Move all our context switch SPR save and restore code into two
helpers. We do a few optimisations:
- Group all mfsprs and all mtsprs. In many cases an mtspr sets a
scoreboarding bit that an mfspr waits on, so the current practise of
mfspr A; mtspr A; mfpsr B; mtspr B is the worst scheduling we can
do.
- SPR writes are slow, so check that the value is changing before
writing it.
A context switch microbenchmark using yield():
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c
./context_switch2 --test=yield 0 0
shows an improvement of almost 10% on POWER8.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible.
A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the
FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what
we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()).
A context switch microbenchmark using yield():
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c
./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0
shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The API for calling do_syscall_trace_enter() is currently sensible
enough, it just returns the (modified) syscall number.
However once we enable seccomp filter it will get more complicated. When
seccomp filter runs, the seccomp kernel code (via SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO), or
a ptracer (via SECCOMP_RET_TRACE), may reject the syscall and *may* or may
*not* set a return value in r3.
That means the assembler that calls do_syscall_trace_enter() can not
blindly return ENOSYS, it needs to only return ENOSYS if a return value
has not already been set.
There is no way to implement that logic with the current API. So change
the do_syscall_trace_enter() API to make it deal with the return code
juggling, and the assembler can then just return whatever return code it
is given.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Currently on powerpc we have our own #define for the highest (negative)
errno value, called _LAST_ERRNO. This is defined to be 516, for reasons
which are not clear.
The generic code, and x86, use MAX_ERRNO, which is defined to be 4095.
In particular seccomp uses MAX_ERRNO to restrict the value that a
seccomp filter can return.
Currently with the mismatch between _LAST_ERRNO and MAX_ERRNO, a seccomp
tracer wanting to return 600, expecting it to be seen as an error, would
instead find on powerpc that userspace sees a successful syscall with a
return value of 600.
To avoid this inconsistency, switch powerpc to use MAX_ERRNO.
We are somewhat confident that generic syscalls that can return a
non-error value above negative MAX_ERRNO have already been updated to
use force_successful_syscall_return().
I have also checked all the powerpc specific syscalls, and believe that
none of them expect to return a non-error value between -MAX_ERRNO and
-516. So this change should be safe ...
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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>
PACA_DSCR offset macro tracks dscr_default element in the paca
structure. Better change the name of this macro to match that of the
data element it tracks. Makes the code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This reverts commit feba40362b.
Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.
Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.
Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.
So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.
NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.
Fixes: feba40362b ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.
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 because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. 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 system call increases by about 0.5%.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We currently have a "special" syscall for switching endianness. This is
syscall number 0x1ebe, which is handled explicitly in the 64-bit syscall
exception entry.
That has a few problems, firstly the syscall number is outside of the
usual range, which confuses various tools. For example strace doesn't
recognise the syscall at all.
Secondly it's handled explicitly as a special case in the syscall
exception entry, which is complicated enough without it.
As a first step toward removing the special syscall, we need to add a
regular syscall that implements the same functionality.
The logic is simple, it simply toggles the MSR_LE bit in the userspace
MSR. This is the same as the special syscall, with the caveat that the
special syscall clobbers fewer registers.
This version clobbers r9-r12, XER, CTR, and CR0-1,5-7.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We have code to do syscall tracing which is disabled at compile time by
default. It's not been touched since the dawn of time (ie. v2.6.12).
There are now better ways to do syscall tracing, ie. using the
raw_syscall, or syscall tracepoints.
For the specific case of tracing syscalls at boot on a system that
doesn't get to userspace, you can boot with:
trace_event=syscalls tp_printk=on
Which will trace syscalls from boot, and echo all output to the console.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Currently when we back trace something that is in a syscall we see
something like this:
[c000000000000000] [c000000000000000] SyS_read+0x6c/0x110
[c000000000000000] [c000000000000000] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
Although it's entirely correct, seeing syscall_exit at the bottom can be
confusing - we were exiting from a syscall and then called SyS_read() ?
If we instead change syscall_exit to be a local label we get something
more intuitive:
[c0000001fa46fde0] [c00000000026719c] SyS_read+0x6c/0x110
[c0000001fa46fe30] [c000000000009264] system_call+0x38/0xd0
ie. we were handling a system call, and it was SyS_read().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Once upon a time, at least 9 years ago (< 2.6.12), _TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A
meant "TRACE or AUDIT". But these days it means TRACE or AUDIT or
SECCOMP or TRACEPOINT or NOHZ.
All of those are implemented via syscall_dotrace() so rename the flag to
that to try and clarify things.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Instead of passing in the stack address of the link register
to be modified, just pass in the old value and return the
new value and rely on ftrace_graph_caller to do the
modification.
