linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v3.4.73 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules powerpc/signals: Improved mark VSX not saved with small contexts fix 2013-12-04T18:50:33+00:00 Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org 2013-11-25T00:12:20+00:00 df29bdd478affb8d81620e43e70635bef110a20e commit ec67ad82814bee92251fd963bf01c7a173856555 upstream. In a recent patch: commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 Author: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch was merged. Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit this issue (but has never been reported). Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to. The new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the state). This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution. It also adds a 64 bit version. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit ec67ad82814bee92251fd963bf01c7a173856555 upstream.

In a recent patch:
  commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42
  Author: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch
was merged.

Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit
this issue (but has never been reported).

Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to.  The
new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the
context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when
VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the
state).

This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution.  It
also adds a 64 bit version.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts 2013-11-29T18:50:36+00:00 Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org 2013-11-20T05:18:54+00:00 6beceb767ed86175601237fb3f2d2ff9678fca86 commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 upstream. The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX state. Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage. Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state, we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit. This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide enough space. This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user context. This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use VSX but only provide a small context. For example, getcontext in glibc provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over the glibc function call. But since the program calling getcontext may have used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not. If the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context. This situation has been reported by the glibc community. Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell. Tested-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 upstream.

The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX
state.  Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage.

Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state,
we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit.

This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide
enough space.  This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user
context.

This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use
VSX but only provide a small context.  For example, getcontext in glibc
provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over
the glibc function call.  But since the program calling getcontext may have
used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not.  If
the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without
VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context.  This situation
has been reported by the glibc community.

Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell.

Tested-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show 2013-11-29T18:50:36+00:00 Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com 2013-10-17T12:00:11+00:00 49aa69febe1dc8643e2d75ffcdf9504337fe4f7e commit 411cabf79e684171669ad29a0628c400b4431e95 upstream. Commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 used strcat instead of strcpy which can result in an overflow of newlines on the buffer. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 411cabf79e684171669ad29a0628c400b4431e95 upstream.

Commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 used strcat instead of
strcpy which can result in an overflow of newlines on the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc/vio: Fix modalias_show return values 2013-10-13T22:42:48+00:00 Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com 2013-09-23T13:33:36+00:00 ff9c3c0a26b973735037843a7446d5fcc5e52ef0 commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 upstream. modalias_show() should return an empty string on error, not -ENODEV. This causes the following false and annoying error: > find /sys/devices -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat >/dev/null cat: /sys/devices/vio/4000/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4001/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4002/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4004/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/modalias: No such device Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 upstream.

modalias_show() should return an empty string on error, not -ENODEV.

This causes the following false and annoying error:

> find /sys/devices -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat >/dev/null
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4000/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4001/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4002/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4004/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/modalias: No such device

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table() 2013-10-13T22:42:48+00:00 Nishanth Aravamudan nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2013-10-01T21:04:53+00:00 e6629f15623d31e21775a1e5c28b8d5bd6559506 commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream. Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table(): page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz)); if (!page) panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz); Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2 allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths, but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate. With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to reproduce the panic. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 1cf389df090194a0976dc867b7fffe99d9d490cb upstream.

Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table():

	page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz));
	if (!page)
		panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz);

Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2
allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the
ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of
iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC
allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL
allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we
are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths,
but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate.

With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to
reproduce the panic.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc: Handle unaligned ldbrx/stdbrx 2013-09-27T00:15:30+00:00 Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org 2013-08-06T16:01:19+00:00 774620ba0d5c80f92d9949a54a029cf41b116c57 commit 230aef7a6a23b6166bd4003bfff5af23c9bd381f upstream. Normally when we haven't implemented an alignment handler for a load or store instruction the process will be terminated. The alignment handler uses the DSISR (or a pseudo one) to locate the right handler. Unfortunately ldbrx and stdbrx overlap lfs and stfs so we incorrectly think ldbrx is an lfs and stdbrx is an stfs. This bug is particularly nasty - instead of terminating the process we apply an incorrect fixup and continue on. With more and more overlapping instructions we should stop creating a pseudo DSISR and index using the instruction directly, but for now add a special case to catch ldbrx/stdbrx. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 230aef7a6a23b6166bd4003bfff5af23c9bd381f upstream.

