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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include, branch v3.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mm/debug_pagealloc: fix build failure on ppc and some other archs</title>
<updated>2015-02-05T21:35:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T20:25:23+00:00</published>
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Kim Phillips reported following build failure.

  LD      init/built-in.o
  mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
  mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
  mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
  mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Reason for this problem is that commit 031bc5743f15
("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable")
forgot to remove the old declaration of kernel_map_pages() for some
architectures.  This patch removes them to fix build failure.

Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Kim Phillips reported following build failure.

  LD      init/built-in.o
  mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
  mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
  mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
  mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Reason for this problem is that commit 031bc5743f15
("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable")
forgot to remove the old declaration of kernel_map_pages() for some
architectures.  This patch removes them to fix build failure.

Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Work around gcc bug in current_thread_info()</title>
<updated>2015-01-12T05:40:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-08T04:30:08+00:00</published>
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In commit a3e5b356b3ab "powerpc: Don't use local named register variable
in current_thread_info" Anton changed the way we did current_thread_info()
to accommodate LLVM, and it was not meant to have any effect elsewhere.

Unfortunately it has exposed a gcc bug, where r1 gets copied into
another register and then gcc uses that register to restore the toc
after a function call, even when that register is volatile and has been
clobbered by the function call.

We could revert Anton's patch, but it's not clear the original code is
safe either, we may just have been lucky.

The cleanest solution is to just use the existing CURRENT_THREAD_INFO()
asm macro, and call it using inline asm.

Segher points out we don't need volatile on the asm, if the result of
the shift is unused it's fine for the compiler to elide it.

Fixes: a3e5b356b3ab ("powerpc: Don't use local named register variable in current_thread_info")
Reported-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In commit a3e5b356b3ab "powerpc: Don't use local named register variable
in current_thread_info" Anton changed the way we did current_thread_info()
to accommodate LLVM, and it was not meant to have any effect elsewhere.

Unfortunately it has exposed a gcc bug, where r1 gets copied into
another register and then gcc uses that register to restore the toc
after a function call, even when that register is volatile and has been
clobbered by the function call.

We could revert Anton's patch, but it's not clear the original code is
safe either, we may just have been lucky.

The cleanest solution is to just use the existing CURRENT_THREAD_INFO()
asm macro, and call it using inline asm.

Segher points out we don't need volatile on the asm, if the result of
the shift is unused it's fine for the compiler to elide it.

Fixes: a3e5b356b3ab ("powerpc: Don't use local named register variable in current_thread_info")
Reported-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kdump: Ignore failure in enabling big endian exception during crash</title>
<updated>2014-12-29T04:44:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T18:06:55+00:00</published>
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In LE kernel, we currently have a hack for kexec that resets the exception
endian before starting a new kernel as the kernel that is loaded could be a
big endian or a little endian kernel. In kdump case, resetting exception
endian fails when one or more cpus is disabled. But we can ignore the failure
and still go ahead, as in most cases crashkernel will be of same endianess
as primary kernel and reseting endianess is not even needed in those cases.
This patch adds a new inline function to say if this is kdump path. This
function is used at places where such a check is needed.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Rename to kdump_in_progress(), use bool, and edit comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In LE kernel, we currently have a hack for kexec that resets the exception
endian before starting a new kernel as the kernel that is loaded could be a
big endian or a little endian kernel. In kdump case, resetting exception
endian fails when one or more cpus is disabled. But we can ignore the failure
and still go ahead, as in most cases crashkernel will be of same endianess
as primary kernel and reseting endianess is not even needed in those cases.
This patch adds a new inline function to say if this is kdump path. This
function is used at places where such a check is needed.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Rename to kdump_in_progress(), use bool, and edit comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Wire up sys_execveat() syscall</title>
<updated>2014-12-29T04:44:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pranith Kumar</name>
<email>bobby.prani@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-21T13:59:32+00:00</published>
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Wire up sys_execveat(). This passes the selftests for the system call.

Check success of execveat(3, '../execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...ftests/exec/execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(99, '/home/pranith/linux/...ftests/exec/execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(8, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(17, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(9, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(14, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(14, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(15, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, '', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, '(null)', 4096) with EFAULT... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...xec/execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(10, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(10, '', 4352)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(6, 'execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check success of execveat(3, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...elftests/exec/script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(13, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(13, '', 4352)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(18, '', 4096) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(7, 'script', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check success of execveat(16, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(16, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(4, 'script', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'execveat', 65535) with EINVAL... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(6, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(-100, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'Makefile', 0) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(11, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(12, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(99, '', 4096) with EBADF... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(99, 'execveat', 0) with EBADF... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, 'execveat', 0) with ENOTDIR... [OK]
Invoke copy of 'execveat' via filename of length 4093:
Check success of execveat(19, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy', 0)... [OK]
Invoke copy of 'script' via filename of length 4093:
Check success of execveat(20, '', 4096)... [OK]
/bin/sh: 0: Can't open /dev/fd/5/xxxxxxx(... a long line of x's and y's, 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy', 0)... [OK]

Tested on a 32-bit powerpc system.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Wire up sys_execveat(). This passes the selftests for the system call.

Check success of execveat(3, '../execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...ftests/exec/execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(99, '/home/pranith/linux/...ftests/exec/execveat', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(8, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(17, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(9, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(14, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(14, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(15, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, '', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, '(null)', 4096) with EFAULT... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...xec/execveat.symlink', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(10, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(10, '', 4352)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(6, 'execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.symlink', 256) with ELOOP... [OK]
Check success of execveat(3, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(6, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(-100, '/home/pranith/linux/...elftests/exec/script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(13, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(13, '', 4352)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(18, '', 4096) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(7, 'script', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check success of execveat(16, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(16, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, 'script', 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(4, '../script', 0)... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(4, 'script', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'execveat', 65535) with EINVAL... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(6, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(-100, 'no-such-file', 0) with ENOENT... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(5, 'Makefile', 0) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(11, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(12, '', 4096) with EACCES... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(99, '', 4096) with EBADF... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(99, 'execveat', 0) with EBADF... [OK]
Check failure of execveat(8, 'execveat', 0) with ENOTDIR... [OK]
Invoke copy of 'execveat' via filename of length 4093:
Check success of execveat(19, '', 4096)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy', 0)... [OK]
Invoke copy of 'script' via filename of length 4093:
Check success of execveat(20, '', 4096)... [OK]
/bin/sh: 0: Can't open /dev/fd/5/xxxxxxx(... a long line of x's and y's, 0)... [OK]
Check success of execveat(5, 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy', 0)... [OK]

Tested on a 32-bit powerpc system.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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<title>powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types</title>
<updated>2014-12-18T08:11:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T16:52:51+00:00</published>
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:40+00:00</published>
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:50:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:39+00:00</published>
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:38+00:00</published>
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This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors.  The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory.  Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm-&gt;arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.

Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors.  The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory.  Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm-&gt;arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.

Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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