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<title>Merge branch 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-05-21T16:12:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-05-21T16:12:52Z</published>
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Pull siginfo fix from Eric Biederman:
 "During the merge window an issue with si_perf and the siginfo ABI came
  up. The alpha and sparc siginfo structure layout had changed with the
  addition of SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF and the new field si_perf.

  The reason only alpha and sparc were affected is that they are the
  only architectures that use si_trapno.

  Looking deeper it was discovered that si_trapno is used for only a few
  select signals on alpha and sparc, and that none of the other
  _sigfault fields past si_addr are used at all. Which means technically
  no regression on alpha and sparc.

  While the alignment concerns might be dismissed the abuse of si_errno
  by SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF does have the potential to cause regressions in
  existing userspace.

  While we still have time before userspace starts using and depending
  on the new definition siginfo for SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF this set of
  changes cleans up siginfo_t.

   - The si_trapno field is demoted from magic alpha and sparc status
     and made an ordinary union member of the _sigfault member of
     siginfo_t. Without moving it of course.

   - si_perf is replaced with si_perf_data and si_perf_type ending the
     abuse of si_errno.

   - Unnecessary additions to signalfd_siginfo are removed"

* 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signalfd: Remove SIL_PERF_EVENT fields from signalfd_siginfo
  signal: Deliver all of the siginfo perf data in _perf
  signal: Factor force_sig_perf out of perf_sigtrap
  signal: Implement SIL_FAULT_TRAPNO
  siginfo: Move si_trapno inside the union inside _si_fault
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<title>signal: Deliver all of the siginfo perf data in _perf</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T21:20:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-02T22:28:31Z</published>
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Don't abuse si_errno and deliver all of the perf data in _perf member
of siginfo_t.

Note: The data field in the perf data structures in a u64 to allow a
pointer to be encoded without needed to implement a 32bit and 64bit
version of the same structure.  There already exists a 32bit and 64bit
versions siginfo_t, and the 32bit version can not include a 64bit
member as it only has 32bit alignment.  So unsigned long is used in
siginfo_t instead of a u64 as unsigned long can encode a pointer on
all architectures linux supports.

v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/m11rarqqx2.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503203814.25487-10-ebiederm@xmission.com
v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505141101.11519-11-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210517195748.8880-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2021-05-01T17:14:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-01T17:14:08Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This is a large update by KVM standards, including AMD PSP (Platform
  Security Processor, aka "AMD Secure Technology") and ARM CoreSight
  (debug and trace) changes.

  ARM:

   - CoreSight: Add support for ETE and TRBE

   - Stage-2 isolation for the host kernel when running in protected
     mode

   - Guest SVE support when running in nVHE mode

   - Force W^X hypervisor mappings in nVHE mode

   - ITS save/restore for guests using direct injection with GICv4.1

   - nVHE panics now produce readable backtraces

   - Guest support for PTP using the ptp_kvm driver

   - Performance improvements in the S2 fault handler

  x86:

   - AMD PSP driver changes

   - Optimizations and cleanup of nested SVM code

   - AMD: Support for virtual SPEC_CTRL

   - Optimizations of the new MMU code: fast invalidation, zap under
     read lock, enable/disably dirty page logging under read lock

   - /dev/kvm API for AMD SEV live migration (guest API coming soon)

   - support SEV virtual machines sharing the same encryption context

   - support SGX in virtual machines

   - add a few more statistics

   - improved directed yield heuristics

   - Lots and lots of cleanups

  Generic:

   - Rework of MMU notifier interface, simplifying and optimizing the
     architecture-specific code