Normally when we haven't implemented an alignment handler for
a load or store instruction the process will be terminated.

The alignment handler uses the DSISR (or a pseudo one) to locate
the right handler. Unfortunately ldbrx and stdbrx overlap lfs and
stfs so we incorrectly think ldbrx is an lfs and stdbrx is an
stfs.

This bug is particularly nasty - instead of terminating the
process we apply an incorrect fixup and continue on.

With more and more overlapping instructions we should stop
creating a pseudo DSISR and index using the instruction directly,
but for now add a special case to catch ldbrx/stdbrx.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues 2013-08-04T08:25:55+00:00 Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org 2013-07-15T04:04:50+00:00 ef445a321016a464e32b1b4d581efa61706b12cf commit 0e0ed6406e61434d3f38fb58aa8464ec4722b77e upstream. Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to the calculated CRC. Unfortunately the ppc64 relocatable kernel sees these CRCs as symbols that need relocating and relocates them at boot. Commit d4703aef (module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) added a hook to reverse the bogus relocations. Part of this patch created a symbol at 0x0: # head -2 /proc/kallsyms 0000000000000000 T reloc_start c000000000000000 T .__start This reloc_start symbol is causing lots of confusion to perf. It thinks reloc_start is a massive function that stretches from 0x0 to 0xc000000000000000 and we get various cryptic errors out of perf, including: problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event This patch removes the reloc_start linker script label and instead defines it as PHYSICAL_START. We also need to wrap it with CONFIG_PPC64 because the ppc32 kernel can set a non zero PHYSICAL_START at compile time and we wouldn't want to subtract it from the CRCs in that case. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 0e0ed6406e61434d3f38fb58aa8464ec4722b77e upstream.

Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by
a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an
unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates
the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to
the calculated CRC.

Unfortunately the ppc64 relocatable kernel sees these CRCs as symbols
that need relocating and relocates them at boot. Commit d4703aef
(module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)
added a hook to reverse the bogus relocations. Part of this patch
created a symbol at 0x0:

# head -2 /proc/kallsyms
0000000000000000 T reloc_start
c000000000000000 T .__start

This reloc_start symbol is causing lots of confusion to perf. It
thinks reloc_start is a massive function that stretches from 0x0 to
0xc000000000000000 and we get various cryptic errors out of perf,
including:

problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event

This patch removes the  reloc_start linker script label and instead
defines it as PHYSICAL_START. We also need to wrap it with
CONFIG_PPC64 because the ppc32 kernel can set a non zero
PHYSICAL_START at compile time and we wouldn't want to subtract
it from the CRCs in that case.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc: Fix missing/delayed calls to irq_work 2013-06-20T18:58:47+00:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org 2013-06-15T02:13:40+00:00 05266fa348c3a30a3fef2c2993ca73e28b17232f commit 230b3034793247f61e6a0b08c44cf415f6d92981 upstream. When replaying interrupts (as a result of the interrupt occurring while soft-disabled), in the case of the decrementer, we are exclusively testing for a pending timer target. However we also use decrementer interrupts to trigger the new "irq_work", which in this case would be missed. This change the logic to force a replay in both cases of a timer boundary reached and a decrementer interrupt having actually occurred while disabled. The former test is still useful to catch cases where a CPU having been hard-disabled for a long time completely misses the interrupt due to a decrementer rollover. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 230b3034793247f61e6a0b08c44cf415f6d92981 upstream.

When replaying interrupts (as a result of the interrupt occurring
while soft-disabled), in the case of the decrementer, we are exclusively
testing for a pending timer target. However we also use decrementer
interrupts to trigger the new "irq_work", which in this case would
be missed.

