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Pull x86 apic updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides:
- Cleanup of the IDT management including the removal of the extra
tracing IDT. A first step to cleanup the vector management code.
- The removal of the paravirt op adjust_exception_frame. This is a
XEN specific issue, but merged through this branch to avoid nasty
merge collisions
- Prevent dmesg spam about the TSC DEADLINE bug, when the CPU has
disabled the TSC DEADLINE timer in CPUID.
- Adjust a debug message in the ioapic code to print out the
information correctly"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
x86/idt: Fix the X86_TRAP_BP gate
x86/xen: Get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame
x86/eisa: Add missing include
x86/idt: Remove superfluous ALIGNment
x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature
x86/idt: Remove the tracing IDT leftovers
x86/idt: Hide set_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Simplify alloc_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Deinline setup functions
x86/idt: Remove unused functions/inlines
x86/idt: Move interrupt gate initialization to IDT code
x86/idt: Move APIC gate initialization to tables
x86/idt: Move regular trap init to tables
x86/idt: Move IST stack based traps to table init
x86/idt: Move debug stack init to table based
x86/idt: Switch early trap init to IDT tables
x86/idt: Prepare for table based init
x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm
x86/idt: Move early IDT handler setup to IDT code
x86/idt: Consolidate IDT invalidation
...
Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
Monitoring (CQM) facility.
The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
horrible.
After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.
As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
management facility with a consistent user interface"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
...
Andrei Vagin reported a CRIU regression and bisected it back to:
90f6225fba0c ("x86/idt: Move IST stack based traps to table init")
This table init conversion loses the system-gate property of X86_TRAP_BP
and erroneously moves it from DPL3 to DPL0.
Fix it.
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: tip-bot for Jacob Shin <tipbot@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901082630.xvyi5bwk6etmppqc@gmail.com
Pull CPU hotplug fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix to handle the removal of the first dynamic CPU hotplug
state correctly"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
smp/hotplug: Handle removal correctly in cpuhp_store_callbacks()
Errata list is included in this document:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/6th-gen-x-series-spec-update.pdf
with more details in:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scalable/xeon-scalable-spec-update.html
But the tl;dr summary (using tags from first of the documents) is:
SKZ4 MBM does not accurately track write bandwidth
SKZ17 CMT counters may not count accurately
SKZ18 CAT may not restrict cacheline allocation under certain conditions
SKZ19 MBM counters may undercount
Disable all these features on Skylake models. Users who understand the
errata may re-enable using boot command line options.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3aea0a3bae219062c812668bd9b7b8f1a25003ba.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When running as Xen pv-guest the exception frame on the stack contains
%r11 and %rcx additional to the other data pushed by the processor.
Instead of having a paravirt op being called for each exception type
prepend the Xen specific code to each exception entry. When running as
Xen pv-guest just use the exception entry with prepended instructions,
otherwise use the entry without the Xen specific code.
[ tglx: Merged through tip to avoid ugly merge conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831174249.26853-1-jg@pfupf.net
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The interrupt subsystem delivers this time:
- Refactoring of the GIC-V3 driver to prepare for the GIC-V4 support
- Initial GIC-V4 support
- Consolidation of the FSL MSI support
- Utilize the effective affinity interface in various ARM irqchip
drivers
- Yet another interrupt chip driver (UniPhier AIDET)
- Bulk conversion of the irq chip driver to use %pOF
- The usual small fixes and improvements all over the place"
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits)
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add MSI affinity support
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add LS1043a v1.1 MSI support
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add LS1046a MSI support
arm64: dts: ls1046a: Add MSI dts node
arm64: dts: ls1043a: Share all MSIs
arm: dts: ls1021a: Share all MSIs
arm64: dts: ls1043a: Fix typo of MSI compatible string
arm: dts: ls1021a: Fix typo of MSI compatible string
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Fix typo of MSI compatible strings
irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2: Use correct I/O accessors for irq_fwd_mask
irqchip/mmp: Make mmp_intc_conf const
irqchip/gic: Make irq_chip const
irqchip/gic-v3: Advertise GICv4 support to KVM
irqchip/gic-v4: Enable low-level GICv4 operations
irqchip/gic-v4: Add some basic documentation
irqchip/gic-v4: Add VLPI configuration interface
irqchip/gic-v4: Add VPE command interface
irqchip/gic-v4: Add per-VM VPE domain creation
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Set implementation defined bit to enable VLPIs
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Allow doorbell interrupts to be injected/cleared
...
