<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile, branch v5.10.258</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
<id>https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v5.10.258</id>
<link rel='self' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v5.10.258'/>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/'/>
<updated>2024-04-13T10:59:01+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: xor_vmx: Add '-mhard-float' to CFLAGS</title>
<updated>2024-04-13T10:59:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-27T18:07:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=9c5f4014f6d1ba8a81de537d49d4196967a0e9b6'/>
<id>urn:sha1:9c5f4014f6d1ba8a81de537d49d4196967a0e9b6</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 35f20786c481d5ced9283ff42de5c69b65e5ed13 upstream.

arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o is built with '-msoft-float' (from the main
powerpc Makefile) and '-maltivec' (from its CFLAGS), which causes an
error when building with clang after a recent change in main:

  error: option '-msoft-float' cannot be specified with '-maltivec'
  make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.o] Error 1

Explicitly add '-mhard-float' before '-maltivec' in xor_vmx.o's CFLAGS
to override the previous inclusion of '-msoft-float' (as the last option
wins), which matches how other areas of the kernel use '-maltivec', such
as AMDGPU.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1986
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4792f912b232141ecba4cbae538873be3c28556c
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240127-ppc-xor_vmx-drop-msoft-float-v1-1-f24140e81376@kernel.org
[nathan: Fixed conflicts due to lack of 04e85bbf71c9 in older trees]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: add crtsavres.o to always-y instead of extra-y</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T22:37:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-20T23:23:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=ecbbd90e7046a8916fae76ba7854c10e0a71cdee'/>
<id>urn:sha1:ecbbd90e7046a8916fae76ba7854c10e0a71cdee</id>
<content type='text'>
[ Upstream commit 1b1e38002648819c04773647d5242990e2824264 ]

crtsavres.o is linked to modules. However, as explained in commit
d0e628cd817f ("kbuild: doc: clarify the difference between extra-y
and always-y"), 'make modules' does not build extra-y.

For example, the following command fails:

  $ make ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN=1 mrproper ps3_defconfig modules
    [snip]
    LD [M]  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko
  ld.lld: error: cannot open arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file or directory
  make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] Error 1
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:1844: modules] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/masahiro/workspace/linux-kbuild/Makefile:350: __build_one_by_one] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: baa25b571a16 ("powerpc/64: Do not link crtsavres.o in vmlinux")
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231120232332.4100288-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy plugin</title>
<updated>2022-02-01T16:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-22T13:07:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=b4c9b6afa3a737b5d02828d1f7183ebde282907c'/>
<id>urn:sha1:b4c9b6afa3a737b5d02828d1f7183ebde282907c</id>
<content type='text'>
commit bba496656a73fc1d1330b49c7f82843836e9feb1 upstream.

Boot fails with GCC latent entropy plugin enabled.

This is due to early boot functions trying to access 'latent_entropy'
global data while the kernel is not relocated at its final
destination yet.

As there is no way to tell GCC to use PTRRELOC() to access it,
disable latent entropy plugin in early_32.o and feature-fixups.o and
code-patching.o

Fixes: 38addce8b600 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Reported-by: Erhard Furtner &lt;erhard_f@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215217
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bac55483b8daf5b1caa163a45fa5f9cdbe18be4.1640178426.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T12:47:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-29T16:52:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=0bdcaebb12257bf15c1ffefd91658c720b98180c'/>
<id>urn:sha1:0bdcaebb12257bf15c1ffefd91658c720b98180c</id>
<content type='text'>
commit f5668260b872e89b8d3942a8b7d4278aa9c2c981 upstream.

Commit 7c95d8893fb5 ("powerpc: Change calling convention for
create_branch() et. al.") complexified the frame of function
do_feature_fixups(), leading to GCC setting up a stack
guard when CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR is selected.

The problem is that do_feature_fixups() is called very early
while 'current' in r2 is not set up yet and the code is still
not at the final address used at link time.

