- 03 Nov, 2017 17 commits
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Dave Martin authored
It's desirable to be able to reset the vector length to some sane default for new processes, since the new binary and its libraries may or may not be SVE-aware. This patch tracks the desired post-exec vector length (if any) in a new thread member sve_vl_onexec, and adds a new thread flag TIF_SVE_VL_INHERIT to control whether to inherit or reset the vector length. Currently these are inactive. Subsequent patches will provide the capability to configure them. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
This patch adds the core support for switching and managing the SVE architectural state of user tasks. Calls to the existing FPSIMD low-level save/restore functions are factored out as new functions task_fpsimd_{save,load}(), since SVE now dynamically may or may not need to be handled at these points depending on the kernel configuration, hardware features discovered at boot, and the runtime state of the task. To make these decisions as fast as possible, const cpucaps are used where feasible, via the system_supports_sve() helper. The SVE registers are only tracked for threads that have explicitly used SVE, indicated by the new thread flag TIF_SVE. Otherwise, the FPSIMD view of the architectural state is stored in thread.fpsimd_state as usual. When in use, the SVE registers are not stored directly in thread_struct due to their potentially large and variable size. Because the task_struct slab allocator must be configured very early during kernel boot, it is also tricky to configure it correctly to match the maximum vector length provided by the hardware, since this depends on examining secondary CPUs as well as the primary. Instead, a pointer sve_state in thread_struct points to a dynamically allocated buffer containing the SVE register data, and code is added to allocate and free this buffer at appropriate times. TIF_SVE is set when taking an SVE access trap from userspace, if suitable hardware support has been detected. This enables SVE for the thread: a subsequent return to userspace will disable the trap accordingly. If such a trap is taken without sufficient system- wide hardware support, SIGILL is sent to the thread instead as if an undefined instruction had been executed: this may happen if userspace tries to use SVE in a system where not all CPUs support it for example. The kernel will clear TIF_SVE and disable SVE for the thread whenever an explicit syscall is made by userspace. For backwards compatibility reasons and conformance with the spirit of the base AArch64 procedure call standard, the subset of the SVE register state that aliases the FPSIMD registers is still preserved across a syscall even if this happens. The remainder of the SVE register state logically becomes zero at syscall entry, though the actual zeroing work is currently deferred until the thread next tries to use SVE, causing another trap to the kernel. This implementation is suboptimal: in the future, the fastpath case may be optimised to zero the registers in-place and leave SVE enabled for the task, where beneficial. TIF_SVE is also cleared in the following slowpath cases, which are taken as reasonable hints that the task may no longer use SVE: * exec * fork and clone Code is added to sync data between thread.fpsimd_state and thread.sve_state whenever enabling/disabling SVE, in a manner consistent with the SVE architectural programmer's model. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> [will: added #include to fix allnoconfig build] [will: use enable_daif in do_sve_acc] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
To enable the kernel to use SVE, SVE traps from EL1 to EL2 must be disabled. To take maximum advantage of the hardware, the full available vector length also needs to be enabled for EL1 by programming ZCR_EL2.LEN. (The kernel will program ZCR_EL1.LEN as required, but this cannot override the limit set by ZCR_EL2.) This patch makes the appropriate changes to the EL2 early setup code. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
This patch defines the representation that will be used for the SVE register state in the signal frame, and implements support for saving and restoring the SVE registers around signals. The same layout will also be used for the in-kernel task state. Due to the variability of the SVE vector length, it is not possible to define a fixed C struct to describe all the registers. Instead, Macros are defined in sigcontext.h to facilitate access to the parts of the structure. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
This patch adds CONFIG_ARM64_SVE to control building of SVE support into the kernel, and adds a stub predicate system_supports_sve() to control conditional compilation and runtime SVE support. system_supports_sve() just returns false for now: it will be replaced with a non-trivial implementation in a later patch, once SVE support is complete enough to be enabled safely. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
Manipulating the SVE architectural state, including the vector and predicate registers, first-fault register and the vector length, requires the use of dedicated instructions added by SVE. This patch adds suitable assembly functions for saving and restoring the SVE registers and querying the vector length. Setting of the vector length is done as part of register restore. Since people building kernels may not all get an SVE-enabled toolchain for a while, this patch uses macros that generate explicit opcodes in place of assembler mnemonics. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
