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Linus Torvalds
192f0f8e9d powerpc updates for 5.3
Notable changes:
 
  - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver, as well
    as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't (yet?) made it
    upstream.
 
  - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf record -e
    mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and kernel crashes.
 
  - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for vmalloc
    when using the Radix MMU.
 
  - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to use gas
    macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
 
 And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
 
 Thanks to:
   Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
   T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater,
   Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig,
   Daniel Axtens, Denis Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R.
   Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
   Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
   Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao,
   Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi Bangoria,
   Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher Boessenkool, Shaokun
   Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung
   Bauermann, YueHaibing.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
     as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
     (yet?) made it upstream.

   - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
     record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
     kernel crashes.

   - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
     vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.

   - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
     use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.

  And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
  Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
  Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
  Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
  Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
  Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
  Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
  Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
  Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
  powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
  ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
  powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
  powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
  powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
  powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
  powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
  powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
  powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
  powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
  powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
  powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
  powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
  powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
  powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
  powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
  ...
2019-07-13 16:08:36 -07:00
Gustavo Romero
8d0f1e05ab selftests/powerpc: Fix earlyclobber in tm-vmxcopy
In some cases, compiler can allocate the same register for operand 'res'
and 'vecoutptr', resulting in segfault at 'stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr]'
because base register will contain 1, yielding a false-positive.

This is because output 'res' must be marked as an earlyclobber operand so
it may not overlap an input operand ('vecoutptr').

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-06-19 20:05:07 +10:00
Thomas Gleixner
f50a7f3d92 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 191
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  licensed under gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 99 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170027.163048684@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:29:21 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Breno Leitao
a65329aa7d selftests/powerpc: New TM signal self test
A new self test that forces MSR[TS] to be set without calling any TM
instruction. This test also tries to cause a page fault at a signal
handler, exactly between MSR[TS] set and tm_recheckpoint(), forcing
thread->texasr to be rewritten with TEXASR[FS] = 0, which will cause a BUG
when tm_recheckpoint() is called.

This test is not deterministic, since it is hard to guarantee that the page
access will cause a page fault. In order to force more page faults at
signal context, the signal handler and the ucontext are being mapped into a
MADV_DONTNEED memory chunks.

Tests have shown that the bug could be exposed with few interactions in a
buggy kernel. This test is configured to loop 5000x, having a good chance
to hit the kernel issue in just one run.  This self test takes less than
two seconds to run.

This test uses set/getcontext because the kernel will recheckpoint
zeroed structures, causing the test to segfault, which is undesired because
the test needs to rerun, so, there is a signal handler for SIGSEGV which
will restart the test.

v2: Uses the MADV_DONTNEED memory advice
v3: Fix memcpy and 32-bits compilation
v4: Does not define unused macros

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-01-15 11:17:09 +11:00
Breno Leitao
34642d70ac selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional sigreturn
This is a new test case that creates a signal and starts a suspended
transaction inside the signal handler.

It returns from the signal handler with the CPU at suspended state, but
without setting user context MSR Transaction State (TS) field.

The kernel signal handler code should be able to handle this discrepancy
instead of crashing.

This code could be compiled and used to test 32 and 64-bits signal
handlers.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-21 14:46:50 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
9b7e4d601b Merge branch 'fixes' into next
Merge our fixes branch. It has a few important fixes that are needed for
futher testing and also some commits that will conflict with content in
next.
2018-10-09 16:51:05 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
7e0cf1c983 selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change
Commit b2d35fa5fc ("selftests: add headers_install to lib.mk")
introduced a requirement that Makefiles more than one level below the
selftests directory need to define top_srcdir, but it didn't update
any of the powerpc Makefiles.

This broke building all the powerpc selftests with eg:

  make[1]: Entering directory '/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc'
  BUILD_TARGET=/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment; mkdir -p $BUILD_TARGET; make OUTPUT=$BUILD_TARGET -k -C alignment all
  make[2]: Entering directory '/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment'
  ../../lib.mk:20: ../../../../scripts/subarch.include: No such file or directory
  make[2]: *** No rule to make target '../../../../scripts/subarch.include'.
  make[2]: Failed to remake makefile '../../../../scripts/subarch.include'.
  Makefile:38: recipe for target 'alignment' failed

Fix it by setting top_srcdir in the affected Makefiles.

