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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c, branch v5.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: rtas_busy_delay_time() kernel-doc</title>
<updated>2021-11-25T00:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-17T06:02:59+00:00</published>
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Provide API documentation for rtas_busy_delay_time(), explaining why we
return the same value for 9900 and -2.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117060259.957178-3-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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Provide API documentation for rtas_busy_delay_time(), explaining why we
return the same value for 9900 and -2.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117060259.957178-3-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: rtas_busy_delay() improvements</title>
<updated>2021-11-25T00:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-17T06:02:58+00:00</published>
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Generally RTAS cannot block, and in PAPR it is required to return control
to the OS within a few tens of microseconds. In order to support operations
which may take longer to complete, many RTAS primitives can return
intermediate -2 ("busy") or 990x ("extended delay") values, which indicate
that the OS should reattempt the same call with the same arguments at some
point in the future.

Current versions of PAPR are less than clear about this, but the intended
meanings of these values in more detail are:

RTAS_BUSY (-2): RTAS has suspended a potentially long-running operation in
order to meet its latency obligation and give the OS the opportunity to
perform other work. RTAS can resume making progress as soon as the OS
reattempts the call.

RTAS_EXTENDED_DELAY_{MIN...MAX} (9900-9905): RTAS must wait for an external
event to occur or for internal contention to resolve before it can complete
the requested operation. The value encodes a non-binding hint as to roughly
how long the OS should wait before calling again, but the OS is allowed to
reattempt the call sooner or even immediately.

Linux of course must take its own CPU scheduling obligations into account
when handling these statuses; e.g. a task which receives an RTAS_BUSY
status should check whether to reschedule before it attempts the RTAS call
again to avoid starving other tasks.

rtas_busy_delay() is a helper function that "consumes" a busy or extended
delay status. Common usage:

    int rc;

    do {
        rc = rtas_call(rtas_token("some-function"), ...);
    } while (rtas_busy_delay(rc));

    /* convert rc to Linux error value, etc */

If rc is a busy or extended delay status, the caller can rely on
rtas_busy_delay() to perform an appropriate sleep or reschedule and return
nonzero. Other statuses are handled normally by the caller.

The current implementation of rtas_busy_delay() both oversleeps and
overuses the CPU:

*  It performs msleep() for all 990x and even when no delay is
   suggested (-2), but this is understood to actually sleep for two jiffies
   minimum in practice (20ms with HZ=100). 9900 (1ms) and 9901 (10ms)
   appear to be the most common extended delay statuses, and the
   oversleeping measurably lengthens DLPAR operations, which perform
   many RTAS calls.

*  It does not sleep on 990x unless need_resched() is true, causing code
   like the loop above to needlessly retry, wasting CPU time.

Alter the logic to align better with the intended meanings:

*  When passed RTAS_BUSY, perform cond_resched() and return without
   sleeping. The caller should reattempt immediately

*  Always sleep when passed an extended delay status, using usleep_range()
   for precise shorter sleeps. Limit the sleep time to one second even
   though there are higher architected values.

Change rtas_busy_delay()'s return type to bool to better reflect its usage,
and add kernel-doc.

rtas_busy_delay_time() is unchanged, even though it "incorrectly" returns 1
for RTAS_BUSY. There are users of that API with open-coded delay loops in
sensitive contexts that will have to be taken on an individual basis.

Brief results for addition and removal of 5GB memory on a small P9 PowerVM
partition follow. Load was generated with stress-ng --cpu N. For add,
elapsed time is greatly reduced without significant change in the number of
RTAS calls or time spent on CPU. For remove, elapsed time is modestly
reduced, with significant reductions in RTAS calls and time spent on CPU.

