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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
- Add perf support for emitting extended registers for power10.
- A fix for CPU hotplug on pseries, where on large/loaded systems we
may not wait long enough for the CPU to be offlined, leading to
crashes.
- Addition of a raw cputable entry for Power10, which is not required
to boot, but is required to make our PMU setup work correctly in
guests.
- Three fixes for the recent changes on 32-bit Book3S to move modules
into their own segment for strict RWX.
- A fix for a recent change in our powernv PCI code that could lead to
crashes.
- A change to our perf interrupt accounting to avoid soft lockups when
using some events, found by syzkaller.
- A change in the way we handle power loss events from the hypervisor
on pseries. We no longer immediately shut down if we're told we're
running on a UPS.
- A few other minor fixes.
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T
Sudhakar, Athira Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Greg Kurz,
Kajol Jain, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Michael Roth,
Nageswara R Sastry, Oliver O'Halloran, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde.
* tag 'powerpc-5.9-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move cpumask file to top folder of hv-24x7 driver
powerpc/32s: Fix module loading failure when VMALLOC_END is over 0xf0000000
powerpc/pseries: Do not initiate shutdown when system is running on UPS
powerpc/perf: Fix soft lockups due to missed interrupt accounting
powerpc/powernv/pci: Fix possible crash when releasing DMA resources
powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: wait indefinitely for vCPU death
powerpc/32s: Fix is_module_segment() when MODULES_VADDR is defined
powerpc/kasan: Fix KASAN_SHADOW_START on BOOK3S_32
powerpc/fixmap: Fix the size of the early debug area
powerpc/pkeys: Fix build error with PPC_MEM_KEYS disabled
powerpc/kernel: Cleanup machine check function declarations
powerpc: Add POWER10 raw mode cputable entry
powerpc/perf: Add extended regs support for power10 platform
powerpc/perf: Add support for outputting extended regs in perf intr_regs
powerpc: Fix P10 PVR revision in /proc/cpuinfo for SMT4 cores
Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for x86 which removes the RDPID usage from the paranoid
entry path and unconditionally uses LSL to retrieve the CPU number.
RDPID depends on MSR_TSX_AUX. KVM has an optmization to avoid
expensive MRS read/writes on VMENTER/EXIT. It caches the MSR values
and restores them either when leaving the run loop, on preemption or
when going out to user space. MSR_TSX_AUX is part of that lazy MSR
set, so after writing the guest value and before the lazy restore any
exception using the paranoid entry will read the guest value and use
it as CPU number to retrieve the GSBASE value for the current CPU when
FSGSBASE is enabled. As RDPID is only used in that particular entry
path, there is no reason to burden VMENTER/EXIT with two extra MSR
writes. Remove the RDPID optimization, which is not even backed by
numbers from the paranoid entry path instead"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-08-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/64: Do not use RDPID in paranoid entry to accomodate KVM
Commit 792f73f747b8 ("powerpc/hv-24x7: Add sysfs files inside hv-24x7
device to show cpumask") added cpumask file as part of hv-24x7 driver
inside the interface folder. The cpumask file is supposed to be in the
top folder of the PMU driver in order to make hotplug work.
This patch fixes that issue and creates new group 'cpumask_attr_group'
to add cpumask file and make sure it added in top folder.
command:# cat /sys/devices/hv_24x7/cpumask
0
Fixes: 792f73f747b8 ("powerpc/hv-24x7: Add sysfs files inside hv-24x7 device to show cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821080610.123997-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Pull x86 perf fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single update for perf on x86 which has support for the broken down
bandwith counters"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-08-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add BW counters for GT, IA and IO breakdown
KVM has an optmization to avoid expensive MRS read/writes on
VMENTER/EXIT. It caches the MSR values and restores them either when
leaving the run loop, on preemption or when going out to user space.
The affected MSRs are not required for kernel context operations. This
changed with the recently introduced mechanism to handle FSGSBASE in the
paranoid entry code which has to retrieve the kernel GSBASE value by
accessing per CPU memory. The mechanism needs to retrieve the CPU number
and uses either LSL or RDPID if the processor supports it.
Unfortunately RDPID uses MSR_TSC_AUX which is in the list of cached and
lazily restored MSRs, which means between the point where the guest value
is written and the point of restore, MSR_TSC_AUX contains a random number.
If an NMI or any other exception which uses the paranoid entry path happens
in such a context, then RDPID returns the random guest MSR_TSC_AUX value.
As a consequence this reads from the wrong memory location to retrieve the
kernel GSBASE value. Kernel GS is used to for all regular this_cpu_*()
operations. If the GSBASE in the exception handler points to the per CPU
memory of a different CPU then this has the obvious consequences of data
corruption and crashes.
As the paranoid entry path is the only place which accesses MSR_TSX_AUX
(via RDPID) and the fallback via LSL is not significantly slower, remove
the RDPID alternative from the entry path and always use LSL.
The alternative would be to write MSR_TSC_AUX on every VMENTER and VMEXIT
which would be inflicting massive overhead on that code path.
[ tglx: Rewrote changelog ]
Fixes: eaad981291ee3 ("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro")
Reported-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Debugged-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821105229.18938-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
In is_module_segment(), when VMALLOC_END is over 0xf0000000,
ALIGN(VMALLOC_END, SZ_256M) has value 0.
In that case, addr >= ALIGN(VMALLOC_END, SZ_256M) is always
true then is_module_segment() always returns false.
