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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] Feedback on 4.9 performance after PTI fixes

by Willy Tarreau

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:26:10PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:26 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > You're totally right, I discovered during my later developments that > > indeed PCID is not exposed there. So we take the hit of a full TLB > > flush twice per syscall. > > So I really think it might make sense to redo the tests with PCID, because the > assumptions you're basing your patch series on might actually not hold. I'll have to do it on the bare-metal server soon anyway. Cheers, Willy

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[Linux-stable-mirror] [PATCH v2] mtd: nand: brcmnand: Disable prefetch by default

by Kamal Dasu

Brcm nand controller prefetch feature needs to be disabled by default. Enabling affects performance on random reads as well as dma reads. Signed-off-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev(a)gmail.com> Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org --- drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 13 +++---------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c index dd56a67..2a978d9 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c @@ -2193,16 +2193,9 @@ static int brcmnand_setup_dev(struct brcmnand_host *host) if (ctrl->nand_version >= 0x0702) tmp |= ACC_CONTROL_RD_ERASED; tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_FAST_PGM_RDIN; - if (ctrl->features & BRCMNAND_HAS_PREFETCH) { - /* - * FIXME: Flash DMA + prefetch may see spurious erased-page ECC - * errors - */ - if (has_flash_dma(ctrl)) - tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH; - else - tmp |= ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH; - } + if (ctrl->features & BRCMNAND_HAS_PREFETCH) + tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH; + nand_writereg(ctrl, offs, tmp); return 0; -- 2.7.4

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[Linux-stable-mirror] [PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: fix a race condition in ASHMEM_SET_SIZE ioctl

by Greg Hackmann

From: Viktor Slavkovic <viktors(a)google.com> A lock-unlock is missing in ASHMEM_SET_SIZE ioctl which can result in a race condition when mmap is called. After the !asma->file check, before setting asma->size, asma->file can be set in mmap. That would result in having different asma->size than the mapped memory size. Combined with ASHMEM_UNPIN ioctl and shrinker invocation, this can result in memory corruption. Signed-off-by: Viktor Slavkovic <viktors(a)google.com> Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org --- drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c index 0f695df14c9d..372ce9913e6d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c @@ -765,10 +765,12 @@ static long ashmem_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) break; case ASHMEM_SET_SIZE: ret = -EINVAL; + mutex_lock(&ashmem_mutex); if (!asma->file) { ret = 0; asma->size = (size_t)arg; } + mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex); break; case ASHMEM_GET_SIZE: ret = asma->size; -- 2.16.0.rc0.223.g4a4ac83678-goog

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] Feedback on 4.9 performance after PTI fixes

by Willy Tarreau

Hi Yves-Alexis, On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:07:54PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 11:18 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > - the highest performance impact on VMs comes from having PTI on the > > guest kernel (-45%). At this point it makes no difference whether > > the host kernel has it or not. > > Hi Willy, > > out of curiosity, is the pcid/invpcid flags exposed to and used by your guest > CPU? It might very well that the PCID optimisations are not used by the guests > here, and it might be worth either checking on bare metal or with the PCID > optimisations enabled. You're totally right, I discovered during my later developments that indeed PCID is not exposed there. So we take the hit of a full TLB flush twice per syscall. Willy

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] stable-rc/linux-4.4.y build: 178 builds: 7 failed, 171 passed, 8 errors (v4.4.110-23-g49278737d445)

by Arnd Bergmann

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 3:05 PM, kernelci.org bot <bot(a)kernelci.org> wrote: > > stable-rc/linux-4.4.y build: 178 builds: 7 failed, 171 passed, 8 errors (v4.4.110-23-g49278737d445) > Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.4.y/kernel/v4.4.110-23-… > Tree: stable-rc > Branch: linux-4.4.y > Git Describe: v4.4.110-23-g49278737d445 > Git Commit: 49278737d4458032fb523dfe5451b441c04c5b73 > Git URL: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git > Built: 4 unique architectures > > Build Failures Detected: > > x86: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) > allnoconfig FAIL > i386_defconfig FAIL > tinyconfig FAIL I missed these earlier, since the kernelci summary output doesn't print link errors: arch/x86/kernel/setup.o: In function `vsyscall_enabled': setup.c:(.text+0x10): multiple definition of `vsyscall_enabled' arch/x86/kernel/time.o:time.c:(.text+0x10): first defined here arch/x86/kernel/rtc.o: In function `vsyscall_enabled': rtc.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `vsyscall_enabled' arch/x86/kernel/time.o:time.c:(.text+0x10): first defined here arch/x86/kernel/cpu/built-in.o: In function `vsyscall_enabled': (.text+0xbc0): multiple definition of `vsyscall_enabled' This comes from 0cbf2b590bea ("Map the vsyscall page with _PAGE_USER") which adds a line 'bool vsyscall_enabled(void) { return false; }' that presumably should have been 'static inline'. Arnd

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] [kaiser-discuss] KPTI backport to 3.16

by Dave Hansen

On 01/08/2018 01:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 03:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> This is with the full patch set applied (and a fix for NMI handling >> that wasn't in 3.16.53-rc1): >> https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/tmp/linux-image-3.16.52_3.16.52-50_amd64.deb I booted this. It crashes in *secondary* CPU startup when it sets CR4.PCIDE while still in 32-bit protected mode. That's illegal. Plain 3.16 doesn't do this: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-kaiser.git/tree/a… > /* Enable PAE mode and PGE */ > movl $(X86_CR4_PAE | X86_CR4_PGE), %ecx > movq %rcx, %cr4 So I suspect the "Enable PAE and PGE" area is wrong.

