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<title>kernel/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h, branch linux-5.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<updated>2019-04-30T12:37:48Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T12:37:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2019-04-12T14:30:52Z</published>
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Reimplement Book3S idle code in C, moving POWER7/8/9 implementation
speific HV idle code to the powernv platform code.

Book3S assembly stubs are kept in common code and used only to save
the stack frame and non-volatile GPRs before executing architected
idle instructions, and restoring the stack and reloading GPRs then
returning to C after waking from idle.

The complex logic dealing with threads and subcores, locking, SPRs,
HMIs, timebase resync, etc., is all done in C which makes it more
maintainable.

This is not a strict translation to C code, there are some
significant differences:

- Idle wakeup no longer uses the -&gt;cpu_restore call to reinit SPRs,
  but saves and restores them itself.

- The optimisation where EC=ESL=0 idle modes did not have to save GPRs
  or change MSR is restored, because it's now simple to do. ESL=1
  sleeps that do not lose GPRs can use this optimization too.

- KVM secondary entry and cede is now more of a call/return style
  rather than branchy. nap_state_lost is not required because KVM
  always returns via NVGPR restoring path.

- KVM secondary wakeup from offline sequence is moved entirely into
  the offline wakeup, which avoids a hwsync in the normal idle wakeup
  path.

Performance measured with context switch ping-pong on different
threads or cores, is possibly improved a small amount, 1-3% depending
on stop state and core vs thread test for shallow states. Deep states
it's in the noise compared with other latencies.

KVM improvements:

- Idle sleepers now always return to caller rather than branch out
  to KVM first.

- This allows optimisations like very fast return to caller when no
  state has been lost.

- KVM no longer requires nap_state_lost because it controls NVGPR
  save/restore itself on the way in and out.

- The heavy idle wakeup KVM request check can be moved out of the
  normal host idle code and into the not-performance-critical offline
  code.

- KVM nap code now returns from where it is called, which makes the
  flow a bit easier to follow.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash the KVM changes in]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Update comments in preparation for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T11:31:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-17T12:25:53Z</published>
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Update a few comments that talk about current_thread_info() in
preparation for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Split out of larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: add helper to write into segment registers</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T10:04:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T19:08:44Z</published>
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This patch add an helper which wraps 'mtsrin' instruction
to write into segment registers.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/6xx: Store PGDIR physical address in a SPRG</title>
<updated>2019-02-21T13:10:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T10:37:55Z</published>
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Use SPRN_SPRG2 to store the current thread PGDIR and
avoid reading thread_struct.pgdir at every TLB miss.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/6xx: Don't use SPRN_SPRG2 for storing stack pointer while in RTAS</title>
<updated>2019-02-21T13:10:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T10:37:54Z</published>
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When calling RTAS, the stack pointer is stored in SPRN_SPRG2
in order to be able to restore it in case of machine check in RTAS.

As machine check is not a perfomance critical path, this patch
frees SPRN_SPRG2 by using a field in thread struct instead.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/83xx: handle machine check caused by watchdog timer</title>
<updated>2018-12-22T02:56:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-10T11:41:29Z</published>
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When the watchdog timer is set in interrupt mode, it causes a
machine check when it times out. The purpose of this mode is to
ease debugging, not to crash the kernel and reboot the machine.

This patch implements a special handling for that, in order to not
crash the kernel if the watchdog times out while in interrupt or
within the idle task.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[scottwood: added missing #include]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: change CONFIG_6xx to CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32</title>
<updated>2018-11-26T11:33:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-17T10:24:56Z</published>
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Today we have:

config PPC_BOOK3S_32
	bool "512x/52xx/6xx/7xx/74xx/82xx/83xx/86xx"
	[depends on PPC32 within a choice]

config PPC_BOOK3S
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64

config 6xx
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC32 &amp;&amp; PPC_BOOK3S

6xx is therefore redundant with PPC_BOOK3S_32.

In order to make the code clearer, lets use preferably PPC_BOOK3S_32.
This will allow to remove CONFIG_6xx in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T21:36:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T21:36:21Z</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitise hv_regs on nested guest entry</title>
<updated>2018-10-09T05:04:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Suraj Jitindar Singh</name>
<email>sjitindarsingh@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T05:31:14Z</published>
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restore_hv_regs() is used to copy the hv_regs L1 wants to set to run the
nested (L2) guest into the vcpu structure. We need to sanitise these
values to ensure we don't let the L1 guest hypervisor do things we don't
want it to.

We don't let data address watchpoints or completed instruction address
breakpoints be set to match in hypervisor state.

We also don't let L1 enable features in the hypervisor facility status
and control register (HFSCR) for L2 which we have disabled for L1. That
is L2 will get the subset of features which the L0 hypervisor has
enabled for L1 and the features L1 wants to enable for L2. This could
mean we give L1 a hypervisor facility unavailable interrupt for a
facility it thinks it has enabled, however it shouldn't have enabled a
facility it itself doesn't have for the L2 guest.

We sanitise the registers when copying in the L2 hv_regs. We don't need
to sanitise when copying back the L1 hv_regs since these shouldn't be
able to contain invalid values as they're just what was copied out.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh &lt;sjitindarsingh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle hypervisor instruction faults better</title>
<updated>2018-10-09T05:04:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T05:30:56Z</published>
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Currently the code for handling hypervisor instruction page faults
passes 0 for the flags indicating the type of fault, which is OK in
the usual case that the page is not mapped in the partition-scoped
page tables.  However, there are other causes for hypervisor
instruction page faults, such as not being to update a reference
(R) or change (C) bit.  The cause is indicated in bits in HSRR1,
including a bit which indicates that the fault is due to not being
able to write to a page (for example to update an R or C bit).
Not handling these other kinds of faults correctly can lead to a
loop of continual faults without forward progress in the guest.

In order to handle these faults better, this patch constructs a
"DSISR-like" value from the bits which DSISR and SRR1 (for a HISI)
have in common, and passes it to kvmppc_book3s_hv_page_fault() so
that it knows what caused the fault.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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