If cpuhp_store_callbacks() is called for CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN or
CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN, which are the indicators for dynamically allocated
states, then cpuhp_store_callbacks() allocates a new dynamic state. The
first allocation in each range returns CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN or
CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN.
If cpuhp_remove_state() is invoked for one of these states, then there is
no protection against the allocation mechanism. So the removal, which
should clear the callbacks and the name, gets a new state assigned and
clears that one.
As a consequence the state which should be cleared stays initialized. A
consecutive CPU hotplug operation dereferences the state callbacks and
accesses either freed or reused memory, resulting in crashes.
Add a protection against this by checking the name argument for NULL. If
it's NULL it's a removal. If not, it's an allocation.
[ tglx: Added a comment and massaged changelog ]
Fixes: 5b7aa87e0482 ("cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface")
Signed-off-by: Ethan Barnes <ethan.barnes@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.or>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@mit.edu>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.d>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/DM2PR04MB398242FC7776D603D9F99C894A60@DM2PR04MB398.namprd04.prod.outlook.com
Command line options allow us to ignore features that we don't want.
Also we can re-enable options that have been disabled on a platform
(so long as the underlying h/w actually supports the option).
[ tglx: Marked the option array __initdata and the helper function __init ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c37b0d4dbc30977a3c1cee08b66420f83662694.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
The seperation of the EISA init missed to include linux/io.h which breaks
the build with some special configurations.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fixes: f7eaf6e00fd5 ("x86/boot: Move EISA setup to a separate file")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather small update for the time(r) subsystem:
- A new clocksource driver IMX-TPM
- Minor fixes to the alarmtimer facility
- Device tree cleanups for Renesas drivers
- A new kselftest and fixes for the timer related tests
- Conversion of the clocksource drivers to use %pOF
- Use the proper helpers to access rlimits in the posix-cpu-timer
code"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
alarmtimer: Ensure RTC module is not unloaded
clocksource: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835: Remove message for a memory allocation failure
devicetree: bindings: Remove deprecated properties
devicetree: bindings: Remove unused 32-bit CMT bindings
devicetree: bindings: Deprecate property, update example
devicetree: bindings: r8a73a4 and R-Car Gen2 CMT bindings
devicetree: bindings: R-Car Gen2 CMT0 and CMT1 bindings
devicetree: bindings: Remove sh7372 CMT binding
clocksource/drivers/imx-tpm: Add imx tpm timer support
dt-bindings: timer: Add nxp tpm timer binding doc
posix-cpu-timers: Use dedicated helper to access rlimit values
alarmtimer: Fix unavailable wake-up source in sysfs
timekeeping: Use proper timekeeper for debug code
kselftests: timers: set-timer-lat: Add one-shot timer test cases
kselftests: timers: set-timer-lat: Tweak reporting when timer fires early
kselftests: timers: freq-step: Fix build warning
kselftests: timers: freq-step: Define ADJ_SETOFFSET if device has older kernel headers
Pull irqchip updates for 4.14 from Marc Zyngier:
- irqchip-specific part of the monster GICv4 series
- new UniPhier AIDET irqchip driver
- new variants of some Freescale MSI widget
- blanket removal of of_node->full_name in printk
- random collection of fixes
Pull irq fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Fix the fallout from reworking the locking and resource management in
request/free_irq()"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Keep chip buslock across irq_request/release_resources()
No functional change, but lay the ground work for other per-model
quirks.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f195a83751b5f8b1d8a78bd3c1914300c8fa3142.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
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