With no competing workload (- before, + after):

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory add count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             1,935      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.22% )
-            609.99 msec task-clock                #    0.183 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.19% )
+             1,956      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.17% )
+            618.56 msec task-clock                #    0.278 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.11% )

-            3.3322 +- 0.0670 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  2.01% )
+            2.2222 +- 0.0416 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.87% )

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory remove count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             6,224      probe:rtas_call           #    0.008 M/sec                    ( +-  2.57% )
-            750.36 msec task-clock                #    0.190 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.01% )
+               843      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
+            250.66 msec task-clock                #    0.068 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.17% )

-            3.9394 +- 0.0890 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  2.26% )
+             3.678 +- 0.113 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  3.07% )

With all CPUs 100% busy (- before, + after):

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory add count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             2,979      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
-          1,096.62 msec task-clock                #    0.105 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.10% )
+             2,981      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.22% )
+          1,095.26 msec task-clock                #    0.154 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.21% )

-            10.476 +- 0.104 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.00% )
+            7.1124 +- 0.0865 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.22% )

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory remove count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             2,702      probe:rtas_call           #    0.004 M/sec                    ( +-  4.00% )
-            722.71 msec task-clock                #    0.067 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.41% )
+             1,246      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.25% )
+            487.73 msec task-clock                #    0.049 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.20% )

-            10.829 +- 0.163 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.51% )
+            9.9887 +- 0.0866 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.87% )

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117060259.957178-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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Generally RTAS cannot block, and in PAPR it is required to return control
to the OS within a few tens of microseconds. In order to support operations
which may take longer to complete, many RTAS primitives can return
intermediate -2 ("busy") or 990x ("extended delay") values, which indicate
that the OS should reattempt the same call with the same arguments at some
point in the future.

Current versions of PAPR are less than clear about this, but the intended
meanings of these values in more detail are:

RTAS_BUSY (-2): RTAS has suspended a potentially long-running operation in
order to meet its latency obligation and give the OS the opportunity to
perform other work. RTAS can resume making progress as soon as the OS
reattempts the call.

RTAS_EXTENDED_DELAY_{MIN...MAX} (9900-9905): RTAS must wait for an external
event to occur or for internal contention to resolve before it can complete
the requested operation. The value encodes a non-binding hint as to roughly
how long the OS should wait before calling again, but the OS is allowed to
reattempt the call sooner or even immediately.

Linux of course must take its own CPU scheduling obligations into account
when handling these statuses; e.g. a task which receives an RTAS_BUSY
status should check whether to reschedule before it attempts the RTAS call
again to avoid starving other tasks.

rtas_busy_delay() is a helper function that "consumes" a busy or extended
delay status. Common usage:

    int rc;

    do {
        rc = rtas_call(rtas_token("some-function"), ...);
    } while (rtas_busy_delay(rc));

    /* convert rc to Linux error value, etc */

If rc is a busy or extended delay status, the caller can rely on
rtas_busy_delay() to perform an appropriate sleep or reschedule and return
nonzero. Other statuses are handled normally by the caller.

The current implementation of rtas_busy_delay() both oversleeps and
overuses the CPU:

*  It performs msleep() for all 990x and even when no delay is
   suggested (-2), but this is understood to actually sleep for two jiffies
   minimum in practice (20ms with HZ=100). 9900 (1ms) and 9901 (10ms)
   appear to be the most common extended delay statuses, and the
   oversleeping measurably lengthens DLPAR operations, which perform
   many RTAS calls.

*  It does not sleep on 990x unless need_resched() is true, causing code
   like the loop above to needlessly retry, wasting CPU time.

Alter the logic to align better with the intended meanings:

*  When passed RTAS_BUSY, perform cond_resched() and return without
   sleeping. The caller should reattempt immediately

*  Always sleep when passed an extended delay status, using usleep_range()
   for precise shorter sleeps. Limit the sleep time to one second even
   though there are higher architected values.

Change rtas_busy_delay()'s return type to bool to better reflect its usage,
and add kernel-doc.

rtas_busy_delay_time() is unchanged, even though it "incorrectly" returns 1
for RTAS_BUSY. There are users of that API with open-coded delay loops in
sensitive contexts that will have to be taken on an individual basis.