Use (ALIGN(VMALLOC_END, SZ_256M) - 1) which will have
value 0xffffffff and will be suitable for the comparison.
Fixes: c49643319715 ("powerpc/32s: Only leave NX unset on segments used for modules")
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Tested-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/09fc73fe9c7423c6b4cf93f93df9bb0ed8eefab5.1597994047.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Pull EFI fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Enforce NX on RO data in mixed EFI mode
- Destroy workqueue in an error handling path to prevent UAF
- Stop argument parser at '--' which is the delimiter for init
- Treat a NULL command line pointer as empty instead of dereferncing it
unconditionally.
- Handle an unterminated command line correctly
- Cleanup the 32bit code leftovers and remove obsolete documentation
* tag 'efi-urgent-2020-08-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation: efi: remove description of efi=old_map
efi/x86: Move 32-bit code into efi_32.c
efi/libstub: Handle unterminated cmdline
efi/libstub: Handle NULL cmdline
efi/libstub: Stop parsing arguments at "--"
efi: add missed destroy_workqueue when efisubsys_init fails
efi/x86: Mark kernel rodata non-executable for mixed mode
Linux only has support to read total DDR reads and writes. Here we
add support to enable bandwidth breakdown-GT, IA and IO. Breakdown
of BW is important to debug and optimize memory access. This can also
be used for telemetry and improving the system software.The offsets for
GT, IA and IO are added and these free running counters can be accessed
via MMIO space.
The BW breakdown can be measured using the following cmd:
perf stat -e uncore_imc/gt_requests/,uncore_imc/ia_requests/,uncore_imc/io_requests/
30.57 MiB uncore_imc/gt_requests/
1346.13 MiB uncore_imc/ia_requests/
190.97 MiB uncore_imc/io_requests/
5.984572733 seconds time elapsed
BW/s = <gt,ia,io>_requests/time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Shankar <vaibhav.shankar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814022234.23605-1-vaibhav.shankar@intel.com
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes and small updates all around the place:
- Fix mitigation state sysfs output
- Fix an FPU xstate/sxave code assumption bug triggered by
Architectural LBR support
- Fix Lightning Mountain SoC TSC frequency enumeration bug
- Fix kexec debug output
- Fix kexec memory range assumption bug
- Fix a boundary condition in the crash kernel code
- Optimize porgatory.ro generation a bit
- Enable ACRN guests to use X2APIC mode
- Reduce a __text_poke() IRQs-off critical section for the benefit of
PREEMPT_RT"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-08-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/alternatives: Acquire pte lock with interrupts enabled
x86/bugs/multihit: Fix mitigation reporting when VMX is not in use
x86/fpu/xstate: Fix an xstate size check warning with architectural LBRs
x86/purgatory: Don't generate debug info for purgatory.ro
x86/tsr: Fix tsc frequency enumeration bug on Lightning Mountain SoC
kexec_file: Correctly output debugging information for the PT_LOAD ELF header
kexec: Improve & fix crash_exclude_mem_range() to handle overlapping ranges
x86/crash: Correct the address boundary of function parameters
x86/acrn: Remove redundant chars from ACRN signature
x86/acrn: Allow ACRN guest to use X2APIC mode
As per PAPR we have to look for both EPOW sensor value and event
modifier to identify the type of event and take appropriate action.
In LoPAPR v1.1 section 10.2.2 includes table 136 "EPOW Action Codes":
SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN 3
The system must be shut down. An EPOW-aware OS logs the EPOW error
log information, then schedules the system to be shut down to begin
after an OS defined delay internal (default is 10 minutes.)
Then in section 10.3.2.2.8 there is table 146 "Platform Event Log
Format, Version 6, EPOW Section", which includes the "EPOW Event
Modifier":
For EPOW sensor value = 3
0x01 = Normal system shutdown with no additional delay
0x02 = Loss of utility power, system is running on UPS/Battery
0x03 = Loss of system critical functions, system should be shutdown
0x04 = Ambient temperature too high
All other values = reserved
We have a user space tool (rtas_errd) on LPAR to monitor for
EPOW_SHUTDOWN_ON_UPS. Once it gets an event it initiates shutdown
after predefined time. It also starts monitoring for any new EPOW
events. If it receives "Power restored" event before predefined time
it will cancel the shutdown. Otherwise after predefined time it will
shutdown the system.
Commit 79872e35469b ("powerpc/pseries: All events of
EPOW_SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN must initiate shutdown") changed our handling of
the "on UPS/Battery" case, to immediately shutdown the system. This
breaks existing setups that rely on the userspace tool to delay
shutdown and let the system run on the UPS.
Fixes: 79872e35469b ("powerpc/pseries: All events of EPOW_SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN must initiate shutdown")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Massage change log and add PAPR references]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200820061844.306460-1-hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Pull entry fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single bug fix for the common entry code.
The transcription of the x86 version messed up the reload of the
syscall number from pt_regs after ptrace and seccomp which breaks
syscall number rewriting"
* tag 'core-urgent-2020-08-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
core/entry: Respect syscall number rewrites
The old EFI runtime region mapping logic that was kept around for some
time has finally been removed entirely, along with the SGI UV1 support
code that was its last remaining user. So remove any mention of the
efi=old_map command line parameter from the docs.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes: fix a new tracepoint's output value, and fix the formatting
of show-state syslog printouts"
* tag 'sched-urgent-2020-08-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/debug: Fix the alignment of the show-state debug output
sched: Fix use of count for nr_running tracepoint
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