Fixes: b2d35fa5fc ("selftests: add headers_install to lib.mk")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-28 15:07:45 +10:00
Breno Leitao
44d947eff1 selftests/powerpc: Do not fail with reschedule
There are cases where the test is not expecting to have the transaction
aborted, but, the test process might have been rescheduled, either in the
OS level or by KVM (if it is running on a KVM guest machine). The process
reschedule will cause a treclaim/recheckpoint which will cause the
transaction to doom, aborting the transaction as soon as the process is
rescheduled back to the CPU. This might cause the test to fail, but this is
not a failure in essence.

If that is the case, TEXASR[FC] is indicated with either
TM_CAUSE_RESCHEDULE or TM_CAUSE_KVM_RESCHEDULE for KVM interruptions.

In this scenario, ignore these two failures and avoid the whole test to
return failure.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-19 21:58:09 +10:00
Breno Leitao
693b31b2fc powerpc/selftests: Wait all threads to join
Test tm-tmspr might exit before all threads stop executing, because it just
waits for the very last thread to join before proceeding/exiting.

This patch makes sure that all threads that were created will join before
proceeding/exiting.

This patch also guarantees that the amount of threads being created is equal
to thread_num.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-17 21:17:25 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
1cdc6c14b0 selftests/powerpc: Only run some tests on ppc64le
These tests are currently failing on (some) big endian systems. Until
we can fix that, skip them unless we're on ppc64le.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-08-07 21:49:25 +10:00
Michael Neuling
bd79010fb3 selftests/powerpc: Add missing .gitignores
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-05-25 00:08:25 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
95dff480bb Merge branch 'fixes' into next
Merge our fixes branch from the 4.16 cycle.

There were a number of important fixes merged, in particular some Power9
workarounds that we want in next for testing purposes. There's also been
some conflicting changes in the CPU features code which are best merged
and tested before going upstream.
2018-03-28 22:59:50 +11:00
Gustavo Romero
b395e55b49 selftests/powerpc: Skip tm-unavailable if TM is not enabled
Some processor revisions do not support transactional memory, and
additionally kernel support can be disabled. In either case the
tm-unavailable test should be skipped, otherwise it will fail with
a SIGILL.

That commit also sets this selftest to be called through the test
harness as it's done for other TM selftests.

Finally, it avoids using "ping" as a thread name since it's
ambiguous and can be confusing when shown, for instance,
in a kernel backtrace log.

Fixes: 77fad8bfb1 ("selftests/powerpc: Check FP/VEC on exception in TM")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-03-13 15:10:15 +11:00
Laurent Dufour
9c96c93287 selftest/powerpc: Add test for sigreturn in transaction
Ensure that kernel is throwing away the suspended transaction when
sigreturn() is called otherwise it if fails to restore the signal
frame's TM SPRS.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Add have_htm() check, minor formatting, add SPDX tag]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-03-13 15:10:14 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
b7abbd5a35 selftests/powerpc: Fix missing clean of pmu/lib.o
The tm-resched-dscr test links against pmu/lib.o, but we don't have a
rule to clean pmu/lib.o. This can lead to a build break if you build
for big endian and then little, or vice versa.

Fix it by making tm-resched-dscr depend on pmu/lib.c, causing the code
to be built directly in, meaning no .o is generated.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-02-28 22:28:35 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
192b2e742c selftests/powerpc: Skip tm-trap if transactional memory is not enabled
Some processor revisions do not support transactional memory, and
additionally kernel support can be disabled. In either case the
tm-trap test should be skipped, otherwise it will fail with a SIGILL.

