- 03 Jan, 2017 25 commits
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Matt Redfearn authored
When relocatable support for MIPS was merged, there was no support for an architecture to add a postlink step for vmlinux. This meant that only invoking a target within the boot directory, such as uImage, caused the relocations to be inserted into vmlinux. Building just the vmlinux target would result in a relocatable kernel with no relocation information present. Commit fbe6e37d ("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile") recified this situation, so MIPS can now define a postlink step to add relocation information into vmlinux, and remove the additional steps tacked onto boot targets. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Tested-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14554/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
is_jump_ins() checks for plain jump ("j") instructions since commit e7438c4b ("MIPS: Fix sibling call handling in get_frame_info") but that commit didn't make the same change to the microMIPS code, leaving it inconsistent with the MIPS32/MIPS64 code. Handle the microMIPS encoding of the jump instruction too such that it behaves consistently. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: e7438c4b ("MIPS: Fix sibling call handling in get_frame_info") Cc: Tony Wu <tung7970@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14533/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
get_frame_info() calculates the offset of the return address within a stack frame simply by dividing a the bottom 16 bits of the instruction, treated as a signed integer, by the size of a long. Whilst this works for MIPS32 & MIPS64 ISAs where the sw or sd instructions are used, it's incorrect for microMIPS where encodings differ. The result is that we typically completely fail to unwind the stack on microMIPS. Fix this by adjusting is_ra_save_ins() to calculate the return address offset, and take into account the various different encodings there in the same place as we consider whether an instruction is storing the ra/$31 register. With this we are now able to unwind the stack for kernels targetting the microMIPS ISA, for example we can produce: Call Trace: [<80109e1f>] show_stack+0x63/0x7c [<8011ea17>] __warn+0x9b/0xac [<8011ea45>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x1d/0x20 [<8013fe53>] register_console+0x43/0x314 [<8067c58d>] of_setup_earlycon+0x1dd/0x1ec [<8067f63f>] early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout+0xe7/0xf8 [<8066c115>] do_early_param+0x75/0xac [<801302f9>] parse_args+0x1dd/0x308 [<8066c459>] parse_early_options+0x25/0x28 [<8066c48b>] parse_early_param+0x2f/0x38 [<8066e8cf>] setup_arch+0x113/0x488 [<8066c4f3>] start_kernel+0x57/0x328 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Whereas previously we only produced: Call Trace: [<80109e1f>] show_stack+0x63/0x7c ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 34c2f668 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.") Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14532/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
is_jump_ins() checks 16b instruction fields without verifying that the instruction is indeed 16b, as is done by is_ra_save_ins() & is_sp_move_ins(). Add the appropriate check. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 34c2f668 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.") Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14531/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
get_frame_info() is meant to iterate over up to the first 128 instructions within a function, but for microMIPS kernels it will not reach that many instructions unless the function is 512 bytes long since we calculate the maximum number of instructions to check by dividing the function length by the 4 byte size of a union mips_instruction. In microMIPS kernels this won't do since instructions are variable length. Fix this by instead checking whether the pointer to the current instruction has reached the end of the function, and use max_insns as a simple constant to check the number of iterations against. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 34c2f668 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.") Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14530/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
During stack unwinding we call a number of functions to determine what type of instruction we're looking at. The union mips_instruction pointer provided to them may be pointing at a 2 byte, but not 4 byte, aligned address & we thus cannot directly access the 4 byte wide members of the union mips_instruction. To avoid this is_ra_save_ins() copies the required half-words of the microMIPS instruction to a correctly aligned union mips_instruction on the stack, which it can then access safely. The is_jump_ins() & is_sp_move_ins() functions do not correctly perform this temporary copy, and instead attempt to directly dereference 4 byte fields which may be misaligned and lead to an address exception. Fix this by copying the instruction halfwords to a temporary union mips_instruction in get_frame_info() such that we can provide a 4 byte aligned union mips_instruction to the is_*_ins() functions and they do not need to deal with misalignment themselves. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 34c2f668 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.") Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14529/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
get_frame_info() can be called in microMIPS kernels with the ISA bit already clear. For example this happens when unwind_stack_by_address() is called because we begin with a PC that has the ISA bit set & subtract the (odd) offset from the preceding symbol (which does not have the ISA bit set). Since get_frame_info() unconditionally subtracts 1 from the PC in microMIPS kernels it incorrectly misaligns the address it then attempts to access code at, leading to an address error exception. Fix this by using msk_isa16_mode() to clear the ISA bit, which allows get_frame_info() to function regardless of whether it is provided with a PC that has the ISA bit set or not. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 34c2f668 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.") Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14528/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