This removes the exception handling around the stack update -
it isn't needed and we weren't consistent about it. Later on
we would do an unprotected modification:
if (!ftrace_graph_entry(&trace)) {
*parent = old;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
mod_return_to_handler is the same as return_to_handler, except
it handles the change of the TOC (r2). Add this into
return_to_handler and remove mod_return_to_handler.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Back in 7230c56441 ("powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handling") we
added a call out to restore_interrupts() (written in c) before calling
do_notify_resume:
bl restore_interrupts
addi r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
bl do_notify_resume
Unfortunately do_notify_resume takes two arguments, the second one
being the thread_info flags:
void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long thread_info_flags)
We do populate r4 (the second argument) earlier, but
restore_interrupts() is free to muck it up all it wants. My guess is
the gcc compiler gods shone down on us and its register allocator
never used r4. Sometimes, rarely, luck is on our side.
LLVM on the other hand did trample r4.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Handle Hypervisor Maintenance Interrupt (HMI) in Linux. This patch implements
basic infrastructure to handle HMI in Linux host. The design is to invoke
opal handle hmi in real mode for recovery and set irq_pending when we hit HMI.
During check_irq_replay pull opal hmi event and print hmi info on console.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We now only support cpus that use an SLB, so we don't need an MMU
feature to indicate that.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Correct the DSCR SPR becoming temporarily corrupted if a task is
context switched during a transaction.
The problem occurs while suspending the task and is caused by saving
the DSCR to thread.dscr after it has already been set to the CPU's
default value:
__switch_to() calls __switch_to_tm()
which calls tm_reclaim_task()
which calls tm_reclaim_thread()
which calls tm_reclaim()
where the DSCR is set to the CPU's default
__switch_to() calls _switch()
where thread.dscr is set to the DSCR
When the task is resumed, it's transaction will be doomed (as usual)
and the DSCR SPR will be corrupted, although the checkpointed value
will be correct. Therefore the DSCR will be immediately corrected by
the transaction aborting, unless it has been suspended. In that case
the incorrect value can be seen by the task until it resumes the
transaction.
The fix is to treat the DSCR similarly to the TAR and save it early
in __switch_to().
A program exposing the problem is added to the kernel self tests as:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Since commit "efcac65 powerpc: Per process DSCR + some fixes (try#4)"
it is no longer possible to set the DSCR on a per-CPU basis.
The old behaviour was to minipulate the DSCR SPR directly but this is no
longer sufficient: the value is quickly overwritten by context switching.
This patch stores the per-CPU DSCR value in a kernel variable rather than
directly in the SPR and it is used whenever a process has not set the DSCR
itself. The sysfs interface (/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr) is unchanged.
Writes to the old global default (/sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default)
now set all of the per-CPU values and reads return the last written value.
The new per-CPU default is added to the paca_struct and is used everywhere
outside of sysfs.c instead of the old global default.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When testing the ftrace function tracer, I realised that ftrace_caller
and mcount are called from modules and they both call into C, therefore
they need the ABIv2 global entry point to establish r2.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Change how we setup registers for ret_from_kernel_thread. In
ABIv1, instead of passing a function descriptor in, dereference
it and pass the target in directly.
Use ppc_global_function_entry to get it right on both ABIv1 and ABIv2.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To establish addressability quickly, ABIv2 requires the target
address of the function being called to be in r12. Fix a number of
places in assembly code that we do indirect function calls.
We need to avoid function descriptors on ABIv2 too.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
There is no need to create a function descriptor for the system call
table. By using one we force the system call table into the text
section and it really belongs in the rodata section.
This also removes another use of dot symbols.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
We have a number of places where we load the text address of a local
function and indirectly branch to it in assembly. Since it is an
indirect branch binutils will not know to use the function text
address, so that trick wont work.
There is no need for these functions to have a function descriptor
so we can replace it with a label and remove the dot symbol.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.
Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state. This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8. The test program below demonstrates the bug.
The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr. However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state. Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled. The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.
Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.
In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state(). The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.
The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).
Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.
This is the test program:
/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
*
* See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
* kernel vmx copy loops.
