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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into kvm-next-5.6
PPC KVM update for 5.9
- Improvements and bug-fixes for secure VM support, giving reduced startup
time and memory hotplug support.
- Locking fixes in nested KVM code
- Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094
- Preliminary POWER10 support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.
- Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
Power9 or later.
- Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.
- A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
architectures.
- Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.
- Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.
- A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.
- Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
usual.
Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.
* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
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secure-GFNs
The Ultravisor is expected to explicitly call H_SVM_PAGE_IN for all the
pages of the SVM before calling H_SVM_INIT_DONE. This causes a huge
delay in tranistioning the VM to SVM. The Ultravisor is only interested
in the pages that contain the kernel, initrd and other important data
structures. The rest contain throw-away content.
However if not all pages are requested by the Ultravisor, the Hypervisor
continues to consider the GFNs corresponding to the non-requested pages
as normal GFNs. This can lead to data-corruption and undefined behavior.
In H_SVM_INIT_DONE handler, move all the PFNs associated with the SVM's
GFNs to secure-PFNs. Skip the GFNs that are already Paged-in or Shared
or Paged-in followed by a Paged-out.
Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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Page-merging of pages in memory-slots associated with a Secure VM
is disabled in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.
This operation should have been done the much earlier; the moment the VM
is initiated for secure-transition. Delaying this operation increases
the probability for those pages to acquire new references, making it
impossible to migrate those pages in H_SVM_PAGE_IN handler.
Disable page-migration in H_SVM_INIT_START handling.
Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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From Nick's cover letter:
Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI
System Call Vectored (scv) ABI
==============================
The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an
rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is
performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and
entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can
reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to
cover the Linux system call space).
Assignment and advertisement
----------------------------
The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise
them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more.
Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction
will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and
deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a
HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it.
This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with
PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system
calls (equivalent to 'sc').
Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be
delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility
unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled).
Calling convention
------------------
The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call
ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]:
- LR is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the
scv instruction clobbers LR. From previous discussion, this should
be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI.
- cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow
the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr
registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid
information leaks).
- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to
move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to
indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is
closer to a function call.
Notes
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- r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch
as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for
deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by
preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from
the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow
the ABI.
Previous discussions:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
[2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html
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Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs.
For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to
'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor
are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO],
but by returning a negative errno.
rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not
be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to
preserve LR.
getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318
cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fix ppc64e build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718103958.5455-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
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Merge our fixes branch, primarily to bring in the ebb selftests build
fix and the pkey fix, which is a dependency for some future work.
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P9 DD2 NX workbook (Table 4-36) says DMA controller uses CC=5
internally for translation fault handling. NX reserves CC=250 for
OS to notify user space when NX encounters address translation
failure on the request buffer. Not an issue in earlier releases
as NX does not get faults on kernel addresses.
This patch defines CSB_CC_FAULT_ADDRESS(250) and updates CSB.CC with
this proper error code for user space.
Fixes: c96c4436aba4 ("powerpc/vas: Update CSB and notify process for fault CRBs")
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Added Fixes tag and fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/019fd53e7538c6f8f332d175df74b1815ef5aa8c.camel@linux.ibm.com
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Documentation wrongly tells that book3s/32 CPU have hash MMU.
603 and e300 core only have software loaded TLB.
755, 7450 family and e600 core have both hash MMU and software loaded
TLB. This can be selected by setting a bit in HID2 (755) or
HID0 (others). At the time being this is not supported by the kernel.
Make this explicit in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/261923c075d1cb49d02493685e8585d4ea2a5197.1593698951.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Drop the doubled word "the".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-16-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are a few issues on this document, when built via the
building with ``make htmldocs``:
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:116: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:116: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
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Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:289: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Fixes: c12e38b1d52e ("Documentation/powerpc: VAS API")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fc1138e563bc3a41a9e59b5dd1fe2f6a4bfad253.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- Add a SPDX header;
- Use standard markup for document title;
- Adjust identation on lists and add blank lines where
needed;
- Add it to the powerpc index.rst file.
