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<title>arm64/alternatives: move length validation inside the subsection</title>
<updated>2020-07-30T15:50:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-30T15:37:01Z</published>
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Commit f7b93d42945c ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement
sequences") breaks LLVM's integrated assembler, because due to its
one-pass design, it cannot compute instruction sequence lengths before the
layout for the subsection has been finalized. This change fixes the build
by moving the .org directives inside the subsection, so they are processed
after the subsection layout is known.

Fixes: f7b93d42945c ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement sequences")
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1078
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730153701.3892953-1-samitolvanen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement sequences</title>
<updated>2020-07-02T11:57:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T08:19:21Z</published>
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When building very large kernels, the logic that emits replacement
sequences for alternatives fails when relative branches are present
in the code that is emitted into the .altinstr_replacement section
and patched in at the original site and fixed up. The reason is that
the linker will insert veneers if relative branches go out of range,
and due to the relative distance of the .altinstr_replacement from
the .text section where its branch targets usually live, veneers
may be emitted at the end of the .altinstr_replacement section, with
the relative branches in the sequence pointed at the veneers instead
of the actual target.

The alternatives patching logic will attempt to fix up the branch to
point to its original target, which will be the veneer in this case,
but given that the patch site is likely to be far away as well, it
will be out of range and so patching will fail. There are other cases
where these veneers are problematic, e.g., when the target of the
branch is in .text while the patch site is in .init.text, in which
case putting the replacement sequence inside .text may not help either.

So let's use subsections to emit the replacement code as closely as
possible to the patch site, to ensure that veneers are only likely to
be emitted if they are required at the patch site as well, in which
case they will be in range for the replacement sequence both before
and after it is transported to the patch site.

This will prevent alternative sequences in non-init code from being
released from memory after boot, but this is tolerable given that the
entire section is only 512 KB on an allyesconfig build (which weighs in
at 500+ MB for the entire Image). Also, note that modules today carry
the replacement sequences in non-init sections as well, and any of
those that target init code will be emitted into init sections after
this change.

This fixes an early crash when booting an allyesconfig kernel on a
system where any of the alternatives sequences containing relative
branches are activated at boot (e.g., ARM64_HAS_PAN on TX2)

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave P Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630081921.13443-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternative: fix build with clang integrated assembler</title>
<updated>2020-03-20T10:01:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilie Halip</name>
<email>ilie.halip@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-19T21:45:28Z</published>
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Building an arm64 defconfig with clang's integrated assembler, this error
occurs:
    &lt;instantiation&gt;:2:2: error: unrecognized instruction mnemonic
     _ASM_EXTABLE 9999b, 9f
     ^
    arch/arm64/mm/cache.S:50:1: note: while in macro instantiation
    user_alt 9f, "dc cvau, x4", "dc civac, x4", 0
    ^

While GNU as seems fine with case-sensitive macro instantiations, clang
doesn't, so use the actual macro name (_asm_extable) as in the rest of
the file.

Also checked that the generated assembly matches the GCC output.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 290622efc76e ("arm64: fix "dc cvau" cache operation on errata-affected core")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/924
Signed-off-by: Ilie Halip &lt;ilie.halip@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fix alternatives with LLVM's integrated assembler</title>
<updated>2020-01-16T17:32:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-31T19:46:52Z</published>
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LLVM's integrated assembler fails with the following error when
building KVM:

  &lt;inline asm&gt;:12:6: error: expected absolute expression
   .if kvm_update_va_mask == 0
       ^
  &lt;inline asm&gt;:21:6: error: expected absolute expression
   .if kvm_update_va_mask == 0
       ^
  &lt;inline asm&gt;:24:2: error: unrecognized instruction mnemonic
          NOT_AN_INSTRUCTION
          ^
  LLVM ERROR: Error parsing inline asm

These errors come from ALTERNATIVE_CB and __ALTERNATIVE_CFG,
which test for the existence of the callback parameter in inline
assembly using the following expression:

  " .if " __stringify(cb) " == 0\n"

This works with GNU as, but isn't supported by LLVM. This change
splits __ALTERNATIVE_CFG and ALTINSTR_ENTRY into separate macros
to fix the LLVM build.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/472
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternative: Apply alternatives early in boot process</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T10:05:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-31T14:58:53Z</published>
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Currently alternatives are applied very late in the boot process (and
a long time after we enable scheduling). Some alternative sequences,
such as those that alter the way CPU context is stored, must be applied
much earlier in the boot sequence.

Introduce apply_boot_alternatives() to allow some alternatives to be
applied immediately after we detect the CPU features of the boot CPU.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
[julien.thierry@arm.com: rename to fit new cpufeature framework better,
			 apply BOOT_SCOPE feature early in boot]
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternative: Allow alternative status checking per cpufeature</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T10:05:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Thierry</name>
<email>julien.thierry@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-31T14:58:52Z</published>
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In preparation for the application of alternatives at different points
during the boot process, provide the possibility to check whether
alternatives for a feature of interest was already applied instead of
having a global boolean for all alternatives.

Make VHE enablement code check for the VHE feature instead of considering
all alternatives.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;Christoffer.Dall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Avoid flush_icache_range() in alternatives patching code</title>
<updated>2018-06-27T17:21:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T08:31:15Z</published>
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The implementation of flush_icache_range() includes instruction sequences
which are themselves patched at runtime, so it is not safe to call from
the patching framework.

This patch reworks the alternatives cache-flushing code so that it rolls
its own internal D-cache maintenance using DC CIVAC before invalidating
the entire I-cache after all alternatives have been applied at boot.
Modules don't cause any issues, since flush_icache_range() is safe to
call by the time they are loaded.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Rohit Khanna &lt;rokhanna@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Van Brunt &lt;avanbrunt@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T13:03:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-03T12:02:14Z</published>
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We've so far relied on a patching infrastructure that only gave us
a single alternative, without any way to provide a range of potential
replacement instructions. For a single feature, this is an all or
nothing thing.

It would be interesting to have a more flexible grained way of patching
the kernel though, where we could dynamically tune the code that gets
injected.

In order to achive this, let's introduce a new form of dynamic patching,
assiciating a callback to a patching site. This callback gets source and
target locations of the patching request, as well as the number of
instructions to be patched.

Dynamic patching is declared with the new ALTERNATIVE_CB and alternative_cb
directives:

	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_CB("mov %0, #0\n", callback)
		     : "r" (v));
or
	alternative_cb callback
		mov	x0, #0
	alternative_cb_end

where callback is the C function computing the alternative.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: use tpidr_el2 on VHE hosts</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T10:44:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T15:38:06Z</published>
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Now that KVM uses tpidr_el2 in the same way as Linux's cpu_offset in
tpidr_el1, merge the two. This saves KVM from save/restoring tpidr_el1
on VHE hosts, and allows future code to blindly access per-cpu variables
without triggering world-switch.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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