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Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:
- Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
thunks.
- Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,
- Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid
- Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
Pull x86 kexec fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for the WBINVD issue introduced by the SME support which
causes kexec fails on non AMD/SME capable CPUs. Issue WBINVD only when
the CPU has SME and avoid doing so in a loop"
[ Side note: this patch fixes the problem, but it isn't entirely clear
why it is required. The wbinvd should just work regardless, but there
seems to be some system - as opposed to CPU - issue, since the wbinvd
causes more problems later in the shutdown sequence, but wbinvd
instructions while the system is still active are not problematic.
Possibly some SMI or pending machine check issue on the affected system ]
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Rework wbinvd, hlt operation in stop_this_cpu()
The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has
several issues:
- The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately
overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again.
- The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which
is not used at all.
Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant
passed to the macro for the iterations.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Pull irq fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for the new matrix allocator to prevent vector exhaustion
by certain network drivers which allocate gazillions of unused vectors
which cannot be put into reservation mode due to MSI and the lack of
MSI entry masking.
The fix/workaround is to spread the vectors across CPUs by searching
the supplied target CPU mask for the CPU with the smallest number of
allocated vectors"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irq/matrix: Spread interrupts on allocation
Some issues have been reported with the for loop in stop_this_cpu() that
issues the 'wbinvd; hlt' sequence. Reverting this sequence to halt()
has been shown to resolve the issue.
However, the wbinvd is needed when running with SME. The reason for the
wbinvd is to prevent cache flush races between encrypted and non-encrypted
entries that have the same physical address. This can occur when
kexec'ing from memory encryption active to inactive or vice-versa. The
important thing is to not have outside of kernel text memory references
(such as stack usage), so the usage of the native_*() functions is needed
since these expand as inline asm sequences. So instead of reverting the
change, rework the sequence.
Move the wbinvd instruction outside of the for loop as native_wbinvd()
and make its execution conditional on X86_FEATURE_SME. In the for loop,
change the asm 'wbinvd; hlt' sequence back to a halt sequence but use
the native_halt() call.
Fixes: bba4ed011a52 ("x86/mm, kexec: Allow kexec to be used with SME")
Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yu Chen <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: ebiederm@redhat.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117234141.21184.44067.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
In section <2. Runtime Cost>, fix wrong index.
Signed-off-by: zhenwei.pi <zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516237492-27739-1-git-send-email-zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com
Pull alpha fixes from Matt Turner:
"A build fix and a regression fix"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
alpha/PCI: Fix noname IRQ level detection
alpha: extend memset16 to EV6 optimised routines
Keith reported an issue with vector space exhaustion on a server machine
which is caused by the i40e driver allocating 168 MSI interrupts when the
driver is initialized, even when most of these interrupts are not used at
all.
The x86 vector allocation code tries to avoid the immediate allocation with
the reservation mode, but the card uses MSI and does not support MSI entry
masking, which prevents reservation mode and requires immediate vector
allocation.
The matrix allocator is a bit naive and prefers the first CPU in the
cpumask which describes the possible target CPUs for an allocation. That
results in allocating all 168 vectors on CPU0 which later causes vector
space exhaustion when the NVMe driver tries to allocate managed interrupts
on each CPU for the per CPU queues.
Avoid this by finding the CPU which has the lowest vector allocation count
to spread out the non managed interrupt accross the possible target CPUs.
Fixes: 2f75d9e1c905 ("genirq: Implement bitmap matrix allocator")
Reported-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801171557330.1777@nanos
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes:
- A rather involved set of memory hardware encryption fixes to
support the early loading of microcode files via the initrd. These
are larger than what we normally take at such a late -rc stage, but
there are two mitigating factors: 1) much of the changes are
limited to the SME code itself 2) being able to early load
microcode has increased importance in the post-Meltdown/Spectre
era.
- An IRQ vector allocator fix
- An Intel RDT driver use-after-free fix
- An APIC driver bug fix/revert to make certain older systems boot
again
- A pkeys ABI fix
- TSC calibration fixes
- A kdump fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Prevent use after free
x86/mm: Encrypt the initrd earlier for BSP microcode update
x86/mm: Prepare sme_encrypt_kernel() for PAGE aligned encryption
x86/mm: Centralize PMD flags in sme_encrypt_kernel()
x86/mm: Use a struct to reduce parameters for SME PGD mapping
x86/mm: Clean up register saving in the __enc_copy() assembly code
x86/idt: Mark IDT tables __initconst
Revert "x86/apic: Remove init_bsp_APIC()"
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey
x86/tsc: Print tsc_khz, when it differs from cpu_khz
x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon
x86/tsc: Future-proof native_calibrate_tsc()
kdump: Write the correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo
Since indirect jump instructions will be replaced by jump
to __x86_indirect_thunk_*, those jmp instruction must be
treated as an indirect jump. Since optprobe prohibits to
optimize probes in the function which uses an indirect jump,
it also needs to find out the function which jump to
__x86_indirect_thunk_* and disable optimization.
Add a check that the jump target address is between the
__indirect_thunk_start/end when optimizing kprobe.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629212062.10241.6991266100233002273.stgit@devbox
Commit bacf6b499e11 ("x86/mm: Use a struct to reduce parameters for SME
PGD mapping") moved some parameters into a structure.
The structure was large enough to trigger the stack protection canary in
sme_encrypt_kernel which doesn't work this early, causing reboots.
Mark sme_encrypt_kernel appropriately to not use the canary.
Fixes: bacf6b499e11 ("x86/mm: Use a struct to reduce parameters for SME PGD mapping")
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The conversion of the alpha architecture PCI host bridge legacy IRQ
mapping/swizzling to the new PCI host bridge map/swizzle hooks carried
out through:
commit 0e4c2eeb758a ("alpha/PCI: Replace pci_fixup_irqs() call with
host bridge IRQ mapping hooks")
implies that IRQ for devices are now allocated through pci_assign_irq()
function in pci_device_probe() that is called when a driver matching a
device is found in order to probe the device through the device driver.
Alpha noname platforms required IRQ level programming to be executed
in sio_fixup_irq_levels(), that is called in noname_init_pci(), a
platform hook called within a subsys_initcall.
In noname_init_pci(), present IRQs are detected through
sio_collect_irq_levels() that check the struct pci_dev->irq number
to detect if an IRQ has been allocated for the device.
By the time sio_collect_irq_levels() is called, some devices may still
have not a matching driver loaded to match them (eg loadable module)
therefore their IRQ allocation is still pending - which means that
sio_collect_irq_levels() does not programme the correct IRQ level for
those devices, causing their IRQ handling to be broken when the device
driver is actually loaded and the device is probed.
Fix the issue by adding code in the noname map_irq() function
(noname_map_irq()) that, whilst mapping/swizzling the IRQ line, it also
ensures that the correct IRQ level programming is executed at platform
level, fixing the issue.
Fixes: 0e4c2eeb758a ("alpha/PCI: Replace pci_fixup_irqs() call with
host bridge IRQ mapping hooks")
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A delayacct statistics correctness fix"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct task