kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/powerpc/include, branch linux-6.12.y

powerpc: Add preempt lazy support

2026-09-14T11:32:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 00199ed6f2ca6601b2c5856fac64132303d9437a ] Define preempt lazy bit for Powerpc. Use bit 9 which is free and within 16 bit range of NEED_RESCHED, so compiler can issue single andi. Since Powerpc doesn't use the generic entry/exit, add lazy check at exit to user. CONFIG_PREEMPTION is defined for lazy/full/rt so use it for return to kernel. Ran a few benchmarks and db workload on Power10. Performance is close to preempt=none/voluntary. Since Powerpc systems can have large core count and large memory, preempt lazy is going to be helpful in avoiding soft lockup issues. Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Reviewed-by: Ankur Arora Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241116192306.88217-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com Stable-dep-of: 902caade3cfd ("arm64: ptdump: Make note_page_flush() range aware") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/vdso: Add a page for non-time data

2026-09-14T11:32:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit c39b1dcf055d420a498d1047c645b776e4d1a7aa ] The page containing VDSO time data is swapped with the one containing TIME namespace data when a process uses a non-root time namespace. For other data like powerpc specific data and RNG data, it means tracking whether time namespace is the root one or not to know which page to use. Simplify the logic behind by moving time data out of first data page so that the first data page which contains everything else always remains the first page. Time data is in the second or third page depending on selected time namespace. While we are playing with get_datapage macro, directly take into account the data offset inside the macro instead of adding that offset afterwards. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0557d3ec898c1d0ea2fc59fa8757618e524c5d94.1727858295.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Stable-dep-of: 3f7c9f9c36b4 ("s390/irqflags: Add out-of-line definitions of arch_local_irq_*() for KMSAN") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/crash: stop watchdogs before booting kdump kernel

2026-09-14T11:31:10+00:00

commit fb43ba4256543ce18ca0540fc37022bda438a293 upstream. On pseries LPAR systems, watchdog timers configured from userspace can remain active after a kernel panic. When a panic triggers kdump, the crashing kernel jumps directly to the kdump kernel without stopping active watchdogs. As a result, the watchdogs remain active after the kdump kernel starts. If dump capture takes longer than the watchdog timeout, PHYP resets the LPAR before the dump is fully captured, causing dump capture to fail. Fix this by issuing the `H_WATCHDOG` hcall during the crash shutdown sequence to stop all active watchdogs before booting the kdump kernel. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 69472ffa6575 ("watchdog/pseries-wdt: initial support for H_WATCHDOG-based watchdog timers") Reported-by: Mahesh Kumar G Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727053416.276317-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/pseries: Move H_WATCHDOG definitions to a common header

2026-09-14T11:31:10+00:00

commit 516a254918453ec99660201263d01189c082332c upstream. The H_WATCHDOG input and output definitions are currently local to the pseries watchdog driver. The next patch in this series also needs these definitions to issue H_WATCHDOG hypercalls outside the watchdog driver. Move the H_WATCHDOG definitions to a new common header, asm/papr-watchdog.h, so they can be shared without duplicating the PAPR watchdog definitions. No functional changes. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727053416.276317-2-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

2026-06-09T10:26:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit a494d3c8d5392bcdff83c2a593df0c160ff9f322 ] On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Ian Rogers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/crash: Update backup region offset in elfcorehdr on memory hotplug

2026-05-23T11:04:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit f53b24d1fa263f56155213eabab734c18d884aff ] When elfcorehdr is prepared for kdump, the program header representing the first 64 KB of memory is expected to have its offset point to the backup region. This is required because purgatory copies the first 64 KB of the crashed kernel memory to this backup region following a kernel crash. This allows the capture kernel to use the first 64 KB of memory to place the exception vectors and other required data. When elfcorehdr is recreated due to memory hotplug, the offset of the program header representing the first 64 KB is not updated. As a result, the capture kernel exports the first 64 KB at offset 0, even though the data actually resides in the backup region. Fix this by calling sync_backup_region_phdr() to update the program header offset in the elfcorehdr created during memory hotplug. sync_backup_region_phdr() works for images loaded via the kexec_file_load syscall. However, it does not work for kexec_load, because image->arch.backup_start is not initialized in that case. So introduce machine_kexec_post_load() to process the elfcorehdr prepared by kexec-tools and initialize image->arch.backup_start for kdump images loaded via kexec_load syscall. Rename update_backup_region_phdr() to sync_backup_region_phdr() and extend it to synchronize the backup region offset between the kdump image and the ELF core header. The helper now supports updating either the kdump image from the ELF program header or updating the ELF program header from the kdump image, avoiding code duplication. Define ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH and struct kimage_arch when CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled so that kimage->arch.backup_start is available with the kexec_load system call. This patch depends on the patch titled "powerpc/crash: fix backup region offset update to elfcorehdr". Fixes: 849599b702ef ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support") Reviewed-by: Aditya Gupta Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312083051.1935737-3-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86-64/arm64/powerpc: clean up and rename __copy_from_user_flushcache

