Much of the signal code takes a pt_regs on which it operates. Over
time the signal code has needed to know more about the thread than
what pt_regs can supply, this information is obtained as needed by
using 'current'.
This approach is not strictly incorrect however it does mean that
there is now a hard requirement that the pt_regs being passed around
does belong to current, this is never checked. A safer approach is for
the majority of the signal functions to take a task_struct from which
they can obtain pt_regs and any other information they need. The
caveat that the task_struct they are passed must be current doesn't go
away but can more easily be checked for.
Functions called from outside powerpc signal code are passed a pt_regs
and they can confirm that the pt_regs is that of current and pass
current to other functions, furthurmore, powerpc signal functions can
check that the task_struct they are passed is the same as current
avoiding possible corruption of current (or the task they are passed)
if this assertion ever fails.
CC: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
After a thread is reclaimed from its active or suspended transactional
state the checkpointed state exists on CPU, this state (along with the
live/transactional state) has been saved in its entirety by the
reclaiming process.
There exists a sequence of events that would cause the kernel to call
one of enable_kernel_fp(), enable_kernel_altivec() or
enable_kernel_vsx() after a thread has been reclaimed. These functions
save away any user state on the CPU so that the kernel can use the
registers. Not only is this saving away unnecessary at this point, it
is actually incorrect. It causes a save of the checkpointed state to
the live structures within the thread struct thus destroying the true
live state for that thread.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
msr_check_and_set() always performs a mfmsr() to determine if it needs
to perform an mtmsr(), as mfmsr() can be a costly operation
msr_check_and_set() could return the MSR now on the CPU to avoid
callers of msr_check_and_set having to make their own mfmsr() call.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
giveup_all() causes FPU/VMX/VSX facilities to be disabled in a threads
MSR. If the thread performing the giveup was transactional, the kernel
must record which facilities were in use before the giveup as the
thread must have these facilities re-enabled on return to userspace.
>From process.c:
/*
* This is called if we are on the way out to userspace and the
* TIF_RESTORE_TM flag is set. It checks if we need to reload
* FP and/or vector state and does so if necessary.
* If userspace is inside a transaction (whether active or
* suspended) and FP/VMX/VSX instructions have ever been enabled
* inside that transaction, then we have to keep them enabled
* and keep the FP/VMX/VSX state loaded while ever the transaction
* continues. The reason is that if we didn't, and subsequently
* got a FP/VMX/VSX unavailable interrupt inside a transaction,
* we don't know whether it's the same transaction, and thus we
* don't know which of the checkpointed state and the transactional
* state to use.
*/
Calling check_if_tm_restore_required() will set TIF_RESTORE_TM and
save the MSR if needed.
Fixes: c208505 ("powerpc: create giveup_all()")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Comment from arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:967:
If userspace is inside a transaction (whether active or
suspended) and FP/VMX/VSX instructions have ever been enabled
inside that transaction, then we have to keep them enabled
and keep the FP/VMX/VSX state loaded while ever the transaction
continues. The reason is that if we didn't, and subsequently
got a FP/VMX/VSX unavailable interrupt inside a transaction,
we don't know whether it's the same transaction, and thus we
don't know which of the checkpointed state and the ransactional
state to use.
restore_math() restore_fp() and restore_altivec() currently may not
restore the registers. It doesn't appear that this is more serious
than a performance penalty. If the math registers aren't restored the
userspace thread will still be run with the facility disabled.
Userspace will not be able to read invalid values. On the first access
it will take an facility unavailable exception and the kernel will
detected an active transaction, at which point it will abort the
transaction. There is the possibility for a pathological case
preventing any progress by transactions, however, transactions
are never guaranteed to make progress.
Fixes: 70fe3d9 ("powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This fixes warning reported from sparse:
pci-ioda.c:451:49: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
Fixes: 262af557dd ("powerpc/powernv: Enable M64 aperatus for PHB3")
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This fixes the warning reported from sparse:
eeh-powernv.c:875:23: warning: constant 0x8000000000000000 is so big it is unsigned long
Fixes: ebe2253127 ("powerpc/powernv: Support PCI slot ID")
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The hub diag-data type is filled with big-endian data by OPAL call
opal_pci_get_hub_diag_data(). We need convert it to CPU-endian value
before using it. The issue is reported by sparse as pointed by Michael
Ellerman:
eeh-powernv.c:1309:21: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
This converts hub diag-data type to CPU-endian before using it in
pnv_eeh_get_and_dump_hub_diag().
Fixes: 2a485ad7c8 ("powerpc/powernv: Drop PHB operation next_error()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The PE number (@frozen_pe_no), filled by opal_pci_next_error() is in
big-endian format. It should be converted to CPU-endian before it is
passed to opal_pci_eeh_freeze_clear() when clearing the frozen state if
the PE is invalid one. As Michael Ellerman pointed out, the issue is
also detected by sparse:
eeh-powernv.c:1541:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
This passes CPU-endian PE number to opal_pci_eeh_freeze_clear() and it
should be part of commit <0f36db77643b> ("powerpc/eeh: Fix wrong printed
PE number"), which was merged to 4.3 kernel.
Fixes: 71b540adff ("powerpc/powernv: Don't escalate non-existing frozen PE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We supported POWER7 CPUs for bootstrapping little endian, but the
target was always POWER8. Now that POWER7 specific issues are
impacting performance, change the default target to POWER8.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
POWER8 handles unaligned accesses in little endian mode, but commit
0b5e6661ac ("powerpc: Don't set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on
little endian builds") disabled it for all.
The issue with unaligned little endian accesses is specific to POWER7,
so update the Kconfig check to match. Using the stat() testcase from
commit a75c380c71 ("powerpc: Enable DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS on ppc64le"),
performance improves 15% on POWER8.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
I see quite a lot of static branch mispredictions on a simple
web serving workload. The issue is in __atomic_add_unless(), called
from _atomic_dec_and_lock(). There is no obvious common case, so it
is better to let the hardware predict the branch.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
During context switch, switch_mm() sets our current CPU in mm_cpumask.
We can avoid this atomic sequence in most cases by checking before
setting the bit.
Testing on a POWER8 using our context switch microbenchmark:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch \
--process --no-fp --no-altivec --no-vector
Performance improves 2%.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
No real need for this to be pr_warn(), reduce it to pr_info().
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We are starting to see i40e adapters in recent machines, so enable
it in our configs.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Change a few devices and filesystems that are seldom used any more
from built in to modules. This reduces our vmlinux about 500kB.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When we issue a system reset, every CPU in the box prints an Oops,
including a backtrace. Each of these can be quite large (over 4kB)
and we may end up wrapping the ring buffer and losing important
information.
Bump the base size from 128kB to 256kB and the per CPU size from
4kB to 8kB.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We see big improvements with the VMX crypto functions (often 10x or more),
so enable it as a module.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Align the hot loops in our assembly implementation of memset()
and backwards_memcpy().
backwards_memcpy() is called from tcp_v4_rcv(), so we might
want to optimise this a little more.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This was not done before the big patches because I only noticed
them afterwards. It has become much easier to see which handlers
are branched to from which exception vectors now, and to see
exactly what vector space is being used for what.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Simple substitution. This is possible now that both parts of the OOL
initial handler get linked into their correct location.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This is not an exception handler as such, it's called from
local_irq_enable(), not exception entry.
Also clean up some now redundant comments at the end of the
consolidation series.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cyril Bur