linux-toradex.git/arch/x86, branch v4.0.3

KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.

2015-05-06T20:03:40+00:00

commit 085e68eeafbf76e21848ad5bafaecec88a11dd64 upstream.

The host's decision to enable machine check exceptions should remain
in force during non-root mode.  KVM was writing 0 to cr4 on VCPU reset
and passed a slightly-modified 0 to the vmcs.guest_cr4 value.

Tested: Built.
On earlier version, tested by injecting machine check
while a guest is spinning.

Before the change, if guest CR4.MCE==0, then the machine check is
escalated to Catastrophic Error (CATERR) and the machine dies.
If guest CR4.MCE==1, then the machine check causes VMEXIT and is
handled normally by host Linux. After the change, injecting a machine
check causes normal Linux machine check handling.

Signed-off-by: Ben Serebrin 
Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Fix MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS in msrs_to_save

2015-05-06T20:03:37+00:00

commit 9e9c3fe40bcd28e3f98f0ad8408435f4503f2781 upstream.

kvm_init_msr_list is currently called before hardware_setup. As a result,
vmx_mpx_supported always returns false when kvm_init_msr_list checks whether to
save MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS.

Move kvm_init_msr_list after vmx_hardware_setup is called to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

Message-Id: <1428864435-4732-1-git-send-email-namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

x86: fix special __probe_kernel_write() tail zeroing case

2015-05-06T20:03:37+00:00

commit d869844bd081081bf537e806a44811884230643e upstream.

Commit cae2a173fe94 ("x86: clean up/fix 'copy_in_user()' tail zeroing")
fixed the failure case tail zeroing of one special case of the x86-64
generic user-copy routine, namely when used for the user-to-user case
("copy_in_user()").

But in the process it broke an even more unusual case: using the user
copy routine for kernel-to-kernel copying.

Now, normally kernel-kernel copies are obviously done using memcpy(),
but we have a couple of special cases when we use the user-copy
functions.  One is when we pass a kernel buffer to a regular user-buffer
routine, using set_fs(KERNEL_DS).  That's a "normal" case, and continued
to work fine, because it never takes any faults (with the possible
exception of a silent and successful vmalloc fault).

But Jan Beulich pointed out another, very unusual, special case: when we
use the user-copy routines not because it's a path that expects a user
pointer, but for a couple of ftrace/kgdb cases that want to do a kernel
copy, but do so using "unsafe" buffers, and use the user-copy routine to
gracefully handle faults.  IOW, for probe_kernel_write().

And that broke for the case of a faulting kernel destination, because we
saw the kernel destination and wanted to try to clear the tail of the
buffer.  Which doesn't work, since that's what faults.

This only triggers for things like kgdb and ftrace users (eg trying
setting a breakpoint on read-only memory), but it's definitely a bug.
The fix is to not compare against the kernel address start (TASK_SIZE),
but instead use the same limits "access_ok()" uses.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86/intel: Fix Core2,Atom,NHM,WSM cycles:pp events

2015-05-06T20:03:37+00:00

commit 517e6341fa123ec3a2f9ea78ad547be910529881 upstream.

Ingo reported that cycles:pp didn't work for him on some machines.

It turns out that in this commit:

  af4bdcf675cf perf/x86/intel: Disallow flags for most Core2/Atom/Nehalem/Westmere events

Andi forgot to explicitly allow that event when he
disabled event flags for PEBS on those uarchs.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Fixes: af4bdcf675cf ("perf/x86/intel: Disallow flags for most Core2/Atom/Nehalem/Westmere events")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs

2015-05-06T20:03:37+00:00

commit f8e617f4582995f7c25ef25b4167213120ad122b upstream.

To fully take advantage of MWAIT, apparently the CLFLUSH instruction needs
another quirk on certain CPUs: proper barriers around it on certain machines.

On a Q6600 SMP system, pipe-test scheduling performance, cross core,
improves significantly:

  3.8.13                   487.2 KHz    1.000
  3.13.0-master            415.5 KHz     .852
  3.13.0-master+           415.2 KHz     .852     + restore mwait_idle
  3.13.0-master++          488.5 KHz    1.002     + restore mwait_idle + IPI fix

Since X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR is already a quirk, don't create a separate
quirk for the extra smp_mb()s.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ian Malone 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390061684.5566.4.camel@marge.simpson.net
[ Ported to recent kernel, added comments about the quirk. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/idle/x86: Restore mwait_idle() to fix boot hangs, to improve power savings and to improve performance

2015-05-06T20:03:37+00:00

commit b253149b843f89cd300cbdbea27ce1f847506f99 upstream.

