kernel/linux.git/arch/alpha, branch v6.12.80

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

2026-03-04T12:20:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7 ] Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems. Reviewed-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Tested-by: Matoro Mahri Tested-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260102173603.18247-2-linmag7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

2026-01-17T15:31:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9aeed9041929812a10a6d693af050846942a1d16 ] Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42 drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead. This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like: ./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio' Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769 Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600 Signed-off-by: Sam James Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

2025-11-02T13:15:22+00:00

[ Upstream commit 35561bab768977c9e05f1f1a9bc00134c85f3e28 ] The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can happen. For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h, which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first, it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included by it. In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h". And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

alpha/elf: Fix misc/setarch test of util-linux by removing 32bit support

2025-03-22T19:54:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit b029628be267cba3c7684ec684749fe3e4372398 ] Richard Henderson writes[1]: > There was a Spec benchmark (I forget which) which was memory bound and ran > twice as fast with 32-bit pointers. > > I copied the idea from DEC to the ELF abi, but never did all the other work > to allow the toolchain to take advantage. > > Amusingly, a later Spec changed the benchmark data sets to not fit into a > 32-bit address space, specifically because of this. > > I expect one could delete the ELF bit and personality and no one would > notice. Not even the 10 remaining Alpha users. In [2] it was pointed out that parts of setarch weren't working properly on alpha because it has it's own SET_PERSONALITY implementation. In the discussion that followed Richard Henderson pointed out that the 32bit pointer support for alpha was never completed. Fix this by removing alpha's 32bit pointer support. As a bit of paranoia refuse to execute any alpha binaries that have the EF_ALPHA_32BIT flag set. Just in case someone somewhere has binaries that try to use alpha's 32bit pointer support. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFXwXrkgu=4Qn-v1PjnOR4SG0oUb9LSa0g6QXpBq4ttm52pJOQ@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103140148.370368-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de [2] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y0zfs26i.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

alpha: align stack for page fault and user unaligned trap handlers

2025-02-21T13:01:35+00:00

commit 3b35a171060f846b08b48646b38c30b5d57d17ff upstream. do_page_fault() and do_entUna() are special because they use non-standard stack frame layout. Fix them manually. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm Tested-by: Matt Turner Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: replace hardcoded stack offsets with autogenerated ones

2025-02-21T13:01:35+00:00

commit 77b823fa619f97d16409ca37ad4f7936e28c5f83 upstream. This allows the assembly in entry.S to automatically keep in sync with changes in the stack layout (struct pt_regs and struct switch_stack). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Tested-by: Matt Turner Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: make stack 16-byte aligned (most cases)

2025-02-21T13:01:33+00:00

commit 0a0f7362b0367634a2d5cb7c96226afc116f19c9 upstream. The problem is that GCC expects 16-byte alignment of the incoming stack since early 2004, as Maciej found out [1]: Having actually dug speculatively I can see that the psABI was changed in GCC 3.5 with commit e5e10fb4a350 ("re PR target/14539 (128-bit long double improperly aligned)") back in Mar 2004, when the stack pointer alignment was increased from 8 bytes to 16 bytes, and arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S has various suspicious stack pointer adjustments, starting with SP_OFF which is not a whole multiple of 16. Also, as Magnus noted, "ALPHA Calling Standard" [2] required the same: D.3.1 Stack Alignment This standard requires that stacks be octaword aligned at the time a new procedure is invoked. However: - the "normal" kernel stack is always misaligned by 8 bytes, thanks to the odd number of 64-bit words in 'struct pt_regs', which is the very first thing pushed onto the kernel thread stack; - syscall, fault, interrupt etc. handlers may, or may not, receive aligned stack depending on numerous factors. Somehow we got away with it until recently, when we ended up with a stack corruption in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_single() due to its use of 32-byte aligned local data and the compiler doing clever things allocating it on the stack. This adds padding between the PAL-saved and kernel-saved registers so that 'struct pt_regs' have an even number of 64-bit words. This makes the stack properly aligned for most of the kernel code, except two handlers which need special threatment. Note: struct pt_regs doesn't belong in uapi/asm; this should be fixed, but let's put this off until later. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/alpine.DEB.2.21.2501130248010.18889@angie.orcam.me.uk/ [1] Link: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/alpha/Alpha_Calling_Standard_Rev_2.0_19900427.pdf [2] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm Tested-by: Matt Turner Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h

2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00

asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h; might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header. auto-generated by the following: for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2024-09-26T18:54:40+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "These are only two small patches, one cleanup for arch/alpha and a preparation patch cleaning up the handling of runtime constants in the linker scripts" * tag 'asm-generic-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: runtime constants: move list of constants to vmlinux.lds.h alpha: no need to include asm/xchg.h twice

Merge tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2024-09-23T16:35:36+00:00

Pull 'struct fd' updates from Al Viro: "Just the 'struct fd' layout change, with conversion to accessor helpers" * tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd() struct fd: representation change introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.