This change the logic to force a replay in both cases of a timer
boundary reached and a decrementer interrupt having actually occurred
while disabled. The former test is still useful to catch cases where
a CPU having been hard-disabled for a long time completely misses the
interrupt due to a decrementer rollover.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc: Fix stack overflow crash in resume_kernel when ftracing 2013-06-20T18:58:47+00:00 Michael Ellerman michael@ellerman.id.au 2013-06-13T11:04:56+00:00 0031e5e3e3cd8a21fe1224e0e51d646ca4099eab commit 0e37739b1c96d65e6433998454985de994383019 upstream. It's possible for us to crash when running with ftrace enabled, eg: Bad kernel stack pointer bffffd12 at c00000000000a454 cpu 0x3: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000ffe3d40] pc: c00000000000a454: resume_kernel+0x34/0x60 lr: c00000000000335c: performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180 sp: bffffd12 msr: 8000000000001032 dar: bffffd12 dsisr: 42000000 If we look at current's stack (paca->__current->stack) we see it is equal to c0000002ecab0000. Our stack is 16K, and comparing to paca->kstack (c0000002ecab3e30) we can see that we have overflowed our kernel stack. This leads to us writing over our struct thread_info, and in this case we have corrupted thread_info->flags and set _TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE. Dumping the stack we see: 3:mon> t c0000002ecab0000 [c0000002ecab0000] c00000000002131c .performance_monitor_exception+0x5c/0x70 [c0000002ecab0080] c00000000000335c performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180 --- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000fb2ec .trace_hardirqs_off+0x1c/0x30 [c0000002ecab0370] c00000000016fdb0 .trace_graph_entry+0xb0/0x280 (unreliable) [c0000002ecab0410] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130 [c0000002ecab04b0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28 [c0000002ecab0520] c0000000000d6b58 .idle_cpu+0x18/0x90 [c0000002ecab05a0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34 [c0000002ecab0620] c00000000001e660 .timer_interrupt+0x160/0x300 [c0000002ecab06d0] c0000000000025dc decrementer_common+0x15c/0x180 --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0 [c0000002ecab09c0] c0000000000fe044 .trace_hardirqs_on+0x14/0x30 (unreliable) [c0000002ecab0fb0] c00000000016fe3c .trace_graph_entry+0x13c/0x280 [c0000002ecab1050] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130 [c0000002ecab10f0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28 [c0000002ecab1160] c0000000000161f0 .__ppc64_runlatch_on+0x10/0x40 [c0000002ecab11d0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34 --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0 ... and so on __ppc64_runlatch_on() is called from RUNLATCH_ON in the exception entry path. At that point the irq state is not consistent, ie. interrupts are hard disabled (by the exception entry), but the paca soft-enabled flag may be out of sync. This leads to the local_irq_restore() in trace_graph_entry() actually enabling interrupts, which we do not want. Because we have not yet reprogrammed the decrementer we immediately take another decrementer exception, and recurse. The fix is twofold. Firstly make sure we call DISABLE_INTS before calling RUNLATCH_ON. The badly named DISABLE_INTS actually reconciles the irq state in the paca with the hardware, making it safe again to call local_irq_save/restore(). Although that should be sufficient to fix the bug, we also mark the runlatch routines as notrace. They are called very early in the exception entry and we are asking for trouble tracing them. They are also fairly uninteresting and tracing them just adds unnecessary overhead. [ This regression was introduced by fe1952fc0afb9a2e4c79f103c08aef5d13db1873 "powerpc: Rework runlatch code" by myself --BenH ] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 0e37739b1c96d65e6433998454985de994383019 upstream.

