BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c, branch dev

s390/nmi: fix vector register corruption

2015-07-13T09:02:21+00:00

If a machine check happens, the machine has the vector facility installed and the extended save area exists, the cpu will save vector register contents into the extended save area. This is regardless of control register 0 contents, which enables and disables the vector facility during runtime. On each machine check we should validate the vector registers. The current code however tries to validate the registers only if the running task is using vector registers in user space. However even the current code is broken and causes vector register corruption on machine checks, if user space uses them: the prefix area contains a pointer (absolute address) to the machine check extended save area. In order to save some space the save area was put into an unused area of the second prefix page. When validating vector register contents the code uses the absolute address of the extended save area, which is wrong. Due to prefixing the vector instructions will then access contents using absolute addresses instead of real addresses, where the machine stored the contents. If the above would work there is still the problem that register validition would only happen if user space uses vector registers. If kernel space uses them also, this may also lead to vector register content corruption: if the kernel makes use of vector instructions, but the current running user space context does not, the machine check handler will validate floating point registers instead of vector registers. Given the fact that writing to a floating point register may change the upper halve of the corresponding vector register, we also experience vector register corruption in this case. Fix all of these issues, and always validate vector registers on each machine check, if the machine has the vector facility installed and the extended save area is defined. Cc: # 4.1+ Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: remove 31 bit support

2015-03-25T10:49:33+00:00

Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel. The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e5826 ("s390: add 31 bit warning message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit code. We didn't get any response. Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's remove the code. Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: fix machine check handling

2014-12-01T10:06:55+00:00

Commit eb7e7d76 "s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" broke machine check handling. We copy machine check information from per-cpu to a stack variable for local processing. Next we should zap the per-cpu variable, not the stack variable. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo: "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other inconsistent operations. This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr(). Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully remove the obsolete accessors" * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits) irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write. percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator. arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr ...

s390: add support for vector extension

2014-10-09T07:14:13+00:00

The vector extension introduces 32 128-bit vector registers and a set of instruction to operate on the vector registers. The kernel can control the use of vector registers for the problem state program with a bit in control register 0. Once enabled for a process the kernel needs to retain the content of the vector registers on context switch. The signal frame is extended to include the vector registers. Two new register sets NT_S390_VXRS_LOW and NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH are added to the regset interface for the debugger and core dumps. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

2014-08-26T17:45:52+00:00

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset. Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when writing data or on the right side of an assignment. __get_cpu_var() is defined as : #define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var))) __get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on other platforms) to avoid the address calculation. this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu variables. This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers are used when code is generated. At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too. The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86 arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global register that may be set to the per cpu base. Transformations done to __get_cpu_var() 1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y); 2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]); int *x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y); 3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu variable. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int x = __get_cpu_var(y) Converts to int x = __this_cpu_read(y); 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y); struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x)); 5. Assignment to a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y) __get_cpu_var(y) = x; Converts to this_cpu_write(y, x); 6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); __get_cpu_var(y)++ Converts to this_cpu_inc(y) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky CC: linux390@de.ibm.com Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

s390: split TIF bits into CIF, PIF and TIF bits

2014-05-20T06:58:47+00:00

The oi and ni instructions used in entry[64].S to set and clear bits in the thread-flags are not guaranteed to be atomic in regard to other CPUs. Split the TIF bits into CPU, pt_regs and thread-info specific bits. Updates on the TIF bits are done with atomic instructions, updates on CPU and pt_regs bits are done with non-atomic instructions. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/time: clock comparator revalidation

2013-08-22T10:20:08+00:00

Always use the S390_lowcore.clock_comparator field to revalidate the clock comparator CPU register after a machine check. This avoids an unnecssary external interrupt after a machine check if no timer is pending. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/time: rename tod clock access functions

2013-02-14T14:55:10+00:00

Fix name clash with some common code device drivers and add "tod" to all tod clock access function names. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/irq: remove split irq fields from /proc/stat

2013-01-08T09:57:07+00:00

Now that irq sum accounting for /proc/stat's "intr" line works again we have the oddity that the sum field (first field) contains only the sum of the second (external irqs) and third field (I/O interrupts). The reason for that is that these two fields are already sums of all other fields. So if we would sum up everything we would count every interrupt twice. This is broken since the split interrupt accounting was merged two years ago: 052ff461c8427629aee887ccc27478fc7373237c "[S390] irq: have detailed statistics for interrupt types". To fix this remove the split interrupt fields from /proc/stat's "intr" line again and only have them in /proc/interrupts. This restores the old behaviour, seems to be the only sane fix and mimics a behaviour from other architectures where /proc/interrupts also contains more than /proc/stat's "intr" line does. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky