allocation failures with certain workloads.
For now limit 4k linux page size config to 64TB.

Fixes: f6eedbba7a26 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB")
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware</title>
<updated>2017-06-06T11:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-06T10:23:57+00:00</published>
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In commit 8c272261194d ("powerpc/numa: Enable USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID"), we
switched to the generic implementation of cpu_to_node(), which uses a percpu
variable to hold the NUMA node for each CPU.

Unfortunately we neglected to notice that we use cpu_to_node() in the allocation
of our percpu areas, leading to a chicken and egg problem. In practice what
happens is when we are setting up the percpu areas, cpu_to_node() reports that
all CPUs are on node 0, so we allocate all percpu areas on node 0.

This is visible in the dmesg output, as all pcpu allocs being in group 0:

  pcpu-alloc: [0] 00 01 02 03 [0] 04 05 06 07
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 08 09 10 11 [0] 12 13 14 15
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 16 17 18 19 [0] 20 21 22 23
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 24 25 26 27 [0] 28 29 30 31
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 32 33 34 35 [0] 36 37 38 39
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 40 41 42 43 [0] 44 45 46 47

To fix it we need an early_cpu_to_node() which can run prior to percpu being
setup. We already have the numa_cpu_lookup_table we can use, so just plumb it
in. With the patch dmesg output shows two groups, 0 and 1:

  pcpu-alloc: [0] 00 01 02 03 [0] 04 05 06 07
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 08 09 10 11 [0] 12 13 14 15
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 16 17 18 19 [0] 20 21 22 23
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 24 25 26 27 [1] 28 29 30 31
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 32 33 34 35 [1] 36 37 38 39
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 40 41 42 43 [1] 44 45 46 47

We can also check the data_offset in the paca of various CPUs, with the fix we
see:

  CPU 0:  data_offset = 0x0ffe8b0000
  CPU 24: data_offset = 0x1ffe5b0000

And we can see from dmesg that CPU 24 has an allocation on node 1:

  node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000fffffffff]
  node   1: [mem 0x0000001000000000-0x0000001fffffffff]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Fixes: 8c272261194d ("powerpc/numa: Enable USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In commit 8c272261194d ("powerpc/numa: Enable USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID"), we
switched to the generic implementation of cpu_to_node(), which uses a percpu
variable to hold the NUMA node for each CPU.

Unfortunately we neglected to notice that we use cpu_to_node() in the allocation
of our percpu areas, leading to a chicken and egg problem. In practice what
happens is when we are setting up the percpu areas, cpu_to_node() reports that
all CPUs are on node 0, so we allocate all percpu areas on node 0.

This is visible in the dmesg output, as all pcpu allocs being in group 0:

  pcpu-alloc: [0] 00 01 02 03 [0] 04 05 06 07
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 08 09 10 11 [0] 12 13 14 15
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 16 17 18 19 [0] 20 21 22 23
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 24 25 26 27 [0] 28 29 30 31
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 32 33 34 35 [0] 36 37 38 39
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 40 41 42 43 [0] 44 45 46 47

To fix it we need an early_cpu_to_node() which can run prior to percpu being
setup. We already have the numa_cpu_lookup_table we can use, so just plumb it
in. With the patch dmesg output shows two groups, 0 and 1:

  pcpu-alloc: [0] 00 01 02 03 [0] 04 05 06 07
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 08 09 10 11 [0] 12 13 14 15
  pcpu-alloc: [0] 16 17 18 19 [0] 20 21 22 23
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 24 25 26 27 [1] 28 29 30 31
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 32 33 34 35 [1] 36 37 38 39
  pcpu-alloc: [1] 40 41 42 43 [1] 44 45 46 47

We can also check the data_offset in the paca of various CPUs, with the fix we
see:

  CPU 0:  data_offset = 0x0ffe8b0000
  CPU 24: data_offset = 0x1ffe5b0000

And we can see from dmesg that CPU 24 has an allocation on node 1:

  node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000fffffffff]
  node   1: [mem 0x0000001000000000-0x0000001fffffffff]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Fixes: 8c272261194d ("powerpc/numa: Enable USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE</title>
<updated>2017-06-01T09:56:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-25T06:33:52+00:00</published>
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We are running low on CPU feature bits, so we only want to use them when
it's really necessary.

