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>
In the program check handler we handle some causes with interrupts off
and others with interrupts on.
We need to enable interrupts to handle the emulation cases, because they
access userspace memory and might sleep.
For faults in the kernel we don't want to do any emulation, and
emulate_instruction() enforces that. do_mathemu() doesn't but probably
should.
The other disadvantage of enabling interrupts for kernel faults is that
we may take another interrupt, and recurse. As seen below:
--- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
[link register ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
[c000000fb185dc10] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
[c000000fb185dc80] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0
[c000000fb185dd00] c000000000002f40 emulation_assist_common+0x140/0x180
--- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1
[link register ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90
[c000000fb185dff0] 00000000008b9190 (unreliable)
[c000000fb185e060] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0
So avoid both problems by checking if the fault was in the kernel and
skipping the enable of interrupts and the emulation. Go straight to
delivering the SIGILL, which for kernel faults calls die() and so on,
dropping us in the debugger etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Alistair noticed we got a SIGILL on userspace mfpvr instructions.
Remove the little endian check in the emulation code, it is
probably there to protect against the old pseudo little endian
implementations but doesn't make sense for real little endian.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
There are two invocations of do_mathemu() in traps.c. And the codes
in these two places are almost the same. Introduce a locale function
to eliminate the duplication. With this change we can also make sure
that in program_check_exception() the PPC_WARN_EMULATED is invoked for
the correctly emulated math instructions.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
By doing this we can make sure that the FPU state is only flushed to
the thread struct when it is really needed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
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>
A PCIe erratum of mpc85xx may causes a core hang when a link of PCIe
goes down. when the link goes down, Non-posted transactions issued
via the ATMU requiring completion result in an instruction stall.
At the same time a machine-check exception is generated to the core
to allow further processing by the handler. We implements the handler
which skips the instruction caused the stall.
This patch depends on patch:
powerpc/85xx: Add platform_device declaration to fsl_pci.h
Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui <b35336@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shuo <soniccat.liu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <hongtao.jia@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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Merge tag 'v3.10' into next
Merge 3.10 in order to get some of the last minute powerpc
changes, resolve conflicts and add additional fixes on top
of them.
Similar to the facility unavailble exception, except the facilities are
controlled by HFSCR.
Adapt the facility_unavailable_exception() so it can be called for
either the regular or Hypervisor facility unavailable exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The exception at 0xf60 is not the TM (Transactional Memory) unavailable
exception, it is the "Facility Unavailable Exception", rename it as
such.
Flesh out the handler to acknowledge the fact that it can be called for
many reasons, one of which is TM being unavailable.
Use STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON() for the exception body, for some reason we
had it open-coded, I've checked the generated code is identical.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
String instruction emulation would erroneously result in a segfault if
the upper bits of the EA are set and is so high that it fails access
check. Truncate the EA to 32 bits if the process is 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: James Yang <James.Yang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is duplicated code from math-emu and implements such a small
subset of the FPU (load/stores/fmr) that it's essentially pointless
nowdays.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
(Including 64-bit ones)
This allow SW emulation by the kernel of optional instructions
such as fsqrt which aren't implemented on some processors, and
thus fixes some Fedora 19 issues such as Anaconda since the
compiler is set to generate those by default on 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Normally, the kernel emulates a few instructions that are unimplemented
on some processors (e.g. the old dcba instruction), or privileged (e.g.
mfpvr). The emulation of unimplemented instructions is currently not
working on the PowerNV platform. The reason is that on these machines,
unimplemented and illegal instructions cause a hypervisor emulation
assist interrupt, rather than a program interrupt as on older CPUs.
Our vector for the emulation assist interrupt just calls
program_check_exception() directly, without setting the bit in SRR1
that indicates an illegal instruction interrupt. This fixes it by
making the emulation assist interrupt set that bit before calling
program_check_interrupt(). With this, old programs that use no-longer
implemented instructions such as dcba now work again.
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we are emulating an instruction inside an active user transaction that
touches memory, the kernel can't emulate it as it operates in transactional
suspend context. We need to abort these transactions and send them back to
userspace for the hardware to rollback.