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> # powerpc
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a88855cc8b3a97b9b918a33e78e9ad000cf64be1.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add documentation to 'papr_hcalls.rst' describing the bitmap flags
that are returned from H_SCM_HEALTH hcall as per the PAPR-SCM
specification.
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615124407.32596-2-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
accelerator on Power9.
- Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
relying on an IPI for serialisation.
- A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
more robust.
- Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
on Power10.
- Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
- Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
driver.
- Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
- Initial support for booting on Power10.
- Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.
* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
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The latest Xilinx design tools called ISE and EDK has been released in
October 2013. New tool doesn't support any PPC405/PPC440 new designs.
These platforms are no longer supported and tested.
PowerPC 405/440 port is orphan from 2013 by
commit cdeb89943bfc ("MAINTAINERS: Fix incorrect status tag") and
commit 19624236cce1 ("MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership")
that's why it is time to remove the support fot these platforms.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8c593895e2cb57d232d85ce4d8c3a1aa7f0869cc.1590079968.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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The ISA has a quirk that's useful for the Linux implementation.
Document it here so others are less likely to trip over it.
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325040546.3091563-1-mikey@neuling.org
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The User API chapter contains two sub-chapters. Mark them as
such.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/190d67397cd63e419de8d85b92e8018d48e8c345.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Some filesystem references got broken by a previous patch
series I submitted. Address those.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # fs/affs/Kconfig
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57318c53008dbda7f6f4a5a9e5787f4d37e8565a.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Power9 introduced Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS) which allows
userspace to communicate with Nest Accelerator (NX) directly. But
kernel has to establish channel to NX for userspace. This document
describes user space API that application can use to establish
communication channel.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587114715.2275.1135.camel@hbabu-laptop
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Slightly late as I had to rebase mid-week to insert a bug fix:
- A large series from Nick for 64-bit to further rework our exception
vectors, and rewrite portions of the syscall entry/exit and
interrupt return in C. The result is much easier to follow code
that is also faster in general.
- Cleanup of our ptrace code to split various parts out that had
become badly intertwined with #ifdefs over the years.
- Changes to our NUMA setup under the PowerVM hypervisor which should
hopefully avoid non-sensical topologies which can lead to warnings
from the workqueue code and other problems.
- MAINTAINERS updates to remove some of our old orphan entries and
update the status of others.
- Quite a few other small changes and fixes all over the map.
Thanks to: Abdul Haleem, afzal mohammed, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew
Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Cédric Le Goater, Chen
Zhou, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Clement
Courbet, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Douglas Miller, Fabiano Rosas,
Fangrui Song, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo Luiz Duarte, Hari Bathini, Ilie Halip, Jan Kara,
Joe Lawrence, Joe Perches, Kajol Jain, Larry Finger, Laurentiu Tudor,
Leonardo Bras, Libor Pechacek, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
Masahiro Yamada, Masami Hiramatsu, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira, Michael
Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Mike Rapoport, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan
Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick
Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Po-Hsu Lin, Pratik Rajesh Sampat,
Rasmus Villemoes, Ravi Bangoria, Roman Bolshakov, Sam Bobroff,
Sandipan Das, Santosh S, Sedat Dilek, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G
Bhat, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Tyrel
Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
powerpc: Make setjmp/longjmp signature standard
powerpc/cputable: Remove unnecessary copy of cpu_spec->oprofile_type
powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation
powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
powerpc/32: drop unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
powerpc/powernv: Add documentation for the opal sensor_groups sysfs interfaces
selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash
powerpc/ptrace: move ptrace_triggered() into hw_breakpoint.c
powerpc/ptrace: create ppc_gethwdinfo()
powerpc/ptrace: create ptrace_get_debugreg()
powerpc/ptrace: split out ADV_DEBUG_REGS related functions.
powerpc/ptrace: move register viewing functions out of ptrace.c
powerpc/ptrace: split out TRANSACTIONAL_MEM related functions.
powerpc/ptrace: split out SPE related functions.
powerpc/ptrace: split out ALTIVEC related functions.
powerpc/ptrace: split out VSX related functions.
powerpc/ptrace: drop PARAMETER_SAVE_AREA_OFFSET
powerpc/ptrace: drop unnecessary #ifdefs CONFIG_PPC64
powerpc/ptrace: remove unused header includes
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Changeset 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each
document title, plus to each chapter inside it.
