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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-28 21:27:17 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-28 21:27:17 +0300
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Convert to the generic mmap support (ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT) - Add support for outline-only KASAN with 64-bit Radix MMU (P9 or later) - Increase SIGSTKSZ and MINSIGSTKSZ and add support for AT_MINSIGSTKSZ - Enable the DAWR (Data Address Watchpoint) on POWER9 DD2.3 or later - Drop support for system call instruction emulation - Many other small features and fixes Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andy Shevchenko, Bagas Sanjaya, Bjorn Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Huang, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, Dwaipayan Ray, Fabiano Rosas, Finn Thain, Frank Rowand, Fuqian Huang, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hangyu Hua, Haowen Bai, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, He Ying, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Jing Yangyang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kevin Hao, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Lv Ruyi, Madhavan Srinivasan, Magali Lemes, Miaoqian Lin, Minghao Chi, Nathan Chancellor, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Oscar Salvador, Pali Rohár, Paul Mackerras, Peng Wu, Qing Wang, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Russell Currey, Sohaib Mohamed, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Wang Qing, Wang Wensheng, Xiang wangx, Xiaomeng Tong, Xu Wang, Yang Guang, Yang Li, Ye Bin, YueHaibing, Yu Kuai, Zheng Bin, Zou Wei, and Zucheng Zheng. * tag 'powerpc-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (200 commits) powerpc/64: Include cache.h directly in paca.h powerpc/64s: Only set HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA when CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU is set powerpc/xics: Include missing header powerpc/powernv/pci: Drop VF MPS fixup powerpc/fsl_book3e: Don't set rodata RO too early powerpc/microwatt: Add mmu bits to device tree powerpc/powernv/flash: Check OPAL flash calls exist before using powerpc/powermac: constify device_node in of_irq_parse_oldworld() powerpc/powermac: add missing g5_phy_disable_cpu1() declaration selftests/powerpc/pmu: fix spelling mistake "mis-match" -> "mismatch" powerpc: Enable the DAWR on POWER9 DD2.3 and above powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER10 to ALWAYS mask powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD2_2 to CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS mask powerpc: Fix all occurences of "the the" selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb: remove fixed_instruction.S powerpc/platforms/83xx: Use of_device_get_match_data() powerpc/eeh: Drop redundant spinlock initialization powerpc/iommu: Add missing of_node_put in iommu_init_early_dart powerpc/pseries/vas: Call misc_deregister if sysfs init fails powerpc/papr_scm: Fix leaking nvdimm_events_map elements ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cache_sram.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt58
4 files changed, 77 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
index 3c77677e0ca7..594fda254130 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ What: /sys/class/cxl/<afu>/api_version_compatible
Date: September 2014
Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Description: read only
- Decimal value of the the lowest version of the userspace API
- this this kernel supports.
+ Decimal value of the lowest version of the userspace API
+ this kernel supports.
Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cache_sram.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cache_sram.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 781955f5217d..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cache_sram.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-* Freescale PQ3 and QorIQ based Cache SRAM
-
-Freescale's mpc85xx and some QorIQ platforms provide an
-option of configuring a part of (or full) cache memory
-as SRAM. This cache SRAM representation in the device
-tree should be done as under:-
-
-Required properties:
-
-- compatible : should be "fsl,p2020-cache-sram"
-- fsl,cache-sram-ctlr-handle : points to the L2 controller
-- reg : offset and length of the cache-sram.
-
-Example:
-
-cache-sram@fff00000 {
- fsl,cache-sram-ctlr-handle = <&L2>;
- reg = <0 0xfff00000 0 0x10000>;
- compatible = "fsl,p2020-cache-sram";
-};
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
index e55ac6a24b97..310f2e0cea81 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
@@ -2,15 +2,23 @@
DAWR issues on POWER9
=====================
-On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop
-if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to
-distinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is
-disabled by this commit::
-
- commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0
- Author: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
- Date: Tue Mar 27 15:37:24 2018 +1100
- powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
+On older POWER9 processors, the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can
+cause a checkstop if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux
+has no way to distinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so on affected
+systems, the DAWR is disabled.
+
+Affected processor revisions
+============================
+
+This issue is only present on processors prior to v2.3. The revision can be
+found in /proc/cpuinfo::
+
+ processor : 0
+ cpu : POWER9, altivec supported
+ clock : 3800.000000MHz
+ revision : 2.3 (pvr 004e 1203)
+
+On a system with the issue, the DAWR is disabled as detailed below.
Technical Details:
==================
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f032b4eaf205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+KASAN is supported on powerpc on 32-bit and Radix 64-bit only.
+
+32 bit support
+==============
+
+KASAN is supported on both hash and nohash MMUs on 32-bit.
+
+The shadow area sits at the top of the kernel virtual memory space above the
+fixmap area and occupies one eighth of the total kernel virtual memory space.
+
+Instrumentation of the vmalloc area is optional, unless built with modules,
+in which case it is required.
+
+64 bit support
+==============
+
+Currently, only the radix MMU is supported. There have been versions for hash
+and Book3E processors floating around on the mailing list, but nothing has been
+merged.
+
+KASAN support on Book3S is a bit tricky to get right:
+
+ - It would be good to support inline instrumentation so as to be able to catch
+ stack issues that cannot be caught with outline mode.
+
+ - Inline instrumentation requires a fixed offset.
+
+ - Book3S runs code with translations off ("real mode") during boot, including a
+ lot of generic device-tree parsing code which is used to determine MMU
+ features.
+
+ - Some code - most notably a lot of KVM code - also runs with translations off
+ after boot.
+
+ - Therefore any offset has to point to memory that is valid with
+ translations on or off.
+
+One approach is just to give up on inline instrumentation. This way boot-time
+checks can be delayed until after the MMU is set is up, and we can just not
+instrument any code that runs with translations off after booting. This is the
+current approach.
+
+To avoid this limitiation, the KASAN shadow would have to be placed inside the
+linear mapping, using the same high-bits trick we use for the rest of the linear
+mapping. This is tricky:
+
+ - We'd like to place it near the start of physical memory. In theory we can do
+ this at run-time based on how much physical memory we have, but this requires
+ being able to arbitrarily relocate the kernel, which is basically the tricky
+ part of KASLR. Not being game to implement both tricky things at once, this
+ is hopefully something we can revisit once we get KASLR for Book3S.
+
+ - Alternatively, we can place the shadow at the _end_ of memory, but this
+ requires knowing how much contiguous physical memory a system has _at compile
+ time_. This is a big hammer, and has some unfortunate consequences: inablity
+ to handle discontiguous physical memory, total failure to boot on machines
+ with less memory than specified, and that machines with more memory than
+ specified can't use it. This was deemed unacceptable.