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<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Enforce Break-Before-Make on Stage-2 page tables</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-28T15:16:31+00:00</published>
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commit d4b9e0790aa764c0b01e18d4e8d33e93ba36d51f upstream.

The ARM architecture mandates that when changing a page table entry
from a valid entry to another valid entry, an invalid entry is first
written, TLB invalidated, and only then the new entry being written.

The current code doesn't respect this, directly writing the new
entry and only then invalidating TLBs. Let's fix it up.

Reported-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: thp: kvm: fix memory corruption in KVM with THP enabled</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T00:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T23:22:20+00:00</published>
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After the THP refcounting change, obtaining a compound pages from
get_user_pages() no longer allows us to assume the entire compound page
is immediately mappable from a secondary MMU.

A secondary MMU doesn't want to call get_user_pages() more than once for
each compound page, in order to know if it can map the whole compound
page.  So a secondary MMU needs to know from a single get_user_pages()
invocation when it can map immediately the entire compound page to avoid
a flood of unnecessary secondary MMU faults and spurious
atomic_inc()/atomic_dec() (pages don't have to be pinned by MMU notifier
users).

Ideally instead of the page-&gt;_mapcount &lt; 1 check, get_user_pages()
should return the granularity of the "page" mapping in the "mm" passed
to get_user_pages().  However it's non trivial change to pass the "pmd"
status belonging to the "mm" walked by get_user_pages up the stack (up
to the caller of get_user_pages).  So the fix just checks if there is
not a single pte mapping on the page returned by get_user_pages, and in
turn if the caller can assume that the whole compound page is mapped in
the current "mm" (in a pmd_trans_huge()).  In such case the entire
compound page is safe to map into the secondary MMU without additional
get_user_pages() calls on the surrounding tail/head pages.  In addition
of being faster, not having to run other get_user_pages() calls also
reduces the memory footprint of the secondary MMU fault in case the pmd
split happened as result of memory pressure.

Without this fix after a MADV_DONTNEED (like invoked by QEMU during
postcopy live migration or balloning) or after generic swapping (with a
failure in split_huge_page() that would only result in pmd splitting and
not a physical page split), KVM would map the whole compound page into
the shadow pagetables, despite regular faults or userfaults (like
UFFDIO_COPY) may map regular pages into the primary MMU as result of the
pte faults, leading to the guest mode and userland mode going out of
sync and not working on the same memory at all times.

Any other secondary MMU notifier manager (KVM is just one of the many
MMU notifier users) will need the same information if it doesn't want to
run a flood of get_user_pages_fast and it can support multiple
granularity in the secondary MMU mappings, so I think it is justified to
be exposed not just to KVM.

The other option would be to move transparent_hugepage_adjust to
mm/huge_memory.c but that currently has all kind of KVM data structures
in it, so it's definitely not a cut-and-paste work, so I couldn't do a
fix as cleaner as this one for 4.6.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: "Li, Liang Z" &lt;liang.z.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: unregister notifiers in hyp mode teardown path</title>
<updated>2016-04-06T11:47:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudeep Holla</name>
<email>sudeep.holla@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-04T13:46:51+00:00</published>
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Commit 1e947bad0b63 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running
in HYP") re-organized the hyp init code and ended up leaving the CPU
hotplug and PM notifier even if hyp mode initialization fails.

Since KVM is not yet supported with ACPI, the above mentioned commit
breaks CPU hotplug in ACPI boot.

This patch fixes teardown_hyp_mode to properly unregister both CPU
hotplug and PM notifiers in the teardown path.

Fixes: 1e947bad0b63 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Register CPU notifiers when the kernel runs at HYP</title>
<updated>2016-03-31T08:27:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-30T17:33:04+00:00</published>
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When the kernel is running at EL2, it doesn't need init_hyp_mode() to
configure page tables for HYP. This function also registers the CPU
hotplug and lower power notifiers that cause HYP to be re-initialised
after the CPU has been reset.

To avoid losing the register state that controls stage2 translation, move
the registering of these notifiers into init_subsystems(), and add a
is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() path to each callback.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 1e947bad0b6 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: disable preemption when calling smp_call_function_many</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T09:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Auger</name>
<email>eric.auger@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-07T16:50:36+00:00</published>
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Preemption must be disabled when calling smp_call_function_many

Reported-by: bartosz.wawrzyniak@tieto.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T03:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T03:03:47+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6.  There are some relatively
  intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel
  virtual memory layout and initial page table creation.

