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Ravi Bangoria 83afab4ce0 powerpc/sstep: Fix kernel crash if VSX is not present
emulate_step() is not checking runtime VSX feature flag before
emulating an instruction. This is causing kernel crash when kernel
is compiled with CONFIG_VSX=y but running on a machine where VSX
is not supported or disabled. Ex, while running emulate_step tests
on P6 machine:

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
  NIP [c000000000095c24] .load_vsrn+0x28/0x54
  LR [c000000000094bdc] .emulate_loadstore+0x167c/0x17b0
  Call Trace:
    0x40fe240c7ae147ae (unreliable)
    .emulate_loadstore+0x167c/0x17b0
    .emulate_step+0x25c/0x5bc
    .test_lxvd2x_stxvd2x+0x64/0x154
    .test_emulate_step+0x38/0x4c
    .do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x2c0
    .kernel_init_freeable+0x314/0x4cc
    .kernel_init+0x24/0x160
    .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0xb4

With fix:
  emulate_step_test: lxvd2x         : FAIL
  emulate_step_test: stxvd2x        : FAIL

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-06-04 00:39:08 +10:00
Documentation ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs 2018-06-03 20:40:33 +10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch powerpc/sstep: Fix kernel crash if VSX is not present 2018-06-04 00:39:08 +10:00
block Revert "blk-mq: remove code for dealing with remapping queue" 2018-04-25 09:49:22 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
drivers hvc_opal: don't set tb_ticks_per_usec in udbg_init_opal_common() 2018-06-03 20:43:34 +10:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs mm/pkeys, x86, powerpc: Display pkey in smaps if arch supports pkeys 2018-05-09 11:51:49 +10:00
include ocxl: Add an IOCTL so userspace knows what OCXL features are available 2018-06-03 20:40:32 +10:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel powerpc/syscalls: switch rtas(2) to SYSCALL_DEFINE 2018-05-10 23:25:14 +10:00
lib Driver core fixes for 4.17-rc3 2018-04-27 10:12:20 -07:00
mm x86/pti: Filter at vma->vm_page_prot population 2018-04-25 11:02:51 +02:00
net A CephFS quota follow-up and fixes for two older issues in the 2018-04-27 10:56:29 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2018-04-20 08:51:55 -07:00
scripts powerpc/kbuild: Use flags variables rather than overriding LD/CC/AS 2018-06-01 23:08:09 +10:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound ALSA: dice: fix error path to destroy initialized stream data 2018-04-26 15:24:54 +02:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Add perf breakpoint test 2018-06-03 21:16:44 +10:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM fixes for v4.17-rc3 2018-04-27 16:13:31 -07:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of AFFS 2018-04-28 10:30:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.17-rc3 2018-04-29 14:17:42 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.