2026-04-22T11:19:02+00:00

commit 809b997a5ce945ab470f70c187048fe4f5df20bf upstream. This finishes the work on these odd functions that were only implemented by a handful of architectures. The 'flushcache' function was only used from the iterator code, and let's make it do the same thing that the nontemporal version does: remove the two underscores and add the user address checking. Yes, yes, the user address checking is also done at iovec import time, but we have long since walked away from the old double-underscore thing where we try to avoid address checking overhead at access time, and these functions shouldn't be so special and old-fashioned. The arm64 version already did the address check, in fact, so there it's just a matter of renaming it. For powerpc and x86-64 we now do the proper user access boilerplate. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kexec: Consolidate machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() implementation

2026-03-25T10:08:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit bad6722e478f5b17a5ceb039dfb4c680cf2c0b48 ] Consolidate the machine_kexec_mask_interrupts implementation into a common function located in a new file: kernel/irq/kexec.c. This removes duplicate implementations from architecture-specific files in arch/arm, arch/arm64, arch/powerpc, and arch/riscv, reducing code duplication and improving maintainability. The new implementation retains architecture-specific behavior for CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_KEXEC_CLEAR_VM_FORWARD, which was previously implemented for ARM64. When enabled (currently for ARM64), it clears the active state of interrupts forwarded to virtual machines (VMs) before handling other interrupt masking operations. Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241204142003.32859-2-farbere@amazon.com Stable-dep-of: 20197b967a6a ("powerpc/kexec/core: use big-endian types for crash variables") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/uaccess: Fix inline assembly for clang build on PPC32

2026-03-25T10:08:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0ee95a1d458630272d0415d0ffa9424fcb606c90 ] Test robot reports the following error with clang-16.0.6: In file included from kernel/rseq.c:75: include/linux/rseq_entry.h:141:3: error: invalid operand for instruction unsafe_get_user(offset, &ucs->post_commit_offset, efault); ^ include/linux/uaccess.h:608:2: note: expanded from macro 'unsafe_get_user' arch_unsafe_get_user(x, ptr, local_label); \ ^ arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:518:2: note: expanded from macro 'arch_unsafe_get_user' __get_user_size_goto(__gu_val, __gu_addr, sizeof(*(p)), e); \ ^ arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:284:2: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_size_goto' __get_user_size_allowed(x, ptr, size, __gus_retval); \ ^ arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:275:10: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_size_allowed' case 8: __get_user_asm2(x, (u64 __user *)ptr, retval); break; \ ^ arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:258:4: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_asm2' " li %1+1,0\n" \ ^ :7:5: note: instantiated into assembly here li 31+1,0 ^ 1 error generated. On PPC32, for 64 bits vars a pair of registers is used. Usually the lower register in the pair is the high part and the higher register is the low part. GCC uses r3/r4 ... r11/r12 ... r14/r15 ... r30/r31 In older kernel code inline assembly was using %1 and %1+1 to represent 64 bits values. However here it looks like clang uses r31 as high part, allthough r32 doesn't exist hence the error. Allthoug %1+1 should work, most places now use %L1 instead of %1+1, so let's do the same here. With that change, the build doesn't fail anymore and a disassembly shows clang uses r17/r18 and r31/r14 pair when GCC would have used r16/r17 and r30/r31: Disassembly of section .fixup: 00000000 <.fixup>: 0: 38 a0 ff f2 li r5,-14 4: 3a 20 00 00 li r17,0 8: 3a 40 00 00 li r18,0 c: 48 00 00 00 b c <.fixup+0xc> c: R_PPC_REL24 .text+0xbc 10: 38 a0 ff f2 li r5,-14 14: 3b e0 00 00 li r31,0 18: 39 c0 00 00 li r14,0 1c: 48 00 00 00 b 1c <.fixup+0x1c> 1c: R_PPC_REL24 .text+0x144 Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602021825.otcItxGi-lkp@intel.com/ Fixes: c20beffeec3c ("powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user()") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8ca3a657a650e497a96bfe7acde2f637dadab344.1770103646.git.chleroy@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/eeh: fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling

2026-03-04T12:19:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 815a8d2feb5615ae7f0b5befd206af0b0160614c ] The recent commit 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe") restructured the EEH driver to improve synchronization with the PCI hotplug layer. However, it inadvertently moved pci_lock_rescan_remove() outside its intended scope in eeh_handle_normal_event(), leading to broken PCI error reporting and improper EEH event triggering. Specifically, eeh_handle_normal_event() acquired pci_lock_rescan_remove() before calling eeh_pe_bus_get(), but eeh_pe_bus_get() itself attempts to acquire the same lock internally, causing nested locking and disrupting normal EEH event handling paths. This patch adds a boolean parameter do_lock to _eeh_pe_bus_get(), with two public wrappers: eeh_pe_bus_get() with locking enabled. eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() that skips locking. Callers that already hold pci_lock_rescan_remove() now use eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() to avoid recursive lock acquisition. Additionally, pci_lock_rescan_remove() calls are restored to the correct position—after eeh_pe_bus_get() and immediately before iterating affected PEs and devices. This ensures EEH-triggered PCI removes occur under proper bus rescan locking without recursive lock contention. The eeh_pe_loc_get() function has been split into two functions: eeh_pe_loc_get(struct eeh_pe *pe) which retrieves the loc for given PE. eeh_pe_loc_get_bus(struct pci_bus *bus) which retrieves the location code for given bus. This resolves lockdep warnings such as: [ 84.964298] [ T928] ============================================ [ 84.964304] [ T928] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 84.964311] [ T928] 6.18.0-rc3 #51 Not tainted [ 84.964315] [ T928] -------------------------------------------- [ 84.964320] [ T928] eehd/928 is trying to acquire lock: [ 84.964324] [ T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40 [ 84.964342] [ T928] but task is already holding lock: [ 84.964347] [ T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40 [ 84.964357] [ T928] other info that might help us debug this: [ 84.964363] [ T928] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 84.964367] [ T928] CPU0 [ 84.964370] [ T928] ---- [ 84.964373] [ T928] lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock); [ 84.964378] [ T928] lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock); [ 84.964383] [ T928] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 84.964388] [ T928] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 84.964393] [ T928] 1 lock held by eehd/928: [ 84.964397] [ T928] #0: c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40 [ 84.964408] [ T928] stack backtrace: [ 84.964414] [ T928] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 928 Comm: eehd Not tainted 6.18.0-rc3 #51 VOLUNTARY [ 84.964417] [ T928] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_022) hv:phyp pSeries [ 84.964419] [ T928] Call Trace: [ 84.964420] [ T928] [c0000011a7157990] [c000000001705de4] dump_stack_lvl+0xc8/0x130 (unreliable) [ 84.964424] [ T928] [c0000011a71579d0] [c0000000002f66e0] print_deadlock_bug+0x430/0x440 [ 84.964428] [ T928] [c0000011a7157a70] [c0000000002fd0c0] __lock_acquire+0x1530/0x2d80 [ 84.964431] [ T928] [c0000011a7157ba0] [c0000000002fea54] lock_acquire+0x144/0x410 [ 84.964433] [ T928] [c0000011a7157cb0] [c0000011a7157cb0] __mutex_lock+0xf4/0x1050 [ 84.964436] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e00] [c000000000de21d8] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40 [ 84.964439] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e20] [c00000000004ed98] eeh_pe_bus_get+0x48/0xc0 [ 84.964442] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e50] [c000000000050434] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x64/0xa60 [ 84.964446] [ T928] [c0000011a7157f30] [c000000000051de8] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190 [ 84.964450] [ T928] [c0000011a7157f90] [c0000000002747ac] kthread+0x16c/0x180 [ 84.964453] [ T928] [c0000011a7157fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18 Fixes: 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe") Signed-off-by: Narayana Murty N Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210142559.8874-1-nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin