linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm, branch v4.2-rc8

powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions

2015-06-19T07:10:28+00:00

This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/include: Add opal-prd to installed uapi headers

2015-06-17T21:16:02+00:00

We'll want to build the opal-prd daemon with the prd headers, so include
this in the uapi headers list.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/powernv: Add opal-prd channel

2015-06-04T22:32:21+00:00

This change adds a char device to access the "PRD" (processor runtime
diagnostics) channel to OPAL firmware.

Includes contributions from Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Neelesh Gupta &
Vishal Kulkarni.

Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr 
Acked-by: Stewart Smith 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/eeh: Introduce eeh_pe_inject_err()

2015-05-12T10:33:35+00:00

The patch defines PCI error types and functions in uapi/asm/eeh.h
and exports function eeh_pe_inject_err(), which will be called by
VFIO driver to inject the specified PCI error to the indicated
PE for testing purpose.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/eeh: Move PE state constants around

2015-05-12T10:33:35+00:00

There are two equivalent sets of PE state constants, defined in
arch/powerpc/include/asm/eeh.h and include/uapi/linux/vfio.h.
Though the names are different, their corresponding values are
exactly same. The former is used by EEH core and the latter is
used by userspace.

The patch moves those constants from arch/powerpc/include/asm/eeh.h
to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/eeh.h, which are expected to be
used by userspace from now on. We can't delete those constants in
vfio.h as it's uncertain that those constants have been or will be
used by userspace.

Suggested-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Revert "powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions"

2015-04-30T05:24:58+00:00

This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.

Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.

Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.

Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.

So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.

NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.

Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-04-17T13:04:38+00:00

Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc things

 - a couple of lib/ optimisations

 - provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL()

 - checkpatch updates

 - rtc tree

 - befs, nilfs2, hfs, hfsplus, fatfs, adfs, affs, bfs

 - ptrace fixes

 - fork() fixes

 - seccomp cleanups

 - more mmap_sem hold time reductions from Davidlohr

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (138 commits)
  proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X
  docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos
  drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: make IO endian agnostic
  Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c: fix warning
  drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: allow usage on device type different than main MFD type
  .gitignore: ignore *.tar
  MAINTAINERS: add Mediatek SoC mailing list
  tomoyo: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm->exe_file
  powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file
  oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm->exe_file
  mips: ip32: add platform data hooks to use DS1685 driver
  lib/Kconfig: fix up HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE help text
  x86: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  sparc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  powerpc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  parisc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  mips: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  microblaze: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  arm: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  seccomp: allow COMPAT sigreturn overrides
  ...

powerpc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h

2015-04-17T13:04:10+00:00

Switch to using the newly created asm-generic/seccomp.h for the seccomp
strict mode syscall definitions.  The obsolete sigreturn in COMPAT mode is
retained as an override.  Remaining definitions are identical, though they
incorrectly appeared in uapi, which has been corrected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions

2015-04-11T10:49:19+00:00

This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff 
Acked-By: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Add a proper syscall for switching endianness

2015-03-28T11:03:40+00:00

We currently have a "special" syscall for switching endianness. This is
syscall number 0x1ebe, which is handled explicitly in the 64-bit syscall
exception entry.

That has a few problems, firstly the syscall number is outside of the
usual range, which confuses various tools. For example strace doesn't
recognise the syscall at all.

Secondly it's handled explicitly as a special case in the syscall
exception entry, which is complicated enough without it.

As a first step toward removing the special syscall, we need to add a
regular syscall that implements the same functionality.

The logic is simple, it simply toggles the MSR_LE bit in the userspace
MSR. This is the same as the special syscall, with the caveat that the
special syscall clobbers fewer registers.

This version clobbers r9-r12, XER, CTR, and CR0-1,5-7.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman