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<title>ARM: avoid Cortex-A9 livelock on tight dmb loops</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T20:34:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2018-04-10T10:35:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5388a5b82199facacd3d7ac0d05aca6e8f902fed ]

machine_crash_nonpanic_core() does this:

	while (1)
		cpu_relax();

because the kernel has crashed, and we have no known safe way to deal
with the CPU.  So, we place the CPU into an infinite loop which we
expect it to never exit - at least not until the system as a whole is
reset by some method.

In the absence of erratum 754327, this code assembles to:

	b	.

In other words, an infinite loop.  When erratum 754327 is enabled,
this becomes:

1:	dmb
	b	1b

It has been observed that on some systems (eg, OMAP4) where, if a
crash is triggered, the system tries to kexec into the panic kernel,
but fails after taking the secondary CPU down - placing it into one
of these loops.  This causes the system to livelock, and the most
noticable effect is the system stops after issuing:

	Loading crashdump kernel...

to the system console.

The tested as working solution I came up with was to add wfe() to
these infinite loops thusly:

	while (1) {
		cpu_relax();
		wfe();
	}

which, without 754327 builds to:

1:	wfe
	b	1b

or with 754327 is enabled:

1:	dmb
	wfe
	b	1b

Adding "wfe" does two things depending on the environment we're running
under:
- where we're running on bare metal, and the processor implements
  "wfe", it stops us spinning endlessly in a loop where we're never
  going to do any useful work.
- if we're running in a VM, it allows the CPU to be given back to the
  hypervisor and rescheduled for other purposes (maybe a different VM)
  rather than wasting CPU cycles inside a crashed VM.

However, in light of erratum 794072, Will Deacon wanted to see 10 nops
as well - which is reasonable to cover the case where we have erratum
754327 enabled _and_ we have a processor that doesn't implement the
wfe hint.

So, we now end up with:

1:      wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is disabled, or:

1:      dmb
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is enabled.  We also get the dmb + 10 nop
sequence elsewhere in the kernel, in terminating loops.

This is reasonable - it means we get the workaround for erratum
794072 when erratum 754327 is enabled, but still relinquish the dead
processor - either by placing it in a lower power mode when wfe is
implemented as such or by returning it to the hypervisior, or in the
case where wfe is a no-op, we use the workaround specified in erratum
794072 to avoid the problem.

These as two entirely orthogonal problems - the 10 nops addresses
erratum 794072, and the wfe is an optimisation that makes the system
more efficient when crashed either in terms of power consumption or
by allowing the host/other VMs to make use of the CPU.

I don't see any reason not to use kexec() inside a VM - it has the
potential to provide automated recovery from a failure of the VMs
kernel with the opportunity for saving a crashdump of the failure.
A panic() with a reboot timeout won't do that, and reading the
libvirt documentation, setting on_reboot to "preserve" won't either
(the documentation states "The preserve action for an on_reboot event
is treated as a destroy".)  Surely it has to be a good thing to
avoiding having CPUs spinning inside a VM that is doing no useful
work.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ARM: 8830/1: NOMMU: Toggle only bits in EXC_RETURN we are really care of</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T20:34:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Murzin</name>
<email>vladimir.murzin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-25T14:18:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 72cd4064fccaae15ab84d40d4be23667402df4ed ]

ARMv8M introduces support for Security extension to M class, among
other things it affects exception handling, especially, encoding of
EXC_RETURN.

The new bits have been added:

Bit [6]	Secure or Non-secure stack
Bit [5]	Default callee register stacking
Bit [0]	Exception Secure

which conflicts with hard-coded value of EXC_RETURN:

In fact, we only care of few bits:

Bit [3]	 Mode (0 - Handler, 1 - Thread)
Bit [2]	 Stack pointer selection (0 - Main, 1 - Process)

We can toggle only those bits and left other bits as they were on
exception entry.

It is basically, what patch does - saves EXC_RETURN when we do
transition form Thread to Handler mode (it is first svc), so later
saved value is used instead of EXC_RET_THREADMODE_PROCESSSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2019-02-18T17:59:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-18T17:59:28+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "A few ARM fixes:

   - Dietmar Eggemann noticed an issue with IRQ migration during CPU
     hotplug stress testing.

   - Mathieu Desnoyers noticed that a previous fix broke optimised
     kprobes.

   - Robin Murphy noticed a case where we were not clearing the dma_ops"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 8835/1: dma-mapping: Clear DMA ops on teardown
  ARM: 8834/1: Fix: kprobes: optimized kprobes illegal instruction
  ARM: 8824/1: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu
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<title>Merge tag 'kvm-arm-fixes-for-5.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2019-02-13T18:39:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-13T18:39:24+00:00</published>
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KVM/ARM fixes for 5.0:

- Fix the way we reset vcpus, plugging the race that could happen on VHE
- Fix potentially inconsistent group setting for private interrupts
- Don't generate UNDEF when LORegion feature is present
- Relax the restriction on using stage2 PUD huge mapping
- Turn some spinlocks into raw_spinlocks to help RT compliance
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<title>arm: KVM: Add missing kvm_stage2_has_pmd() helper</title>
<updated>2019-02-07T11:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T12:14:03+00:00</published>
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Fixup 32bit by providing the now required helper.