It's possible for us to crash when running with ftrace enabled, eg:

  Bad kernel stack pointer bffffd12 at c00000000000a454
  cpu 0x3: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000ffe3d40]
      pc: c00000000000a454: resume_kernel+0x34/0x60
      lr: c00000000000335c: performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180
      sp: bffffd12
     msr: 8000000000001032
     dar: bffffd12
   dsisr: 42000000

If we look at current's stack (paca->__current->stack) we see it is
equal to c0000002ecab0000. Our stack is 16K, and comparing to
paca->kstack (c0000002ecab3e30) we can see that we have overflowed our
kernel stack. This leads to us writing over our struct thread_info, and
in this case we have corrupted thread_info->flags and set
_TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE.

Dumping the stack we see:

  3:mon> t c0000002ecab0000
  [c0000002ecab0000] c00000000002131c .performance_monitor_exception+0x5c/0x70
  [c0000002ecab0080] c00000000000335c performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180
  --- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000fb2ec .trace_hardirqs_off+0x1c/0x30
  [c0000002ecab0370] c00000000016fdb0 .trace_graph_entry+0xb0/0x280 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ecab0410] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130
  [c0000002ecab04b0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28
  [c0000002ecab0520] c0000000000d6b58 .idle_cpu+0x18/0x90
  [c0000002ecab05a0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34
  [c0000002ecab0620] c00000000001e660 .timer_interrupt+0x160/0x300
  [c0000002ecab06d0] c0000000000025dc decrementer_common+0x15c/0x180
  --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0
  [c0000002ecab09c0] c0000000000fe044 .trace_hardirqs_on+0x14/0x30 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ecab0fb0] c00000000016fe3c .trace_graph_entry+0x13c/0x280
  [c0000002ecab1050] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130
  [c0000002ecab10f0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28
  [c0000002ecab1160] c0000000000161f0 .__ppc64_runlatch_on+0x10/0x40
  [c0000002ecab11d0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34
  --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0

  ... and so on

__ppc64_runlatch_on() is called from RUNLATCH_ON in the exception entry
path. At that point the irq state is not consistent, ie. interrupts are
hard disabled (by the exception entry), but the paca soft-enabled flag
may be out of sync.

This leads to the local_irq_restore() in trace_graph_entry() actually
enabling interrupts, which we do not want. Because we have not yet
reprogrammed the decrementer we immediately take another decrementer
exception, and recurse.

The fix is twofold. Firstly make sure we call DISABLE_INTS before
calling RUNLATCH_ON. The badly named DISABLE_INTS actually reconciles
the irq state in the paca with the hardware, making it safe again to
call local_irq_save/restore().

Although that should be sufficient to fix the bug, we also mark the
runlatch routines as notrace. They are called very early in the
exception entry and we are asking for trouble tracing them. They are
also fairly uninteresting and tracing them just adds unnecessary
overhead.

[ This regression was introduced by fe1952fc0afb9a2e4c79f103c08aef5d13db1873
  "powerpc: Rework runlatch code" by myself --BenH
]

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation 2013-05-19T17:54:40+00:00 Robert Jennings rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2013-05-07T04:34:11+00:00 36d1c0c62aca74313a95f71c180c73a2eda80ea9 commit 120496ac2d2d60aee68d3123a68169502a85f4b5 upstream. This patch brings online all threads which are present but not online prior to migration/hibernation. After migration/hibernation those threads are taken back offline. During migration/hibernation all online CPUs must call H_JOIN, this is required by the hypervisor. Without this patch, threads that are offline (H_CEDE'd) will not be woken to make the H_JOIN call and the OS will be deadlocked (all threads either JOIN'd or CEDE'd). Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 120496ac2d2d60aee68d3123a68169502a85f4b5 upstream.

This patch brings online all threads which are present but not online
prior to migration/hibernation.  After migration/hibernation those
threads are taken back offline.

During migration/hibernation all online CPUs must call H_JOIN, this is
required by the hypervisor.  Without this patch, threads that are offline
(H_CEDE'd) will not be woken to make the H_JOIN call and the OS will be
deadlocked (all threads either JOIN'd or CEDE'd).

Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>