Brief results for addition and removal of 5GB memory on a small P9 PowerVM
partition follow. Load was generated with stress-ng --cpu N. For add,
elapsed time is greatly reduced without significant change in the number of
RTAS calls or time spent on CPU. For remove, elapsed time is modestly
reduced, with significant reductions in RTAS calls and time spent on CPU.

With no competing workload (- before, + after):

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory add count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             1,935      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.22% )
-            609.99 msec task-clock                #    0.183 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.19% )
+             1,956      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.17% )
+            618.56 msec task-clock                #    0.278 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.11% )

-            3.3322 +- 0.0670 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  2.01% )
+            2.2222 +- 0.0416 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.87% )

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory remove count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             6,224      probe:rtas_call           #    0.008 M/sec                    ( +-  2.57% )
-            750.36 msec task-clock                #    0.190 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.01% )
+               843      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
+            250.66 msec task-clock                #    0.068 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.17% )

-            3.9394 +- 0.0890 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  2.26% )
+             3.678 +- 0.113 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  3.07% )

With all CPUs 100% busy (- before, + after):

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory add count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             2,979      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
-          1,096.62 msec task-clock                #    0.105 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.10% )
+             2,981      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.22% )
+          1,095.26 msec task-clock                #    0.154 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.21% )

-            10.476 +- 0.104 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.00% )
+            7.1124 +- 0.0865 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.22% )

  Performance counter stats for 'bash -c echo "memory remove count 20" &gt; /sys/kernel/dlpar' (10 runs):

-             2,702      probe:rtas_call           #    0.004 M/sec                    ( +-  4.00% )
-            722.71 msec task-clock                #    0.067 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.41% )
+             1,246      probe:rtas_call           #    0.003 M/sec                    ( +-  0.25% )
+            487.73 msec task-clock                #    0.049 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.20% )

-            10.829 +- 0.163 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.51% )
+            9.9887 +- 0.0866 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.87% )

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117060259.957178-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: kernel-doc fixes</title>
<updated>2021-11-25T00:25:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-16T21:58:06+00:00</published>
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Fix the following issues reported by kernel-doc:

$ scripts/kernel-doc -v -none arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:810: info: Scanning doc for function rtas_activate_firmware
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:818: warning: contents before sections
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:841: info: Scanning doc for function rtas_call_reentrant
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:893: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Find a specific pseries error log in an RTAS extended event log.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116215806.928235-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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Fix the following issues reported by kernel-doc:

$ scripts/kernel-doc -v -none arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:810: info: Scanning doc for function rtas_activate_firmware
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:818: warning: contents before sections
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:841: info: Scanning doc for function rtas_call_reentrant
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:893: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Find a specific pseries error log in an RTAS extended event log.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116215806.928235-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>isystem: ship and use stdarg.h</title>
<updated>2021-08-19T00:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T20:40:32+00:00</published>
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Ship minimal stdarg.h (1 type, 4 macros) as &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt;.
stdarg.h is the only userspace header commonly used in the kernel.

GPL 2 version of &lt;stdarg.h&gt; can be extracted from
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.2/gcc-4.2_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Ship minimal stdarg.h (1 type, 4 macros) as &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt;.
stdarg.h is the only userspace header commonly used in the kernel.

GPL 2 version of &lt;stdarg.h&gt; can be extracted from
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.2/gcc-4.2_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still valid</title>
<updated>2021-06-24T14:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-17T15:51:03+00:00</published>
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When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where
it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return
address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers
when returning from interrupt.

Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR
registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when
using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when
adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context
switching (which changes the return address and MSR).

This improves the performance of interrupt returns.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com

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When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where
it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return
address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers
when returning from interrupt.

Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR
registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when
using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when
adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context
switching (which changes the return address and MSR).

