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Michael Ellerman 8d6f7c5aa3 powerpc/powernv: Make it possible to skip the IRQHAPPENED check in power7_nap()
To support split core we need to be able to force all secondaries into
nap, so the core can detect they are idle and do an unsplit.

Currently power7_nap() will return without napping if there is an irq
pending. We want to ignore the pending irq and nap anyway, we will deal
with the interrupt later.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-05-28 13:35:35 +10:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan aca79d2b6e powerpc/powernv: Add context management for Fast Sleep
Before adding Fast-Sleep into the cpuidle framework, some low level
support needs to be added to enable it. This includes saving and
restoring of certain registers at entry and exit time of this state
respectively just like we do in the NAP idle state.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[Changelog modified by Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-03-05 15:56:31 +11:00
Deepthi Dharwar 3fa8cad82b powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: smt-snooze-delay cleanup.
smt-snooze-delay was designed to disable NAP state or delay the entry
to the NAP state prior to adoption of cpuidle framework. This
is per-cpu variable. With the coming of CPUIDLE framework,
states can be disabled on per-cpu basis using the cpuidle/enable
sysfs entry.

Also, with the coming of cpuidle driver each state's target residency
is per-driver unlike earlier which was per-device. Therefore,
the per-cpu sysfs smt-snooze-delay which decides the target residency
of the idle state on a particular cpu causes more confusion to the user
as we cannot have different smt-snooze-delay (target residency)
values for each cpu.

In the current code, smt-snooze-delay functionality is completely broken.
It makes sense to remove smt-snooze-delay from idle driver with the
coming of cpuidle framework.
However, sysfs files are retained as ppc64_util currently
utilises it. Once we fix ppc64_util, propose to clean
up the kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-29 17:02:24 +11:00
Deepthi Dharwar 962e7bd497 powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Move processor_idle.c to drivers/cpuidle.
Move the file from arch specific pseries/processor_idle.c
to drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
Make the relevant Makefile and Kconfig changes.
Also, introduce Kconfig.powerpc in drivers/cpuidle
for all powerpc cpuidle drivers.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-29 17:02:22 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt fac515db45 Merge remote-tracking branch 'scott/next' into next
Freescale updates from Scott:

<<
Highlights include 32-bit booke relocatable support, e6500 hardware
tablewalk support, various e500 SPE fixes, some new/revived boards, and
e6500 deeper idle and altivec powerdown modes.
>>
2014-01-15 14:22:35 +11:00
Paul Mackerras d31626f70b powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd >= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i < size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted && (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-15 13:59:11 +11:00
Joseph Myers 640e922501 powerpc: fix exception clearing in e500 SPE float emulation
The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
<fenv.h> functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2014-01-07 18:32:21 -06:00
Linus Torvalds f080480488 Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC
side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
 is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.
 On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a
 few bugfixes.  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved
 overcommit, and support for big endian guests.
 
 Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
 helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
 driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes
 some nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these
 patches and the corresponding userspace changes.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
Gleb Natapov 95f328d3ad Merge branch 'kvm-ppc-queue' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into queue
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
2013-11-04 10:20:57 +02:00
Bharat Bhushan 51ae8d4a2b powerpc: move debug registers in a structure
This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
[scottwood@freescale.com: removed obvious debug_reg comment]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2013-10-18 18:44:49 -05:00
Bharat Bhushan 95791988fe powerpc: move debug registers in a structure
This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and
also help in using other debug related function.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-10-17 14:49:38 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 3ad26e5c44 Merge branch 'for-kvm' into next
Topic branch for commits that the KVM tree might want to pull
in separately.

Hand merged a few files due to conflicts with the LE stuff

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 18:23:53 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 18461960cb powerpc: Provide for giveup_fpu/altivec to save state in alternate location
This provides a facility which is intended for use by KVM, where the
contents of the FP/VSX and VMX (Altivec) registers can be saved away
to somewhere other than the thread_struct when kernel code wants to
use floating point or VMX instructions.  This is done by providing a
pointer in the thread_struct to indicate where the state should be
saved to.  The giveup_fpu() and giveup_altivec() functions test these
pointers and save state to the indicated location if they are non-NULL.
Note that the MSR_FP/VEC bits in task->thread.regs->msr are still used
to indicate whether the CPU register state is live, even when an
alternate save location is being used.

