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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for x86:
- Fix the swapped outb() parameters in the KASLR code
- Fix the PKEY handling at fork which missed to preserve the pkey
state for the child. Comes with a test case to validate that.
- Fix the entry stack handling for XEN PV to respect that XEN PV
systems enter the function already on the current thread stack and
not on the trampoline.
- Fix kexec load failure caused by using a stale value when the
kexec_buf structure is reused for subsequent allocations.
- Fix a bogus sizeof() in the memory encryption code
- Enforce PCI dependency for the Intel Low Power Subsystem
- Enforce PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG when PCI is enabled"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/Kconfig: Select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI is enabled
x86/entry/64/compat: Fix stack switching for XEN PV
x86/kexec: Fix a kexec_file_load() failure
x86/mm/mem_encrypt: Fix erroneous sizeof()
x86/selftests/pkeys: Fork() to check for state being preserved
x86/pkeys: Properly copy pkey state at fork()
x86/kaslr: Fix incorrect i8254 outb() parameters
x86/intel/lpss: Make PCI dependency explicit
Pull x86 timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two commits which were missed to be sent during the merge window.
- The TSC calibration fix turns out to be more urgent as recent
Skylake-X systems seem to have massive trouble with calibration
disturbance. This should go back into stable for that reason and it
the risk of breakage is rather low.
- Drop an unused define"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/hpet: Remove unused FSEC_PER_NSEC define
x86/tsc: Make calibration refinement more robust
After commit
5d32a66541c4 ("PCI/ACPI: Allow ACPI to be built without CONFIG_PCI set")
dependencies on CONFIG_PCI that previously were satisfied implicitly
through dependencies on CONFIG_ACPI have to be specified directly.
PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG depends on PCI but this dependency has not been
mentioned in the Kconfig so add an explicit dependency here and fix
WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG
Depends on [n]: PCI [=n]
Selected by [y]:
- X86 [=y]
Fixes: 5d32a66541c46 ("PCI/ACPI: Allow ACPI to be built without CONFIG_PCI set")
Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190121231958.28255-2-okaya@kernel.org
Pull timer fix from Thomas Glexiner:
"A single regression fix to address the unintended breakage of posix
cpu timers.
This is caused by a new sanity check in the common code, which fails
for posix cpu timers under certain conditions because the posix cpu
timer code never updates the variable which is checked"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak timer rearming
The FSEC_PER_NSEC macro has had zero users since commit
ab0e08f15d23 ("x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code").
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130211450.5200-1-roland@purestorage.com
While in the native case entry into the kernel happens on the trampoline
stack, PV Xen kernels get entered with the current thread stack right
away. Hence source and destination stacks are identical in that case,
and special care is needed.
Other than in sync_regs() the copying done on the INT80 path isn't
NMI / #MC safe, as either of these events occurring in the middle of the
stack copying would clobber data on the (source) stack.
There is similar code in interrupt_entry() and nmi(), but there is no fixup
required because those code paths are unreachable in XEN PV guests.
[ tglx: Sanitized subject, changelog, Fixes tag and stable mail address. Sigh ]
Fixes: 7f2590a110b8 ("x86/entry/64: Use a per-CPU trampoline stack for IDT entries")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5C3E1128020000780020DFAD@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com
Pull locking fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small series of fixes which all address possible missed wakeups:
- Document and fix the wakeup ordering of wake_q
- Add the missing barrier in rcuwait_wake_up(), which was documented
in the comment but missing in the code
- Fix the possible missed wakeups in the rwsem and futex code"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/rwsem: Fix (possible) missed wakeup
futex: Fix (possible) missed wakeup
sched/wake_q: Fix wakeup ordering for wake_q
sched/wake_q: Document wake_q_add()
sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake_up() ordering
The recent commit which prevented a division by 0 issue in the alarm timer
code broke posix CPU timers as an unwanted side effect.
The reason is that the common rearm code checks for timer->it_interval
being 0 now. What went unnoticed is that the posix cpu timer setup does not
initialize timer->it_interval as it stores the interval in CPU timer
specific storage. The reason for the separate storage is historical as the
posix CPU timers always had a 64bit nanoseconds representation internally
while timer->it_interval is type ktime_t which used to be a modified
timespec representation on 32bit machines.
Instead of reverting the offending commit and fixing the alarmtimer issue
in the alarmtimer code, store the interval in timer->it_interval at CPU
timer setup time so the common code check works. This also repairs the
existing inconistency of the posix CPU timer code which kept a single shot
timer armed despite of the interval being 0.
The separate storage can be removed in mainline, but that needs to be a
separate commit as the current one has to be backported to stable kernels.
Fixes: 0e334db6bb4b ("posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug")
Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111133500.840117406@linutronix.de
The threshold in tsc_read_refs() is constant which may favor slower CPUs
but may not be optimal for simple reading of reference on faster ones.
Hence make it proportional to tsc_khz when available to compensate for
this. The threshold guards against any disturbance like IRQs, NMIs, SMIs
or CPU stealing by host on guest systems so rename it accordingly and
fix comments as well.
Also on some systems there is noticeable DMI bus contention at some point
during boot keeping the readout failing (observed with about one in ~300
boots when testing). In that case retry also the second readout instead of
simply bailing out unrefined. Usually the next second the readout returns
fast just fine without any issues.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1541437840-29293-1-git-send-email-neelx@redhat.com
Commit
b6664ba42f14 ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()")
changed the behavior of kexec_locate_mem_hole(): it will try to allocate
free memory only when kbuf.mem is initialized to zero.
However, x86's kexec_file_load() implementation reuses a struct
kexec_buf allocated on the stack and its kbuf.mem member gets set by
each kexec_add_buffer() invocation.
The second kexec_add_buffer() will reuse the same kbuf but not
reinitialize kbuf.mem.
Therefore, explictily reset kbuf.mem each time in order for
kexec_locate_mem_hole() to locate a free memory region each time.
[ bp: massage commit message. ]
Fixes: b6664ba42f14 ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()")
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@sembritzki.me>
Cc: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181228011247.GA9999@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for the interrupt subsystem:
- Fix a double increment in the irq descriptor allocator which
resulted in a sanity check only being done for every second
affinity mask
- Add a missing device tree translation in the stm32-exti driver.
Without that the interrupt association is completely wrong.
- Initialize the mutex in the GIC-V3 MBI driver
- Fix the alignment for aliasing devices in the GIC-V3-ITS driver so
multi MSI allocations work correctly
- Ensure that the initial affinity of a interrupt is not empty at
startup time.
- Drop bogus include in the madera irq chip driver
- Fix KernelDoc regression"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Align PCI Multi-MSI allocation on their size
genirq/irqdesc: Fix double increment in alloc_descs()
genirq: Fix the kerneldoc comment for struct irq_affinity_desc
irqchip/madera: Drop GPIO includes
irqchip/gic-v3-mbi: Fix uninitialized mbi_lock
irqchip/stm32-exti: Add domain translate function
genirq: Make sure the initial affinity is not empty
Because wake_q_add() can imply an immediate wakeup (cmpxchg failure
case), we must not rely on the wakeup being delayed. However, commit:
e38513905eea ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task")
relies on exactly that behaviour in that the wakeup must not happen
until after we clear waiter->task.
[ peterz: Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: e38513905eea ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543495830-2644-1-git-send-email-xieyongji@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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