This improves the performance of interrupt returns.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: rename RTAS_RMOBUF_MAX to RTAS_USER_REGION_SIZE</title>
<updated>2021-04-14T13:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T14:06:30+00:00</published>
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RTAS_RMOBUF_MAX doesn't actually describe a "maximum" value in any
sense. It represents the size of an area of memory set aside for user
space to use as work areas for certain RTAS calls.

Rename it to RTAS_USER_REGION_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-6-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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RTAS_RMOBUF_MAX doesn't actually describe a "maximum" value in any
sense. It represents the size of an area of memory set aside for user
space to use as work areas for certain RTAS calls.

Rename it to RTAS_USER_REGION_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-6-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: move syscall filter setup into separate function</title>
<updated>2021-04-14T13:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T14:06:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0649cdc8237943c15fc977e96033dc8ae28cc2bd'/>
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Reduce conditionally compiled sections within rtas_initialize() by
moving the filter table initialization into its own function already
guarded by CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER. No behavior change intended.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-5-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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Reduce conditionally compiled sections within rtas_initialize() by
moving the filter table initialization into its own function already
guarded by CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER. No behavior change intended.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-5-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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<title>powerpc/rtas: remove ibm_suspend_me_token</title>
<updated>2021-04-14T13:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T14:06:28+00:00</published>
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There's not a compelling reason to cache the value of the token for
the ibm,suspend-me function. Just look it up when needed in the RTAS
syscall's special case for it.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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There's not a compelling reason to cache the value of the token for
the ibm,suspend-me function. Just look it up when needed in the RTAS
syscall's special case for it.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408140630.205502-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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<title>powerpc/rtas: Fix typo of ibm,open-errinjct in RTAS filter</title>
<updated>2020-12-09T02:36:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tyrel Datwyler</name>
<email>tyreld@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-08T19:54:34+00:00</published>
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Commit bd59380c5ba4 ("powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace")
introduced the following error when invoking the errinjct userspace
tool:

  [root@ltcalpine2-lp5 librtas]# errinjct open
  [327884.071171] sys_rtas: RTAS call blocked - exploit attempt?
  [327884.071186] sys_rtas: token=0x26, nargs=0 (called by errinjct)
  errinjct: Could not open RTAS error injection facility
  errinjct: librtas: open: Unexpected I/O error

The entry for ibm,open-errinjct in rtas_filter array has a typo where
the "j" is omitted in the rtas call name. After fixing this typo the
errinjct tool functions again as expected.

  [root@ltcalpine2-lp5 linux]# errinjct open
  RTAS error injection facility open, token = 1

Fixes: bd59380c5ba4 ("powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201208195434.8289-1-tyreld@linux.ibm.com
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Commit bd59380c5ba4 ("powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace")
introduced the following error when invoking the errinjct userspace
tool:

  [root@ltcalpine2-lp5 librtas]# errinjct open
  [327884.071171] sys_rtas: RTAS call blocked - exploit attempt?
  [327884.071186] sys_rtas: token=0x26, nargs=0 (called by errinjct)
  errinjct: Could not open RTAS error injection facility
  errinjct: librtas: open: Unexpected I/O error

The entry for ibm,open-errinjct in rtas_filter array has a typo where
the "j" is omitted in the rtas call name. After fixing this typo the
errinjct tool functions again as expected.

  [root@ltcalpine2-lp5 linux]# errinjct open
  RTAS error injection facility open, token = 1

Fixes: bd59380c5ba4 ("powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201208195434.8289-1-tyreld@linux.ibm.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: remove unused rtas_suspend_last_cpu()</title>
<updated>2020-12-08T10:41:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-07T21:51:55+00:00</published>
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rtas_suspend_last_cpu() is now unused, remove it and
__rtas_suspend_last_cpu() which also becomes unused.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201207215200.1785968-24-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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rtas_suspend_last_cpu() is now unused, remove it and
__rtas_suspend_last_cpu() which also becomes unused.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201207215200.1785968-24-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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