The current value of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS cannot work with 32 bit configs.
We used to have MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS not defined without SPARSEMEM and 32
bit configs never expected a value to be set for MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
Dependent code such as zsmalloc derived the right values based on other
fields. Instead of
Le 03/04/2019 à 05:52, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
Please test VLC with the RC3 of kernel 5.1.
The removing of the PowerPC fixes 5.1-3 has solved the VLC issue. Another user
has already confirmed that [1]. This isn’t an April Fool‘s. ;-)
Could you bisect to identify the guilty commit ?
Than
Le 02/04/2019 à 22:41, Daniel Jordan a écrit :
With locked_vm now an atomic, there is no need to take mmap_sem as
writer. Delete and refactor accordingly.
Could you please detail the change ? It looks like this is not the only
change. I'm wondering what the consequences are.
Before we di
Le 02/04/2019 à 22:41, Daniel Jordan a écrit :
Taking and dropping mmap_sem to modify a single counter, locked_vm, is
overkill when the counter could be synchronized separately.
Make mmap_sem a little less coarse by changing locked_vm to an atomic,
the 64-bit variety to avoid issues with over
On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 11:53 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> > On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 17:19 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> ...
> > > > Can I compile it away?
> > >
> > > You can't actually, but you can disable it at runtime with
> > >
Le 03/04/2019 à 05:38, Christopher M Riedl a écrit :
On March 29, 2019 at 3:41 AM Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 29/03/2019 à 05:21, cmr a écrit :
Operations which write to memory should be restricted on secure systems
and optionally to avoid self-destructive behaviors.
Add a config option,
Currently mm_iommu_do_alloc() is called in 2 cases:
- VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_REGISTER_MEMORY ioctl() for normal memory:
this locks &mem_list_mutex and then locks mm::mmap_sem
several times when adjusting locked_vm or pinning pages;
- vfio_pci_nvgpu_regops::mmap() for GPU memory:
t
When called with vmas_arg==NULL, get_user_pages_longterm() allocates
an array of nr_pages*8 which can easily get greater that the max order,
for example, registering memory for a 256GB guest does this and fails
in __alloc_pages_nodemask().
This adds a loop over chunks of entries to fit the max ord
The patches do independent things but touch exact same code so
the order in which they should apply matters.
This supercedes:
[PATCH kernel] powerpc/mm_iommu: Allow pinning large regions
[PATCH kernel 1/2] powerpc/mm_iommu: Prepare for less locking
[PATCH kernel 2/2] powerpc/mm_iommu: Fix potentia
Please test VLC with the RC3 of kernel 5.1.
The removing of the PowerPC fixes 5.1-3 has solved the VLC issue. Another user
has already confirmed that [1]. This isn’t an April Fool‘s. ;-)
Thanks
[1]
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=4256&start=20#p47561
> On March 29, 2019 at 3:41 AM Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Le 29/03/2019 à 05:21, cmr a écrit :
> > Operations which write to memory should be restricted on secure systems
> > and optionally to avoid self-destructive behaviors.
> >
> > Add a config option, XMON_RO, to control default xm
On 4/2/19 4:55 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Using a jiffies timer creates a dependency on the tick_do_timer_cpu
> incrementing jiffies. If that CPU has locked up and jiffies is not
> incrementing, the watchdog heartbeat timer for all CPUs stops and
> creates false positives and confusing warning
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> index b18abb0c3dae..00f5a63c8d9a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> @@ -505,3 +505,7 @@
> 421 32
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:47 PM Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>
>> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>> > Add the io_uring and pidfd_send_signal system calls to all architectures.
>> >
>> > These system calls are designed to handle both native and compat tasks,
>> > so all entries are the
Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 17:19 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Joakim Tjernlund writes:
...
>>
>> > Can I compile it away?
>>
>> You can't actually, but you can disable it at runtime with
>> "nospectre_v1" on the kernel command line.
>>
>> We could make it a user sele
It turns out that some defconfig changes and kernel config option
changes meant we accidentally dropped Ethernet support for Mellanox CLX5
cards.
Reported-by: Carol L Soto
Suggested-by: Carol L Soto
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley
---
arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defc
On Tue, 02 Apr 2019, Andrew Morton wrote:
Also, we didn't remove any down_write(mmap_sem)s from core code so I'm
thinking that the benefit of removing a few mmap_sem-takings from a few
obscure drivers (sorry ;)) is pretty small.
afaik porting the remaining incorrect users of locked_vm to pinne
On 4/2/19 6:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:11 PM Claudio Carvalho
> wrote:
>> We want to use the efivarfs for compatibility with existing userspace
>> tools. We will track and match any EFI changes that affect us.