  Summary:

   - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block
     mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones.  The ARM architecture
     requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but
     that's not always possible on live page tables

   - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked
     to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom
     of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly)
     anywhere in physical RAM

   - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being
     randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is
     provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the
     arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming)

   - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR
     (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c
     but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge
     dependencies)

   - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this
     allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using
     LDTR/STTR instructions.  Such instructions, when run by the kernel,
     perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection.
     The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to
     privileged accesses via the UAO bit

   - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2)

   - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using
     run-time code patching)

   - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time

   - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent
     incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g.  weird
     big.LITTLE configurations)

   - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the
     sigcontext information (restored pstate information)

   - ACPI parking protocol implementation

   - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default

   - VDSO code marked as read-only

   - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support

   - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled

   - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC

   - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings

   - Code clean-ups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits)
  arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow
  arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow
  arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission
  arm64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment
  arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid
  arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default
  arm64: Rework valid_user_regs
  arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly
  arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion
  arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity
  arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order
  arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT
  arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR
  arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features
  arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot
  arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point
  arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility
  arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456
  arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T16:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-16T16:55:35+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "One of the largest releases for KVM...  Hardly any generic
  changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.

  ARM:
   - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
   - PMU support for guests
   - 32bit world switch rewritten in C
   - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.

  PPC:
   - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
   - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
   - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
   - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).

  s390:
   - provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
   - separated instruction vs.  data accesses
   - dirty log improvements for huge guests
   - bugfixes and documentation improvements.

  x86:
   - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
   - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
     vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
   - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
   - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
   - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
     memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
     paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
     virtual GPUs as well
   - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
  KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
  KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
  KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
  KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
  KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
  KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
  KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T02:14:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T02:14:06+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - Make schedstats a runtime tunable (disabled by default) and
     optimize it via static keys.

     As most distributions enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y due to its
     instrumentation value, this is a nice performance enhancement.
     (Mel Gorman)

   - Implement 'simple waitqueues' (swait): these are just pure
     waitqueues without any of the more complex features of full-blown
     waitqueues (callbacks, wake flags, wake keys, etc.).  Simple
     waitqueues have less memory overhead and are faster.

     Use simple waitqueues in the RCU code (in 4 different places) and
     for handling KVM vCPU wakeups.

     (Peter Zijlstra, Daniel Wagner, Thomas Gleixner, Paul Gortmaker,
     Marcelo Tosatti)

   - sched/numa enhancements (Rik van Riel)

   - NOHZ performance enhancements (Rik van Riel)

   - Various sched/deadline enhancements (Steven Rostedt)

   - Various fixes (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... and a number of other fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
  sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies
  sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entity
  Revert "kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error"
  sched/deadline: Remove superfluous call to switched_to_dl()
  sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()
  sched, time: Switch VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity
  time, acct: Drop irq save &amp; restore from __acct_update_integrals()
  acct, time: Change indentation in __acct_update_integrals()
  sched, time: Remove non-power-of-two divides from __acct_update_integrals()
  sched/rt: Kick RT bandwidth timer immediately on start up
  sched/debug: Add deadline scheduler bandwidth ratio to /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Move sched_domain_sysctl to debug.c
  sched/debug: Move the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features file setup into debug.c
  sched/rt: Fix PI handling vs. sched_setscheduler()
  sched/core: Remove duplicated sched_group_set_shares() prototype
  sched/fair: Consolidate nohz CPU load update code
  sched/fair: Avoid using decay_load_missed() with a negative value
  sched/deadline: Always calculate end of period on sched_yield()
  sched/cgroup: Fix cgroup entity load tracking tear-down
  rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in rcutree
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Add active state caching</title>
<updated>2016-02-29T18:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-29T19:04:48+00:00</published>
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Programming the active state in the (re)distributor can be an
expensive operation so it makes some sense to try and reduce
the number of accesses as much as possible. So far, we
program the active state on each VM entry, but there is some
opportunity to do less.

An obvious solution is to cache the active state in memory,
and only program it in the HW when conditions change. But
because the HW can also change things under our feet (the active
state can transition from 1 to 0 when the guest does an EOI),
some precautions have to be taken, which amount to only caching
an "inactive" state, and always programing it otherwise.

With this in place, we observe a reduction of around 700 cycles
on a 2GHz GICv2 platform for a NULL hypercall.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: KVM: Switch the CP reg search to be a binary search</title>
<updated>2016-02-29T18:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-21T17:34:22+00:00</published>
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Doing a linear search is a bit silly when we can do a binary search.
Not that we trap that so many things that it has become a burden yet,
but it makes sense to align it with the arm64 code.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</content>
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