CPU_FTR_SUBCORE is only used in one place, and only in C, so we don't
need it in order to make asm patching work. It can only be set on
"Power8" CPUs, which in practice means POWER8, POWER8E and POWER8NVL.
There are no plans to implement it on future CPUs, but if there ever
were we could retrofit it then.

Although KVM uses subcores, it never looks at the CPU feature, it either
looks at the ISA level or the threads_per_subcore value.

So drop the CPU feature and do a PVR check instead. Drop the device tree
"subcore" feature as we no longer support doing anything with it, and we
will drop it from skiboot too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We are running low on CPU feature bits, so we only want to use them when
it's really necessary.

CPU_FTR_SUBCORE is only used in one place, and only in C, so we don't
need it in order to make asm patching work. It can only be set on
"Power8" CPUs, which in practice means POWER8, POWER8E and POWER8NVL.
There are no plans to implement it on future CPUs, but if there ever
were we could retrofit it then.

Although KVM uses subcores, it never looks at the CPU feature, it either
looks at the ISA level or the threads_per_subcore value.

So drop the CPU feature and do a PVR check instead. Drop the device tree
"subcore" feature as we no longer support doing anything with it, and we
will drop it from skiboot too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/mm: Fix virt_addr_valid() etc. on 64-bit hash</title>
<updated>2017-05-19T03:04:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2017-05-18T10:37:31+00:00</published>
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virt_addr_valid() is supposed to tell you if it's OK to call virt_to_page() on
an address. What this means in practice is that it should only return true for
addresses in the linear mapping which are backed by a valid PFN.

We are failing to properly check that the address is in the linear mapping,
because virt_to_pfn() will return a valid looking PFN for more or less any
address. That bug is actually caused by __pa(), used in virt_to_pfn().

eg: __pa(0xc000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Good
    __pa(0xd000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Bad!
    __pa(0x0000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Bad!

This started happening after commit bdbc29c19b26 ("powerpc: Work around gcc
miscompilation of __pa() on 64-bit") (Aug 2013), where we changed the definition
of __pa() to work around a GCC bug. Prior to that we subtracted PAGE_OFFSET from
the value passed to __pa(), meaning __pa() of a 0xd or 0x0 address would give
you something bogus back.

Until we can verify if that GCC bug is no longer an issue, or come up with
another solution, this commit does the minimal fix to make virt_addr_valid()
work, by explicitly checking that the address is in the linear mapping region.

Fixes: bdbc29c19b26 ("powerpc: Work around gcc miscompilation of __pa() on 64-bit")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Breno Leitao &lt;breno.leitao@gmail.com&gt;
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virt_addr_valid() is supposed to tell you if it's OK to call virt_to_page() on
an address. What this means in practice is that it should only return true for
addresses in the linear mapping which are backed by a valid PFN.

We are failing to properly check that the address is in the linear mapping,
because virt_to_pfn() will return a valid looking PFN for more or less any
address. That bug is actually caused by __pa(), used in virt_to_pfn().

eg: __pa(0xc000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Good
    __pa(0xd000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Bad!
    __pa(0x0000000000010000) = 0x10000  # Bad!

This started happening after commit bdbc29c19b26 ("powerpc: Work around gcc
miscompilation of __pa() on 64-bit") (Aug 2013), where we changed the definition
of __pa() to work around a GCC bug. Prior to that we subtracted PAGE_OFFSET from
the value passed to __pa(), meaning __pa() of a 0xd or 0x0 address would give
you something bogus back.

Until we can verify if that GCC bug is no longer an issue, or come up with
another solution, this commit does the minimal fix to make virt_addr_valid()
work, by explicitly checking that the address is in the linear mapping region.

Fixes: bdbc29c19b26 ("powerpc: Work around gcc miscompilation of __pa() on 64-bit")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Breno Leitao &lt;breno.leitao@gmail.com&gt;
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