> So you implement the full PK/KEK/db/dbx/dbt infrastru
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 4:12 AM Vabhav Sharma wrote:
>
> Adding compatible string "lx2160a-dcfg" to
> initialize guts driver for lx2160 and SoC die
> attribute definition for LX2160A
Applied to branch next. Thanks.
Regards,
Leo
>
> Signed-off-by: Vabhav Sharma
> Signed-off-by: Yinbo Zhu
> Ac
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:21 AM Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> We forgot to set "err" on this error path.
>
> Fixes: 1a2d397a6eb5 ("gpio/powerpc: Eliminate duplication of
> of_get_named_gpio_flags()")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
Applied to fix branch. Thanks.
Regards,
Leo
> ---
> drivers/soc/fs
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:11 PM Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> We want to use the efivarfs for compatibility with existing userspace
> tools. We will track and match any EFI changes that affect us.
So you implement the full PK/KEK/db/dbx/dbt infrastructure, and
updates are signed in the same way?
> Ou
Hi,
>From patch 1:
Taking and dropping mmap_sem to modify a single counter, locked_vm, is
overkill when the counter could be synchronized separately.
Make mmap_sem a little less coarse by changing locked_vm to an atomic,
the 64-bit variety to avoid issues with overflow on 32-bit system
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 16:41:53 -0400 Daniel Jordan
wrote:
> Taking and dropping mmap_sem to modify a single counter, locked_vm, is
> overkill when the counter could be synchronized separately.
>
> Make mmap_sem a little less coarse by changing locked_vm to an atomic,
> the 64-bit variety to avoid
With locked_vm now an atomic, there is no need to take mmap_sem as
writer. Delete and refactor accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Paul Mackerras
On 4/2/19 4:36 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:15 AM Claudio Carvalho
> wrote:
>> 1. Enable efivarfs by selecting CONFIG_EFI in the CONFIG_OPAL_SECVAR
>>introduced in this patch set. With CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS, userspace tools can
>>be used to manage the secure variabl
With locked_vm now an atomic, there is no need to take mmap_sem as
writer. Delete and refactor accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Removes size argument from the swap function because:
1) It wasn't used.
2) Custom swap function knows what kind of objects it swaps,
so it already knows their sizes.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Abramov
Reviewed by: George Spelvin
---
arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c | 2 +
Replace swap_dirty_idx function with built-in one,
because swap_dirty_idx does only a simple byte to byte swap.
Since Spectre mitigations have made indirect function calls more
expensive, and the default simple byte copies swap is implemented
without them, an "optimized" custom swap function is no
Taking and dropping mmap_sem to modify a single counter, locked_vm, is
overkill when the counter could be synchronized separately.
Make mmap_sem a little less coarse by changing locked_vm to an atomic,
the 64-bit variety to avoid issues with overflow on 32-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jorda
Replace dx_leaf_sort_swap, swap_refcount_rec and swap_xe functions
with built-in one, because they do only a simple byte to byte swap.
Since Spectre mitigations have made indirect function calls more
expensive, and the default simple byte copies swap is implemented
without them, an "optimized" cus
Replace relaswap with built-in one, because relaswap
does a simple byte to byte swap.
Since Spectre mitigations have made indirect function calls more
expensive, and the default simple byte copies swap is implemented
without them, an "optimized" custom swap function is now
a waste of time as well
Replace swap_eh_frame_hdr_table_entries with built-in one, because
swap_eh_frame_hdr_table_entries does a simple byte to byte swap.
Since Spectre mitigations have made indirect function calls more
expensive, and the default simple byte copies swap is implemented
without them, an "optimized" custom
This is the logical continuation of the "lib/sort & lib/list_sort:
faster and smaller" series by George Spelvin (added to linux-next
recently).
Since Spectre mitigations have made indirect function calls more
expensive, and the previous patch series implements the default
simple byte copies withou
Le 02/04/2019 à 18:14, Andrey Ryabinin a écrit :
On 4/2/19 12:43 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Hi Dmitry, Andrey and others,
Do you have any comments to this series ?
I don't see justification for adding all these non-instrumented functions. We
need only some subset of these functions
an
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:39:10AM +, S.j. Wang wrote:
> > > In ESAI synchronous mode, the clock is generated by Tx, So we should
> > > always set registers of Tx which relate with the bit clock and frame
> > > clock generation (TCCR, TCR, ECR), even there is only Rx is working.
