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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for x86:
- Add missing instruction suffixes to assembly code so it can be
compiled by newer GAS versions without warnings.
- Switch refcount WARN exceptions to UD2 as we did in general
- Make the reboot on Intel Edison platforms work
- A small documentation update so text and sample command match"
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation, x86, resctrl: Make text and sample command match
x86/platform/intel-mid: Handle Intel Edison reboot correctly
x86/asm: Add instruction suffixes to bitops
x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix
x86/refcounts: Switch to UD2 for exceptions
Pull x86/pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three fixes related to melted spectrum:
- Sync the cpu_entry_area page table to initial_page_table on 32 bit.
Otherwise suspend/resume fails because resume uses
initial_page_table and triggers a triple fault when accessing the
cpu entry area.
- Zero the SPEC_CTL MRS on XEN before suspend to address a
shortcoming in the hypervisor.
- Fix another switch table detection issue in objtool"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu_entry_area: Sync cpu_entry_area to initial_page_table
objtool: Fix another switch table detection issue
x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend
The text says "Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1", but the sample command writes
to p0/cpus.
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519712271-8802-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes from the timer departement:
- Add a missing timer wheel clock forward when migrating timers off a
unplugged CPU to prevent operating on a stale clock base and
missing timer deadlines.
- Use the proper shift count to extract data from a register value to
prevent evaluating unrelated bits
- Make the error return check in the FSL timer driver work correctly.
Checking an unsigned variable for less than zero does not really
work well.
- Clarify the confusing comments in the ARC timer code"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers
clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Update some comments
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Use correct shift count to extract data
clocksource/drivers/fsl_ftm_timer: Fix error return checking
The separation of the cpu_entry_area from the fixmap missed the fact that
on 32bit non-PAE kernels the cpu_entry_area mapping might not be covered in
initial_page_table by the previous synchronizations.
This results in suspend/resume failures because 32bit utilizes initial page
table for resume. The absence of the cpu_entry_area mapping results in a
triple fault, aka. insta reboot.
With PAE enabled this works by chance because the PGD entry which covers
the fixmap and other parts incindentally provides the cpu_entry_area
mapping as well.
Synchronize the initial page table after setting up the cpu entry
area. Instead of adding yet another copy of the same code, move it to a
function and invoke it from the various places.
It needs to be investigated if the existing calls in setup_arch() and
setup_per_cpu_areas() can be replaced by the later invocation from
setup_cpu_entry_areas(), but that's beyond the scope of this fix.
Fixes: 92a0f81d8957 ("x86/cpu_entry_area: Move it out of the fixmap")
Reported-by: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>
Cc: William Grant <william.grant@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1802282137290.1392@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
When the Intel Edison module is powered with 3.3V, the reboot command makes
the module stuck. If the module is powered at a greater voltage, like 4.4V
(as the Edison Mini Breakout board does), reboot works OK.
The official Intel Edison BSP sends the IPCMSG_COLD_RESET message to the
SCU by default. The IPCMSG_COLD_BOOT which is used by the upstream kernel
is only sent when explicitely selected on the kernel command line.
Use IPCMSG_COLD_RESET unconditionally which makes reboot work independent
of the power supply voltage.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Fixes: bda7b072de99 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Implement power off sequence")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Panceac <sebastian@resin.io>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519810849-15131-1-git-send-email-sebastian@resin.io
Pull irq fixlet from Thomas Gleixner:
"Just a documentation update for the missing device tree property of
the R-Car M3N interrupt controller"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
dt-bindings/irqchip/renesas-irqc: Document R-Car M3-N support
On CPU hotunplug the enqueued timers of the unplugged CPU are migrated to a
live CPU. This happens from the control thread which initiated the unplug.
If the CPU on which the control thread runs came out from a longer idle
period then the base clock of that CPU might be stale because the control
thread runs prior to any event which forwards the clock.
In such a case the timers from the unplugged CPU are queued on the live CPU
based on the stale clock which can cause large delays due to increased
granularity of the outer timer wheels which are far away from base:;clock.
But there is a worse problem than that. The following sequence of events
illustrates it:
- CPU0 timer1 is queued expires = 59969 and base->clk = 59131.
The timer is queued at wheel level 2, with resulting expiry time = 60032
(due to level granularity).
- CPU1 enters idle @60007, with next timer expiry @60020.
- CPU0 is hotplugged at @60009
- CPU1 exits idle and runs the control thread which migrates the
timers from CPU0
timer1 is now queued in level 0 for immediate handling in the next
softirq because the requested expiry time 59969 is before CPU1 base->clk
60007
- CPU1 runs code which forwards the base clock which succeeds because the
next expiring timer. which was collected at idle entry time is still set
to 60020.
So it forwards beyond 60007 and therefore misses to expire the migrated
timer1. That timer gets expired when the wheel wraps around again, which
takes between 63 and 630ms depending on the HZ setting.
Address both problems by invoking forward_timer_base() for the control CPUs
timer base. All other places, which might run into a similar problem
(mod_timer()/add_timer_on()) already invoke forward_timer_base() to avoid
that.
[ tglx: Massaged comment and changelog ]
Fixes: a683f390b93f ("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible")
Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180118115022.6368-1-clingutla@codeaurora.org
Continue the switch table detection whack-a-mole. Add a check to
distinguish KASAN data reads from switch data reads. The switch jump
tables in .rodata have relocations associated with them.
This fixes the following warning:
crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.o: warning: objtool: x509_note_pkey_algo()+0xa4: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7c8853022ad47d158cb81e953a40469fc08a95e.1519784382.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Omitting suffixes from instructions in AT&T mode is bad practice when
operand size cannot be determined by the assembler from register
operands, and is likely going to be warned about by upstream gas in the
future (mine does already). Add the missing suffixes here. Note that for
64-bit this means some operations change from being 32-bit to 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5A93F98702000078001ABACC@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
- when NR_CPUS is large, a SRCU structure can significantly inflate
size of the main filesystem structure that would not be possible to
allocate by kmalloc, so the kvalloc fallback is used
- improved error handling
- fix endiannes when printing some filesystem attributes via sysfs,
this is could happen when a filesystem is moved between different
endianity hosts
- send fixes: the NO_HOLE mode should not send a write operation for a
file hole
- fix log replay for for special files followed by file hardlinks
- fix log replay failure after unlink and link combination
- fix max chunk size calculation for DUP allocation
* tag 'for-4.16-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
Btrfs: fix log replay failure after unlink and link combination
Btrfs: fix log replay failure after linking special file and fsync
Btrfs: send, fix issuing write op when processing hole in no data mode
btrfs: use proper endianness accessors for super_copy
btrfs: alloc_chunk: fix DUP stripe size handling
btrfs: Handle btrfs_set_extent_delalloc failure in relocate_file_extent_cluster
btrfs: handle failure of add_pending_csums
btrfs: use kvzalloc to allocate btrfs_fs_info
Document support for the Interrupt Controller for Externel Devices
(INTC-EX) in the Renesas M3-N (r8a77965) SoC.
No driver update is needed.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519658712-22910-1-git-send-email-geert%2Brenesas@glider.be
TIMER0 interrupt ACK is different for ARC700 and HS3x cores.
This came to light in some internal discussions and it is nice to have this
documented rather than digging up the PRM (Programmers Reference Manual).
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519241491-12570-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com
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