The MIPS-specific asm/unaligned.h provides nothing that the generic version doesn't - it simply uses MIPS-specific endianness macros in place of generic ones & lacks support for CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. Remove it & switch to using the generic version to remove duplication. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14412/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton authored
When clearing the .bss section in kernel_entry we do so using LONG_S instructions, and branch whilst the current write address doesn't equal the end of the .bss section minus the size of a long integer. The .bss section always begins at a long-aligned address and we always increment the write pointer by the size of a long integer - we therefore rely upon the .bss section ending at a long-aligned address. If this is not the case then the long-aligned write address can never be equal to the non-long-aligned end address & we will continue to increment past the end of the .bss section, attempting to zero the rest of memory. Despite this requirement that .bss end at a long-aligned address we pass 0 as the end alignment requirement to the BSS_SECTION macro and thus don't guarantee any particular alignment, allowing us to hit the error condition described above. Fix this by instead passing 8 bytes as the end alignment argument to the BSS_SECTION macro, ensuring that the end of the .bss section is always at least long-aligned. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14526/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Steven J. Hill authored
This hook provides the platform the chance to perform any required setup before the boot processor switches to the relocated kernel. The relocated kernel has been copied and fixed up ready for execution at this point. Secondary CPUs may wish to switch to it early. There is also the opportunity for the platform to abort jumping to the relocated kernel if there is anything wrong with the chosen offset. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14651/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Steven J. Hill authored
This patch enables KASLR for Octeon systems. The SMP startup code is such that the secondaries monitor the volatile variable 'octeon_processor_relocated_kernel_entry' for any non-zero value. The 'plat_post_relocation hook' is used to set that value to the kernel entry point of the relocated kernel. The secondary CPUs will then jusmp to the new kernel, perform their initialization again and begin waiting for the boot CPU to start them via the relocated loop 'octeon_spin_wait_boot'. Inspired by Steven's code from Cavium. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14669/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Steven J. Hill authored
Add in the function needed for Octeon platforms to support KASLR. Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Steven J. Hill authored
Add platform-specific kernel command line processing for Octeon. Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14599/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored
Since do_IRQ is now invoked on a separate IRQ stack, we select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK so that softirq's may be invoked directly from irq_exit(), rather than requiring do_softirq_own_stack. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14744/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored
When enterring interrupt context via handle_int or except_vec_vi, switch to the irq_stack of the current CPU if it is not already in use. The current stack pointer is masked with the thread size and compared to the base or the irq stack. If it does not match then the stack pointer is set to the top of that stack, otherwise this is a nested irq being handled on the irq stack so the stack pointer should be left as it was. The in-use stack pointer is placed in the callee saved register s1. It will be saved to the stack when plat_irq_dispatch is invoked and can be restored once control returns here. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14743/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored
The SAVE_SOME macro is used to save the execution context on all exceptions. If an exception occurs while executing user code, the stack is switched to the kernel's stack for the current task, and register $28 is switched to point to the current_thread_info, which is at the bottom of the stack region. If the exception occurs while executing kernel code, the stack is left, and this change ensures that register $28 is not updated. This is the correct behaviour when the kernel can be executing on the separate irq stack, because the thread_info will not be at the base of it. With this change, register $28 is only switched to it's kernel conventional usage of the currrent thread info pointer at the point at which execution enters kernel space. Doing it on every exception was redundant, but OK without an IRQ stack, but will be erroneous once that is introduced. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14742/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored
Within unwind stack, check if the stack pointer being unwound is within the CPU's irq_stack and if so use that page rather than the task's stack page. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com> Cc: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14741/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored
Allocate a per-cpu irq stack for use within interrupt handlers. Also add a utility function on_irq_stack to determine if a given stack pointer is within the irq stack for that cpu. Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14740/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Fix the following build error with binutils 2.25. CC arch/mips/mm/sc-ip22.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:132: Error: number (0x9000000080000000) larger than 32 bits {standard input}:159: Error: number (0x9000000080000000) larger than 32 bits {standard input}:200: Error: number (0x9000000080000000) larger than 32 bits scripts/Makefile.build:293: recipe for target 'arch/mips/mm/sc-ip22.o' failed make[1]: *** [arch/mips/mm/sc-ip22.o] Error 1 MIPS has used .set mips3 to temporarily switch the assembler to 64 bit mode in 64 bit kernels virtually forever. Binutils 2.25 broke this behavious partially by happily accepting 64 bit instructions in .set mips3 mode but puking on 64 bit constants when generating 32 bit ELF. Binutils 2.26 restored the old behaviour again. Fix build with binutils 2.25 by open coding the offending dli $1, 0x9000000080000000 as li $1, 0x9000 dsll $1, $1, 48 which is ugly be the only thing that will build on all binutils vintages. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Bolle authored