There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections
with the same name anymore.
A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to
avoid most creating references for every single section title,
but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside
a document.
There are a few places where there are two chapters with the
same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to
avoid symbol conflict within the same document.
PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend
(Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches"
for this document:
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst
Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by FADump for
saving the crash dump.
Also added Documentation/ABI for the new sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and
move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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The /sys/firmware/opal/core and /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
sysfs files are used to export and release the OPAL memory on PowerNV
platform. let's organize them into a new kobject under
/sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/ directory.
A symlink is added to maintain the backward compatibility for
/sys/firmware/opal/core sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"A pretty small batch for us, and apologies for it being a bit late, I
wanted to sneak Christophe's user_access_begin() series in.
Summary:
- Implement user_access_begin() and friends for our platforms that
support controlling kernel access to userspace.
- Enable CONFIG_VMAP_STACK on 32-bit Book3S and 8xx.
- Some tweaks to our pseries IOMMU code to allow SVMs ("secure"
virtual machines) to use the IOMMU.
- Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 32-bit
VDSO, and some other improvements.
- A series to use the PCI hotplug framework to control opencapi
card's so that they can be reset and re-read after flashing a new
FPGA image.
As well as other minor fixes and improvements as usual.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexandre Ghiti, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Bai Yingjie, Chen
Zhou, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Greg Kurz, Jason A.
Donenfeld, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Laurentiu Tudor, Linus Walleij, Michael
Bringmann, Nathan Chancellor, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers,
Oliver O'Halloran, Peter Ujfalusi, Pingfan Liu, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap,
Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shawn
Anastasio, Stephen Rothwell, Steve Best, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago
Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain"
* tag 'powerpc-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (131 commits)
powerpc: configs: Cleanup old Kconfig options
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable some more hardening options
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Disable xmon default & enable reboot on panic
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable security features
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Update for symbol movement only
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop default n CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
powerpc/configs/skiroot: Drop HID_LOGITECH
powerpc/configs: Drop NET_VENDOR_HP which moved to staging
powerpc/configs: NET_CADENCE became NET_VENDOR_CADENCE
powerpc/configs: Drop CONFIG_QLGE which moved to staging
powerpc: Do not consider weak unresolved symbol relocations as bad
powerpc/32s: Fix kasan_early_hash_table() for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
powerpc: indent to improve Kconfig readability
powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls
powerpc: Implement user_access_save() and user_access_restore()
powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
powerpc/32s: Prepare prevent_user_access() for user_access_end()
powerpc/32s: Drop NULL addr verification
powerpc/kuap: Fix set direction in allow/prevent_user_access()
powerpc/32s: Fix bad_kuap_fault()
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This doc patch provides an initial description of the hcall op-codes
that are used by Linux kernel running as a guest (LPAR) on top of
PowerVM or any other sPAPR compliant hyper-visor (e.g qemu).
Apart from documenting the hcalls the doc-patch also provides a
rudimentary overview of how hcall ABI, how they are issued with the
Linux kernel and how information/control flows between the guest and
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Add SPDX tag, add it to index.rst]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190828082729.16695-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
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Implement the H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall which the Ultravisor can use to
abort an SVM after it has issued the H_SVM_INIT_START and before the
H_SVM_INIT_DONE hcalls. This hcall could be used when Ultravisor
encounters security violations or other errors when starting an SVM.
Note that this hcall is different from UV_SVM_TERMINATE ucall which
is used by HV to terminate/cleanup an VM that has becore secure.
