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Kernel config option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP is introduced to ensure
crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. Update
documentation with this details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821377195.5656.15840065629705958324.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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With FADump support now available on both pseries and OPAL platforms,
update FADump documentation with these details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821361692.5656.11377757995827253404.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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fadump is pronounced f-a-dump. Update documentation accordingly. Also,
update how fadump_region contents look like with recent changes.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821339317.5656.15852294223821732082.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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The figures depicting FADump's (Firmware-Assisted Dump) memory layout
are missing some finer details like different memory regions and what
they represent. Improve the documentation by updating those details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821322070.5656.8194734198500730487.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
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Protected Execution Facility (PEF) is an architectural change for
POWER 9 that enables Secure Virtual Machines (SVMs). When enabled,
PEF adds a new higher privileged mode, called Ultravisor mode, to POWER
architecture. Along with the new mode there is new firmware called the
Protected Execution Ultravisor (or Ultravisor for short).
POWER 9 DD2.3 chips (PVR=0x004e1203) or greater will be PEF-capable.
Attached documentation provides an overview of PEF and defines the API
for various interfaces that must be implemented in the Ultravisor
firmware as well as in the KVM Hypervisor.
Based on input from Mike Anderson, Thiago Bauermann, Claudio Carvalho,
Ben Herrenschmidt, Guerney Hunt, Paul Mackerras.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guerney Hunt <gdhh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822034838.27876-2-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com
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The ELF note documentation describes the types and descriptors to be
used with the PowerPC namespace.
Signed-off-by: Maxiwell S. Garcia <maxiwell@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829155021.2915-3-maxiwell@linux.ibm.com
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Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific
book.
The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there
was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard.
The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few
missing section title identifiers.
One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used
to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be
used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an
even longer one.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> # cxl
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The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
(yet?) made it upstream.
- A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
kernel crashes.
- Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.
- A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
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Add a document describing the fields provided by
/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.
Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:
PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Sphinx doesn't like orphan documents:
Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f429-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f746-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f769-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32h743-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32mp157-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/laptops/lg-laptop.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
So, while they aren't on any toctree, add :orphan: to them, in order
to silent this warning.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via:
echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous
The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in:
9654153158 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box
(ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR. This
allows them to force enable DAWR.
This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is
cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your
machine once again safe from crashing.
Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force
enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via
PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an
inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests.
For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force
enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on
POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the
dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support
writing the DAWR.
To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c
Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.
In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.
In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".
We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.
Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able
to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory
except the user pages that were present in CMA region.
Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7557 193 6822 12 541 6725
Swap: 4095 0 4095
With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8133 194 7464 12 475 7338
Swap: 4095 0 4095
Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.
Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.
TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA
versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it
already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in
one place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
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
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Adopt the SISLite AFU debug capability to allow future CXL Flash
adapters the ability to better debug AFU issues. Update the SISLite
header with the changes necessary to support AFU debug operations
and create a host ioctl interface for user debug software. Also
update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Adopt the SISLite AFU LUN provisioning capability to allow future CXL
Flash adapters the ability to better manage storage. Update the SISLite
header with the changes necessary to support LUN provision operations
and create a host ioctl interface for user LUN management software. Also
update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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As staging for supporting various host management functions, add a host
ioctl infrastructure to filter ioctl commands and perform operations that
are common for all host ioctls. Also update the cxlflash documentation to
create a new section for documenting host ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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AFU sync operations are not currently evaluated for failure. This is
acceptable for paths where there is not a dependency on the AFU being
consistent with the host. Examples include link reset events and LUN
cleanup operations. On paths where there is a dependency, such as a LUN
open, a sync failure should be acted upon.
In the event of AFU sync failures, either log or cleanup as appropriate for
operations that are dependent on a successful sync completion.
Update documentation to reflect behavior in the event of an AFU sync
failure.
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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With commit f6e6bedb7731 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset
closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at
the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change
them appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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As we are reusing crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem
parameter to specify the memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel,
update the documentation accordingly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035347559.6881.14224829694291758581.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Highlights include:
- Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().
- Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.
- TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.
- Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
Interface Architecture 2.0".
- The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
runtime.
- Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.
- Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
aid debugging and robustness.
- Many fixes and other minor enhancements.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
Yang Shi"
* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
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At present, the cxlflash driver only supports hardware with two FC ports. The
code was initially designed with this assumption and is dependent on having
two FC ports - adding more ports will break logic within the driver.
To mitigate this issue, remove the existing port assumptions and transition
the code to support more than two ports. As a side effect, clarify the
interpretation of the DK_CXLFLASH_ALL_PORTS_ACTIVE flag.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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The new Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture, level 2, for the
IBM POWER9 brings new content and features:
- POWER9 Service Layer
- Registers
- Radix mode
- Process element entry
- Dedicated-Shared Process Programming Model
- Translation Fault Handling
- CAPP
- Memory Context ID
If a valid mm_struct is found the memory context id is used for each
transaction associated with the process handle. The PSL uses the
context ID to find the corresponding process element.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fixup comment formatting, unsplit long strings]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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With the unnecessary restriction to reserve memory for fadump at the
top of RAM forgone, update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Highlights:
- Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin)
- Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al.
- Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur)
- Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur)
- Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver
O'Halloran)
- Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao)
- Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards
(Darren Stevens)
Fixes:
- Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael
Ellerman)
- xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman)
- vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard)
- powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui)
- powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy)
- powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K
(Aneesh Kumar K.V)
- Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew
Donnellan)
- Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin)
Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard):
- Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()
- During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask
- Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless
- Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little
endian
- Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds
Cleanups & features:
- Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens)
- Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address
(Paul Mackerras)
- Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
- Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU)
(Simon Guo)
- Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas
Piggin)
- Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin)
- Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey)
- Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan)
- Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan)
- Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard)
- KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh)
- cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat)
- cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded
of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan)
- Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas
Piggin)
- Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin)
- fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael
Ellerman)
- Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard)
- powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey)
- Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions
(Nicholas Piggin)
- Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin)
- MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling)
- powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman)
Minor cleanups:
- Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur,
Frederic Barrat, Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng,
Simon Guo"
* tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
powerpc/bpf: Add support for bpf constant blinding
powerpc/bpf: Implement support for tail calls
powerpc/bpf: Introduce accessors for using the tmp local stack space
powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n
powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace
powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception
powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}
powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state
powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers
selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts
selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts
selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts
selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts
selftests/powerpc: Check that signals always get delivered
selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C
selftests/powerpc: Allow tests to extend their kill timeout
selftests/powerpc: Introduce GPR asm helper header file
selftests/powerpc: Move VMX stack frame macros to header file
selftests/powerpc: Rework FPU stack placement macros and move to header file
selftests/powerpc: Check for VSX preservation across userspace preemption
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (hpsa,
be2iscsi, hisi_sas, zfcp, cxlflash). There's a new incarnation of hpsa
called smartpqi for which a driver is added, there's some cleanup work
of the ibm vscsi target and updates to libfc, plus a whole host of
minor fixes and updates and finally the removal of several ISA drivers
which seem not to have been used for years"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (173 commits)
scsi: mvsas: Mark symbols static where possible
scsi: pm8001: Mark symbols static where possible
scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking
scsi: fcoe: fix off by one in eth2fc_speed()
scsi: dtc: remove from tree
scsi: t128: remove from tree
scsi: pas16: remove from tree
scsi: u14-34f: remove from tree
scsi: ultrastor: remove from tree
scsi: in2000: remove from tree
scsi: wd7000: remove from tree
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memory leak in alua_rtpg()
scsi: lpfc: Mark symbols static where possible
scsi: hpsa: correct call to hpsa_do_reset
scsi: ufs: Get a TM service response from the correct offset
scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped
scsi: megaraid_sas: clean function declarations in megaraid_sas_base.c up
scsi: ipr: Remove redundant messages at adapter init time
scsi: ipr: Don't log unnecessary 9084 error details
scsi: smartpqi: raid bypass lba calculation fix
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Add some documentation for the 64-bit syscall ABI, which doesn't seem
to be documented elsewhere.
This attempts to document existing practice. The only small discrepancy
is glibc clobbers not quite matching the kernel (e.g., xer, some
vsyscalls trash cr1 whereas glibc only clobbers cr0). These will be
resolved after this document is merged.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Userspace can begin and suspend a transaction within the signal
handler which means they might enter sys_rt_sigreturn() with the
processor in suspended state.
sys_rt_sigreturn() wants to restore process context (which may have
been in a transaction before signal delivery). To do this it must
restore TM SPRS. To achieve this, any transaction initiated within the
signal frame must be discarded in order to be able to restore TM SPRs
as TM SPRs can only be manipulated non-transactionally..
>From the PowerPC ISA:
TM Bad Thing Exception [Category: Transactional Memory]
An attempt is made to execute a mtspr targeting a TM register in
other than Non-transactional state.