In Linux-3.9 we removed the mwait_idle() loop:

  69fb3676df33 ("x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param")

The reasoning was that modern machines should be sufficiently
happy during the boot process using the default_idle() HALT
loop, until cpuidle loads and either acpi_idle or intel_idle
invoke the newer MWAIT-with-hints idle loop.

But two machines reported problems:

 1. Certain Core2-era machines support MWAIT-C1 and HALT only.
    MWAIT-C1 is preferred for optimal power and performance.
    But if they support just C1, cpuidle never loads and
    so they use the boot-time default idle loop forever.

 2. Some laptops will boot-hang if HALT is used,
    but will boot successfully if MWAIT is used.
    This appears to be a hidden assumption in BIOS SMI,
    that is presumably valid on the proprietary OS
    where the BIOS was validated.

       https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60770

So here we effectively revert the patch above, restoring
the mwait_idle() loop.  However, we don't bother restoring
the idle=mwait cmdline parameter, since it appears to add
no value.

Maintainer notes:

  For 3.9, simply revert 69fb3676df
  for 3.10, patch -F3 applies, fuzz needed due to __cpuinit use in
  context For 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, this patch applies cleanly

Tested-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ian Malone 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/345254a551eb5a6a866e048d7ab570fd2193aca4.1389763084.git.len.brown@intel.com
[ Ported to recent kernels. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration

2015-05-06T20:03:36+00:00

commit 80f7fdb1c7f0f9266421f823964fd1962681f6ce upstream.

If we were migrated right after __getcpu, but before reading the
migration_count, we wouldn't notice that we read TSC of a different
VCPU, nor that KVM's bug made pvti invalid, as only migration_count
on source VCPU is increased.

Change vdso instead of updating migration_count on destination.

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář 
Fixes: 0a4e6be9ca17 ("x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations"")
Message-Id: <1428000263-11892-1-git-send-email-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations"

2015-05-06T20:03:36+00:00

commit 0a4e6be9ca17c54817cf814b4b5aa60478c6df27 upstream.

The following point:

    2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
       underlying CPU changes.

Is not true anymore since "KVM: x86: update pvclock area conditionally,
on cpu migration".

Add task migration notification back.

Problem noticed by Andy Lutomirski.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/asm/decoder: Fix and enforce max instruction size in the insn decoder

2015-05-06T20:03:36+00:00

commit 91e5ed49fca09c2b83b262b9757d1376ee2b46c3 upstream.

x86 instructions cannot exceed 15 bytes, and the instruction
decoder should enforce that.  Prior to 6ba48ff46f76, the
instruction length limit was implicitly set to 16, which was an
approximation of 15, but there is currently no limit at all.

Fix MAX_INSN_SIZE (it should be 15, not 16), and fix the decoder
to reject instructions that exceed MAX_INSN_SIZE.

Other than potentially confusing some of the decoder sanity
checks, I'm not aware of any actual problems that omitting this
check would cause, nor am I aware of any practical problems
caused by the MAX_INSN_SIZE error.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Fixes: 6ba48ff46f76 ("x86: Remove arbitrary instruction size limit ...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f8f0bc9b8c58cfd6830f7d88400bf1396cbdcd0f.1422403511.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: clean up/fix 'copy_in_user()' tail zeroing

2015-04-08T21:28:45+00:00

The rule for 'copy_from_user()' is that it zeroes the remaining kernel
buffer even when the copy fails halfway, just to make sure that we don't
leave uninitialized kernel memory around.  Because even if we check for
errors, some kernel buffers stay around after thge copy (think page
cache).

However, the x86-64 logic for user copies uses a copy_user_generic()
function for all the cases, that set the "zerorest" flag for any fault
on the source buffer.  Which meant that it didn't just try to clear the
kernel buffer after a failure in copy_from_user(), it also tried to
clear the destination user buffer for the "copy_in_user()" case.

Not only is that pointless, it also means that the clearing code has to
worry about the tail clearing taking page faults for the user buffer
case.  Which is just stupid, since that case shouldn't happen in the
first place.

Get rid of the whole "zerorest" thing entirely, and instead just check
if the destination is in kernel space or not.  And then just use
memset() to clear the tail of the kernel buffer if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds