When using fadump (fireware assist dump) mode on powerpc, a mismatch
between grub xfs driver and kernel xfs driver has been obsevered. Note:
fadump boots up in the following sequence: fireware -> grub reads kernel
and initramfs -> kernel boots.
The process to reproduce this mismatch:
- On power
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 08:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 06:40, Eric Biggers wrote:
> >
> > This series converts the PowerPC Nest (NX) implementations of AES modes
> > from the deprecated "blkcipher" API to the "skcipher" API. This is
> > needed in order for the blkcipher A
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205183
Bug ID: 205183
Summary: PPC64: Signal delivery fails with SIGSEGV if between
about 1KB and 4KB bytes of stack remain
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware
Version: 2.5
Kernel Versi
From: Cédric Le Goater
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:52:54 +0200
> pSeries machines on POWER9 processors can run with the XICS (legacy)
> interrupt mode or with the XIVE exploitation interrupt mode. These
> interrupt contollers have different interfaces for interrupt
> management : XICS uses hcalls a
On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:31:31PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 08:29, Ard Biesheuvel
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 06:40, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > >
> > > This series converts the PowerPC Nest (NX) implementations of AES modes
> > > from the deprecated "blkciph
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 20:56, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:31:31PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 08:29, Ard Biesheuvel
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 06:40, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This series converts the PowerPC Nest (
On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 10:37:00PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> When using fadump (fireware assist dump) mode on powerpc, a mismatch
> between grub xfs driver and kernel xfs driver has been obsevered. Note:
> fadump boots up in the following sequence: fireware -> grub reads kernel
> and initramfs -
The defaults for the sigfuz test is to run for 4000 iterations, but
that can take quite a while and the test harness may kill the test.
Reduce the number of iterations to 600, which gives a runtime of
roughly 1 minute on a Power8 system.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
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tools/testing/selftest
On 4/10/19 5:50 pm, Russell Currey wrote:
With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y and CONFIG_KPROBES=y, there will be one
W+X page at boot by default. This can be tested with
CONFIG_PPC_PTDUMP=y and CONFIG_PPC_DEBUG_WX=y set, and checking the
kernel log during boot.
powerpc doesn't implement its own al
Some of our TM (Transactional Memory) tests, list "r1" (the stack
pointer) as a clobbered register.
GCC >= 9 doesn't accept this, and the build breaks:
ptrace-tm-spd-tar.c: In function 'tm_spd_tar':
ptrace-tm-spd-tar.c:31:2: error: listing the stack pointer register 'r1' in a
clobber list is
On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 08:21 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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> Le 04/10/2019 à 09:50, Russell Currey a écrit :
> > Very rudimentary, just
> >
> > echo 1 > [debugfs]/check_wx_pages
> >
> > and check the kernel log. Useful for testing strict module RWX.
> >
> > Also fixed a typo.
> >
> > Si
When building pseries_defconfig, building vdso32 errors out:
error: unknown target ABI 'elfv1'
This happens because -m32 in clang changes the target to 32-bit,
which does not allow the ABI to be changed, as the setABI virtual
function is not overridden:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blo
Hi all,
This series includes a set of fixes for LLVM/Clang when building
pseries_defconfig. These have been floating around as standalone
patches so I decided to gather them up as a series so it was easier
to review/apply them.
This has been broken for a bit now, it would be nice to get these
rev
Commit aea447141c7e ("powerpc: Disable -Wbuiltin-requires-header when
setjmp is used") disabled -Wbuiltin-requires-header because of a warning
about the setjmp and longjmp declarations.
r367387 in clang added another diagnostic around this, complaining that
there is no jmp_buf declaration.
In fil
r374662 gives LLVM the ability to convert certain loops into a reference
to bcmp as an optimization; this breaks prom_init_check.sh:
CALLarch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
Error: External symbol 'bcmp' referenced from prom_init.c
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:196: prom_init_
On 10/12/19 1:01 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 10/10/2019 à 08:25, Ravi Bangoria a écrit :
On 10/10/19 10:14 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
@Christophe, Is patch5 works for you on 8xx?
Getting the following :
root@vgoip:~# ./ptrace-hwbreak
test: ptrace-hwbreak
tags: git_version:v5.4-rc2
On 10/12/19 2:21 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 10/10/2019 à 06:44, Ravi Bangoria a écrit :
@Christophe, Is patch5 works for you on 8xx?
Getting the following :
root@vgoip:~# ./ptrace-hwbreak
test: ptrace-hwbreak
tags: git_version:v5.4-rc2-710-gf0082e173fe4-dirty
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG,
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 06:25:18PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
>
> In order to safely use the DMA API, virtio needs to know whether DMA
> addresses are in fact physical addresses and for that purpose,
> dma_addr_is_phys_addr() is introduced.
>
> cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 06:25:19PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
>
> Normally, virtio enables DMA API with VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM, which must
> be set by both device and guest driver. However, as a hack, when DMA API
> returns physical addresses, guest driver can use the DM
With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y and CONFIG_KPROBES=y, there will be one
W+X page at boot by default. This can be tested with
CONFIG_PPC_PTDUMP=y and CONFIG_PPC_DEBUG_WX=y set, and checking the
kernel log during boot.
powerpc doesn't implement its own alloc() for kprobes like other
architectures d
Whether STRICT_MODULE_RWX is enabled by default depends on powerpc
platform - in arch/Kconfig, STRICT_MODULE_RWX depends on
ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX, which in arch/powerpc/Kconfig is selected if
ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is selected, which is only true with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE *disabled*.
defconfi
Very rudimentary, just
echo 1 > [debugfs]/check_wx_pages
and check the kernel log. Useful for testing strict module RWX.
Updated the Kconfig entry to reflect this.
Also fixed a typo.
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey
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arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug | 6 --
arch/powerpc/mm/ptdum
v3 cover letter here:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-October/198023.html
Only minimal changes since then:
- patch 2/4 commit message update thanks to Andrew Donnellan
- patch 3/4 made neater thanks to Christophe Leroy
- patch 3/4 updated Kconfig description thanks to Daniel
The set_memory_{ro/rw/nx/x}() functions are required for STRICT_MODULE_RWX,
and are generally useful primitives to have. This implementation is
designed to be completely generic across powerpc's many MMUs.
It's possible that this could be optimised to be faster for specific
MMUs, but the focus is
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