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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Free shmem backing storage for SGX enclave pages when those are
swapped back into EPC memory
- Prevent do_int3() from being kprobed, to avoid recursion
- Remap setup_data and setup_indirect structures properly when
accessing their members
- Correct the alternatives patching order for modules too
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.17_rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sgx: Free backing memory after faulting the enclave page
x86/traps: Mark do_int3() NOKPROBE_SYMBOL
x86/boot: Add setup_indirect support in early_memremap_is_setup_data()
x86/boot: Fix memremap of setup_indirect structures
x86/module: Fix the paravirt vs alternative order
Pull perf tools fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Fix event parser error for hybrid systems
- Fix NULL check against wrong variable in 'perf bench' and in the
parsing code
- Update arm64 KVM headers from the kernel sources
- Sync cpufeatures header with the kernel sources
* tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v5.17-2022-03-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux:
perf parse: Fix event parser error for hybrid systems
perf bench: Fix NULL check against wrong variable
perf parse-events: Fix NULL check against wrong variable
tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources
tools kvm headers arm64: Update KVM headers from the kernel sources
There is a limited amount of SGX memory (EPC) on each system. When that
memory is used up, SGX has its own swapping mechanism which is similar
in concept but totally separate from the core mm/* code. Instead of
swapping to disk, SGX swaps from EPC to normal RAM. That normal RAM
comes from a shared memory pseudo-file and can itself be swapped by the
core mm code. There is a hierarchy like this:
EPC <-> shmem <-> disk
After data is swapped back in from shmem to EPC, the shmem backing
storage needs to be freed. Currently, the backing shmem is not freed.
This effectively wastes the shmem while the enclave is running. The
memory is recovered when the enclave is destroyed and the backing
storage freed.
Sort this out by freeing memory with shmem_truncate_range(), as soon as
a page is faulted back to the EPC. In addition, free the memory for
PCMD pages as soon as all PCMD's in a page have been marked as unused
by zeroing its contents.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1728ab54b4be ("x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer")
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303223859.273187-1-jarkko@kernel.org
Pull drm kconfig fix from Dave Airlie:
"Thorsten pointed out this had fallen down the cracks and was in -next
only, I've picked it out, fixed up it's Fixes: line.
- fix regression in Kconfig"
* tag 'drm-fixes-2022-03-12' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm:
drm/panel: Select DRM_DP_HELPER for DRM_PANEL_EDP
This bug happened on hybrid systems when both cpu_core and cpu_atom
have the same event name such as "UOPS_RETIRED.MS" while their event
terms are different, then during perf stat, the event for cpu_atom
will parse fail and then no output for cpu_atom.
UOPS_RETIRED.MS -> cpu_core/period=0x1e8483,umask=0x4,event=0xc2,frontend=0x8/
UOPS_RETIRED.MS -> cpu_atom/period=0x1e8483,umask=0x1,event=0xc2/
It is because event terms in the "head" of parse_events_multi_pmu_add
will be changed to event terms for cpu_core after parsing UOPS_RETIRED.MS
for cpu_core, then when parsing the same event for cpu_atom, it still
uses the event terms for cpu_core, but event terms for cpu_atom are
different with cpu_core, the event parses for cpu_atom will fail. This
patch fixes it, the event terms should be parsed from the original
event.
This patch can work for the hybrid systems that have the same event
in more than 2 PMUs. It also can work in non-hybrid systems.
Before:
# perf stat -v -e UOPS_RETIRED.MS -a sleep 1
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-97-1
UOPS_RETIRED.MS -> cpu_core/period=0x1e8483,umask=0x4,event=0xc2,frontend=0x8/
Control descriptor is not initialized
UOPS_RETIRED.MS: 2737845 16068518485 16068518485
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
2,737,845 cpu_core/UOPS_RETIRED.MS/
1.002553850 seconds time elapsed
After:
# perf stat -v -e UOPS_RETIRED.MS -a sleep 1
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-97-1
UOPS_RETIRED.MS -> cpu_core/period=0x1e8483,umask=0x4,event=0xc2,frontend=0x8/
UOPS_RETIRED.MS -> cpu_atom/period=0x1e8483,umask=0x1,event=0xc2/
Control descriptor is not initialized
UOPS_RETIRED.MS: 1977555 16076950711 16076950711
UOPS_RETIRED.MS: 568684 8038694234 8038694234
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
1,977,555 cpu_core/UOPS_RETIRED.MS/
568,684 cpu_atom/UOPS_RETIRED.MS/
1.004758259 seconds time elapsed
Fixes: fb0811535e92c6c1 ("perf parse-events: Allow config on kernel PMU events")
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307151627.30049-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since kprobe_int3_handler() is called in do_int3(), probing do_int3()
can cause a breakpoint recursion and crash the kernel. Therefore,
do_int3() should be marked as NOKPROBE_SYMBOL.
Fixes: 21e28290b317 ("x86/traps: Split int3 handler up")
Signed-off-by: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310120915.63349-1-lihuafei1@huawei.com
When CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES is not set, references
to spectre_v2_update_state() cause a build error, so provide an
empty stub for that function when the Kconfig option is not set.
Fixes this build error:
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.o: in function `cpu_v7_bugs_init':
proc-v7-bugs.c:(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `spectre_v2_update_state'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: proc-v7-bugs.c:(.text+0x82): undefined reference to `spectre_v2_update_state'
Fixes: b9baf5c8c5c3 ("ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: patches@armlinux.org.uk
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As reported in [1], DRM_PANEL_EDP depends on DRM_DP_HELPER. Select
the option to fix the build failure. The error message is shown
below.
arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.o: in function
`panel_edp_probe': panel-edp.c:(.text+0xb74): undefined reference to
`drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight'
make[1]: *** [/builds/linux/Makefile:1222: vmlinux] Error 1
The issue has been reported before, when DisplayPort helpers were
hidden behind the option CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER. [2]
v2:
* fix and expand commit description (Arnd)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Fixes: 9d6366e743f3 ("drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency")
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CA+G9fYvN0NyaVkRQmA1O6rX7H8PPaZrUAD7=RDy33QY9rUU-9g@mail.gmail.com/ # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211117062704.14671-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/ # [2]
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220203093922.20754-1-tzimmermann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
We did a NULL check after "epollfdp = calloc(...)", but we checked
"epollfd" instead of "epollfdp".
Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06@foxmail.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_B5D64530EB9C7DBB8D2C88A0C790F1489D0A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The x86 boot documentation describes the setup_indirect structures and
how they are used. Only one of the two functions in ioremap.c that needed
to be modified to be aware of the introduction of setup_indirect
functionality was updated. Adds comparable support to the other function
where it was missing.
Fixes: b3c72fc9a78e ("x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect")
Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1645668456-22036-3-git-send-email-ross.philipson@oracle.com
Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:
- prevent users from enabling the alternatives framework (and thus
errata handling) on XIP kernels, where runtime code patching does not
function correctly.
- properly detect offset overflow for AUIPC-based relocations in
modules. This may manifest as modules calling arbitrary invalid
addresses, depending on the address allocated when a module is
loaded.
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.17-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
riscv: Fix auipc+jalr relocation range checks
riscv: alternative only works on !XIP_KERNEL
Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2022-03-10' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-fixes
- Fix PSR2 when selective fetch is enabled and cursor at (-1, -1) (Jouni Högander)
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YinTFSFg++HvuFpZ@tursulin-mobl2
We did a null check after "tmp->symbol = strdup(...)", but we checked
"list->symbol" other than "tmp->symbol".
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06@foxmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_DF39269807EC9425E24787E6DB632441A405@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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