Fixes: a08082f8e4 ("powerpc/selftests: Check endianness on trap in TM")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-02-26 13:18:25 +11:00
Gustavo Romero
a08082f8e4 powerpc/selftests: Check endianness on trap in TM
Add a selftest to check if endianness is flipped inadvertently to BE
(MSR.LE set to zero) on BE and LE machines when a trap is caught in
transactional mode and load_fp and load_vec are zero, i.e. when MSR.FP
and MSR.VEC are zeroed (disabled).

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-01-22 05:48:37 +11:00
Cyril Bur
5783ee6ec3 selftests/powerpc: Check for pthread errors in tm-unavailable
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-12-04 15:01:09 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
5b0e2cb020 powerpc updates for 4.15
Non-highlights:
 
  - Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs in our
    implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line with x86.
 
 Highlights:
 
  - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a true NMI
    (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.
 
  - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.
 
  - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors can be
    reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.
 
  - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM to notify
    the Linux partition of topology changes.
 
  - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on some Power9
    processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).
 
  - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on some
    Power9 revisions.
 
  - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a CONFIG), we
    believe it has never had any users.
 
  - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting for long
    running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes to the
    powernv_flash driver to use the new API.
 
  - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are using
    transactional memory.
 
  - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on Power9.
 
  - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on Power9, and
    related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver handles requests.
 
  - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.
 
 Thanks to:
   Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh
   Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao,
   Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R.
   Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren
   Myneni, Joel Stanley, Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami
   Hiramatsu, Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
   Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia Franco de
   Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee, Shriya, Stephen
   Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
   Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, William A. Kennington III.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
  KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
  think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.

  Non-highlights:

   - Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
     in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
     with x86.

  Highlights:

   - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
     true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.

   - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.

   - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
     can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.

   - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
     to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.

   - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
     some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).

   - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
     some Power9 revisions.

   - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
     CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.

   - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
     for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
     to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.

   - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
     using transactional memory.

   - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
     Power9.

   - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
     Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
     handles requests.

   - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.

  Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
  Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
  Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
  Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
  Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
  Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
  Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
  Kennington III"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
  powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
  powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use >= 128T
  powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
  powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
  powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
  powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
  powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
  powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
  powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
  powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
  powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
  ...
2017-11-16 12:47:46 -08:00
Gustavo Romero
77fad8bfb1 selftests/powerpc: Check FP/VEC on exception in TM
Add a self test to check if FP/VEC/VSX registers are sane (restored
correctly) after a FP/VEC/VSX unavailable exception is caught during a
transaction.

This test checks all possibilities in a thread regarding the combination
of MSR.[FP|VEC] states in a thread and for each scenario raises a
FP/VEC/VSX unavailable exception in transactional state, verifying if
vs0 and vs32 registers, which are representatives of FP/VEC/VSX reg
sets, are not corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-09 15:50:21 +11:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Sam Bobroff
99597ceda0 selftests/powerpc: Improve tm-resched-dscr
The tm-resched-dscr self test can, in some situations, run for
several minutes before being successfully interrupted by the context
switch it needs in order to perform the test. This often seems to
occur when the test is being run in a virtual machine.

Improve the test by running it under eat_cpu() to guarantee
contention for the CPU and increase the chance of a context switch.

In practice this seems to reduce the test time, in some cases, from
more than two minutes to under a second.

Also remove the "progress dots" so that if the test does run for a
long time, it doesn't produce large amounts of unnecessary output.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-08-17 21:56:36 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
fe06fe8602 selftests/powerpc: Fix TM resched DSCR test with some compilers
The tm-resched-dscr test has started failing sometimes, depending on
what compiler it's built with, eg:

  test: tm_resched_dscr
  Check DSCR TM context switch: tm-resched-dscr: tm-resched-dscr.c:76: test_body: Assertion `rv' failed.
  !! child died by signal 6

When it fails we see that the compiler doesn't initialise rv to 1 before
entering the inline asm block. Although that's counter intuitive, it
is allowed because we tell the compiler that the inline asm will write
to rv (using "=r"), meaning the original value is irrelevant.

Marking it as a read/write parameter would presumably work, but it seems
simpler to fix it by setting the initial value of rv in the inline asm.