The make variables KBUILD_CFLAGS and KBUILD_AFLAGS both contain $(LINUXINCLUDE). But the build already picks up $(LINUXINCLUDE) from scripts/Makefile.lib. The net effect is that the (long) list of include directories is used twice. This is harmless but pointless. So stop using $(LINUXINCLUDE) twice. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14622/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
- Convert from printk() to pr_*(), - Add missing continuations, to fix user-visible breakage, - Drop superfluous casts (u64 has been unsigned long long on all architectures for many years). On rbtx4927, this restores the kernel output like: -TX4927 SDRAMC -- - CR0:0000007e00000544 - TR:32800030e +TX4927 SDRAMC -- CR0:0000007e00000544 TR:32800030e and: -PCIC -- PCICLK: -Internal(33.3MHz) - +PCIC -- PCICLK:Internal(33.3MHz) Fixes: 4bcc595c ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Reviewed-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14646/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Aaro Koskinen authored
Kill cvmx_helper_link_autoconf(). Nobody uses this function. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14626/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Julia Lawall authored
Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO for write only attributes. This simplifies the source code, improves readbility, and reduces the chance of inconsistencies. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @wo@ declarer name DEVICE_ATTR; identifier x,x_store; @@ DEVICE_ATTR(x, \(0200\|S_IWUSR\), NULL, x_store); @script:ocaml@ x << wo.x; x_store << wo.x_store; @@ if not (x^"_store" = x_store) then Coccilib.include_match false @@ declarer name DEVICE_ATTR_WO; identifier wo.x,wo.x_store; @@ - DEVICE_ATTR(x, \(0200\|S_IWUSR\), NULL, x_store); + DEVICE_ATTR_WO(x); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14463/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Maarten ter Huurne authored
uzImage.bin is vmlinuz.bin wrapped in a legacy U-Boot image. Since the extraction code is inside the image, it does not depend on the boot loader to extract the kernel. Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org> Cc: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14473/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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- 01 Jan, 2017 2 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull DAX updates from Dan Williams: "The completion of Jan's DAX work for 4.10. As I mentioned in the libnvdimm-for-4.10 pull request, these are some final fixes for the DAX dirty-cacheline-tracking invalidation work that was merged through the -mm, ext4, and xfs trees in -rc1. These patches were prepared prior to the merge window, but we waited for 4.10-rc1 to have a stable merge base after all the prerequisites were merged. Quoting Jan on the overall changes in these patches: "So I'd like all these 6 patches to go for rc2. The first three patches fix invalidation of exceptional DAX entries (a bug which is there for a long time) - without these patches data loss can occur on power failure even though user called fsync(2). The other three patches change locking of DAX faults so that ->iomap_begin() is called in a more relaxed locking context and we are safe to start a transaction there for ext4" These have received a build success notification from the kbuild robot, and pass the latest libnvdimm unit tests. There have not been any -next releases since -rc1, so they have not appeared there" * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: ext4: Simplify DAX fault path dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault dax: Finish fault completely when loading holes dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks
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- 30 Dec, 2016 2 commits
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git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Two small fixes: - A merge error on my part broke the DocBook build. I've requisitioned one of tglx's frozen sharks for appropriate disciplinary action and resolved to be more careful about testing the DocBook stuff as long as it's still around. - Fix an error in unaligned-memory-access.txt" * tag 'docs-4.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator docs: Fix build failure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu: "This fixes a boot failure on some platforms when crypto self test is enabled along with the new acomp interface" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input
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- 29 Dec, 2016 2 commits
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Olof Johansson authored
mm/filemap.c: In function 'clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte': mm/filemap.c:933:9: error: too few arguments to function 'test_bit' return test_bit(PG_waiters); ^~~~~~~~ Fixes: b91e1302 ('mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page()') Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Brown-paper-bag-by: Linus Torvalds <dummy@duh.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
In commit 62906027 ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit") Nick Piggin made our page locking no longer unconditionally touch the hashed page waitqueue, which not only helps performance in general, but is particularly helpful on NUMA machines where the hashed wait queues can bounce around a lot. However, the "clear lock bit atomically and then test the waiters bit" sequence turns out to be much more expensive than it needs to be, because you get a nasty stall when trying to access the same word that just got updated atomically. On architectures where locking is done with LL/SC, this would be trivial to fix with a new primitive that clears one bit and tests another atomically, but that ends up not working on x86, where the only atomic operations that return the result end up being cmpxchg and xadd. The atomic bit operations return the old value of the same bit we changed, not the value of an unrelated bit. On x86, we could put the lock bit in the high bit of the byte, and use "xadd" with that bit (where the overflow ends up not touching other bits), and look at the other bits of the result. However, an even simpler