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] stable-rc/linux-4.4.y build: 178 builds: 4 failed, 174 passed, 8 errors (v4.4.110-18-g5da3d9af3a4b)

by Arnd Bergmann

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM, kernelci.org bot <bot(a)kernelci.org> wrote: > > stable-rc/linux-4.4.y build: 178 builds: 4 failed, 174 passed, 8 errors (v4.4.110-18-g5da3d9af3a4b) > Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.4.y/kernel/v4.4.110-18-… > Tree: stable-rc > Branch: linux-4.4.y > Git Describe: v4.4.110-18-g5da3d9af3a4b > Git Commit: 5da3d9af3a4b90d3c5ab19f9ad1dbb7d237edcf9 > Git URL: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git > Built: 4 unique architectures > > Build Failures Detected: > > arm: gcc version 5.3.1 20160412 (Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.05) > cm_x300_defconfig FAIL > mvebu_v7_defconfig FAIL > pxa3xx_defconfig FAIL > raumfeld_defconfig FAIL > > mvebu_v7_defconfig (arm) — FAIL, 2 errors, 0 warnings, 0 section mismatches > > Errors: > drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c:918:2: error: duplicate case value > drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c:915:2: error: previously used here Hi Greg, Commit fee4380f368e ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation") was apparently backported in error, it looks like it should just be dropped here in 4.4.y. The commit lists 'Fixes: 43bcfd2bb24a ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add driver-specific ECC BCH support")', that commit was merged into v4.14, so backporting the fix further is probably not appropriate for 4.9 or earlier kernels either. The duplicate case statement only happens before linux-4.6, as commit c2cdace755b5 ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx_nand: add support for partial chunks")' removed a previous 'case READOOB' statement in this driver, so the build regression appears only in 4.4 but not 4.9. Arnd

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[Linux-stable-mirror] Patch "mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

by gregkh＠linuxfoundation.org

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=sum… The filename of the patch is: mtd-nand-pxa3xx-fix-readoob-implementation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable(a)vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From fee4380f368e84ed216b62ccd2fbc4126f2bf40b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon(a)free-electrons.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:32:45 +0100 Subject: mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon(a)free-electrons.com> commit fee4380f368e84ed216b62ccd2fbc4126f2bf40b upstream. In the current driver, OOB bytes are accessed in raw mode, and when a page access is done with NDCR_SPARE_EN set and NDCR_ECC_EN cleared, the driver must read the whole spare area (64 bytes in case of a 2k page, 16 bytes for a 512 page). The driver was only reading the free OOB bytes, which was leaving some unread data in the FIFO and was somehow leading to a timeout. We could patch the driver to read ->spare_size + ->ecc_size instead of just ->spare_size when READOOB is requested, but we'd better make in-band and OOB accesses consistent. Since the driver is always accessing in-band data in non-raw mode (with the ECC engine enabled), we should also access OOB data in this mode. That's particularly useful when using the BCH engine because in this mode the free OOB bytes are also ECC protected. Fixes: 43bcfd2bb24a ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add driver-specific ECC BCH support") Reported-by: Sean Nyekjær <sean.nyekjaer(a)prevas.dk> Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w(a)1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon(a)free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel(a)vanguardiasur.com.ar> Tested-by: Sean Nyekjaer <sean.nyekjaer(a)prevas.dk> Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik(a)free.fr> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard(a)nod.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c @@ -950,6 +950,7 @@ static void prepare_start_command(struct switch (command) { case NAND_CMD_READ0: + case NAND_CMD_READOOB: case NAND_CMD_PAGEPROG: info->use_ecc = 1; break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boris.brezillon(a)free-electrons.com are queue-4.9/mtd-nand-pxa3xx-fix-readoob-implementation.patch

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] 4.14 LTS build not listed in kernel releases feed

by Willy Tarreau

Hi Pavlos! On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:19:17PM +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hi, > > The 4.14 kernel is listed as a 'Stable' but not as 'Longterm' in the kernel releases feed[1], is > this expected? Normally kernels are only listed as LTS once they leave their regular "stable" status, often after next kernel version is issued. I think this leaves a last minute chance to Greg to change his mind if the kernel he elected is too damaged ;-) Cheers, Willy

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Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] Linux 4.9.75

by Thomas Deutschmann

Hi Greg, sorry, I lost the overview -- the KPTI 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4 patch set is diverging... I am missing patches like x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat() x86/pti: Make sure the user/kernel PTEs match in 4.9. The first one was really important but the problem might be hidden now due to x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5

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