Fixes: 96d0161086 ("powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switch")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
2017-05-19 19:46:34 +10:00
Michael Neuling
cde97f8492 selftests/powerpc: Test TM and VMX register state
Test that the VMX checkpointed register state is maintained when a VMX
unavailable exception is taken during a transaction.

Thanks to Breno Leitao <brenohl@br.ibm.com> and
Gustavo Bueno Romero <gromero@br.ibm.com> for the original test this
is based heavily on.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Add to .gitignore, always build it 64-bit to fix build errors]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-05-16 13:03:05 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
68bd42d97c selftests/powerpc: Fix remaining fallout from recent changes
In benchmarks we need to use $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) after we include lib.mk,
because lib.mk does the substitution to add $(OUTPUT).

In math the vmx and fpu names were typoed so they no longer matched
correctly, put back the 'v' and 'f'.

In tm we need to substitute $(OUTPUT) into SIGNAL_CONTEXT_CHK_TESTS so
that the rule matches.

In pmu there is an extraneous ':' on the end of $$BUILD_TARGET for the
clean and install rules, which breaks the logic in the child Makefiles.

Fixes: a8ba798bc8 ("selftests: enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2017-02-14 08:02:27 -07:00
bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com
a8ba798bc8 selftests: enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT
Enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT for kselftest. User could compile kselftest
to another directory by passing O or KBUILD_OUTPUT. And O is high
priority than KBUILD_OUTPUT.

Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2017-01-05 13:42:22 -07:00
bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com
88baa78d1f selftests: remove duplicated all and clean target
Currently, kselftest use TEST_PROGS, TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED, TEST_FILES to
indicate the test program, extended test program and test files. It is
easy to understand the purpose of these files. But mix of compiled and
uncompiled files lead to duplicated "all" and "clean" targets.

In order to remove the duplicated targets, introduce TEST_GEN_PROGS,
TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED, TEST_GEN_FILES to indicate the compiled
objects.

Also, the later patch will make use of TEST_GEN_XXX to redirect these
files to output directory indicated by KBUILD_OUTPUT or O.

And add this changes to "Contributing new tests(details)" of
Documentation/kselftest.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2017-01-05 13:41:35 -07:00
Simon Guo
15ec3997aa selftests/powerpc: Move shared headers into new include dir
There are some functions, especially register related, which can
be shared across multiple selftests/powerpc test directories.

This patch creates a new include directory to store those shared
files, so that the file layout becomes more neat.

Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
[mpe: Reworked to move the headers only]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-11-17 17:11:47 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
2ae342e64d selftests/powerpc: Add missing binaries to .gitignores
Some of the recent new selftests were missing additions to .gitignore,
add them now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-06 22:26:40 +11:00
Cyril Bur
dd9bda4780 selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts
If a thread receives a signal while transactional the kernel creates a
second context to show the transactional state of the process. This
test loads some known values and waits for a signal and confirms that
the expected values are in the signal context.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-04 20:33:15 +11:00
Cyril Bur
7bb0e7e38b selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts
If a thread receives a signal while transactional the kernel creates a
second context to show the transactional state of the process. This
test loads some known values and waits for a signal and confirms that
the expected values are in the signal context.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-04 20:33:14 +11:00
Cyril Bur
5ca4ffcd5c selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts
If a thread receives a signal while transactional the kernel creates a
second context to show the transactional state of the process. This
test loads some known values and waits for a signal and confirms that
the expected values are in the signal context.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-04 20:33:14 +11:00
Cyril Bur
f10d4424b2 selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts
If a thread receives a signal while transactional the kernel creates a
second context to show the transactional state of the process. This
test loads some known values and waits for a signal and confirms that
the expected values are in the signal context.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-04 20:33:12 +11:00
Cyril Bur
8e03bd4e70 selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-04 20:10:14 +11:00
Cyril Bur
a431b946db selftests/powerpc: exec() with suspended transaction
Perform an exec() class syscall with a suspended transaction.