The SVE architecture adds some system registers, ID register fields and a dedicated ESR exception class. This patch adds the appropriate definitions that will be needed by the kernel. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
The existing FPSIMD context switch code contains a couple of instances of {set,clear}_ti_thread(task_thread_info(task)). Since there are thread flag manipulators that operate directly on task_struct, this verbosity isn't strictly needed. For consistency, this patch simplifies the affected calls. This should have no impact on behaviour. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
Currently, armv8_deprected.c takes charge of the "abi" sysctl directory, which makes life difficult for other code that wants to register sysctls in the same directory. There is a "new" [1] sysctl registration interface that removes the need to define ctl_tables for parent directories explicitly, which is ideal here. This patch ports register_insn_emulation_sysctl() over to the register_sysctl() interface and removes the redundant ctl_table for "abi". Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [1] fea478d4 (sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users) The commit message notes an intent to port users of the pre-existing interfaces over to register_sysctl(), though the number of users of the new interface currently appears negligible. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
The EFI runtime services ABI permits calls to EFI to clobber certain FPSIMD/NEON registers, as per the AArch64 procedure call standard. Saving/restoring the clobbered registers around such calls needs KERNEL_MODE_NEON, but the dependency is missing from Kconfig. This patch adds the missing dependency. This will aid bisection of the patches implementing support for the ARM Scalable Vector Extension (SVE). Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
Currently, a guest kernel sees the true CPU feature registers (ID_*_EL1) when it reads them using MRS instructions. This means that the guest may observe features that are present in the hardware but the host doesn't understand or doesn't provide support for. A guest may legimitately try to use such a feature as per the architecture, but use of the feature may trap instead of working normally, triggering undef injection into the guest. This is not a problem for the host, but the guest may go wrong when running on newer hardware than the host knows about. This patch hides from guest VMs any AArch64-specific CPU features that the host doesn't support, by exposing to the guest the sanitised versions of the registers computed by the cpufeatures framework, instead of the true hardware registers. To achieve this, HCR_EL2.TID3 is now set for AArch64 guests, and emulation code is added to KVM to report the sanitised versions of the affected registers in response to MRS and register reads from userspace. The affected registers are removed from invariant_sys_regs[] (since the invariant_sys_regs handling is no longer quite correct for them) and added to sys_reg_desgs[], with appropriate access(), get_user() and set_user() methods. No runtime vcpu storage is allocated for the registers: instead, they are read on demand from the cpufeatures framework. This may need modification in the future if there is a need for userspace to customise the features visible to the guest. Attempts by userspace to write the registers are handled similarly to the current invariant_sys_regs handling: writes are permitted, but only if they don't attempt to change the value. This is sufficient to support VM snapshot/restore from userspace. Because of the additional registers, restoring a VM on an older kernel may not work unless userspace knows how to handle the extra VM registers exposed to the KVM user ABI by this patch. Under the principle of least damage, this patch makes no attempt to handle any of the other registers currently in invariant_sys_regs[], or to emulate registers for AArch32: however, these could be handled in a similar way in future, as necessary. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
Currently sys_rt_sigreturn() verifies that the base sigframe is readable, but no similar check is performed on the extra data to which an extra_context record points. This matters because the extra data will be read with the unprotected user accessors. However, this is not a problem at present because the extra data base address is required to be exactly at the end of the base sigframe. So, there would need to be a non-user-readable kernel address within about 59K (SIGFRAME_MAXSZ - sizeof(struct rt_sigframe)) of some address for which access_ok(VERIFY_READ) returns true, in order for sigreturn to be able to read kernel memory that should be inaccessible to the user task. This is currently impossible due to the untranslatable address hole between the TTBR0 and TTBR1 address ranges. Disappearance of the hole between the TTBR0 and TTBR1 mapping ranges would require the VA size for TTBR0 and TTBR1 to grow to at least 55 bits, and either the disabling of tagged pointers for userspace or enabling of tagged pointers for kernel space; none of which is currently envisaged. Even so, it is wrong to use the unprotected user accessors without an accompanying access_ok() check. To avoid the potential for future surprises, this patch does an explicit access_ok() check on the extra data space when parsing an extra_context record. Fixes: 33f08261 ("arm64: signal: Allow expansion of the signal frame") Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
A couple of FPSIMD exception handling functions that are called from entry.S are currently not annotated as such. This is not a big deal since asmlinkage does nothing on arm/arm64, but fixing the annotations is more consistent and may help avoid future surprises. This patch adds appropriate asmlinkage annotations for do_fpsimd_acc() and do_fpsimd_exc(). Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Dave Martin authored