model is to just use a regular atomic "and" to clear the lock bit, and then the sign bit in eflags will indicate the resulting state of the unrelated bit #7. So by moving the PageWaiters bit up to bit #7, we can atomically clear the lock bit and test the waiters bit on x86 too. And architectures with LL/SC (which is all the usual RISC suspects), the particular bit doesn't matter, so they are fine with this approach too. This avoids the extra access to the same atomic word, and thus avoids the costly stall at page unlock time. The only downside is that the interface ends up being a bit odd and specialized: clear a bit in a byte, and test the sign bit. Nick doesn't love the resulting name of the new primitive, but I'd rather make the name be descriptive and very clear about the limitation imposed by trying to work across all relevant architectures than make it be some generic thing that doesn't make the odd semantics explicit. So this introduces the new architecture primitive clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte(); and adds the trivial implementation for x86. We have a generic non-optimized fallback (that just does a "clear_bit()"+"test_bit(7)" combination) which can be overridden by any architecture that can do better. According to Nick, Power has the same hickup x86 has, for example, but some other architectures may not even care. All these optimizations mean that my page locking stress-test (which is just executing a lot of small short-lived shell scripts: "make test" in the git source tree) no longer makes our page locking look horribly bad. Before all these optimizations, just the unlock_page() costs were just over 3% of all CPU overhead on "make test". After this, it's down to 0.66%, so just a quarter of the cost it used to be. (The difference on NUMA is bigger, but there this micro-optimization is likely less noticeable, since the big issue on NUMA was not the accesses to 'struct page', but the waitqueue accesses that were already removed by Nick's earlier commit). Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 Dec, 2016 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu: "This fixes a hash corruption bug in the marvell driver" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: marvell - Copy IVDIG before launching partial DMA ahash requests
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Various ipvlan fixes from Eric Dumazet and Mahesh Bandewar. The most important is to not assume the packet is RX just because the destination address matches that of the device. Such an assumption causes problems when an interface is put into loopback mode. 2) If we retry when creating a new tc entry (because we dropped the RTNL mutex in order to load a module, for example) we end up with -EAGAIN and then loop trying to replay the request. But we didn't reset some state when looping back to the top like this, and if another thread meanwhile inserted the same tc entry we were trying to, we re-link it creating an enless loop in the tc chain. Fix from Daniel Borkmann. 3) There are two different WRITE bits in the MDIO address register for the stmmac chip, depending upon the chip variant. Due to a bug we could set them both, fix from Hock Leong Kweh. 4) Fix mlx4 bug in XDP_TX handling, from Tariq Toukan. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: net: stmmac: fix incorrect bit set in gmac4 mdio addr register r8169: add support for RTL8168 series add-on card. net: xdp: remove unused bfp_warn_invalid_xdp_buffer() openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling. ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_tw_reuse knob net: korina: Fix NAPI versus resources freeing net, sched: fix soft lockup in tc_classify net/mlx4_en: Fix user prio field in XDP forward tipc: don't send FIN message from connectionless socket ipvlan: fix multicast processing ipvlan: fix various issues in ipvlan_process_multicast()
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- 27 Dec, 2016 7 commits
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Cihangir Akturk authored
In the actual implementation ether_addr_equal function tests for equality to 0 when returning. It seems in commit 0d74c4 it is somehow overlooked to change this operator to reflect the actual function. Signed-off-by: Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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John Brooks authored
The 80211.tmpl DocBook file was removed in commit 819bf593 ("docs-rst: sphinxify 802.11 documentation"), but the 80211.xml target was re-added to the Makefile by commit 7ddedebb ("ALSA: doc: ReSTize writing-an-alsa-driver document"), leading to a failure when building the documentation: *** No rule to make target 'Documentation/DocBook/80211.xml', needed by 'Documentation/DocBook/80211.aux.xml'. cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Brooks <john@fastquake.com> Mea-culpa-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Jonathan Corbet authored
Linux 4.10-rc1
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Kweh, Hock Leong authored
Fixing the gmac4 mdio write access to use MII_GMAC4_WRITE only instead of OR together with MII_WRITE. Signed-off-by: Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> Acked-By: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Chun-Hao Lin authored
This chip is the same as RTL8168, but its device id is 0x8161. Signed-off-by: Chun-Hao Lin <hau@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jason Wang authored
After commit 73b62bd0 ("virtio-net: remove the warning before XDP linearizing"), there's no users for bpf_warn_invalid_xdp_buffer(), so remove it. This is a revert for commit f23bc46c. Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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pravin shelar authored
Networking stack accelerate vlan tag handling by keeping topmost vlan header in skb. This works as long as packet remains in OVS datapath. But during OVS upcall vlan header is pushed on to the packet. When such packet is sent back to OVS datapath, core networking stack might not handle it correctly. Following patch avoids this issue by accelerating the vlan tag during flow key extract. This simplifies datapath by bringing uniform packet processing for packets from all code paths. Fixes: 5108bbad ("openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets"). CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> CC: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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