This also provides load_fp_state() and load_vr_state() functions, which
load up FP/VSX and VMX state from memory into the CPU registers, and
corresponding store_fp_state() and store_vr_state() functions, which
store FP/VSX and VMX state into memory from the CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 17:26:50 +11:00
Paul Mackerras de79f7b9f6 powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures
This creates new 'thread_fp_state' and 'thread_vr_state' structures
to store FP/VSX state (including FPSCR) and Altivec/VSX state
(including VSCR), and uses them in the thread_struct.  In the
thread_fp_state, the FPRs and VSRs are represented as u64 rather
than double, since we rarely perform floating-point computations
on the values, and this will enable the structures to be used
in KVM code as well.  Similarly FPSCR is now a u64 rather than
a structure of two 32-bit values.

This takes the offsets out of the macros such as SAVE_32FPRS,
REST_32FPRS, etc.  This enables the same macros to be used for normal
and transactional state, enabling us to delete the transactional
versions of the macros.   This also removes the unused do_load_up_fpu
and do_load_up_altivec, which were in fact buggy since they didn't
create large enough stack frames to account for the fact that
load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec are not designed to be called from C
and assume that their caller's stack frame is an interrupt frame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 17:26:49 +11:00
Anton Blanchard e156bd8ad7 powerpc: Fix offset of FPRs in VSX registers in little endian builds
The FPRs overlap the high doublewords of the first 32 VSX registers.
Fix TS_FPROFFSET and TS_VSRLOWOFFSET so we access the correct fields
in little endian mode.

If VSX is disabled the FPRs are only one doubleword in length so
TS_FPROFFSET needs adjusting in little endian.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 16:48:26 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt cbc9565ee8 powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64
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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-09-25 14:15:51 +10:00
Michael Neuling 28e61cc466 powerpc/tm: Fix context switching TAR, PPR and DSCR SPRs
If a transaction is rolled back, the Target Address Register (TAR), Processor
Priority Register (PPR) and Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) should be
restored to the checkpointed values before the transaction began.  Any changes
to these SPRs inside the transaction should not be visible in the abort
handler.

Currently Linux doesn't save or restore the checkpointed TAR, PPR or DSCR.  If
we preempt a processes inside a transaction which has modified any of these, on
process restore, that same transaction may be aborted we but we won't see the
checkpointed versions of these SPRs.

This adds checkpointed versions of these SPRs to the thread_struct and adds the
save/restore of these three SPRs to the treclaim/trechkpt code.

Without this if any of these SPRs are modified during a transaction, users may
incorrectly see a speculated SPR value even if the transaction is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-08-09 18:07:12 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 330a1eb777 powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
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: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 2ac138ca21 powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
In commit 59affcd "Context switch more PMU related SPRs" I added more
PMU SPRs to thread_struct, later modified in commit b11ae95. To add
insult to injury it turns out we don't need to switch MMCRA as it's
only user readable, and the value is recomputed by the PMU code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-07-01 11:50:07 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 475e68cfdd powerpc: Align thread->fpr to 16 bytes
On newer CPUs we use VSX loads and stores to the thread->fpr array.
For best performance we need to ensure 16 byte alignment.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 17:04:30 +10:00
Bharat Bhushan d8899bb2be powerpc: Debug control and status registers are 32bit
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 17:04:16 +10:00
Daniel Walker d5d8ec895c powerpc/mm: Make mmap_64.c compile on 32bit powerpc
There appears to be no good reason to keep this as 64bit only. It works
on 32bit also, and has checks so that it can work correctly with 32bit
binaries on 64bit hardware which is why I think this works.

I tested this on qemu using the virtex-ml507 machine type.

Before,

/bin2 # ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
48000000-48020000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
48021000-48023000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bfd03000-bfd24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
/bin2 # ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
0fe6e000-0ffd8000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffd8000-0ffe8000 ---p 0016a000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffe8000-0ffed000 rw-p 0016a000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffed000-0fff0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
48000000-48020000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
48020000-48021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
48021000-48023000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bf98a000-bf9ab000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
/bin2 # ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
0fe6e000-0ffd8000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffd8000-0ffe8000 ---p 0016a000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffe8000-0ffed000 rw-p 0016a000 00:01 214        /lib/libc-2.11.3.so
0ffed000-0fff0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
48000000-48020000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
48020000-48021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
48021000-48023000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bfa54000-bfa75000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]

