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Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix, which addresses boot failures on machines which do not
report EBDA correctly, which can place the trampoline into reserved
memory regions. Validating against E820 prevents that"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot/compressed/64: Validate trampoline placement against E820
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two oneliners addressing NOHZ failures:
- Use a bitmask to check for the pending timer softirq and not the
bit number. The existing code using the bit number checked for
the wrong bit, which caused timers to either expire late or stop
completely.
- Make the nohz evaluation on interrupt exit more robust. The
existing code did not re-arm the hardware when interrupting a
running softirq in task context (ksoftirqd or tail of
local_bh_enable()), which caused timers to either expire late
or stop completely"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq
nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()
There were two report of boot failure cased by trampoline placed into
a reserved memory region. It can happen on machines that don't report
EBDA correctly.
Fix the problem by re-validating the found address against the E820 table.
If the address is in a reserved area, find the next usable region below the
initial address.
Fixes: 3548e131ec6a ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Find a place for 32-bit trampoline")
Reported-by: Dmitry Malkin <d.malkin@real-time-systems.com>
Reported-by: youling 257 <youling257@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180801133225.38121-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for perf:
Kernel side:
- Fix the hardcoded index of extra PCI devices on Broadwell which
caused a resource conflict and triggered warnings on CPU hotplug.
Tooling:
- Update the tools copy of several files, including perf_event.h,
powerpc's asm/unistd.h (new io_pgetevents syscall), bpf.h and x86's
memcpy_64.s (used in 'perf bench mem'), silencing the respective
warnings during the perf tools build.
- Fix the build on the alpine:edge distro"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix hardcoded index of Broadwell extra PCI devices
perf tools: Fix the build on the alpine:edge distro
tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy'
tools headers uapi: Refresh linux/bpf.h copy
tools headers powerpc: Update asm/unistd.h copy to pick new
tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h
The full nohz tick is reprogrammed in irq_exit() only if the exit is not in
a nesting interrupt. This stands as an optimization: whether a hardirq or a
softirq is interrupted, the tick is going to be reprogrammed when necessary
at the end of the inner interrupt, with even potential new updates on the
timer queue.
When soft interrupts are interrupted, it's assumed that they are executing
on the tail of an interrupt return. In that case tick_nohz_irq_exit() is
called after softirq processing to take care of the tick reprogramming.
But the assumption is wrong: softirqs can be processed inline as well, ie:
outside of an interrupt, like in a call to local_bh_enable() or from
ksoftirqd.
Inline softirqs don't reprogram the tick once they are done, as opposed to
interrupt tail softirq processing. So if a tick interrupts an inline
softirq processing, the next timer will neither be reprogrammed from the
interrupting tick's irq_exit() nor after the interrupted softirq
processing. This situation may leave the tick unprogrammed while timers are
armed.
To fix this, simply keep reprogramming the tick even if a softirq has been
interrupted. That can be optimized further, but for now correctness is more
important.
Note that new timers enqueued in nohz_full mode after a softirq gets
interrupted will still be handled just fine through self-IPIs triggered by
the timer code.
Reported-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533303094-15855-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Pull ARM fix from Russell King:
"Just a single fix this time around for recent binutils causing build
problems when generating Thumb-2 code"
* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 8781/1: Fix Thumb-2 syscall return for binutils 2.29+
Pull irq fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single bugfix for the irq core to prevent silent data corruption and
malfunction of threaded interrupts under certain conditions"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Update the tools copy of several files, including perf_event.h,
powerpc's asm/unistd.h (new io_pgetevents syscall), bpf.h and
x86's memcpy_64.s (used in 'perf bench mem'), silencing the
respective warnings during the perf tools build.
- Fix the build on the alpine:edge distro.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
local_timer_softirq_pending() checks whether the timer softirq is
pending with: local_softirq_pending() & TIMER_SOFTIRQ.
This is wrong because TIMER_SOFTIRQ is the softirq number and not a
bitmask. So the test checks for the wrong bit.
Use BIT(TIMER_SOFTIRQ) instead.
Fixes: 5d62c183f9e9 ("nohz: Prevent a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()")
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731161358.29472-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Commit 2c4541e24c55 ("mm: use vma_init() to initialize VMAs on stack and
data segments") tried to initialize various left-over ad-hoc vma's
"properly", but actually made things worse for the temporary vma's used
for TLB flushing.
vma_init() doesn't actually initialize all of the vma, just a few
fields, so doing something like
- struct vm_area_struct vma = { .vm_mm = tlb->mm, };
+ struct vm_area_struct vma;
+
+ vma_init(&vma, tlb->mm);
was actually very bad: instead of having a nicely initialized vma with
every field but "vm_mm" zeroed, you'd have an entirely uninitialized vma
with only a couple of fields initialized. And they weren't even fields
that the code in question mostly cared about.
The flush_tlb_range() function takes a "struct vma" rather than a
"struct mm_struct", because a few architectures actually care about what
kind of range it is - being able to only do an ITLB flush if it's a
range that doesn't have data accesses enabled, for example. And all the
normal users already have the vma for doing the range invalidation.
But a few people want to call flush_tlb_range() with a range they just
made up, so they also end up using a made-up vma. x86 just has a
special "flush_tlb_mm_range()" function for this, but other
architectures (arm and ia64) do the "use fake vma" thing instead, and
thus got caught up in the vma_init() changes.
At the same time, the TLB flushing code really doesn't care about most
other fields in the vma, so vma_init() is just unnecessary and
pointless.