Currently the regset API doesn't allow for the possibility that regsets (or at least, the amount of meaningful data in a regset) may change in size. In particular, this results in useless padding being added to coredumps if a regset's current size is smaller than its theoretical maximum size. This patch adds a get_size() function to struct user_regset. Individual regset implementations can implement this function to return the current size of the regset data. A regset_size() function is added to provide callers with an abstract interface for determining the size of a regset without needing to know whether the regset is dynamically sized or not. The only affected user of this interface is the ELF coredump code: This patch ports ELF coredump to dump regsets with their actual size in the coredump. This has no effect except for new regsets that are dynamically sized and provide a get_size() implementation. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Suzuki K Poulose authored
When the PMU driver is built as a module, the perf expects the pmu->module to be valid, so that the driver is prevented from being unloaded while it is in use. Fix the CCN pmu driver to fill in this field. Fixes: a33b0daa ("bus: ARM CCN PMU driver") Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Suzuki K Poulose authored
When the PMU driver is built as a module, the perf expects the pmu->module to be valid, so that the driver is prevented from being unloaded while it is in use. Fix the SPE pmu driver to fill in this field. Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Julien Thierry authored
Function graph does not work currently when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_TRACE is not set. This is because ftrace_function_trace is not always set to ftrace_stub when function_graph is in use. Do not skip checking of graph tracer functions when ftrace_function_trace is set. Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 02 Nov, 2017 11 commits
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Xie XiuQi authored
Today SError is taken using the inv_entry macro that ends up in bad_mode. SError can be used by the RAS Extensions to notify either the OS or firmware of CPU problems, some of which may have been corrected. To allow this handling to be added, add a do_serror() C function that just panic()s. Add the entry.S boiler plate to save/restore the CPU registers and unmask debug exceptions. Future patches may change do_serror() to return if the SError Interrupt was notification of a corrected error. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wang Xiongfeng <wangxiongfengi2@huawei.com> [Split out of a bigger patch, added compat path, renamed, enabled debug exceptions] Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
Following our 'dai' order, irqs should be processed with debug and serror exceptions unmasked. Add a helper to unmask these two, (and fiq for good measure). Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
el0_sync also unmasks exceptions on a case-by-case basis, debug exceptions are enabled, unless this was a debug exception. Irqs are unmasked for some exception types but not for others. el0_dbg should run with everything masked to prevent us taking a debug exception from do_debug_exception. For the other cases we can unmask everything. This changes the behaviour of fpsimd_{acc,exc} and el0_inv which previously ran with irqs masked. This patch removed the last user of enable_dbg_and_irq, remove it. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
el1_sync unmasks exceptions on a case-by-case basis, debug exceptions are unmasked, unless this was a debug exception. IRQs are unmasked for instruction and data aborts only if the interupted context had irqs unmasked. Following our 'dai' order, el1_dbg should run with everything masked. For the other cases we can inherit whatever we interrupted. Add a macro inherit_daif to set daif based on the interrupted pstate. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
enable_step_tsk is the only user of disable_dbg, which doesn't respect our 'dai' order for exception masking. enable_step_tsk may enable single-step, so previously needed to mask debug exceptions to prevent us from single-stepping kernel_exit. enable_step_tsk is called at the end of the ret_to_user loop, which has already masked all exceptions so this is no longer needed. Remove disable_dbg, add a comment that enable_step_tsk's caller should have masked debug. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
To take RAS Exceptions as quickly as possible we need to keep SError unmasked as much as possible. We need to mask it during kernel_exit as taking an error from this code will overwrite the exception-registers. Adding a naked 'disable_daif' to kernel_exit causes a performance problem for micro-benchmarks that do no real work, (e.g. calling getpid() in a loop). This is because the ret_to_user loop has already masked IRQs so that the TIF_WORK_MASK thread flags can't change underneath it, adding disable_daif is an additional self-synchronising operation. In the future, the RAS APEI code may need to modify the TIF_WORK_MASK flags from an SError, in which case the ret_to_user loop must mask SError while it examines the flags. Disable all exceptions for return to EL1. For return to EL0 get the ret_to_user loop to leave all exceptions masked once it has done its work, this avoids an extra pstate-write. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
Remove the local_{async,fiq}_{en,dis}able macros as they don't respect our newly defined order and are only used to set the flags for process context when we bring CPUs online. Add a helper to do this. The IRQ flag varies as we want it masked on the boot CPU until we are ready to handle interrupts. The boot CPU unmasks SError during early boot once it can print an error message. If we can print an error message about SError, we can do the same for FIQ. Debug exceptions are already enabled by __cpu_setup(), which has also configured MDSCR_EL1 to disable MDE and KDE. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
Currently SError is always masked in the kernel. To support RAS exceptions using SError on hardware with the v8.2 RAS Extensions we need to unmask SError as much as possible. Let's define an order for masking and unmasking exceptions. 'dai' is memorable and effectively what we have today. Disabling debug exceptions should cause all other exceptions to be masked. Masking SError should mask irq, but not disable debug exceptions. Masking irqs has no side effects for other flags. Keeping to this order makes it easier for entry.S to know which exceptions should be unmasked. FIQ is never expected, but we mask it when we mask debug exceptions, and unmask it at all other times. Given masking debug exceptions masks everything, we don't need macros to save/restore that bit independently. Remove them and switch the last caller over to use the daif calls. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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James Morse authored
There are a few places where we want to mask all exceptions. Today we do this in a piecemeal fashion, typically we expect the caller to have masked irqs and the arch code masks debug exceptions, ignoring serror which is probably masked. Make it clear that 'mask all exceptions' is the intention by adding helpers to do exactly that. This will let us unmask SError without having to add 'oh and SError' to these paths. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Yisheng Xie authored
After commit 9e8e865b ("arm64: unify idmap removal"), we no need to flush tlb in suspend.c, so the included file tlbflush.h can be removed. Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
Commit 42dbf54e ("arm64: consistently log ESR and page table") dumps page table entries for user faults hitting do_bad entries in the fault handler table. Whilst this shouldn't really happen in practice, it's not beyond the realms of possibility if e.g. running an old kernel on a new CPU. Generally, we want to avoid exposing physical addresses under the control of userspace (see commit bf396c09 ("arm64: mm: don't print out page table entries on EL0 faults")), so walk the page tables only on exceptions from EL1. Reported-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 31 Oct, 2017 1 commit
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Mark Rutland authored
The vdso tries to check for a NULL res pointer in __kernel_clock_getres, but only checks the lower 32 bits as is uses CBZ on the W register the res pointer is held in. Thus, if the res pointer happened to be aligned to a 4GiB boundary, we'd spuriously skip storing the timespec to it, while returning a zero error code to the caller. Prevent this by checking the whole pointer, using CBZ on the X register the res pointer is held in. Fixes: 9031fefd ("arm64: VDSO support") Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reported-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> Reported-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 30 Oct, 2017 2 commits
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Nick Desaulniers authored
Upon upgrading to binutils 2.27, we found that our lz4 and gzip compressed kernel images were significantly larger, resulting is 10ms boot time regressions. As noted by Rahul: "aarch64 binaries uses RELA relocations, where each relocation entry includes an addend value. This is similar to x86_64. On x86_64, the addend values are also stored at the relocation offset for relative relocations. This is an optimization: in the case where code does not need to be relocated, the loader can simply skip processing relative relocations. In binutils-2.25, both bfd and gold linkers did this for x86_64, but only the gold linker did this for aarch64. The kernel build here is using the bfd linker, which stored zeroes at the relocation offsets for relative relocations. Since a set of zeroes compresses better than a set of non-zero addend values, this behavior was resulting in much better lz4 compression. The bfd linker in binutils-2.27 is now storing the actual addend values at the relocation offsets. The behavior is now consistent with what it does for x86_64 and what gold linker does for both architectures. The change happened in this upstream commit: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=1f56df9d0d5ad89806c24e71f296576d82344613 Since a bunch of zeroes got replaced by non-zero addend values, we see the side effect of lz4 compressed image being a bit bigger. To get the old behavior from the bfd linker, "--no-apply-dynamic-relocs" flag can be used: $ LDFLAGS="--no-apply-dynamic-relocs" make With this flag, the compressed image size is back to what it was with binutils-2.25. If the kernel is using ASLR, there aren't additional runtime costs to --no-apply-dynamic-relocs, as the relocations will need to be applied again anyway after the kernel is relocated to a random address. If the kernel is not using ASLR, then presumably the current default behavior of the linker is better. Since the static linker performed the dynamic relocs, and the kernel is not moved to a different address at load time, it can skip applying the relocations all over again." Some measurements: $ ld -v GNU ld (binutils-2.25-f3d35cf6) 2.25.51.20141117 ^ $ ls -l vmlinux -rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300652760 Oct 26 11:57 vmlinux $ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb -rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 16932627 Oct 26 11:57 Image.lz4-dtb $ ld -v GNU ld (binutils-2.27-53dd00a1) 2.27.0.20170315 ^ pre patch: $ ls -l vmlinux -rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300376208 Oct 26 11:43 vmlinux $ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb -rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 18159474 Oct 26 11:43 Image.lz4-dtb post patch: $ ls -l vmlinux -rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300376208 Oct 26 12:06 vmlinux $ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb -rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 16932466 Oct 26 12:06 Image.lz4-dtb By Siqi's measurement w/ gzip: binutils 2.27 with this patch (with --no-apply-dynamic-relocs): Image 41535488 Image.gz 13404067 binutils 2.27 without this patch (without --no-apply-dynamic-relocs): Image 41535488 Image.gz 14125516 Any compression scheme should be able to get better results from the longer runs of zeros, not just GZIP and LZ4. 10ms boot time savings isn't anything to get excited about, but users of arm64+compression+bfd-2.27 should not have to pay a penalty for no runtime improvement. Reported-by: Gopinath Elanchezhian <gelanchezhian@google.com> Reported-by: Sindhuri Pentyala <spentyala@google.com> Reported-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com> Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Suggested-by: Rahul Chaudhry <rahulchaudhry@google.com> Suggested-by: Siqi Lin <siqilin@google.com> Suggested-by: Stephen Hines <srhines@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> [will: added comment to Makefile] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Catalin Marinas authored
The generic pte_access_permitted() implementation only checks for pte_present() (together with the write permission where applicable). However, for both kernel ptes and PROT_NONE mappings pte_present() also returns true on arm64 even though such mappings are not user accessible. Additionally, arm64 now supports execute-only user permission (PROT_EXEC) which is implemented by clearing the PTE_USER bit. With this patch the arm64 implementation of pte_access_permitted() checks for the PTE_VALID and PTE_USER bits together with writable access if applicable. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 27 Oct, 2017 4 commits
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Will Deacon authored
PSTATE.Q only exists for AArch32, which can be referred to using COMPAT_PSR_Q_BIT. Remove PSR_Q_BIT, since the native bit doesn't exist in the architecture Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
We can decode the PSTATE easily enough, so pretty-print it in register dumps. Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
Printing raw pointer values in backtraces has potential security implications and are of questionable value anyway. This patch follows x86's lead and removes the "Exception stack:" dump from kernel backtraces, as well as converting PC/LR values to symbols such as "sysrq_handle_crash+0x20/0x30". Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
When we take a fault we can't handle, we try to dump some relevant information, but we're not consistent about doing so. In do_mem_abort(), we log the full ESR, but don't dump a page table walk. In __do_kernel_fault, we dump an attempted decoding of the ESR (but not the ESR itself) along with a page table walk. Let's try to make things more consistent by dumping the full ESR in mem_abort_decode(), and having do_mem_abort dump a page table walk. The existing dump of the ESR in do_mem_abort() is rendered redundant, and removed. Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 25 Oct, 2017 3 commits
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Dave Martin authored
Currently ASM_BUG() and its constituent macros define local assembler labels 0, 1 and 2 internally, which carries a high risk of clash with callers' labels and consequent mis-assembly. This patch gives the labels a big random offset to minimise the chance of such errors. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Julien Thierry authored
Software Step exception is missing after stepping a trapped instruction. Ensure SPSR.SS gets set to 0 after emulating/skipping a trapped instruction before doing ERET. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> [will: replaced AARCH32_INSN_SIZE with 4] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Julien Thierry authored
Literal values are being used to set single stepping in mdscr from assembly code. There are already existing defines representing those values, use those instead of the literal values. Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 24 Oct, 2017 2 commits
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Mark Salyzyn authored
__memcpy_{to,from}io fall back to byte-at-a-time copying if both the source and destination pointers are not 8-byte aligned. Since one of the pointers always points at normal memory, this is unnecessary and detrimental to performance, so only do byte copying until we hit an 8-byte boundary for the device pointer. This change was motivated by performance issues in the pstore driver. On a test platform, measuring probe time for pstore, console buffer size of 1/4MB and pmsg of 1/2MB, was in the 90-107ms region. Change managed to reduce it to 10-25ms, an improvement in boot time. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
Merge in ARM PMU and perf updates for 4.15: - Support for the Statistical Profiling Extension - Support for Hisilicon's SoC PMU Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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