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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two perf fixes:
- Do not check the LBR_TOS MSR when setting up unrelated LBR MSRs as
this can cause malfunction when TOS is not supported
- Allocate the LBR XSAVE buffers along with the DS buffers upfront
because allocating them when adding an event can deadlock"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2021-05-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/lbr: Remove cpuc->lbr_xsave allocation from atomic context
perf/x86: Avoid touching LBR_TOS MSR for Arch LBR
Pull locking fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two locking fixes:
- Invoke the lockdep tracepoints in the correct place so the ordering
is correct again
- Don't leave the mutex WAITER bit stale when the last waiter is
dropping out early due to a signal as that forces all subsequent
lock operations needlessly into the slowpath until it's cleaned up
again"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2021-05-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/mutex: clear MUTEX_FLAGS if wait_list is empty due to signal
locking/lockdep: Correct calling tracepoints
If the kernel is compiled with the CONFIG_LOCKDEP option, the conditional
might_sleep_if() deep in kmem_cache_alloc() will generate the following
trace, and potentially cause a deadlock when another LBR event is added:
[] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:196
[] Call Trace:
[] kmem_cache_alloc+0x36/0x250
[] intel_pmu_lbr_add+0x152/0x170
[] x86_pmu_add+0x83/0xd0
Make it symmetric with the release_lbr_buffers() call and mirror the
existing DS buffers.
Fixes: c085fb8774 ("perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR read")
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
[peterz: simplified]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210430052247.3079672-2-like.xu@linux.intel.com
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A few fixes for irqchip drivers:
- Allocate interrupt descriptors correctly on Mainstone PXA when
SPARSE_IRQ is enabled; otherwise the interrupt association fails
- Make the APPLE AIC chip driver depend on APPLE
- Remove redundant error output on devm_ioremap_resource() failure"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2021-05-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip: Remove redundant error printing
irqchip/apple-aic: APPLE_AIC should depend on ARCH_APPLE
ARM: PXA: Fix cplds irqdesc allocation when using legacy mode
When a interruptible mutex locker is interrupted by a signal
without acquiring this lock and removed from the wait queue.
if the mutex isn't contended enough to have a waiter
put into the wait queue again, the setting of the WAITER
bit will force mutex locker to go into the slowpath to
acquire the lock every time, so if the wait queue is empty,
the WAITER bit need to be clear.
Fixes: 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210517034005.30828-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
The Architecture LBR does not have MSR_LBR_TOS (0x000001c9).
In a guest that should support Architecture LBR, check_msr()
will be a non-related check for the architecture MSR 0x0
(IA32_P5_MC_ADDR) that is also not supported by KVM.
The failure will cause x86_pmu.lbr_nr = 0, thereby preventing
the initialization of the guest Arch LBR. Fix it by avoiding
this extraneous check in intel_pmu_init() for Arch LBR.
Fixes: 47125db27e47 ("perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support Architectural LBR")
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
[peterz: simpler still]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210430052247.3079672-1-like.xu@linux.intel.com
Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix how SEV handles MMIO accesses by forwarding potential page faults
instead of killing the machine and by using the accessors with the
exact functionality needed when accessing memory.
- Fix a confusion with Clang LTO compiler switches passed to the it
- Handle the case gracefully when VMGEXIT has been executed in
userspace
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.13_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sev-es: Use __put_user()/__get_user() for data accesses
x86/sev-es: Forward page-faults which happen during emulation
x86/sev-es: Don't return NULL from sev_es_get_ghcb()
x86/build: Fix location of '-plugin-opt=' flags
x86/sev-es: Invalidate the GHCB after completing VMGEXIT
x86/sev-es: Move sev_es_put_ghcb() in prep for follow on patch
Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:
- Fix PXA Mainstone CPLD irq allocation in legacy mode
- Restrict the Apple AIC controller to the Apple platform
- Remove a few supperfluous messages on devm_ioremap_resource() failure
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210516122217.13234-1-maz@kernel.org
The commit eb1f00237aca ("lockdep,trace: Expose tracepoints") reverses
tracepoints for lock_contended() and lock_acquired(), thus the ftrace
log shows the wrong locking sequence that "acquired" event is prior to
"contended" event:
<idle>-0 [001] d.s3 20803.501685: lock_acquire: 0000000008b91ab4 &sg_policy->update_lock
<idle>-0 [001] d.s3 20803.501686: lock_acquired: 0000000008b91ab4 &sg_policy->update_lock
<idle>-0 [001] d.s3 20803.501689: lock_contended: 0000000008b91ab4 &sg_policy->update_lock
<idle>-0 [001] d.s3 20803.501690: lock_release: 0000000008b91ab4 &sg_policy->update_lock
This patch fixes calling tracepoints for lock_contended() and
lock_acquired().
Fixes: eb1f00237aca ("lockdep,trace: Expose tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512120937.90211-1-leo.yan@linaro.org
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
- Fix breakage of strace (and other ptracers etc.) when using the new
scv ABI (Power9 or later with glibc >= 2.33).
- Fix early_ioremap() on 64-bit, which broke booting on some machines.
Thanks to Dmitry V. Levin, Nicholas Piggin, Alexey Kardashevskiy, and
Christophe Leroy.
* tag 'powerpc-5.13-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/64s/syscall: Fix ptrace syscall info with scv syscalls
powerpc/64s/syscall: Use pt_regs.trap to distinguish syscall ABI difference between sc and scv syscalls
powerpc: Fix early setup to make early_ioremap() work
The put_user() and get_user() functions do checks on the address which is
passed to them. They check whether the address is actually a user-space
address and whether its fine to access it. They also call might_fault()
to indicate that they could fault and possibly sleep.
All of these checks are neither wanted nor needed in the #VC exception
handler, which can be invoked from almost any context and also for MMIO
instructions from kernel space on kernel memory. All the #VC handler
wants to know is whether a fault happened when the access was tried.
This is provided by __put_user()/__get_user(), which just do the access
no matter what. Also add comments explaining why __get_user() and
__put_user() are the best choice here and why it is safe to use them
in this context. Also explain why copy_to/from_user can't be used.
In addition, also revert commit
7024f60d6552 ("x86/sev-es: Handle string port IO to kernel memory properly")
because using __get_user()/__put_user() fixes the same problem while
the above commit introduced several problems:
1) It uses access_ok() which is only allowed in task context.
2) It uses memcpy() which has no fault handling at all and is
thus unsafe to use here.
[ bp: Fix up commit ID of the reverted commit above. ]
Fixes: f980f9c31a92 ("x86/sev-es: Compile early handler code into kernel image")
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210519135251.30093-4-joro@8bytes.org
When devm_ioremap_resource() fails, a clear enough error message will be
printed by its subfunction __devm_ioremap_resource(). The error
information contains the device name, failure cause, and possibly resource
information.
Therefore, remove the error printing here to simplify code and reduce the
binary size.
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511125428.6108-2-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
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