This fixes things by having an explicit "this is just an initializer for
the TLB flush" initializer macro, which is used by the arm/arm64/ia64
people who mis-use this interface with just a dummy vma.
Fixes: 2c4541e24c55 ("mm: use vma_init() to initialize VMAs on stack and data segments")
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When building the kernel as Thumb-2 with binutils 2.29 or newer, if the
assembler has seen the .type directive (via ENDPROC()) for a symbol, it
automatically handles the setting of the lowest bit when the symbol is
used with ADR. The badr macro on the other hand handles this lowest bit
manually. This leads to a jump to a wrong address in the wrong state
in the syscall return path:
Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#2] SMP THUMB2
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 652 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G D 4.18.0-rc3+ #8
PC is at ret_fast_syscall+0x4/0x62
LR is at sys_brk+0x109/0x128
pc : [<80101004>] lr : [<801c8a35>] psr: 60000013
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 50c5387d Table: 9e82006a DAC: 00000051
Process modprobe (pid: 652, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
80101000 <ret_fast_syscall>:
80101000: b672 cpsid i
80101002: f8d9 2008 ldr.w r2, [r9, #8]
80101006: f1b2 4ffe cmp.w r2, #2130706432 ; 0x7f000000
80101184 <local_restart>:
80101184: f8d9 a000 ldr.w sl, [r9]
80101188: e92d 0030 stmdb sp!, {r4, r5}
8010118c: f01a 0ff0 tst.w sl, #240 ; 0xf0
80101190: d117 bne.n 801011c2 <__sys_trace>
80101192: 46ba mov sl, r7
80101194: f5ba 7fc8 cmp.w sl, #400 ; 0x190
80101198: bf28 it cs
8010119a: f04f 0a00 movcs.w sl, #0
8010119e: f3af 8014 nop.w {20}
801011a2: f2af 1ea2 subw lr, pc, #418 ; 0x1a2
To fix this, add a new symbol name which doesn't have ENDPROC used on it
and use that with badr. We can't remove the badr usage since that would
would cause breakage with older binutils.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Handle frames in error situations properly in AF_XDP, from Jakub
Kicinski.
2) tcp_mmap test case only tests ipv6 due to a thinko, fix from
Maninder Singh.
3) Session refcnt fix in l2tp_ppp, from Guillaume Nault.
4) Fix regression in netlink bind handling of multicast gruops, from
Dmitry Safonov.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups
net/smc: no cursor update send in state SMC_INIT
l2tp: fix missing refcount drop in pppol2tp_tunnel_ioctl()
mlxsw: core_acl_flex_actions: Remove redundant mirror resource destruction
mlxsw: core_acl_flex_actions: Remove redundant counter destruction
mlxsw: core_acl_flex_actions: Remove redundant resource destruction
mlxsw: core_acl_flex_actions: Return error for conflicting actions
selftests/bpf: update test_lwt_seg6local.sh according to iproute2
drivers: net: lmc: fix case value for target abort error
selftest/net: fix protocol family to work for IPv4.
net: xsk: don't return frames via the allocator on error
tools/bpftool: fix a percpu_array map dump problem
The support of force threading interrupts which are set up with both a
primary and a threaded handler wreckaged the setup of regular requested
threaded interrupts (primary handler == NULL).
The reason is that it does not check whether the primary handler is set to
the default handler which wakes the handler thread. Instead it replaces the
thread handler with the primary handler as it would do with force threaded
interrupts which have been requested via request_irq(). So both the primary
and the thread handler become the same which then triggers the warnon that
the thread handler tries to wakeup a not configured secondary thread.
Fortunately this only happens when the driver omits the IRQF_ONESHOT flag
when requesting the threaded interrupt, which is normaly caught by the
sanity checks when force irq threading is disabled.
Fix it by skipping the force threading setup when a regular threaded
interrupt is requested. As a consequence the interrupt request which lacks
the IRQ_ONESHOT flag is rejected correctly instead of silently wreckaging
it.
Fixes: 2a1d3ab8986d ("genirq: Handle force threading of irqs with primary and thread handler")
Reported-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt.kanzenbach@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt.kanzenbach@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Masayoshi Mizuma reported that a warning message is shown while a CPU is
hot-removed on Broadwell servers:
WARNING: CPU: 126 PID: 6 at arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c:988
uncore_pci_remove+0x10b/0x150
Call Trace:
pci_device_remove+0x42/0xd0
device_release_driver_internal+0x148/0x220
pci_stop_bus_device+0x76/0xa0
pci_stop_root_bus+0x44/0x60
acpi_pci_root_remove+0x1f/0x80
acpi_bus_trim+0x57/0x90
acpi_bus_trim+0x2e/0x90
acpi_device_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4b0
acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x30
process_one_work+0x174/0x3a0
worker_thread+0x4c/0x3d0
kthread+0xf8/0x130
This bug was introduced by:
commit 15a3e845b01c ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix SBOX support for Broadwell CPUs")
The index of "QPI Port 2 filter" was hardcode to 2, but this conflicts with the
index of "PCU.3" which is "HSWEP_PCI_PCU_3", which equals to 2 as well.
To fix the conflict, the hardcoded index needs to be cleaned up:
- introduce a new enumerator "BDX_PCI_QPI_PORT2_FILTER" for "QPI Port 2
filter" on Broadwell,
- increase UNCORE_EXTRA_PCI_DEV_MAX by one,
- clean up the hardcoded index.
Debugged-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: msys.mizuma@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 15a3e845b01c ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix SBOX support for Broadwell CPUs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532953688-15008-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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