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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c, branch v4.9.129</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T06:18:25+00:00</published>
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Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T09:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T06:18:24+00:00</published>
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There is currently an inconsistency as to how the entire CPU register
state is saved and restored when a thread uses transactional memory
(TM).

Using transactional memory results in the CPU having duplicated
(almost) all of its register state. This duplication results in a set
of registers which can be considered 'live', those being currently
modified by the instructions being executed and another set that is
frozen at a point in time.

On context switch, both sets of state have to be saved and (later)
restored. These two states are often called a variety of different
things. Common terms for the state which only exists after the CPU has
entered a transaction (performed a TBEGIN instruction) in hardware are
'transactional' or 'speculative'.

Between a TBEGIN and a TEND or TABORT (or an event that causes the
hardware to abort), regardless of the use of TSUSPEND the
transactional state can be referred to as the live state.

The second state is often to referred to as the 'checkpointed' state
and is a duplication of the live state when the TBEGIN instruction is
executed. This state is kept in the hardware and will be rolled back
to on transaction failure.

Currently all the registers stored in pt_regs are ALWAYS the live
registers, that is, when a thread has transactional registers their
values are stored in pt_regs and the checkpointed state is in
ckpt_regs. A strange opposite is true for fp_state/vr_state. When a
thread is non transactional fp_state/vr_state holds the live
registers. When a thread has initiated a transaction fp_state/vr_state
holds the checkpointed state and transact_fp/transact_vr become the
structure which holds the live state (at this point it is a
transactional state).

This method creates confusion as to where the live state is, in some
circumstances it requires extra work to determine where to put the
live state and prevents the use of common functions designed (probably
before TM) to save the live state.

With this patch pt_regs, fp_state and vr_state all represent the
same thing and the other structures [pending rename] are for
checkpointed state.

Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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There is currently an inconsistency as to how the entire CPU register
state is saved and restored when a thread uses transactional memory
(TM).

Using transactional memory results in the CPU having duplicated
(almost) all of its register state. This duplication results in a set
of registers which can be considered 'live', those being currently
modified by the instructions being executed and another set that is
frozen at a point in time.

On context switch, both sets of state have to be saved and (later)
restored. These two states are often called a variety of different
things. Common terms for the state which only exists after the CPU has
entered a transaction (performed a TBEGIN instruction) in hardware are
'transactional' or 'speculative'.

Between a TBEGIN and a TEND or TABORT (or an event that causes the
hardware to abort), regardless of the use of TSUSPEND the
transactional state can be referred to as the live state.

The second state is often to referred to as the 'checkpointed' state
and is a duplication of the live state when the TBEGIN instruction is
executed. This state is kept in the hardware and will be rolled back
to on transaction failure.

Currently all the registers stored in pt_regs are ALWAYS the live
registers, that is, when a thread has transactional registers their
values are stored in pt_regs and the checkpointed state is in
ckpt_regs. A strange opposite is true for fp_state/vr_state. When a
thread is non transactional fp_state/vr_state holds the live
registers. When a thread has initiated a transaction fp_state/vr_state
holds the checkpointed state and transact_fp/transact_vr become the
structure which holds the live state (at this point it is a
transactional state).

This method creates confusion as to where the live state is, in some
circumstances it requires extra work to determine where to put the
live state and prevents the use of common functions designed (probably
before TM) to save the live state.

With this patch pt_regs, fp_state and vr_state all represent the
same thing and the other structures [pending rename] are for
checkpointed state.

Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: signals: Stop using current in signal code</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T05:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T06:18:12+00:00</published>
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Much of the signal code takes a pt_regs on which it operates. Over
time the signal code has needed to know more about the thread than
what pt_regs can supply, this information is obtained as needed by
using 'current'.

This approach is not strictly incorrect however it does mean that
there is now a hard requirement that the pt_regs being passed around
does belong to current, this is never checked. A safer approach is for
the majority of the signal functions to take a task_struct from which
they can obtain pt_regs and any other information they need. The
caveat that the task_struct they are passed must be current doesn't go
away but can more easily be checked for.

Functions called from outside powerpc signal code are passed a pt_regs
and they can confirm that the pt_regs is that of current and pass
current to other functions, furthurmore, powerpc signal functions can
check that the task_struct they are passed is the same as current
avoiding possible corruption of current (or the task they are passed)
if this assertion ever fails.

CC: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Much of the signal code takes a pt_regs on which it operates. Over
time the signal code has needed to know more about the thread than
what pt_regs can supply, this information is obtained as needed by
using 'current'.

This approach is not strictly incorrect however it does mean that
there is now a hard requirement that the pt_regs being passed around
does belong to current, this is never checked. A safer approach is for
the majority of the signal functions to take a task_struct from which
they can obtain pt_regs and any other information they need. The
caveat that the task_struct they are passed must be current doesn't go
away but can more easily be checked for.

Functions called from outside powerpc signal code are passed a pt_regs
and they can confirm that the pt_regs is that of current and pass
current to other functions, furthurmore, powerpc signal functions can
check that the task_struct they are passed is the same as current
avoiding possible corruption of current (or the task they are passed)
if this assertion ever fails.

CC: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Set used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path when MSR bits are active</title>
<updated>2016-09-13T07:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Guo</name>
<email>wei.guo.simon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T08:06:01+00:00</published>
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Normally, when MSR[VSX/VR/SPE] bits == 1, the used_vsr/used_vr/used_spe
bit have already been set. However when loading a signal frame from user
space we need to explicitly set used_vsr/used_vr/used_spe to make them
consistent with the MSR bits from the signal frame.

For example, CRIU application, who utilizes sigreturn to restore
checkpointed process, will lead to the case where MSR[VSX] bit is active
in signal frame, but used_vsr bit is not set in the kernel. (the same
applies to VR/SPE).

This patch fixes this by always setting used_* bit when MSR related bits
are active in signal frame and we are doing sigreturn.

Based on a proposal by Benh.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Massage change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Normally, when MSR[VSX/VR/SPE] bits == 1, the used_vsr/used_vr/used_spe
bit have already been set. However when loading a signal frame from user
space we need to explicitly set used_vsr/used_vr/used_spe to make them
consistent with the MSR bits from the signal frame.

For example, CRIU application, who utilizes sigreturn to restore
checkpointed process, will lead to the case where MSR[VSX] bit is active
in signal frame, but used_vsr bit is not set in the kernel. (the same
applies to VR/SPE).

This patch fixes this by always setting used_* bit when MSR related bits
are active in signal frame and we are doing sigreturn.

Based on a proposal by Benh.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Massage change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/sparse: Add more assembler prototypes</title>
<updated>2016-09-13T07:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-06T05:32:43+00:00</published>
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Another set of things that are only called from assembler and so need
prototypes to keep sparse happy.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Another set of things that are only called from assembler and so need
prototypes to keep sparse happy.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal frames</title>
<updated>2016-08-29T02:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-23T00:46:17+00:00</published>
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Userspace can begin and suspend a transaction within the signal
handler which means they might enter sys_rt_sigreturn() with the
processor in suspended state.

sys_rt_sigreturn() wants to restore process context (which may have
been in a transaction before signal delivery). To do this it must
restore TM SPRS. To achieve this, any transaction initiated within the
signal frame must be discarded in order to be able to restore TM SPRs
as TM SPRs can only be manipulated non-transactionally..
&gt;From the PowerPC ISA:
  TM Bad Thing Exception [Category: Transactional Memory]
   An attempt is made to execute a mtspr targeting a TM register in
   other than Non-transactional state.

Not doing so results in a TM Bad Thing:
[12045.221359] Kernel BUG at c000000000050a40 [verbose debug info unavailable]
[12045.221470] Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000050a40 (msr 0x201033)
[12045.221540] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
[12045.221586] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[12045.221634] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE
 nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc ebtable_filter
 ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_hv kvm
 uio_pdrv_genirq ipmi_powernv uio powernv_rng ipmi_msghandler autofs4 ses enclosure
 scsi_transport_sas bnx2x ipr mdio libcrc32c
[12045.222167] CPU: 68 PID: 6178 Comm: sigreturnpanic Not tainted 4.7.0 #34
[12045.222224] task: c0000000fce38600 ti: c0000000fceb4000 task.ti: c0000000fceb4000
[12045.222293] NIP: c000000000050a40 LR: c0000000000163bc CTR: 0000000000000000
[12045.222361] REGS: c0000000fceb7ac0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted (4.7.0)
[12045.222418] MSR: 9000000300201033 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]&gt; CR: 28444280  XER: 20000000
[12045.222625] CFAR: c0000000000163b8 SOFTE: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 900000014280f033
GPR00: 01100000b8000001 c0000000fceb7d40 c00000000139c100 c0000000fce390d0
GPR04: 900000034280f033 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000000000 b000000000001033 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002926400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 00003ffff98cadd0 00003ffff98cb470 0000000000000000
GPR28: 900000034280f033 c0000000fceb7ea0 0000000000000001 c0000000fce390d0
[12045.223535] NIP [c000000000050a40] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
[12045.223584] LR [c0000000000163bc] tm_recheckpoint+0x5c/0xa0
[12045.223630] Call Trace:
[12045.223655] [c0000000fceb7d80] [c000000000026e74] sys_rt_sigreturn+0x494/0x6c0
[12045.223738] [c0000000fceb7e30] [c0000000000092e0] system_call+0x38/0x108
[12045.223806] Instruction dump:
[12045.223841] 7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
[12045.223955] 4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 &lt;7c0223a6&gt; e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020
[12045.224074] ---[ end trace cb8002ee240bae76 ]---

It isn't clear exactly if there is really a use case for userspace
returning with a suspended transaction, however, doing so doesn't (on
its own) constitute a bad frame. As such, this patch simply discards
the transactional state of the context calling the sigreturn and
continues.