So, like other instrumentation, stack protection needs to be
deactivated for feature-fixups.c and code-patching.c

Fixes: 7c95d8893fb5 ("powerpc: Change calling convention for create_branch() et. al.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Reported-by: Jonathan Neuschaefer &lt;j.neuschaefer@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Tested-by: Jonathan Neuschaefer &lt;j.neuschaefer@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b688fe82927b330349d9e44553363fa451ea4d95.1619715114.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()</title>
<updated>2020-10-06T09:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-06T03:40:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=ec6347bb43395cb92126788a1a5b25302543f815'/>
<id>urn:sha1:ec6347bb43395cb92126788a1a5b25302543f815</id>
<content type='text'>
In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt; wrote:
  &gt;
  &gt; On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; wrote:
  &gt; &gt;
  &gt; &gt; However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  &gt; &gt; It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  &gt; &gt; looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  &gt; &gt; caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  &gt; &gt; for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  &gt;
  &gt; Right.
  &gt;
  &gt; And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  &gt; generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  &gt; for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  &gt; artifact of the architecture oddity.
  &gt;
  &gt; In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  &gt; but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  &gt; having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks</title>
<updated>2020-07-26T14:01:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-24T13:14:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=aa65ff6b18e0366db1790609956a4ac7308c5668'/>
<id>urn:sha1:aa65ff6b18e0366db1790609956a4ac7308c5668</id>
<content type='text'>
These have shown significantly improved performance and fairness when
spinlock contention is moderate to high on very large systems.

With this series including subsequent patches, on a 16 socket 1536
thread POWER9, a stress test such as same-file open/close from all
CPUs gets big speedups, 11620op/s aggregate with simple spinlocks vs
384158op/s (33x faster), where the difference in throughput between
the fastest and slowest thread goes from 7x to 1.4x.

Thanks to the fast path being identical in terms of atomics and
barriers (after a subsequent optimisation patch), single threaded
performance is not changed (no measurable difference).

On smaller systems, performance and fairness seems to be generally
improved. Using dbench on tmpfs as a test (that starts to run into
kernel spinlock contention), a 2-socket OpenPOWER POWER9 system was
tested with bare metal and KVM guest configurations. Results can be
found here:

https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/305#issuecomment-663487453

Observations are:

- Queued spinlocks are equal when contention is insignificant, as
  expected and as measured with microbenchmarks.

- When there is contention, on bare metal queued spinlocks have better
  throughput and max latency at all points.

- When virtualised, queued spinlocks are slightly worse approaching
  peak throughput, but significantly better throughput and max latency
  at all points beyond peak, until queued spinlock maximum latency
  rises when clients are 2x vCPUs.

The regressions haven't been analysed very well yet, there are a lot
of things that can be tuned, particularly the paravirtualised locking,
but the numbers already look like a good net win even on relatively
small systems.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724131423.1362108-4-npiggin@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Test prefixed code patching</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=f77f8ff7f13e6411c2e0ba25bb7e012a5ae6c927'/>
<id>urn:sha1:f77f8ff7f13e6411c2e0ba25bb7e012a5ae6c927</id>
<content type='text'>
Expand the code-patching self-tests to includes tests for patching
prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Use CONFIG_PPC64 not __powerpc64__]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-25-jniethe5@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add a probe_user_read_inst() function</title>
<updated>2020-05-18T14:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Niethe</name>
<email>jniethe5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T03:40:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=7ba68b2172c19031fdc2a2caf37328edd146e299'/>
<id>urn:sha1:7ba68b2172c19031fdc2a2caf37328edd146e299</id>
<content type='text'>
Introduce a probe_user_read_inst() function to use in cases where
probe_user_read() is used for getting an instruction. This will be
more useful for prefixed instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe &lt;jniethe5@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
[mpe: Don't write to *inst on error, fold in __user annotations]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-14-jniethe5@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/memcpy: Add memcpy_mcsafe for pmem</title>
<updated>2019-08-21T12:23:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Balbir Singh</name>
<email>bsingharora@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T08:13:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=4d4a273854c9eac1a1b163830658dc825e183ad5'/>
<id>urn:sha1:4d4a273854c9eac1a1b163830658dc825e183ad5</id>
<content type='text'>
The pmem infrastructure uses memcpy_mcsafe in the pmem layer so as to
convert machine check exceptions into a return value on failure in case
a machine check exception is encountered during the memcpy. The return
value is the number of bytes remaining to be copied.

This patch largely borrows from the copyuser_power7 logic and does not add
the VMX optimizations, largely to keep the patch simple. If needed those
optimizations can be folded in.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
[arbab@linux.ibm.com: Added symbol export]
Co-developed-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820081352.8641-7-santosh@fossix.org
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: activate ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API and ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE</title>
<updated>2019-08-05T08:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-31T06:31:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=461cef2a676e7c578d0ef62969dbcb8237c8631d'/>
<id>urn:sha1:461cef2a676e7c578d0ef62969dbcb8237c8631d</id>
<content type='text'>
PPC32 also have flush_dcache_range() so it can also support
ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API and ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE without changes.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a682a2f9db308c5cfe77e45aa3352e41bc9f4e33.1564554634.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr

</content>
</entry>
</feed>