   - a handful of "Get rid of oprofile leftovers" patches

   - Some selftests improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (379 commits)
  KVM: selftests: Speed up set_memory_region_test
  selftests: kvm: Fix the check of return value
  KVM: x86: Take advantage of kvm_arch_dy_has_pending_interrupt()
  KVM: SVM: Skip SEV cache flush if no ASIDs have been used
  KVM: SVM: Remove an unnecessary prototype declaration of sev_flush_asids()
  KVM: SVM: Drop redundant svm_sev_enabled() helper
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV VMCB tracking allocation to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Explicitly check max SEV ASID during sev_hardware_setup()
  KVM: SVM: Unconditionally invoke sev_hardware_teardown()
  KVM: SVM: Enable SEV/SEV-ES functionality by default (when supported)
  KVM: SVM: Condition sev_enabled and sev_es_enabled on CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
  KVM: SVM: Append "_enabled" to module-scoped SEV/SEV-ES control variables
  KVM: SEV: Mask CPUID[0x8000001F].eax according to supported features
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV module params/variables to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Disable SEV/SEV-ES if NPT is disabled
  KVM: SVM: Free sev_asid_bitmap during init if SEV setup fails
  KVM: SVM: Zero out the VMCB array used to track SEV ASID association
  x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev_enabled'
  KVM: x86: Move reverse CPUID helpers to separate header file
  KVM: x86: Rename GPR accessors to make mode-aware variants the defaults
  ...
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<title>perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE</title>
<updated>2021-04-19T18:03:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-12T14:31:01Z</published>
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Current Hardware events and Hardware cache events have special perf
types, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE. The two types don't
pass the PMU type in the user interface. For a hybrid system, the perf
subsystem doesn't know which PMU the events belong to. The first capable
PMU will always be assigned to the events. The events never get a chance
to run on the other capable PMUs.

Extend the two types to become PMU aware types. The PMU type ID is
stored at attr.config[63:32].

Add a new PMU capability, PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE, to indicate a
PMU which supports the extended PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and
PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE.

The PMU type is only required when searching a specific PMU. The PMU
specific codes will only be interested in the 'real' config value, which
is stored in the low 32 bit of the event-&gt;attr.config. Update the
event-&gt;attr.config in the generic code, so the PMU specific codes don't
need to calculate it separately.

If a user specifies a PMU type, but the PMU doesn't support the extended
type, error out.

If an event cannot be initialized in a PMU specified by a user, error
out immediately. Perf should not try to open it on other PMUs.

The new PMU capability is only set for the X86 hybrid PMUs for now.
Other architectures, e.g., ARM, may need it as well. The support on ARM
may be implemented later separately.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1618237865-33448-22-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf core: Add PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES event</title>
<updated>2021-04-16T16:58:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-10T08:33:26Z</published>
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This patch adds a new software event to count context switches
involving cgroup switches.  So it's counted only if cgroups of
previous and next tasks are different.  Note that it only checks the
cgroups in the perf_event subsystem.  For cgroup v2, it shouldn't
matter anyway.

One can argue that we can do this by using existing sched_switch event
with eBPF.  But some systems might not have eBPF for some reason so
I'd like to add this as a simple way.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210083327.22726-2-namhyung@kernel.org
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<title>perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events</title>
<updated>2021-04-16T14:32:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T10:36:01Z</published>
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Adds bit perf_event_attr::sigtrap, which can be set to cause events to
send SIGTRAP (with si_code TRAP_PERF) to the task where the event
occurred. The primary motivation is to support synchronous signals on
perf events in the task where an event (such as breakpoints) triggered.

To distinguish perf events based on the event type, the type is set in
si_errno. For events that are associated with an address, si_addr is
copied from perf_sample_data.

The new field perf_event_attr::sig_data is copied to si_perf, which
allows user space to disambiguate which event (of the same type)
triggered the signal. For example, user space could encode the relevant
information it cares about in sig_data.

We note that the choice of an opaque u64 provides the simplest and most
flexible option. Alternatives where a reference to some user space data
is passed back suffer from the problem that modification of referenced
data (be it the event fd, or the perf_event_attr) can race with the
signal being delivered (of course, the same caveat applies if user space
decides to store a pointer in sig_data, but the ABI explicitly avoids
prescribing such a design).

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBv3rAT566k+6zjg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
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<entry>
<title>perf: Add support for event removal on exec</title>
<updated>2021-04-16T14:32:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T10:35:59Z</published>
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Adds bit perf_event_attr::remove_on_exec, to support removing an event
from a task on exec.

This option supports the case where an event is supposed to be
process-wide only, and should not propagate beyond exec, to limit
monitoring to the original process image only.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210408103605.1676875-5-elver@google.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: Support only inheriting events if cloned with CLONE_THREAD</title>
<updated>2021-04-16T14:32:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T10:35:58Z</published>
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Adds bit perf_event_attr::inherit_thread, to restricting inheriting
events only if the child was cloned with CLONE_THREAD.