We can service these if the user transaction is in suspend mode, since the
kernel will operate in the same suspend context.
This adds a check to all alignment faults and to specific instruction
emulations (only string instructions for now). If the user process is in an
active (non-suspended) transaction, we abort the transaction go back to
userspace allowing the HW to roll back the transaction and tell the user of the
failure. This also adds new tm abort cause codes to report the reason of the
persistent error to the user.
Crappy test case here http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/aligntm.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is the exception hooks for context tracking subsystem, including
data access, program check, single step, instruction breakpoint, machine check,
alignment, fp unavailable, altivec assist, unknown exception, whose handlers
might use RCU.
This patch corresponds to
[PATCH] x86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
commit 6ba3c97a38
But after the exception handling moved to generic code, and some changes in
following two commits:
56dd9470d7
context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic code
6c1e0256fa
context_tracking: Restore correct previous context state on exception exit
it is able for exception hooks to use the generic code above instead of a
redundant arch implementation.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER8 allows read and write of the DSCR in userspace. We added
kernel emulation so applications could always use the instructions
regardless of the CPU type.
Unfortunately there are two SPRs for the DSCR and we only added
emulation for the privileged one. Add code to match the non
privileged one.
A simple test was created to verify the fix:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/user_dscr_test.c
Without the patch we get a SIGILL and it passes with the patch.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
lockdep, but it's a mechanical change.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether
to disable lockdep, but it's a mechanical change."
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
MODSIGN: Add option to not sign modules during modules_install
MODSIGN: Add -s <signature> option to sign-file
MODSIGN: Specify the hash algorithm on sign-file command line
MODSIGN: Simplify Makefile with a Kconfig helper
module: clean up load_module a little more.
modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections
module: constify within_module_*
taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.
This hooks the new transactional memory code into context switching, FP/VMX/VMX
unavailable and exception return.
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 do lazy FP but not lazy TM (ie. userspace starts with MSR TM=1 FP=0). Hence
if userspace does an FP instruction during a transaction, we'll take an
fp unavailable exception.
This adds functions needed to handle this case. We have to inject the current
FP state into the checkpoint so that the hardware can decide what to do with
the transaction. We can't inject only the FP so we have to do a full treclaim
and recheckpoint to inject just the FP state. This will cause the transaction
to be marked as aborted by the hardware.
This just add the routines needed to do this for FP, VMX and VSX. It doesn't
hook them into the rest of the code yet.
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>
These should never happen since we always turn on MSR TM when in userspace. We
don't do lazy TM.
Hence if we hit this, we barf and kill the task as something's gone horribly
wrong.
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>
This adds new macros for saving and restoring checkpointed architected state
from and to the thread_struct.
It also adds some debugging macros for when your brain explodes trying to debug
your transactional memory enabled kernel.
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>
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a rewrite so that we don't assume we are using the DABR throughout the
code. We now use the arch_hw_breakpoint to store the breakpoint in a generic
manner in the thread_struct, rather than storing the raw DABR value.
The ptrace GET/SET_DEBUGREG interface currently passes the raw DABR in from
userspace. We keep this functionality, so that future changes (like the POWER8
DAWR), will still fake the DABR to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The watchdog and FIT code has been #if 0'd for ever, if the CPU takes
an exception to either of those vectors it will jump into the middle
of the PIT or Data TLB code and surely crash.
At least some (all?) 405 cores have both the WDT and FIT
vectors defined, so lets have proper entry points for them.
Tested that the WDT vector works on a 405F6 core.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When we update the DSCR either via emulation of mtspr(DSCR) or via
a change to dscr_default in sysfs we don't update thread.dscr.
We will eventually update it at context switch time but there is
a period where thread.dscr is incorrect.
If we fork at this point we will copy the old value of thread.dscr
into the child. To avoid this, always keep thread.dscr in sync with
reality.
This issue was found with the following testcase:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_inherit_test.c
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add thread_struct.trap_nr and use it to store the last exception
the thread experienced. In this patch, we populate the field at
various places where we force_sig_info() to the process.