*
* gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
*
*/
/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
long double vecin = 1.3;
long double vecout;
unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
int i;
int fd;
int size = pgsize*16;
char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
char buf[pgsize];
char *a;
uint64_t aborted = 0;
fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
assert(fd >= 0);
memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
for (i = 0; i < size; i += pgsize)
assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);
unlink(tmpfile);
a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
assert(a != MAP_FAILED);
asm __volatile__(
"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
TBEGIN
"beq 3f ;"
TSUSPEND
"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
"std 5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
TABORT
TRESUME
TEND
"li %[res], 0 ;"
"b 5f ;"
"3: ;" // Abort handler
"li %[res], 1 ;"
"5: ;"
"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
: [res]"=r"(aborted)
: [vecinptr]"r"(&vecin),
[vecoutptr]"r"(&vecout),
[map]"r"(a)
: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");
if (aborted && (vecin != vecout)){
printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
(double)vecin, (double)vecout);
exit(1);
}
munmap(a, size);
close(fd);
printf("PASSED!\n");
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Huge Dickins reported an issue that b5ff4211a8
"powerpc/book3s: Queue up and process delayed MCE events" breaks the
PowerMac G5 boot. This patch fixes it by moving the mce even processing
away from syscall exit, which was wrong to do that in first place, and
using irq work framework to delay processing of mce event.
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When machine check real mode handler can not continue into host kernel
in V mode, it returns from the interrupt and we loose MCE event which
never gets logged. In such a situation queue up the MCE event so that
we can log it later when we get back into host kernel with r1 pointing to
kernel stack e.g. during syscall exit.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When restoring the PPR value, we incorrectly access the thread structure
at a time where MSR:RI is clear, which means we cannot recover from nested
faults. However the thread structure isn't covered by the "bolted" SLB
entries and thus accessing can fault.
This fixes it by splitting the code so that the PPR value is loaded into
a GPR before MSR:RI is cleared.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We already got the value of current_thread_info and ti_flags and store
them into r9 and r4 respectively before jumping to resume_kernel. So
there is no reason to reload them again.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Create a trampoline that works in either endian and flips to
the expected endian. Use it for primary and secondary thread
entry as well as RTAS and OF call return.
Credit for finding the magic instruction goes to Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
As suggested by paulus we can simplify the Data Stream Control Register
(DSCR) Facility Status and Control Register (FSCR) handling.
Firstly, we simplify the asm by using a rldimi.
Secondly, we now use the FSCR only to control the DSCR facility, rather
than both the FSCR and HFSCR. Users will see no functional change from
this but will get a minor speedup as they will trap into the kernel only
once (rather than twice) when they first touch the DSCR. Also, this
changes removes a bunch of ugly FTR_SECTION code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry hypervisor structures are
big endian, so we have to byte swap them in little endian builds.
LE KVM hosts will also need to be fixed but for now add an #error
to remind us.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The SOFT_DISABLE_INTS seems an odd name for something that updates the
software state to be consistent with interrupts being hard disabled, so
rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to avoid this confusion.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.
We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER8 allows the DSCR to be accessed directly from userspace via a new SPR
number 0x3 (Rather than 0x11. DSCR SPR number 0x11 is still used on POWER8 but
like POWER7, is only accessible in HV and OS modes). Currently, we allow this
by setting H/FSCR DSCR bit on boot.
Unfortunately this doesn't work, as the kernel needs to see the DSCR change so
that it knows to no longer restore the system wide version of DSCR on context
switch (ie. to set thread.dscr_inherit).
This clears the H/FSCR DSCR bit initially. If a process then accesses the DSCR
(via SPR 0x3), it'll trap into the kernel where we set thread.dscr_inherit in
facility_unavailable_exception().
We also change _switch() so that we set or clear the H/FSCR DSCR bit based on
the thread.dscr_inherit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On BookE (Branch taken + Single Step) is as same as Branch Taken
on BookS and in Linux we simulate BookS behavior for BookE as well.
When doing so, in Branch taken handling we want to set DBCR0_IC but
we update the current->thread->dbcr0 and not DBCR0.
Now on 64bit the current->thread.dbcr0 (and other debug registers)
is synchronized ONLY on context switch flow. But after handling
Branch taken in debug exception if we return back to user space
without context switch then single stepping change (DBCR0_ICMP)
does not get written in h/w DBCR0 and Instruction Complete exception
does not happen.
This fixes using ptrace reliably on BookE-PowerPC
lmbench latency test (lat_syscall) Results are (they varies a little
on each run)
1) ./lat_syscall <action> /dev/shm/uImage
action: Open read write stat fstat null
Before: 3.8618 0.2017 0.2851 1.6789 0.2256 0.0856
After: 3.8580 0.2017 0.2851 1.6955 0.2255 0.0856
1) ./lat_syscall -P 2 -N 10 <action> /dev/shm/uImage
action: Open read write stat fstat null
Before: 4.1388 0.2238 0.3066 1.7106 0.2256 0.0856
After: 4.1413 0.2236 0.3062 1.7107 0.2256 0.0856
[ Slightly modified to avoid extra branch in the fast path
on Book3S and fix build on all non-BookE 64-bit -- BenH
]
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In commit 59affcd I added context switching of more PMU SPRs, because
they are potentially exposed to userspace on Power8. However despite me
being a smart arse in the commit message it's actually not correct. In
particular it interacts badly with a global perf record.