Reported-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Userspace can begin and suspend a transaction within the signal
handler which means they might enter sys_rt_sigreturn() with the
processor in suspended state.

sys_rt_sigreturn() wants to restore process context (which may have
been in a transaction before signal delivery). To do this it must
restore TM SPRS. To achieve this, any transaction initiated within the
signal frame must be discarded in order to be able to restore TM SPRs
as TM SPRs can only be manipulated non-transactionally..
&gt;From the PowerPC ISA:
  TM Bad Thing Exception [Category: Transactional Memory]
   An attempt is made to execute a mtspr targeting a TM register in
   other than Non-transactional state.

Not doing so results in a TM Bad Thing:
[12045.221359] Kernel BUG at c000000000050a40 [verbose debug info unavailable]
[12045.221470] Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000050a40 (msr 0x201033)
[12045.221540] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
[12045.221586] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[12045.221634] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE
 nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc ebtable_filter
 ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_hv kvm
 uio_pdrv_genirq ipmi_powernv uio powernv_rng ipmi_msghandler autofs4 ses enclosure
 scsi_transport_sas bnx2x ipr mdio libcrc32c
[12045.222167] CPU: 68 PID: 6178 Comm: sigreturnpanic Not tainted 4.7.0 #34
[12045.222224] task: c0000000fce38600 ti: c0000000fceb4000 task.ti: c0000000fceb4000
[12045.222293] NIP: c000000000050a40 LR: c0000000000163bc CTR: 0000000000000000
[12045.222361] REGS: c0000000fceb7ac0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted (4.7.0)
[12045.222418] MSR: 9000000300201033 &lt;SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]&gt; CR: 28444280  XER: 20000000
[12045.222625] CFAR: c0000000000163b8 SOFTE: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 900000014280f033
GPR00: 01100000b8000001 c0000000fceb7d40 c00000000139c100 c0000000fce390d0
GPR04: 900000034280f033 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000000000 b000000000001033 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002926400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 00003ffff98cadd0 00003ffff98cb470 0000000000000000
GPR28: 900000034280f033 c0000000fceb7ea0 0000000000000001 c0000000fce390d0
[12045.223535] NIP [c000000000050a40] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
[12045.223584] LR [c0000000000163bc] tm_recheckpoint+0x5c/0xa0
[12045.223630] Call Trace:
[12045.223655] [c0000000fceb7d80] [c000000000026e74] sys_rt_sigreturn+0x494/0x6c0
[12045.223738] [c0000000fceb7e30] [c0000000000092e0] system_call+0x38/0x108
[12045.223806] Instruction dump:
[12045.223841] 7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
[12045.223955] 4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 &lt;7c0223a6&gt; e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020
[12045.224074] ---[ end trace cb8002ee240bae76 ]---

It isn't clear exactly if there is really a use case for userspace
returning with a suspended transaction, however, doing so doesn't (on
its own) constitute a bad frame. As such, this patch simply discards
the transactional state of the context calling the sigreturn and
continues.

Reported-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Simon Guo &lt;wei.guo.simon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.4-3' into next</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T09:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-14T09:40:32+00:00</published>
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Merge the two TM fixes we merged in 4.4. We are about to merge selftests
for these, and without the fixes the selftests will oops.

powerpc fixes for 4.4 #2

 - tm: Block signal return from setting invalid MSR state from Michael Neuling
 - tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks from Michael Neuling
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Merge the two TM fixes we merged in 4.4. We are about to merge selftests
for these, and without the fixes the selftests will oops.

powerpc fixes for 4.4 #2

 - tm: Block signal return from setting invalid MSR state from Michael Neuling
 - tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks from Michael Neuling
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move part of giveup_vsx into c</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:44:02+00:00</published>
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Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly
function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them
up.

Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*()
function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform
more like their sister functions, and allows us to use
flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly
function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them
up.

Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*()
function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform
more like their sister functions, and allows us to use
flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Remove UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2015-10-29T00:43:57+00:00</published>
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The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written
back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector
instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector
instructions and gcc autovectorises.

We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but
in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written
back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector
instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector
instructions and gcc autovectorises.

We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but
in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/tm: Block signal return setting invalid MSR state</title>
<updated>2015-11-23T09:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T04:44:44+00:00</published>
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Currently we allow both the MSR T and S bits to be set by userspace on
a signal return.  Unfortunately this is a reserved configuration and
will cause a TM Bad Thing exception if attempted (via rfid).

This patch checks for this case in both the 32 and 64 bit signals
code.  If both T and S are set, we mark the context as invalid.

Found using a syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: 2b0a576d15e0 ("powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently we allow both the MSR T and S bits to be set by userspace on
a signal return.  Unfortunately this is a reserved configuration and
will cause a TM Bad Thing exception if attempted (via rfid).

This patch checks for this case in both the 32 and 64 bit signals
code.  If both T and S are set, we mark the context as invalid.

Found using a syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: 2b0a576d15e0 ("powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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