This option supports the case where an event is supposed to be
process-wide only (including subthreads), but should not propagate
beyond the current process's shared environment.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBvj6eJR%2FDY2TsEB@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
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<title>perf: aux: Add CoreSight PMU buffer formats</title>
<updated>2021-04-05T17:23:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-05T16:42:49Z</published>
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CoreSight PMU supports aux-buffer for the ETM tracing. The trace
generated by the ETM (associated with individual CPUs, like Intel PT)
is captured by a separate IP (CoreSight TMC-ETR/ETF until now).

The TMC-ETR applies formatting of the raw ETM trace data, as it
can collect traces from multiple ETMs, with the TraceID to indicate
the source of a given trace packet.

Arm Trace Buffer Extension is new "sink" IP, attached to individual
CPUs and thus do not provide additional formatting, like TMC-ETR.

Additionally, a system could have both TRBE *and* TMC-ETR for
the trace collection. e.g, TMC-ETR could be used as a single
trace buffer to collect data from multiple ETMs to correlate
the traces from different CPUs. It is possible to have a
perf session where some events end up collecting the trace
in TMC-ETR while the others in TRBE. Thus we need a way
to identify the type of the trace for each AUX record.

Define the trace formats exported by the CoreSight PMU.
We don't define the flags following the "ETM" as this
information is available to the user when issuing
the session. What is missing is the additional
formatting applied by the "sink" which is decided
at the runtime and the user may not have a control on.

So we define :
 - CORESIGHT format (indicates the Frame format)
 - RAW format (indicates the format of the source)

The default value is CORESIGHT format for all the records
(i,e == 0). Add the RAW format for others that use
raw format.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405164307.1720226-3-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>perf: aux: Add flags for the buffer format</title>
<updated>2021-04-05T17:20:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-05T16:42:48Z</published>
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Allocate a byte for advertising the PMU specific format type
of the given AUX record. A PMU could end up providing hardware
trace data in multiple format in a single session.

e.g, The format of hardware buffer produced by CoreSight ETM
PMU depends on the type of the "sink" device used for collection
for an event (Traditional TMC-ETR/Bs with formatting or
TRBEs without any formatting).

 # Boring story of why this is needed. Goto The_End_of_Story for skipping.

CoreSight ETM trace allows instruction level tracing of Arm CPUs.
The ETM generates the CPU excecution trace and pumps it into CoreSight
AMBA Trace Bus and is collected by a different CoreSight component
(traditionally CoreSight TMC-ETR /ETB/ETF), called "sink".
Important to note that there is no guarantee that every CPU has
a dedicated sink.  Thus multiple ETMs could pump the trace data
into the same "sink" and thus they apply additional formatting
of the trace data for the user to decode it properly and attribute
the trace data to the corresponding ETM.

However, with the introduction of Arm Trace buffer Extensions (TRBE),
we now have a dedicated per-CPU architected sink for collecting the
trace. Since the TRBE is always per-CPU, it doesn't apply any formatting
of the trace. The support for this driver is under review [1].

Now a system could have a per-cpu TRBE and one or more shared
TMC-ETRs on the system. A user could choose a "specific" sink
for a perf session (e.g, a TMC-ETR) or the driver could automatically
select the nearest sink for a given ETM. It is possible that
some ETMs could end up using TMC-ETR (e.g, if the TRBE is not
usable on the CPU) while the others using TRBE in a single
perf session. Thus we now have "formatted" trace collected
from TMC-ETR and "unformatted" trace collected from TRBE.
However, we don't get into a situation where a single event
could end up using TMC-ETR &amp; TRBE. i.e, any AUX buffer is
guaranteed to be either RAW or FORMATTED, but not a mix
of both.

As for perf decoding, we need to know the type of the data
in the individual AUX buffers, so that it can set up the
"OpenCSD" (library for decoding CoreSight trace) decoder
instance appropriately. Thus the perf.data file must conatin
the hints for the tool to decode the data correctly.

Since this is a runtime variable, and perf tool doesn't have
a control on what sink gets used (in case of automatic sink
selection), we need this information made available from
the PMU driver for each AUX record.

 # The_End_of_Story

Cc: Peter Ziljstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: will@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: mike.leach@linaro.org
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirer@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed by: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405164307.1720226-2-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
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