After,

bash-4.1# ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
[7] 803
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
b7eb0000-b7ed0000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
b7ed1000-b7ed3000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bfbc0000-bfbe1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
bash-4.1# ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
[8] 805
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
b7b03000-b7b23000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
b7b24000-b7b26000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bfc27000-bfc48000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
bash-4.1# ./test & cat /proc/${!}/maps
[9] 807
00100000-00103000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
10000000-10007000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
10017000-10018000 rw-p 00007000 00:01 454        /bin2/test
b7f37000-b7f57000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
b7f58000-b7f5a000 rw-p 00021000 00:01 224        /lib/ld-2.11.3.so
bff96000-bffb7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo90.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-20 16:55:11 +10:00
Michael Neuling 2b3f8e87cf powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions
When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with
the stack.  It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin.
The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that
returns before a tend.  In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed
transactional memory state.  If we write over this non transactionally or in
suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter
and stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be
valid anymore.

To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use
the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated
state.  This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be
written below the stack required for the rollback.  The transaction is aborted
becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the
signal will be rolled back anyway.

For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.

Tested with 64 and 32 bit signals

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-01 08:29:23 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 59affcd3e4 powerpc: Context switch more PMU related SPRs
In commit 9353374 "Context switch the new EBB SPRs" we added support for
context switching some new EBB SPRs. However despite four of us signing
off on that patch we missed some. To be fair these are not actually new
SPRs, but they are now potentially user accessible so need to be context
switched.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-24 18:13:45 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 9353374b8e powerpc: Context switch the new EBB SPRs
This context switches the new Event Based Branching (EBB) SPRs.  The three new
SPRs are:
  - Event Based Branch Handler Register (EBBHR)
  - Event Based Branch Return Register (EBBRR)
  - Branch Event Status and Control Register (BESCR)

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-02 10:37:36 +10:00
Paul Bolle 933ee7119f powerpc: remove PReP platform
PPC_PREP is marked as BROKEN since v2.6.15. Remove all PReP specific
code now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2013-04-18 13:03:53 +10:00
Michael Neuling 8b3c34cf0e powerpc: New macros for transactional memory support
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: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-15 16:58:50 +11:00
Michael Neuling f4c3aff223 powerpc: Add additional state needed for transactional memory to thread struct
Set of new archtected state for saving away on context switch.

Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-15 16:58:50 +11:00
Ian Munsie 2468dcf641 powerpc: Add support for context switching the TAR register
This patch adds support for enabling and context switching the Target
Address Register in Power8. The TAR is a new special purpose register
that can be used for computed branches with the bctar[l] (branch
conditional to TAR) instruction in the same manner as the count and link
registers.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-08 14:05:50 +11:00
Michael Neuling 9422de3e95 powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers
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: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:44 +11:00
Haren Myneni 9277924559 powerpc: Define ppr in thread_struct
[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: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:08 +11:00
Deepthi Dharwar 8ea959a17f cpuidle/powerpc: Fix smt_snooze_delay functionality.
smt_snooze_delay was designed to  delay idle loop's nap entry
in the native idle code before it got  ported over to use as part of
the cpuidle framework.

A -ve value  assigned to smt_snooze_delay should result in
busy looping, in other words disabling the entry to nap state.

	- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-May/082450.html

This particular functionality can be achieved currently by
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/state1/disable
but it is broken when one assigns -ve value to  the smt_snooze_delay
variable either via sysfs entry or ppc64_cpu util.

This patch aims to fix this, by disabling nap state when smt_snooze_delay
variable is set to -ve value.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-10-18 10:57:24 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 8213a2f3ee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
  several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.

  There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
  do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
  alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
  Uninclude linux/freezer.h
  m32r: trim masks
  avr32: trim masks
  tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
  microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
  mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
  unicore32: remove pointless test
  h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
  parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
  parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
  parisc: fix double restarts
  bury the rest of TIF_IRET
  sanitize tsk_is_polling()
  bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
  mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
  mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
Al Viro 58254e1002 powerpc: split ret_from_fork
... and get rid of in-kernel syscalls in kernel_thread()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-30 23:31:19 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 048ee0993e powerpc/mm: Add 64TB support
Increase max addressable range to 64TB. This is not tested on
real hardware yet.

Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-17 16:31:51 +10:00
Michael Neuling 4474ef055c powerpc: Rework set_dabr so it can take a DABRX value as well
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: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-10 09:59:10 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt fff34b3412 Merge branch 'merge' into next
Brings in various bug fixes from 3.6-rcX
2012-09-07 09:48:59 +10:00
Paul Mackerras 375f561a41 powerpc/powernv: Always go into nap mode when CPU is offline
The CPU hotplug code for the powernv platform currently only puts
offline CPUs into nap mode if the powersave_nap variable is set.
However, HV-style KVM on this platform requires secondary CPU threads
to be offline and in nap mode.  Since we know nap mode works just
fine on all POWER7 machines, and the only machines that support the
powernv platform are POWER7 machines, this changes the code to
always put offline CPUs into nap mode, regardless of powersave_nap.
Powersave_nap still controls whether or not CPUs go into nap mode
when idle, as before.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-05 16:05:20 +10:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 41ab5266c3 powerpc: Add trap_nr to thread_struct
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: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-05 15:19:36 +10:00
Deepthi Dharwar 16aaaff684 powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Replace pseries_notify_cpuidle_add call with notifier
The following patch is to remove the pseries_notify_add_cpu() call
and replace it by a hot plug notifier.

This would prevent cpuidle resources being released and allocated each
time cpu comes online on pseries.

The earlier design was causing a lockdep problem
in start_secondary as reported on this thread
	-https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/2

This applies on 3.4-rc7

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03 14:14:40 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 07acfc2a93 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...
2012-05-24 16:17:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ec0d7f18ab Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
2012-05-23 10:59:07 -07:00
Suresh Siddha 55ccf3fe3f fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
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: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin 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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-16 15:16:26 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c9b92b8407 powerpc: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()
cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
2012-05-08 12:35:07 +02:00
Scott Wood d30f6e4800 KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support
Chips such as e500mc that implement category E.HV in Power ISA 2.06
provide hardware virtualization features, including a new MSR mode for
guest state.  The guest OS can perform many operations without trapping
into the hypervisor, including transitions to and from guest userspace.

Since we can use SRR1[GS] to reliably tell whether an exception came from
guest state, instead of messing around with IVPR, we use DO_KVM similarly
to book3s.

Current issues include:
 - Machine checks from guest state are not routed to the host handler.
 - The guest can cause a host oops by executing an emulated instruction
   in a page that lacks read permission.  Existing e500/4xx support has
   the same problem.

Includes work by Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com>,
Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com>, and
Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
[agraf: remove pt_regs usage]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-04-08 12:51:19 +03:00
David Howells ae3a197e3d Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
Deepthi Dharwar e8bb3e00cf powerpc/cpuidle: Handle power_save=off
This patch makes pseries_idle_driver not to be registered when
power_save=off kernel boot option is specified. The
cpuidle_disable variable used here is similar to
its usage on x86. If cpuidle_disable is set then
sysfs entries for cpuidle framework are not created
and the required drivers are not loaded.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-12-08 13:57:34 +11:00
Deepthi Dharwar 771dae8189 powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routines
This patch provides cpu_idle_wait() routine for the powerpc
platform which is required by the cpuidle subsystem. This
routine is required to change the idle handler on SMP systems.
The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
but the powerpc implementation is different.

cpuidle_disable variable is to enable/disable cpuidle
framework if power_save option is set during the boot
time.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-12-08 13:54:58 +11:00
Ashish Kalra 1325a684b5 powerpc/85xx: Save scratch registers to thread info instead of using SPRGs.
We expect this is actually faster, and we end up needing more space than we
can get from the SPRGs in some instances.  This is also useful when running
as a guest OS - SPRGs4-7 do not have guest versions.

8 slots are allocated in thread_info for this even though we only actually
use 4 of them - this allows space for future code to have more scratch
space (and we know we'll need it for things like hugetlb).

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-22 21:44:55 -05:00
Alexey Kardashevskiy efcac6589a powerpc: Per process DSCR + some fixes (try#4)
The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some
server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch
of data streams.

This patch allows the value to be specified per thread by emulating
the corresponding mfspr and mtspr instructions. Children of such
threads inherit the value. Other threads use a default value that
can be specified in sysfs - /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default.

If a thread starts with non default value in the sysfs entry,
all children threads inherit this non default value even if
the sysfs value is changed later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-27 14:18:19 +10:00