linux-dev/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c, branch linus/master

powerpc/config: Add CONFIG_BOOKE_OR_40x

2021-12-09T11:41:19Z

We have many functionnalities common to 40x and BOOKE, it leads to many places with #if defined(CONFIG_BOOKE) || defined(CONFIG_40x). We are going to add a few more with KUAP for booke/40x, so create a new symbol which is defined when either BOOKE or 40x is defined. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9a3dbd60924cb25c9f944d3d8205ac5a0d15e229.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still valid

2021-06-24T14:06:55Z

When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers when returning from interrupt. Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context switching (which changes the return address and MSR). This improves the performance of interrupt returns. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin [mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction location

2021-06-16T14:09:00Z

'struct ppc_inst' is an internal representation of an instruction, but in-memory instructions are and will remain a table of 'u32' forever. Replace all 'struct ppc_inst *' used for locating an instruction in memory by 'u32 *'. This removes a lot of undue casts to 'struct ppc_inst *'. It also helps locating ab-use of 'struct ppc_inst' dereference. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy [mpe: Fix ppc_inst_next(), use u32 instead of unsigned int] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7062722b087228e42cbd896e39bfdf526d6a340a.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc/kernel: Trivial typo fix in kgdb.c

2021-03-29T02:22:15Z

s/procesing/processing/ Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210317090413.120891-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com

maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility

2020-06-18T19:10:37Z

Now that we've renamed probe_kernel_address() to get_kernel_nofault() and made it look and behave more in line with get_user(), some of the subtle type behavior differences end up being more obvious and possibly dangerous. When you do get_user(val, user_ptr); the type of the access comes from the "user_ptr" part, and the above basically acts as val = *user_ptr; by design (except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference is done with a user access). Note how in the above case, the type of the end result comes from the pointer argument, and then the value is cast to the type of 'val' as part of the assignment. So the type of the pointer is ultimately the more important type both for the access itself. But 'get_kernel_nofault()' may now _look_ similar, but it behaves very differently. When you do get_kernel_nofault(val, kernel_ptr); it behaves like val = *(typeof(val) *)kernel_ptr; except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference is done with exception handling so that a faulting access is suppressed and returned as the error code. But note how different the casting behavior of the two superficially similar accesses are: one does the actual access in the size of the type the pointer points to, while the other does the access in the size of the target, and ignores the pointer type entirely. Actually changing get_kernel_nofault() to act like get_user() is almost certainly the right thing to do eventually, but in the meantime this patch adds logit to at least verify that the pointer type is compatible with the type of the result. In many cases, this involves just casting the pointer to 'void *' to make it obvious that the type of the pointer is not the important part. It's not how 'get_user()' acts, but at least the behavioral difference is now obvious and explicit. Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault

2020-06-18T18:14:40Z

Better describe what this helper does, and match the naming of copy_from_kernel_nofault. Also switch the argument order around, so that it acts and looks like get_user(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-05-18T14:10:37Z

Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction. No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first. Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64. Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively have word instructions on powerpc32. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe [mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com

powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32s

2020-05-18T14:10:36Z

In preparation for instructions having a more complex data type start using a macro, ppc_inst(), for making an instruction out of a u32. A macro is used so that instructions can be used as initializer elements. Currently this does nothing, but it will allow for creating a data type that can represent prefixed instructions. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe [mpe: Change include guard to _ASM_POWERPC_INST_H] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-7-jniethe5@gmail.com

powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2019-02-23T11:31:40Z

This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which moves the thread_info into task_struct. Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: - It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack overflows. - Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult. This has the following consequences: - thread_info is now located at the beginning of task_struct. - The 'cpu' field is now in task_struct, and only exists when CONFIG_SMP is active. - thread_info doesn't have anymore the 'task' field. This patch: - Removes all recopy of thread_info struct when the stack changes. - Changes the CURRENT_THREAD_INFO() macro to point to current. - Selects CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK. - Modifies raw_smp_processor_id() to get ->cpu from current without including linux/sched.h to avoid circular inclusion and without including asm/asm-offsets.h to avoid symbol names duplication between ASM constants and C constants. - Modifies klp_init_thread_info() to take a task_struct pointer argument. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin [mpe: Add task_stack.h to livepatch.h to fix build fails] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

kgdb/treewide: constify struct kgdb_arch arch_kgdb_ops

2018-12-30T08:33:06Z

checkpatch.pl reports the following: WARNING: struct kgdb_arch should normally be const #28: FILE: arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c:397: +struct kgdb_arch arch_kgdb_ops = { This report makes sense, as all other ops struct, this one should also be const. This patch does the change. Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Burton Cc: James Hogan Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Rich Felker Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Daniel Thompson Acked-by: Paul Burton Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson