We've been keeping that field in thread_struct for a while, it contains
the "limit" of the current stack pointer and is meant to be used for
detecting stack overflows.

It has a few problems however:

 - First, it was never actually *used* on 64-bit. Set and updated but
not actually exploited

 - When switching stack to/from irq and softirq stacks, it's update
is racy unless we hard disable interrupts, which is costly. This
is fine on 32-bit as we don't soft-disable there but not on 64-bit.

Thus rather than fixing 2 in order to implement 1 in some hypothetical
future, let's remove the code completely from 64-bit. In order to avoid
a clutter of ifdef's, we remove the updates from C code completely
during interrupt stack switching, and instead maintain it from the
asm helper that is used to do the stack switching in the first place.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In the current kernel, the function flush_fp_to_thread() is not
dependent on CONFIG_PPC_FPU. So most invocations of this function
is not wrapped by CONFIG_PPC_FPU. Even through we don't really
save the FPRs to the thread struct if CONFIG_PPC_FPU is not enabled,
but there does have some runtime overhead such as the check for
tsk->thread.regs and preempt disable and enable. It really make
no sense to do that. So make it a nop when CONFIG_PPC_FPU is
disabled. Also remove the wrapped #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU
when invoking this function.
Signed-off-by: NKevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to.  It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.

We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path.  We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.

EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.

Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

It's possible for us to crash when running with ftrace enabled, eg:

  Bad kernel stack pointer bffffd12 at c00000000000a454
  cpu 0x3: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000ffe3d40]
      pc: c00000000000a454: resume_kernel+0x34/0x60
      lr: c00000000000335c: performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180
      sp: bffffd12
     msr: 8000000000001032
     dar: bffffd12
   dsisr: 42000000

If we look at current's stack (paca->__current->stack) we see it is
equal to c0000002ecab0000. Our stack is 16K, and comparing to
paca->kstack (c0000002ecab3e30) we can see that we have overflowed our
kernel stack. This leads to us writing over our struct thread_info, and
in this case we have corrupted thread_info->flags and set
_TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE.

Dumping the stack we see:

  3:mon> t c0000002ecab0000
  [c0000002ecab0000] c00000000002131c .performance_monitor_exception+0x5c/0x70
  [c0000002ecab0080] c00000000000335c performance_monitor_common+0x15c/0x180
  --- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000fb2ec .trace_hardirqs_off+0x1c/0x30
  [c0000002ecab0370] c00000000016fdb0 .trace_graph_entry+0xb0/0x280 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ecab0410] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130
  [c0000002ecab04b0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28
  [c0000002ecab0520] c0000000000d6b58 .idle_cpu+0x18/0x90
  [c0000002ecab05a0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34
  [c0000002ecab0620] c00000000001e660 .timer_interrupt+0x160/0x300
  [c0000002ecab06d0] c0000000000025dc decrementer_common+0x15c/0x180
  --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0
  [c0000002ecab09c0] c0000000000fe044 .trace_hardirqs_on+0x14/0x30 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ecab0fb0] c00000000016fe3c .trace_graph_entry+0x13c/0x280
  [c0000002ecab1050] c00000000003d038 .prepare_ftrace_return+0x98/0x130
  [c0000002ecab10f0] c00000000000a920 .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x28
  [c0000002ecab1160] c0000000000161f0 .__ppc64_runlatch_on+0x10/0x40
  [c0000002ecab11d0] c00000000000a934 .return_to_handler+0x0/0x34
  --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000000104d4 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x74/0xa0

  ... and so on

__ppc64_runlatch_on() is called from RUNLATCH_ON in the exception entry
path. At that point the irq state is not consistent, ie. interrupts are
hard disabled (by the exception entry), but the paca soft-enabled flag
may be out of sync.

This leads to the local_irq_restore() in trace_graph_entry() actually
enabling interrupts, which we do not want. Because we have not yet
reprogrammed the decrementer we immediately take another decrementer
exception, and recurse.

The fix is twofold. Firstly make sure we call DISABLE_INTS before
calling RUNLATCH_ON. The badly named DISABLE_INTS actually reconciles
the irq state in the paca with the hardware, making it safe again to
call local_irq_save/restore().

Although that should be sufficient to fix the bug, we also mark the
runlatch routines as notrace. They are called very early in the
exception entry and we are asking for trouble tracing them. They are
also fairly uninteresting and tracing them just adds unnecessary
overhead.

[ This regression was introduced by fe1952fc
  "powerpc: Rework runlatch code" by myself --BenH
]

CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.4+]
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

When introducing support for DABRX in 4474ef05, we broke older 32-bit CPUs
that don't have that register.

Some CPUs have a DABR but not DABRX.  Configuration are:
- No 32bit CPUs have DABRX but some have DABR.
- POWER4+ and below have the DABR but no DABRX.
- 970 and POWER5 and above have DABR and DABRX.
- POWER8 has DAWR, hence no DABRX.

This introduces CPU_FTR_DABRX and sets it on appropriate CPUs.  We use
the top 64 bits for CPU FTR bits since only 64 bit CPUs have this.

