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We already do this twice and want to add another so add a helper.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This doesn't really belong in harness.c, it's a helper function. So move
it into utils.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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When building against older kernel headers, currently the tm-syscall
test fails to build because PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined.
Tweak the test so that if PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined it still
builds, but prints a warning at run time and marks the test as skipped.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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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>
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.
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: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.
- More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.
- Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan
Fontenot.
- Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.
- Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz.
- A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
nodes_possible_map.
- Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.
- Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.
- Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was
flashing your firmware when it wasn't.
- Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.
- Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan
Stancek.
- Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.
- A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by
Bjorn.
- A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.
- Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather
than per machine.
- Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended
transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.
- Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.
- Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.
- Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree
nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance
improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.
* tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits)
powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds
powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs()
powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change
powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell
powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking
powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu
powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support
oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message
...
Conflicts:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
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Check that a syscall made during an active transaction will fail with
the correct failure code and that one made during a suspended
transaction will succeed.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The bulk of the selftests are actually below the powerpc sub directory.
This adds support for installing them, when on a powerpc machine, or if
ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE are set appropriately.
This is a little more complicated because of the sub directory structure
under powerpc, but much of the common logic in lib.mk is still used. The
net effect of the patch is still a reduction in code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
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This patch includes all of the powerpc test binaries into the .gitignore
file listing in their respective directories. This will make sure that
git ignores all of these test binaries when displaying status.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This gives us standardised success/failure output and also handles
killing the test if it runs forever (2 minutes).
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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>
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Michael Ellerman
Sam bobroff
Linus Torvalds
Anshuman Khandual