> > >
> > >
01.04.2019, 13:11, "Michael Ellerman" :
> This looks OK. It's a bit of a pity to replace the 8-byte-at-a-time copy
> with a byte-at-a-time copy, but I suspect it's insignificant compared to
> the overhead of calling the comparison and swap functions.
>
> And we could always add a generic 8-byte-at-
Le 02/04/2019 à 20:31, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
Le 02/04/2019 à 16:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocating those on radix. This will help us to save
Le 02/04/2019 à 17:42, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
On 4/2/19 9:06 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 02/04/2019 à 16:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocati
Le 02/04/2019 à 16:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocating those on radix. This will help us to save
8K per mm_context with radix translation.
With the
From: Nayna Jain
PowerNV secure boot relies on the kernel IMA security subsystem to
perform the OS kernel image signature verification. Since each secure
boot mode has different IMA policy requirements, dynamic definition of
the policy rules based on the runtime secure boot mode of the system is
From: Nayna Jain
PowerNV secure boot defines different IMA policies based on the secure
boot state of the system.
This patch defines a function to detect the secure boot state of the
system.
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/secboot.h | 21 +
arch/powerpc/pl
The X.509 certificates trusted by the platform and other information
required to secure boot the host OS kernel are wrapped in secure
variables, which are controlled by OPAL.
The OPAL secure variables can be handled through the following OPAL
calls.
OPAL_SECVAR_GET:
Returns the data for a given s
When CONFIG_EFI is enabled, the EFI driver includes the generic
early_ioremap header, which assumes that architectures may want to
provide their own early ioremap functions.
This patch overrides the ioremap functions in powerpc because they are
not required for secure boot on powerpc systems.
Sig
This patch set is part of a series that implements secure boot on
PowerNV systems.
In order to verify the OS kernel on PowerNV, secure boot requires X.509
certificates trusted by the platform, the secure boot modes, and several
other pieces of information. These are stored in secure variables
cont
On 4/2/19 12:43 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Dmitry, Andrey and others,
>
> Do you have any comments to this series ?
>
I don't see justification for adding all these non-instrumented functions. We
need only some subset of these functions
and only on powerpc so far. Arches that don't use
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 03:21:09PM +, Diana Madalina Craciun wrote:
> On 3/31/2019 12:53 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Greg KH writes:
> >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:51:16PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:25:48PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP S
On 4/2/19 9:06 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 02/04/2019 à 16:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocating those on radix. This will help us to save
8K per mm
Le 02/04/2019 à 16:34, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocating those on radix. This will help us to save
8K per mm_context with radix translation.
With the
On Tue 02-04-19 17:21:25, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> With some architectures like ppc64, set_pmd_at() cannot cope with
> a situation where there is already some (different) valid entry present.
>
> Use pmdp_set_access_flags() instead to modify the pfn which is built to
> deal with modifying existin
On 3/31/2019 12:53 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Greg KH writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:51:16PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:25:48PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, Please queue
up these powerpc patches
Le 02/04/2019 à 14:58, Dmitry Vyukov a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:43 AM Christophe Leroy
wrote:
Hi Dmitry, Andrey and others,
Do you have any comments to this series ?
I'd like to know if this approach is ok or if it is better to keep doing
as in https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/
Currently, our mm_context_t on book3s64 include all hash specific
context details like slice mask, subpage protection details. We
can skip allocating those on radix. This will help us to save
8K per mm_context with radix translation.
With the patch applied we have
sizeof(mm_context_t) = 136
size
3.16.65-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
--
From: Finn Thain
commit 296dcc40f2f2e402facf7cd26cf3f2c8f4b17d47 upstream.
When the block device is opened with FMODE_EXCL, ref_count is set to -1.
This value doesn't get reset when the device is cl
Hi All,
I figured out, that the VLC player doesn't play videos anymore since the
PowerPC fixes 5.1-3 [1]. VLC plays videos with the RC1 of kernel 5.1
without any problems.
VLC error messages:
[100ea580] ts demux warning: first packet for pid=1104 cc=0xe
[100ea580] ts demux warning: first pac
Michael Ellerman writes:
> Ben Hutchings writes:
>> On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 01:03 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> On Mär 24 2019, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>>
>>> > Presumably you have CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 enabled and
>>> > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
>>> > disabled? Was this configuration actually usable?
>
With some architectures like ppc64, set_pmd_at() cannot cope with
a situation where there is already some (different) valid entry present.
Use pmdp_set_access_flags() instead to modify the pfn which is built to
deal with modifying existing PMD entries.