Processors that don't have the DABRX will still work as they will fall
back to software filtering these breakpoints via perf_exclude_event().
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reported-by: N"Gorelik, Jacob (335F)" <jacob.gorelik@jpl.nasa.gov>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.9 only)
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

MSR_DE is not cleared on entry to the kernel, and we don't clear it
explicitly outside of debug code.  If we have MSR_DE set in
prime_debug_regs(), and the new thread has events enabled in DBCR0
(e.g.  ICMP is set in thread->dbsr0, even though it was cleared in the
real DBCR0 when the thread got scheduled out), we'll end up taking a
debug exception in the kernel when DBCR0 is loaded.  DSRR0 will not
point to an exception vector, and the kernel ends up hanging at
kernel_dbg_exc.  Fix this by always clearing MSR_DE when we load new
debug state.

Another observed source of kernel_dbg_exc hangs is with the branch
taken event.  If this event is active, but we take a non-debug trap
(e.g. a TLB miss or an asynchronous interrupt) before the next branch.
We end up taking a branch-taken debug exception on the initial branch
instruction of the exception vector, but because the debug exception is
DBSR_BT rather than DBSR_IC we branch to kernel_dbg_exc before even
checking the DSRR0 address.  Fix this by checking for DBSR_BT as well
as DBSR_IC, which is what 32-bit does and what the comments suggest was
intended in the 64-bit code as well.
Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Saw this warning again, and this time from the ret_from_fork path.

It seems we could clear the back chain earlier in copy_thread(), which
could cover both path, and also fix potential lockdep usage in
schedule_tail(), or exception occurred before we clear the back chain.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
different forms.  This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.

show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
does plus task and thread_info pointers.

* Archs which didn't print debug info now do.

  alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
  metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
  um, xtensa

* Already prints debug info.  Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
  The printed information is superset of what used to be there.

  arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86

* s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
  along with generic debug info.  Heiko and Martin think that the
  arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
  Converted to use the generic version.

Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
dumps.

An example BUG() dump follows.

 kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
 task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8234a07e>]  [<ffffffff8234a07e>] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
 RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
 RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
 RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Stack:
  ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
  0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
  ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81000312>] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
  [<ffffffff82335e5d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
  [<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  [<ffffffff81c4776e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
  [<ffffffff81c6be9c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  [<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  ...

v2: Typo fix in x86-32.

v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
    dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it.  s390
    specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>		[tile bits]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>		[hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
architecture.  show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
current task as does dump_stack().  On some archs, dump_stack() prints
extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.

The usages in arch-independent code of the two functions indicate
show_stack(NULL, NULL) should print out bare backtrace while
dump_stack() is used for debugging purposes when something went wrong,
so it does make sense to print additional information on the task which
triggered dump_stack().

There's no reason to require archs to implement two separate but mostly
identical functions.  It leads to unnecessary subtle information.

This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin.  Blackfin's
dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand.

Debug information can be printed separately by calling
dump_stack_print_info() so that arch-specific dump_stack()
implementation can still emit the same debug information.  This is used
in blackfin.

This patch brings the following behavior changes.

* On some archs, an extra level in backtrace for show_stack() could be
  printed.  This is because the top frame was determined in
  dump_stack() on those archs while generic dump_stack() can't do that
  reliably.  It can be compensated by inlining dump_stack() but not
  sure whether that'd be necessary.

* Most archs didn't use to print debug info on dump_stack().  They do
  now.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Hardware name: empty
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #9
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f50f ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a03c
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [<ffffffff8234a071>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: CPU number added to the generic debug info as requested by s390
    folks and dropped the s390 specific dump_stack().  This loses %ksp
    from the debug message which the maintainers think isn't important
    enough to keep the s390-specific dump_stack() implementation.

    dump_stack_print_info() is moved to kernel/printk.c from
    lib/dump_stack.c.  Because linkage is per objecct file,
    dump_stack_print_info() living in the same lib file as generic
    dump_stack() means that archs which implement custom dump_stack()
    - at this point, only blackfin - can't use dump_stack_print_info()
    as that will bring in the generic version of dump_stack() too.  v1
    The v1 patch broke build on blackfin due to this issue.  The build
    breakage was reported by Fengguang Wu.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: NVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>	[s390 bits]
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>		[hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

arch_dup_task_struct() does flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(src), this
destroys the parent's breakpoints for no reason. We should clear
child->thread.ptrace_bps[] copied by dup_task_struct() instead.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We can't compile a kernel with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n when
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y.  We currently get:

arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:320: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VSCR
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0
etc.

The below fixes this with a sprinkling of #ifdefs.

This was found by mpe with kisskb:
  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8539442/Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

This hooks the new transactional memory code into context switching, FP/VMX/VMX
unavailable and exception return.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes

When we switch out a task, we need to save both the checkpointed and the
speculated state into the thread struct.

Similarly when we are switching in a task we need to load both the checkpointed
and speculated state.  If the task was using FP, we non-lazily reload both the
original and the speculative FP register states.  This is because the kernel
doesn't see if/when a TM rollback occurs, so if we take an FP unavoidable
later, we are unable to determine which set of FP regs need to be restored.

This simply adds these functions.  It doesn't hook them into the existing code
yet.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Add transactional memory paca scratch register to show_regs.  This is useful
for debugging.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This adds new macros for saving and restoring checkpointed architected state
from and to the thread_struct.

It also adds some debugging macros for when your brain explodes trying to debug
your transactional memory enabled kernel.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Currently we set the length field in the DAWR to 0 which defaults it to one
double word (64bits) which is the same as the DABR.

Change this so that we can set it to longer values as supported by the DAWR.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

With allmodconfig we are getting:
  drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c:160:12: error: conflicting types for 'set_break'
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h:49:5: note: previous declaration of 'set_break' was here

  drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c:526:12: error: conflicting types for 'set_break'
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h:49:5: note: previous declaration of 'set_break' was here

This renames set_break to set_breakpoint to avoid this naming conflict
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reported-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This adds DAWR supoprt to the set_break().

It does both bare metal and PAPR versions of setting the DAWR.

There is still some work we can do to make full use of the watchpoint but that
will come later.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This is a rewrite so that we don't assume we are using the DABR throughout the
code.  We now use the arch_hw_breakpoint to store the breakpoint in a generic
manner in the thread_struct, rather than storing the raw DABR value.

The ptrace GET/SET_DEBUGREG interface currently passes the raw DABR in from
userspace.  We keep this functionality, so that future changes (like the POWER8
DAWR), will still fake the DABR to userspace.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

[PATCH 4/6] powerpc: Define ppr in thread_struct

ppr in thread_struct is used to save PPR and restore it before process exits
from kernel.

This patch sets the default priority to 3 when tasks are created such
that users can use 4 for higher priority tasks.
Signed-off-by: NHaren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

simplifies callers, at that...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

copy_thread() will do it anyway.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... since the syscall glue had been doing that for 9 years already.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kernel_thread() callbacks are *not* in modules and are not going to
be there.  And it's not even read in ppc32 ret_from_kernel_thread(),
so no need to bother with it there either.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

the only non-obvious part is that current_pt_regs() is really needed
here - task_pt_regs() is NULL for kernel threads; it's OK for ptrace
uses (the thing task_pt_regs() is intended for), but not for us.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and get rid of in-kernel syscalls in kernel_thread()
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Rework set_dabr to take a DABRX value as well.

Both the pseries and PS3 hypervisors do some checks on the DABRX
values that are passed in the hcall.  This patch stops bogus values
from being passed to hypervisor.  Also, in the case where we are
clearing the breakpoint, where DABR and DABRX are zero, we modify the
DABRX value to make it valid so that the hcall won't fail.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

If the default DSCR is non zero we set thread.dscr_inherit in
copy_thread() meaning the new thread and all its children will ignore
future updates to the default DSCR. This is not intended and is
a change in behaviour that a number of our users have hit.

We just need to inherit thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit from
the parent which ends up being much simpler.

This was found with the following test case:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.cSigned-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Add thread_struct.trap_nr and use it to store the last exception
the thread experienced. In this patch, we populate the field at
various places where we force_sig_info() to the process.

This is also used in uprobes to determine if the probed instruction
caused an exception.
Signed-off-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The archs that implement virtual cputime accounting all
flush the cputime of a task when it gets descheduled
and sometimes set up some ground initialization for the
next task to account its cputime.

These archs all put their own hooks in their context
switch callbacks and handle the off-case themselves.

Consolidate this by creating a new account_switch_vtime()
callback called in generic code right after a context switch
and that these archs must implement to flush the prev task
cputime and initialize the next task cputime related state.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.
Suggested-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.comAcked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The core now has a threadinfo allocator which uses a kmemcache when
THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.059161130@linutronix.de

Add two optimisations to enable_kernel_altivec:

- enable_kernel_altivec has already determined if we need to
save the previous task's state but we call giveup_altivec
in both cases, requiring an extra branch in giveup_altivec. Create
giveup_altivec_notask which only turns on the VMX bit in the
MSR.

- We write the VMX MSR bit each time we call enable_kernel_altivec
even it was already set. Check the bit and branch out if we have
already set it. The classic case for this is vectored IO
where we have to copy multiple buffers to or from userspace.

The following testcase was used to confirm this patch improves
performance:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c

Since the current breakpoint for using VMX in copy_tofrom_user is
4096 bytes, I'm using buffers of 4096 + 1 cacheline (4224) bytes.
A benchmark of 16 entry readvs (-s 16):

time copy_to_user -l 4224 -s 16 -i 1000000

completes 5.2% faster on a POWER7 PS700.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Commit fe1952fc
"powerpc: Rework runlatch code" has a nasty typo
where it uses "TLF_RUNLATCH" instead of "_TLF_RUNLATCH"
(bit number instead of bit mask), causing some flags to
be potentially lost such as _TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK

(Brown paper bag for me ! We should be able to make
that break at compile time with a bit of magic, any
volunteer ?)
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>