This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-fsl-fixed-warning-orphan-section-__btb_flush_fixup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Mar 29 16:04:51 CET 2019
From: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:26:18 +1100
Subject: powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'
To: sta...@vger.kernel.org, gre...@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org, diana.crac...@nxp.com, msucha...@suse.de,
christophe.le...@c-s.fr
Message-ID: <20190329112620.14489-31-...@ellerman.id.au>
From: Diana Craciun <diana.crac...@nxp.com>
commit 039daac5526932ec731e4499613018d263af8b3e upstream.
Fixed the following build warning:
powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' from
`arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section
`__btb_flush_fixup'.
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.crac...@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@
*/
#define THREAD_NORMSAVE(offset) (THREAD_NORMSAVES + (offset * 4))
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+#define BOOKE_CLEAR_BTB(reg)
\
+START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
\
+ BTB_FLUSH(reg)
\
+END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
+#else
+#define BOOKE_CLEAR_BTB(reg)
+#endif
+
+
#define NORMAL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(intno)
\
mtspr SPRN_SPRG_WSCRATCH0, r10; /* save one register */ \
mfspr r10, SPRN_SPRG_THREAD; \
@@ -43,9 +53,7 @@
andi. r11, r11, MSR_PR; /* check whether user or kernel */\
mr r11, r1; \
beq 1f; \
-START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \
- BTB_FLUSH(r11) \
-END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \
+ BOOKE_CLEAR_BTB(r11) \
/* if from user, start at top of this thread's kernel stack */ \
lwz r11, THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r10); \
ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(r11, THREAD_SIZE); \
@@ -131,9 +139,7 @@ END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
\
stw r9,_CCR(r8); /* save CR on stack */\
mfspr r11,exc_level_srr1; /* check whether user or kernel */\
DO_KVM BOOKE_INTERRUPT_##intno exc_level_srr1; \
-START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
\
- BTB_FLUSH(r10)
\
-END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
\
+ BOOKE_CLEAR_BTB(r10) \
andi. r11,r11,MSR_PR; \
mfspr r11,SPRN_SPRG_THREAD; /* if from user, start at top of */\
lwz r11,THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r11); /* this thread's kernel stack */\
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m...@ellerman.id.au are
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-emulate-sprn_bucsr-register.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-64bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-update-spectre-v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-macro-to-flush-the-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-security-fix-spectre_v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fix-the-flush-of-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-enable-runtime-patching-if-nospectre_v2-boot-arg-is-used.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fixed-warning-orphan-section-__btb_flush_fixup.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-nospectre_v2-command-line-argument.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-infrastructure-to-fixup-branch-predictor-flush.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-32-bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-branch-predictor-when-entering-kvm.patch