The H_SVM_INIT_ABORT basically undoes operations that were done
since the H_SVM_INIT_START hcall - i.e page-out all the VM pages back
to normal memory, and terminate the SVM.
(If we do not bring the pages back to normal memory, the text/data
of the VM would be stuck in secure memory and since the SVM did not
go secure, its MSR_S bit will be clear and the VM wont be able to
access its pages even to do a clean exit).
Based on patches and discussion with Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and
Bharata Rao.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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Documentation for IMC (In-Memory Collection Counters) infrastructure
and trace-mode of IMC.
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Convert to rst, minor rewording, make PMI example more concise]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028100816.6270-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Add document to explain how we implement KASLR for fsl_booke32.
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
[mpe: Add it to the index as well]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The documentation pages for 'elfnote' and 'ultravisor'
are not included in the powerpc documentation index, this
generates Sphinx warnings:
WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Additionally, when one includes these missing doc pages,
more Sphinx warnings appear. Unused footnote references,
syntax highlighting and table of content ordering has
been adjusted.
Signed-off-by: Adam Zerella <adam.zerella@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190915052905.13431-1-adam.zerella@gmail.com
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With /sys/firmware/opal/core support available on OPAL based machines
and an option to the release memory used by kernel in exporting this
core file, update FADump documentation with these details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821382786.5656.13173494907671241231.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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Kernel config option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP is introduced to ensure
crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. Update
documentation with this details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821377195.5656.15840065629705958324.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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With FADump support now available on both pseries and OPAL platforms,
update FADump documentation with these details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821361692.5656.11377757995827253404.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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fadump is pronounced f-a-dump. Update documentation accordingly. Also,
update how fadump_region contents look like with recent changes.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821339317.5656.15852294223821732082.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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The figures depicting FADump's (Firmware-Assisted Dump) memory layout
are missing some finer details like different memory regions and what
they represent. Improve the documentation by updating those details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821322070.5656.8194734198500730487.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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Protected Execution Facility (PEF) is an architectural change for
POWER 9 that enables Secure Virtual Machines (SVMs). When enabled,
PEF adds a new higher privileged mode, called Ultravisor mode, to POWER
architecture. Along with the new mode there is new firmware called the
Protected Execution Ultravisor (or Ultravisor for short).
POWER 9 DD2.3 chips (PVR=0x004e1203) or greater will be PEF-capable.
Attached documentation provides an overview of PEF and defines the API
for various interfaces that must be implemented in the Ultravisor
firmware as well as in the KVM Hypervisor.
Based on input from Mike Anderson, Thiago Bauermann, Claudio Carvalho,
Ben Herrenschmidt, Guerney Hunt, Paul Mackerras.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guerney Hunt <gdhh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-2-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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The ELF note documentation describes the types and descriptors to be
used with the PowerPC namespace.
Signed-off-by: Maxiwell S. Garcia <maxiwell@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829155021.2915-3-maxiwell@linux.ibm.com
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Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific
book.
The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there
was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard.
The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few
missing section title identifiers.
One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used
to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be
used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an
even longer one.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> # cxl
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The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
(yet?) made it upstream.
- A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
kernel crashes.
- Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.
- A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
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Add a document describing the fields provided by
/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.
Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:
PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Sphinx doesn't like orphan documents:
Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f429-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f746-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f769-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32h743-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32mp157-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/laptops/lg-laptop.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
So, while they aren't on any toctree, add :orphan: to them, in order
to silent this warning.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via:
echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous
The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in:
9654153158 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box
(ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR. This
allows them to force enable DAWR.
This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is
cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your
machine once again safe from crashing.
Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force
enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via
PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an
inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests.
For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force
enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on
POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the
dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support
writing the DAWR.
To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c
Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.
In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.
In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".
We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.
Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able
to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory
except the user pages that were present in CMA region.
Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7557 193 6822 12 541 6725
Swap: 4095 0 4095
With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8133 194 7464 12 475 7338
Swap: 4095 0 4095
Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.
Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.
TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA
versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it
already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in
one place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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