Not doing so results in a TM Bad Thing:
[12045.221359] Kernel BUG at c000000000050a40 [verbose debug info unavailable]
[12045.221470] Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000050a40 (msr 0x201033)
[12045.221540] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
[12045.221586] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[12045.221634] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE
nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc ebtable_filter
ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_hv kvm
uio_pdrv_genirq ipmi_powernv uio powernv_rng ipmi_msghandler autofs4 ses enclosure
scsi_transport_sas bnx2x ipr mdio libcrc32c
[12045.222167] CPU: 68 PID: 6178 Comm: sigreturnpanic Not tainted 4.7.0 #34
[12045.222224] task: c0000000fce38600 ti: c0000000fceb4000 task.ti: c0000000fceb4000
[12045.222293] NIP: c000000000050a40 LR: c0000000000163bc CTR: 0000000000000000
[12045.222361] REGS: c0000000fceb7ac0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.7.0)
[12045.222418] MSR: 9000000300201033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]> CR: 28444280 XER: 20000000
[12045.222625] CFAR: c0000000000163b8 SOFTE: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 900000014280f033
GPR00: 01100000b8000001 c0000000fceb7d40 c00000000139c100 c0000000fce390d0
GPR04: 900000034280f033 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000000000 b000000000001033 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002926400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 00003ffff98cadd0 00003ffff98cb470 0000000000000000
GPR28: 900000034280f033 c0000000fceb7ea0 0000000000000001 c0000000fce390d0
[12045.223535] NIP [c000000000050a40] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
[12045.223584] LR [c0000000000163bc] tm_recheckpoint+0x5c/0xa0
[12045.223630] Call Trace:
[12045.223655] [c0000000fceb7d80] [c000000000026e74] sys_rt_sigreturn+0x494/0x6c0
[12045.223738] [c0000000fceb7e30] [c0000000000092e0] system_call+0x38/0x108
[12045.223806] Instruction dump:
[12045.223841] 7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
[12045.223955] 4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 <7c0223a6> e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020
[12045.224074] ---[ end trace cb8002ee240bae76 ]---
It isn't clear exactly if there is really a use case for userspace
returning with a suspended transaction, however, doing so doesn't (on
its own) constitute a bad frame. As such, this patch simply discards
the transactional state of the context calling the sigreturn and
continues.
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Update the block library link in the API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Caching the adapter file descriptor and performing a close on behalf of
an application is a poor design. This is due to the fact that once a
file descriptor in installed, it is free to be altered without the
knowledge of the cxlflash driver. This can lead to inconsistencies
between the application and kernel. Furthermore, the nature of the
former design is more exploitable and thus should be abandoned.
To support applications performing a close on the adapter file that is
associated with a context, a new flag is introduced to the user API to
indicate to applications that they are responsible for the close
following the cleanup (detach) of a context. The documentation is also
updated to reflect this change in behavior.
Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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IBM online documentation for EEH uses "extended error handling" and
"enhanced error handling" to refer to the same thing, in different
places. The only place mentioning it as "enhanced error handling" in the
kernel is the MAINTAINERS file, and it's "extended" in some documentation.
IBM originally defined EEH as "enhanced error handling", so standardise
all mentions of EEH to use that term.
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The new flash.c file contains the logic to flash a new image on the
adapter, through a hcall. It is an iterative process, with chunks of
data of 1M at a time. There are also 2 phases: write and verify. The
flash operation itself is driven from a user-land tool.
Once flashing is successful, an rtas call is made to update the device
tree with the new properties values for the adapter and the AFU(s)
Add a new char device for the adapter, so that the flash tool can
access the card, even if there is no valid AFU on it.
Co-authored-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This includes one new driver: cxlflash plus the usual grab bag of
updates for the major drivers: qla2xxx, ipr, storvsc, pm80xx, hptiop,
plus a few assorted fixes.
There's another tranch coming, but I want to incubate it another few
days in the checkers, plus it includes a mpt2sas separated lifetime
fix, which Avago won't get done testing until Friday"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (85 commits)
aic94xx: set an error code on failure
storvsc: Set the error code correctly in failure conditions
storvsc: Allow write_same when host is windows 10
storvsc: use storage protocol version to determine storage capabilities
storvsc: use correct defaults for values determined by protocol negotiation
storvsc: Untangle the storage protocol negotiation from the vmbus protocol negotiation.
storvsc: Use a single value to track protocol versions
storvsc: Rather than look for sets of specific protocol versions, make decisions based on ranges.
cxlflash: Remove unused variable from queuecommand
cxlflash: shift wrapping bug in afu_link_reset()
cxlflash: off by one bug in cxlflash_show_port_status()
cxlflash: Virtual LUN support
cxlflash: Superpipe support
cxlflash: Base error recovery support
qla2xxx: Update driver version to 8.07.00.26-k
qla2xxx: Add pci device id 0x2261.
qla2xxx: Fix missing device login retries.
qla2xxx: do not clear slot in outstanding cmd array
qla2xxx: Remove decrement of sp reference count in abort handler.
qla2xxx: Add support to show MPI and PEP FW version for ISP27xx.
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Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device
driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user
space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual
LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this
adapter.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL
Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage
of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the
traditional filesystem stack.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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This patch fix some spelling typo found in Documentation/powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.
Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.
This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).
Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This patch adds a new documentation file explaining the DSCR support on
powerpc platforms. This explains DSCR related data structure, code paths
and also available user interfaces. Any further functional changes to
the DSCR support in the kernel should definitely update the
documentation here.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Now that libcxl is public, let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.
Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.
Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.
Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.
So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.
NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.
Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc into next
Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI
patches acked by Bjorn.
Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work.
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
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Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.
Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.
This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).
Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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In order to enable SRIOV on PowerNV platform, the PF's IOV BAR needs to be
adjusted:
1. size expanded
2. aligned to M64BT size
This patch documents this change on the reason and how.
[bhelgaas: reformat, clarify, expand]
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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