This is a test for the bug we fixed in 8e96a87c54 ("powerpc/tm: Always
reclaim in start_thread() for exec() class syscalls").

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fix build errors, use a single binary for the test]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-07-26 14:28:22 +10:00
Rashmica Gupta
16aab32187 selftests/powerpc: Add test to check if TM SPRs are corrupted
Testing that the TM SPRs are behaving the way they should. Uses more
threads than cpus to see if the following register values persist with
context switching:
- the FS (failure summary) flag in TEXASR
- TFIAR and TFHAR

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-05-11 21:54:14 +10:00
Rashmica Gupta
dbccb4940c selftests/powerpc: Add TM test to check if TAR is corrupted
If the transaction is aborted, the TAR should be rolled back to the
checkpointed value before the transaction began. The value written to the
TAR when the transaction is suspended should only remain there if the
transaction completes successfully.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-05-11 21:54:13 +10:00
Rashmica Gupta
d95be4ca3e selftests/powerpc: Add test for forking inside transaction
This test does a fork syscall inside a transaction. Basic sniff test to see
if we can enter the kernel during a transaction.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-05-11 21:54:13 +10:00
Rashmica Gupta
da3ddc3b5f selftests/powerpc: Standardise TM calls
Currently tbegin, tend etc are written as opcodes or asm instructions. So
standardise these to asm instructions.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-05-11 21:54:12 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
501e279c23 selftests/powerpc: Fix out of bounds access in TM signal test
Gcc helpfully points out that we're accessing past the end of the gprs
array:

  tm-signal-msr-resv.c: In function 'signal_usr1':
  tm-signal-msr-resv.c:43:37: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
    ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->gpr[PT_MSR] |= (7ULL);

We haven't noticed previously because -flto was hiding it somehow.

The code is confused, PT_MSR isn't a gpr, instead it's in
uc_regs->gregs, so fix it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-02 23:34:45 +11:00
Rashmica Gupta
5f337e3e5b selftests/powerpc: Add test to check if VSRs are corrupted
When a transaction is aborted, VSR values should rollback to the
checkpointed values before the transaction began. VSRs used elsewhere in
the kernel during a transaction, or while the transaction is suspended
should not affect the checkpointed values.

Prior to the bug fix in commit d31626f70b ("powerpc: Don't corrupt
transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel") when VMX was requested
by the kernel the .vr_state (which held the checkpointed state of VSRs
before the transaction) was overwritten with the current state from
outside the transation. Thus if the transaction did not complete, the
VSR values would be "rolled back" to potentially incorrect values.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:50 +11:00
Michael Neuling
a26f415bf7 selftests/powerpc: Add TM signal with invalid stack test
Test the kernels signal generation code to ensure it can handle an
invalid stack pointer when transactional.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Tested-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Skip if we don't have TM]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:49 +11:00
Michael Neuling
25007a69e8 selftests/powerpc: Add TM signal return test
Test the kernel's signal return code to ensure that it doesn't crash
when both the transactional and suspend MSR bits are set in the signal
context.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Tested-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Skip if we don't have TM]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:48 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
b319ee8445 selftests/powerpc: Skip tm-resched-dscr if we don't have TM
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:48 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
34dc8b279d selftests/powerpc: Move TM helpers into tm.h
Move have_htm_nosc() into a new tm.h, and add a new helper, have_htm()
which we'll use in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:48 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
ede8ef3f82 selftests/powerpc: Add have_hwcap2() helper
We already do this twice and want to add another so add a helper.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:47 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
fcb45ec074 selftests/powerpc: Move get_auxv_entry() into utils.c
This doesn't really belong in harness.c, it's a helper function. So move
it into utils.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 20:41:47 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
20d09927e6 selftests/powerpc: Allow the tm-syscall test to build with old headers
When building against older kernel headers, currently the tm-syscall
test fails to build because PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined.

Tweak the test so that if PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined it still
builds, but prints a warning at run time and marks the test as skipped.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-10-15 20:32:04 +11:00
Sam bobroff
b4b56f9eca powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00