This is also used in uprobes to determine if the probed instruction
caused an exception.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Alignment was the last user of the ENABLE_INTS macro, which we can
now remove. All non-syscall exceptions now disable interrupts on
entry, they get re-enabled conditionally from C code. Don't
unconditionally re-enable in program check either, check the
original context.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
If we get a floating point, altivec or vsx unavaible interrupt in
kernel, we trigger a kernel error. There is no point preserving
the interrupt state, in fact, that can even make debugging harder
as the processor state might change (we may even preempt) between
taking the exception and landing in a debugger.
So just make those 3 disable interrupts unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
v2: On BookE only disable when hitting the kernel unavailable
path, otherwise it will fail to restore softe as
fast_exception_return doesn't do it.
When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves
the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads
the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for
crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program
header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to
fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read
during second kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Our die() code was based off a very old x86 version. Update it to
mirror the current x86 code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We have a lot of complicated logic that handles possible recursion between
kdump and a system reset exception. We can solve this in a much simpler
way using the same setjmp/longjmp tricks xmon does.
As a first step, this patch removes the old system reset code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I've been seeing truncated output when people send system reset info
to me. We should see a backtrace for every CPU, but the panic() code
takes the box down before they all make it out to the console. The
panic code runs unlocked so we also see corrupted console output.
If we are going to panic, then delay 1 second before calling into the
panic code. Move oops_exit inside the die lock and put a newline
between oopses for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
All of DebugException is already protected by CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
there is no need to have another such ifdef inside the function.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If the L1 D-Cache is in write shadow mode the HW will auto-recover the
error. However we might still log the error and cause a machine check
(if L1CSR0[CPE] - Cache error checking enable). We should only treat
the non-write shadow case as non-recoverable.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
giveup_spe() saves the SPE state which is protected by MSR[SPE].
However, modifying SPEFSCR does not trap when MSR[SPE]=0.
And since SPEFSCR is already saved/restored in _switch(),
not all the callers want to save SPEFSCR again.
Thus, saving SPEFSCR should not belong to giveup_spe().
This patch moves SPEFSCR saving to flush_spe_to_thread(),
and cleans up the caller that needs to save SPEFSCR accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Since printk_ratelimit() shouldn't be used anymore (see comment in
include/linux/printk.h), replace it with printk_ratelimited.
Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <christian.dietrich@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The wrong MCSR bit was being used on e500mc. MCSR_BUS_RBERR only exists
on e500v1/v2. Use MCSR_LD on e500mc, and remove all MCSR checking
in fsl_rio_mcheck_exception as we now no longer call that function
if the appropriate bit in MCSR is not set.
If RIO support was enabled at compile-time, but was never probed, just
return from fsl_rio_mcheck_exception rather than dereference a NULL
pointer.
TODO: There is still a remaining, though comparitively minor, issue in
that this recovery mechanism will falsely engage if there's an unrelated
MCSR_LD event at the same time as a RIO error.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Add support for machine_check support into machine_check_e500 and
machine_check_e500mc.
Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <b21989@freescale.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Manual merge of arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c and add missing scheduler_ipi()
call to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
print out the last sysfs file accessed.
This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.
So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space
we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Adapt new API.
Almost change is trivial. Most important change is the below line
because we plan to change task->cpus_allowed implementation.
- ctx->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed;
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use the new MSR_64BIT in a few places. Some of these are already ifdef'ed
for BOOKE vs BOOKS, but it's still clearer, MSR_SF does not immediately
parse as "MSR bit for 64bit".
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some
server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch
of data streams.
This patch allows the value to be specified per thread by emulating
the corresponding mfspr and mtspr instructions. Children of such
threads inherit the value. Other threads use a default value that
can be specified in sysfs - /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default.
If a thread starts with non default value in the sysfs entry,
all children threads inherit this non default value even if
the sysfs value is changed later.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If a machine check comes from userspace we send a SIGBUS to the task and
fail to printk anything.
If we are taking machine checks due to bad hardware we want to know about
it right away. Furthermore if we don't complain loudly then it will look
a lot like a bug in the userspace application, potentially causing a lot
of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We are calling debugger_fault_handler twice in machine_check_exception.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Michael Neuling