Cc: Suzuki Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Allow a VCPU to fully reset itself</title>
<updated>2019-02-07T11:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T11:36:07+00:00</published>
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The current kvm_psci_vcpu_on implementation will directly try to
manipulate the state of the VCPU to reset it.  However, since this is
not done on the thread that runs the VCPU, we can end up in a strangely
corrupted state when the source and target VCPUs are running at the same
time.

Fix this by factoring out all reset logic from the PSCI implementation
and forwarding the required information along with a request to the
target VCPU.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8824/1: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T21:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dietmar Eggemann</name>
<email>dietmar.eggemann@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-21T13:42:42+00:00</published>
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Arm TC2 fails cpu hotplug stress test.

This issue was tracked down to a missing copy of the new affinity
cpumask for the vexpress-spc interrupt into struct
irq_common_data.affinity when the interrupt is migrated in
migrate_one_irq().

Fix it by replacing the arm specific hotplug cpu migration with the
generic irq code.

This is the counterpart implementation to commit 217d453d473c ("arm64:
fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu").

Tested with cpu hotplug stress test on Arm TC2 (multi_v7_defconfig plus
CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ=y and CONFIG_ARM_VEXPRESS_SPC_CPUFREQ=y).
The vexpress-spc interrupt (irq=22) on this board is affine to CPU0.
Its affinity cpumask now changes correctly e.g. from 0 to 1-4 when
CPU0 is hotplugged out.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/xen: fix xen-swiotlb cache flushing</title>
<updated>2019-01-23T21:14:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-16T18:01:48+00:00</published>
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Xen-swiotlb hooks into the arm/arm64 arch code through a copy of the DMA
DMA mapping operations stored in the struct device arch data.

Switching arm64 to use the direct calls for the merged DMA direct /
swiotlb code broke this scheme.  Replace the indirect calls with
direct-calls in xen-swiotlb as well to fix this problem.

Fixes: 356da6d0cde3 ("dma-mapping: bypass indirect calls for dma-direct")
Reported-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.21' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T19:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T19:23:17+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update:

   - Florian Fainelli noticed that userspace segfaults caused by the
     lack of kernel-userspace helpers was hard to diagnose; we now issue
     a warning when userspace tries to use the helpers but the kernel
     has them disabled.

   - Ben Dooks wants compatibility for the old ATAG serial number with
     DT systems.

   - Some cleanup of assembly by Nicolas Pitre.

   - User accessors optimisation from Vincent Whitchurch.

   - More robust kdump on SMP systems from Yufen Wang.

   - Sebastian Andrzej Siewior noticed problems with the SMP "boot_lock"
     on RT kernels, and so we convert the Versatile series of platforms
     to use a raw spinlock instead, consolidating the Versatile
     implementation. We entirely remove the boot_lock on OMAP systems,
     where it's unnecessary. Further patches for other systems will be
     submitted for the following merge window.

   - Start switching old StrongARM-11x0 systems to use gpiolib rather
     than their private GPIO implementation - mostly PCMCIA bits.

   - ARM Kconfig cleanups.

   - Cleanup a mostly harmless mistake in the recent Spectre patch in
     4.20 (which had the effect that data that can be placed into the
     init sections was incorrectly always placed in the rodata section)"

* tag 'for-4.21' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (25 commits)
  ARM: omap2: remove unnecessary boot_lock
  ARM: versatile: rename and comment SMP implementation
  ARM: versatile: convert boot_lock to raw
  ARM: vexpress/realview: consolidate immitation CPU hotplug
  ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch
  ARM: sa1100/cerf: switch to using gpio_led_register_device()
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: switch to using gpio leds
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: add gpio keys support for right-hand two buttons
  ARM: sa1111: remove legacy GPIO interfaces
  pcmcia: sa1100*: remove redundant bvd1/bvd2 setting
  ARM: pxa/lubbock: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library
  ARM: pxa/mainstone: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library and gpiod APIs
  ARM: sa1100/neponset: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library and gpiod APIs
  ARM: sa1100/jornada720: switch PCMCIA to gpiod APIs
  pcmcia: add MAX1600 library
  ARM: sa1100: explicitly register sa11x0-pcmcia devices
  ARM: 8813/1: Make aligned 2-byte getuser()/putuser() atomic on ARMv6+
  ARM: 8812/1: Optimise copy_{from/to}_user for !CPU_USE_DOMAINS
  ARM: 8811/1: always list both ldrd/strd registers explicitly
  ARM: 8808/1: kexec:offline panic_smp_self_stop CPU
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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