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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:09:08+00:00</published>
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commit a048a07d7f4535baa4cbad6bc024f175317ab938 upstream.

On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a048a07d7f4535baa4cbad6bc024f175317ab938 upstream.

On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move default security feature flags</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauricio Faria de Oliveira</name>
<email>mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:09:05+00:00</published>
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commit e7347a86830f38dc3e40c8f7e28c04412b12a2e7 upstream.

This moves the definition of the default security feature flags
(i.e., enabled by default) closer to the security feature flags.

This can be used to restore current flags to the default flags.

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e7347a86830f38dc3e40c8f7e28c04412b12a2e7 upstream.

This moves the definition of the default security feature flags
(i.e., enabled by default) closer to the security feature flags.

This can be used to restore current flags to the default flags.

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Move cpu_show_meltdown()</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:08:58+00:00</published>
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commit 8ad33041563a10b34988800c682ada14b2612533 upstream.

This landed in setup_64.c for no good reason other than we had nowhere
else to put it. Now that we have a security-related file, that is a
better place for it so move it.

[mpe: Add extern for rfi_flush to fix bisection break]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8ad33041563a10b34988800c682ada14b2612533 upstream.

This landed in setup_64.c for no good reason other than we had nowhere
else to put it. Now that we have a security-related file, that is a
better place for it so move it.

[mpe: Add extern for rfi_flush to fix bisection break]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:08:55+00:00</published>
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commit 9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f upstream.

This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e3d1329ae7f upstream.

This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.

The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.

Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
least). So for now just make them separate flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Add new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:08:54+00:00</published>
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commit c4bc36628d7f8b664657d8bd6ad1c44c177880b7 upstream.

Add some additional values which have been defined for the
H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c4bc36628d7f8b664657d8bd6ad1c44c177880b7 upstream.

Add some additional values which have been defined for the
H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rfi-flush: Make it possible to call setup_rfi_flush() again</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T11:08:50+00:00</published>
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commit abf110f3e1cea40f5ea15e85f5d67c39c14568a7 upstream.

For PowerVM migration we want to be able to call setup_rfi_flush()
again after we've migrated the partition.

To support that we need to check that we're not trying to allocate the
fallback flush area after memblock has gone away (i.e., boot-time only).

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit abf110f3e1cea40f5ea15e85f5d67c39c14568a7 upstream.

For PowerVM migration we want to be able to call setup_rfi_flush()
again after we've migrated the partition.

To support that we need to check that we're not trying to allocate the
fallback flush area after memblock has gone away (i.e., boot-time only).

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add missing prototype for arch_irq_work_raise()</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Malaterre</name>
<email>malat@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-25T17:22:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f5246862f82f1e16bbf84cda4cddf287672b30fe ]

In commit 4f8b50bbbe63 ("irq_work, ppc: Fix up arch hooks") a new
function arch_irq_work_raise() was added without a prototype in header
irq_work.h.

Fix the following warning (treated as error in W=1):
  arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:523:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘arch_irq_work_raise’

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f5246862f82f1e16bbf84cda4cddf287672b30fe ]

In commit 4f8b50bbbe63 ("irq_work, ppc: Fix up arch hooks") a new
function arch_irq_work_raise() was added without a prototype in header
irq_work.h.

Fix the following warning (treated as error in W=1):
  arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:523:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘arch_irq_work_raise’

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour</title>
<updated>2018-05-19T08:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-24T07:31:05+00:00</published>
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commit 30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3 upstream.

There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3 upstream.

There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry loops</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:34:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T11:49:31+00:00</published>
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commit 34dd25de9fe3f60bfdb31b473bf04b28262d0896 upstream.

This is the start of an effort to tidy up and standardise all the
delays. Existing loops have a range of delay/sleep periods from 1ms
to 20ms, and some have no delay. They all loop forever except rtc,
which times out after 10 retries, and that uses 10ms delays. So use
10ms as our standard delay. The OPAL maintainer agrees 10ms is a
reasonable starting point.

The idea is to use the same recipe everywhere, once this is proven to
work then it will be documented as an OPAL API standard. Then both
firmware and OS can agree, and if a particular call needs something
else, then that can be documented with reasoning.

This is not the end-all of this effort, it's just a relatively easy
change that fixes some existing high latency delays. There should be
provision for standardising timeouts and/or interruptible loops where
possible, so non-fatal firmware errors don't cause hangs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 34dd25de9fe3f60bfdb31b473bf04b28262d0896 upstream.

This is the start of an effort to tidy up and standardise all the
delays. Existing loops have a range of delay/sleep periods from 1ms
to 20ms, and some have no delay. They all loop forever except rtc,
which times out after 10 retries, and that uses 10ms delays. So use
10ms as our standard delay. The OPAL maintainer agrees 10ms is a
reasonable starting point.

The idea is to use the same recipe everywhere, once this is proven to
work then it will be documented as an OPAL API standard. Then both
firmware and OS can agree, and if a particular call needs something
else, then that can be documented with reasoning.

This is not the end-all of this effort, it's just a relatively easy
change that fixes some existing high latency delays. There should be
provision for standardising timeouts and/or interruptible loops where
possible, so non-fatal firmware errors don't cause hangs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Fix smp_wmb barrier definition use use lwsync consistently</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:34:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T10:41:46+00:00</published>
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commit 0bfdf598900fd62869659f360d3387ed80eb71cf upstream.

asm/barrier.h is not always included after asm/synch.h, which meant
it was missing __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC, so in some files smp_wmb() would
be eieio when it should be lwsync. kernel/time/hrtimer.c is one case.

__SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC is only used in one place, so just fold it in
to where it's used. Previously with my small simulator config, 377
instances of eieio in the tree. After this patch there are 55.

Fixes: 46d075be585e ("powerpc: Optimise smp_wmb")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.29+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0bfdf598900fd62869659f360d3387ed80eb71cf upstream.

asm/barrier.h is not always included after asm/synch.h, which meant
it was missing __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC, so in some files smp_wmb() would
be eieio when it should be lwsync. kernel/time/hrtimer.c is one case.

__SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC is only used in one place, so just fold it in
to where it's used. Previously with my small simulator config, 377
instances of eieio in the tree. After this patch there are 55.

Fixes: 46d075be585e ("powerpc: Optimise smp_wmb")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.29+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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