kernel/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h, branch linux-4.16.y

powerpc: store and restore the pkey state across context switches

2018-01-20T11:59:00Z

Store and restore the AMR, IAMR and UAMOR register state of the task before scheduling out and after scheduling in, respectively. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Define set_thread_uses_vas()

2017-11-11T22:03:09Z

A CP_ABORT instruction is required in processes that have mapped a VAS "paste address" with the intention of using COPY/PASTE instructions. But since CP_ABORT is expensive, we want to restrict it to only processes that use/intend to use COPY/PASTE. Define an interface, set_thread_uses_vas(), that VAS can use to indicate that the current process opened a send window. During context switch, issue CP_ABORT only for processes that have the flag set. Thanks for input from Nick Piggin, Michael Ellerman. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [mpe: Fix to not use new_thread after _switch() returns] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Add support for setting SPRN_TIDR

2017-11-11T22:03:09Z

We need the SPRN_TIDR to be set for use with fast thread-wakeup (core- to-core wakeup) and also with CAPI. Each thread in a process needs to have a unique id within the process. But for now, we assign globally unique thread ids to all threads in the system. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard [mpe: Simplify tidr clearing on fork() and ctx switch code] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-07-07T20:55:45Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs. - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs. - Generic & powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9. As well as many other fixes and improvements. Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yang Li" * tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits) powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction() powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction() powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction() powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp() powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8 ...

Merge branch 'fixes' into next

2017-07-03T13:05:43Z

Merge our fixes branch, a few of them are tripping people up while working on top of next, and we also have a dependency between the CXL fixes and new CXL code we want to merge into next.

powerpc/64: implement spin loop primitives

2017-07-02T10:40:17Z

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved_pc()

2017-06-28T23:13:57Z

The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in sched_show_task()"). Remove the implementations as well. Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code. Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/64s/idle: Move soft interrupt mask logic into C code

2017-06-19T09:46:26Z

This simplifies the asm and fixes irq-off tracing over sleep instructions. Also move powersave_nap check for POWER8 into C code, and move PSSCR register value calculation for POWER9 into C. Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space

2017-06-08T10:42:56Z

Supporting 512TB requires us to do a order 3 allocation for level 1 page table (pgd). This results in page allocation failures with certain workloads. For now limit 4k linux page size config to 64TB. Fixes: f6eedbba7a26 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB") Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64e: Don't place the stack beyond TASK_SIZE

2017-05-05T06:22:06Z

Commit f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB") increased the task size on book3s, and introduced a mechanism to dynamically control whether a task uses these larger addresses. While the change to the task size itself was ifdef-protected to only apply on book3s, the change to STACK_TOP_USER64 was not. On book3e, this had the effect of trying to use addresses up to 128TiB for the stack despite a 64TiB task size limit -- which broke 64-bit userspace producing the following errors: Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -14) Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -14) Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance. Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB") Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Scott Wood