This is similar to
commit cae85cb8add3 ("mm/
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar
Print more information about mce error whether it is an hardware or
software error.
Some of the mce errors can be easily categorized as hardware or software
errors e.g. UEs are due to hardware error, where as error triggered due to
invalid usage of tlbie is a pure softwar
Using a jiffies timer creates a dependency on the tick_do_timer_cpu
incrementing jiffies. If that CPU has locked up and jiffies is not
incrementing, the watchdog heartbeat timer for all CPUs stops and
creates false positives and confusing warnings on local CPUs, and
also causes the SMP detector to
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar
Also add cpu number while displaying mce log. This will help cleaner logs
when mce hits on multiple cpus simultaneously.
before the changes the mce o/p was:
[ 127.223515] Severe Machine check interrupt [Recovered]
[ 127.223530] NIP [dba80280]:
insert_slb_ent
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar
Currently all machine check errors are printed as severe errors which isn't
correct. Print soft errors as warning instead of severe errors.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar
---
change in v2:
- Use kernel types i.e. u8, u64 etc.
- Define sync_error as bool.
---
arch/powe
Hi
>
> Shengjiu,
>
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:39:10AM +, S.j. Wang wrote:
> > In ESAI synchronous mode, the clock is generated by Tx, So we should
> > always set registers of Tx which relate with the bit clock and frame
> > clock generation (TCCR, TCR, ECR), even there is only Rx is workin
Hi Dmitry, Andrey and others,
Do you have any comments to this series ?
I'd like to know if this approach is ok or if it is better to keep doing
as in https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1055788/
Thanks
Christophe
Le 28/03/2019 à 16:00, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
In the same spirit as commit
This patch moves powerpc to the centraly defined CMDLINE options.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 48 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 22d6a
Most arches have similar boot command line manipulation options.
This patchs adds the definition in init/Kconfig, gated by
CONFIG_HAVE_CMDLINE that the arches can select to use them.
In order to use this, a few arches will have to change their
CONFIG options:
- riscv has to replace CMDLINE_FALLBAC
This updates the powerpc code to use the new cmdline building function.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 19 ---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
i
This patch activates the capability to prepend default
arguments to the command line.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 2972348e52be..22d6a48bd2ca 100644
--- a/arch/
This patchs adds an option of prepend a text to the command
line instead of appending it.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
include/linux/cmdline.h | 5 -
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/cmdline.h b/include/linux/cmdline.h
index afcc00d7628d..5caf
PROM_SCRATCH_SIZE is same as sizeof(prom_scratch)
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 20 +---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index a6cd52240c58..d4
This patch uses the new cmdline building function to
concatenate the of provided cmdline with built-in parts
based on compile-time options.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
drivers/of/fdt.c| 23 ---
include/linux/cmdline.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+),
Today, powerpc defined CONFIG_CMDLINE for when bootloader doesn't
provide a command line or for overriding it.
On same way as ARM, this patch adds the option of appending the
CONFIG_CMDLINE to bootloader's provided command line.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
This code provides architectures with a way to build command line
based on what is built in the kernel and what is handed over by the
bootloader, based on selected compile-time options.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
---
include/linux/cmdline.h | 34 ++
1 file ch
The purpose of this series is to improve and enhance the
handling of kernel boot arguments.
It is first focussed on powerpc but also extends the capability
for other arches.
This is based on suggestion from Daniel Walker
Christophe Leroy (9):
powerpc: enable appending of CONFIG_CMDLINE to boo
On 02/04/2019 07:14, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> On 04/01/2019 11:51 AM, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
>> of posix_get_hrtimer_res().
>>
>> In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
>> sec = 0;
>> ns = hrtimer_resolu
Hi Christophe,
thank you for your review.
On 02/04/2019 06:54, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> On 04/01/2019 11:51 AM, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
>> of posix_get_hrtimer_res().
>>
>> In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 17:19 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> > On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 22:26 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > From: Diana Craciun
> > >
> > > commit ebcd1bfc33c7a90df941df68a6e5d4018c022fba upstream.
> > >
> > > Implement the barrier_nospec as a i
From: Patrick Havelange
Add the 4 Quadrature counters for this board.
Reviewed-by: Esben Haabendal
Signed-off-by: Patrick Havelange
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray
---
arch/arm/boot/dts/ls1021a.dtsi | 28
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/
From: Patrick Havelange
This adds documentation for the specific prescaler entry.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Havelange
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray
---
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter-ftm-quaddec| 16
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentati
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