We will have to do something more complicated, but that will have to
wait for 3.11.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On context switch, we should have no prefetch streams leak from one
userspace process to another. This frees up prefetch resources for the
next process.
Based on patch from Milton Miller.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In commit 9353374 "Context switch the new EBB SPRs" we added support for
context switching some new EBB SPRs. However despite four of us signing
off on that patch we missed some. To be fair these are not actually new
SPRs, but they are now potentially user accessible so need to be context
switched.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"This is mostly bug fixes (some of them regressions, some of them I
deemed worth merging now) along with some patches from Li Zhong
hooking up the new context tracking stuff (for the new full NO_HZ)"
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (25 commits)
powerpc: Set show_unhandled_signals to 1 by default
powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB
powerpc/pmu: Fix order of interpreting BHRB target entries
powerpc/perf: Move BHRB code into CONFIG_PPC64 region
powerpc: select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING for pSeries
powerpc: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
powerpc: Exit user context on notify resume
powerpc: Exception hooks for context tracking subsystem
powerpc: Syscall hooks for context tracking subsystem
powerpc/booke64: Fix kernel hangs at kernel_dbg_exc
powerpc: Fix irq_set_affinity() return values
powerpc: Provide __bswapdi2
powerpc/powernv: Fix starting of secondary CPUs on OPALv2 and v3
powerpc/powernv: Detect OPAL v3 API version
powerpc: Fix MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning again
powerpc: Make CONFIG_RTAS_PROC depend on CONFIG_PROC_FS
powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation
powerpc/rtas_flash: Fix validate_flash buffer overflow issue
powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec when using VMX optimised memcpy
powerpc: Fix build errors STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
...
This patch corresponds to
[PATCH] x86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
commit 0430499ce9
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Saw this warning again, and this time from the ret_from_fork path.
It seems we could clear the back chain earlier in copy_thread(), which
could cover both path, and also fix potential lockdep usage in
schedule_tail(), or exception occurred before we clear the back chain.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull audit changes from Eric Paris:
"Al used to send pull requests every couple of years but he told me to
just start pushing them to you directly.
Our touching outside of core audit code is pretty straight forward. A
couple of interface changes which hit net/. A simple argument bug
calling audit functions in namei.c and the removal of some assembly
branch prediction code on ppc"
* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
audit: fix message spacing printing auid
Revert "audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init"
audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last
audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.
audit: fix event coverage of AUDIT_ANOM_LINK
audit: use spin_lock in audit_receive_msg to process tty logging
audit: do not needlessly take a lock in tty_audit_exit
audit: do not needlessly take a spinlock in copy_signal
audit: add an option to control logging of passwords with pam_tty_audit
audit: use spin_lock_irqsave/restore in audit tty code
helper for some session id stuff
audit: use a consistent audit helper to log lsm information
audit: push loginuid and sessionid processing down
audit: stop pushing loginid, uid, sessionid as arguments
audit: remove the old depricated kernel interface
audit: make validity checking generic
audit: allow checking the type of audit message in the user filter
audit: fix build break when AUDIT_DEBUG == 2
audit: remove duplicate export of audit_enabled
Audit: do not print error when LSMs disabled
...
This context switches the new Event Based Branching (EBB) SPRs. The three new
SPRs are:
- Event Based Branch Handler Register (EBBHR)
- Event Based Branch Return Register (EBBRR)
- Branch Event Status and Control Register (BESCR)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We are getting low on cpu feature bits. So rather than add a separate bit for
every new Power8 feature, add a bit for arch 2.07 server catagory and use that
instead.
Hijack the value we had for BCTAR, but swap the value with CFAR so that all the
ARCH defines are together.
Note we don't touch CPU_FTR_TM, because it is conditionally enabled if
the kernel is built with TM support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
A label 0 was missed in the patch a9c4e541 (powerpc/kprobe: Complete
kprobe and migrate exception frame). This will cause the kernel
branch to an undetermined address if there really has a conflict when
updating the thread flags.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
sp: c000000023883ce0
msr: 8000000000029032
current = 0xc000000023800000
paca = 0xc00000000f080380 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
--- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc
Bisecting found the following patch caused it:
commit 44e9309f1f
Author: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore
It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()
Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
